It’s no surprise that the first week into the year our RSS readers, twitter streams, and Facebook walls have been overflowing with posts looking back on 2009 and looking ahead to 2010. Throw the Google Nexus in the mix and it was nearly impossible to find a signal shrouded in all the noise, but believe it or not this week actually had a decent chunk of decent posts. 2009 and Looking Ahead to 2010 While you’ve been pelted in the…
It’s been a long journey since I started in the search marketing industry and over the years I have had the chance to meet and interact with a number of great search and social marketers. Many of whom I have come to look up to in one way or another. Each of them bring upon their own talents and expertise. However, when I think of all of the different people I interact with on Twitter, or Facebook, or LinkedIn I…
Earlier this week Google announced it’s partnership with a number of online music sources such as Myspace and Lala to provide searchers with new music search results that include music samplings. However, it appears that this exciting new feature came at a cost. Avid music searchers like me may recall that oftentimes when you would search for an artist you would get the Google Music result for the artist. The result would provide you with info on the artist, related…
You might recall earlier this year when I mentioned the opportunity to reach search geek nirvana at the SEO Dojo. At the time one of my fellow search geeks David Harry, AKA TheGypsy, had begun beta testing a little community called the SEO Dojo and what was once a small group of search geeks, has now blossomed into a full blown community of SEO’s. As of today, it has shed it’s Beta skin and is now open to the public….
Tomorrow one of the largest earthquake drills in California history will take place. An estimated 6.6 million people statewide will participate, with roughly 675,000 of them hailing from Orange County. While the bulk of the participants will simply be doing a typical drop, cover, hold drill, the Orange County Register reported that many O.C. organizations will be doing more. But if that weren’t enough OCReggie, the Orange County Register’s twitter account, asked its followers what they thought about posting simulated…