Social Media
Danny Sullivan on Facebook ads
Danny over at SEOMoz talking to Rand Fishkin about the new Facebook beacon ads
Blogger testing OpenID
While this is only an experiment openID commenting, I’m sure it will rollout as a standard not just across Blogger but most blogging platforms and social networks. Or at least it should. The implications are huge, from just allowing an easy way to comment on other people’s blogs to more sophisticated ways to remove blog […]
New style scraper comment spam
David Naylor posted about a spam blog, which scrapes your content then blogs about you with a duplicated section of your post. I first noticed this when I had a ping back within five minutes of a post – quicker than Google blog search or Technorati.
MySpace joins Google’s OpenSocial
Stories of MySpace joining OpenSocial has been confirmed over at VentureBeat. Google’s move to create an open standard for information sharing across social networks was announced yesterday. This will allow developers to build applications that are independent of the specific social network infrastructure.
While many experts are claiming the emergence of an anti Facebook cartel, […]
Blinkx Wiki on Video SEO 101
The video search engine Blinkx has created a Wiki for optimising video. With over 65% of internet bandwidth taken up by video, getting those who upload videos to follow some best practice is a great idea.
There’s a lot of useful information about the evolution of video search engines, from first generation early engines, where […]
Web metrics for Web 2.0 - What are you measuring?
John Battelle predicts, this is the year to re-define our web metrics. The traditional methods of looking at hits and page views are just not good enough when it comes to video, Ajax, blogs, RSS and the numerous applications that have surpassed the humble static web page.
With the majority of Bandwidth taken […]
On-page optimisation in an age of links
An interesting post by Brian over at SEOMoz got me thinking about the importance of on-page optimisation. Couple of years ago as Google’s trust in what other people had to say about you increased, traditional on-page factors seemed less relevant. A lot could be achieved by a an anchor text focussed link campaign with content […]
Wikiasari - Social Search Engine
According to a report on Information Week, Wikipedia founders plan to build a commercial search engine (Wikiasari) combining algorithmic technology with human power. Combining the Open source search engine Nutch with human input they plan improve relevancy and compete against Google and Yahoo!. The detail of how this would work is still unclear
Wales doesn’t know […]
YouTube rival proposed by Media giants – Just don’t get it
According to The Wall Street Journal last Saturday, some of the biggest organisations in the media including News Corp, Fox, Viacom Incm, CBS Corp and NBC Universal are planning a video rival to YouTube.
They plan to develop an online video platform for publishing ‘their’ network content, and cash in on the popularity of their material […]
Watch your carbon footprint from Second Life
Tony Walsh asks the question is Second Life ecologically sustainable? A quick sum on the back of a fag packet by Nicholas Carr, suggest avatars consumes just a little less electricity than the world average for a person and as much as the average Brazilian. That’s right, the ammount of energy used by […]
