1. Utah Social Media Club Awards 2009 - What a Great Time!  permalink

Utah Social Media Club Awards 2009 - What a Great Time!
NewspaperGirl / NewspaperGirl

I attended the social media awards last night near Salt Lake City Utah. It was a fabulous event and many of my favorite people were there. I was so excited when Nate (@BigBags) won. He was pretty blase about it though (just kidding). Others include Jordan Kasteler (@utahSEOPro), Thom Allen (@ThomAllen) Rachael Herrscher (@todaysmama) and so [...]

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Utah Social Media Club Awards 2009 - What a Great Time! 2009 Utah Social Media Awards recipients announced   —  Utah’s best and brightest social media practitioners gathered Nov. 6 to recognize excellence in new media The world’s first Social Media Club awards event was held in Utah on Nov. 6, 2009. The Social Media Club of Salt Lake City began efforts to present the Utah Social Media Awards earlier this spring. Those efforts culminated in presenting ...

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Utah Social Media Club Awards 2009 - What a Great Time! Who benifits most from Social Media, or, who should not engage with Social Media   —  Interesting post by Luke at OutSocialTimes (who I’ll be meeting shortly at Monitoring Social  Media 09, in 10 days) on why some companies should Not Use Social Media - and it ties into another thought that is seemingly unrelated, but not.

2. NYO owner tried to get NYT's Sorkin to take editor job  permalink

NYO owner tried to get NYT's Sorkin to take editor job
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3. Fort Hood shootings put Twitter lists to the test  permalink

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4. Think The Droid Launch Was A Let Down? Not So Fast.  permalink

Think The Droid Launch Was A Let Down? Not So Fast.
Www.techcrunch.com

Yesterday I detailed my quest to find the throngs of Droid fans who had woken up at the crack of dawn to grab a place in line before Verizon unleashed the phone to the masses. Yet despite reports of lines elsewhere, I failed — the Verizon store in Palo Alto was a ghost town, as was the Best Buy down the street. Some commenters took my story ...

5. Microformats: What, How, and Why  permalink

Microformats: What, How, and Why
Www.vanseodesign.com

You’ve heard the term, but do you know what microformats are? Do you know how to use them or even why you should? Microformats are relatively easy to use. In fact if you can code a web page you already have the skills. The goal of this post is to introduce you to the what, how, and why of microformats and point you in the right direction so ...

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6. Would LIS Students Help Save DMOZ?  permalink

Gwen / Internet News

Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ Solution Eric Ward, Search Engine Land (Nov 3) Eric Ward speaks as a link builder with an educational past in library/information science in proposing a way to save the Open Project Directory...

7. Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does.  permalink

Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does.
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Last month, Apple rejected the Someecards iPhone app because it contained satirical comedy about public figures. After attempting to make their case and getting stonewalled, Someecards eventually gave into Apple and removed the offending cards which made fun of Hitler and Roman Polanski, among others. Apple swiftly approved the app and all was ...

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Will Apple Approve or Reject the Spotify App?   —  Update: Awesome Approved There's a lil bita buzz in the twitter and blogosphere today over the whole spotify app approval thing with Apple and iTunes. To be honest, I've no idea what's going to happen - I don't know, Apple top execs do, Spotify insiders prolly have an inkling ( and a ...

8. LeapFish in Real Time  permalink

Gwen / Internet News

Real-Time Search Engine LeapFish Leaps into the “Living Web”, Altsearchengines (Nov 5) Leapfish, which made a splash a while back for searching while you typed, has "unveiled the new multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform that gives consumers...

9. SOMEWHAT FRANK  permalink

SOMEWHAT FRANK
Somewhatfranktidbits.com

“ $490 Million was dropped into casual gaming last year in the United States. Sloane Kelley (@sloanekelley) at #Geekend2009

10. IBM’s Steve Mills on RealTime  permalink

IBM’s Steve Mills on RealTime
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As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we’re seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. And while there ...

11. Lookery's Scott Rafer: Advice in the Aftermath  permalink

Lookery's Scott Rafer: Advice in the Aftermath
Readwriteweb / ReadWriteWeb

After successfully selling MyBlogLog to Yahoo, it was surprising to see Lookery founder Scott Rafer write a blog post announcing his company's "orderly shutdown" . In heartbreaking detail he took full responsibility for the company's demise saying, "In chronological order, the sins Lookery committed under my leadership were continuing our ...

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Lookery's Scott Rafer: Advice in the Aftermath Dicing into Facebook Ads   —  If you are an advertiser who wants to drive large volumes of traffic to your site, there are two important things you are probably looking for:  reach and ease of implementing your campaign.  Facebook meets these qualifications.  It is currently the third largest site online with 125MM visitors in September and it is quickly approaching parity ...

12. Speaking at Pubcon  permalink

Speaking at Pubcon
Dustin / WebConnoisseur

Pubcon is always a great conference and tends to attract more practitioners then some of the other major search conferences, which is something I highly value. I’ll be speaking at Pubcon next week on UGC SEO (optimizing user-generated content to drive large volumes of natural search traffic). Surprisingly, this is my first time speaking at [.

13. CraigsList Warns re Affiliate Scammers – Tells How to Bust Them  permalink

Affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com

I think (hope) most affiliates know that they aren’t supposed to do affiliate marketing on Craigslist. Not only is it against Craigs TOS, but many affiliate networks prohibit CL marketing and will withhold your commissions.

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CraigsList Warns re Affiliate Scammers – Tells How to Bust Them Affiliate networks don't like Craigslist   —  This is a report showing how much money I've made at Commission Junction in the 5 days that I have been using the service. This was acquired with a minimal amount of effort on my part.

14. Pack Windbreaker  permalink

Pack Windbreaker
Www.scottevest.com

The Pack Windbreaker combines all of the gadget-carrying functionality you have come to expect from SCOTTEVEST/SeV in a lightweight, packable, water-resistant windbreaker. This design is so versatile you can fold it into itself and toss it into your carry-on, golf bag, glove compartment or even the pocket of your SeV Travel Vest! It's the perfect ...

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15. Services made flesh: 10 weird – and not so weird – “avatar” gadgets  permalink

Services made flesh: 10 weird – and not so weird – “avatar” gadgets
Www.crunchgear.com

The dawn of the 21st century brought us a problem: we had lots of data, but no real way to bring that data into the real world. We could feasibly lug laptops and phones around, but did they ever do exactly what we needed them to do? Don’t answer that.

16. SERP Click Through Rate of Google Search Results – AOL-data.tgz – Want to Know How Many Clicks The #1 ...  permalink

SERP Click Through Rate of Google Search Results – AOL-data.tgz – Want to Know How Many Clicks The #1 ...
Www.redcardinal.ie

Posted in: Google, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engines, Statistics by Richard Hearne on August 12, 2006 Well after some gentle persuasion of MySQL the AOL-data.tgz files have surrendered some interesting, if not wholly unexpected, information about the relative strengths and click through rates of SERP positions.

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Even more music for you to find with Google search   —  Last week, we launched a new music search feature, which helps you search and discover millions of songs with a simple Google search. When you search for an artist, song, album or even a few lyrics, you'll find links to our partner sites — putting you just one click away from listening to and purchasing the music you're looking for.

Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable
Google Position One Accounted for 75% of Clicks #ajaxserps Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz ::   —  Google shows about ten Sesame Streets logos over three days for their 40th anniversary. Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL and others dressed up for Halloween. Google's home page fade adds "this space left blank," and it is ridiculous. AdSense is testing out a new interface. AdWords keeps banning advertisers. We got the detailed November 2009 Google ...

17. Take what you can get  permalink

Take what you can get
Seth Godin / Seth

When you're just starting out or when your organization is struggling or when the economy isn't hot, it's very tempting to take what you can get. You just graduated from law school and you have a lot of debt and the best job you can get is doing collections work. Should you take it? Your consulting firm is organized around providing high-value ...

18. Den danske pladebranche og IFPI opgiver deres jagt mod private fildelere  permalink

Den danske pladebranche og IFPI opgiver  deres jagt mod private fildelere
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Politiken kan i dag rapportere, at pladebranchen og IFPI efter mange års forfejlet kamp mod fildeling har opgivet af retsforfølge private fildelere. I 3 ud af 4 sager er fildelerne nemlig blevet frikendt - det er kun i en sag hvor fildeleren selv indrømmede forbrydelsen, at der blev dømt til IFPI’s fordel.

19. Blogging is Rocket Science  permalink

Www.problogger.net

Do you ever have those moments when seemingly random, unrelated thoughts kind of merge together in your mind? This happened to me a couple of weeks ago.

20. The October, 2009 Issue of the IFLA Journal is Now Available  permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

Access the Complete Issue (35.3) (PDF) This Issue (full text online, free) includes: + Editorial: Reading, Information Literacy and Professional Development +Reading Sources and Reading Spaces in Honduras + Information Literacy and Scholarly Investigation: a British perspective + Our Space: professional development for new graduates and ...