“All Truth passes through Three Stages: First, it is Ridiculed…
Second, it is Violently Opposed…
Third, it is Accepted as being Self-Evident.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1778-1860)
A business model that contains subtle white lies that are familiar and easy to like is often far more profitable than a business model built around attempting to change people’s identities. This [...]

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eBay has recently seen a sharp drop in traffic as they cut their affiliate stream and Google ad spend.

When you are a default category leader you no longer compete against others in your category. You compete against other categories. Google and Amazon.com understand that. Microsoft maybe. eBay no.
eBay could have used the [...]

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The Inside AdWords blog announced the beta launch of Google’s Search-based Keyword Tool. To some degree the tool is a Compete.com knock off, but with a number of exceptions

this tool is free
Google has more search data than Compete.com does
this shows bid prices and search volume estimates next to keywords (like the Google Traffic Estimator)
this shows [...]

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Here are some interesting links of note.
Danny Sullivan whinges about all the flavors of spam killing the utility of the web.
John Andrews on the absurdity of calling affiliate links spam.
Slightly Shady SEO looks at Google’s user data empire.
Andrew Goodman on why you have to target a tight niche to build a community. He also highlighted [...]

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