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The ax has fallen at Federated Media Publishing…, the online advertising company founded by former journalist John Battelle. Seven of the company’s 90 employees were laid off Friday.
The layoffs, according to a company representative, were almost exclusively on the display-advertising side of the company. Federated also creates interactive marketing campaigns, and with the display ad downturn in full effect, that’s where the company has chosen to focus. Federated doesn’t plan to ignore display advertising, but hope to make several hires on the marketing side.
“Given our journalistic heritage, we don’t want to bury the lede: Today FM

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Yahoo has fired up a major part of its Yahoo Open Strategy, the ability to broadcast blog postings, tweets, photo uploads, Yelp reviews, and other activity to members of your online social circle.
The change to Yahoo Updates makes the company potentially more competitive with services such as FriendFeed and Facebook, which do much the same thing, though they also offer to show activity on other services including Amazon, Digg, and Google Reader.

…Yahoo Update lets you sign up to broadcast activity from various online services. (Click to enlarge.)
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Offering the 21 third-party services helps with

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What makes a social network work? Is it the design of the site? The advertising on it? The logo? It’s none of these things, of course.
It’s the people.
MySpace proves that you don’t need pretty design, and Facebook shows that if you start by identifying an audience (college students) and give them a better way to do something they’re already doing (getting to know each other), it is enough to get a social project off the ground.
Fuego Nation…, a new social network launching into private beta Friday, runs counter to just about everything I know about

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Getting this news from one of the blog when I’m blogwalking and it says that Carlsberg has launched the web tv channel about the Football game called Carlsberg web-tv.
 
You can visit the site at www.partofthegame.tv. At this site you can sign up as the member for free and get many interesting features such us create profile, giving the videos comment, share your thought about the football game and get news and invitations to join at the ongoing competitions that held.
So, what are you waiting for? Go and be a part of the game.
 

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