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Yahoo Plugs Shortcuts Into WordPress

The company expanded its Yahoo Shortcuts into a dynamic set of tools available as a plug-in for blogs using the WordPress platform.

MSFT Releases FeedSync Under Creative Commons

Microsoft has announced the availability of FeedSync, the RSS feed data syncing/sharing specification formerly known as SSE, and they’re releasing it under a Creative Commons License.

Electrolux and Social Media

When conversation turns to companies that have embraced social media, Electrolux isn’t one of the names that comes up. However, Richard Gatarski sent me a note about a post he wrote on the launch today of Electrolux’s social media newsroom.

Survey: You Must Manage Your Own Online Reputation

Results from a new survey reveals that half of all employers surveyed said that they search online for information about prospective hires at least some of the time.

Careful How You Use Flickr Images

When I started my music podcast, I needed an apporpriate image for the podcast blog. I found an ideal image on Flickr accompanied by a Creative Commons attribution share-alike license. The image of an electric guitar neck now graces the JamJourney blog.

SES - Session: Video Search Optimization

Multimedia Track, Tuesday 3:15 - 4:30 PM

SES: The Ad Everyone Wants To Read

Compelling ads don't have to be a hidden Grail, accessible only to scruffy types in fedoras. At SES San Jose, panelists for the Creating Compelling Ads session emphasized testing and relevance as keys to success.

Yahoo Publisher Network Attacked By Clones

This isn't some Phantom Menace grabbing content from a Yahoo blog, but another blogger who's dropped a whole YPN post into a blog and slapped ads alongside it.

Blogging & Paper Clips

I was reading two posts yesterday that you would think were completely unconnected, however were really amazingly close in concept. The first comes from Seth’s Godin who writes

Ooga Labs Cooking In Creative Secrecy

Google’s known as the company with a “different” kind of corporate culture.  Call Ooga Labs “really different,” then - these guys play Calvinball, a game in which “the only permanent rule . . . is that you can’t play it the same way twice.”  Between matches, Ooga’s employees apparently work on stuff like search engines and social networks.