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Mashup Feeds with Yahoo! Pipes

Wednesday, 21 February 2007 by Paul O'Brien

If you are as much an online marketing dork as I am, a fun way to spend your afternoon is with the soft-launched Yahoo! Pipes. Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator with which you can meshed and changes feeds to create an output that is more powerful, useful and relevant. Consider what could

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Happy Friday Fun – Brand Marketing

Friday, 19 January 2007 by Paul O'Brien

If you haven’t caught wind of the show with zefrank, you are missing out on arguably the funniest and most original video blogger online. Rumor has it we’re going to lose his daily humor to bigger things the same way we lost Amanda Congdon (I still can’t find the joy I once had from my

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I thought ‘standing still’ meant I couldn’t be tagged?

Friday, 05 January 2007 by Paul O'Brien

For those of you who don’t know, a game of tag was started among-st search bloggers by Jeff Pulver. I’m it. The Rules: You do not talk about BLOG TAG! You have to tell 5 things about yourself that no one else knows Tag 5 others There are no tag-backs! But it doesn’t hurt to

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Cash Back with jellyfish

Thursday, 21 December 2006 by Paul O'Brien

jellyfish, a promising and somewhat novel addition to the Comparison Shopping scene is a combination of Upromise or the Discover card and Woot; they accomplish both giving you cash back on purchases while a discount on a deal of the day increases until the supply of that offer is sold out. Given the press I’ve

Published in eCommerce, Surplus

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Is Spokeo your new Best Friend?

Tuesday, 14 November 2006 by Paul O'Brien

Fresh out of silicon valley comes Spokeo, a remarkable attempt at merging the frustrating proliferation of social networks and services into one. Spokeo applies the concept of tributary merging to social networks, blogs, photo and video systems, and RSS feeds aggregating content in one location allowing you to keep up with friends, favorite blogs, and

Published in Fun, Social Media, Web 2.0

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Let Offline Experiences be your Guide

Monday, 06 November 2006 by Paul O'Brien

This weekend I had the good fortune to spend some time with Elliot Sloan, lead singer of Blessid Union of Souls at a Train concert. I often feel so focused on the day-to-day opportunities and challenges of online marketing that I fear losing perspective on traditional marketing; this experience was a refreshing view of event