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Pubcon 10 Las Vegas Starts Tuesday

Monday I leave for Las Vegas to attend Pubcon 10, WebmasterWorld’s Search Engine Marketing Conference.

Google Worse Than Big Oil?

The tabloid style tech news site The Register wrote an over the top article yesterday slamming Google. The story is so strange that it’s funny. “Google covers up its relative lack of innovation with a bunch of touchy-feely tripe. It …

Technorati Delivering Unwanted Foreign Results

Is it just me or do blog search engines deliver horrible results? Possibly someone out there can point me to a blog search engine that doesn’t include so many spammy blogs in their database. Technorati is certainly not there yet. …

Live Podcasts at Portable Media Expo

I was searching Google and Technorati looking for podcasts that were live or recorded at the Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California.

Blog Email Strategy

I’m new to blogging personally but I’m not new to opt-in email. Believe it or not email is still used by millions of people as a way to read content (email newsletters).

Podcasts At Portable Media Expo

I was searching Google and Technorati looking for podcasts that were live or recorded at the Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California. The Portable Media Expo is the first major conference focused on podcasting. The list below is not comprehensive …

Technorati Delivering Unwanted Foreign Results

Is it just me or do blog search engines deliver horrible results? Possibly someone out there can point me to a blog search engine that doesn’t include so many spammy blogs in their database.

FTC Busts BlogSpot Spyware Ring
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The Federal Trade Commission has shut down three companies that tricked bloggers into placing code on their sites that delivered spyware to user machines.

Blogs, Judy Miller And News Media

The recent retirement of Judith Miller from the New York Times (NYT) has been part of a political scandal that’s gone past the two-year mark. While the scandal itself has dominated the headline during that time, one major part of the mix was blogs, at least in regards to Miller.

WebProBlog Launched Today!

Today I launched my blog … WebProBlog. It’s focus is on eBusiness strategies and trends from my perspective as CEO of iEntry, Inc. and as a early internet entrepreneur. Frequent topics will include internet advertising, email marketing, search engines, eBusiness …

WebProBlog Launched Today

We are proud to announce the launch of WebProBlog, a weblog run by iEntry Inc. Chief Executive Officer Rich Ord, focusing on the trends, issues, and e-business skills fundamental to the e-commerce professional.

Link Popularity Explained

Search engines like Yahoo and Google store over ten billion web pages in their vast databases, so structuring and organizing this content is a major undertaking.

Blog Links: Internal Page Link Benefits

High search engine rankings are important to most bloggers and website owners. To achieve those page one search placements, a combination of interesting and informative content along with many links to your blog are needed.

Google Expanding In Microsoft’s Backyard

The search advertising company should soon have more office space in Kirkland, WA, home to the University of Washington and not real far from Redmond, either.

First Major Podcast Expo Starts Today

In Ontario, Califonia (near my home town of Montclair) the first Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference starts this morning. Somehow I missed the news of this conference in time to attend myself. The Portable Media Expo was founded by …

Blog Email Strategy

I’m new to blogging personally but I’m not new to opt-in email. Believe it or not email is still used by millions of people as a way to read content (email newsletters). We at iEntry have over 4 million subscribers …

White House Wants Harder Line On Piracy

The Attorney General told a Chamber of Commerce conference the government needs more laws to better protect intellectual property creators.

Blog Email Strategy

I’m new to blogging personally but I’m not new to opt-in email. Believe it or not email is still used by millions of people as a way to read content (email newsletters). We at iEntry have over 4 million subscribers …

Email That Stinks

“Oh, kaori!” said the Japanese teenager sniffing hercell phone? “It-su my friend-o,” she reveals holding up a screen indicating she has mail. She’s just dropped about $20 for a smelltone accessory that emits a 5-second aroma whenever she gets a message. If this were to fall into the wrong hands

eBay Stores Get RSS, Users Get Research

eBay users who prefer one or more stores run by eBay sellers will be able to subscribe to feeds for those stores, and see their new offerings via their feedreader of choice.

IM Becoming Medium Of Choice

Instant messaging is overtaking email as the preferred way to communicate, especially among teens and young adults. Overall, IM’s are up 19 percent year over year, with many Americans sending as many, if not more, IM’s than they do emails, according to AOL’s Instant Messaging Trends Survey.

Yahoo Stock Not Enough To Sway AOL

Twenty percent of Yahoo for eighty percent of AOL added up to a big fat zero for Time Warner executives, who decided the proposed swap wasn’t a good value.