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Matt Cutts blogged that Google would like you, the average search engine user, to report on sites you feel are displaying links…
The e-business world is moving on from SEO and SEM. That doesn't mean they aren't important. It means that everybody seems to get it now (perhaps) and it's sort of a standard practice, like tacking fliers to light posts. The next frontier has two branches: branding and making connections. Where it's not going: direct marketing (been there, done that for a decade now); single-channel.
I recently read a insightful piece from Ben Hunt about the future of the web2.0 social experience. It was particularly relevant as I am heading to the Web2.0 Expo here in San Francisco today and will have a chance to see many new technologies later this evening at the "Booth Crawl" event at the opening of the Expo.
I used to enjoy playing dodgeball, but it was one of those games in which someone’s feelings (and/or body) often got hurt. Now the Internet service named Dodgeball has had a similar effect - its founders, Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert, have left Google, and the pair didn’t leave in the best of moods.
For those of you who turn off your computers on the weekend, you should know that Google announced Friday that it spent over $3 billion to acquire DoubleClick, of banner ad network fame. You can read from other people what this means from Google's point of view—I don't think that is very important to marketers. So what is important about this to marketers?
ShopText is a relatively new company that launched in November 2006 and provides consumers with the ability to purchase items using their mobiles. On their Web site the company explains their mobile retail concept. " ShopText is a mobile commerce and promotions company. Our software platform transforms any advertisement into a point of sale opportunity. ShopText technology creates a secure, direct-to-consumer marketplace where consumers can…
