If you've been following the UK Internet Service Provider (ISP) ‘porn debate' over the past 24-hours, you may be a little confused as to what exactly is happening. Well here's...

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If you've been following the UK Internet Service Provider (ISP) ‘porn debate' over the past 24-hours, you may be a little confused as to what exactly is happening. Well here's the short answer – not a great deal. One of the early reports in yesterday's Guardian newspaper seemed quite adamant that subscribers to the top [...]

Read More: Business as usual: The UK ISP ‘porn opt-in’ debacle is a big hoo-ha over nothing

Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 8. Add an incentive to your email opt-in Chris Garrett suggested this one on Google+ when I raised the topic of this post, and he's a guy who has seen real benefit from doing it. Chris offers [...]

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Despite what I wrote on February 2010, hyper-local marketing has made its way to the iPhone since then. The workApple Destroyed the Dream of Hyper-local Advertisements in Apps – Opportunity for Android? (Feb. 2010)TechCrunch reports that Placecast's Shopalerts service provides retailer and merchant offers and discounts to consumers via their mobile phones.Placecast Brings Location-Based Shopping Alerts To Retailer Smartphone AppsThe service works with retailer provided apps which sends a message [...]

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