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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joshuasciarrino.com)
Category: Networking
@JoshuaSci scratches his head and says, in effect: "What's all the hubbub about Martin Bowling and Zima? I bet most people don't know. Here's the whole story."

He actually says:

"Now, every time I think about “Martin Bowling loving Zima“, I read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.journerdism.com)
Category: Social Media
Will Sullivan of Journerdism gives a different list of things we should be tracking to follow, track, and predict news stories.

"Savvy reporters that brush up on their analytical, social media and data metrics skills may be able to see which wa read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://tech.msn.com)
Category: Social Media
How do you identify a dumb Web 2.0 site?

First, the site's mission statement must be impenetrable. ("Spotback is a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering and agg read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Chris Silver Smith writes on Search Engine Land, "If you're looking for a quick improvement in your local business site's rankings and don't have a lot of time, you can't go wrong with making some simple improvements to your homepage title tag.

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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seminsights.com)
Category: Google SEO
Very good list of things NOT to do for SEO... but if you really think SEO is a waste of time, you SHOULD do these things, because they can't hurt, right? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sethgodin.typepad.com)
Category: SEO
Recently mentioned by Doug Heil, interesting discussion for SEO's. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media
Some killer stuff on here. I like Gridjit and finally tried NoiseRiver. Good stuff.

TechCrunch says "There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter anno read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adage.com)
Category: Social Media
Steve Rubel writes: "My latest fascination is FriendFeed, a site that in one place aggregates your friends' streams from across different social sites. Right now FriendFeed's audience is paltry. According to Compete, it has 300,000 active users. Sti read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Matt McGee explains why SMX Local looks so good that he's definitely going to have to... miss it. What?? ;-)

Ok, I'm dogging Matt, definitely-

But check out what he's going to miss, and guys, don't be a Matt- don't miss it!

(And don't read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnmark.org)
Category: Water Cooler
You may not see yourself as a wage slave... fine. But these are good "career defense" tips you need to read sooner than later. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kaushik.net)
Category: Web Analytics
From Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik, a killer post about what makes a great analytics person. You may not be an analytics analyst, but if you do search marketing, you should know about this stuff. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEM
Some stuff Dana's looking forward to seeing next week.
Looking fw to the whole thing myself.

Anybody know if the sessions will be recorded?

Why do I have to choose between three cool sessions? Why? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Social Media
This is useful, because it's about simplification. I guess not everyone's an iGoogle fan, but David Harry and I are.

Here he gives a really simple view of how to integrate Google Reader and Friendfeed etc. to tame the madness-

This is way m read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 140 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google AdWords
Interesting that FriendFeed doesn't have a search function to find rooms...

But you can get around that with site:friendfeed.com/rooms

ANYWAY, I created a room to discuss AdWords- other ppc engines are fine, but AdWords is the main focus.

* read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://youtube.com)
Category: Social Media
A humorous review of web 1.0 and web 2.0, plus what web 3.0 is and why if we don't stop the madness web 4.0 could destroy the entire earth! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.appscout.com)
Category: Social Media
There are thousands of people busy Twittering their life events, thoughts, and feelings right now.

Between you and your Twitter friends, you really only get a small glimpse of the activity on Twitter at any point in time. Twistori doesn't try to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://zing-solutions.com)
Category: Social Media
A recent project by CoachDeb and Warren Whitlock on Twitter opened my eyes to Twemes, and I thought it might be a good video topic. Below is a short video that shows how to create a thematic conversation thread on Twitter which can help you gather q read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Social Media
"Tonight, the company is rolling out local search, so you can filter your results based on proximity. For example, search for “McCain near:”phonix az” and you can see what people in the GOP’s Presidential Candidate’s home state are tweeting about hi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 152 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viddler.com)
Category: Social Media
Video how to about Twitter and Twemes.com

"Roger Bauer shows how to use Twemes to join thematic conversations on Twitter and expand your following." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 157 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.mediapost.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Is this just a traditional marketer freaking out?

Or are we're too obsessed over metrics and we're missing out on the value of creative in ads?

Or is it just the increasing dominance of text ads?

'It all started with Google and the "textifi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://zing-solutions.com)
Category: Social Media
Roger Bauer does a brief but useful intro of Twitter, good to send out to those newbies who just "don't get it".

Uses summize to search by topics and check out people you might want to follow. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Hollywood Newsroom noted that Google ads are now popping up for searches on “Tom Cruise” that say “Official Tom Cruise Site. Stay Tuned for the Official Launch of TomCruise.com. Check it out!” or alternatively “Official Tom Cruise Site. The Countdow read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://scobleizer.com)
Category: Social Media
Scoble says: See, the early adopters are forgetting to study how the late adopters actually do get involved in our worlds.

Those in the social media worlds seem to often forget that it’s still a Google World. Most normal people who aren’t frantic read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 165 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.michaelgalpert.com)
Category: Social Media
Coolest ever cuz it's got videos of popular twitterers saying what they think it is.

Starring
Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid)
Alex Harris
Scott Beale (@laughingsquid)
Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee)
@AndrewParker
Evan Williams (@ev)

and more... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Paid Search
As Eric Goldman reports, in Orion Bancorp Inc. v. Orion Residential Finance LLC, Orion Bancorp (the trademark holder) sued Orion Residential Finance (the accused infringer) for using the trademarked term “Orion” in AdWords ads. Orion Bancorp not onl read more »
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