Top Internet Strategy, Marketing & Technology Links – Feb 24, 2010

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If you crave advice on sculpting the perfect mustache, revel in the dark and mysterious world of vampires or seek a divorce from your partner, yes, there’s a social network for that. Here are 10 weird and truly niche social networking sites that strive to bring together some unusual birds of a feather. – Ten of the World’s Strangest Social Networks (CIO)

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in are great, but there may be a social network targeted for your specific niche or industry. While many people try to reach the largest audience better, your message and conversations are actually more efficient in a more targeted environment.

The team from CMU shows us their project, a version of D&D that runs on the Microsoft Surface. Earlier we dispatched a few orcs before coming into this cave and encountering…. well what will in the next build be a mini-boss. – D&D on the Microsoft Surface (CrunchGear)

If you haven’t seen Microsoft Surface in action, you’re really missing out. It has to be one of the coolest technologies not borrowed by the Redmond giant. Better yet, the language to program on it is relatively open, which means that independent developers can create things for it (instead of relying on MS to come up with something lame). If Apps like this D&D one were released publicly, I’d seriously consider purchasing one.

Next, since it’s hard to do any slide deck justice with just the slides, a list of top advice and recommendations, not just from the slide deck, but from many years of interactions, consulting and Q+A help for startups. – SEO for Startups: Top 7 Lessons + A Trip to YCombinator (SEOmoz)

SEO is often overlooked by small companies, but there are some good lessons here that can be applied to any business of any size. Overlooking your online presence means you’re ignoring a good portion of your potential customers.

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