As an investor and citizen, I have been following with increasing concern the shenanigans in the financial market.
5 Tech Deals That Should Happen
Today’s big news from TechCrunch is is that Google is in the final stages of acquiring digg for about $200 million. Makes sense to me. Particularly given some of Google’s recent experiments having social voting in their search results pages.
Social Media And Advertising Campaigns That Should Retire
I’ve been speaking at a lot of events lately, and several focus on similar topics in social media or interactive marketing. One of the consistent problems with speaking at events like this is that there is a danger of using or hearing the same examples and stories over and over. As my volume of speaking increases, this is one of my big concerns … that people will opt out of coming to hear me speak because they feel like they’ve heard my point of view before.
Company Internet Policies Should Address Web 2.0
Managing employees who abuse their Internet access could be hindered by company policies written before the advent of Web 2.0 sites, an employment expert believes.The warning comes after disciplinary action against 18 police officers who bragged about car crashes on Facebook.
Teacher’s Social Profiles; Should They Matter?
The Washington Post pokes around a few MySpace and Facebook profiles of young school teachers and shares the apparently disturbing results.
Should You Buy A Twitter Account?
It’s been a mildly interesting weekend. One of the interesting things that happened was a TechCrunch article that described Andrew Baron selling his Twitter account It was the weekend, and I was looking for some quick amusement value, so I jumped into the auction on eBay. Things got really interesting from there.
Google Should Stick To Its Search Principles
Please welcome Google to the damned-if-I-do-damned-if-don’t club. The superiority of search results is what led to Google’s dominance, and investors have pressured the company to get back to its core competency while raising revenue. As soon as they do, though, retailers pitch a fit because things become too fair.
Specter: XM-Sirius Answer Should Be Near
For the sake of avoiding repetition, the words "may" and "might" aren’t going to appear in every sentence of this article. Go ahead and mentally insert them, though, because this concerns the resolution of the long-uncertain XM-Sirius merger.
So What Links Should you Nofollow?
A few weeks ago, there was a lively exchange on Search Engine Land about using the “nofollow” link attribute to sculpt PageRank.
SEM Conferences You Should Be Attending
SEMpdx Searchfest Ok, this one has come and gone but I wanted to provide a short debrief. I have to say that I had a fantastic time. Searchfest marked my one-year anniversary speaking at conferences. They opened the door for me at Searchfest 2007 and were kind enough to invite me back this year. Boy, am I glad they did.