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		<title>Web Video Advertising: UnrulyMedia - A Review</title>
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UnrulyMedia is a new UK based entrant in price-per-view (viewing the video not page) video advertising on the web sites and blogs. 
UnrulyMedia is different from traditional campaigns in that it pays only when a view is registered in the targeted area. For example, if a video ad is targeted for US audience, only views [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/web-video-advertising-unrulymedia-a-review/</link>
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		<title>How To Detect AdBlock Plus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AdBlock Plus is a controversial Firefox plugin to prevent ads from displaying on web pages. There is a simple procedure to detect (and take appropriate action) AdBlock Plus.
The idea is to dupe itself in thinking that a Javascript is from a well known advertising site like Google AdSense or falkag.net. Here is a code snippet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-detect-adblock-plus/</link>
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		<title>How To Compare Product Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am faced with the task to evaluate between several strongly competing product ideas in Web 2.0 space. It is not an easy task to evaluate strong competing ideas, each with a reasonable business model, in this space because of unpredictability of the market. So I asked this question to my highly experienced peers in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-compare-product-ideas/</link>
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		<title>The Meaning &#038; Value of Branding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, has written a heart-felt piece on the value of branding for a company and its customers. I very much agree with him. A brand is not just a promise, it is an expectation, it is a theme to rally behind.
The saying goes, "a brand is a promise." On a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-meaning-value-of-branding/</link>
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		<title>Why Blogging Can Give You an Edge in Employment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All things being equal can blogging give you a distinct edge in employment? As an employer myself, I think the answer is a definitive yes. Let's see the reasons why.
When a blogger mentions his blog in his resume you get another way to know about him and to evaluate him. A blogger is a known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-blogging-can-give-you-an-edge-in-employment/</link>
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		<title>2 Way 9 Language Voice Translator for $499</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now you really buy a hands-free two way voice translator with capability to translate to and from 9 languages in real-time for 499$ at SkyMall. If the marketing is half as true as the real product I will be amazed. This is the first step in the direction of a truly universal translator which has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/2-way-9-language-voice-translator-for-499/</link>
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		<title>Toto Washlet Breaks New Ground in Advertising With Flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a very interesting ad from Toto introducing Washlets to the US market. It employs nudity, specifically smiling asses to drive home its point - Washlet makes your ass happy. The ad was intriguing, the website cleanishappy uses Flash to create a very interactive presentation and drives home its point well. While it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/toto-washlet-breaks-new-ground-in-advertising-with-flash/</link>
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		<title>Desperate Spammers Do Bible Thumping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A spammer finally resorted to heavy quoting of scriptures from Bible just to get in his comments and a heavy one at that. But there's more much more. First lets see what he had to say:
Name: Master Conqueror &#124; E-mail: Master@Conqueror.co.jp &#124; URI: http: // www. congress check. com &#124; IP: 75.126.248.223 &#124; Date: July [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammers-do-bible-thumping/</link>
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		<title>Nielson Ratings Scraps Web Page View Rankings To Accomodate AJAX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nielson / NetRatings, a leading online measurement service, will scrap rankings based on page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites.
New technologies like AJAX, podcasting &#038; online videos make page views less meaningful. How much time someone spends on the site is more reflective of its popularity than simply page views.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nielson-ratings-scraps-web-page-view-rankings-to-accomodate-ajax/</link>
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		<title>Taragana Job Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have added a job board to this blog. You can browse for jobs or post a job. The jobs will be displayed on all the pages of this blog under the heading Recent Jobs in the sidebar. This is a good way to gain wide coverage for your job postings to tens of thousands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/taragana-job-board/</link>
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