• Is the Homepage Dead?
  Hello! I’ve been saying this for years! “Site visitors are decreasingly entering via the homepage and instead are entering through other entry points, such as responding to an offer or following a search inquiry.”
  (tags: google search SEO marketing internet yahoo)
• AOL To Acquire Behavioral Targeting Ad Network Tacoda
  “AOL this morning announced that it would be acquiring Tacoda, a behavioral targeting (BT) ad network and technology provider (which works with many newspaper publishers). AOL owns the largest online ad network, Advertising.com, and will be integrating BT
  (tags: AOL Advertising Search Acquisitions Business)
• FeedBurner Ad Network Integrating into AdSense – Googlified
  “So as most of you know by now, FeedBurner is now part of Google and I’m now working on the AdSense Product Management team helping integrate all we built over the last three years into Google.”
  (tags: Google adsense Advertising RSS feeds)
• Hitwise To Go – US: Linkedin.com Popular with the 25-34 Age Group
  “According to Hitwise US, 31.3% of the traffic to Linkedin.com, a business social network, came from the 25-34 year old age group for the week ending 7/14/07. Now you know.”
  (tags: Linkedin Career socialsoftware trends)
• Facebook For Sale? Investor Floats $10 Billion Buyout Number
  “If we got an offer from someone for $10 billion, we probably would listen to them… I don’t think we’re going to get that offer, and we’ e not going to solicit it.” — Wired Blog
  (tags: facebook socialsoftware Acquisitions Business rumor)
• The Escapist : News : Hearst Acquires UGO Networks
  “Media powerhouse Hearst Corporation announced the acquisition of UGO Networks … Forbes estimates the acquisition to cost $100 million based on UGO’s $30 million annual revenue and $82 million in venture capital.”
  (tags: Games Acquisitions media Business UGO)
• 9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network
  “a horde of companies are doing their best to reduce the fundamental features of these websites to mere commodities”
  (tags: socialsoftware socialnetworking SaaS web2.0)

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