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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

You can see that eBay (green) rose for a while but has been essentially flat. The graph shows the change over time, starting in Jan 2004. eBay's green line is very close the performance of the category (and you'll see that often at peaks in the shopping category queries, eBay actually does worse starting holiday season 2009).

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. Reader beware.). Open Government. Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion. Mobile Payment Disappointment.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. Enter Facebook.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

In these clearest of possible conditions the ship made a planned turn out of the shipping channel and didnt turn back in time. Psychophysics in Cyberia , Work Less Institute of Technology, November 18, 2004. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada. link] , Work Less Institute of Technology, originally by Sidney Chapman.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When I started my own welding business in 2004 after managing other welding companies for years, I consciously chose to throw out that playbook, because the problem I saw with generic names and generic white company trucks was that they were all interchangeable to the companies hiring their services. 19- A verb that mean two things.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In 2004 I began blogging. It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game. I just added more advertising until I combined multiple channels of income and generated some good return that way.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

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Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. In fact, Loopt was itself acquired earlier this year, by banking company Green Dot for $43.4 Save to read later. or copy the link. Copy-paste link. Use your left/right keys to browse stories. Next story.