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- Pilgrim's Picks for June 25 - 2007-06-25 10:55:13-04
Good Monday morning to you all. Lots of news today, so here’s some stuff that didn’t quite merit its own blog post. Google acquiring GrandCentral? TechCrunch says the deal is done and that Google could be planning a Skype rival. LinkedIn planning to open-up with developer APIs. Are you as witty as David Letterman? OnMyList allows you to [...]
- Linked In: We're cool, too - 2007-06-25 12:16:38-04
That Linked In is to "open up" to third-party developers is not surprising. The business social network has been losing mindshare, at least in Silicon Valley, where the venture capital and entrepreneurial elites have, improbably, switched to Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, en masse. And Facebook's initiative -- allowing services such as iLike, the music recommendation system, to embed themselves de...
- Monday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines - 2007-06-25 13:45:23-04
Revision3 Raises $8 Million from Greylock Partners and angels. The startup, a sibling company of Digg, makes a network of longer-form internet video and is pioneering sponsorship deals in the space. (VentureBeat) ManiaTV Dropping UGC; says it would rather have loyal users and an easier time selling ads with its original content. (MediaWeek) CrossCast WiTV: Browser-Based Online [...]
- Happy Monday, Social Media. - 2007-06-25 15:04:42-04
Wow, lots of news to wrap up from the weekend. eBay is back in bed with Google, at least when it comes to advertising. Love-hate relationships are so difficult; isn't there an easier way? eBay is moving back to China, now with Skype portal partner TOM Online. Boingo Wireless is going flat rate for all its 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots. All you can eat anywhere for €29 or $39 monthly. Hmmm. Respondi...
- Barry Schwartz (Me) On Cover of Wired - 2007-06-25 15:38:39-04
The July 2007 edition of Wired Magazine has me on the cover. No Kidding... Here is a scan of the front page. Still don't believe me? Here is a picture from an angle on my camera. Now you believe me?...
- Forum SEO, AdSense Pay, eBay Google, 1/4, -30, adCenter, Gmail Germany, Humans, Yahoo Ads, GrandCentral - 2007-06-25 16:51:44-04
I wrote about search engines crawling forums. 75 percent earn 25 dollars or less with Ad Sense. E Bay returns to Google Ad Words. 25 percent of searches are unseen. The minus 30 penalty is reviewed. Ad center upgrade has been postponed. G mail is outlawed in Germany, kind of. The human touch of search. Yahoo merged ad teams. Google bought Grand Central.
- The A-List Blogger Dilemma - 2007-06-25 19:01:11-04
Robert Scoble, who’s on a rant about Techmeme not caring about bloggers just swung over to my cubicle and told me about an upcoming rant/rave about Ustream and Kyte TV. It’s a good thing he talked to me because his rant would have been incorrect, and I gave him some key details that prevented [...]
- Inside AdSense now in Turkish - 2007-06-25 19:21:00-04
Starting with English, we've introduced Inside AdSense blogs in a number of languages to keep publishers up to date with everything AdSense. Today, we're excited to round that number up to a "perfect 10" with our latest blog -- Inside AdSense: Google’a içeriden bir bakış. If you speak Turkish, you can look forward to reading about the latest AdSense updates and feature releases in your own lang...
- Another Facebook App Acquisition: Slide buys Favorite Peeps for $60k - 2007-06-25 21:46:40-04
Following on the heels of last week’s acquisition of Extended Info by SideStep, I received a tip today that widget maker Slide has acquired Facebook application Favorite Peeps for a reported $60,000. Favorite Peeps is the 14th most popular application on Facebook with approximately 1.3 million users and is growing at about 2.3% (30,000 users) [...]
- Analytics Toolbox: 50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic - 2007-06-25 22:18:24-04
From analyzing your RSS feed to counting page views to visual representations of where your visitors are clicking, there is no shortage of companies looking to help you better understand your web site’s traffic. In our latest “toolbox†installment, we analyze (pun intended) the wide variety of applications and tools available for keeping tabs [...]
- The IPhone Could Cost You Nearly $6,000 - 2007-06-26 00:00:00-04
When you add the total cost of the required 2-year contract to the base price of the Apple iPhone, its true cost is between approximately $2,000 and $6,000.
- Tracking the Growth of Competing Sites - 2007-06-26 03:01:42-04
Post offering general tips on how to track the growth of competing sites.
- Mahalo and its spam results? - 2007-06-26 04:45:41-04
www.mahalo.com and it’s Spam. Well, that didn't take long did it? Dave Naylor has come up with a couple of examples of how spam has already slipped into the Mahalo results. Interestingly, the 'Go Daddy' search term used here has...
- Good for Yahoo, And Everyone Else Except Last.fm - 2007-06-26 04:55:33-04
Yahoo, as well as Pandora, MTV, Real/Rhapsody and many others are honoring the “day of silence†today in protest of the ridiculous new royalty rates for Internet radio stations. The big music labels have lobbied to get the U.S. government to really stick it to Internet radio stations, when terrestrial radio stations pay nothing to [...]
- Plaxo relaunches 'smart address book' - 2007-06-26 06:22:00-04
Plaxo has relaunched its 'smart address book' service, which lets users share data between address and calendar programs from Microsoft, Google, AOL and others. Plaxo 3.0, in addition to simplifying the synchronisation process, is now available in in seven languages, including French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.
- Switching Page Extensions & SEO (i.e. ASP to PHP) - 2007-06-26 08:00:23-04
A Cre8asite Forums thread asks what are the search engine optimization implications of switching from ASP to PHP? This is a fairly basic SEO question but it is a good one. This question applies to changing any URLs, not just from ASP to PHP. It is also from HTML to CFM or CFM to ASP and so on. It also includes changing a file name from abc.html to cba.html. Search engines index pages. Pag...
- Is Google Universal Search Harder Than One Box Results For SEOs - 2007-06-26 08:10:39-04
Cre8asite Forums is holding a small poll of their members, asking if it is harder to optimize for Google's Universal Search as opposed to OneBox results? Right now, the majority of people feel it is not harder because it "follows similar rules as OneBox Optimization." Well, does it? While OneBox results were almost guaranteed to be at the number one spot on the page, a Google Universal verti...
- Google AdWords My Client Center Bug Removes Linked Accounts - 2007-06-26 09:08:31-04
I have been tracking a Google AdWords bug via a WebmasterWorld thread for several days now. The bug is that AdWords professionals who have linked client accounts within the My Client Center (MCC) are unlinking - so AdWords managers cannot access those accounts easily. The bug was first reported on June 16th. AdWordsAdvisor confirmed the bug on June 18th. Yesterday, June 25th, the bug seemed...
- Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search - 2007-06-26 09:23:06-04
Yahoo Image Search has added Flickr images into its image index. Now, Yahoo Image Search is serving over 300 million Flickr photos in its query results via a live feed from Flickr; so once an image is uploaded to a Flickr account, it’s available via Yahoo Image Search too. The Flickr photos in Yahoo Search will [...]
- Survey: Mobile Users Most Receptive To Paid-Search Ads - 2007-06-26 10:45:42-04
An Ingenio-sponsored survey conducted by Harris Interactive, released today, captured a broad range of user attitudes and behaviors toward mobile phones and mobile advertising. The survey polled just over 4,000 U.S. mobile phone owners. Among other things, it confirmed that more people own mobile phones than landlines and that users were most receptive to the equivalent of paid-search ads vs. o...
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