Book Marketing Strategist Warren Whitlock's helps authors and publishers and wrote "Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online" with Deb Micek. Here's his thoughts on the game we call "life"
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This @Mashable post scares me.
Strategy to get badges and such? The advice is great, but the tone makes me wonder if people are taking the way to serious. As @Foursquare grows, it's fun to see who else is on. At @Blogworld (#BWE10) there were so many users that you could always find a bunch of friends at any party or venue.. making for some serendipitous fun. Geo tagging and checking in will be more than a fad.. but what about these badge games?Amplify’d from mashable.com
In order to truly excel in a Foursquare power user category, it can be beneficial to define your strategy. Chris Radzinski decided to focus his efforts on badges.
Read more at mashable.com
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I don't know who this Rice guy is, or what research he did to support his claims, but I was shocked to see a post questioning the #groupon model without interviews from them, businesses using social coupons or someone with an idea of how social media is changing the world.
My limited knowledge of @Groupon is that it ROCKS. I've only talked to 4 of the businesses that I redeemed a coupon at, not much of a sample... but all four of them had more business AFTER the promotion. The article claims that with half to 4/5's of businesses reporting profits from the promotion itself that Groupon model looks shaky. Has anyone involved with this ever run a business? I did ask one local business owner if he was going to use Groupon again. He said "I doubt it. The boost in word of mouth from this has made a permanent improvement in my business and I don't have the capacity" What other promotion vehicle is doing that today?Amplify’d from www.technologyreview.com
"If things continue the way they are, I would be very surprised if it's sustainable," says Utpal Dholakia, an associate professor of management at Rice University, who led the study. He surveyed 150 businesses that had run promotions through Groupon between summer 2009 and summer 2010. Although the majority of Groupon's business customers said they were satisfied with their promotion, Dholakia found that about a third hadn't turned a profit as a result of offering a deal, and just under half said they would not repeat the experiment. He argues that the problems experienced by these firms mean that changes need to be made if such social promotions are going to survive in the long term.
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We know that old media's motive is to keep our eyeball glued to the ads.
New media may get ad revenue (like @JoelComm taught us in "The Adsense Code" but I hold that it's just one of many motives from sharing news online. What's your ulterior motive?Amplify’d from joelcomm.com
I NEVER watch television news. I NEVER buy a newspaper.
But I happened to be in front of a television the other day while waiting on my car at an oil change shop.
The local news was on, so I watched out of the corner of my eye while checking my email on my iPhone.
What I heard solidified my decision to tune out television news.
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Labels: getting, internet, news, people, television
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I loved the headline Brian used to talk about Twitter stats.. but thought I'd try to create my own here.. (sort of a market test.. I've already retweeted his version)
And this topic cries out for a little more discussion. Just what Amplify.com is great at. So take a look at all the stats from Edison report and Brian's take on them.. and let's have add our thoughts here. My take.. Twitter is getting to be very well known, but clearly not as ubiquitous a Facebook or BREATHING. What do you think? Will everyone tweet? Does Twitter work if you just log in once a week? (I know better than to suggest anyone use it as much as meWhat would it be like all your friends were accessible by Twitter the way they are by phone?
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Labels: Facebook, network, networks, social media, twitter
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We just put LiveFyre on http://ProfitableSocialMedia.com to use their real-time chat/comments while with talk to their CEO on the Social Media Radio show.
Storify will be there with another way to assemble stories from social media and of course we have @Egoldstein, CEO of Amplify.com Great discussion.. VERY SOCIAL and new technologies to make your time on social media more profitable. Tonight at 7pm Pacific http://budurl.com/btrwAmplify’d from profitablesocialmedia.com
How To Get What You Want Without Playing Games
Burt Herman (@Burt Herman) is the CEO of Storify.com. He is an entrepreneurial journalist.
Jordan Kretchmer (@jkretch), Founder and CEO of Livefyre background is in product development and brand strategy. At 17, he started his full-time career designing web applications for brands ranging from Subaru to Match.com to Pepsi to MINI Cooper. He spent nine years in the advertising industry, and where he managed the digital development teams.
Eric Goldstein (@eGoldstein) is the CEO and founder of Amplify.com where he says “conversation is king”. He’s been on the show a couple of times and when I talked to the other guys, I realized how these all are working on the same goal.
And please TWEET, Share and LIKE this announcement, The more we grow, the more our your grow. Let’s all tell the story of Profitable Social Media together!
Read more at profitablesocialmedia.com
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The iPad is GREAT. I love it, it's a big hit and million are selling.
Steve dreams of taking over all computing with the device.. Pundits tell us that it's a "game changer" and "new category".. not quite. It's either a large phone, or a small laptop.. We've been trying for tablets for 20 years and the touch screen are finally good enough, the processers fast enough and let's give Apple credit.. them made a good leap forward with the iPad. But a year from now, will they have 90% market share? Will we stop buying laptops, desktops or phones?Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.com
This week, Verizon Wireless said on Nov. 11 it will start selling Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Tab—a 7-inch tablet that runs on Google Inc.'s Android software. Next year, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. plans to release its 7-inch PlayBook.
On an Apple conference call this week, Mr. Jobs said 7-inch devices were too small to create great tablet applications. "Their manufacturers will learn the painful lesson that their tablets are too small and increase the size next year, thereby abandoning both customers and developers who jumped on the seven-inch bandwagon with an orphan product," said Mr. Jobs.
Many analysts seem to agree. "It's a false statement to say developers are not interested in the Android platform," said Jeff Orr, an analyst for ABI Research.
Morgan Stanley estimates that about 13 million Apple tablets will be sold this year, out of 15 million total tablet sales world-wide.
For 2011, Morgan Stanley estimates that Apple's number will rise to 30 million, while non-Apple tablets will skyrocket to 20 million.
Mike Willsey, the director of marketing for Verizon Wireless, said the iPad and Samsung tablet are both very good. "I think the consumers will tell us why they want one or the other," he said.
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My co-host on SOCIAL MEDIA RADIO connected me with Storify.com's people which led to our guests on tonight's show.
We'll be talking about networking and storytelling with 3 startups in the social media space. Ed's leaving on a trip, but not before using Storify.com to put together notes from an even today.. networking all the way. Learn how these can make for more Profitable Social Media on our next show http://BlogTalkRadio.com/warrenAmplify’d from storify.com
Storify
Online Media and Social Networking - a Marketing Must!
Edward Philipp
ÜT: 33.801982,-118.013219
TeleSeminars - Free Resource Blog at TeleSeminarWebFolk.com CoFounder of TeleSeminarNation.com
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Washington Post editors are working on damage control and @Mashable wants us to take a poll on what the "should" do.
Guess what. Reader of the new media's "big media" want old media to be more open. The "they should" choice won the poll. The 20th Century was unique in history. Mankind got the technology to speak to a mass audience about mass production products that could be distributed globally. Before this, people talked to people, did business with neighbors, most never traveled far and for the most part consumed what was produced locally. Mass communications had one flaw.. it was mostly one-way. So companies with the biggest printing presses, most powerful transmitters and biggest budgets won. To fill the papers with entertainment to keep readers looking at the ads, publishers employed writers and reporters. They gave them free reign over what they wrote because the market would read great content more than blather about the advertisers, but the goal was always to deliver those ads. We had a couple of generations of "journalists" and some very smart people in that "profession" telling themselves, and us, that we needed them to watch out for us with "integrity" We forgot that they were the filler material and lauded them. And why not, they were smart, they were writing about important issues and they had the audience. Once the Internet grew to it's promise of no central control, the need for these aggregators was gone. People could talk to people, in mass or in private, whenever and wherever they desire. I don't worry about #Mashable getting too big and trying to reign in the conversation. It's got the new media mentality. They started the conversation, and now I went a different way. Their popularity comes from adding real value in the aggregation, not control of information. But the dinosaurs are standing in the tar pit. They are very wealthy dinosaurs, and they have huge infrastructures to keep them from sinking.. It's going to take a while for it to crumble How long will it be till we stop caring about their editorial policies?Amplify’d from mashable.com
The Memo
As a result, the following memo was sent to staff by Post Managing Editor Raju Narisetti, who is no longer on Twitter after offering his thoughts on more spending for health care:
This week, some Post staffers responded to outside critics via our main
Twitter account. At issue was a controversial piece we’d published online. The intent in replying was to defend the decision to publish the piece, but it was misguided both in describing our rationale for publishing the piece and as a matter of practice. It shouldn’t have been sent.
Even as we encourage everyone in the newsroom to embrace social media and relevant tools, it is absolutely vital to remember that the purpose of these Post branded accounts is to use them as a platform to promote news, bring in user generated content and increase audience engagement with Post content. No branded Post accounts should be used to answer critics and speak on behalf of the Post, just as you should follow our normal journalistic guidelines in not using your personal social media accounts to speak on behalf of the Post.
Perhaps it would be useful to think of the issue this way: when we write a story, our readers are free to respond and we provide them a venue to do so. We sometimes engage them in a private verbal conversation, but once we enter a debate personally through social media, this would be equivalent to allowing a reader to write a letter to the editor–and then publishing a rebuttal by the reporter. It’s something we don’t do. Please feel free to flag Marcus, Liz and me when you see something out there that you think deserves a response from the Post. As we routinely do, we will work with Kris Coratti and her team to respond when appropriate.
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I got an invite to look at #hashable. The tweet said
" the way you are you'll pick it up quickly and run with it" Wos..such flattery. I feel for it and clicked on the link. Just before the new window opened, I saw another tweet from @hashable.. Oh great, a BOT... but I was already on my way. Once at the site, I saw a log in screen but not a word about what the site was there for. Being the curios reporter of new apps that I am, I threw caution to the wind and put in my Twitter handle. Logged in via Twitter and got another screen that wanted my email address, a bunch of data from LinkedIN and my ZIP CODE (???) Then a 3rd screen wanted me to add some people I''ve never heard of, with an option to share that on Twitter. Under that, a list of Twitter friends already connected to me there. I clicked through, but wait.. a POP UP asking me if I wanted to share my good fortune with the Twitterverse. Finally, a home page with all sorts of goodies like all the other social media sites. Starting to look interesting. Is it based on hashtags? Is there a video, a demo, and option to not share this with all of you? There it was.. the "How it Works" link that would tell me what I signed up for. I've share some of it below. Hey, a nifty tool to let me put in two handles and have them both get a tweet. Just like I do every day with EVERY Twitter client out there. Who knows.. that might be useful, but here's why I didn't stick around to try it. "We'll follow up" If my friends don't enjoy the message from a service (not me).. they get another message! My guess is that all the two people I intro have to do is JOIN #hashable.. But I can't confirm.. I've already disconnected from this one.Amplify’d from hashable.com
There is a simple tool on the hashable.com homepage that can help you make introductions. You can use the tool to make an introduction through twitter or email. Using our integrated address book, you'll be able to easily search your twitter or email contacts and find people you'd like to connect. (Warning: this is highly addictive!)
We'll follow up
Hashable also follows up with your friends a few days later (via email or twitter) to see if they connected. Hashable will notify you once we hear from your friends.
Read more at hashable.com
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take a look at the kitten below.
She knows. This is my first entry from STORIFY.COM .. in Alpha testing now, and a lot of fun.Amplify’d from storify.com
Every time I think I can't possibly share more on the web, a new tool comes along and make it even easier to show you more of the good stuff.
Today, my co-host @EdLoveSumo tweeted a link to Storify. I watched the video and thought "yeah.. I've seen this before" I checked my email and sure enough.. I was on the waiting list. I let Ed know and a few minutes later, I heard from Storify. Let's see if this works as good as good as I think it will Read story Read more at storify.com
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My guest post on ThoughtLeadershipLeverage.com
We're writing "Profitable Social Media" for those who ask this question.. the ones who haven't recognized that conversations with people and relationships are the heart of business and how we all get things done. What do you say when a friend asks “How do you find the time to use social media?”Amplify’d from thoughtleadershipleverage.com
“How do you find the time to use social media?”
Getting Into the Conversations of Customers
At first glance, the conversations fragments you see online look like a waste of time. People talking about TV shows, sports, the weather and what they ate for breakfast. According to the studies we’ve seen on Twitter, 4 out of 5 people never get past setting up an account and wondering what to do next.
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LOLapps needs Facebook to survive.. but for two days, Facebook cut them off.
Now back up, it make us wonder.. Can Facebook protect your personal data and still provide all the personalization we have come to love?Amplify’d from venturebeat.com
The incident raises a number of issues. Try as it might, Facebook is finding that protecting privacy is easier said than done, since it must enforce its policies among more than 550,000 apps. Also, for companies such as LOLapps, the bans can come as complete surprises. LOLapps users were completely in the dark, as the apps just vanished from Facebook with no explanation. They worried that their accounts might have been permanently deleted, even though they had poured many hours into cultivating their characters.
Now it has restored them and LOLapps fans can begin playing their games again. According to AppData, LOLapps has more than 16 million monthly active users playing games such as Critter Island (pictured). But the San Francisco-based company said it has more than 150 million users if you consider all of the users who have created quizzes and personalized gift apps. Those apps show up as created by the individuals, not by LOLapps. But LOLapps can make money from those apps.
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Skype 5.0 is out.
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With Facebook integration, you can:
- see your Facebook News Feed in Skype
- post status updates that can be synced with your Skype mood message
- comment and like friends’ updates and wall posts
- call and SMS your Facebook friends on their mobile phones and landlines
- make a free Skype-to-Skype call if your Facebook friend is also a Skype contact
Video calling accounted for approximately 40% of all Skype-to-Skype minutes in the first half of this year, and with the new version of Skype, you’ll receive a free trial of group video calling in beta. We’ve added a dynamic group video calling view, which it easy to follow who’s talking by moving the focus to the person speaking on the call – try it out!
See more at blogs.skype.com
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You’ve heard the tips from various sources about how photos can be used to liven up your blog posts. Whether they’re supporting material for a text post or standing on their own as content, photos and other graphics give a bit of pop to the otherwise mostly-textual web.
- Before shooting: Don’t obsess about camera gear. 99% of the cameras are better than 99% of the photographers. Whether you have a point-and-shoot, a fancy DSLR, or a camera phone, you have what you need to get started creating images. Since you’re here reading the BlogWorld blog, I suspect that you’re amongst the digitally-savvy… your iPhone or Android smartphone probably has a camera capable of great images.
- When shooting: Fill the fame. Get close so that your subject fills most of the viewfinder. There’s an old photo adage that says when you think you’re close enough, get closer. For photos embedded into blog posts this is even more true – you’ll want your subject to take up all of the screen real estate that it can.
- When embedding: Bigger is better. You went to the effort to create a nice photograph; don’t lessen the impact by only showing a 100 pixel thumbnail. There’s a reason why Flickr’s “small” size is 240 pixels – I consider that the minimum for effective use in a blog post.
- When inviting engagement: Instead of just posting a photo as supporting material on your blog or Facebook page, put up an interesting picture and ask readers to come up with a caption. Folks can invent some hilarious captions and you’re sure to get a variety of responses. You can do it as a contest with a prize or not… either way you’ll get people talking about your article and picture.
Aaron Hockley is a photographer and blogger who has been involved with social media since 2002. He attends and speaks at various new media conferences and is often quoted and consulted on the use of social media by the photography industry. Follow along with Aaron on Twitter ( @hockley) or keep up with his latest musings at Picture Pundit. He can be reached by email at aaron@hockleyphoto.com.
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The video below has a quick interview with best selling author Seth Godin.
As usual, Seth has many great ideas about what it takes to be a success today.Amplify’d from www.bestsellerauthors.com
Online Promotion Strategies for Authors
The last question was important for any author. Seth was asked about the secret to marketing books. After reminding us that the best ideas come from “getting busy and doing it” and working past all the crappy ideas till only the good one is left. Seth gave specific advice about marketing your book.
The time to start is 18 months before your book comes out. If you wait till one week before, I have no advice for you
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"I turned my life around. It wasn't easy. But it was well worth it. I used to have a bad attitude and I did bad things and my life appeared dismal. Now it's exciting, fun, and full of wonderful people, possibility, and opportunity! I hope to inspire you with my true life story. I will try to explain how it happened for me and how you can do it too. I don't want you to suffer like I did. I am here to help."
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I realized that my problems were coming from how I've always acted. I neglected and pushed away people who cared about me. I only thought about myself. I hoarded things. I even lied and stole things. I started changing my behaviour to the opposite of what I'd always done. And people treated me differently. Much better. And that made everything easier. Like I've said before, "The world is my reflection, delayed."
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The headline about Facebook unfriending caught my eye.
Read the 2nd paragraph. 1500 Tweets came in with opinions to form the database.. and then laugh at the first paragraph quoted. #1 reason for unfriending is that people are bored with the friend.. DUH! Presented as science? SillyAmplify’d from www.sciencedaily.com
Top Reasons for Facebook Unfriending
"Researchers spend a lot of time examining how people form friendships online but little is known on how those relationships end," said Christopher Sibona, a PhD student in the Computer Science and Information Systems program whose research will be published January by the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. "Perhaps this will help us develop a theory of the entire cycle of friending and unfriending."
After surveying more than 1,500 Facebook users on Twitter, Sibona found the number-one reason for unfriending is frequent, unimportant posts.
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My friend Iggy just posted a great list that is also fun.
Good manners are good manners. Even on social mediaAmplify’d from dannybrown.me
10 Things Your Parents Told You That Still Apply to Social Media
1. How would you like it if someone did that to you?
2. Are you going out looking like that?
3. If you can’t say anything good about someone, don’t say it all.
4. Don’t play with fire.
5. If you go cross-eyed and the wind changes, it’ll be permanent.
6. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
7. Everything in moderation.
8. Think before you speak.
9. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
10. Go clean your room!Read more at dannybrown.me
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3 Ways to Use Your Blog to Upgrade Your Rolodex
1. Post-encounter follow-up. Let’s say you meet someone promising at a networking event or a conference. Chances are, if you’re interested in working with that person in any capacity, you’ve taken the time to get to know them. If you’re a good networker, you’ve probably asked questions about their business, the challenges they’re currently experiencing and you may even know a little about what they’ve done to try to address those challenges. And, if you really think about it further, you’ve probably written a blog post that may help them gain perspective or take the next step. Resist the temptation to “get lost” in the conversation and think about ways you might leverage your content to help them. As they speak, try to recall a helpful blog post; if you think of one, tell them so. A quick, “Hey, I think I wrote a blog post that might help you sort this out, if you have a card, I’ll make sure to email you a link.” This might feel awkward at first, but you’ll get the hang of it. This tactic serves three purposes: it gives you a reason to reach out to them in the first place, it gives you a something on which to follow-up, and because you’ve written the content, it positions you as someone who understands their pain and has solutions (This is why it’s so important to write your own blog posts. Outsource the to-do’s not the message.)
2. Interviews. Who doesn’t want to be interviewed? If it’s one thing I know, it’s that people love to talk about themselves. I’ve found that the interview request works best if you place a quick phone call. If you get voice mail, say something like, “Hi Ellen, this is John. You probably don’t know who I am, but I have a popular industry blog and we’d love to interview you as part of a series of interviews we’re doing with industry thought leaders. Should take about 15 minutes and we’d love to have you.” It is rare indeed that people turn down interview requests. The interview tactic helps you to create fresh content, it helps you to get to know someone you’d like to get to know and what do you think they’re going to do once the interview goes live? You guessed it – they’re going to spread the word to their audience, too.
3. Link love. Part of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is that people need to “enjoy general esteem from others.” In other words, people need to feel as if their ideas are appreciated. Let’s come at this from another angle. Suppose you have a solid budget and you want to hire someone to help you refine your company’s culture. You get proposals from three firms and for the most part, they’re all the same, except for one thing. One of the firms took the time to read your blog, write their own spin, and link back to your blog in the process. Who do you hire? If you’re like most people, you hire the people who linked to your blog (all things being equal, of course). And, that’s something that you can do, too. You can write about someone you’d like to get to know on your blog and link to a blog post they’ve written. And, if you really want to take this to the next level, you might want to select a blog post where they’ve written about something in which they are clearly passionate, but the post has not generated a lot of comments or footprints elsewhere. You’ll be seconding their ideas and that kind of “esteem from others” feels awesome. One caveat: do this only if it feels genuine, otherwise this will backfire like a 50-year-old car.
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Facebook is playing nice and letting you get your data out of their site.
Guess they think they are big enough that we aren't all going to run off and use some other site... unless that site has better gamesAmplify’d from techcrunch.com
“Download Your Information” is groundbreaking as the premise behind the Diaspora Project
is that it is the “open” portable Facebook. As of today it seems like Facebook is the “open” portable Facebook.
When asked during the Q&A whether a Facebook user could ostensibly download their information and then reupload it to a site other than Facebook, Zuckerberg answered:
“At a high level we’ve built two different things, Facebook Connect — which is our real effort to bring our sites to other sites, and “Download Your Information” where you can download your information and upload it to another site. Stuff that you put into the site, you should be able to take out.”
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The Attention Stream is made up of things, out of an overwhelming stream of never-ending content and options on the world wide web, that people actually pay attention to on any given day.
So… how do you do that?? Read Lynn's full article and let's discuss how you will implementAmplify’d from www.clicknewz.com
Getting Their Attention
Encouraging a Response
Keeping Their Attention
Rule of Thumb
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My friend Mark J Carter is one of the most amazing social media promoters I know. Continually besting me in our contest of giving.
Really no contest.. he so far outshines what I do.. Here's on great bit he's helping on this week.Amplify’d from tweetnetworking.com
Helping A Nonprofit Create Leaders
WHAT IS THE 10 CAMPAIGN? HOW CAN YOU HELP?
We would love your support and want to make it as easy as possible for you to help (and to spread the word to a few friends). Here’s what you can do:
Ask 10 of your friends to donate $10 between October 1st and October 10th. This can be done any way you’d like: via texting, Twitter, Facebook, email, blogging and more. You can do it all in one day or you can ask one friend to donate $10 for each of the 10 days.
Read more at tweetnetworking.com
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@thespoilergirl tweeted that favorite #Chuck was high on this list.
Wouldn't you know it.. so are most of the ones I watchAmplify’d from 4.bp.blogspot.com
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