Major Sites Taking PageRank Hits
Google is penalizing some big-name publications and blogs, including the Washington Post, Forbes, and Engadget. Over two dozen have seen their toolbar PageRank drop by a factor of 2 to 4 overnight.
Bloglines Console Continues Development
Bloglines beta keeps adding commands to the console.
Social Media for PR Practitioners
A guide to using social media in PR: the benefits, challenges, tips for crafting the right message, and emerging trends for PR practitioners.
Live Meeting 2007 – Web Access Problems
It turns out that while David Chao’s article was correct about the size of the Microsoft Live Meeting client download, that is only part of the story.
Bezos’ First Words On Amazon MP3 Store
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos finally commented publically about the retailer’s new MP3 store during an earnings call yesterday.
Blogging Profitability
Business blogging is a powerful way for a company to dialogue with its clients. If anything, it is likely that the movers and shakers among the clients are the ones most likely to take part in such dialogues. Thus a business blog is an essential part of a company’s Internet marketing program. Its effects can have a sizable effect on the bottom line.
Doc Searls Doesn’t Want To Be A Zombie
Amid a flood of Facebook invitations to be a friend, a zombie, a vampire, a hot potato tosser, and a question answerer, Searls has just said enough to the walled garden of social networking.
Google Asks Nielsen To Rate TV Ads
Google has taken another step toward wiping Madison Avenue’s influence off the television industry by partnering with Nielsen for ratings information.
Yahoo – It’s Not Easy Being Yang
It’s no crime that Yahoo was slow to recognize social networking as the replacement for web portal stickiness, and CEO Jerry Yang wants to start bringing the masses back to Yahoo, if only for a brief visit.
Say Goodbye To Ye Olde Editorial Process
There may always be a place for paper. This isn’t about that – the likelihood that print is on the verge of extinction – but rather how a new generation of editors and writers present the news in a digital world. The new format for news – there must always be a standard eventually – is evolving, as dinosaurs wheeze and choke.