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The Consensus About the Future of Marketing

Is it just me, or is there now a consensus in the world of marketing about the future?

Debunking WordPress SEO “Expert” Articles

I am going to attempt to debunk almost every Wordpress SEO "Expert" article ever written, and in some respects this article even debunks some of the things I have written in the past.

Yahoo Queries The Obscure
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Search queries that engines like Yahoo’s rarely see can be problematic for the technology, and frustrating for the searcher who doesn’t receive a relevant response.

Yahoo, Carnegie Mellon Switch On Supercomputer

The M45 supercomputer provided by Yahoo opened its ports to its partners at Carnegie Mellon University, where the initiative should help boost research that benefits the broader Internet community.

Scientific Approach to Blog Ranking
If you had to pick just 100 blogs that would provide you with all the content you need to stay informed on everything that interests you, which 100 would you pick?

Fraud Trial Scuttled By Ebay Employee

A UK man on trial for defrauding eBay users received a break yesterday when an employee for eBay left the country before offering key testimony.

Wal-Mart Gets Into The Broadband Business

Wal-Mart plans to begin reselling satellite based broadband from Hughes Communications.

Rumor: Google Planning Giant Undersea Cable?

Grahame Lynch of CommsDay reports (my emphasis):

Google Ready To Lay Some Pipe

A trans-Pacific cable could be ready to launch in 2009, connecting Google to Asia and the Pacific while delivering a significant cost savings to the company.

Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads

Mozilla announced on Friday that its open source browser had reached 400 million downloads worldwide. This was a big achievement for Firefox, which launched in 2004.

Amazon Launches Contest For Developers

Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has launched the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge, a contest for entrepreneurs and software developers in which the winner will receive $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in Amazon Web Service (AWS) credits and an investment offer from Amazon.

Amazon’s Quest To Find Hidden Gem

Amazon Web Services (AWS) – programmatic access to Amazon’s data and infrastructure via open APIs – have announced a contest to find the next hot web start-up.

Sponsored Content Hosting and Renting Subdomains
Ads becoming content is not only true from a thin affiliate site perspective, but also on larger more traditional ad buys. Selling content hosting is going mainstream.

NBC Strikes Deal With Amazon

It seems NBC Universal has found a new partner after not renewing its iTunes contract with Apple.

Skype Outage Dials Up Conspiracy Theories

That 36-hour blank spot where Skype’s login and authentication systems used to be may have been down for reasons beyond the official party line…but you have to believe the *truth* is out there.

Amazon Flexes Payments Service Beta

This latest addition to an infrastructure lineup of S3 and EC2 (data storage/transfer and distributed computing, respectively) enhances Amazon’s strength as a powerful destination for developers.

Google AJAX Search API Including Image Results
Google AJAX Search API now has image search results reports the Goog

Google Displacing Microsoft As Lead Focus for Antitrust?

Technology analyst Scott Cleland is so convinced that the Google/DoubleClick deal should be blocked by the FTC, he’s written a 35-page white paper to support his stance.

Google, DoubleClick Cast As Net Neutrality Fight

Sparks fly as Scott Cleland, president of Precursor Group and chairman of anti-net neutrality organization Netcompetition.org, receives the criticism he fully expected in assessing the likelihood of the Google offer for DoubleClick being blocked.

Flickr Criticized For Regional Censorship

Yahoo’s Flickr is the latest target of criticism after restricting access to erotic art photos in Hong Kong. Though Internet companies self-censoring in certain countries is not a new dilemma, this incident coincides with a blogger that faces fines for just linking to offending material.

ABC News And CustomFlix Partner

ABC News has entered into an agreement with CustomFlix Labs, part of Amazon, to make its previously aired programming available for purchase on Amazon and ABCNews.com

7 Rules for Widget Success
Live from WidgetCon

Speaker: Shervin Pishevar, President, Freewebs

The age of engagement has begun. Umm, hasn’t it begun a few years ago?

7 Rules for Widget Success (we must take notes – he has a number in it – you MUST write down every point with a number, which is why I always structure my presentations that way)