http://www.brentmaggard.com Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:31:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Facebook, the social media network, has become an advertising network with it's launch of  Facebook Ads. Facebook made the official announcement November 6, 2007 at Ad:Tech New York. The new ad network fires a shot across the bows of Google, which is trying to take Facebook head on with its own social-networking platform call ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/11/08/facebook-ads-launched/ Darren has just posted the full details of his massive $54,000 ProBlogger Giveaway. Infact, he points out the total is probably closer to $60,000. Over the next 7 days he will be giving away $54,000 worth of prizes that were donated to him from the blogging community. In total there are ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/10/02/problogger-giving-away-54000-in-huge-birthday-celebration/ BlogRush - The fastest and easiest way to instantly drive a flood of targeted readers to you blog...Absolutely Free! The latest big traffic builder that everyone is talking about is only 3 days old and is being talked about by all the big players: John Chow blogging on BlogRush, with his "Increase ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/09/17/blogrush-use-your-traffic-to-get-more-traffic/ Over at Shoemoney.com he just made a post that Kelly Felix (the Rich Jerk) is selling the Rich Jerk operation in order to avoid bankruptcy. Then about 20 minutes ago a friend who I trust in the business who is pretty close to Kelly Felix says he is just about bankrupt ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/05/23/the-rich-jerk-may-not-be-so-rich/ Fortune Magazine has just rated Google as the best place to work in the United States. Some of the things that make them the best are: Free meals Swimming spa Free doctors onsite Free Laundry service Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects No wonder Google gets 1,300 résumés a day. Oprah got to ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/05/22/google-the-best-place-to-work-in-the-us/ One thing that I have seen over and over again in discusion boards and blog entries is "How do I choose a Niche that is going to work?" This is one question that will have hundreds of answers and none of them my be right for you. This is because ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/05/17/choosing-your-right-niche/ At the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. The Google Analytics official blog reports that the New Version includes a redesigned reporting interface, new email and export reports, custom dashboard, trend and over-time graph and more contextual help tips. This ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/05/09/google-analytics-gets-an-upgrade/ Google Launches New Pay-Per-Action System Google launched a pay-per-action advertising system. Instead of paying when someone clicks on your ad with AdWords, you only pay when someone performs a specific task that you choose - such as signing up for your newsletter, making an order, downloading a whitepaper, etc. Here's the official ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/03/21/google-launches-new-pay-per-action-system-3/ Announcement: Steve Jobs has announced at the 2007 Macworld conference in San Francisco a new breakthrough device from Apple Inc. - the iPhone. This sleek new device is a Widescreen iPod, GSM Phone as well as an Internet device running the FULL OS X operating system and a 2 megapixal ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/01/10/apple-announces-the-iphone/ In news that will please many Performancing users Nick Wilson has just announced that their deal to sell some of their assets to PayPerPost is off. Nick writes: “After much discussion, we’ve decided that the deal proposed by PayPerPost just isnt right for us or our community. It’s regrettable that we should ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2007/01/05/performancing-announces-that-the-payperpost-deal-is-off/ TIME.com has posted their list of the top 50 coolest websites How do we select our finalists? We evaluate hundreds of candidates—some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. Many of this year's choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2006/12/29/timecom-50-coolest-websites/ Techcrunch is reporting that PayPerPost is buying Performancing and will make the announcement today. They say that the reason for the purchase appears to be for PayPerPost to get access to the 28,000 Performancing users, most of whom are bloggers and potential customers of PayPerPost. The popular Performancing Firefox blog editing ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2006/12/28/payperpost-buys-performancing/ A couple of weeks ago Michael Arrington got together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about Web 2.0. Participating in the discussion were Aaron Cohen (Bolt), Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster), Keith Teare (edgeio), Steven Marder (Eurekster), Joe Kraus (JotSpot), Jeremy Verba (Piczo), ... http://www.brentmaggard.com/2006/08/10/web-20-the-24-minute-documentary/