Not Using LinkedIn Is Unprofessional

"People with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five," writes former Apple evangelist and founder of Garage.com, Guy Kawasaki about the professional benefits of actively maintaining a LinkedIn profile.

Best Search Blogs Of 2006

Posted by Chris Richardson Over at Search Engine Journal, Loren Baker held a “competition” to see which search-related blogs were the most popular. The contest was broken down into categories including topics like local search; affiliate marketing; search optimization; black-hat SEO and so on. A quick glance at the various winners shows there weren’t really […]

Hitwise Analyzes Online Calendars

LeAnn Prescott from Hitwise has an analysis of online calendars that has been getting a fair bit of traffic and commentary, since it shows that Google's calendar - which has only been around for about six months - is growing strongly in "market share of Internet visits" (as Hitwise describes their proprietary measurement of traffic).

Trillian Astra – Geek’s Choice for IM

Trillian is the geeks choice for IM. It allows you to use a single IM client across various platforms (AIM, Hotmail MSN, Yahoo!, and GTalk - the latter if you have the Pro edition) and have multiple identities for each.

Further Social Media Optimization Talk

Posted by Chris Richardson Even though the New Year is awfully young, apparently the popular topic for those who follow the Internet industry (especially search) is marketing via the social media outlets. While this subject has a few titles – linkbait, viral marketing, WOMM – the idea is the same: create compelling enough content to […]