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Shoppers face a dizzying array of offers of help in the form of new Web sites, services and mobile-phone applications as they set out for their holiday shopping this year. To make the most of new services, experts advise employing them often and early, even before the season kicks off with Black Friday next week. Here are four ways to track down holiday bargains and a look at whether each could work for you: • Get social .

I don't think it's going to be all about the Black Friday or Cyber Monday   -Michelle Madhok

 

Twitter Inc., the social-networking company valued at $US1 billion ($1.1 billion) by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $US4 million a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising. Twitter plans to start the ad business in early 2010, Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo said today at a conference in San Francisco. The current revenue comes from companies paying to use Twitter's data, such as Microsoft Corp. displaying Twitter updates in its search results.

We will have an advertising strategy   -Dick Costolo

 

The husband of Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez said he was attacked by government supporters as he waited on Friday to confront state security agents accused of detaining and beating his wife two weeks ago. Sanchez, whose writing about the hardships of Cuban life were praised this week by U.S. President Barack Obama, said men believed to be government agents forced her into a car and hit her repeatedly in a brief detention on Nov. 6. Reinaldo Escobar, also a blogger, said he had gone ...

Your blog provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba. It is telling that the Internet has provided you and other courageous Cuban bloggers with an outlet to express yourself so freely   -Barack Obama

 

The Norah Jones we know best is a singer and pianist who became an international phenomenon when her debut album "Come Away With Me," released in 2002, sold about 20 million copies world-wide. Her three subsequent recordings of breezy pop with muted nods to jazz and country raised her total sales to about 35 million, a stunning figure in this shaky decade for the music business. But there's another side of the 30-year-old Ms. Jones that's less familiar to the marketplace.

You don't want to cover up the singer   -Norah Jones

 

You're a forward-thinking independent filmmaker, and you understand the media landscape is constantly evolving. How can you use the Internet to build an audience for a movie that hasn't even been shot yet? One way is to start up a blog and post videos as you begin planning, shooting, and editing your film.  

From the moment Sarah Palin was airlifted out of the Alaska hinterlands by John McCain and plopped onto the national stage, she's been telling anyone who will listen how poorly she's been treated by the media, the Democrats, the blogosphere, etc. After she did her part in scuttling McCain's already foundering campaign, she added to her list of personal persecutors the same McCain staffers who made her a household name in the first place. The conservative media have cheered on her personal pity party ...

should be prosecuted in a military tribunal.   -Rudy Giuliani

 

Edmonton-based Smibs today at the TechCrunch Real-time CrunchUp released a set of tools to package webcasts called VideoLobby . The service integrates Twitter and Facebook chatter, as well as a form to ask questions of a host that's powered by a backend comment moderation system. Today, anyone who wants to produce a live show can sign up to host it on VideoLobby for free.  

Everyone loves picture messaging – or at least, they love the idea of it. The iPhone carrying masses clamored for it, then celebrated once they got it by sending everyone pictures of their immediate surroundings and beloved pets before forgetting the feature exists. After the novelty wears off, it's generally reserved for the occasions when there is genuinely something interesting to show.  

A luxury condominium tower on tony Brickell Avenue, overlooking the Miami River, lit by swirling spotlights. A red carpet overrun by starlets and television reporters, all of them dressed in short skirts and stiletto heels, to the point where it's difficult to tell which is which. A fashion show runway jutting into a sparkling swimming pool, ceviche and scallops on the half-shell, Spanish flowing as freely as the vodka and gin.

We have made inroads in the Latin community over the years, through schools, though media, through our promotional efforts, our marketing efforts, our advertising. But nothing has worked better than Montoya being successful on the race track   -Curtis Gray