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I Built My Own Social Network in 1 Hour

If you are into first person shooter video games like Halo, Doom, or Quake, you have to join Shoot First. Shoot First is social networking for FPS game fans that I built using Ning. As part of Ning’s free service, I easily created a full-featured social network and customized it to look the way I [...]

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MySpace Opens the Door to Developers

MySpace is set to formally announce their open application interface, MySpace Platform, sometime next week. This programming platform enables developers to create applications using a set of APIs that tie directly into MySpace’s social networking infrastructure. For more info, check out Techcrunch’s comments. One key element that MySpace got right in their developer program is [...]

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Digg-style Voting for Video Game Downloads

I love to download and play a demo of the latest video games so that I can see what is worth buying. Besides demos, there are important post-release patches that I need and some amazing mods that extend the life of classic games like Doom and Half Life. The problem is that the demo files [...]

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Community love with MyBlogLog and BUMPzee

I have been incredibly slow to build out my community connections and social bookmarking here on my blog. If you are going to have a successful blog, you must actively participate in a relevant, engaged community. So I’ve been joining everyone of the many social networking sites and social bookmarking services. Soon I will be [...]

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Tell CJ what you want and how to do it

Commission Junction is recruiting both publishers and advertisers who are power users of their affiliate marketing platform. It is called the CJ Product User Group. If you qualify (yes, there is an application process), you get to have direct input to the CJ product management team. Some of the things that you would get to [...]

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