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Deals Out The Wazoo

There seems to be a never-ending supply of new ratings and deals sites lately. There’s national sites like Living Social and Groupon and more locally based sites like PG Deals, CBS Local, DoubleTake Deals, and Google Offers just to name a few.

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Email Spam: CAN-SPAM & What constitutes spam?

I recently attended two business events where e-mail and spamming was brought up. There were brief discussions on what constitutes spam, but no resources for finding out more about the CAN-SPAM Laws were presented. Most attendees were small businesses new to the web, who understandably may not be aware of these laws, or know

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Moving your business? Update your Google Maps listing!

Since I recently had an appointment where I ended up at the wrong location thanks to an out-of-date Google Maps listing I have started noticing other places that are wrong as well. I know some of these places are wrong because I have been there before. Some of these listings are outdated by about

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Claim your “Place” on Google

Have you claimed your Place on Google? Your Google Places page that is.

If you haven’t, why not? It’s free!

Your Places page is the page that shows up with a map and hours and other information when a Google Maps search is performed on your business. (See the Six Degrees Web Design Google

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'Historic' day as first non-Latin web addresses go live‘Historic’ day as first non-Latin web addresses go live

It actually happened. There were doubters, but on Thursday, May 6th 2010 the web has its first non-Latin web addresses! My question is how will people with say standard US keyboard setups get to these sites? There are people elsewhere in the world who know the language and writing of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and

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