Eric Lander has a great blog post about Sphinn. If you have not heard of Sphinn.com, Sphinn is a “News, Discussion Forums & Networking for Search & Internet Marketing Professionals” site. It’s Danny Sullivan’s social networking site for internet marketing professionals. [Read more…]
Digg Down Today and Other Social Media Revelations
For many years now, I have always been a fan of creating custom, unique 404 error pages. I have also, at the same time, been rather annoyed that a site as large as Digg can consistently serve up an error page like the one below. [Read more…]
What Does Social Media Have to do with Search? Plenty
Back in the “dark ages” of search engine optimization, way back a few years ago, actually, we created content on our websites. We then paid attention to on-page optimization, like optimizing our title tags, our body copy, and we mentioned our keywords in the copy. Linking campaigns were important, and we used to get lots of links from website directories and we did link exchanges. Do you remember that time? [Read more…]
PR Newswire and CSRWire Develops Social Network for Corporate Social Responsibility Experts
PR Newswire‘s ProfNet expert network has partnered with CSRwire.com, the Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire, to form a social network for people who are experts in corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. This new social network will allow corporate social responsibility experts to congregate and share your expertise with your peers and with the media. [Read more…]
Sway Social Media Marketing Company to be Acquired by Cornerworld
Cornerworld Corporation has signed a letter of intent to purchase Sway, Inc., a social media marketing company that sells digital media tools to advertisers. The terms of the Letter of intent states that Cornerworld would acquire 100 percent of Sway for $30 million through a combination of cash and Cornerworld Corporation stock. [Read more…]
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to Keynote South by Southwest Interactive Festival
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will keynote the fifteenth annual SXSW Interactive Festival, also known as South by Southwest. This year it’s being held March 7th to March 11th in Austin, Texas. Mark Zuckerberg will speak on Sunday, March 9th, at 2pm. Sarah Lacy, who is an author, a BusinessWeek columnist, and the co-host of the Yahoo Finance “TeckTicker” program will host an on-stage interview with Mark Zuckerberg. [Read more…]
Top 10 Blog Posts about Mixx for 2007
Since we are winding down 2007, I thought it would be appropriate to put together what I thought are the top 10 blog posts about Mixx.com that have been written in 2007. Certainly there have been a lot of interesting blog posts about Mixx, but these are certainly the best ones. [Read more…]
Top 10 Blog Posts about Sphinn in 2007
Since we are winding down the year of 2007, I thought it would be appropriate to put together what I thought are the top 10 blog posts about Sphinn that have been written in 2007. Certainly there have been a lot of interesting blog posts about Sphinn. [Read more…]
Los Angeles Times Takes Equity Stake in Mixx, Integrates with LATimes.com
The Los Angeles Times has struck a deal with Mixx.com to take an equity stake in the company and has integrated the Mixx social media tools at Latimes.com. [Read more…]
Raxxle Beta Availability of Social Networking Community Using Facial Recognition
Raxxle.com announced at the Ad:Tech Conference that they’re releasing its new social networking community for beta testing. Powered by patented RaxxleMatch Technology(TM), the site adds the ability to find a member’s “twin” among other users of the community. RaxxleMatch technology uses proprietary facial-recognition software to perform complex analyses of facial characteristics. [Read more…]