The Bake Me A Wish website at www.bakemeawish.com takes online orders for custom made cakes for birthdays and national holidays.

What has given this New York based business massive news coverage recently is that they are even taking orders from families who want to send a baked cake to their relatives who are service members [...]

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“Welcome to Official YouTube Channel for the British Monarchy” reads the introductory header of the Royal Family’s YouTube Channel.
Traditionally  the Queen’s Christmas message is televised on Christmas Day and has been since 1957; the move to show the address on a YouTube channel marks the 50th anniversary.
This also marks a shift in the way the [...]

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The recently announced top quote “Don’t ‘tase me bro” by protester Andrew Meyers has now been turned into a ringback tone.
On 17th September 2007, University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was arrested and thrown out of a speech by a U.S. Senator. According to a Wired blog, “Meyer barged in line to [...]

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If you’re a person who takes a lot of video and posts them up on your web-site, blog or social network then Blinkx may be of interest.
Blinkx Ad Hoc is an easy way to display ads on your posted videos and, following the pay-per-click model, any time an ad is clicked you get paid.
It’s easy [...]

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Leon Jackson was crowned the winner of the 2007 X-Factor competition last night. Winning a 1 million pound recording contract, his music single, a cover version of the song “When You Believe”, originally recorded by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for the animated movie “Alladin”, is released on CD on Monday to give it [...]

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In line with Mik’s September 2007 post on Using Descriptive Domain Names To Drive Relevant Traffic To Your Web Site, here is a terrific resource called Good URL Bad URL that helps you understand:

what a good URL is and what a bad URL is using examples from existing sites
what would be a good URL for [...]

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If you’re a young company, or a solo-preneur, you naturally want to keep your startup costs as low as possible.
Here is a terrific resource that lists and describes 30 essential pieces of free to use software for Windows.
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/01/30-essential-pieces-of-free-and-open-software-for-windows/
It includes web browsers, email clients, complete office applications, media players, image editing applications, and even games!
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