Finding The Value In Google Buzz
When Google Wave came out I did not post anything because I really had nothing to say – like everyone I was excited to get my invite, but after signing up and feeling like I was part of a super exclusive club. Like most everyone else, I was disappointed at how few people there were [...]
Goo.gl & Fb.me Are Amateurs, Bit.ly Goes Pro
Both Google and Facebook revealed today, to the shock and titillation of many online observers, that they are now offering their own url shortening services. Goo.gl and Fb.me respectively will be used for Google products and on Facebook to shorten links. Fb.me is already being seeing on Twitter.
Bit.ly has responded by unveiling their Pro service [...]
Is Microsoft Bing the Next Avril Lavigne?
Microsoft Bing, this company’s latest foray into the search world, might be less innovative then it is purported to be.
First there is the recent attention given to the similarities of Kayak, a travel search engine and Bing’s own travel search feature were, according to Wired Magazine, “uncomfortably close”. Whitney Burke, director of Bing, has denied [...]
Every social networking site + Google vs facebook
They all knew that there was no competing with facebook under the current circumstances. So now all the social networking sites have teamed up together (imagine those meetings!) and have created OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for developing social applications. According to Google:
The OpenSocial standards are designed to evolve through contribution from the [...]
Learning about Google PR from Freddy Kreuger
The recent “crisis” over the Google PR loss of many websites and blogs has caused many SEOs and bloggers alike to question the real value and accuracy of PR (though many in the SEO and SEM industries and otherwise have been thinking this for a long time). Some major sites have had their PR “fixed” [...]
