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Unlike many people in the SEO, Tech or Marketing community, I don’t write posts just for linkbait & traffic, and when I make up my mind about whether I want to continue being involved in a community, that decision is final.
Twitter deciding to nofollow links 2 years ago really annoyed me.
When they decided to close all loopholes in creating an active link within the bio area, it prevented me linking to my disclosure policy – that annoyed me as well, especially with all the terrible attempts of providing adequate disclosure within paid tweets that are currently being used/proposed.
There was a huge outcry from the SEO community.
When Mike Filsaime first mentioned Tweetglide, I signed up to his notification list but I wasn’t really that interested in the concept. I thought it had a few flaws in the business model he was proposing, and there were already enough Adobe Air Twitter applications on the market.
It is good that Twitter is doing something to protect their users, but this is like putting on a condom the morning after.
Update: It has now been 98 hours since Twitter blocked my site
It can make quite a striking difference with Feedburner if you have a few followers there.
But even this doesn't really account for the shifting sands in online attention.
The latter half of this post was originally published Mar 21, 2008 @ 20:38
Since then Twitter has for many people emerged as the primary way they read RSS feeds, combined with various forms of lifestreaming.
The first time I see tweets and blog posts often is also on services such as Blogcatalog's dashboard or even Mybloglog (though that can sometimes lag a little on updates these days)
Technorati have now officially announced their new blog advertising platform surprisingly called Technorati Media.
It is a significant step, though not as many seem to think unusual.
Afterall, Google started as a search engine, then monetized search, and finally introduced their own publisher program Adsense.
Lots of discussion related to the often reappearing Microsoft Yahoo deal mention that display advertising is highly lucrative, and Technorati are in a prime position to serve advertising to a very specific demographic of publishers - bloggers.
Technorati know exacty what bloggers are talking about on a day to day basis, so in aggregate they can offer publishers targeted display advertising, at least in theory.
Also it is important to understand that instead of selling the vast amount of data they have, they are using it to provide an added value service.
From the official announcement:-
Here is a little olive branch for the guys at ePerks, an unbiased resource that could be used to present 2 sides of the current Vlad vs ePerks legal kerfuffle.
I am not going to portray Mahalo as some kind of "sacred ground", and I have been a little negative about Mahalo in the past, but it does offer ePerks the opportunity to submit links, hopefully not from anonymous sources, of people happy with their service.
Mahalo I am sure will validate links, and if they seem to be from an anonymous shill blog on WordPress.com, my hope is that they will
Search is only one way to find things. It's the most easily monetizable, so it gets the lion's share of the attention. But take a look at (and report on) what percentage of techcrunch's traffic comes from search. For the O'Reilly Radar blog, it's about 35%. Significant, sure, but hardly a sign of lack of competition. If Google absorbed both Yahoo! and Microsoft, the share of our visits coming from search would still be below 40%. (That tells you what a small share of our search traffic comes from the other guys today.) And that's just the web traffic. Count in RSS (which is much bigger than web for most blogs, including ours) and the Search share of traffic goes down to a much smaller amount. So there's not much worry about people not being able to find information.
Clearly, his minions out there are rallying behind him [...] They are trying to live off the company and raise their blog ranking. It's really disgusting.Mr Cook, what is really disgusting is that a failed startup, ePerks, is now trying to somehow recover some or all of their initial investment by taking an innocent blogger to court. The article also elaborates not only on the legal threat to Vlad, but also to Trace at Broker Science, who has already made his response.
He suggested that those taking part might be doing this for some alternative motive, purely for links.
On Google's new favicon
Sadly this isn't possible on Digg, though it would be interesting if they provided a page with the most buried or hated stories. After all, just because you don't like a story doesn't mean it is spam, but it is still news.
Jack Spirko has knocked together an interesting site where your story can appear on the front page because it is "hated" and I feel the idea is worthy of a mention.
You can see that currently the hated stories seem to only appear in the sidebar - I would love them to be integrated with the main results by default
There are a number of fundamental flaws in many of the "calculations" being floated as a business model for Twitter.
I am just going to revert to bullets to make this easier to digest.
“feel free to invite others to this room - as long as they are bloggers and/or are interested in the ProBlogger type topic I'm happy for anyone and everyone to join. I've invited all my contacts on FF. Pity there's no list of public groups for people to join.â€Whilst there isn't a public list, in many ways Google with a site search query these days provides a very real alternative.
I have just stolen/adapted that headline from Christine Comaford-Lynch of Mighty Ventures
It is the opening title of the first email that she sends to new subscribers to her email list, and goes on to say
But remember: it's not enough to just "diagnose" that pain. People have to perceive it as a problem in search of a cure. Only then will they open their wallets to get that pain removed.
and a little later on
–Find a problem that needs fixing. –Dig deep into the problem to find out what the real core need is and the best way to solve it. –Take the first step to creating that
I have learnt a huge amount from Ken Evoy over the years, he provides some of the best free ebooks to learn about affiliate marketing and pre-selling ever written.
His SiteBuildIt system has created many successful online businesses and was doing this long before WordPress became popular.
In his email to affiliates today he announced a new sales page attacking blogging head on.
Blogging has reached lemming status. Without even thinking, many small businesses equate blogging with having a Web site. This is obviously wrong for small businesses with something to sell (ex., services, e-book sellers, etc.).
But it's also the wrong choice for
I would even extend that to buying any form of paid link or sponsored review, and possibly also links from directories, social networks, blog commenting etc.
Last June I provided a very simple guide to avoid being banned from Technorati but the same principle applies to
Whilst this might be personally biased, it is my opinion that my Gary Halbert quote in my recent Players With Money Review is probably better content than 90% of what is submitted to Sphinn, and on its own might even have been front page material if posted on a blog that was actively promoting their content on Sphinn.
The whole article is better than 99% of Sphinn content
I wonder how many people on Sphinn have even heard of Gary Halbert?
It seems like the Sphinn moderators were having another hissy fit - they see an article written intended to promote a
Stumbleupon slipped out a new interface feature during the last 24 hours, and whilst I wouldn't regard it as ground breaking, it is actually useful, though they could have made it a little better.
The My Shares feature is hidden in your inbox
Clicking through reveals a history of messages you have previously received through the "Send To" interface on the toolbar. If you haven't yet viewed items that have been sent to you, they won't be shown on this page.
I must admit it was a little bit of a challenge grabbing a screenshot which didn't contain any self-promotional messages as
Whilst writing the last post about a marketing book survey I was also testing out a new Firefox plugin that is currently in beta, Zemanta
It adds editing functions to various popular online blogging interfaces, Wordpress (both .org and .com), Blogger and Typepad. These are the type of functions you could probably add a plugin for if you are using Wordpress on your own hosting, but wouldn't be available for Blogger, Typepad and Wordpress.com users.
That makes it something worth taking a careful look at for niche marketers, even if you use WordPress for most of
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that Product Launch Formula 2 would be released soon and encouraged you to watch some video and sign up for more case studies in the build-up to the launch.
I know lots of people whilst they clicked through didn't bother
I deliberately didn't hype things, and I stated then that I don't intend to offer a bonus for Product Launch Formula 2 - those that could most benefit from it honestly wouldn't need one of the many bonuses lots of people are offering.
There are people offering to create complete products for you (pay someone at
Robert Scoble asked earlier today if Twitter is Now Reliable?
I have been using Twitter a little more than normal over the last week, maybe it will last. During that time I have been looking at the reliability of consuming Twitter content via various tools (no I haven't tested everything).
Last night was actually a very good opportunity to do some data analysis, because Robert was very active on Twitter, with lots of updates in a very short period of time.
Could you follow the conversation on every platform?
The first interface I tested was the Twitter web interface.
I grabbed a
You can add your FriendFeed account to Technorati, and there are various possible methods.
Go to your account on Technorati, and use the URL for your personal lifestream on FriendFeed to start the claim process.
I did mention FriendFeed in a recent Blogcatalog post regarding their activity widgets, and have been looking at it in a little more depth.
There are lots of posts about how wonderful it is, or pointless but very few delving into some of the flaws or missing features. I know they have support and feedback on Google Groups… but I hate Google Groups, and the feedback from the groups isn't necessarily making it out into the blogosphere.
I am going to keep this a little shorter than normal, I am working with Blogcatalog who have a couple of
Regular reader Matthew mentioned the transformation of his work at home forum into a work at home social network last week and I have been nosing around a little for the last few days.
Tech bloggers enthuse about the growing number of social networks online, but there have been 1000s of social communities online for years, where people spend a huge amount of time in valuable interaction.
I would actually argue that the interaction that happens on niche forums is far more valuable than occurs on social networks such as Facebook or Myspace - the discussion groups on Facebook are almost
Dear Digg
I have built up my blog to quite a large readership by writing in depth thoughtful articles.
To be honest, I am writing this not for the traffic I haven't received, but because the stories I write about often need a different perspective, or the companies I write about are newsworthy.
Maybe my site for some reason is on autobury, though I have no idea why that might be the case. Whilst my site does cover marketing and SEO related content sometimes, I wouldn't dream of encouraging that content to be submitted to Digg in any way.
However when I write about
I normally include a disclosure at the end of my posts relating to Blogcatalog and MyBlogLog, because I want to preserve as much impartiality as possible. I have always tried to give them equal coverage, and whatever financial benefit I gain from working a little closer with Blogcatalog behind the scenes I try not to influence my opinion. If I was writing paid reviews about them, or had accepted direct advertising, I would have earned a lot more than I will probably receive long term if you factor in associated risk.
I do benefit potentially from long term promotion of Blogcatalog and
If you are a devotee of Facebook or Myspace, I have a message for you
Within "blogging" social networks I have been pushing to have a reason to add someone as a friend for a long time. Blog broadcasts, built in feed readers and OPML will eventually provide a reason to join communities.
I know that MyBlogLog are planning to also launch something similar and I have a feeling this will likely kick off more people claiming Blogcatalog is just a copycat of Mybloglog.
I first had a sneak peak at the Dashboard a few
This is something that distracts me from my long-term goals.
Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
I suppose that works for a lot of situations however there can always be complications
I
With the recently introduced API still in closed beta, I can only imaging they are going to add a little more to the information panel in the future to expose your activities in the "social cloud".
It is great that Stumbleupon are starting to add a few useful features to improve usability, so I thought I would compile a short list of some of the things that have really been bugging me over the last year. Whilst I have talked about StumbleUpon in the past, I have never written one of my "full reviews".
Tim earlier today wrote about how content can end up in "The Stumbleupon Graveyard" through various bugs. It is actually quite a major problem that can prevent exceptional content from gaining the exposure to the Stumbleupon community it might
Lets face it, I have social profiles all over the web and I am or have been an active participant in tons of conversations on blogs and forums.
3 years ago Google introduced rel="nofollow", very similar to rel="me" , rel="friend" and other XFN and FOAF standards. Today Google are championing their new API with the slogan "URLs Are People Too"
3 years ago that was true, now URLs on many (most) places where people congregate on the web are no longer "people" because in a supposed attempt to combat comment spam, Google encouraged major sites to use rel="nofollow" making the
For the last few weeks Blogcatalog have been driving full steam with new features, and today announce a partnership with SezWho, the comment and reputation ranking platform.
I have been slacking a little over the last month on the updates, so time to play catch up.
First of all some big news, Blogcatalog has now surpassed MyBlogLog in traffic levels, if you believe Alexa data. They are in exactly the same niche, and share plenty of users, so whilst I don't trust Alexa data extensively, this is a significant achievement considering it wasn't long ago when people had trouble differentiating the two services.
Lee Odden was kind enough to invite me to the Fast Company beta, I assume he just imported his contacts from LinkedIn or Gmail (I hope he didn't use Gmail because of security risks) so I have had a snoop around, added a profile and this blog to their list of feeds. From what I can tell they have been live for over 1 month now, it is possible I received invites before and didn't respond to them, along with the other 20+ invites I seem to receive to every new social networking platform.
I thought it would be worth writing
I had intended my next post to be a small tribute to the great articles that have been selected as finalists for this year's Semmys, with links to all the finalists and a subtle link through to the SEO category where one of my articles was selected as a finalist.
But that would be gaming the system based upon whatever level of popularity I have achieved within the Online Marketing community and it seems that popularity of whatever kind isn't necessarily a good thing, because the masses or individuals start accusing you of gaming the system for your own
OpenAds, formerly phpAdsNew is an Open Source advertising management script, or at least it was. For a good overview I recommend Tims excellent introduction to OpenAds.
But that has changed somewhat overnight
OpenAds are adding a free hosted version of their sofware, though it is currently in closed beta.
Even with the improvements they made with version 2.4, and certainly those changes were critical for this move to make it more resource efficient, they are going to need some hefty infrastructure in place to serve all the ad units for multiple sites.
So that is one area the new series b funding by new investor Accel Partners will be used.
The big questions are who they are going to decide to go up against, and how are they going to generate revenue?
If you have been reading my blog for a while, you will know that one of the things I love to demonstrate is how well an authority blog can rank in the search engines for high profile product launches.
It has been a while since Andy Jenkins and Brad Fallon have launched something new, Stompernet in 2005 raked in over $18M in the first 24 hours, with the help of many top name marketers working being the scenes including John Reese, Jeff Walker and Frank Kern, along with their exceptional faculty trainers.
The most important factor - despite a significant monthly fee, I have met many people who have been members since the very beginning, and are delighted to have joined at an early stage.
Stompernet has grown since then, with a relaunch in January 2007 and the introduction of many more faculty members such as Michael Campbell, Sherman Hu, Dan Thies and Leslie Rhode.
As I had hoped, ( http://community.izea.com/blog/2007/12/an-invitation-t.html ) Ted Murphy had a chance to chat with Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon
It seems Google want all links within content that "wouldn't exist without payment" to use nofollow, but seems to be focusing on services like PayPerPost, and not other forms of links which wouldn't exist without compensation.
The Winners of the Open Web Awards have been announced.
Due to my moving and connectivity problems I wasn't able to promote the voting phases but I did vote on the judges choice awards - it is interesting how voting differed between the two.
Sometimes it is the little things that make a big difference when browsing RSS feeds, such as how quickly you can visit the site in your browser to view content not shown in the RSS feed (partial feeds or sometimes things like javascript widgets), or on busy blog often the comments are just as important as the article itself.
For a while now it has been possible to open a preview of a site in Google Reader using a Greasemonkey script in Firefox, and various lightbox and open in tabs scripts also exist for Bloglines.
It is all
Back in August I reviewed Jack's Social Power Linking Home Study Course which he created with Peter Lenkefi
I claim it as a review, even though I hadn't actually seen the product. I had one major problem with it which wouldn't have worried many of my readers, but was a significant problem for me - it was a physical product.
Moving to a new house, not having an internet connection, or a telephone for that matter for 2 weeks really throws a spanner in the works, and it takes time to settle down.
I had been planning to write about Bloggers Unite about a week ago, with a followup post yesterday, but most of yesterday I was again without a connection. I gave up at 7am.
On Blogcatalog there is now a list forming of all the blogs that took part, and one way for me to give a little something back is to link to all of them.
I
A few weeks ago the Collective Thoughts team got together and compiled a bunch of tough questions we didn't expect to get all the answers for.
Almost without exception Ian Kennedy, MBL Product Manager has provided detailed answers
If you are a fan of MBL you will find some interesting stats, and some things to look forward to in the near future.
Here is an extra little titbit.
Google's Toolbar currently regards my MBL profile as more valuable content than my blog, and the same is true for my Blogcatalog profile.
Whilst the true value Google places on my site can't be
Awards such as the Open Web Awards are a great way for members of a community to show support for the free services they find valuable, and giving something back to the people who run them.
Honestly… nothing directly, unless the community owner pays you to vote for them, either directly or with prizes. I must admit I am not a big supporter of offering prizes and gifts to encourage participation. As an example I can encourage you to join the Collective Thoughts Community on MyBlogLog, but I am not going to offer a specific incentive. I have
The Open Web Awards are now open for nominations until the 6th December, and this stage of the proceeding is quite open plan.
The current 28 blogging partners (increasing daily) have been provided with a list of categories to accept nominations for, and it is down to each blog to decide how to proceed with collecting nominations, whether to make individual posts for each category, or to handle things from a single post.
Voting will take place in a much more refined manner.
In the past I have praised Mashable for being open-minded in their reporting of Web 2.0 News, and whilst they do dabble in provocative titles once in a while, coverage is unbiased.
That is why I was pleased to accept playing a role in both promoting and judging their Open Web Awards, though full details are not yet available of exactly what that will entail.
Techdirt /Message Blognation Andy Beard Collective Thoughts Gadgetell Watch Mojo How to Split an Atom
Luca Filigheddu.com Marketing Pilgrim Pulse 2.0
Mashable are looking for sponsors and more blog partners
The Open Web
Muhammad Saleem has written a great introductory guide on how to approach social media.
It is good to see it appearing as a seed story on Techmeme.
Ben wrote a related article "Are You Sabotaging Your Social Stories?" explaining why you could be wasting your efforts with Social Media Marketing.
Shana is delving into Social Media Marketing for Small Business. You don't have to be running a blog to use social media to promote your website.
Tamar just keeps on hitting home runs, but it hasn't always been that way.
If you thought social media was a quick fix for
I know that lots of my readers sell stuff through Ebay, in fact many of them make a full time living doing it.
Ebay have now launched their own Social News site to highlight the weird and wonderful best items for sale on Ebay, past and present.
What is strange is that it doesn't appear on their community "sneak peek" though it is still in beta.
There also doesn't appear to be any mention of it on the Ebay blog.
How much traffic a site like this could drive really depends on how much Ebay decide to promote it, but it if
I have written my first article over at our new "Team Blog" Collective Thoughts, and decided on a provocative title to start that will lead into a series of posts on various topics relating to social media marketing goals and performance metrics.
10 Reasons Why Social Media Marketing Sucks…
Don't forget to leave some feedback and comments as they will influence what order and the content covered in the followup articles.
I think this is one possibly for the water cooler on Sphinn, because I find it comical in a sad kind of way.
Ted Murphy rightly questions Google quite openly to explain why PPP bloggers are being punished for not using nofollow on links, yet many prominent bloggers post quite blatant pagerank passing links to their advertisers every chance they get.
Not only do they mention their advertisers in "Thanks To Our Advertisers" posts, but they also name drop them every chance they get as a form of disclosure.
As an example, almost every time PayPerPost was discussed, either Text Link Ads
Some of my readers might already be aware of this new blog on Social Media marketing based on some submissions I have made to Sphinn and Stumbleupon over the last 24 hours, but I thought it would be good to mention it here.
I am keeping this extremely simple:-
New blog = Collective Thoughts
Subscribe to this feed
If you feel like it, we would welcome new members to our new community on MyBlogLog as well.
I actually don't care about the facts in the current drama over Michael Arrington not attending 2 sessions where he was scheduled to speak, possibly because he didn't agree in person to speak.
Plausible deniability is the term given to the creation of loose and informal chains of command in governments and other large organizations. In the case that assassinations, false flag or black ops or any other illegal or otherwise disreputable and unpopular activities become public, high-ranking officials may deny any connection to or awareness of such act, or the agents used to carry
This isn't a typical "how To" article, because currently this feature doesn't exist, but it could with just a little 20% time at Google.
Whilst you can download an OPML file to import into other feed readers, or to upload to the web in another location, you can't currently access it directly.
Whilst many tech sites are lauding the new blogroll for Google Reader users, it isn't really very useful, and is without doubt extremely ugly compared to many widgets that use OPML, such as SpringWidgets, or even a work-around previously available.
For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans.
After the very controversial hit many sites took just 2 weeks ago for various degrees of selling PageRank or linking to clients, you might have thought Google would take a breather, but Google it seems hadn't even started its crackdown.
A number of sites have been hit yet again, including this one, but there is also a new element that has
I have only just found out about Gooruze, it seems only the cool kids get to beta test anything these days ;) Actually I do get to peep at exciting new stuff once in a while, but this one slipped past me.
Gooruze seems to be a misspelling of "Gurus"
Gooruze is a new social network for Online Marketers. You can post articles and news items, there are lots of discussion groups covering specific online marketing verticals.
Even the discussion groups seem to be based around a limited blogging interface.
When you publish articles, it seems as if you or anyone else have the
Google Reader now reports feed usage, and it is being suggested by a prominent Google engineer that you should look at aggregated numbers. Danny has gone into what many of the numbers mean, but he is missing out on some vital clues that are extremely revealing.
First up, for those counting stats such as Darren Rowse, Robert Scoble and Techcrunch here are my numbers.
Google Reader is currently showing 3 different feeds that are all providing the same content, which you might think would be better served as a single number as appears in Feedburner. Hopefully that will never
It is interesting how your perception of new technology can vastly depend on how you have interacted with them, and how the developers have responded. Unfortunately in the case of the recently launched niche tracking startup, "rank" has multiple definitions, including one items position related to another based upon a particular rating, or a rather offensive smell.
At its core, my first impression of SocialRank niche websites was that it was little more than a Wordpress splog scraping my content based upon keywords used and giving some kind of relevant or irrelevant ranking based upon some internal algorithm.
It is still my content
Muhammad Saleem yesterday wrote a list of the reasons that he might thumb someone down whilst using Stumbleupon. I thought it would be a good exercise to come up with as many creative reasons why someone might Stumble one of your articles.
I have been discussing various kinds of blogging community widgets as a core topic for close to 10 months now, first Mybloglog, then Bumpzee, and shortly after Blogcatalog.
From every single one of those communities I have possibly gained more traffic than I have given them in return, though it is very difficult to judge exactly when you start gaining traffic, and maybe that isn't really the point. You can't easily track RSS clicks to a site unless you destroy the SEO advantages of syndication by having nice clean links and ultimately you hope for people to discover you once, and
How does the Stumbleupon algorithm really work.? I have no idea, and I doubt anyone else really does know for sure, other than core programmers at Stumbleupon. I do know one thing though, Tim is probably the person who has spent the most time studying Stumbleupon, analytically.
Whilst I really appreciate facts, where there are a lack of facts I appreciate discussions that at least try to create models based upon extensive research data
You might find this a little geeky, but for those that like delving into how things might work, Tim's modelling of the Stumbleupon algorithm is just pure gold.
There has been a lot of criticism thrown at Blogrush and very few of the reports I have read really took any time to analyse how Blogrush is currently working using 3rd party tracking tools.
I am writing this article because I keep on being asked the same questions, not with the intention of beating the drum about Blogrush, or to promote my referral link. In fact you won't even find my referral link in this article. Go and use someone else's, or look at one of my previous articles.
I thought about adding some "notice me" links in this post
When Blogcatalog was relaunched, the links from the directory were nofollow.
In my initial review I suggested that it would be a popular decision to remove the nofollow from the links, and also use a different method of tracking clicks - Blogcatalog have to track clicks because it is part of their blog rating system, and might also help with advertising sales for premium positioning.
Most blog directories do not provide direct linking.
For better or for worse, Blogcatalog decided to use javascript and "onclick" for their tracking. There is a lot of confusion in the SEO community as to whether "onclick" passes
I have just received notification that OpenAds 2.4 has been release. This is a full public version, not a beta (does that make it Web 3.0 ? )
Primary new features include:-
OpenAds is a complete tracking solution and advertising rotation system, and best of all it is free.
It allows you to manage your advertising from one central location, avoid banner blindness and serve different
Technorati have added a new "topics" feature to their front page and menus.
It updates live, in a similar way to Truemors.com and various widgets such as the one for Netscape.com
Topics are split between Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business, and Life and apparently blogs have been selected based upon Technorati Authority, frequency of posting, use of relevant tags, links to related subject matter and general topicality.
In theory some of my content might appear within both the Technology and Business sections, but that remains to be seen.
In theory it is spam free but it is also elitist
I was just reading an interesting article on Mahalo about their absolutely amazing plagiarism checker. (yes it is just a Google search and a bit of javascript) If Jason wants something useful he should use iplagiarismcheck.com (I wrote a sponsored review about them recently, I am sure Jason can afford the unlimited package)
Anyway one paragraph interested me
One of the most important parts of the QC and serping process is making sure the sites we link to on Mahalo do not have scraped or stolen content, that is, the sites do not take content from another source without attribution
Lets start with the mosaic, as writing about it has been on my "to do" list for a few days.
Maurizo is a regular reader and talented programmer has come up with a great idea for community appreciation, a community mosaic.
I know this has taken him a great deal of time to accomplish, because he first of all asked me for a high resolution photo over a month ago.
First of all here is a baby version of his amazing mosaic
If you want to see the full size version you will have to click through to see the full community
I honestly laughed when I saw the new "Open Social Web" Bill of Rights launched yesterday, not because it isn't to some extent a useful idea, but because of one specific term…
Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others
10 months ago I fired off a heated debate about RSS sharing, and how Google with it's easy to share feeds could be killing the future of RSS. Now I say I fired it off, but honestly it would have been a storm in a teacup without Robert Scoble taking part with one of his most
This could have been a paid review through ReviewMe, it was ordered a few days ago and I just haven't had time to write something that warrants being paid for it, but I decided to write something for free. If any of the Google Spam Team are reading this article, it was not paid for in any way and your bots can't tell the difference because keyword analysis would pick up the specific words suggesting that there is some kind of disclosure for paid links.
My paid reviews are not cheap, but they are often worth it - people are paying me
I spend a fair amount each day on Facebook these days, and in part there are 2 people to blame, Sherman Hu and Tinu Abayomi-Paul.
Sherman has launched an excellent Beginners Guide To Mastering Web Basics group on Facebook
Unlike most Facebook groups, Sherman has already uploaded some real juicy video content.
Aug 30, 2007 Thurs: Uploaded 15 Videos (Web Publishing Basics:601 Series) Tip: Look for this starting video: "Web Publishing | 601.1 - Quickstart | 03'15"
Aug 28, 2007 Tues: Uploaded 9 Videos (Graphics Basics:501 Series) Tip: Look for this starting video: "Graphics Basics | 501.1 - Quickstart | 01'27"
Aug 24, 2007 Fri: Uploaded
I have spent the morning watching a number of contrasting videos which in some ways suggest that Google may have jumped the shark, and I don't fully agree with any of them. The Seth Godin Video is interesting, because he was telling Google what to do 18 months ago.
In this video Seth Godin is insightful, and explains to a bunch of Googlers all about Purple Cows and Flipping the Funnel on its side and embracing buzz marketing.
The concepts are sage advice, however there is one major pitfall.
If the perfect way to market a product is to flip
Blogcatalog have just launched an API for programmers giving extensive access to the data contained within both the user profiles and blog profiles.
The BlogCatalog REST (REpresentational State Transfer) API allows the retrieval of public user and blog data based on a set of input parameters. This page outlines the various types of requests that can be executed and provides example requests and responses.
I had a play around with it early today for the first time and a couple of bugs were cleaned up since then and I think developers will find the terms of use fairly unrestricted.
I have actually
There is only one small detail that prevents me from immediately whipping out my credit card in the next 30 seconds and buying Social Power Linking, but for many people that small detail is actually the primary reason they would make a purchase.
I have experienced some of Jacks training in the past, and it is always phenomenal, he gives so much valuable information and presents it in a way that is easy for anyone to understand. I have absolutely no doubt that Social Power Linking will be no exception to the rule.
Michelle Macphearson just released her Web 2.0 Traffic Generation Blueprint
I got to skim through this a couple of days ago and need to read it again in more depth and do a lot of planning.
It is free, and well worth downloading.
It is totally different to Stampede Secrets which I reviewed a few months back, or the Authority Black Book which I haven't reviewed, but I am sure many people have read anyway.
How can 3 ebooks from highly experienced internet marketers on Web 2.0 marketing and traffic generation be totally different, worthy of your time, and in the
News of Twitter adopting rel="nofollow" is disturbing.
Sure links from Twitter can be abused, because Twitter profiles are so heavily interlinked.
What they should have done is stuck nofollow on your "twitter blogroll" links thus making each Twitter account a little more independent and negating the benefit of building up mass friendships for more than traffic generation.
It isn't a minor thing, Twitter has just become another "Wikipedia", a black hole sucking in link juice and only allowing it to flow internally.
I would no longer class Twitter as a microblogging application, because in many ways the content you submit
Just one month ago Jason Calacanis invited me and a few bloggers he has crossed swords with in the past onto his Calacanis podcast. During that podcast I highlighted what I believe was one of the fundamental flaws with Mahalo’s long-term success, and Jason very politely rejected my advice.
Read more on Jason Calacanis Mahalo Diggbait – Lies Or Credit?…
Rose seems to think that Blogcatalog is just a MyBlogLog clone. I have just spent about 2 hours drawing up a list of the current differences between each service, that I believe is able demonstration that both services are being developed by a team that truly want to differentiate their offerings, though sometimes there is some healthy competitive overlap.
Having just come back from a week in Florida, striving to improve not only my own powers of concentration and focus, but how to grab and maintain the attention of readers and customers, for the last few days I have been thinking a little about Sphinn… some of those thoughts haven’t been pleasant, and to be perfectly honest, the good thoughts had very selfish motives.
Blogcatalog announced on their blog yesterday some fairly major changes and I just spent an hour or so looking around to get a feel for what has changed.
The first thing I suggest you do is pop over to Blogcatalog and grab a free 7 day trial of their supporters service, so you can actually try out some of these new features (today may be the last day this is available)
I promised a review of “The Attention Age Doctrine” but I thought instead I would play around with some appetisers to encourage people to take a look.
The amount of time I have been able to allocate to this has been extremely limited, as a more urgent need for my time arose on Sunday and took up a large chunk of it over the last few days.
I have a few invites to Pownce available, so if you are in desperate need to suffer even more distractions, just use my contact form or drop me an email.
Ben is one of the many great bloggers I met through MyBlogLog – we might have met anyway because blogging paths tend to cross eventually, and active blogging is actually still very much a small niche of 15,000,000 people ;)
I will leave the community of anyone who uses the mass broadcast feature
A few people have played around with it, fair enough, but this is going to be abused to hell.
Read more on MyBlogLog New Features – The Abusive and the Incomplete…
You simply must read this
There is a prize inside worth $25000 for the person who creates the most buzz about this new special report.
There are also 5 runners up prizes of $1000
Blogcatalog is slowly becoming much more than a just a blog directory and is making strides to differentiate itself from MyBlogLog and other Blog Social Networks and widgets.
Some of the things being added are almost invisible, others are much more visible and hint at how a site can leverage partnerships with other communities to broaden their reach, and provide simple feature additions that just make a site more sticky.
Providing social bookmarking buttons can be a service to your visitors, and help highlight your best content on various social networks and news services, but you must think carefully about which ones you include, and where.
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your SERPs down…
But is it all just hot air?
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Just 2 weeks ago PayPerPost launched their PayPerPost Direct service and I wrote one of my typical in-depth reviews about why I believe that this new offering really changes the paid review landscape.
Read more on PayPerPost Receives $7M Additional Funding & Launches Direct Marketplace…
Are you blogging purely to make a quick buck, or do you have long-term goals? If you have long-term goals then one of the most important aspects of your blog design isn’t advertising placement, but how you encourage people to subscribe to your blog, or sign up to your mailing list.
Maybe I should enter these lyrics into the SEO Lyrics contest
Payola makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Payola makes the world go around
It makes the world go ’round.
Everyone is slagging off Guy Kawasaki for his Truemors site (again). I think most of them need to have their head examined because the site is already a raging success and the venture is already profitable, though most of them are Tech bloggers and not SEOs or Niche Marketers.
Read more on Truemors – More Successful Than Most People Realise…
I thought I would mix things up with a few interesting videos I have been watching
First of all a short video from SMX Seattle on various things regarding duplicate content and paid links. I am not sure if there is anything new, but it certainly emphasises how you should handle syndication of your content with links back to the original.
Read more on Video Roundup | SMX Seattle | Duplicate Content | Jason Calacanis…
I know Jason Calacanis has only just launched Mahalo, but you would have though he would have taken care to ensure that everything was 100% “above board” on the day the site would be under the spotlight.
Read more on Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo – How To Build A Biased Self Propaganda Machine?…
Facebook is all the rage currently, and lots of my online friends are OOOOing and AHHHing about the cool new API, Twittering from Facebook etc, but I am feeling extremely left out because basic functions of Facebook currently make me feel like I am an inferior being.
Read more on Facebook – Are you a 2nd Class Scum of the Earth Too?…
It appears that one of my fans believes that the whole blogging world revolves around my blog, and has thus tagged me for everything from Cameron Diaz and Lindsay Lohan to careers, poetry and religion.
I have just tagged myself a SchMOe on MyblogLog
Spam – If you think someone is spamming you, tag it out loud! Internally, we like to call a user who games the system a SchMOe (Social Media Optimizer). Tag anyone who spams you with the term schmoe. Picture_13 While they have the ability to delete the tag and never see it again, WE can see it internally. As their user account racks up the schoe tag, we’ll investigate their conversations and take appropriate action.
Pay Per Post had first mover advantage within the paid review arena, and initially concentrated on providing a framework for the purchase of mass market buzz marketing. Competing services such as ReviewMe and Sponsored Reviews were launched, and these concentrated on one-to-one requests for professional reviews.
Dan from the Venture Capital Florida Blog, who is a managing partner of Inflexion Partners hinted to me in a quick email exchange that Pay Per Post had some very significant changes coming in the very near future, and he was certainly right.
Halfway through writing this review of PayPerPost Direct I
Rumours have been surfacing for the last few days that Google might be buying FeedBurner for around $100M.
Listed below you will find 7 reasons Google and Feedburner are a perfect match, and 7 equally compelling reasons we should be concerned.
Read more on 7+7 Reasons Why Google Buying FeedBurner is a Match Made in Heaven & Hell…
Eric from MyBlogLog just pinged me about an important item that I know is relevant to a number of my readers. The MyBlogLog join buttons many have in their sidebars.
Unfortunately some people decided to abuse things a little using Iframes and the join link, thus MBL were forced to switch the links off.
You can easily discover 10s, maybe even 100s of existing friends on Digg, if you only knew how and where to look.
Experienced users of social news sites such as Digg will probably find most of this content familiar, but I know many that will appreciate an important reminder.
Read more on How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had…
Yes that title makes total sense, but you will have to keep reading to find out exactly why.
How often do you read a great blog post and forget to share it with your friends? The Stumbleupon toolbar is often a long mouse move away, and most people don’t use shortcuts when browsing, because they can’t remember them, or because of conflicts between different toolbars and other applications that are running on a system by default.
Read more on StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites…
It is a rare occurrence when Google create a product, or new feature to an existing product that isn’t very good, but now they have created… Google Crap(s)
I haven’t played around with the new Google Personalized Recommendations on Google Toolbar before today, so I thought the results would be interesting.
Read more on Google Crap(s) vs StumbleUpon – Personalized Recommendations…
The moment I heard about the new Robots-Nocontent class that can be added to content, alarm bells started ringing in my ears. Whilst this can be used in a legitimate manner, it is also possible for webmasters to heavily abuse it.
Read more on Robots-Nocontent | How To Spot Abuse By Sneaky Webmasters…
Blogging experts and social media marketing experts frequently write about how important it is to build up a network of friends on social bookmarking sites, and even encourage careful gaming of the system by email and instant messenger.
Read more on Reciprocal Favoriting Gives Benefits & Adds Value…
Ben instigated a community writing project on productivity, and Dawud thoughtfully decided to encourage me to get involved, after also giving some great tips on how to be productive and stay focused.
A few days ago I saw a number of my readers had grabbed an “opp” with PayPerPost to predict the acquisition they were going to announce this week, in fact today.
Read more on PayPerPost Buys Zookoda – Maybe I Got The Jump On Techcrunch…
I have just been casually observing what has been happening with a few memes, and one of those is what is happening with Technorati Favorites.
It is one thing exchanging favorites with people, that creates some interesting OPML data that can be used for all finds of things, but it is a lot of hard work updating lists with all the people who post comments etc.
DoshDosh has a fair number of Technorati favorites, currently just over 440
Now in Technorati they provide an OPML file of your favorites
Here is mine for instance
http://feeds.technorati.com/faves/AndyBeard?format=opml
Hmm Maki’s would be
http://feeds.technorati.com/faves/kawaiikuma?format=opml
Hattip to Douglas Karr for this, also via Engtech even though I am subscribed, but I am sure he didn’t think of my evil/lazy/smart intentions. I knew about it, but reading his post clicked some brain cells back into position.
So anyway first stop was to download DoshDosh’s OPML, then import it into my Technorati Favorites.
Here is a quite interesting statistic, of the 400+ favorites I added from Maki, only 46 were already in my favorites.
356 Blogs were new additions, and 26 Technorati told me were not blogs, though they obviously were.
But I already had 276 blogs in my favorites to start with – that isn’t bloggers, but actual blogs. With some people I kindly added multiple blogs to my favorites.
I am not sure whether the maths above works out, but I now have 647 Technorati Favorites.
OPML (Right Click and Save to your HD)
Click This Link To Import To Technorati
Not everyone will hear about this much faster method, so make sure you share this with your readers. I really want to save people lots of time in checking their Technorati Favorites all the time.
Also not everyone will reciprocate a Favorite – that is one of the reasons I have added an RSS feed of my favorites in the sidebar. People get picked up as the occasional link from me, and come visiting, and sometimes add me back – not always but it certainly helps.
There are lots of RSS plugins and widgets, I know they also work well on Blogspot.
It is not something I suggest everyone includes on a professional blog.
Once you get lots of favorites, it is hard work managing them, so this solution for those interested is much much faster.
It is quite possible I have missed a few people out, so make sure you favorite me, and I will post a new list in one week’s time.
Also make sure you subscribe so you can get the update when published.
There is a purpose to this, I needed an OPML file of like minded people to do some additional testing of Blogrovr. An OPML of around 200 sites just wasn’t enough, and I wanted interesting sites on varied topics, not just the search and internet marketing feeds I have in my feedreader.
You can also give Blogrovr a try using my OPML file.
Certainly not everyone who has exchanged favorites with DoshDosh linked through to the original, post, or lots of people are not being indexed correctly by Technorati.
Read more on Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?…
For quite some time, Technorati has allowed you to find out how many other blogs have linked through to a particular post, they even provide live widgets.
Technorati will also allow you to search a particular blog regarding a keyword and pull up related content.
There are 2 extremely useful features that Technorati has missing, that are vital for quality search results.
I am going to cover this first, because this is a brand new feature introduced sometime yesterday, and I am probably one of the first to notice it, and happen to have convenient screenshots taken just 23 hours apart.
In my last post on Google Blog Search, I used the following screenshot, grabbed just before I published my post.
Now if you look at the result at the bottom of the screenshot, you will see my own listing, which had a fair amount of longevity.
Publishing the post displaced my old blogsearch content from the listings, maybe permanently if Google decides that that listing is more relevant, or maybe until it is no longer given an extra benefit due to freshness.
I only have one listing, and it is my most current or the one with most authority – the balance seems to normally tip around the 4 or 5 day mark.
Here is a new listing for the same search taken 14 hours ago, just 23 hours after my followup post on Google Blogsearch was made.
You will notice there is now an extended results link. That signifies that my site has additional information about this topic.
For a casual searcher things like that are not significant, but for someone like myself who uses Blogsearch as a serious tool to find relevant content, it is extremely useful.
The fact that Google also knows about that additional content on my site, just hours after publishing is also extremely significant, because that can also have a significant blogsearch weighting factor. If someone has mentioned Blogsearch multiple times, they might have more authority on the subject
That additional authority on a particular subject doesn’t seem to have any weighting on Technorati… at all. Technorati authority seems to mainly based on total number of links, and not based on authority of a particular subject.
As an example, Technorati doesn’t think I am much of an authority on [tag]dofollow[/tag] or [tag]tagging[/tag] – it is only recently I have moved up from having “a little authority” to having “some authority”, no matter what the subject.
Also of note is that Dougal Campbell isn’t looked on as an authority on plugins for Wordpress, and his recent post that I linked through to from my Ultimate Guide to DoFollow Plugins isn’t listed in a search for Dofollow as an authority.
Yes I know that Wordpress developers were removed from the Top100 because they dominated the Top10, but that shouldn’t mean they have no authority.
If you want Wordpress news “straight from the horses mouth”, don’t use Technorati, as an example a search for Wordpress 2.2 news with a lot of authority will not bring up recent developments, which I know Dougal has posted about, and so has Matt.
Back to Google Blog Search…
All things being equal (which they never seem to be), I should always outrank Techcrunch or Problogger when discussing something like Blogsearch, but there are other factors, as you can see by the fact that Alister’s blogsearch post on Problogger.net is still outranking my post with an almost identical title (though it does have more words in it)
Did you notice I am outranking the Bruce Clay blog? – The Lisa posted linking through to Alister on Problogger within a few minutes of my post – I am not sure who was actually first to post.
Alister’s article on Darren’s site so far has had 64 references, compared to the 2 references I had from Matt at Globally Local and Dan at The Wrong Advices.
Another thing I noticed for the first time is that Google also have introduced supplemental results for the references. The Lisa was linked by Danny Sullivan in his roundup. If you look at the references you can see one listing, plus supplemental results.
Now for anything to do with RSS, I don’t want to read supplemental results. The feed I am using at the bottom of this page would be useless if it contained supplemental results.
The number of items found on Google are not affected by duplicates, so it is a real number. Technorati’s numbers tend to be inflated by the duplicates.
I would like a listing that includes the additional references that were part of the extended results, so if a site has 10 documents that are looked on as being or suitable authority, all of them will be shown.
If I am trying to mix RSS content, I want the “real deal” and not just the most recent item.
It is a shame so many of the people linking through to Alister’s guest post are attributing it to Darren.
Now the even more worrying thing I have seen from all the people linking through to Alister’s post is that many want to increase the size of their blogroll, and I am sure 95% of them have no clue about linking structures or the fact that blogroll links also appear on all their duplicate content pages.
That is why I originally took the time to write a post in response to Alisters, because in all things there has to be a balance.
The majority of bloggers don’t research what they write, or don’t research using a blog search engine that brings up results based on the authority of the content, and not the historical authority of the blogger.
Read more on Exclusive: Google Blog Search Extended Results | Supplemental Results…
Well more to the point, he asked me some damn tough questions that made me think for more than 5 minutes before answering them. Actually I spent quite some time on the reply, and it wasn’t as straight forward as I was expecting.
For a long time I have been promising myself to build a community site for the Dofollow movement I strongly support, but it just wasn’t happening fast enough to support the growing community.
Read more on Exclusive: No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Bumpzee Community…
I guessed about a week ago that Robyn might be going to work for MyBlogLog as their community manager from reading Robyn on Twitter and matching that up with hints on the MyBlogLog blog. The dates gave it all away.
When Blogcatalog announced their entry into the social network of blogging I almost totally ignored it. Oops…
In June 2005 Brad Jasper sold Blogcatalog to Jacob Gower
Stampede Secrets 2.0 is unlike any internet marketing report or ebook I have read…
Ok, for the rest of you lets get on with the review…
Maki from DoshDosh is one of my favorite emerging bloggers and it seems that the talent is being noticed, as this post on 10e20 seems to show.
As you would expect from Maki, this article really does go into great depth on how to use Reddit effectively and ethically.
Read more on Maki From DoshDosh on 10e20 – Reddit – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About It…
One of the most frequent questions regarding MyBlogLog is how to use it effectively to gain something… anything… from taking part.
To get the most from MyBlogLog you have to use it as an aid in finding blogs that are interesting, and then actually join the conversation on the other blogs. Spam message either through MBL, or on a blog you visit aren’t going to bring you subscribers, future business partners, and friends.
I am sure such an application is just around the corner, and as I speculated about it in a comment thread over on Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim, I just wanted to have a record of “I called it first”
It was good while it lasted, and provided needed functionality to LinkedIn, and was widely supported by open networkers on the social networking platform.
During a routine check of functionality I discovered that the “get” method of form completion which was used by the fast connection solution is now being blocked, and thus have made a notification post on the LinkedIn Answers service within “Using LinkedIn”, and have also changed the graphic that was being served to a number of sites to hopefully notify them of the change.
Read more on Exclusive: LinkedIn Kill LinkedIn Fast Widget Functionality…
If an affiliate created a blog and fed a datafeed to that blog, a large proportion of the blogosphere would regard that blog as a splog, especially if it was on blogspot.
Mashups utilizing 3rd party services are a growing and competitive market, and only people who are fast on their feet get the chance to grab mind share with early adopters. Rarely is there a chance to take advantage of an API – before it is available.
Read more on MyBlogLog API – How Far Forward Are You Thinking…
How many blogs link to Technorati on every post they publish? Many blogs also use followable links to social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, and social news sites such as Digg on every single page of their site? Google in their recently disclosed patent are saying that it could be a negative indication of quality.
Read more on Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?…
I have been involved a little in the conversation over on Tony Hung’s blog regarding A List Bloggers, and Tony has actually just made a clarifying post. I thought these screenshots from Twitter would bring a few smiles for all involved.
How many people are using Twitter for more than saying what they just ate or where friends can meet them? Lots of people are certainly using Twitter to express their ideas, and often link to blog posts that are related to their business, or opinion.
Twitter is thus being used for WOMM (Word of Mouth Marketing), and should be subject to the same ethics rules and recommendations as blogging. (note: I am not a lawyer)
Despite the fact that Andy Beal thought it was a pain to sign up for the new Jubii service (it seriously is), I thought I would give it a try and give some feedback – 10GB of free storage could be useful, depending on usage restrictions.
The NY Times piece didn’t really give me any indication as to whether this service was just intended to be some kind of integrated Myspace, or dare I say it, something useful…
Read more on Jubii Overview – Terms of Service and “The Invisible Captcha”…
Technorati simply can’t cope with new forms of blogging and RSS feed generation. I am not talking about splogs, which seem to still be rampant, and reblogs, likewise, but totally legitimate alternative unique content sources that are effectively blogs.
Read more on Technorati Can’t Cope With Twitter, coComment, Blog Networks, and Blog Rolls…
Are you sick of regurgitated lists full of tips from people who have never made any real money online?
My respect for Rich Schefren started with one of the smallest details possible, actually one I had the cheek to criticise John Reese about not too long ago. In fact I would say 95% of Internet Marketing guru blogs overlook this one small factor.
Rich Schefren's blog uses SEO friendly permalinks
If you are on lots of internet marketing mailing lists, I am sure you have received a few emails about Rich Schefren over the last 6 months. You might have even
Just added a new toolbar button to my toolbar buttons site for Twitter addicts.
There has been so much talk about Freebase.com, but Twitter.com seriously should have some kind of health warning – so many people are becoming addicted.
You would think it is impossible for one small detail to have a dramatic effect on whether a story is promoted on Digg. Here is how it happened, decide for yourself…
Read more on Could Just 1 Character Turn A 4 Day Old News Story Into A Front Page Digg?…
I have been using StumbleUpon a fair amount over the last couple of months, usually at the end of a day when I just want to wind down or gather ideas for site designs.
Visitors to the front page of my blog will now see a spicypage widget – yes that seems to be correct capitalization and yes the widget is a little ugly… or maybe we should just say unique.
Do you worry about the danger of giving a 3rd party service control over the most important part of your blogging business – your subscribers?
Up until today there were only 2 realistic alternatives to retain some control over your RSS subscribers while using Feedburner for collecting stats.
Read more on The Perfect Way to Use Feedburner Without Giving Them Your Subscribers?…
This seems to be a growing trend, and so many bloggers are falling for the linkbait, poorly researched content, and unethical marketing practices.
Reactionary development of computer products and services can prove to be a disaster both for development cycles and the feature set of a product. An extremely careful balance has to be achieved between supporting the wishes of hardcore supporters of a product, and achieving core goals and maintaining a development schedule.
Read more on Wolfpack of Lies – Hack Baiting Web 2.0 Startups For Diggs…
So Shoe got banned from MyBlogLog and now there is some kind of outcry from people wanting him reinstated. It is actually a great way to grab attention – I think every one of his “exploit” posts has gained more Diggs than the original announcement of the Yahoo MyBlogLog acquisition on the MyBlogLog blog.
Lots of people are aware that there was a problem over the weekend with co-author requests being sent out, and some forced adding as authors to communities.
It was a long weekend in the US, but it seems the MyBlogLog team have already fixed it, rolled back any changes, and hopefully it won’t happen again.
Read more on MyBlogLog Spam Hack Update & Widget Performance | Linkbait Idea…
I saw a few posts about MyFeedz yesterday and checked it out, and I noticed Robert just gave Myfeedz a test. He is a hardcore feed reader, so I value his opinion (even though we don’t always agree on everything).
I think Robert is being extremely polite about MyFeedz
Read more on MyFeedz – Should This Really Be Called a Feed Reader?…
Google might well have goofed again with Gmail domain registrations. I live in Poland so this is quite comical for me, and thus the comical headline. The Polish court system isn't quite as well organised as the US, but decisions are often made faster and a lot cheaper. What that means to Google is that they can't throw a fit and expect a small group of poets to concede defeat, and that their size as a company might not give them any advantage (unless they know someone who can influence decisions).
I am not a lawyer, and the following is for
Google Reader is one of the easiest to use RSS Readers currently available. The code is fairly light, thus allowing you to skim read 100s of RSS articles quickly. One of its many failings however, which I have pointed out previously was the lack of reporting subscriber counts to Feedburner.
Read more on Google Reader News and When Will Google Create a Social Network?…
Salmon Protocol Endpoints & Canonicalization
This blog post mainly comprises of a message I just sent to the Salmon Protocol mailing list, but I have expanded on it a little.
Salmon Protocol is actually one of the most exciting things that will be used by Google Buzz & theoretically could dramatically make huge changes to the way communication flows around all kinds of web content, whether comments on blog posts, votes & likes on Youtube videos, maybe blog posts themselves, video replies etc.
Read more on Salmon Protocol Endpoints & Canonicalization…