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What makes Social Media / Web 2.0 so Attractive, so Successful?

It's natural, it's instinctive, it's the very spirit the internet was founded on... Bam! File sharing, networking, user-generated content encompassing user reviews, videos, blogs, personal identity profiles (Facebook and such), and others!

But dare I ask, are we living through a time where that very founding spirit might be functioning in a disingenuous manner?...

I believe it is obvious to anyone with the intelligence to examine what is going on in SEO marketing, everything leaves behind a pattern.

In every situation, from the type of IP address you use on your hosting account, static vs shared, IP addresses, server response time, if you use wordpress or if you use PHP, or CGI or if you use, ASP, CFG, whatever it is there is an electronic trail to follow.

Anyone who thinks that they can out smart the most advanced computer system...

Well today was long on the regular job but the ride home gave me a chance to reflect on my most recent mess up within Get Response. I had reviewed the return email address but not checked the signature on the return email address to make sure it was the same as the sales letters/infograms that I would be sending out to subscribers. You can imagine my horror when a potential subscriber wrote back and asked me who the "other " (unchanged) signature belonged too! Oh well, back to the...

Hello all,

I joined WF back in October 2009. Someone had told me about this forum and suggested that I should check it out.

Like so many, I was like a ball in a pinball machine, bouncing all over the place trying to make heads or tails out of Internet marketing and how I might get involved.

Life gets in the way and almost 18 months later I am here and getting my feet wet. It wasn't like I wasn't stopping by, I just didn't make myself known to the members...

Anyone can write a book - yes, even you

Many people dream of writing a book. But only few end up doing it. Is that because it is a difficult task, or one that's reserved for the very talented or skilled? Nope. Anyone can write a book. And yes, that means you too can write a book - if you want to do it badly enough.

Far too often, we make excuses for not sitting down to write a book. We imagine that we don't have enough time. We soothe ourselves by saying we'll...