Web 2.0 Deflating, Eric Schmidt Interview...
- Woman sues, of all places, the Internet Archive for spidering. Raises the whole opt-in, opt-out debate again.
- "Twitter is dumb, but will work, because we are nosy". It would also help if they got their technical problems sorted out.
- Kevin Ferderline starts his own search engine. Search for advertising with Kevin? Oh, for christ's sake...
- Social networks are dating sites. They just look different.
- Eric Schmidt Interview. "...automating advertising businesses that haven't been automated before...get into the targeted advertising business...". Excellent interview.
- Web 2.0 deflating. What happens when the hype dries up.
- Top technology trends for 2007. Of interest to marketers, peer-to-peer video.
- Google introduce personalized themed home pages. There are six themes to choose from, and the themes update according to the time of day.
- You thought you had spam problems. TechCrunch receives 15,000 spam comments. Per day. That no-follow plan really worked well, didn't it, Digerati? ;) Should have invited SEOs along, really....
- Speaking of Techcrunch, they've just appointed a new CEO. The terms "CEO" and "blog" just sound strange together.
- How Google might decide the quality score of blog postings. Very interesting outbound critera, such as linking out to "quality" bloggers.
- Google Webmaster Central now reporting anchor text phrases. Nice.
- Ex-Microsoft employee, Robert Scoble, thinks Microsoft Search "sucks". Which is kinda obvious.
- What were Ask thinking? Anti-Google campaign backfires.
- Directory of blogs by birth date of the author. Most authors fall in the 20-30 range.
- Should you sell your SEO services on a performance basis? Examination of the pros/cons.
- SquidOffers, from Seth Godin. A cross between Digg and Adwords. Interesting. Not a new idea. But interesting.
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