In short, if you haven't contacted your list in a while, you're merging lists, or you plan on changing the frequency of your newsletters, then a permission reminder email is not only best practice, but graceful manners. via campaignmonitor.com
Why Marjah? The key is the geography of Afghanistan and the nature of the conflict itself. Most of Afghanistan is custom-made for a guerrilla war. Much of the country is mountainous, encouraging local identities and militias, as well as complicating the task of any foreign military force. The country’s aridity discourages dense population centers, making it very easy for irregular combatants to melt into the countryside. Afghanistan lacks navigable rivers or ports, drastically reducing the region’s likelihood of developing commerce.
To Chris, the @reply would "just work" regardless of what network I was on. Assuming the other party supported the above protocols, this could have worked to identi.ca, cliqset.com, friendfeed.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, etc. And the protocols themselves are easy, likely only a simple extension of endpoints these networks are already exposing. And not only is this process fully decentralized (i.e., there doesn't need to be a Google in the middle), it delegates very well, so that domain owners wouldn't have to implement it themselves -- but they could later if they wanted to.
Social network Facebook has passed Yahoo! and is now nearing Google in the #1 spot for most monthly unique visitors from the US, according to traffic analyst firm Compete. Compete just published its January numbers this morning and reported that nearly 134 million US web users visited Facebook last month. Google saw nearly 148 million. via readwriteweb.com
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If you are still wondering why Google is pushing so hard with its new product Buzz, it is because it wants in on social traffic. For many sites on the Web, social traffic coming through Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace is beginning to rival, and in some cases overtake, search traffic as the single biggest source of traffic. This traffic comes from shared links, photos, and videos. By its own numbers, 5 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook every month.
The average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and Amazon combined. Think about that for a moment. via mashable.com
This alpha release of the Gmail Facebook integration extension will allow to see your friends' facebook notifications. Currently quite a number of things still need work, but the basic integration is working properly. via chrome.google.com I actually might like this if I could get it to work. ;-)
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