With all its privacy concerns, Facebook is still a pretty neat and novel way to connect with your website visitors. If there’s one thing everyone is tired of doing, it’s signing up on another new site to create a new account they’re probably going to forget about and not use in the future. I should know, I’ve stayed away from a lot of sites because I really don’t want to bother with yet another registration process. Who wants to deal with deciding which email address to use, thinking up of a new password, confirming your email address, and navigating through an endless chasm of CAPTCHA? I’m not going to enter a website into an Australia business directory, people, I just want to try out this new URL shortener, why does it have to be so hard?
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Four of the top newspaper companies in the country have teamed-up and invested in ad network, quadrantONE. The New York Times Company, Gannett, Hearst Corp. and the Tribune Company will work on offering a more effective and more attractive package for advertisers that target a wider public audience. The four companies will launch a coordinated advertising sales network by pooling together their inventories to offer a more attractive package for advertisers looking to reach a national audience.

SOURCE: Internetnews

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