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Spam Or Ham? BISH Index Analyses (Over-) Monetization Of Websites

Advertising Network Distribution

I know this from my experience with Google’s search results but I am sure you have encountered the same: searching for a specific keyword, clicking on the first result and being confronted with an overly “AdSense optimized” website that was … Read

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Top 15 Brands On Twitter 2011

Top 15 Brands On Twitter

Hootsuite, the social media management dashboard, released an infographic showing the top 15 trending brands on twitter from 2011. To round out the trendiest topics they also included Topics, Tags and in Memorium Trends. Interesting to note MySpace is still … Read

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Worldwide Cigarette Smoking Rates Infographic

Worldwide Cigarette Smoking Rates Infographic

Cigarette smoking rates around the world and what nations are doing to educate the public. [GOOD]  

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Is The Recession Impacting Luxury Brands?

There are a number of ways of tracking general interest in the world’s luxury brands, the most obvious one being annual sales figures. In recent times a more contemporary measure has emerged – the number of times those exclusive brand … Read

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Most Engaged Brands In Social Media

The social media hype is big with keeping in touch with friends and I’m sure most of you have a facebook or linkedin account, both, or even more accounts. So what do the big brands do for keeping in touch … Read

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Why Cheap Airlines Are So Cheap

Ever wondered why cheap airlines are so cheap? A graphic comparing low cost to regular airlines shows it’s the combination of all factors: more seats, fast turnarounds, smaller airports, etc. While British Airways handles 735 passengers per employee, Easyjet is … Read

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Spamalytics: The Business Model Behind Spam

A team of US computer scientists have investigated how the business model spam works, ie. how profitable it is to send out spam or “illegal messages”. In order to conduct the study, seven scientists became spammers themselves.

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Mac Vs. PC Campaign: An Analysis

The cultural differences of both companies are reflected in their current commercials. Who’s getting more momentum out of the campaigns? Apple and Microsoft are constantly throwing adverts at their users not showing cool product features but promoting their company image. … Read

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I bought some pixels … (Update)

and because I’m a millionaire I bought a whole 6 blocks, enormous chunks of pixels on the Million Quarter Webpage. Hey, I got 2 blocks for free! This is how it looks like: Maybe you think this is a waste … Read

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