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- Threadwatch Blog Closes Down - 2007-06-26 10:08:03-04
The SEO community is suffering a big loss. Aaron Wall has announced on Threadwatch that he is closing down the site on Friday for a number of reasons: bad publicity, edgy news, gossip, decentralization, spam, and having other priorities in life.
Aaron is happily in a relationship now, so I really cannot blame him. However, the news has come as a shock to the Threadwatch community, many of whom are asking Aaron to change his mind.
Threadwatch was nearly three years old, having been founded on October 5, 2004 by Nick Wilson who then sold it to Aaron Wall in November of 2005. Over the course of time, Threadwatch has been a centralized part of many SEOs/SEMs to find the latest news and discuss some of the more controversial topics of the industry. It was a hub with some very good information, and I personally am sad to see it go.
I wish Aaron and the other Threadwatch moderators the best.
Threadwatch forum discussion continues at Threadwatch -- until Friday, I suppose.
- Google Reader Downtime: Solved - 2007-06-26 10:20:28-04
Yesterday, users reported that Google Reader was not refreshing feeds and TechCrunch picked up the story. A Google Groups thread has also been monitoring the downtime, eventually with Mihai Parparita, a Google Reader Engineer, informing the community that the problem has been resolved.
Very sorry about this, feeds should be correctly refreshing again. They will catch up on updates over the next few hours.
Google Reader also suffered from an outage on June 12th.
Forum discussion continues at Google Groups .
- Google Maps Supports User Generated Reviews - 2007-06-26 10:34:48-04
According to a Google Groups post, Maps Guide Brian has informed us that users can now write reviews for businesses in eleven countries. The catch: you need a Google account to do so.
To write a review for a business, just search for it, expand the information window by clicking on the "+" sign, and click on "Write a review" at the top. You can also expand the window by clicking on "more info" in the left panel. Once you submit your review, it'll appear on Google Maps right away.
Barry experimented with this feature and tried it out on our company, as you can see in his Search Engine Land post on June 19th. He walked us through the process of creating a review, and I just checked -- it's still there on June 26:
Cool stuff. I guess the reputation management police might be after the real negative reviews, but positive reviews won't get hit so hard.
Forum discussion at Google Groups.
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