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This is Google's Social Bookmarking and the first public stab at what will be Google's array of social sites that will all work together. Open social will somehow work into this as well. read more »
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Google Reader adds a friends list, many social features like bookmarking, RSS feed item sharing, comments on blog posts and a blog recommendation engine based on your friends feeds and what you have in Google Reader read more »
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A new high of nearly half (49 percent) of all internet users use search engines on a typical day, up from about one-third in 2002 - and closing in on the use level of email (60 percent of those online use email each day) - according to a new analysi read more »
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Let me introduce myself, I am Doctor Robert Neville. You know, the guy that Will Smith played in I Am Legend. I am the only person left alive and consequently The Last Digger On Earth... Kind of a silly post, but I liked it and it does touch on the read more »
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It's not that they disapprove of Yahoo remaining independent of Microsoft. It's just that Google's search market share, at nearly 70 percent in June, has only grown stronger during its rivals' kerfuffle. Online marketers here Wednesday at the RBC Ca read more »
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One of my clients got a little carried away and Dugg too many articles. Yeah, that's right, too many Diggs. Digg immediately banned the account and sent this email from Digg. read more »
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StumbleUpon on Yahoo! Search allows you to see StumbleUpon website reviews and ratings, in your Yahoo! Search results. Now your favorite parts of StumbleUpon can show up in search. read more »
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According to The Guardian, Yang will be hard-put to explain what exactly happened during the Microsoft takeover talks — which could have added $48 billion to Yahoo's coffers. (Current stock market prices value the company at $27.3 billion). Many thi read more »
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For example, a person living in San Francisco can run a search for a national business. In the upper right-hand corner of his results, he may see, "Customized for San Francisco metro area, US. More details." The latter is a hyperlink that, when visi read more »
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In Friday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET reporters Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss what could go down at this year's annual Yahoo shareholder meeting. Angry revolt against CEO Jerry Yang's compensation package? Gripes about the yo-yo read more »
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Omniso allows users of YouTube and other video sites to share videos in a variety of ways, annotate them with comments, edit videos, add and synchronize slide shows, and generally add information to videos to enhance the viewing experience. About tw read more »
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The hype cycle now lasts less than a day. Take yesterday’s over-hyped launch of stealth search startup Cuil, which was quickly followed by a backlash when everyone realized that it was selling a bill of goods. This was entirely the company’s own fau read more »
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I find this FriendRank algo to be the most interesting development at Google but for the most part it seems to be ignored by most... read more »
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Live Search will be integrated into Facebook by year's end — part of an extended ad agreement with Microsoft, reports The Register.

Last year Microsoft bought 1.6 percent of Facebook for $240 million, ballooning the site's value to over $15 billi read more »
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Many do not seem to understand the full scope of what is playing out with Digg and Google and why Digg is so valuable. This article should pull it all together for you. read more »
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While many sites have reported a Google SERP Digg type interface with voting up or down here is the Google labs post with it's own screen shot and explanations. read more »
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You will be surprised at the huge unique visitor numbers and the order of this detailing the top 30 social bookmarking sites. read more »
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Google Analytics crashed yesterday around 3PM EST. Websites nationwide saw traffic reports drop to zero for most of the day. read more »
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With the launch of a Flash-reading tool from Adobe, marketers can factor Flash into their SEO efforts, instead of compensating for the presence of Flash with extra text. read more »
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Amidst last week's news of an ad deal between Google and Yahoo, Hitwise's Heather Hopkins examined the search audiences of both firms, finding a greater propensity by Google users to spend greater than $500 online, reports MarketingCharts.

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Gleaning data from social media resources is daunting, but not unfeasible. Much of it comes down to knowing what you're looking for, how to search for it, and where to run the query. read more »
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Jennifer Horowitz gives some great advice on getting JavaScript out of the way of spiders. read more »
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The more I Digg into this the more I see that Digg badges don't work and Digg can be a negative indicator to both your visitors and especially Google. Social bookmarking done wrong can actually hurt your rankings, I believe. read more »
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"Over the next 10 years, as mobile devices like smartphones become the primary channel for viewing content or accessing the Internet, social networking will move largely into the wireless realm, providing the type of ubiquitous connection that consu read more »
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A law currently being challenged in NY could change the Internet much for the worse. For one thing if the law stands and other states follow suit it could end affiliate programs as we know them. read more »
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