Archive for October, 2007

Google Slaps Webmasters Around Using PageRank

There has been a lot of talk about Google going after paid links. In other words, if you sell links on your page, Google has a problem with you now. Well, it also appears as if Google is in the process of updating PageRanks. And a lot of blogs are all of a sudden finding [...]

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Web Video Marketing - Best Practices

TubeMogul has published a white paper of sorts which talks about the use of web video in marketing. In other words, how to get lots of people to watch your videos. The write-up starts with:
Online video is one of the best venues to engage an audience - don’t even think about excluding it! This [...]

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AOL Actually Launches Something New?

Yeah, remember AOL? That company that used to equal the internet to a large portion of the surfing public? That company that used to litter out mailboxes with AOL software CDs? Yeah, those people. Well, they are apparently launching something new: AOL Mobile.
AOL is today launching a mobile version of it’s AOL.com portal as [...]

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Week In Review, News From The Internet

I have been using Twitter some lately, so it caught my eye and the eyes of many in the tech community when Google purchased Jaiku, a competitor of Twitter. I was wondering why they didn’t buy Twitter instead, but I think it simply has to do with the fact that Jaiku had a little better [...]

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Google+Jaiku = Important

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One thing that people in internet publishing need to watch is Google and it’s interest in the world of mobile technology. Google recently purchased Jaiku. Jaiku is a social platform very similar to Twitter, but even more focused on the cell phones. Google’s purchase of Jaiku, as well as talk of the upcoming [...]

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Why Podcasting Won’t Reach Mainstream

Podcasting has certainly gotten more popular as of late. I even did a podcast here on WebbyOnline for a little while. And for those of you who might be wondering where it went: yes, I did drop it out. Why?
I think that podcasting is a limited form of media and is not destined to reach [...]

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Video: Drugging of Our Children

I had a video pointed out to me this morning over at Google Video. It is very well done, and even though it is off topic for this website, it is a subject I feel deeply about and I thought I would post it here this morning. It is a video produced by Gary Null. [...]

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Where Should You Post Your Videos?

For those people who publish videos to the web, the default choice is often Youtube. And for good reason. Youtube is the de facto standard today in online video. It seems like everybody is posting to Youtube, so if you want viewers, that is the place to be. But, is it necessarily the best place [...]

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Top 10 Must-Have Apps for a Web Publisher

I am a web publisher. That means that I publish things for others to read, just like any other person in the press, but that I use the internet as my medium. Less red tape. Less committee. Just me, typing my thoughts or findings, and posting them for others to read and respond to.
Now, in [...]

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How To Explain Blogging To Granny

Most people who run a blog have probably had the experience of trying to explain the whole idea of blogging to somebody who simply doesn’t understand. I have been there. MANY times.
I tried to explain not too long ago about converting PC Mechanic over to the blog format. It was understood what I was doing [...]

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