Wikipedia Should Change Its Name To Googlepedia
Wikipedia needs Google like plants need sunshine, according to the latest traffic analysis presented by Hitwise. Half of the online publicly-edited encyclopedia’s traffic comes from Google alone, with another 20 percent arising from the other search engines combined.
Rockets, Sleepers and Duds
People love to throw around the “Content is King” cliché when discussing methods of luring incoming linkage in efforts to improve search rankings. The statement, while accurate, leaves much to be desired as far as practical application is concerned.
When it comes to content, everyone has theories on how to create and maintain quality. There are strategies to writing headlines, style of verbiage, and even paragraph spacing.
Should MyFeedz Really Be Called a Feed Reader?
I saw a few posts about MyFeedz yesterday and checked it out, and I noticed Robert just gave Myfeedz a test. He is a hardcore feed reader, so I value his opinion (even though we don’t always agree on everything).
I think Robert is being extremely polite about MyFeedz
MyFeedz Sucks as a Feed Reader
To qualify that, let me show you the "user experience" I went though, and how amazingly let down I felt having given it some of my time.
Studiocom Has Sweet Deal With Dunkin Brands
Dunkin Brands has awarded Studiocom Interactive its 2007 digital marketing duties for Dunkin Donuts and Baskin-Robbins. Studiocom was selected to be the digital agency of record from a multi-agency search conducted for Dunkin Brands by search firm Foghound.
Studiocom will provide online strategy and creative support for new product launches, plan and buy all online media, and redesign the two brands consumer Web sites. The company will also focus their efforts on Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and improving ecommerce.
Affiliate Marketers Can Recommend a Site Without a Link
I just read over on Sam Harrelson’s CostPerNews that Jim Kukral will be taking a little bit of a breather on Blogkits.
He will still be running it, but no longer on the payroll of Forge Corporation.
Adobe Labs Testing Social Newspaper
MyFeedz.com launched quietly in ‘technology preview’ mode from Adobe Labs recently, offering a web-based application that learns from the visitor’s reading habits to continually improve the information it presents.
Google Grabs Polish Poets By the Bards
The only one sounding their barbaric YAWP in the poetry world these days is Google. A Polish writing group – the AFP chunks them all as poets – named Grupa Mlodych Artystow i Literatow, or GMAiL, has been set upon to analyze the finer points of rhetoric from Google’s legal team.
Google Continues Its Efforts In Child Safety
Recently, a conference of experts convened in New York to ask the question “Does The Internet Change Everything?” in regards to how information is presented to children in the ever-evolving digital age. Just how dangerous an environment is the Internet, and what are practical solutions to make it safer for children?
First let me say, I don’t have any children. As a 28 year-old single male, the idea of keeping the Internet safe for children isn’t exactly the first thought that pops into my mind whenever I sit down to do my daily web surfing.
Google Spins Out Hard Disk Paper
If you’re a hardcore hardware geek, then the work compiled in the 13-page paper by some Google engineers on the failure patterns of disk drives will be like a belated Valentine from the little red-headed girl.
DRM And The Music Industry
Steve Jobs created a stir earlier this month when he published his anti-DRM open letter to the music industry. A majority of the music industry viewed the letter as a threat to their income. Independent US labels felt they were left out of the conversations entirely, since they currently sell music without DRM.