When I first started writing for the web as a freelancer, my conception of content was, naturally, focused on writing. As I was drawn further and further into the online world and my understanding of the web grew, I realized that content applies to a broader spectrum of web-related mediums besides writing. Recently I was browsing online and thinking about some forums I’d visited that were debating the definitions of quality content; needless to say, it got me thinking.

Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service – New York Times : An interesting article this morning in the New York Times about a joint effort on behalf of Reuters and Yahoo! to attempt to monetize Yahoo!’s large and constantly updated collection of user photos.

If you do any research on SEO you’ll find this statement repeated more then any other – “make sites for users not for search engines.” It even appears in the the guidelines of the webmaster help center right on Google.com. It’s one of the core fundamentals in what’s considered “white hat” SEO or SEO that conforms to all of the search engine guidelines in the interests of improving the web.

Top Chinese search engine, Baidu, announced plans on Monday to enter the Japanese market in the near future.

What happens when the operating system you use doesn’t really matter any more?

On Wednesday I went to a Silicon Valley WebGuild event at Google on what I thought would be a discussion on SEO for Web 2.0. I thought I would hear discussions on optimizing Flex and AJAX and learning how we could make these Web 2.0 Technologies more search engine friendly. Instead, the discussion was more focused on how Web 2.0 companies were using SEO. Which is completely different, especially when you consider that the two Web 2.0 companies featured -LinkedIn and Engage - acknowledge their success to viral marketing as opposed to SEO.

New details emerge regarding the specifics of the Apple iPhone; Palm CEO says it is no threat.

Ask.com has taken its existing maps service, combined it with content from parent-company IAC’s CitySearch and Ticketmaster, stirred the ingredients and baked at 400F for 20 minutes. The result? A great new way to search for business, events, movies and maps using a new service called AskCity.

Oracle the Database Company is taking time out on its corporate blog to address a number of critics on the security of Oracle Databases.

If you have a digital camera or a camera phone you can be a photojournalist. That’s at least what Reuters and Yahoo are thinking. The two have created a project to bring newsworthy photos or videos to their sites.

I recently made another post about the importance of brand building and niche markets, and Solomon Rothman commented that one way to go niche is to go stylized / have a unique delivery approach, which is totally valid.

Heavy Internet traffic to websites was virtually matched by the money people were willing to spend on retailer sites, by almost 25 percent more than last year.

Recent changes to the Yahoo TV section of the Yahoo website drew irritated responses from users and several screeds from bloggers denouncing those alterations.

You may have heard the term link bait discussed in search engine optimization circles. In SEO speak, link bait is content that attracts natural incoming links from other blogs and websites.

Hmmm, wonder why Google’s brand in my brain is going up and not down?

I recently had the opportunity to develop a small online booking system. This time around I was determined to make use of some development framework.

AOL Spanish-language portal dubbed “AOL Latino” is finally made available to users at no cost.

Local search just became a little more competitive as IACI’s Ask.com now has a dedicated product, called AskCity, available with mobile friendliness, walking directions, and multi-step route construction for its users.

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I love that someone updated the ScobleShow Wiki of all my archives with images.

Recently, we attended Web 2point2, an ‘unconference’ driven by participants and based on conversations, not powerpoints.

Yahoo! and comScore released the results of a joint research project, entitled “Close the Loop: Understanding Search and Display Synergy,” aimed at gauging the impact of search and display advertising campaigns when employed both independently and in concert with one another.

Thomas (TwisterMC) and I arrived fine in Chicago without delay. Unlike many other travelers, including Shoemoney who I talked to about a 4+ hour delay.

During an early session at SES Chicago 2006, the speakers on the topic of video optimization all made a similar suggestion – keep that meta data identifiable so your video will be too. Chris Richardson of WebProNews was on hand to pick up the details.