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Angela Wills visited the IncParadise.com website last week for a review and she also conducted a brief interview with John Vanhara, the president of Inc Paradise. If you are in the USA and have considered incorporating a business this review should help to clarify a few questions you have.

For this review I stopped by IncParadise.com, a website that offers incorporation services for 50 states in the US.

I don’t know a thing about incorporating. I think mine is a good perspective to do the review since it’s likely most people coming to the site are new to incorporating and just want to get their business incorporation set up.

There are some things that I would expect to see on the main page of a site that offers incorporation services. Here are some questions I was asking myself as I looked for information about the service:

• How can they help me incorporate?
• What do I need to do to incorporate?
• How much will it cost for my state?

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Earlier today YouTube announced the arrival of their long-awaited anti-piracy software. This software has been in development for some time, no doubt due to the increasing concern that YouTube was turning a blind eye to video copyright infringement. This all changed when media colossus Viacom slapped YouTube with a one billion dollar lawsuit.

To find and remove copyrighted clips, YouTube already uses filtering tools developed by Los Gatos-based Audible Magic Corp. - however, due to several pending lawsuits, they decided to develop their own proprietary software to sniff out Internet pirates. This software was released today and may spell the end for video pirating, at least as far as YouTube is concerned.

As you may have heard, this software is about 6 months overdue. Part of the “remedy” for the Viacom lawsuit, it was supposed to be released months ago.

“YouTube has been working with Google engineers ever since to develop the tools needed to flag copyrighted video,” said David King, a YouTube product manager. “It has taken some extra time to get it right.”

Not everyone is optimistic about the release of YouTube’s new filtering technology.

Louis Solomon, a lawyer representing an English soccer league and music publisher Bourne Co; a company with yet another copyright infringement case against YouTube, criticized the new filtering system as “wholly inadequate.”

“It does nothing about the past and won’t be enough to protect the future,” Solomon said.

YouTube replies that whatever they do to stop users from publishing copyrighted content would be more effective if they received help from the copyright owners. King claims that it is sometimes difficult to gage whether or not a video is legally or illegally posted to the site, because some publishers post copyrighted content on YouTube for promotional purposes.

Whichever side you are on, I can assure you of one thing… the war isn’t over.

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I’ve been closely watching the RSS count at SmallBusinessBranding.com and late last week it finally ticked over the 2,000 mark.

Congratulations to Rob, Ed, Kevin, Freya, Krishna, Sean, Drew, Steve, Brad and all the previous Small Business Branding authors who have written for the site at one point in time.

Small business is a competitive industry to write in and reaching 2,000 daily readers is a fantastic achievement, testament to the consistent value the current authors produce.

If you haven’t visited for a while you have missed plenty of great articles coming from the diverse team of small business fans and experts. Why not visit Small Business Branding today and subscribe to the RSS feed.

We are always interested in recruiting new writers to the Small Business Branding team, so if you have a thing or two to say about small business, please get in touch.

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Not to be confused with Bryan Clark who just started writing for this blog, Brian Clark from Copyblogger.com just released a brand new free report as part of the release of his new site, Teaching Sells, a project he’s partnered with Tony Clark to create (I wonder if that’s his brother?).

The report is titled -

You can get a download link for the 24-page PDF version and the MP3 audio version read by Tony Clark from TeachingSells.com

What Is It All About?

Brian sent me a draft copy of this report a few days prior to launch and I quickly read through it. I knew the report would be fantastic quality given Brian’s standard of writing, but what I wanted to know was what topic Brian was going to cover - what would be his angle given he plans to launch a membership site based on the topic of this report?

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Chances are it was by browsing employment sites such as Monster.com.

A recent study by The Conference Board shows that 73% of people that searched for a job between the months of January and September of 2007, did it online. These numbers are up from the 66% that pounded the virtual pavement during the same timespan last year.

While searching for a job online isn’t a new concept (Monster started in 1994 as a message board for job seekers), it’s explosive growth has certainly forced entrepreneurs to take notice. With the number expected to jump another 11% in the next two years, maybe it’s time to grab hold of your piece of the pie.

Surprisingly, although 73% of job seekers sought their next employer online, the percentage of people that actually obtained jobs from their online search is still lower than the ever popular method of networking via friends.

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