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Entries from April 2009

Facebook Opening Up to Developers

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments

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In the Wall Street Journal this morning, there is this:
Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans to open up core parts of its sites — namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles — to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of […]

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Tags: Social Networking · Web 2.0 · Web Marketing · Web Strategy · facebook

Google Yourself, and Don’t Like What You See?

April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

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Let’s face it: we all Google our names every once in a while.  And it’s sometimes like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates where at times you don’t know what (results) you’re going to get.  We had a potential client a while back who wanted to procure our services in Search Engine Optimization to help “push […]

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Tags: Blogs · Google · Search Engine Marketing · Search Engine Optimization · Search Listings · Social Networking · Web 2.0 · facebook · twitter

Twitter

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments

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The New York Times wrote a nice piece on Twitter, the ubiquitous social application being used by everyone for everything.  At first, I felt “tweeting” was a little silly and at a 140-character limit, not something most people would want to be reading.  Plus, Facebook already had status updates.  It was essentially the same thing, and […]

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Tags: Social Networking · Web 2.0 · Web Marketing · Web Strategy · microblogging · twitter

Google is Search Share King & the Microsoft-Yahoo Talk

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments

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All the renewed discussions of a Microsoft-Yahoo partnership only put in stark relief the dominance that Google has over the entire search universe.    According to Nielsen Online, in this previous month of March, Google had 64.2 percent of all searches on the internet happening through their search engine.  Yahoo was #2, at 15.8 percent; MSN […]

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Tags: Search Engine Marketing · Search Listings · Web Marketing · Web Statistics · Web Strategy