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http://www.springwise.com/marketing_advertising/crowdcontent/ Tapping the crowd for creative input can provide a double-sided benefit for businesses: first, it unleashes a huge resource of ideas, often at little or no cost. Second, it’s a powerful marketing tool, providing information about who potential customers are, and about what they like. Here are five recently spotted enterprises that make use of content from the crowd:

Five businesses that look to the crowds for content - Springwise

Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries : we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

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http://www.springwise.com/media_publishing/vocabu/ For those who want to learn a new language—or even brush up on a current one—there’s already Popling for instruction one small bite at a time. Now a new alternative from Berlitz takes a similar approach but adds a social element with multimedia instruction and Twitter-like capabilities. With support for 15 different languages, Vocabu offers a social way to build vocabulary.

Vocabulary tool by Berlitz uses Twitter for social learning - Springwise

Corporate Website Design: Creative and Beautiful Solutions - Smashing Magazine

What do corporate websites have in common with other people’s children? Three things: they have their charm, like finger-paintings on the refrigerator; they can be useful, if infrequently; they are usually admired only by the people who created them. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/08/25/corporate-website-design-creative-and-beautiful-solutions/