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User generated content seems to be a pendulum-swing against the 1980s and ‘90s-style elitism that had all aspects of the media, including the web, tucked away in the firm grasp of a small, skilled group. Now, the opposite is true: In no other public way can the regular folks you see promoting themselves on Bebo or dishing out ...
Seattle Internet startup Trailfire is attempting to blaze a path through the web bookmarking community and straight into your disorganized life. Besides a misleading appeal to pyromaniacs, the service offers some features that are unique, straightforward to use, and potentially very advantageous. Trailfire is essentially a bookmark plug-in for yo...
The user-submitted, Web 2.0 world is, in theory, built upon the idea of a democratic, free-flow of news and ideas: free of the framing, restraint and editorial control of the mainstream media. Unfortunately, much has been made recently of the not-so-egalitarian power structure that exists on bookmarking sites such as Reddit and, particularly, Digg.With an estimated ...
"This site is blocked because its content may be offensive to the political, moral, or religious values of the United Arab Emirates."Last year, two talented young Americans left their home in Seattle for a one-year stint in Dubai at a TV startup. They were homesick and hurtling from the culture shock, both on the street and in the workplace. Hungry to reconnect and shivering ...
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There's no doubt that naming a business, particularly an online business, is an incredibly frustrating task. A number of parallels can be drawn between this process and the web design hangups Matt discussed in July. Recently, a new friend from San Jose's SES show, John Anderson, ...
After more than 100 resumes, 20 interviews (including a few grueling ones), we've narrowed down our candidates to 5 standouts. This diverse group will be asked to write a blog entry over the weekend and submit them to us on Monday morning, at which point, we'll let you vote on which blog entry you like best. The entries will be anonymized, but they're all on a similar topic (though I expect to ...
This morning, Mystery Guest made an appearance in Cranium's new online version of their Pop 5 Game. It's a take on guessing pop culture references based on visual clues and the web team has done a great job making it into a Flash game. ...
Three of the top six results at Google are user-hijacking, cloaked re-directions to low quality ads disguised as SERPs, i.e. Note that the UCLA page goes to a listing at Jercys.co...
Google has been using "onebox" results for travel related searches since at least October of 2005. I'm forced to wonder if, during the entirety of that period, Google's been sending the default link to Expedia. For example: I searched for Seattle to New York and got:...
I recently had the opportunity to renew 1000 of my spam domains.Since the domains only cost me 99 cents each when I bought them and renewal was nearly $6 at the time, I decided it wasn't worth it.In fact, my evil plan was that I was going to simply let these sites expire and then buy them back once they expired and went into the domain pool...Imagine my surprise...
Every industry has its own jargon, and SEO is no exception. Since there are no interviews scheduled today and I actually have some down time (shhhh, don't tell Rand, or he'll make me scrub his Pumas again), I thought I'd share my picks for SEO terms that make you go "Huh?" These are terms that almost always require some sort of explanation, since the words associated with the ideas or ph...
Barely had time to read it, but I have to share - Top 10 Business Mistakes Search Marketing Firms Make. Which ones am I guilty of? #3 - Their Business Doesn’t Scale #7 - They Rely On One “Expert” to Provi...
Almost everyone in the industry who's had a chance to interact one on one with a Googler in the past 6 months has probably noticed that it "feels" different from the interactions of the past 3 years. Robert Scoble did a good job describing it with regard to his recent visit to the 'plex...
Today I'm going to sappify (yes, I just made up a word. Deal with it!) this blog. Why? Well, first of all I'm currently the only female SEOmoz blogger, and even though I tend to fall more on the tomboy side, I can still girly it up a bit from time to time. Secondly, work has been going really well for me lately, which caused me to reflect on exactly why I'm so happy with how things are going. Beho...