Internet Marketing and Social Media Consultants

The countdown begins: TomCruise.com is launching on Monday morning.

Certainly, this is the biggest moment in the history of the Web. Forget Web 2.0, we now have Web Tom.0.

The page currently has a countdown clock on it, and nothing else, that glows strangely whenever the number ‘25′ ticks by on the seconds clock. Perhaps this represents the number of people left in the world who don’t think Tom is nuts.
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You heard it right: the potentially lucrative domain name “pizza.com” was sold in an auction for $2.6 million.

The man who owned the domain, Chris Clark of Maryland, paid $20 for it in 1994 and has maintained the site for the last 14 years at a price of $20 per year. Not a bad return on his investment.

His main regret is not registering more domain names when the web was just starting up in 1994.

Clark, the former owner of a consulting firm, hoped the site would get him deals with a big pizza maker, but he was unable to get any takers. He had been using the site for advertising over the last several years, but his interest was piqued when he saw that vodka.com sold for $3 million. So he put it up for auction on Sedo last month.
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Yahoo today launched Shine, a vertical site that will cater to women in the much desired 25-54 age bracket, a group Yahoo believes has been underserved by them, in spite of the 40 million monthly visitors they receive from the demographic.

The site will feature original and syndicated content from the likes of Time Inc, Conde Nast, Hearst, and Rodale. There are nine categories that the site features, including Fashion and Beauty, Parenting, and Astrology.

Unlike some of Yahoo’s other efforts, the site has a very blog-like feel to it, and it looks very clean. The site also aggregates content from some of Yahoo’s other ventures, like Food, Health, Tech, and Green.
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With an estimated 52 million children taking part in youth sports leagues, it was only a matter of time before a top social networking site for Little League, Pop Warner, and Soccer moms would spring up, and WePlay.com is looking to fill the void.

A look at the site offers different kinds of membership, for players, coaches, parents, and fans. Players will be able to communicate with teammates and share pictures and videos of the games, coaches do the same and perhaps lay out tactics and drills for the players, parents will be able to set up carpooling and rant at each other about Billy’s playing time, and fans will be able to give their encouragement.
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I’ve never been a big social network user, so it took me awhile to get an up close and personal idea of what Facebook is really like. I had used it and fooled around with it a little bit, but never spent a significant amount of time using it.

So for the last week, I got into Facebook. I actually added some friends, signed up for some apps, and checked the news feed religiously. I won’t deny it, it’s been fun, and I have a few rudimentary observations.

From what I can tell, Facebook’s best feature is that its apps allow you to aggregate your web experience into something easily accessible and viewable by your friends. I was hoping they had a decent Netflix app so my friends knew what I was watching, but the app is subpar and doesn’t really work. However, the Twitter and Digg apps are simple and good. If anybody wants to know what I’m Twittering or Digging, they can hit my Facebook page and it’s all there.
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