Google opened up its latest search engine update to the world yesterday. Though most of the changes are under the hood and the basic user interface is the same, some subtle changes are occuring. One of which appears to be the the weight that social media profiles and pages rank in the SERPS. Patricio Robles
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So the news just broke, Facebook the dominant player in the Social Media space has just bought FriendFeed a Twitter-esqe (although more robust) micro-blogging platform. PALO ALTO, CALIF.August 10, 2009Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join
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This is the Link Report for August 8th through August 10th: FriendFeed Co-Founder: Facebook Acquisition Talks Began in 2007 – The details! SEOmoz | 4 Essential SEO Infographics – Rand Fishkin at SEOMoz.org published a great post with Info Graphics that relate to SEO 2009 Facebook and Twitter Growth by Age Group | Ignite Social
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This is the Link Report for August 6th through August 7th: Georgia Takes a Beating in the Cyberwar With Russia – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – Besides the bloody shooting war going on between Georgia and Russia, theres another, quieter battle going on in cyberspace.The Georgian government is accusing Russia of disabling Georgian Web sites,
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This morning many of us social media addicts were greeted with a shock (being sarcastic here), Twitter was down. At first I didn’t think much of it, the micro-blogging service has had trouble scaling in the past. Although recently it has been holding up quite well. But what set this morning’s outage apart from others
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You should never stop reading. Yes reading in general. In today’s world many of us forget how important reading is. You need to stay up on your industry and make sure you know what’s going on. If you don’t you will be left behind.
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What a great book! Tim Ash‘s Landing Page Optimization book is a great resource and totally worth a read. Really highlights the good, bad and the ugly when it comes to Landing pages. Tim Ash is world renowned expert in Landing Page Optimization. A must read and a Two Thumbs Up.
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For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about Tekzilla is a weekly technology, gadget, geek Internet show on the Revision3.com Network. It’s my favorite and I can’t wait until Thursday night to watch it. Every week they take viewers questions via email or video on YouTube. Having become frustrated with trying to
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Have you heard the news? Yahoo has officially bought the photo-sharing startup Xoopit. Yahoo! acquires Xoopit. Xoopit is joining Yahoo! to make the world’s best email even better. Yahoo! will be integrating both our photo sharing applications and our content indexing and discovery technology into Yahoo! Mail and other services over the coming months. Xoopit
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In the most recent issue of Wired magazine, there is a rather lengthy article on Google and the US government’s fear of the search giant. The main question that arises is whether or not Google is Evil. Their mantra is “Don’t Be Evil,” but is the 11 year old company sticking to this slogan? I
