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A tipster reports spotting Mark Zuckerberg in San Francisco today, outside 21st Amendment in San Francisco. He was “having a conversation (all smiles) with two other guys,” our tipster tells us.

Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg TogetherA tipster reports spotting Mark Zuckerberg in San Francisco today, outside 21st Amendment in San Francisco. He was “having a conversation (all smiles) with two other guys,” our tipster tells us. The restaurant and bar is near San Francisco’s South-of-Market startup epicenter, so there’s any number of reasons Zuckerberg might have been in town. But I can think of one reason why he’d be all smiles: He’s not in Palo Alto, where Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is busily wrecking his company. When Zuckerberg hired Sheryl Sandberg as Facebook’s COO, he said she would not be in “overall charge” of the company, but would stick to running business operations. Read The Rest

Digg CEO Jay Adelson and Google cofounder Larry Page smiling so hard, it’s like they just wrapped up a deal

jay adelson and larry page This year’s Sun Valley retreat, put on as usual by investment bank Allen & Co, will be Digg CEO Jay Adelson’s second. But it marks Adelson’s third or fourth trip around the block trying to sell Digg — with Allen & Co’s help, naturally. Read The Rest

Will either Jerry Yang or Steve Ballmer still be in their CEO chairs this time next year?

Will either Jerry Yang or Steve Ballmer still be in their CEO chairs this time next year? Both have thoroughly embarrassed themselves in their handling of Microsoft’s on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again acquisition talks with Yahoo. The tide of public opinion, at long last, may be turning Yang’s way. In an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin of the NY Times, he has at last articulated a reason for being CEO: Without him, he argues, Yahoo would be lost.

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Aaron Greenspan, an amiable young entrepreneur, toils a mere 15-minute walk south of the Palo Alto

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Aaron Greenspan, an amiable young entrepreneur, toils a mere 15-minute walk south of the Palo Alto, Calif., offices of Facebook Inc., where he’s forging something of a cottage industry out of needling the current darling of Silicon Valley.

Facebook, a relatively new social-networking site, has nonetheless been valued at $15 billion by investors. The site drew 123.9 million unique visitors in May — more than twice the number drawn in the same month a year earlier, according to comScore Inc.
In addition, Facebook recently closed the door on years of troublesome litigation with the founders of ConnectU Inc., who unsuccessfully claimed that Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg stole their ideas and code.

Greenspan, who presents similar claims to have had an uncredited role in Facebook’s origins, said he has no intention of suing the company. He has, however, plunged into a quixotic and surprisingly adept legal effort to challenge the company’s registered trademark. In addition, he’s using the experience of publicly criticizing Facebook to inform his own startup.

Why tons of web sites can’t make money online?

1-) They don’t have direct traffic
2-) They don’t have search engine traffic.
3-) They have general content sites and they’re not focused on nothing yet.
4-) Owners of those sites  do not have strong relation-ship with other web developers.
5-) They do not have enough backlinks to survive.
6-) They dream of being rich while hitting the front pages of famous sites with funny or amazing pictures.
7-) They do everything for short term. They think that long term plans will never work. When short term passed, they say “if i should have started” “if i should have done” etc.
8- ) They do not have effective ad-placement
9-) Owners of those sites work more than 10 hours a day on these web sites. But they forget that, advertisers do not pay for their works/hour. They forget that, effective 2 hours is better than unconscious 10 hours on net.
10-) Owners of those sites are impatient.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page talking something to Jerry Jang

Jerry Yang Sergey Brin Larry Page

Ten years after it was founded in a Californian garage by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google has become the dominant player in the global online advertising market

Sergey Brin Larry Page Together
Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Photograph: Ben Margot/AP

Job: co-founders, Google; president of technology, Google (Brin) president of products, Google (Page)
Age: 34 (Brin), 35 (Page)
Industry: digital media
Turnover: $16.59bn (£8.10bn)
Staff: 19,100
Salary: $1
Worth: approx %18.5bn each
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Ten years after it was founded in a Californian garage by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google has become the dominant player in the global online advertising market and one of the biggest multinational companies in the world by value.

Brin and Page return in this year’s MediaGuardian 100, having made way in last year’s list for their company’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt.

But if our 2007 panel thought the web giant’s founders had taken a less prominent role in the day-to-day running of the company, then this year’s judges said they were right back at the forefront of Google’s global activities.

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Sergey Brin Cares About The Children

Google CEO Eric Schmidth and cofounder Larry Page sat down with reporters for over an hour during an impromptu press conference while playing Bilderbergers at Allen & Co.’s exclusive Sun Valley getaway yesterday. There was talk of Google’s Android cell-phone operating system; of China; of the search-ads deal with Yahoo.

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Should i rent an office to make money online?

1-) If your only income source is “online”; No
2-) If you plan to build web sites blogs for others + Make Money Online; Yes
3-) If you haven’t started to make at least 5 dollars a day online; No
4-) If you think that your income will be better if you work at a office; No
5-) If you want to hire some bloggers and you think you need an office; No (in blogging, freelancers rules, not the full time workers)
6-) If current working conditions at your home is not enough suitable to work; Maybe, Yes (but i would still recommend you to stay at home for now. You should find new ways to make your home suitable for work.

What Kind of Web Traffic Can Make You Rich?

According to my experiences from too many sites and blogs;

1-) Direct Visitors: if your blog/site do not have direct visitors, probably you won’t able  to make money in long term. You won’t able to generate private ad-sales, you won’t able to see high page views.

2-) Search Engine Traffic: Search engine traffic is the second most important web traffic type. Your search engine (organic) traffic referrals will be mostly Google, Sites using Google and Yahoo.  Search engines will bring you visitors related to your content and ads.

3-) Refferring Site Related to your Content: Blogrolls, link exchanges probably won’t help you to have a better ranking in search engines in 2008’s but i can be a great source of quality traffic for you.

4-) Social Media Traffic: Social media traffic (traffic coming from digg,reddit,stumble like sites) won’t help you to make money in short term. But it will help you to improve your web site’s worth and rankings. Also social media is the most effective (if you don’t have budget) marketing oppurtunity for you content.

So, if you have at least 10.000 visitors from social media sites, don’t give up this business, you need direct traffic and search engine traffic to make money online. Making money online is not impossible but it’s not the easiest way of making money too.

Concentrate on having direct visitors. It’s hard but it’s fun. Think about the people writing your domain name to the address bar from all over the World.

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