This isn’t the first time I’ve brought up this potential exploit. I mentioned it briefly in my post The Rise and Fall of Twitter, but this is the first time I’ve seen the concern since, and because I so blindly fell into the trap again I feltt it was worthy enough to write about. With Twitter going more mainstream it seems that everyone is jumping on the twitter bandwagon. The problem with this is more users means a greater opportunity…
The big news this week in the land of search and honey is the talk of the recent updates to Google and the SERP data searchers are provided. First searchers will now be presented with longer snippets (the block of text beneath the page link on the SERP) when searching using three or more terms in a query; additionally Google is getting semantic on us and is now displaying even more related terms based on your search. Some welcome this…
While the RIAA continues to sue everyone and their mom, no really, remember this? And most record companies continue to lose sight of the direction they should be moving, there seems to be at least some hope for us die hard music fans in the future. During a keynote at the Leadership Music Digital Summit yesterday, Rio Caraeff, the executive VP of the eLabs group of Universal Music Group made some interesting points that lead me to believe the record…
People talk a lot about the power of community when it comes to social media and Twitter. One of the first mentions of this that really struck a chord with me was a video blog by Shana Albert titled Twitter as an Online Community, where she talked about how supportive the Twitter community was during and after an incident involving her son being bit by the family dog. I think Shana did a great job expressing how great an online…
My wife and I got in a bit of a tiff the other day, and strangely enough a blog post came of it. Not a blog post about the tiff itself, but from something we discussed. At the end of our discussion I got to thinking about some of the things she said and realized how much what she was saying about babies is similar to SEO clients. As babies we are unable to truly communicate what it is we…