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USAToday — bad model or bad fit?

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There's a post up at TechCrunch in which Mike Arrington raises the question [1] of whether the USAToday's high-profile launch of "Web 2.0"-style features — including comments on news stories, blogs, voting on st

USA Today's Unique Visitors Drop 29% After Implementing Social Media Platform

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TechCrunch is reporting that USA Today's experiment with social media may not be paying off. According to TechCrunch, Compete.com data…

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

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You always have to take Web traffic statistics with a very large grain of salt. Online traffic measurement is still a bit of a black art, even if you're analyzing your own server logs, and third-party traffic counts are even..

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Google Analytics Is Re-Launched: Do These Five Things First In V2 » Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
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Ignore Your Audience and Suffer the Consequences

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TechCrunch discovered that USAToday’s social network experiment may not be paying off the way they hoped it would. What, you mean that totally unwanted downgrade they released back in March? Well, color me surprised. In case you d

USAToday\’s Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

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USAToday\’s Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off  —  When USAToday relaunched its site in March as a social network around news, I and others thought it was big news.  —  They integrated Pluck's new Social Media Sui

USAToday\’s Social Network Experiment

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Is USAToday’s Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off?  Michael Arrington from TechCrunch says USAToday's Social Network experiment failed base some stats from Compete.com, along with other feedback and reviews.I will

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Facebook Source Code Leaked

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We just received a tip that the source code for the Facebook main index page has been leaked and published on a blog called Facebook Secrets. There are only two possible ways that the source code got out - the first is that a Face

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Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace

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Facebook is holding a massive press/developer event today in San Francisco to officially launch Facebook Platform. 750 or so people are here.
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Is Glam A Sham?

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Glam Media, which is mostly an ad network but also owns a group of sites focused on women, is actively attempting to raise $200 million in a private round of financing. The company previously raised $18.5 million in December 2006.

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Ooma Launches Free Consumer Phone Service

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An ambitious and long awaited new consumer VOIP startup - Ooma - launches on Thursday morning. Much like Vonage and the ill-fated SunRocket, Ooma allows consumers to use their normal phones to make and receive telephone calls, but

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