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You’d think that after being caught red handed copying Google (or not), the engineers at Bing would come up with something original. But copying Google is just far too easy.

Sarcasm aside, Bing announced yesterday that it has added new personalization and localization features closely resembling similar features Google has had in place for some time.

When performing searches that may be location-specific, Bing is now taking into account the searcher’s location. For instance, if you do a search for “restaurants” and you’re based in New York, Bing may display results that are more relevant to you location (eg. websites for restaurants in New York).

In addition, Bing is personalizing results for “navigational” queries based on past searches. Bing’s Aidan Crook and Sanaz Ahari explain:

…if a user issues a query such as {acs} the most relevant result for that user is not necessarily the same as that for the majority of people in the U.S.

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A big change is expected to hit the retirement planning strategy in 2011. On the other hand, the 2010 Roth IRA conversion rule changes seem relatively imperceptible. But as you know an imperceptible change can have great results. In fact, following the 2010 rule changes, more and more individuals will be able to convert a traditional IRA or 401k to roth ira and contribute to a Roth IRA in more efficient way.

Recently, the restrictions of the IRS on income limit the ability of high income earners to convert or contribute to a Roth IRA. But it’s all about to change. The monumental legislative change is the increased income limits on Roth rollover.

Under the recent law, you were eligible to convert if your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) was $ 100,000 or less. If you happened to win more than $ 100,000 a year, you could not perform a conversion. However, from 2010, the $ 100,000 MAGI limit was lifted. Accordingly, more and more individuals can make a Roth conversion from January 2010.

For example, say you have a traditional IRA, and you earn $ 112,000 per year. Read full post…

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With the global economy on the mend, and tech companies in particularly feeling confident, tech  companies made sure they got a piece of the advertising action this Super Bowl Sunday.

Particularly notable: the presence of ads from two of the hottest consumer internet startups, and the iPad app that a publishing mogul hopes will blaze a path into the future for news publishers. The presence of the startups brought back memories of the .com boom, in which young, high-flying tech startups flush with investor money spent big bucks to promote themselves to the world.

But how did this year’s ads fare for the companies plunking down millions? Here are my comments on five of the tech ads, which can all be viewed at .

Groupon

Groupon is one of the tech media’s favorite subjects, and its Super Bowl ads are sure to create more buzz for the company. Those ads, created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, turn hot-button issues like whale conservation, the environment and Tibet into a vehicle for promoting the savings Groupon offers.

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There is some talk over at NMA about the battle for control of social media. In one corner we have the PR agencies, and in the other there are ad agencies.

Personally I can’t see any value in allowing either of these types of agencies to develop and manage your social media strategy. Or any other agencies for that matter, even those dedicated to social media.

Controversial? I should hope not…

So who should own and manage your social media strategy? 

I firmly believe that a company’s social media strategy should be owned and managed by the company itself, rather than by external agencies.

Why? Well, mainly because…

a) Your people are your best asset, when it comes to social media, or at least they should be (if they’re not then you’re doing something wrong). 

b) You cannot fake it. The people you want answering questions and dreaming up ideas are the people with real insight into your business. The best agen

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