Tribes: we need you to lead us, the latest Seth Godin book, came out this week and you can pick up a free audio version (about 3 hours) from Audible.com. Why would he give you his book when you could buy it from Amazon? Because he’s smarter than your average bear.
A new web service that started in September takes an interesting approach towards the information overload problem on the web. Yotify takes an approach that covers the ground between search engines and social networks. While search engines provide us with results from all the web and social networks are people and activity centric, Yotify provides a service that lets the user maintain a watch or scout on select sites and be alerted when events occur that meet certain criteria.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, yesterday, and the day before, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Investment Advice From An Email Friend:
Yesterday we reported about a new type of Google AdSense ad. I wasn't sure if it was new, and even one commentator added another option, that the ad could be an image ad. In any event, today, I spotted a...
Who would have thought that the day will come that even documents which were digitized through scanning can now be search by Google’s powerful search crawlers? Previously, Google can only searched through PDF documents which were converted from a text file. The Googlebot left out those PDF documents, wheter image or text-based which were converted to PDF through scanning. But not anymore.
Guerilla gardener mini-documentary (7 minutes) about Richard Reynolds and the murky world of fixing up crappy areas with well placed nature. It’s incredible that this sort of thing is technically illegal.
Microblogging has been a hot topic recently. It has become a major source of news, a great way to find help and one of the new tactics to promote your business.
These are events planned for the Silicon Valley area for the week beginning November 10; please let me know if you’d like to include an event.
Monday November 10
VoiceCon San Francisco 2008
Host: TechWeb
Dates: November 10 - 13
Place: San Francisco, Moscone North
Cost: Exhibits only $100 - $2495
Tuesday November 11
It appears that an iPhone exploit has been discovered that lets a developer update and run arbitrary code. It’s those darned default.png images that can be modified.
Based on WebmasterWorld's most popular thread ever: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm Brett Tabke's "26 Steps" has received nearly 25 million page views and 15 million unique visitors since it was first posted almost seven years ago, and has been used as a training...
Google has introduced a new system to work in conjunction with its already existing Custom Search Engine (CSE).
Since the launch of the CSE, its had a downfall for smaller publishers. The engine couldn’t index the entire site properly. With the introduction of the new system, Google’s CSE is able to index full sites using sitemaps with on-demand flexibility.
NetworkWorld reports that the State of Washington has sued an SEO firm for a variety of infractions, including making claims that they can increase traffic to clients' websites, falsely claiming affiliations with other marketers, making claims that customer service representatives...
A High Rankings Forum member questions the actions of current SEOs and wonders if the real SEO "doers" are actually working behind closed doors. He says that the SEOs who consistently tell secrets are putting themselves in danger -- the...
Scary SEO has begun and we’re livestreaming the conference at IMBroadcast, the new social video sharing community for Internet Marketers.
Jeff Quipp, the CEO of Search Engine People, is now giving the keynote speech!
Check it out at IMBroadcast!
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