Four Keys To Brand Monitoring
Forrester Research reiterated the importance of being aware of what people say about your brand online, and noted the four key parts to successfully evaluating potential brand monitoring solutions.
SEO Books New SEM Glossary
In case you missed it Aaron Wall added a rather comprehensive search engine marketing glossary to his SEO Book site.
Wikipedia, YouTube Driven By Heavy Traffic
The comScore numbers for top global web properties saw Wikipedia and YouTube pick up 12 percent gains in their unique visitors age 15 and up from around the world.
Odeo Purchased Back by Founder
The development, launch, growth and (minor) failure of Odeo, is a strange story. When the company, founded by Blogger co-founder Evan Williams, launched back in February of 2005, it raised $5 million in VC, but never really raised our attention.
Google Keeps Fretting Over Googling
Merriam-Webster’s and the Oxford English Dictionary’s addition of “Google” to their multitude of pages as a verb has given Google fits, and the company has been desperately trying to fight the genericizing of their trademark name.
Blog Business Summit: Jason Calacanis Keynote
Jason Calacanis of Netscape/Weblogs Inc./AOL just kicked off the day at the Blog Business Summit here in lovely and cloudy Seattle.
Obvious Corp. Buying Odeo
Evan Williams and other Odeo employees buying control of Odeo back from their VCs is definitely an interesting piece of news because it’s not that common, and it says something interesting about what some companies are experiencing right now.
Google Named 3rd Most Valuable Tech Company
Google’s moving up in the world, and it just passed IBM. The search engine giant now holds the title of “world’s third most valuable technology company,” and is only about $2.5 billion behind Cisco. Microsoft is still the far-and-away leader of the pack, with a market capitalization of $279 billion (compared to Google’s $145 billion).
Use Google As a Verb, You Must Get Spanked
Google’s stepping-up its efforts to stop people from using “google” as a verb. They’ve posted a correct useage guide on the official Google blog, in an attempt to gently persuade people to not use Google incorrectly.
The Day I’ll Yahoo: x 100,000,000 other users
Jeremy Z. points to Google’s feather-ruffling “here we go again protecting our trademark” post, and reaction to it that includes one guy telling Google to “shove its lexographical advice up your…”