Much has been made of the impact social media could have on the SEO industry, potentially providing an entirely new avenue in which to promote a business as well as opening up an additional method for generating inbound links to improve search rankings.
Social Network For The Tourism Industry
The United Nations World Tourism Organization and WISekey have joined together to expand the use of traveler identification and authentication technologies. The collaboration builds on the Public Private Partnership agreement signed by UNWTO and Microsoft in 2006.
Yahoo: The Social Search Engine?
There’s no denying that Google is far and away the most visited search engine on the Internet, eclipsing Yahoo in terms of user base by quite a significant margin. Is it possible that Yahoo could make up some of that ground by leveraging itself as a niche search portal, specializing in social search?
Super Bowl = Great Social Media Fodder
While it’s fair to say this Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI doesn’t need any help in the way of promotion, that doesn’t mean the strong arm of the social media “association” (the blogosphere) hasn’t embraced the event wholeheartedly… and that’s including the advertising portion. Before we touch on the marketing aspects of Super Bowl Sunday ($2.6 […]
ComScore & New Social Media Metrics
Statistical data has been the driving force in determining audience size, time on site, ad clicks, page views and any other element that could possibly be tracked. These metrics, however, have proven to be inconsistent at best as the way websites, especially social media sites, are developed, implemented and consumed has evolved.
Sports Illustrated Gets Social
Time Inc.’s Sports Illustrated Group has signed an agreement to purchase sports oriented Web site FanNation.com from Sports Technologies, Inc. The site aggregates sports information and allows users to generate content.
Marketers Still Missing Social Media Target
BIGResearch’s latest simultaneous Media Usage Study raises a big flag for marketers and PR practitioners: you’re operating in a new reality of a consumer controlled communication model.
SuperPages Adds Social Networks To Search
SuperPages.com wants local business reviewers and is willing to pay any amount of vanity for them. The online directory unveiled its “Reviewer of the Week” program, an effort to meld local search and social networks.
Less Sensationalism in Social Media
I submitted an article written in 2005 to Netscape (for those of your outside of the social media world, Netscape a runs “submit and vote on news site” like Digg).
Serph To Take Over Social Media Search
Cameron Olthuis, a web strategy consultant announced this morning in an interview with Loren Baker that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will enable the users to know what other people are commenting over the web at the moment.