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Wayne Smallman gives the first good explanation of Plurk that I've read.

From the article: "Social Networking Fatigue not withstanding, Plurk is more than a Twitter clone. Plurk is themed IM (Instant Messaging) for groups of people spread out o read more »
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Manish Pandey talks about 5 crucial learnings he's had on the road to becoming a successful digger.

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Getting the most out of the time you spend writing great articles, optimizing them and then being active on your favorite Social Network is an on-going challenge for just about all of us. Understanding the strengths and the order in which we use our read more »
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Since Google posted on how their search quality stuff works, Barry Schwartz figured he would take the webmaster view and tell you what webmasters and SEOs have been seeing from Google's search quality as of late. read more »
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I love Twitter. I have become quite accustomed to having TwitterFox beeping out sounds of updated tweets (what us Twitter users call posts) as I click on its icon to see what they are. It has been useful in so many ways. But as of late, Twitter has read more »
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Getting the most out of social media websites and social networking services relies on we, the users, getting what we want from them. Here's one guys wish list. read more »
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"Search behaviour and the performance of your campaign can be modelled mathematically using probability theory to make informed decisions that will maximise your profit." read more »
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Jeff Quipp writes, "Ever wanted to become a power Digger? Come on now … sure you have. Here’s how to start." read more »
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Your clients are enjoying more exposure and tangible results than they ever did before. If you don’t know how to properly sell this value to your clients, you could be losing money and not even know it. read more »
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TechCrunch - You know you’ve made it as a communications medium when you start attracting spammers. On Twitter, the problem is getting bad enough that the service is starting to blacklist people who spam other members. There is already an unofficial read more »
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NowSourcing (guest post from Mark Seall - Until recently, I have to admit to being very skeptical of the long term value of social media. My own experience has been relatively poor in that social media has provided me with few long term readers, whi read more »
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Are social networks becoming barren wastelands, ruled by the spammer and those looking to turn a quick shilling? Could the 'social interaction' in social media become redundant? read more »
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I love videos! I have been messing around with them for a few months now and yesterday, I officially launched a video podcast. For now, I will likely just do weekly video recaps, 10 minutes or less, on the past week's search news/tips.

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It seems like everyone is on Twitter these days, but are you following everyone you should? With so many users, it can be hard to find the right people to follow - you might even miss finding some of your very own friends on the service, especially read more »
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Lisa Barone asks: "Is the new connected employee, the one that reaches out to industry contacts via Facebook and stays in the loop during the day via Twitter, a resource for the business they work for or a time-sucking liability?" read more »
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From the page: Google has already demonstrated an immense desire to invest in startups with unique ideas and the right code to implement them. By storing your code with Google, what is to stop them from just peeking in? By using the AppEngine, you b read more »
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The biggest problem with SEO standards is we’ll get some half baked, half assed, implementation that’s just as bad as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As a concept it’s seems like a wonderful idea, everyone agrees to a set of established teachin read more »
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While PPC is a great way to bring traffic to your sites it won't be worth the money if your design and SEO aren't up to snuff. read more »
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Here’s a comprehensive guide to optimizing PDFs for search engines, searchers, and site visitors. read more »
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If you are using paid search as one of your online marketing strategies (who isn’t, if you’re not, get with the program,) this was one of the most important sessions I have ever attended and paid very close attention to. read more »
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Here are some tips for success on StumbleUpon which can also be applied to other Social Media sites. read more »
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All you email marketers out there may not realize the potential role you could play in generating links to your organization’s website - how and why to build links if you are an email marketer. read more »
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This won't be news to some of you, but we've opened up user-created reddits to the public -- in 3 flavors! Creating different verticals for reddit is just one more area where we know our community can do a better job identifying and growing successf read more »
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Find top stories quickly in the coolest way with this new plug-in for Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller and many more: compatible with both Internet Explorer and Firefox. read more »
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Marty has a great post in Search Engine Land discussing 9 tactics for reputation management in social media.

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