Is MySpace worth $3 billion, or $20 billion? It depends on how you value a user.

It’s time to start comparing the big global social networks on something other than unique visitors and page views. I believe an effective way to value a particular user is based on the average Internet advertising spend per person in the country they live in. The higher the spend, the more value the social network can get out of the user by serving them advertising and other products. That means that, for now, users in a handful of key countries are worth far more in terms of revenue potential than those in the rest of the world.

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To start and market a social networking website the basic thing is to what extent you are social in a society or community as it is the way to get out and meet with people. It could be just as a kind of social club, volunteer etc. Then you can do the same thing though your social networking site which could become the base for your social network marketing. First it needs to be done physically. It is required to actually meet with the people and develop relationships with them. Third you show them that you are involved in a community and that is often important to investors. All this will give you the platform to start planning for marketing a social networking website.

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All small businesses have one thing in common. They need to save money. Whether it is on daily supplies, wages or advertising, this fact remains the same. In this article I talk about the ways that small businesses can really take advantage of the web 2.0 marketing space. The best part of using this medium is that most of the really good resources out there to market your goods and services are free to sign up for and easy to use. The main cost realization to the small business from using the medium is in the time and dedication to their web 2.0 marketing campaigns as they do take some time to formant. The results can be extremely welcome to the small business person as they see their market share increase many fold over time globally.

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This is very cool free Web 2.0 buttons maker.

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Fixed vs. flexible design is one of the main arguments of the modern web design era. Much of the argument derives from the fact that IE (Internet Explorer) did not support the min- and max-width properties until version 7. As of this date version 6 and lower are still in such high usage that you cannot count on these properties to work. So the question “fixed vs. flexible” is asked at many a new design meeting. Continue

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CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Isn’t it great? Well, actualy, it is.

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