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LinkedIn pays big after class action lawsuit over user emails

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The company known for using reminder emails to get you to use its professional networking service will now have to pay a hefty sum for ta...

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The company known for using reminder emails to get you to use its professional networking service will now have to pay a hefty sum for taking the tactic a bit too far.</div>
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In an email sent by LinkedIn on Friday, users were notified that they were eligible for a class action settlement related to email marketing. The company has agreed to pay out $13 million to users who may have been impacted by its Add Connections service. The settlement stems from a 2013 class action lawsuit filed in California.</div>
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LinkedIn's Add Connections program allowed users to import their personal contacts into the company's system and then have invitations to connect on LinkedIn sent out on their behalf. However, if a recipient of the invitation email didn't accept the invitation within a certain amount of time, LinkedIn would then send two follow up emails repeating the invitation.</div>
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If you're a big fan of LinkedIn, that's called thorough follow-up. But others, less familiar with the service, might consider such messages to be annoying spam. What makes such an instance worse is if the recipient thinks the spammy messages are coming from you, a person they know, rather than a third party.</div>
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The key here is in LinkedIn's email persistence without the user's consent. On the <a href="http://www.addconnectionssettlement.com%20/" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">settlement website</a>, Gilardi & Co., the legal firm handling the payout, states:</div>
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The Court found that members consented to importing their contacts and sending the connection invitation, but did not find that members consented to LinkedIn sending the two reminder emails.</div>
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Within the settlement notification emails are individual claim ID numbers, which can then be used to file a claim for your chunk of $13 million. Of course, no one is expecting any of the claimants to win big money, but if the final tally of any of the claimants results in an individual payout of less than $10, LinkedIn has agreed to add an additional $750,000 to the overall payout fund.</div>
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LinkedIn's payout is designed to cover a broad range of email activity, from September 17, 2011 and October 31, 2014. But for LinkedIn users, there's a catch. On the claim form you must swear (under penalty of perjury) that you were indeed a user of Add Connections during the aforementioned time span. So if you're just annoyed by LinkedIn emails, but aren’t sure if you used Add Connections yourself, you may want to check before you submit your claim for a slice of the payout.</div>
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Although LinkedIn is making the massive payment to address legal claims around email abuse, the company itself hasn't directly admitted to any wrongdoing.</div>
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When contacted by <em>Mashable</em>, a LinkedIn spokesperson stated that because the court, "suggested that we could be more clear about the fact that we send reminder emails about pending invitations from LinkedIn members, we have made changes to our product and Privacy Policy. Ultimately, we decided to resolve this case so that we can put our focus where it matters most: finding additional ways to improve our members’ experiences on LinkedIn."</div>
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The deadline for filing a claim is December 14.</div>
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LinkedIn pays big after class action lawsuit over user emails

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LinkedIn pays big after class action lawsuit over user emails

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The company known for using reminder emails to get you to use its professional networking service will now have to pay a hefty sum for ta...

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The company known for using reminder emails to get you to use its professional networking service will now have to pay a hefty sum for taking the tactic a bit too far.</div>
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In an email sent by LinkedIn on Friday, users were notified that they were eligible for a class action settlement related to email marketing. The company has agreed to pay out $13 million to users who may have been impacted by its Add Connections service. The settlement stems from a 2013 class action lawsuit filed in California.</div>
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LinkedIn's Add Connections program allowed users to import their personal contacts into the company's system and then have invitations to connect on LinkedIn sent out on their behalf. However, if a recipient of the invitation email didn't accept the invitation within a certain amount of time, LinkedIn would then send two follow up emails repeating the invitation.</div>
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If you're a big fan of LinkedIn, that's called thorough follow-up. But others, less familiar with the service, might consider such messages to be annoying spam. What makes such an instance worse is if the recipient thinks the spammy messages are coming from you, a person they know, rather than a third party.</div>
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The key here is in LinkedIn's email persistence without the user's consent. On the <a href="http://www.addconnectionssettlement.com%20/" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">settlement website</a>, Gilardi & Co., the legal firm handling the payout, states:</div>
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The Court found that members consented to importing their contacts and sending the connection invitation, but did not find that members consented to LinkedIn sending the two reminder emails.</div>
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Within the settlement notification emails are individual claim ID numbers, which can then be used to file a claim for your chunk of $13 million. Of course, no one is expecting any of the claimants to win big money, but if the final tally of any of the claimants results in an individual payout of less than $10, LinkedIn has agreed to add an additional $750,000 to the overall payout fund.</div>
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LinkedIn's payout is designed to cover a broad range of email activity, from September 17, 2011 and October 31, 2014. But for LinkedIn users, there's a catch. On the claim form you must swear (under penalty of perjury) that you were indeed a user of Add Connections during the aforementioned time span. So if you're just annoyed by LinkedIn emails, but aren’t sure if you used Add Connections yourself, you may want to check before you submit your claim for a slice of the payout.</div>
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Although LinkedIn is making the massive payment to address legal claims around email abuse, the company itself hasn't directly admitted to any wrongdoing.</div>
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When contacted by <em>Mashable</em>, a LinkedIn spokesperson stated that because the court, "suggested that we could be more clear about the fact that we send reminder emails about pending invitations from LinkedIn members, we have made changes to our product and Privacy Policy. Ultimately, we decided to resolve this case so that we can put our focus where it matters most: finding additional ways to improve our members’ experiences on LinkedIn."</div>
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The deadline for filing a claim is December 14.</div>
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On Wednesday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based professional social network <a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2015/08/19/introducing-linkedin-lookup-easily-find-learn-about-and-contact-your-coworkers/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">launched Lookup</a>, an employee directory app aimed at letting users easily find, learn about and contact their coworkers, through in-app messaging or by email. Lookup is available on <span article-quote-card="" class="quotecard ng-isolate-scope" data-exchange="NASDAQ" data-link="/companies/apple" data-name="Apple" data-naturalid="fred/company/280" data-quotes-closing="116.5" data-quotes-now="114.93" data-ticker="AAPL" data-type="organization" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="ng-binding" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple" ng-href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Apple</a> <span class="card-preview ng-scope" ng-if="ticker" ng-mouseleave="hideQuotecard()" ng-mouseover="showQuotecard()" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="preview negative" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple" ng-href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #faeceb; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(246, 219, 217); box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">AAPL -1.75%</a></span></span> iOS and will reach Android soon, the company said. While Lookup is not trying to compete with companies’ entire intranets or specific businesses, according to a company spokesperson, LinkedIn does want to replace the employee directory portions of intranets. Even though Lookup has messaging features, LinkedIn also says the app doesn’t compete with office chatroom services like <span article-quote-card="" class="quotecard ng-isolate-scope" data-exchange="null" data-link="/companies/slack" data-name="Slack" data-naturalid="fred/company/102483" data-quotes-closing="0.0" data-quotes-now="0.0" data-ticker="null" data-type="organization" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="ng-binding" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/slack" ng-href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/slack" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Slack</a> </span>or Hipchat. Instead, it’s intended to spark just enough dialogue to lead to a phone call, meeting or email exchange. The standalone app is free and currently isn’t monetized.</div>
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“People say it’s not what you know but who you know,” Ankit Gupta, a senior product manager at LinkedIn, told FORBES. “As a company grows and new people join, it’s really hard to know people within your company. It’s a huge unsolved problem.”</div>
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Lookup is part of a larger plan by LinkedIn to make more products that satisfy companyies’ internal needs. LinkedIn is betting that solving businesses’ internal problems will help make the network a place users visit daily to manage their current jobs, and not just a tool for job hunting. Lookup is the second app LinkedIn has launched for companies’ internal use. The first was an app <a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2015/04/13/elevate/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">called Elevate</a>, released in April, which makes it easier for companies and employees to share content with their social networks to boost the visibility and connections of both parties. LinkedIn is also developing a tool to automate the recruitment referrals process, a goal LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner <a href="https://press.linkedin.com/content/dam/press/Download-Assets/Media%20Resources/Quarterly-Reports/LinkedIn%20Q1%202015%20Quarterly%20Results%20Transcript.pdf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">noted in April</a>. To do this, LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-frontier-careerify-joins-linkedin-harpaul-sambhi" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">acquired Careerify</a>, a startup that helps companies find new hires from its employees’ existing networks, earlier this year.</div>
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“A lot of people view Linkedin as a place where people go to get their next gig,” a LinkedIn spokesperson said. “We’ve been laser-focused on making it an everyday resource for people across the world.”</div>
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For now, Lookup is a standalone app, but in the future it could be integrated into other LinkedIn products or expanded as its own app, LinkedIn said. It isn’t hard to imagine LinkedIn integrating Lookup with a referral tool that makes it simple to look up colleagues and recommend them for job openings. LinkedIn starting building Lookup after finding in research that about 30% of users who search for people on LinkedIn each month view their coworkers’ profiles. LinkedIn also found that only about 38% of the users it surveyed said their companies’ intranets are effective at helping them learn about their coworkers. And 58% said they could perform better if they could search for coworkers with specific skills.</div>
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Gupta said the app should help people be more productive and successful in their jobs by making it easy to find the right people, whether they’re looking for someone with specific skills, recruiting for an internal position or networking. Employees generally don’t want to update both an internal profile and an external one, like their LinkedIn page. Company directories often quickly become outdated, which helps give Lookup a good shot of being more comprehensive, up-to-date and easier to navigate than employers’ systems.</div>
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Users on Lookup can search for coworkers by title, name, current and past experience, education and skills. Search results then show the photo, name and title of relevant coworkers. Clicking on a coworker in the search results takes users to a cleaner and more stripped-down version of their main LinkedIn profile. The Lookup profile is less descriptive than users’ main LinkedIn profile to help users digest the profile in a time crunch, such as on the way to a meeting.</div>
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Lookup profiles include users’ work email address, which is required for users to verify where they work, and coworkers can see each others’ profiles even if they aren’t connected on LinkedIn. Users also have the option to add their mobile number to their Lookup profile. Although most information on Lookup is pulled from what users share publicly on Linkedin, contact preferences on Lookup are kept separate from contact details on the main app. If coworkers haven’t downloaded Lookup, messages they get from Lookup users will go to their LinkedIn inboxes and won’t count against the number of InMails they get each month.</div>
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Like Elevate, LinkedIn built Lookup over the course of a few months. The fast turnaround reflects an internal push by the network to design and build products with a more startup-like ethos. LinkedIn has been working to make its teams nimbler so that when they identify an opportunity, they can quickly make new products and deliver them to users, a LinkedIn spokesperson said.</div>

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It’s not a new notion, of course, but over the past year or two, several vloggers have been propelled into the spotlight, and even those that haven’t quite reached the highest heights have found themselves making some extra cash simply by sharing their thoughts, experiences and stories on YouTube.</div>
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As a quick <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">example</span> of some of those YouTubers and their success, Jim Chapman (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/j1mmyb0bba" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">j1mmyb0bba</a>, 2.2 million subscribers) and Tanya Burr (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/pixi2woo" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">pixi2woo</a>, 3 million subscribers) have this year starred in a Mulberry campaign, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">BBC Radio 1</span> has a show hosted by YouTubers Dan (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/danisnotonfire" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Danisnotonfire</a>, 4.8 million subscribers) and Phil (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazingPhil" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">AmazingPhil</a>, 2.7 million subscribers), and Band Aid 30 starred Alfie Deyes (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PointlessBlog" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">PointlessBlog</a>, 4.3 million subscribers), Joe Sugg (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ThatcherJoe" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">ThatcherJoe</a>, 4.9 million subscribers) and Zoe Sugg (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/zoella280390" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Zoella</a>, 8.6 million subscribers).</div>
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<em>And: <a href="http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/opinion/internet/8-reasons-you-should-start-blog/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="Why blogging is awesome">8 reasons why you should start a blog</a></em></div>
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YouTubers have got the potential to completely <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">change</span>, well, a lot, and they already are. Getting a product into the hands of a popular vlogger or partnering with one is marketing gold, so the way companies advertise and market their products is changing.</div>
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Some YouTubers are never even seen on camera. There are plenty of gaming vloggers who can be heard giving commentary over the top of gameplay walkthroughs and more. In fact, the most popular YouTube channel in the world is that of PewDiePie, with a whopping 38 million subscribers.</div>
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According to a report by Neilsen last year YouTube reaches more 18-34 year-olds in the US than any TV network, so the way we consume content is changing, too.</div>
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They’re also getting <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">book deals</span> and movie contracts, and Zoella’s debut novel Girl<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">Online</span> became the fastest-selling book of 2014 and <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">broke the record</span> for the highest first-week sales for a debut author.</div>
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I’m interested to see what the future holds for vlogging – it’s a pretty exciting movement in my eyes, and another way that the internet is giving everyone a voice and making the world accessible to us all. YouTube has the potential to make anyone with <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">access to the internet</span> and a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">video</span> camera (which, lets face it, we all have on our smartphones) rich and famous from the comfort of their own home, no matter what their background is, where they come from, or what their <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">career aspirations</span> might be. They’ve got access to an enormous global audience, instantly.</div>
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Not everyone agrees – some think that talking to a camera from the comfort of your bedroom doesn’t deserve to earn these YouTubers millions, but they’re all entrepeneurs in their own right, taking the initiative to turn their hobby into a career, and I think it’s admirable.</div>

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