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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

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Google SEO went into free fall from first week of April until middle of May for refinements. Lame SEO people called it Penguin to justify to clients why SEO had fallen. SEO, as relevant as MySpace and Google Buzz in the 2nd decade of the 21st Century mobile marketing era. Register here. Print Story. Email Story.

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Robert has been working in software since 2005. SEO is extremely powerful, but it takes time. I even worked on the AdWords API team as an intern at Google. He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google. Someday he’d like to work for himself. Anyone can sign up and unleash an AdWords campaign. It was great.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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What really sets PhoneGap apart is that it lets developers create a full-functioning mobile web app but place that app in a native wrapper, so that it can use native device APIs and get submitted to the App Store or Android Market. It would be nice to go to HTML 5 if this whole API thing sorts itself out.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

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Starting in 2005 with 300 attendees from a variety of backgrounds (research, academia and entrepreneurs), this past conference had 1200 attendees from large enterprises, government and a lot more startups and entrepreneurs. Best Buy uses RDFa and has shown a 30% increase in their SEO efforts.

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Startup Resources

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Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Use their api to handle payment related stuff. Rovi API has everything you need for information. Rdio provides the music and the player via an API. Box API lets you store files dynamically! Google Geocoding API. Managing APIs. Try Leaflet.

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

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Claiming False Competitive Advantages The following are not competitive advantages: “We’re better at SEO;&# “We’re better at social media;&# “We’re good at design;&# “We have a unique feature;&# “We’re passionate;&# “We’re less expensive.&# All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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How to Pick the Right Name for Your Business

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At Left of the Dot Media (www.LeftoftheDot.com), we’re building businesses using generic domain names and what we’ve found is that doors open faster for partnerships, you get intrinsic trust from your potential customers, you get a distinct SEO boost, and higher click-thru rates on your paid search. ©2005-2012 Mashable, Inc.

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