February 10th, 2012 § Comments Off on What is Google Panda – Awesome Infographic § permalink
Here is an interesting Infographic by Single Grain explains Google Panda in plan English. See how Google Panda update provides a huge incentive to produce good content, and protect the search engines and the internet from spammers. Learn more about what can hurt your blog and how to do good link building.
via: www.famousbloggers.net
I love the comforting effect good infographic can have on panicked consumers. if only our government would understand that and start producing them instead of just full texts of laws.
February 9th, 2012 § Comments Off on Slovenia’s Ambassador to Japan issued this incredible apology for signing ACTA § permalink
i’ve tweeted about this, i’ve blogged about it, i don’t think we said enough. I also don’t think it was right for us to stay quiet until it was too late.
can’t wait until geeks take over governance.
Slovenia‘s Ambassador to Japan has made a quite incredible apology after she signed the ACTA agreement on behalf of the Eastern European country, as Techdirt reports. After being deluged by complaints, Helena Drnovsek Zorko apologised to her nation, but first her children, for signing the act.
via: thenextweb.com
February 8th, 2012 § Comments Off on Google May Be Replacing Content as King § permalink
Image by Getty Images via @daylife
While great content will always get you noticed, I have come to the somewhat obvious conclusion that “Content is NOT King, Google is King” on the web. This is a slightly different mindset when it comes to getting traffic and marketing on the net.
via: logicpath.com
I disagree with this article’s intention – the guys frustration is that obsolete sites will suffer even if they have good content – well, guess what, good content is King, but if you put it in a wooden box and ship it to Antarctica, it won’t do much for you either.
If you have good content, you should care about it and make sure it get’s treated well – with modern CMS like WordPress at least, with space to breathe, rather than hidden behind tons of advertising.
Content is King, because people want content. Google might be the first minister, but he is a mere mortal.
February 6th, 2012 § Comments Off on Facebook Math: $10K Investment = $8M § permalink
talk about ROI:
Comments () The world of venture capital is rich with tales of colossal payoffs. The partners at Benchmark Capital invested $6.7 million in eBay in 1997 – and saw their stake mushroom to $400 million when the company went public one year later. Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested $12.
via: www.thedailybeast.com
now, while this does make a great media story, it also creates totally false expectations to new entrepreneurs – if you are thinking about being a painter, because once there existed Michelangelo, you’re wrong.
February 5th, 2012 § Comments Off on Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-05 § permalink
February 3rd, 2012 § Comments Off on New Reuters Site Turns News Decisions Over To Social Media § permalink
this is imho really significant – reuters has special ability to productize complex but obvious phenomena – like semantic web a few years ago, and social curation now. also super great to see friends from Percolate and Klout are part of this project.
News agency Reuters launched Social Pulse, which it describes as a “social media hub” that will display “the most talked-about news, companies and influencers across the Web.” The site is unique in the news-curating space in that it uses trends from the Twitter accounts Reuters and its journalists follow to arrange headlines:…
via: www.readwriteweb.com