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Share your stuff from other sites automatically… FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. Invite some friends, and get a customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared — from news articles to family photos to interesting links and videos. FriendFeed automatically imports shared stuff from sites across the web, so if your friend favorites a video on YouTube, you get a link and a thumbnail of the video in your feed. And if your friend likes a news story on Digg, you get a link in your feed. FriendFeed makes all the sites you already use a little more social.

And now they have $5 million in funding.  Could be a great idea or could end up being information overload of friends and family sending you fart videos on YouTube.  Time will tell.

“Online Ad Networks Raise Big Money In Latest Efforts”
           Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, February 26, 2008

“On the Web, Signs of a Click Recession”
           Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Whats the point?  Headlines contradict themselves from one day to the next.  The anxiety about online advertising comes as Microsoft is pursuing Yahoo with an unsolicited cash-and-stock offer valued at $41.7 billion based on Microsoft’s share price in Nasdaq trading yesterday.  Everyone knows Yahoo is not worth this much.  Uh oh.

NerdCrunch wants to know.  Did you go from $5 to $1,000 per day, per month, in a year.  Everyone loves a good success story.  Or even maybe an unsuccessful story, rags to riches, riches to rags… just tell all the nerdy details here.

SNCR-led research indicates that spending on social media and conversational marketing will outpace that of traditional marketing by 2012, according to a study conducted by TWI Surveys, Inc. on behalf of the Society for New Communications Research.

The findings of the study indicate that while social media adoption is still very much in its infancy, communications professionals foresee significant growth in adoption and spending over the next five years, and predict that conversational marketing will outpace traditional marketing by 2012.

What’s the point?  Traditional marketing will be replaced by Nerd Blogs like this one.

What does this mean?  Everyone is trying to get to the same place, but using a 1,000 different ways to get there.  This can apply to all self-help and motivational books, blogs, websites, speakers, information, etc.  Its all the same content, but trying to deliver it in a new 5 step, 6 step, 4 step… format with their own particular nerd style.  One speaker of worthy value though, Brian Tracy.  Why?  Cause he stresses the root of failure- It is too easy to not do the easy things.  And this is the trap that many fall into.  How often people read or listen to motivational advice, say “that makes sense”, and then not apply it to their own life, blog, website, etc.  What’s the point?  Pretty simple stupid, apply the advice, do the easy things, day-in and day-out!

Insider Secrets… Make Money Online Now… How to make fast money…

1. Nerds Get Rich >>
2. John Cow >>
   This is great, using a typo to get traffic. Too funny.
3. John Chow >>
4. Zac Johnson >>
5. Nick Marks >>
6. Robert G. Allen >>
   (Must be important, used the middle initial)
7. Ty Coughlin, The Beach Bum - Reverse Funnel System >>

All are worthy of applause for their alleged success, but don’t be sofa king stupid and think, “wow, they did it, so can I”. And don’t get me wrong, some of these sites can offer some decent resources and insight, but they all paint the same image: “If I can do it, so can you”. Now buy my 7-step Platinum program… click my super-diamond-affiliate link program. If you were making millions of dollars would you expose exactly how you do it? Truth is, you can make millions of dollars by promoting the idea of “how to make millions of dollars”. This is why diet books sell so well, everyone thinks the next diet book they buy is the one that’s going to work.