January 2011 | Another new year, another roller coaster of threats and opportunities. We tend to focus on the latter as, amidst currency wars and defaulting nations, there are more opportunities than ever for creative brands and entrepreneurs to deliver on changing consumer needs. From Brazil to Belgium. No rest for the wicked!
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As this is all about trends, and as 'trends' still can mean everything from 'Ageing populations in Central-Europe' to 'Spring 2012's skirt lengths', we need to clarify that: |
If you want your site to pop up in the top 10 in Google from now on, with just a few characters typed in before Google shows what it THINKS you want to see, the you best get to work on being popular rather than doing old school SEO. Backtrack SEO can help with that. http://www.backtrackseo.com Google today launched an ambitious effort to speed up searching. But what they really did is kill SEO. |
"Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type." |
The most important consideration for marketers or anyone who creates content, however, is in the bullets... |
"Smarter Predictions: Even when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, predictions help guide your search. The top prediction is shown in grey text directly in the search box, so you can stop typing as soon as you see what you need." |
Here's what this means: no two people will see the same web. Once a single search would do the trick - and everyone saw the same results. That's what made search engine optimization work. Now, with this, everyone is going to start tweaking their searches in real-time. The reason this is a game changer is feedback. When you get feedback, you change your behaviors. Read more at www.steverubel.com |
I sure didn't care about them adding the "call contacts" feature, but THIS, this is going to help out a TON!
Monday, August 30, 2010 | 8:40 PM
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Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail into the “spam” folder. But today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of mail that isn't outright junk but isn't very important—bologna, or “bacn.” So we've evolved Gmail's filter to address this problem and extended it to not only classify outright spam, but also to help users separate this "bologna" from the important stuff. In a way, Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules. |
Though we've all seen the writing on the wall (another form of dying publishing medium), this announcement from Seth Godin kind of makes it official. Seth Godin to Stop Publishing Books |
| Here’ is what Seth Godin – veteran of 12 NY Times Bestselling books, has to say: |
“I’ve decided not to publish any more books in the traditional way. 12 for 12 and I’m done. I like the people, but I can’t abide the long wait, the filters, the big push at launch, the nudging to get people to go to a store they don’t usually visit to buy something they don’t usually buy, to get them to pay for an idea in a form that’s hard to spread … I really don’t think the process is worth the effort that it now takes to make it work. I can reach 10 or 50 times as many people electronically. |
No, it’s not ‘better’, but it’s different. So while I’m not sure what format my writing will take, I’m not planning on it being the 1907 version of hardcover publishing any longer.” |
| BAM! Look inside what he says here for the truth about the publishing paradigm: |
More than you ever needed to know about banana reproduction.  The humble banana almost seems like a miracle of nature. Colourful, nutritious, and much cherished by children, monkeys and clowns, it has a favoured position in the planet’s fruitbowls. The banana is vitally important in many regions of the tropics, where different parts of the plant are used for clothing, paper and tableware, and where the fruit itself is an essential dietary staple. People across the globe appreciate the soft, nourishing flesh, the snack-sized portions, and the easy-peel covering that conveniently changes colour to indicate ripeness. Individual fruit—or fingers—sit comfortably in the human hand, readily detached from their close-packed companions. Indeed, the banana appears almost purpose-designed for efficient human consumption and distribution. It is difficult to conceive of a more fortuitous fruit.
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Just when you might let yourself think that all the ideas for blogs are taken, there's always someone out there to prove you wrong. Turn ugly dresses into nice ones for $1 |
Marisa Lynch set herself a challenge: Transform 365 unattractive frocks in 365 days, for $365. Just before her 30th birthday, she got laid off. To some, losing a job means hitting the
streets with a resume or wallowing in grief. But for
Marisa, it meant getting the sewing machine out and upcycling thrifted
fashions. Every day. Read more at green.yahoo.com |
How long have we been talking about the "paperless office" now? Businesses can't blame technology or costs any longer. We gotta make the move to digital signature tech. Take Action to Save Trees! |
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I was just starting with blogs around 5 years ago. That feels like 50 years in internet time! A Look Back At the Last 5 Years in Blogging |
 Five years is eons in Internet time, and a lot has changed in the blogosphere since 2005. Sites have been born, sites have died, sites have grown up and others have faded away. Entirely new blogging formats have been created and business empires have been built on the foundations of humble blog beginnings.
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Today’s blogosphere is larger and more diverse than it was five years ago, and yet only a few blogs — the so-called “A-listers” — have risen to a place of dominance in the new media landscape. The blogosphere of 2010 is also powered in many ways by social media, something that barely existed five years ago, and was likely an afterthought to most hobbyist bloggers of the day. |
In July 2005, by penning his first post on this site, Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore was joining a blogging movement that had already swelled to over 14 million blogs, and was growing at a rate of 80,000 per day. Yet, while most of those bloggers were of the journaling variety, Mashable was entering an evolving blogosphere. While 2005 was not the first year in which any one person made a living at blogging, it does mark a number of important milestones in the transition of the blogosphere as a place of primarily random thoughts and banalities to one that now supports a growing number of burgeoning media empires. Read more at mashable.com |
Did you know? Clickbank sends 110,000 checks to affiliates every month and they do 26,000 transactions per day! Find out more about this behemoth company and the opportunity that exists for information marketers. DishyMix episode 158: Brad Wiskirchen of Clickbank on Affiliate Marketing for Info Products and Contributing to Philanthropic Boards |
This is awesome news. I can now take this off our list of things to develop and thankfully. Much rather have this capability through Amplify along with all the other ways to clip and post content! | I’m very excited to announce that Amplify now supports auto-posting to WordPress and Blogger. Just like auto-posting from Amplify to Posterous or Tumblr, whether it’s a clip, URL, microblog or full blog post on Amplify, the full content of your Amp will be posted to your blog. |
| You can easily set up Amplify to autopost to your favorite sites by visiting Settings >> Autopost. |
A few notes to be aware of:
1. Support for Wordpress includes self-hosted Wordpress blogs as well as those on wordpress.com.
2. Wordpress.com does not support all types of video, so only YouTube videos that you Amplify will display properly when post them to a wordpress.com blog.Read more at egoldstein.amplify.com |
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