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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:46 pm
Posted By: graywolf 15 days 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 - 10:20 am
Posted By: graywolf 26 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 Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: graywolf 26 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: May 27, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: graywolf 58 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 Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 1:03 pm
Posted By: graywolf 79 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 Went Hot: April 21, 2008 - 3:58 am
Posted By: graywolf 95 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 Went Hot: March 4, 2008 - 10:43 am
Posted By: graywolf 142 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 155 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 Went Hot: January 26, 2008 - 7:35 pm
Posted By: graywolf 179 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 180 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 194 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 210 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 214 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 221 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 222 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 Went Hot: December 10, 2007 - 9:15 am
Posted By: graywolf 226 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 235 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 255 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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Avatar Went Hot: November 4, 2007 - 5:37 pm
Posted By: graywolf 263 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media
It didn’t take long for someone to hack the first OpenSocial application. In fact, it took just 45 minutes. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2007 - 10:59 am
Posted By: graywolf 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://technology.timesonline.co.uk)
Category: Google
A series of missteps have left it facing claims that it has gone from a benign project – creating the first free, open-all-hours global library – to the information society’s most determined Big Brother. It stands accused of plotting some sinister l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 11, 2007 - 11:54 pm
Posted By: graywolf 287 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.micropersuasion.com)
Category: Searching
Steve is on the money with his post how "search is broken". It's something I've been talking with other people about to, for search to get truly personal it needs to tie into the things we as users use, outlook, gmail, yahoo mail, twitter, jiaku, on read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 21, 2007 - 10:35 pm
Posted By: graywolf 305 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google
Google’s goal - to fight Facebook by being even more open than the Facebook Platform. If Facebook is 98% open, Google wants to be 100%.

The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2007 - 2:42 pm
Posted By: graywolf 310 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.radaronline.com)
Category: Google
Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 16, 2007 - 12:35 pm
Posted By: graywolf 311 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google
TechCrunch is reporting that an offline GMail client is in the works, using the Google Gears technology which lets Google reader go offline as well.

While Google has denied they are building competition to the highly profitable Microsoft office o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 9, 2007 - 7:08 am
Posted By: graywolf 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google SEO
Philipp Lenssen at Blogscoped has a nice recap of an audio interview with Mariss Mayer of Google. In the interview she mentions how here first reaction to ads in Gmail was they were "weird and creepy".

The interview goes on to mention how she cha read more »
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