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Successful ideas and messages are shared when people are able to relate to it on their own terms, within their existing worldview. Data will remain cold, inert and impersonal unless it is framed in a concrete way that is relevant to the experiences read more »
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A pair of Google researchers have developed a way to quantify the characteristics of an image and rank their relevance to a search term. The technology, which Google is calling "VisualRank," has applications for e-commerce and marks an advancement i read more »
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The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral arguments in an important trademark case last week. Rescuecom, a computer repair firm, sued Google in 2004 for allowing competitors to purchase advertisements that would appear when a user co read more »
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When all else fails, declare yourself "open." Netscape first pulled this maneuver in the late 1990s; the Netscape browser is now extinct. Yahoo has declared its search results open to improvement. read more »
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Just in case anyone here didn't know, Google is pretty big. read more »
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"Your notions of purity are laughably quaint," I write. "How do you know who to trust? I don't know. But I do know someone who can serve as a guide ... That person is your local (or Net-based) librarian."

I publish. It feels good — like a shot at read more »
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What SEOs and social media marketers have known for a while now is that social media sites like Digg, Reddit, and Propeller can give instant, albeit short lived, access to the search engine (no need for plural in this case). Soon, the campaign team read more »
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In the New Year, Google seems to be changing their algorithm and making the search results more time related. The leading search engine has been ranking items from popular sites like Digg higher than factual or historical sites like Wikipedia. Is th read more »
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Barack Obama leads in backlinks by about 150,000 backlinks. John Edwards started with having almost 6 times less than Hillary and beats her by 80,000 backlinks.

In the Republican field, John McCain started off with very few (comparatively) backli read more »
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I get a lot of emails asking me for permission to reprint Zen Habits articles on other blogs, in newsletters, in conferences and in classrooms. I get requests to translate certain posts, or my entire blog, into dozens of languages. I get requests to read more »
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Thanks to its lineage (founded by Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales), Wikia is one of the more hyped startups to launch in recent memory. For the most part, early reviews including one from our own from Stan Schroeder have not been kind to the for-profi read more »
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On the internet, change is part of the definition. In social media, changes are happening literally by the minute. 2008 promises to show humungous growth and an incredible amount of change for major and minor social media websites. read more »
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Commenting in blogs has its own advantages. It has been used by many bloggers to get things done. Commenting in blogs is not only followed for getting traffic but also for various other reasons which will be discussed in this post. When you go to a read more »
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This really should be two separate stories, but we’ll consolidate because there are just to many similarities in the reasons why both Digg and StumbleUpon will take their already-mammoth popularity and truly become household names beyond just the te read more »
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I know the short answer: submit quality content. While Sphinn has the lowest number of (a) bad stories that make the front page and (b) good stories that don't, I've always wondered what, beyond submitting quality content, can someone do to be a be read more »
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TechnologyReview has published an interview with Google's Director of Research, Peter Norvig, where it's acknowledged that the search giant hires individuals to look at search results pages and provide their judgment about the quality of the results read more »
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Google News has added some search features that make it much easier to track down an article, especially one you are trying to remember from a few days ago. The improved “advanced search” feature allows you to enter in both your search term and a pa read more »
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Dave Winer today notes a vulnerability in the Twitter system that could allow the advent of the spammers’ invasion of the system to occur. It is at least one of the ways I’ve seen for the system to be easily gamed for the slightly grey-to-black hat read more »
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On Digg, as stories move down the front page and on to the next, the traffic slows, like tall rollercoaster freefall that hits tremendous speeds, then gradually levels out and slows. Stumble is like a bumpy rollercoaster in the dark. You know the read more »
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Google has been testing the placement of product and video results on the right side of the Google results page, which is valuable real estate usually reserved for AdWords ads. read more »
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Now that they are in the spotlight, will they prove to be a better option? We’ll see, but we also doubt it. Until the search engines are willing to share the data they collect, there will be no accurate representations of traffic beyond what every read more »
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One of the most polarized mini-wars going on is Reddit vs. Digg. While the two differ so greatly in look, feel, style, and membership, they are generally going after the same crowd - those who want to read and share in media on the Internet. There read more »
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"Social news site Digg is a love-it or hate-it phenomenon. Here at ReadWriteWeb, we love Digg, but I've got to admit that new competitor Mixx is worth a real close look. Mixx announced today that it's taken a strategic investment (meaning a small read more »
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2.0?
3.0?
Keep going. read more »
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Excellent reference designed for those beginning (or just lost) with the social media segment of Web 2.0. read more »
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