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While most of us in the Internet marketing “industry” were all aghast at the Facebook privacy problem of ’09 , the rest of the world could have cared less. You know those people, right? The ones who don’t live and breathe this stuff to the point that all perspective is lost? These are the ‘everyday’ Facebook users who don’t give a rip about Mark Zuckerberg and the continued search for 7,000 people who care enough to impact any policy changes with the social media giant. So those regular folks pushed Facebook to a point where it had never been before: the number one site during the Christmas holiday. ReadWriteWeb tells us Christmas is a holiday that brings people together, so perhaps it should be no surprise that Facebook has become a part of millions of peoples’ Christmas experiences. For the first time in its history, Facebook was the #1 most visited website in the United States on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year, according to traffic analyst firm Hitwise today. Makes sense doesn’t it? Personally I was more prone to using Skype rather than updating everyone but that is certainly a personal preference. So while the site finished third for the year behind Google and Yahoo Mail it was certainly a milestone to be seen as the Christmas site of choice. Last year Facebook finished second in this contest to Google but was able to flip positions this year. See what a year of gigantic growth can do for you? Wonder if Santa will be as nice to Facebook next year after the rest of the world catches on that their “goings on” at Facebook aren’t as private as they used to be?

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Facebook Receives News of A Merry Christmas Indeed

Leave it to Eric Schmidt to stir up a hornet’s nest more often than not. Of course, he is a favorite target of everyone since he is the CEO of the most recognizable brand on the planet. Whether by design or not though, he is often saying something or other that is getting people in a tizzy. Admittedly, it takes A LOT less these days to get people into this state and that is one of the downsides of this new digital age. Despite the sensitivity threshold being much lower when Schmidt appears to downplay the notion of online privacy, there will be blood. As cnet reports Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the latest Silicon Valley CEO to draw ire after suggesting that folks seeking privacy might not want to look to the Internet to find it. “I think judgment matters,” Schmidt said, appearing on CNBC . “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines–including Google–do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.” What has really drawn attention to this whole thing is the point of view of Mozilla . It has gotten under Mozilla’s skin so badly the suggestion is even made to go to bing because their privacy policy is better. Talk about biting the hand that feeds. Yikes. maybe this whole Chrome thing is making Mozilla a little more adversarial. “That was Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, telling you exactly what he thinks about your privacy,” Mozilla Director of Community Development Asa Dotzler said on his personal blog, referring to the CNBC comments. “There is no ambiguity, no ‘out of context’ here. Watch the video.” Watch the video? What a great idea! Isn’t it interesting that this whole discussion is brought up on the heels of Google’s widening of the personalization of search results to everyone? In essence, that means that the vast majority of people will be completely unaware of the amount of data that Google is gathering on them anyway. Privacy is for the opt-out crowd only! Ok, Pilgrims, is privacy something that we should expect online or has that gone the way of the dinosaur. If you do expect it, to what level do you expect it? Let us know your private thoughts in this very public forum .

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Google and Privacy: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Everyone wants to earn money even more so during the hard economic times people are experiencing not only with the United States but world wide.  Many people who are in the field of marketing have discovered the numerous benefits as well as easy way to market through affiliate marketing.  What is affiliate marketing? This type of marketing primarily involves setting up website links for other businesses on your website.  If someone utilizes those particular, website links upon your website or purchases services or products from those particular companies, those companies will in return give you a fee or commission. You do not have to be an expert You don’t have to be a marketing expert to perform affiliate marketing.  Virtually anyone can perform this type of marketing.  One wonderful benefit of this type of marketing is that you do not have to handle any inventory, tech support or shipping.  Affiliate marketing can be easy money The company which you are hosting on your website takes care of all the aforementioned tasks.  All you have to do is provide customers the information and the rest is off your shoulders. Utilize automated tools available on the market You can handle this type of marketing campaign automatically.  Once your website is set up for online marketing the only thing, left to do is strategically lure visitors to your website.  The sky’s the limit The potential is abundant with affiliate marketing.  There are also many advantages to this style of marketing.  The workforce is huge in dealing indirectly in promoting other companies products and services.  Companies earn revenue while giving some of that revenue to affiliate marketers. Select products and services which interest you The interest in affiliate marketing is great, so great that many options are available for this type of marketing.  When partaking in this type of marketing, you are better off selecting companies which truly interest you.  This ensures that you believe in their products and services and are not merely performing affiliate marketing with companies strictly to “make a buck”.  You will find that your marketing efforts will prove more efficient when you promote products and services which interest you. Opt for companies to aid you with creation of your website Your first step is creating your own website.  There are companies who will be willing to aid you with creating and hosting your website.  You must be aware that free web hosting services are available online but you get what you pay for.  Sometimes it’s best to shell out a few dollars to get a desired result as compared to free tools which only frustrate you and waste your time.  You must focus on driving traffic to your website.  The first step in performing this task is ensuring the content which you provide on your website is relevant and useful information for customers to read.  This will enable your website to fit in relevant content which will in return become relevant to your affiliate marketing links.

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Affiliate Marketing Is the Latest Craze with Internet Marketing