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PR and Dumping the Inferiority Complex
Last week on Thursday I spent the day at the TurnPROn event in San Francisco focused on the future of public relations. …
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Selling Paid Links Can Hamper Your Google Rankings
Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land points out that "Selling paid links can hurt your page rank or rankings on Google". He says, "More and more, I've been seeing people wondering if they've lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links."
Yesterday’s Online Portals Re-Strategize
As the online audience becomes more fragmented the major Internet portals are purchasing advertising companies to extend their networks and are aggressively attempting to follow Web surfers in order to deliver advertising to them.
Google’s Focus On Orkut Points To US Push
In some markets - such as search - Google looks more like a bulletproof King Kong than a 900-pound gorilla. In others - such as social networking - Google is vastly less powerful. There are signs that Google wants to whip Orkut into shape and fix this, however.
Newsvine Brings the Social to MSNBC
Big news in the social-media space: MSNBC has acquired Newsvine, a pioneering news community that has been somewhat eclipsed by Digg and other sites in terms of public profile over the past year or two, but has continued to grow and prosper outside of the spotlight.
Facebook & Multiple-Personality Syndrome
A recent commentary piece by Alice Mathias in the New York Times says Facebook should really be called “Fakebook” — at least for the student users who first made the social-networking site popular. As she describes it:
