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10 Holiday Gifts That Give Back

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percent from last year, according to NRF's 2007 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey." When it comes to spending your holiday dollars, would you rather they went to Amazon and Borders, or to your local economy? on holiday gifts, which includes $106.67 This is up a moderate 3.7 Wouldn't be great if some of that $923.36

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

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We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. We're telling people to, of course, bring sweaters, because it's San Francisco, but we're also telling them to bring their own refillable plastic bottles and we're going to give them Hetch Hetchy 2007, that's San Francisco water. And we just did.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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So, Amazon says, OK, we will create an application that allows people to publish book reviews right on their own Facebook profiles, fully integrated into Facebook, but also back into Amazon. See the New York Times coverage here. First a little background. Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace.