SMX: Matt Cutts & Tim Mayer
While I was out at SMX Advanced, I sat through the penalty box summit. As always, Tim Mayer and Matt Cutts had a few interesting things to say.
Digital Asset Optimization – SEO 2.0
At the past two conferences I’ve spoken at, Search Insider Summit and Media Relations Summit, one of the popular topics that has been floating around the after session meet-ups and dinner conversations concerns the changing nature of search optimization. Some speculate SEO is on the way out. Others say social media is the new SEO.
Yahoo Japan Deselects Sony
As far as Yahoo Japan is concerned, Sony’s out and Apple’s in. The iTunes Store will now serve as Yahoo Japan’s primary music seller.
Sony Out, iTunes In
Google Lets The Fox Out
The Google Eye-Candy Jar is officially less full. Webmaster Central’s Vanessa Fox is leaving the search giant to pursue Rand Fishkin a job with Zillow.
Vanessa Fox Moves
How To Market your eBay Store
At a recent session at eBay Live in Boston, the topic was "How To Effectively market Your eBay Store."
The eBay Market
Google Video Now Search Engine
Google Video went through many reincarnations in the past. It allegedly started out as one of those 20% side projects within Google, and Larry Page admitted, “We’re not quite sure what we’re going to get, but we decided we’d try this experiment.”
Google To Open R&D Center In Shanghai
Fresh news on Google’s international front: the search engine giant is preparing to open a research and development center in Shanghai, China later this month.
Google Researches China
The State of Mobile Apps
Yesterday I was sicker than a dog. I haven’t been that sick since I was in China in 1995. I was a pitiful sight. Just curled up in bed and could barely move. You know I’m sick when I don’t even turn on the laptop.
But, as I started to get better I was playing with my Nokia N95 phone — mostly cause Maryam kept calling me to make sure I was still alive. Many of the mobile apps really have some major holes. It’s like the authors of them don’t really use their cell phones with their own apps.
Simon & Schuster Launch Video Channel
Simon & Schuster and TurnHere have launched online videos featuring Simon & Schuster authors and sneak previews of new releases. The videos will be hosted on a Simon & Schuster branded YouTube platform and on Bookvideos.tv, a new online video channel focused on books and author personalities.
Bookvideos.tv
Xing, ZoomInfo Partner
Xing and ZoomInfo have just partnered, leaving LinkedIn out in the cold. But that’s okay, says LinkedIn’s CEO – he doesn’t really approve of those two, anyway.
Xing, ZoomInfo Partner