Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Mike Blumenthal has been covering Google Maps spam since Google Maps came out. I guess he got sick of covering the issues and not much being done about stopping it. He decided to do something a bit extreme. He hijacked...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
These are the days of cut backs. We've seen it at Yahoo and now we are hearing about it at Microsoft's adCenter team. adCenterRep posted a thread at DigitalPoint Forums announcing the support details for the Microsoft adCenter product/service. The...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Here are various logos from the search industry, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, Ask.com and many others. Some are pretty spooky, including our theme. Google's Halloween Logo: Yahoo's Flash Halloween Logo: Yahoo's Static Halloween Logo: DogPile's Halloween Logo: Live.com's Halloween...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
The game changed September 15, 2008.
As world markets came tumbling down, the future of many internet start-ups also turned to dust. The message from the financiers is clear - they will be no more money. Web watchers, such as TechCrunch, feature a deadpool of failed internet start-ups. That list is ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
I'm watching this unfold, OpenID, Facebook Connect, Y!OS, Microsoft support, Google support...it's supposedly a big group hug, but it feels like a war, folks. And it's not pretty. Note this:
A couple of hours ago, the Google Security Team posted an article claiming that Google’s made the switch to OpenID, joining ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Check it out. From the conference site:
The way to online success is through being easily found in search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live Search. While developers have historically thought of search as a marketing activity, technical architecture has now become critical for search success. Found is the ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
One of the most salient points of Seth Godin's Tribes book is that in the long run it is much more profitable for most businesses to create a deeper community with stronger and more passionate connections than it is to create a broader one that has strong reach but no ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Continuing my crowdsourcing of Web2 conversations (and this is nearly the last one), on the third day, and just a few hours after Elon Musk, I'll be talking to Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, and former President at SAP. Agassi is yet another example of a tech ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
There are a lot of reports lately of issues with Google Webmasters Tools. Issues are fixed but then they return. For example, we have this post reporting 0 crawled pages from October 23; on October 24, we still had individuals...
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