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		<title>The State Of Online Advertising Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[From a previous Amplify curation post "Very perceptive post about the potential for a new kind of Search on Facebook", with UPDATES added below.]
[Screencap from profitboostonline.com/fb/ under "Fair Use - Parody" ;) ]

Social Ads for the most part do not work, because the click-through rates are so abysmally low. But this concept outlined in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/the-state-of-online-advertising-revisited</link>
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		<title>Jeff Jarvis on what I&#8217;ve been beginning to call &#8220;The Content Creator&#8217;s Dilemma&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[From a previous Amplify curation post.]
Jeff Jarvis is pointing out several excellent recent examples of changing journalism practices in the age of the Real-Time Web, and ever more rapid Content Decay (that&#8217;s why they call it &#8220;old news&#8221;&#8230;). Is the news article becoming a luxury, and mere byproduct of other, larger reporting and #Curation efforts?
I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/jeff-jarvis-on-what-ive-been-beginning-to-call-the-content-creators-dilemma</link>
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		<title>Freeconomics New Generatives + Impulse-Purchase Pricing = Kickstarter. Better Than Gov’t Grants for Artists!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kickstarter project crowd-funding is a fantastic example of how you can still sell, even when everything (at least in the digital/content realm) is trending toward $0/FREE.
1) Notice the way that the Kickstarter set-up allows for &#8220;donation&#8221; sales of $1, what I call pure Impulse Purchase territory: The amount is low enough that the vast majority [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/freeconomics-new-generatives-impulse-purchase-pricing-kickstarter-better-than-gov%e2%80%99t-grants-for-artists</link>
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		<title>REQUIRED READING: The Freight Train That Is Android &#8211; by Bill Gurley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you care about #mobile and smartphones at all, it is crucial that you fully appreciate the depth of what is going on with Google&#8217;s Android strategy (which is why I&#8217;ve clipped a lot of key excerpts from this great post; by all means keep an eye on Bill Gurley, his stuff is usually excellent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/required-reading-the-freight-train-that-is-android-by-bill-gurley</link>
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		<title>Steve Ballmer&#8217;s Nightmare Scenario</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BusinessInsider recently published &#8220;STEVE BALLMER&#8217;S NIGHTMARE: How Microsoft&#8217;s Business Actually Could Collapse&#8221;. And while you may think that this is an extreme scenario used as linkbait (and by all means read their entire post as well), here are some data points that show that some of the pieces of the puzzle have already been falling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/steve-ballmers-nightmare-scenario</link>
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		<title>From Kevin Kelly&#8217;s The Satisfaction Paradox: On why Curation will be the only thing you&#8217;ll still pay for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant stuff from Kevin Kelly on the situation were are increasingly finding ourselves in with regard to Content Overabundance: There is more than you will ever be able to consume.
(Compare: The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We&#8217;re All Going To Miss Almost Everything &#8211; NPR ).
This is the fundamental equation you have to understand about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/from-kevin-kellys-the-satisfaction-paradox-on-why-curation-will-be-the-only-thing-youll-still-pay-for</link>
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		<title>Blog Is Back In Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned previously, I had been doing a lot of Curation over at Amplify.com, but the community there due to various issues is now nearly defunct (the arrival of Google+ for Interest Graph related discussions was partially responsible). And more importantly, the response time of Amplify has gotten so slow that I feel I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/blog-is-back-in-action</link>
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		<title>Think you can afford to not understand Gamification? Good luck&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why did Seth Priebatsch garner so much attention with his keynote speech on Gamification at SXSWi in Austin this year? At a conference where everyone agrees it is becoming increasingly difficult to break through the noise at all anymore no less.

Why? Because Gamification has not only been one of the trend words of 2010/11 in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/think-you-can-afford-to-not-understand-gamification-good-luck</link>
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		<title>Gartner Research study predicts all-out Tablet Wars, but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;could things go a lot more quietly, the way of the MP3 player market and total Apple / iPod dominance instead?
GigaOM was quick to point out 5 Problems With Gartner’s Tablet Forecast, among them:

Apple’s iPad is poised to continue its overwhelming lead in tablet sales until 2015, holding 47.1 percent of the market according to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/gartner-research-study-predicts-all-out-tablet-wars</link>
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		<title>Are the New York Times&#8217; reports of the Death of Blogging greatly exaggerated?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter&#8221; claims a recent article in the New York Times, based on some statistics gather by Pew Center research that appear to show a percentage decline in self-identified bloggers among the younger age groups, and stagnation among the more middle-aged set.
Is Blogging dying, or at least [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/are-the-new-york-times-reports-of-the-death-of-blogging-greatly-exaggerated</link>
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		<title>The psychology secret to Zynga&#8217;s success (now valued at $10 Billion!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so Facebook game maker Zynga is raising additional money at a $10 BILLION valuation. One would hope that that&#8217;s enough to make anyone&#8217;s ears prick up&#8230;
So how did they get here: By understanding something about human psychology, and then HACKING it for all its worth.
1) Addict people with SIMPLE, low learning-curve games, that 2) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/this-short-quote-reveals-the-secret-to-zyngas-success-now-valued-at-10-billion</link>
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		<title>This CHART tells you all you need to know: The Death Of The Music Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry
This stunning chart needs to be put in some context to understand the true nature of the upheaval facing what I like to call the &#8220;Dinomedia&#8221;:
1) Forget About Buying Music Online &#8211; People Don&#8217;t Even Want To STEAL Music!
2) FREE can actually work, with a little creativity: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmindhacks.com/post/this-chart-tells-you-all-you-need-to-know-the-death-of-the-music-industry</link>
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