I started running some tests today on Facebook’s new-ish Facebook Flyers Pro program. It’s fairly new but significantly different from the normal Facebook Flyers ad system.

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Since some people are speculating that Facebook’s valuation might be 15 Billion dollars, and there are 34 million active users (by last estimate I could find), that equals to $428 per user. Can that be a realistic lifetime value of an average Facebook user?

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The above is exactly what you need to be asking yourself whenever you write a post - if you’re trying to build an audience online. Or to be more precise, anticipate this question from your readers. It’s an acronym for:

“What the f*ck, what’s in this for me?”

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This Thursday I wrote an post for Center Networks called “Dear Kevin Rose, Please Create a Photo Section” which was an ad-hoc petition to gauge support for the suggestion. The Digg received over 6,600 votes (and counting). Kevin Rose himself added a cryptic comment to the Digg: “hmm :)” (which received 400+ thumbs up). Friday Techcrunch picked up this story and also linked to the post.

I went through and read almost all of the comments on Digg, Center Networks, and Techcrunch - I was interested to see people reactions and commentary. Some of the users had great suggestions of their own - particularly about grouping the photos into either an art section or consolidating everything into a media category.

» Continue reading “Alternatives to Creating a Digg Photo Section”

A few days ago Techcrunch mentioned a new service that just came out called Linked in a Box, which lets you embed a compact widget on your site or blog with a summary of your LinkedIn profile.

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