The (Malevolent) Genius of Google Adsense
When I started blogging at this site, I threw in a Google Adsense ad basically to fill up a column. That was a year ago. Today, on a whim, I decided to check out my…
Google Social Toolbar
I’m ready to vent here. Are we, as community builders, becoming so lazy that we don’t want to take the time to build in the social media features we want for our sites, the way…
Google Kills 6 Services
Google announced late last week that they were killing 6 of their services, Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, Jaiku, and Google Video. Additionally, the Jaiku service is going to be an…
How Technorati Gave Away Their Special Sauce
I used to use Technorati to find compelling blog posts to share and comments. It was rather convenient to be able to go to one spot and find out what people were saying in blogs…
Top Ten List of Apple IPhone Apps used by Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton while they were Eaten By Sharks
Traffic stats – the red headed step child of statistics, damned lies cloaked inside a slathering of untruth and then wrapped in that un-Godliest of file formats, xls and used to bludgeon all that is…
Epic Post – How to Monitor Social Media for Free
Okay, we all know that social networks are out there and that we should be making use of them. But how do you monitor what’s going on in the vast ecosystem of Twitterverses, MySpaceDoms and…
Local Search Optimization – Your Path to Success
I recently rolled out the http://www.powerupgeneratorservice.com site and in reviewing the initial search results are very interesting. To begin with, some background. Power Up Generator’s previous site was a single page, which hadn’t been optimized…
Humans Search Better
Who’d have thunk it? An article in Wired Magazine entitled “Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person.” notices the growing trend of search firms using real meat-space residents to fine tune their…