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Glad to submit the post Bill. I enjoy all your posts as I think you know, but I think the idea of using annotations is going to be important given things like universal search and the potential for using social properties for determining trust and authority.
If what someone says about you is more important than what you say about yourself then what the community says about you is probably more important than what one person says about you.
I think the desphinns are from people who didn't watch till the end. If you only watch a little bit it's easy to think the whole point of the video is to make fun of her when she's really in on the joke.
But we all do need to remember that most of the common words we use all day are unfamilar to the majority. I wouldn't expect most people to know what rss is. The word blog has made it into the mainstream, though that still doesn't mean most people know what a blog is.
Story: How relevant is Cuil?
I wasn't impressed with my first look at Cuil, but it's so new I think it deserves some time to see where it goes. I saw a few other reports of Cuil sending a good amount of traffic the last few days too.
Dave makes some good points about why Cuil may do better than initial reports would indicate
Story: How relevant is Cuil?
I still can't past the vanity search. Cuil can find my site when I search for my business name with no spaces as in my domain. But when I put the spaces in it finds no information. Considering they claim to be putting more emphasis on on-page factors and I always spell the company name on the site with the space I think they should be able to find it.
Granted it's just a vanity search for me, but if they can't get that right I wonder what else they aren't getting right.
On the other hand I would like to see them do well and know they just launched. I'll still be checking on them and rooting for them. It's early and I expect the results will improve.
Great post Kim. Know that there are some men in the industry who have a lot of respect for SEO women. I noticed some of the same comments you pointed out and felt like I'd stepped back in time. You hope people would be long past certain attitides, but sadly some aren't.
I hadn't realized the links were followed in the first place. Guess the change won't affect how I participate with Sphinn at all. If it helps prevent spam good.
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Jill I don't think this is about participating with expectations of thanks. Sometimes when easy opportunites to say thanks go by without one it can feel like a slap in the face.
For example I post to a couple of forums often. I don't get much back from it in any kind of marketing sense, at least not enough to justify the time, but I enjoy being able to help people where I can and so I'm happy to participate.
Sometimes a person will start a thread asking a question and I'll give a half hour to an hour composing a long and detailed response. Right after me two or three people will post some quick 'me too' posts echoing something I said. When the OP comes back he might thanks the 'me too' people and not offer any thanks to me.
Now I didn't post an answer in order to be thanked. I wasn't expecting it and it wasn't required at all. But when you give a lot of your time only to see someone else who didn't get thanked it feels like a slap in the face. It certainly doesn't make me want to help that person again, because it comes across as not being appeciated.
It's not about expecting or needing thanks. But there are times when thanks could easily be given and isn't. I think that's more where Dave is coming from. I don't think he needs the thanks, but I think he's seeing opportunites where it could have been given go by which makes him question whether or not his participation is appreciated.
I don't think all of these will work for everyone, but there are some interesting ideas in here that could prove very useful depenind on your situation. I particularly like the ideas of using your logo to promote site news items and the funnel based sidebar navigation.
Interesting stuff.
Good job Todd. Two simple questions with some very incisive answers. The threaded conversations in Plurk make the place much more welcoming and much easier to meet new people. I find myself getting into better conversations with people at Plurk than I do at Twitter, though I still like both,
Agreed. I bookmarked the original article, but haven't gone through it yet. The lessons are certainly valuable and good advice toward improving your writing.
For the most part I agree, but I think in the case of Plurk the service offers some things Twitter doesn't. On the surface it may be a copycat of Twitter, but the extra features, particualrly the threaded replies give it something Twitter doesn't have,
Plurk does promote conversation and quite honestly I've had better conversations there than I've had at Twitter. Reaching critical mass is important, but I do think it will get there as Plurk offers something a little different.
Not everyone works for a company willing to foot the bill, though. In my case I am the company and as much as I'd like to make to a conference just to meet everyone I can't justify the expense to myself.
In all fairness it's not just the price of a ticket to the conference. The related costs in travel, hotel, food, etc. add up. I know in the near future the only way I could even consider a confernece is if one comes back to Denver or even right here in Boulder.
Congrats Donna. 4 years of great content is worth celebrating. Happy 4th.
Great analogy Ken. I'll be using it in the future too. It's flexible like you say and we should be able to add to it to describe new thoughts about links as they come up. I've usually used an analogy of interconnected roads and highways, but the light analogy is a better one.
Thanks for submitting Dave. Always appreciated. And yes getting to know each other was more than enough ROI to share a couple of guest posts.
I agree. I think duplicate content is one of those things that can look like a penalty, when in reality it's filters, but I do think there are cases where a penalty is applied. Perhaps if one trips too many filters.
I just left a comment on Eric's blog, but I'll leave it here too. The 'speed sphinning' is simply due to having read a lot prior to arriving here. I absorb most content through a feed reader and then vote for it later in the day. It's quick and easy to go to the "What's New" section once or twice a day and vote for content I read a few hours earlier. I suspect quite a few people vote the same way.
I think this is a case where the numbers are only telling part of the story
@neelakanthap. Don't thank me. I'm just the messenger. Thank Khalid for the idea. Though I was more than happy to submit the post.
@Brian
5/66 = 7.5%
25/69 = 37.87%
I think the main difference between IM and Twiiter is if I don't respond to IM the conversation ends. If I don't respond to Twitter the conversation continues as always.
Glad to Bill. Given how many people use one CMS or another and all the multiple URLs that can lead to it would great to see search engines solve this proble, Most of us here know how to ensure only one URL gets indexed, but I'm sometimes amazed at how many possible URLs can get created.
And lets face it. The average site owner isn't going to know how to prevent all the duplucate pages.
Todd that us a great explanation. The more time I spend on Twitter the more ways I start to look at it and it's one of those services you almost have to try before you can truly understand its value.
But I do like your explanation. Definitely one of the better ones I've seen.
Story: Creation and Ranking of Annotation Suggestions for Images and Other Media