Status Update on my social networking project
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In the final stages of a social networking plan for my college, and gave the executive presentation on why we want to do this. Some interesting things happened during the briefing, but here is the briefing, story after the jump.
Social Media Plan for CityU of Seattle
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The interesting things [...]
Should you delete comments in FriendFeed
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If you are the person who starts a thread in FriendFeed you have the ability to delete comments within the thread that you started. The question is should you delete comments, or under what circumstances will you delete comments on your thread. It would be great if there could be a personalized “I’ll [...]
Microsoft is so last century now it is Google that is the issue
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Techflash and Bloomberg are reporting that Christine Varney who has been nominated to be the next US Antitrust Chief is looking at Google, saying “Microsoft is so last century”. Troubling and interesting given how much time Microsoft has been locked up globally in antitrust litigation since the 1990’s.
Bloomberg reports that:
Christine A. [...]
Banned in Google here is how to get traffic
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With Google off doing its own thing, sometimes people and web sites will find themselves not getting any traffic from Google. There are ways around this; most of it relies on social networking, and just how much you do not want to deal with the vagarities of a big box company.
Linking to [...]
And right back at it with Google Again
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After a while you get really tired of dealing with companies that literally hold you at hostage, and again with Google, we find ourselves banned from the Google index again, this time for cloaking. The only problem, there isn’t any cloaking going on, and Google while an important chunk of [...]
Google starts paying people to say nice things about Google
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Caught in the act, Google Japan has been caught paying bloggers to say nice things about a new search widget via a Cyberbuzz Campaign, wait…what?
Techcrunch breaks this one, and like many companies that are paying people to say nice things about them (Belkin comes to mind) as a form of astroturfing a business [...]
Dang YouTube Ads
How much space are you willing to give up on your YouTube video to see ads? While monetizing is ok, but a significant portion of the screen is lost to these ads, when really all I want to do is watch the video.
From the user perspective, this seriously cuts down on the enjoyment part [...]
Google Product Ideas open to comments
Much like the Dell Idea Storm, Google has come up with its own version of Google Product Ideas, unfortunately they are only interested in Google Mobile ideas right now, when there are so many other things to comment on across the Google product line.
Good start, but everyone who comes in contact with Google products, [...]
Would you buy an Android Notebook
I wouldn’t, not at least until Google gets religion when it comes to software security. Much like an early Microsoft, Google has had its share of issues when it comes to solid desktop application security. While their web products do very good in relationship, going on what happened with Chrome, and with what we have [...]
Google as a Web Masters Critical Infrastructure
Image via CrunchBaseIn internet terms, how long is too long, and how timely do we expect companies to be. When you take a look at Google, it has risen over the last 10 years from a nearly hobby product to the most important system for web masters and web site owners on the internet. We [...]
Google Web Master Tools check what Google sees
Image via CrunchBaseWell this might explain why there are so very few Google hits on many of my sites, Google’s scanning robot sees my sites as nothing more than a shill for drugs and other things that do not show up in any of my web sites. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a [...]
New bloggers new troubles getting traffic
Image via CrunchBase, source unknownNothing points out the troubles with blogging as watching audiences slowly slip away to other systems, while blogging is not dead, the time of power house blogs and bloggers is also coming to a close over the next few years as people move on to other social networks that incorporate elements [...]
Why am I trying to make Google Happy anymore
When you run the usual end of year statistics, make sure you check your referrers; you might find an interesting surprise relating to Google. I have a number of web sites out there, and they range from brand new page rank zero to page rank 7 web sites. At the beginning of the year Google [...]
Google Book Search reaches an agreement on the multiple lawsuits brought against it
Image via CrunchBaseThis showed up in e-mail this morning from Google, it seems that they have reached a tentative agreement over Google book search with the authors and publishers that were trying to sue them into the ground. The complete text of the e-mail is below.
Dear Google Book Search partner,
Today Google and the group [...]
Google Changes its Google Ipage
Image via CrunchBaseShock and awe, Google’s Ipage just got some serious eye candy this morning. The shock was seeing the change to the page, and some of the broken bits like email, the awe was that this is actually not too bad a change. The coolest part is what they did to the feeds. [...]
