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Clash of the Titans: T

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:16:51 -0400

Clash of the Titans: T

Mayors of Sports Authority Get $10 Cash Cards on Foursquare

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:23:56 -0400

Mayors of Sports Authority Get $10 Cash Cards on Foursquare

How Much Google Traffic Comes From Mobile Devices – A Quick Study

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:05:15 -0400

How Much Google Traffic Comes From Mobile Devices – A Quick Study

5 Things You Should Know About Yahoo-Microsoft Search Integration

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:01:00 -0400

5 Things You Should Know About Yahoo-Microsoft Search Integration :

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Call it a hand-holding tour. Yahoo and Microsoft executives and a small army of consultants will be making the rounds to agencies and marketers this summer to tell them what they need to know about the integration of the two search engines to create a stronger competitor to Google.

Meanwhile, the planning phase is over and both sides have embarked on the complex task of connecting Yahoo’s search front end to Bing’s search technology. The entire process is scheduled to be complete in October, but much has to happen between now and then. There are a lot of moving parts, and historically, these things don’t go smoothly. So what should you watch for in the Yahoo-Bing integration?

What Justin Bieber Could Teach Us About Social Media

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:02:40 -0400

What Justin Bieber Could Teach Us About Social Media:

What it means: Bieber has close to 3 million (!) followers on Twitter and he manages to make “you” feel special. He understands that it’s all about conversation and not about broadcast. It’s real. Can you imagine the marketing power that this engagement brings? Now, if you’re used to broadcasting, how do you change to a conversational model? That’s your new challenge.

FreshGuide.com Acquired; Eyes Expansion in 34 Markets

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:01:59 -0400

FreshGuide.com Acquired; Eyes Expansion in 34 Markets:

FreshGuide.com, which includes the BookFresh.com scheduling service, has been acquired by Sugar Inc., a diversified media company that includes a TV network and programming aimed at women, as well as ShopStyle, a “social shopping service.”

Local (Physical) Sales Realities Continue to be Underestimated

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:02:19 -0400

Local (Physical) Sales Realities Continue to be Underestimated

Local Links For Local People

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:04:31 -0400

Local Links For Local People:

A quality link for me is an editorial link on a real site – a site that’s been around for years. The site in question is well linked to itself, and dooesn’t sell links – and is careful who they link to. These sites are kind of hard to get links from – but that’s the point…

Understanding Semantic Search and SEO

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:13:06 -0400

Understanding Semantic Search and SEO:

“One thing worth bearing in mind is that all modern search engines do semantic analysis to one extent or another. It may be phrase based, using PLSA, HTTM or a hybrid. That part is really inconsequential. That is important is that we can take heart in the fact that content that is semantically flexible will do a better job of targeting the page in question.”

Mythbusting Global Search Fallacies

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:49:52 -0400

Mythbusting Global Search Fallacies:

“Inspired by Stephan Spencer’s superb series of SEO Myths That Won’t Die, I figured it was time to put right those international search marketing myths that I hear repeated every day at conferences or on websites from people claiming to be “expert” in global matters. Frequently, the source of the problem is so-called “experts” do have a genuinely good knowledge of SEO working in English, then gain a little knowledge of how things work in other languages and make the assumption that they have cracked the problem.”

David Swanson, Dex One’s CEO, to Retire

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:49:10 -0400

David Swanson, Dex One’s CEO, to Retire

U.S. Newspapers Start Selling SEO

Sat, 29 May 2010 14:54:41 -0400

U.S. Newspapers Start Selling SEO

Yahoo as an internet information filter

Wed, 26 May 2010 16:41:33 -0400

Yahoo as an internet information filter:

When you talk about the Internet growing to 225 million sites, you’ve got to ask: Who’s parsing all that? How do you make sense of all that stuff?

Why Social Media Marketing May Not Be Right For You

Fri, 21 May 2010 13:54:35 -0400

Why Social Media Marketing May Not Be Right For You :

While most big companies have or are thinking of having a social media strategy, Harvard Business School marketing professor John Deighton asks the show-stopper question:

“Don’t rule out the possibility that social media just aren’t for you. So far, much of what social media have done is quite mean-spirited. Could it be, one shudders to think, that these media are better at destroying value than creating it?”

"Search Patterns: The Future of Discovery – Peter Morville Peter’s talk came to a somewhat slow start..."

Wed, 19 May 2010 23:06:28 -0400

“Search Patterns: The Future of Discovery – Peter Morville Peter’s talk came to a somewhat slow start but ended up being quite inspiring. In the first part of his talk, Peter laid out some principal search patterns and placed them in different contexts, such as desktop, mobile and kiosk. These can be found at his Flickr “Search patterns” library. One of the patterns that received special attention was faceted search. In my humble opinion this is actually more of a browse-pattern than a search one. However Peter pointed out rightly that faceted navigation is one of the most powerful and complex patterns out there today, much underestimated by UX designers. It is hard to do right. Peter briefly touched upon a couple of important emerging search paradigms. * Question and Answer (Like Wolfram Alpha); * Helping decision making (Like Hunch); * Helping understanding the world (Like Oakland crime spotting); * Search by singing (Like Midomi).”

- » UX London report: day 1 Johnny Holland – It’s all about interaction

Facebook Exodus Planned for May 31: Will You Quit?

Fri, 14 May 2010 15:39:25 -0400

Facebook Exodus Planned for May 31: Will You Quit?

Diaspora, the open Facebook alternative, raises over $100k in donations

Fri, 14 May 2010 13:20:25 -0400

Diaspora, the open Facebook alternative, raises over $100k in donations

"Digital AND traditional media consumption on the up.: Nielsen found that, while, time spent online..."

Wed, 12 May 2010 14:59:27 -0400

“Digital AND traditional media consumption on the up.: Nielsen found that, while, time spent online grew by over an hour in 2009, consumption of traditional media (like TV, radio and newspapers) actually grew as well.”

- Digital AND traditional media consumption on the up. | Speaking Sensis

Verizon CEO: ‘We’re Working With Google on a Tablet’

Wed, 12 May 2010 14:20:46 -0400

Verizon CEO: ‘We’re Working With Google on a Tablet’:

“Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam says that his company is working closely with Google on a tablet computer. The tablet will be based on the Android operating system.”

Mozilla CEO John Lilly Moving to Greylock Partners

Wed, 12 May 2010 14:18:40 -0400

Mozilla CEO John Lilly Moving to Greylock Partners :

John Lilly, the well-regarded CEO of Mozilla, is preparing to give up his post at the open-source software nonprofit foundation, which is also a for-profit start-up.