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Avatar Posted By: northrock 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo describes how they might use robot programs to help identify emails, IMs, chat rooms, and Web sites where inappropriate activities take place. The document goes into detail on how a Yahoo robot might interact with others in a chat room, and th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.summize.com)
Category: Other Social Media
It's with great pride that I officially confirm Twitter’s acquisition of Summize. The rationale for this transaction from Twitter can be found here. I’ll outline my motivation to sell our beloved Summize, talk about our experience soup to nuts, an read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo! has just unveiled the next phase in their plan to spur search innovation by providing search-related resources to developers. The Yahoo! Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) enables developers to access Yahoo! search results, combine them wit read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Twitter may buy Virginia-based Summize, a Twitter search engine, says Jason Calacanis. A source close to Twitter says that the two companies have been in discussions around a merger over the last couple of weeks, but won’t comment on whether an actu read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Other Social Media
3 Tips for Renting Social Media Properties

I think the main tip that I’d give with exploring any sort of ‘rental’ approach to social media is to enter into it with clear goals, realistic expectations and balance. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEO
For those who don't know Adobe already (did) have a Search SDK for Flash, indeed I have it on my machine now and Google have been using it for some time, so is Flash SEO Friendly? (answer no) So I was a bit surprised to see an announcement and went read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: SEO
Adobe has come up with a way for the search engines to read SWF files and index all of the information they contain. That means any text or links in a Flash application can now be indexed. This is a huge step forward for Adobe and anyone who develop read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
When people are angry they are anything but rational, so the amount of brand damage they can do for you is near limitless. Imagine if a person or small group has reach to a group of people entering your space, and tells them that you are unethical, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google is effectually forcing advertisers into buying more AdWords PPC by systematically setting out to neuter SEOs. They’re eviscerating organic paid link-building tactics which historically have been so critical to attaining prominence in natural read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Blogging
Could social news aggregators such as Digg, Techmeme & Technorati be sued for copyright infringement because the frequently used lead for a story often encompasses the core story? Larger concerns will no doubt have their own team of lawyers, but do read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.feedburner.com)
Category: Google AdSense
We've been hinting at this for awhile, but it's finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we'll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers "co read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Other Social Media
It might appear that powerful competitors offering free services will benefit from Twitter’s problems. However, when it comes to brainstorming, I think Twitter in all its simplicity beats the complexities of SecondBrain. A little reflection on this read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://northrockpub.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
The Saint Paul Saints baseball team are well known for their grandiose and popular promotions and they have hit another homerun with the Bobblefoot promotion saluting Larry Craig and National Tap Dancers Day. But how does this type of promotion tran read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
Lyndon, now hailed by many in the link world and here in the DaveN camp as the ”Master Baiter” has also been rebuffed by others for exploiting journalistic boundaries could now face the Google penalty guns with Matt holding his finger on the trigger read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Earlier today I sent out my weekly Digital Photography newsletter to not only the 40,000 subscribers who asked to receive it but also to several thousand ProBlogger readers who had subscribed to an old ProBlogger newsletter that I used to run. OOPS! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
I've got no problem if Microsoft wants to "bribe" searchers to use its search engine. Even Google has done the same. But the Live Search Cashback program rolled out today seems a pretty inept way to do it, far more likely to disappoint and frustrate read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Mobile Search
The popular mobile browser Opera today launched a software developers kit (SDK) for widgets. While rival Apple's iPhone SDK requires that applications be distributed exclusively through the still-unlaunched iPhone App Store, pay a $99 application fe read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
Another ratings service shows Google hitting an all-time high for search share in the United States. This is according to April 2008 search share stats from Nielsen Online that were released (PDF) today. Last week, Hitwise also reported Google hitti read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
There are an extraordinary amount of opportunities to make 100$ per day. I mean I can think of probably 50 off the top of my head. The problem is those just don’t work for us anymore. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Using data from blog search engine Twingly, we decided to see which Twitter clients are getting the most buzz on blogs. The result is a list of the most popular 3rd-party Twitter-apps according to the blogosphere. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.1938media.com)
Category: Blogging
Loren Feldman of 1938 Media is doing a neat experiment where he is writing 99 cent pay per posts. Yup, you gotta pay 99 cents to read these posts of his which he will do occasionally. He has posted his first one. Will you bite? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 116 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google Other
Just wondering if anybody here has been accepted to Friend Connect yet? Have you seen any sites besides the first 4 example sites? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
Michael Gray was reading the SEW blog and came across an article from Frank Watson about Google allowing advertisers for the word vodka. Michael's always up for poking Google with a stick and there is something to be learned from the [vodka] SERP. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 117 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: News Sites
This is my kinda story, sorry, I've never been much of a DIGG fan.;) I think this is a trend and hinting of what's to come. How about you? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 117 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://northrockpub.com)
Category: Google Other
I received this "something bad happened" error when trying to sign up. Are any of you getting the same thing? Has anybody made it through the sign-up with a success message? read more »
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