Internet Strategy, Marketing & Technology Links – Sept 15, 2009

• 18 Million Twitter Users by End of 2009 (Mashable)
• Google Still Dominates in Search Engine User Testing (Mashable)
• Making Search Prettier: Bing Launches Visual Search (ReadWriteWeb)
• How To Leverage Your Blog To Get Thousands Of Facebook Fans (All Facebook)
• Why integrate your email marketing software? (Econsultancy)
• Upgrading To Windows 7 Could Take More Than 20 Hours (Silicon Alley Insider)

• DotSpots Launches Collaborative Annotation Platform To The Public (TechCrunch)
• Researchers Discover Botnet Commanded by Google Groups (ReadWriteWeb)
• Cutbacks Force Greater Marketing Accountability, Collaboration (Marketing Charts)
• Why T-Mobile Wants To Buy Sprint: Relevance (Silicon Alley Insider)
• Mobile Users Only Half as Likely to Click on Ads (Marketing Charts)
• Intuit Acquires Mint for a Mint [CONFIRMED] [Digital Daily] (All Things Digital)
• How To Become An Overnight Expert In 3 Years (The Social Times)
• How To Reach No. 1 On The AdAge Power 150 List (Social Media Explorer)
• Facebook Lite Threatens Facebook’s Brand Advertising Businesss (Silicon Alley Insider)
• Paid Tweets Just as Healthy as Organic Word-of-Mouth? (Advertising Age)
• Nielsen on Notice: Industry Demands a Meatier Metric (Advertising Age)
• Places, Please: How Location Changes Digital Marketing (Advertising Age)
• Sears Uses Recession to Hone Brand Proposition (Advertising Age)
• Skype Says Next Generation Platform Will Embrace Developers (TechCrunch)
• How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress (Smashing Magazine)
• Hey Marketers, Make iPhone Apps Like These (Silicon Alley Insider)
• Apple opens Grand Central; challenges impede Linux adoption (Ars Technica)
• Is your PR firm ready for digital marketing? Use these 10 questions to assess their SEO and social media readiness (PR 2.0)
• 5 Things Small Business Owners Should Do Today Online (Chris Brogan)
• The Three Spheres of Web Strategy –Updated for 2009 (Web Strategy by Jeremiah)
• 10 Ways To Promote Your Promotions (Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog)
• Making your site recession proof through better usability (Econsultancy)

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