Real Life Examples: Local Social Media Marketing in Action

I'm not going to wax philosophical about social media marketing. I'm not going to tell you that you should be using social media or that you shouldn't. I'm just going to show you some examples of how local  businesses in the hometown of Webproworld - Lexington, Kentucky -  are utilizing it. It is up to you to find parallels between what these businesses are doing…

Google Launching Friend Connect API

At PubCon Matt Cutts just announced the launch of the Google Friend Connect API. It let's you copy javascript and make your blog more social. Editor's note: How do you think the launch of the Google Friend Connect API will affect data portability? Share your thoughts. Webproworld anchor Abby Jonnson spoke with Cutts at the conference:

Is MySpace Toast?

If it’s lucky, MySpace is the new Yahoo. If unlucky, and it is unlucky lately, MySpace is AOL. Facebook has supplanted it, and will continue to do so, in much the same way Google ran past Yahoo, and for many of the same reasons.

Google Won’t Remove Pages About You

If you've been involved with the web for any significant amount of time, there is a good chance  there may be pages up somewhere that you're not thrilled about, but are out of your power to remove. Whether it is a page you made in high school or somebody else talking smack about you, you're concerned about your online reputation (as you should be) and…

Ex-Googlers Reveal Startup and Google’s Big Weakness

Having the title Ex-Googler is probably a good thing if you’re in the startup business. Twitter, after all, is run by ex-Googlers. That credibility worked the old hype machine for Cuil, too, until it couldn’t perform. Bindu Reddy and Arvind Sundararajan, ex-Googlers, suggest it’s a bad idea to take on Google where Google is strong—like Cuil did with search—but taking it to Google where it…