X Change is getting close, and I just wanted to post an update with some final speaker additions and I thought I’d also include the Huddle line-up.
We’ve rounded off the speaker list with some great final additions. Since my last post on X Change, we added Rand Schulman of Unica, Anil Batra (formerly of Zaaz) now of ZeroDash1, Clint Ivy from Visual Sciences and Judah Phillips from Reed.
August Online Job Vacancies See Little Change
In August there were 4,104,800 online advertised job openings, an increase of 20,600 or 0.5 percent from the July level, according to the Conference Board help-Wanted Online Data Series.
Big Companies – They Change a Lot
After speaking in Chicago on Friday, I spent a delightful couple of hours waiting out flight delays. (Yeah, I don’t think I’ve written that sentence before, either.) I was hanging out with fellow speaker Chris Silver Smith, with whom I swapped life stories. When I mention that I’ve worked for IBM for over 28 years, Chris said something insightful—"Wow, that’s a lot of change."
And it has been a lot of change.
MyBlogLog Name Change, Redesign Imminent
When the Five Hundred sedan didn’t sell well, Ford renamed it after a much older model, the Taurus. Ford didn’t change the car in any substantial way, but name recognition is everything, right? Now Yahoo may be attempting to apply that theory to MyBlogLog; a name change is in the works, and other, more substantial, alterations should also take place.
IRS Proposal Could Change Ecommerce
The U.S. Treasury Department wants to crack down on Internet businesses like eBay and Amazon.com and require them to share their customer’s personal data with the Internal Revenue Service.
Could This Scandal Change us for the Better?
I wanted to add a non-personal comment about the impassioned scandal rocking our community, the best way I could think of to improve the silence.
This is a real test of the blogosphere. Our culture and openness. We don’t know all the facts, but there is enough to be disgusted. We do know that part of this involves real core and dedicated bloggers. We do know that this involves trolls, there will always be trolls, and we all have them. We do know that some speech is illegal for a reason, and sociopaths run against society, but there are slippery slopes in all directions from the hill we think we have climbed.
Google Homepage Skins – Change of Note for SEOs
I just had the official walk-through of Google’s recent announcement for personalized home pages. In a nutshell, they are allowing users the opportunity to skin their home page with one of six different themes. The goal, and I quote, is to "delight users". And they don’t just want to delight them in the short term. They want this to be a long-lasting love affair with the Google home page.
Topix Worries About Domain Change
After paying $1 million to purchase the rights to the Topix.com domain, Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta now has to deal with a couple of daily realities in the search world: changing domains could cause a dropoff in search engine-driven traffic, and Google isn’t exactly Nordstrom or L.L. Bean when it comes to customer service.
Debating Whether or Not Google Can Change Advertising
Ari Rosenberg, a media buying consultant, had an interesting column last week about Google’s plans to enter the cable TV market, just the same as they’ve made inroads in the radio and print markets.
Wikipedia Should Change Its Name To Googlepedia
Wikipedia needs Google like plants need sunshine, according to the latest traffic analysis presented by Hitwise. Half of the online publicly-edited encyclopedia’s traffic comes from Google alone, with another 20 percent arising from the other search engines combined.