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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:46 pm
Posted By: graywolf 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://lifehacker.com)
Category: Social Media
Social media is the equivalent of digital food. It's nourishing, tasty and, for many of us, necessary. However, consume too much and you can get sidetracked and create larger consequences. The good news is you can participate in social media in a wa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: graywolf 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.economist.com)
Category: Google Other
One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm's personnel department is “collapsing” and that “absolute chaos” reigns. When she was hired, nobody knew when or where she was supposed to work, and the balloons that all read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: graywolf 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.splitbrain.org)
Category: Google Other
So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because "google couldn't scale".

I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him read more »
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Avatar Posted By: graywolf 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bbgeeks.com)
Category: Mobile Search
While both services figure to improve in short time, they work well together for the moment. Given the way software is developing these days, it’s not unreasonable to think that oneSearch will adopt some of Tellme’s location services, while Tellme m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: graywolf 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessweek.com)
Category: Google Other
The search giant plans to expand its travel offering, which currently seems to be confined to one-off videos and ads from tourism boards. In the future, the site will have marketer-sponsored pages where would-be vacationers can learn tons about a de read more »
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Avatar Posted By: graywolf 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google AdSense
According to Google: "While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers" Kinda Funny when google chooses the ads to be sold.

Google has also killed several anti Sc read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 1:03 pm
Posted By: graywolf 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bestoftheweb.com)
Category: Water Cooler
After abandoning search it looks like ASK.com has abandoned proof reading and spell checking as well. Instead of "Cinco de Mayo" Ask celebrates "Cinco do Mayo" instead. Maybe now that Microsoft has some extra cash not buying Yahoo they will buy you read more »
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Avatar Posted By: graywolf 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.youtube.com)
Category: Google Other
Google set up an empty frame as an advertisement for Google Video in Germany read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 21, 2008 - 3:58 am
Posted By: graywolf 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Link Building
According to TechCrunch Encyclopedia Britannica is giving free access to people who will link to them

"Instead of going free and opening up to all, they’re using the new program to simply price discriminate. Give people who may link to the site read more »
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Avatar Posted By: graywolf 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://webworkerdaily.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
New York has become the first (so far as I know) state to try to close the “Amazon Loophole” in its sales tax collections. With the passage of a new state budget, they’re requiring out-of-state interstate retailers who do $10,000 or more of business read more »
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Avatar Posted By: graywolf 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google
According to Australian Securities and Investments Commission documents, Tucker maintains six different versions of himself, complete with varying birthdate, for his various corporate investments: read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 4, 2008 - 10:43 am
Posted By: graywolf 127 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
At the Google Groove during SMX several of the Sphinn moderators and admins got into a heated debate about an important question, who's the best Star Trek Captain, Kirk or Picard?

I'm an old school guy with a "damn the torpedoes full speed ahead read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 19, 2008 - 8:04 am
Posted By: graywolf 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joostdevalk.nl)
Category: Blogging
If you're migrating from one domain to another or moving from a development domain to a live one, moving Wordpress is never fun. Here Joost brings it down to 10 easy steps. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: graywolf 152 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googledocs.blogspot.com)
Category: Google
But really we aren't competing with microsoft office, really. Pay no attention to the fact we're duplicating every product in the suite. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 26, 2008 - 7:35 pm
Posted By: graywolf 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
When the networks screw people over it is the fault of "users" or "the algorithm," but when the central networks do not like what we do we are "criminals performing illicit acts." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 3:30 pm
Posted By: graywolf 165 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Blogging
Robert Scoble a long time advocate of not putting advertising on blogs, changes his tune, and agrees to start selling ads through a deal with his new employer Fast Company. Techcrunch wonders will his long time supporter Dave Winer, critical of ads read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 14, 2008 - 4:59 am
Posted By: graywolf 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Social Media
I have a confession to make. I am a celebrity gossip addict. I love to look at pics and see what people are wearing. While browsing one of my favorite sites yesterday I came across what looked to me like pay dirt for some great link bait. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 26, 2007 - 10:02 am
Posted By: graywolf 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://slashdot.org)
Category: Google Other
When Google Reader's team came back on Monday, they found more than 70 complaints in their public forum. Given Google's fine reputation dealing with their users privacy people were expecting a quick fix and some kind of apology, but the official re read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 23, 2007 - 11:54 am
Posted By: graywolf 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Other
Nevertheless, Hilton expressed anger at YouTube for sending him a standard, generic e-mail informing him of his account’s violation and temporary shutdown. Don’t they know who he is? They should, his YouTube videos generate millions of views, accord read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 15, 2007 - 11:20 pm
Posted By: graywolf 206 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.skrenta.com)
Category: Google
So Google makes an algo that puts wikipedia at the top of all the results. But questioning the the wisdom of this algorithmic choice is off the table. So they say, "Whoa. Look at that site at the top of all our results. We made them that big with ou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 14, 2007 - 5:07 pm
Posted By: graywolf 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://us.mcafee.com)
Category: Online Marketing
In an effort to further quantify and understand this phenomenon, McAfee studied 1.9 million typographical variations of 2,771 of the most popular and well known Web sites. Of these, we found 127,381 suspected typo-squatters. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: graywolf 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.news.com)
Category: Google
A top Republican in the House of Representatives is demanding that Google answer a barrage of questions about privacy, some of which are related to the company's proposed purchase of the DoubleClick advertising firm. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 10, 2007 - 9:15 am
Posted By: graywolf 211 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://markjaquith.wordpress.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt talks about using wordpress for SEO, but this video is also very good for convincing people that they actually need to do SEO for their website read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2007 - 4:39 am
Posted By: graywolf 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ideashower.com)
Category: Social Media
According to an interview with Chamath Palihapitiya of facebook ( http://tinyurl.com/2lg4gq ) they don't recieve the data if you've opted out:

Q. If I buy tickets on Fandango, and decline to publish the purchase to my friends on Facebook, does Fa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 11, 2007 - 5:27 pm
Posted By: graywolf 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.consumeraffairs.com)
Category: Searching
Is redirecting typo traffic to an landing page where Verizon makes a profit from ads a violation of net neutrality? Many Fios customers are already reporting this happenning. read more »
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