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Links on Twitter: Google simplifies for local advertisers, Yahoo seeks to grow original content, what it felt like when Twitter was down

By Twitter Oct. 8, 2009, 7:03 p.m.

Google’s keyword auctions may scare off local advertisers, so they’re trying the old-media model: flat rate http://tr.im/B5WJ »

Head of NY Times R&D Lab explores demand-side advertising http://tr.im/B8pl I understand about half; the rest is my homework. »

Yahoo VP says 10% of their content is original, 80% aggregated, 10% links. They’re growing that first slice http://tr.im/B5Rb »

42% of TV station managers “don’t know” if their website is making money (31% say it is) http://tr.im/B5LL »

What it felt like when Twitter was down http://twitpic.com/jv1c7 (Incidentally, that’s the hallway outside Twitter HQ.) »

POSTED Oct. 8, 2009, 7:03 p.m.

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