Danny Sullivan posted an interview of Jimmy Wales, in which they discuss Wikia’s plan to launch a new search engine. Danny asks a lot of great questions and provides some good analysis. Danny points out in detail how hard it will be for them to succeed in holding off spammers if they begin to get […]
Social Media
Blogs that I read
I have now seen numerous people put out there their list of blogs that they read. I saw one excellent list from Brian Clark at Copyblogger, a blog that is on my list below. Here is my list: Bruce Clay (Lisa Barone) Cartoon Barry CopyBlogger Cre8pc David Naylor Eric Ward – Link Moses Google Blogoscoped […]
Blog Tag in action
Hoo boy looks like I have been tagged as well. I know I am going to get a headache finding anyone at all to tag. I will do my best. But first for the 5 things you did not know about me: I am an oenophile (wine lover). I have a first class wine cellar […]
Yahoo! Answers Turns One
Yahoo! Answers is having its first birthday today. They note that a Harris Interactive survey found that fully 1/3 of all online adults have used an online Q & A service at some point. You can see more information on the survey in the Yahoo! press release. The survey further showed that 52% of the […]
The Virtual World of Second Life
Sometimes you feel like you are living under a rock. That happened to me on Monday at SES Chicago. I walked into a ClickZ sponsored session on Social Media Advertising, and in it, I saw a presentation by Marc Schiller, CEO, and Founder of Electric Artists, about Second Life. For those of you who don’t […]
Google Custom Search Engines and Social Media
When Google Co-op was launched in May, I saw this as Google’s move into the Social Media space. The announcement on October 24th of it’s Custom Search Engine (CSE) initiative continues this trend. As with the other parts of Google Co-op, CSEs are intended to encourage social participation in improving the quality of search. CSEs […]
Social Media Optimization
Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing started an excellent thread of blog posts with his post titled: 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization. In it, he starts us off with a list of rules for engaging the social web community and building traffic in the process. This initial post has since been enhanced by others, resulting […]
SEO and the Social Web
The social web is about relationships and trust. Hell, at this point, the entire web is about relationships and trust. Gone are the days of trickery and the day of the charlatans is fading fast. It’s so critical to your business on the web that you have the right mindset. How am I going to […]