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Blogging Hits Crossroads: A-Listers Giving Up
An old colleague of mine used to joke he was one of millions whose job it was to “feed the internet.” This…
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Is Google Quietly Laying Off Engineers?
It’s tough to keep things quiet these days, especially with all that Twittering. Unnamed engineers drowning their overhead redundancy woes over the weekend passed on the news—with documentation—to a Berkeley grad student Bay Area executive that Google was trying to keep engineer layoffs out of the press.
Getting Ranked In Google Maps
In the session "Up Close with Google Maps & Local" the panel focused on factors that influence what appears and how it is ranked.
Online Radio Grows 37 Percent
Online music radio and track play listening hours increased 37.6 percent to 6.67 billion in 2008, while in-stream audio sold against ad -supported cumulative hours rose by 46.1 percent to $74 million over the 12 month period, according to a report by AccuStream iMedia Research. The report, "Online Music Spins and Media Spend: 2003 - 2012," found that AOL's Shoutcast platform remains the most popular…
Is Yahoo Looking to Offer SEO Services?
A patent application filed by Yahoo is causing a bit of a stir within the SEO community. The patent is for an "Automated System to Improve Search Engine Optimization on Web Pages." The abstract for the patent reads as follows:
Twitter Hot in UK, Overshadowed by Plurk in Singapore
Twitter has entered the top 100 most visited websites in the UK according to Hitwise. It came in at number 91 beating out Expedia UK, Gumtree, easyJet, Digital Spy, and Money Supermarket, which Hitwise research director Robin Goad refers to as "online heavyweights." Twitter traffic has multiplied by 27 over the last year, and this is only the main site. It doesn't take into account…
