Small is the New Big in SEO Training

Have you noticed the number of regionalized or small scale search marketing conferences that are popping up?Jill Whalen has been running her High Rankings Search Engine Marketing seminar for a few years now (disclosure: I am a speaker for the Mpls event and my PR agency works with Jill) that is very hands on focused. The speakers all share a very similar philosophy about search…

Australia’s Broadband Drought

Strong mining = strong exports Strong banking = strong commerce Strong telecommunications = strong economy, society, connections. There is a clear relationship between economic growth and investment in technology. The building and construction industry has the lowest level of technology adoption and the lowest productivity growth. (Note: The new NextG network will help that)

Bloated Shelf-ware

I’ve been catching up on some reading and found the comments to a post from Dana very interesting. Here’s a summary (although the comments are worth a read):

Yahoo Messenger in Mail and Google AJAX News Bar

Yahoo has started integrating Yahoo Messenger into Yahoo Mail, just like Google did with Gmail over a year ago. Because of Yahoo’s cool tabbed IM interface, the IM window is full size, supersized even, making for lots of room for avatars, rich text editing controls, and timestamps.

Google Reports RSS Subscriber Figures

Google is now reporting how many of its users are subscribed to website’s feeds, by including the subscriber info in the header its Feedfetcher spider leaves when it grabs a feed.