Pilgrim’s Picks for May 1

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 by Andy Beal

Happy May Day everyone. If you live in Europe, I hope you’ve already had your turn dancing around the maypole.

For those of us less inclined to strap jingly-bells to our body, I present today’s Picks:

LinkedIn’s average user is 41 and makes $110,000 a year. That’s how the social networking site is able to make a whopping $75 CPM on its advertising.
Yahoo has made considerable upgrades to the images it uses for US cities in Yahoo Maps.
Shortly after switching my email to Google Apps, I noticed an email spammer sending emails and pretending they were coming from my email account. I took care of it by adding an SPF record for my email and, thanks to Doug Karr’s reminder, you can do the same.
I confess that I don’t use Meebo’s web-based instant messenging service, but enough people are using it that the company has raised $25 million in additional venture capital.

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Douglas Karr Says:

May 1st, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Thanks Andy! I wish my story could have been swapped with the one below it. I could use $25 mil.

Douglas Karr’s last blog post..links for 2008-05-01
Andy Beal Says:

May 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pm

@Doug – couldn’t we all!
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May 1st, 2008 at 7:09 pm

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Web Marketing Man Says:

May 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 am

LinkedIn is definitely carving itself a niche in the professionals market. Got on recently and am starting to see the benefits. Got approached with a job offer last week!

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