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Here’s an interesting post from ReadWriteWeb Shocking News: Scientists Say Workplace Social Networking Increases Productivity! Highlights: “Can you believe that using social networking sites at work can increase your workplace productivity? A new study just published by Australian scientists found that taking time to visit websites of personal interest, including news sites and YouTube, provided workers a mental [...]

Amazon has decided to make some changes to its Associates program, no longer allowing third parties to bid on keywords that would send visitors straight to Amazon websites where they’d earn a referral fee for each purchase. The change only applies to the Associates programs in North America, and the company is referring Associates based outside [...]

Marketing dollars get tight, but don’t disappear. A number of reports, and many media articles, say the sky is falling on marketers—and ad dollars are evaporating. The annual “Marketing Outlook” study, from the CMO Council, doesn’t agree. Following What Are CMOs Thinking? and More About What CMOs Are Thinking, this, a third survey of CMOs, found that, despite [...]

Facebook is testing a new virtual gifts product that allows users to give “credits” to other users. The idea is that you can give other users these credits in addition to or in lieu of commenting or liking a message or status. So if for example I say “out walking the dog,” other people can [...]

The publisher has announced plans to launch its own, romantic version of Facebook. Romance fans are getting their own version of Facebook thanks to the world’s biggest romantic publisher, Mills & Boon. The publisher, which sells a book every 6.6 seconds in the UK, is launching a social networking site next week in an attempt [...]