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Part Two: Creating the Past and Shaping the PresentThe quality of your characters will form the foundation you desire for a strong story. In this four-part series, we’re looking at ways to devel…
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed lawsuits against two Web sites that it says are committing copyright infringement by allowing the viewing of pirated films.

The sites named in the suit are Cinematube.net and Ssupload.com. Cinematube is located in Malayasia and receives 24,000 unique visitors each day who view 85,000pages of content. Ssupload [...]

Pick whichever cliché you like: what goes around comes around; you catch more flies with honey; adding insult to injury; cutting off your nose to spite your face; his butt would make Harold a Sunday face. They all could apply here – maybe not that last one; just something my grandfather used to say. In [...]

Podcasts can be cool, but “cool” isn’t necessarily enough to attract new customers or increase your profits.  So Eric Schwartzman, iPressroom’s founder and chairman, gave relevant advice in a session called “Attracting/Growing Your Audience.”
WebProNews has been covering the Podcast and New Media Expo taking place in Ontario, California.  You can catch our conference interviews [...]

When someone (truthfully) says “99.9 percent of the time,” it’s often all right to round up to one hundred.  When examining Google’s downtime, though, there’s a lot to be learned by looking at numbers even farther beyond the decimal point.
Way out at the thousandths place - where differences of just 0.001 are measured - [...]

Internet marketers face a serious challenge in trying to make their web site stand out from the crowd. You need to put your best efforts into it if you want to be successful. Article marketing or Bum …
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Sony BMG has inked a deal with online social media network Imeem to make its music available on the ad-supported music service.

Sony follows in the footsteps of the Warner Music Group who signed a deal with Imeem in July after suing the company for copyright violation. EMI is also in talks with Imeem according to [...]

Writing a video game script is very different to writing a movie script or a novel. Firstly you have to contend with different choices taking you through different routes, and secondly you have to dea…
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Google Maps is forcing the U.S. Navy to change the design of one of its buildings in San Diego called "The Seals Lair" which from an aerial photograph appears to be in the shape of a swastika.

Google Maps Drives Navy To Change Building

Back in 2005 WebProNews reported on the story of the offensively shaped building [...]

Google’s got a huge share of the search market, but is it better than Microsoft and Yahoo at finding what its users want?  According to some new information from Compete, maybe not.
Compete’s Jeremy Crane investigated the matter and found that, in terms of statistical “search fulfillment,” Google is lagging.  “Yahoo! pretty much takes the [...]