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House Talk: Advice on Selling a Home Without a Real-Estate Agent

Question: I have a two-bedroom condo for sale in Lake City, Minn., a resort area. I'm selling it myself, without a real estate agent, to save commission costs. It's only 2 years old, with a lake view, and I've upgraded the flooring and put in a new black granite fireplace. My asking price is less than that of other nearby units, and I've advertised on Craigslist and in nearby metropolitan and local newspapers. Still, I'm having trouble getting a showing. What should I do?…
Wall Street Journal, 4-23-2008

Region's Venture Capital Rank Slips

Area Overtaken by Northwest, San Diego. Regions of the West Coast and Midwest moved ahead of Washington as top destinations for venture capital in recent years, as the local venture economy grew more slowly than the national average, a Washington Post analysis shows.…
Washington Post, 3-24-2008

All Games, All the Time

Freewebs, the Silver Spring Web-hosting service and widget maker, has spun off a new gaming company called the Social Gaming Network…
Washington Post, 3-17-2008

A Web 2.0 platform you may have missed

Find out from Freewebs' president why advertisers need to know about this next step on the engagement-marketing continuum.…
iMedia Connection, 11-21-2007

Facebook's Advertising Strategy-And The Shoulders Of Giants

In a letter to his rival and fellow scientist Robert Hooke, Sir Isaac Newton famously wrote, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."…
Adotas, 11-9-2007

Web's New Field of Dreams Emerges in D.C.

New Internet Companies Piggyback on Popularity of Social Networking…
Washington Post, 11-5-2007

Ghouls and Goblins Are Resurrected as Marketers

BLOOD-DROPS on axes and whiskers on witches. Bright copper cauldrons and monsters with twitches. Brown paper packages stuffed with bat wings. These, with apologies to Oscar Hammerstein II, are a few of Madison Avenue's favorite Halloween things.…
NY Times, 10-29-2007

Social Site Rankings (September, 2007)

Did you know that Imeem is the fastest-growing social site in the U.S (up 1,590 percent in monthly uniques). And that AIM Pages is growing slightly faster than Digg (345 percent growth versus 323 percent)? Well, at least according to comScore.…
techcrunch, 10-24-2007

Five tips for making a popular (and maybe profitable) Facebook app

1. Target the friends list One of the biggest draws of developing an application for Facebook is the unprecedented access to the social networking site's massive user base -- its so-called "social graph." Developers can reach a broad audience with very little effort. "Typically, software developers struggle to get anyone to use their products, regardless of how useful," says Haroon Mokhtarzada, CEO of Freewebs, which created the medieval fantasy game Warbook (requires Facebook registration to view) for Facebook.…
Computerworld, 10-16-2007

Getting Your Own Website

If you've never created a website of your own because it seems daunting, or expensive, fret no more. There are a number of services that make it dumb-down easy to build a Web presence and even host it free.…
us news, 10-12-2007