Facebook Continuing To Grow In The UK
Forget eBay, YouTube, Bebo, and the BBC. When it comes to the most visited websites in the UK, Facebook’s topped them all. According to new Hitwise data, the fast-growing social network only sits behind Google UK.
Getting All You Can Out Of Online Social Communities
So you’ve entered the land of brand-building in online social networks. Now what? Online communities can be great places for marketers to learn and engage with their customers and other consumers. In order to get all you can get out of it, there are certain guidelines to follow that may help. Below are the 5 Commandments for How to Act in an Online Social Community.
Branding And Search Engine Marketing
Do you have a brand? If not, your site is part of a "cesspool." In AdAge Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt explains the AdWords quality score and organic ranking algorithms in laymans terms:
Could A Little More Info in the SERPs Improve Relevancy?
Google is testing the concept of showing a date alongside certain results on its SERPs. The tests were spotted by Michael Gray (like two months ago) and by a WebmasterWorld member. Search Engine Roundtable quotes the latter:
“Zack and Miri Make a Porno” Director Blogs for Hulu
When visiting the Hulu blog today to see if they were up to anything worth writing about, I was greeted by a familiar voice (well, in text form). A voice that I have enjoyed for years through film, and "literature" (he’s got a couple books). A voice from a man who is ironically most famous for being silent.
GM CEO Takes Message To YouTube
Let’s annoy you by understating it and call these “uncertain” economic times. While it’s unclear what a tumultuous economy means for online business—after all, there was no Internet in the Great Depression—old standby General Motors saw its stock drop the lowest it’s been in half a century.
Size Doesn’t Always Matter, Authority Does.
Bankaholic is a one-man WordPress blog run by 22-year-old Johns Wu, who just got the deal of a lifetime when he sold it to BankRate for $15 million, proving that blogging dreams really can come true.
Hacker Indicted for the Palin Email Job
You may remember a few weeks ago when vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email account was hacked. This was revealed to be the work of David Kernell, the son of Tennessee Democratic State Representative Mike Kernell. David was indicted Wednesday morning, and faces a maximum of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine after turning himself in.
Photobucket Introduces New Features
Online photo and video sharing site, Photobucket has added new features to make it easier for users to organize and personalize their photo and video collections.
US Researchers Decide Spying On Citizens Is Bad
You remember back in 2006 when there was all this controversy over the US Dept. of Justice subpoenaing search results from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL? Remember how AT&T and Verizon sold their customers out by making telephone records an open surveillance buffet for the government?