Google Aims For Idiot Box Opposite With Citizentube

Over the years, YouTube's been used for increasingly serious purposes.  Now, we've apparently reached the point at which those purposes are important and numerous enough to get their own blog, as Google's set something called Citizentube (with zero capital "t"s, yes) aside to cover them.

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Sitepoint Marketplace Getting a New Home

Users of the Sitepoint Marketplace are getting a new home for their community. Sitepoint announced that it is moving to Flippa.com, which is currently in beta, and boasts an updated web 2.0-style design. Do you like the new destination? Tell us your thoughts.

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SEO Ranking Factors for 2009

Search Engine Marketing and SEO have always been very dynamic fields.  Search engines make changes all of the time.  Sometime they announce their changes, sometimes we are left to guess at them.  In either event, more often than not, we are left  largely to our own devices in terms of assessing the impact of these changes and what to do about them - if anything.

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LinkedIn Updates Search Tool For Recruiting

Popular professional social network LinkedIn has launched some improvements to the search feature of LinkedIn Recruiter, its tool for recruiting passive job candidates. The search feature now comes with a new dynamnic refinement tool, which gives users the ability to more quickly break down candidates according to the precise expertise, geography, education, and industry background you're looking for.

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How Much is The Prohibition of Online Gambling Costing The Search Engines?

Normal 0 June 10, 2009, was the day when opposing forces clashed over the future of online gambling. First, U.S. authorities froze the online bank accounts belonging to some 27,000 online gamers as part of a general crackdown against illegal gaming and money laundering. Almost at the exact same moment, the European Union accused the […]

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