Quite a busy day today:
- Yahoo bought Zimbra for $350 million dollars.
- AOL decided to move their headquarters to New York.
- Microsoft got a decision in Europe.
- Lots of TechCrunch 40 coverage is up on techcrunch.com.
- The New York Times is opening up large quantities of its premium content for free.
- Apple is hosting a press event in London tomorrow.
- Oh yeah, SCO filed for bankruptcy on Friday. Not to editorialize, but… personally I’m glad.
So a pretty busy day. Oh, and Nathan was among the first people to spot something new from Google: the ability to make presentations. Also, Google Docs and Spreadsheets has been renamed to Google Docs. You can check the official posts about the new presentation software from Google. I’m playing with it now; it looks like it can import PowerPoint. It’s available in 25 languages, multiple people can collaborate at once, and it’s got Google Talk […]
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Directory submissions are important for your search engine rankings as I’ve already discussed this in Importance of submitting to Web Directories. Since almost all online directories are human-edited (humans decide whether your link should be there or not) your primary tasks is to convince that unknown editor that your website deserves to be included. How […]
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Spotlight on Search Interview with Chris Sherman, Executive Editor, Search Engine Land
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Online Marketing Blog is very fortunate this week to have a special interview with Chris Sherman, Executive Editor at Search Engine Land and long time observer/analyst/practitioner/advocate in the search engine marketing industry. Chris has been a instrumental influence in the growth of the search marketing industry with his 10+ year old search consulting practice, past involvement with Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies as well as his new role as Executive Editor at Search Engine Land, running the Search Marketing Now webcasts and helping to program SMX conferences.
In this interview, Chris shares how he became involved with the search marketing industry (get ready for some SEM history people), challenges with building a new search marketing publication and conference, what’s different about SMX and how he works with Danny Sullivan programming events. The next Search Marketing […]
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I’ve been reading about Blogrush all weekend, and sorry I’m gonna call it as I see it. This looks like a late night informercial combined with an Amway pyramid scheme, complete with “but wait there’s more …” taglines. Don’t believe me check out the video below …
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