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If you have been looking past video aspects of marketing, either publisher or advertiser, it's time to get your feet wet in the video space and find ways to monetize this growing format of advertising and marketing.

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-A research study on the top u.s. social networks and blog site rankings for Oct 2007 has been compiled by Nielsen online. Myspace is at the top of the rankings with 58.8 million unique visitors in October

-Google's blogger ranked 1st in traffic while Wordpress broke through the 2nd spot which grew an incredible 444% since last year

-YouTube announced HD video hitting the site in three months

-The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and you'll now have full free access to the articles submitted to Digg.

-Good news for online advertising as it continues to grow in the third quarter worth $5.2 billion dollars according to the IAB.

-AOL makes another acquisition, shortly after the acquisition last week of Quigo, AOL acquires Q&A provider Yedda,

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-Big news in the social scene, Myspace keeps up the buzz announcing self-serve ads to advertisers. More on the story Here.

-The almighty Google has signed a 3.5 billion dollar deal with Ask.com. More on the story Here

-...AOL trying to acquire more ad networks, they took a leap and acquired Quigo. More on that story Here

-Alibaba.com, a Chinese owned company which Yahoo owns about 39% of the company, has finally gone public. More on that story Here

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The biggest news continued to be the Google PageRank update. I think this week put the defining touches on the Google PageRank update. This actually became big Google news, even the main stream media with publication such as Forbes picked up the story.

Microsoft released their own analytics platform. Again, Microsoft has to compete with Google's free analytics platform.

Google has announced forming and developing its own social media network code named Maka Maka.

Myspace has partnerd with Zazzle, a widget which will be available for the bands section only as of now, making it easier for bands to sell merchandise directly through Myspace which allows users to customize the bands merchandise.

Digg Shouts, a feature for Digg users to tell their friends about a story which could help the optimization process of a story you have submitted is not getting very good feedback from much of the industry.

Privacy Issues online are still being raised but not much media is paying attention to this. Could hit online marketers hard if laws suggested by privacy groups become...laws.

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