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Belgian Band Gets Creative With Video Annotations On YouTube

YouTube has long introduced ways for users to annotate their videos and add links to external websites, other videos on the site, and more. But I haven’t seen that many people or companies make use of video annotations in creative ways – I don’t spe…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

Privacy: Managing the New Currency of the Social Web

Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.The privacy policy might…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |
 

Bing Too Easy To Rank Well In?

A funny WebmasterWorld thread has an SEO scratching his head in wonderment as to how he ranks so well in Bing, without really having any SEO reason to be. Let me quote what he said: Right now my two-month-old site,…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |

Two Years After Launch, Howcast Is Streaming 25 Million How-To Videos A Month

Two years ago, former Googlers Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Rama launched Howcast, a site filled with originally-produced how-to videos on everything from “How to Ice Skate” to “How To Deal With a Mean Boss.”  Today, Howcast is streami…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |
 

No iBooks For You, Rest of the World (For Now)

It seems that iBooks will be a US-only service, at least when iPad first lands in stores. Engadget dug up through Apple Australia site, discovering that both the iBookstore and the iBooks app are nowhere to be seen.Of course, this could be an accide…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

Launching the SEOmoz Free API and Enough Power to Build Open Site Explorer

Posted by Nick GernerThe launch of Open Site Explorer last week opens up a lot of link data, filters, and anchor text to a much wider audience than we’ve ever had before.  In that same vein, today we’re announcing our new and improved SEOmoz Fr…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |
 

Search Engine Success: Getting Video SEO Right

With search engines now including video content in blended search results, video SEO offers one of the greatest opportunities for companies to cost-effectively drive increased site visitation. …

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |

Google Xistence Offers to Live Your Life For You

It’s fake but funny: Google Xistence is a new type of social aggregator whose goal is to “live your life for you.” It does this through “randomly-generated status updates, picture uploads, and tweets,” so you can spend …

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

Free Webinar: Getting to Know Open Site Explorer

Posted by great scott!Last week we unveiled our newest toy, Open Site Explorer, to the world and the response was phenomenal. Now we want to take some time and really show everyone just what this powerful link analysis tool is capable of and answer …

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |

No Access for the Axis: SourceForge Bows to Government Demands

SourceForge, one of the the primary distribution hubs of the open source software movement, has shut its doors to visitors from a number of countries, saying that it is working to be in compliance with existing U.S. laws. In a blog post yesterday, t…

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |