Archive for November 13th, 2009

It’s Not Just You: Twitter Pages Massively Broken

Update: Twitter seems to have fixed the issue. If your pages are still having the issue, make sure to refresh and/or clear your cache. You may still see broken pages for a while. [ READ MORE ]

10 WordPress Plugins to Help Build Community

Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr. [ READ MORE ]

SEO & Social Media Marketing: A Match Made in Heaven – Drop Ship (press release) (blog)

  • November 13th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

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Water on the Moon: Even Google’s Celebrating!

  • November 13th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

Google’s been on a homepage logo changing spree: they’ve celebrated H.G. Wells, the bar code, Confucious, Gandhi, and Sesame Street over the last few months alone. [ READ MORE ]

POLL: Microsoft Office Overpowers Google Docs in Reader Vote

  • November 13th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

Since its inception in 1990, Microsoft Office has quickly been the dominant force in office applications and document building. Need to build a presentation? There’s PowerPoint. Looking to create complex spreadsheets? Excel is still the gold standard. And with the power of Windows to help push the desktop software, its presence only grew. [ READ MORE ]

Top 10 Twitter Photo Sharing Services Judged by Mashable Readers

Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked your favorite Twitter photo-sharing service. [ READ MORE ]

WordPress Now Knows Where You Are

Location is quickly becoming all the rage. Twitter has started to attach location to tweets (and a host of applications are expected to soon support the functionality), Foursquare has quickly expanded to new cities, and Loopt continues to expand to new platforms and carriers. [ READ MORE ]

28 Awesome Aviation Pros on Twitter

Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying. Special thanks to @Z_simpliflying for his contribution to this article. [ READ MORE ]

LinkedIn and Twitter’s Major Syncage

Earlier this week, LinkedIn made a splash when it announced that Twitter and LinkedIn status updates can now be synced. LinkedIn users could tweet from their status updates by checking a Twitter checkbox, while Twitter users could update their LinkedIn status by adding the hashtag #li or #in. [ READ MORE ]

Disney Posts Alice in Wonderland Posters on Facebook

As social media becomes more pervasive, it’s becoming a frequently common practice for movie studios to use sites like Facebook and Twitter to connect with plans. [ READ MORE ]

First Google Go Project: A Twitter Client!

Two days ago Google announced its Go programming language project, and we should perhaps be unsurprised to find that one of the first user programs to emerge from the new language is… a Twitter client. [ READ MORE ]

Twitter and Facebook Come to Xbox Live November 17

If you didn’t get into the Preview Program for Xbox LIVE’s forthcoming social networking integrations featuring Twitter, Facebook and last.fm support, don’t worry — you don’t have too much longer to wait. [ READ MORE ]

Sprouter: Twitter for Business Owners

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. [ READ MORE ]

Money Tweets: Twitter Meets Financial Education

Popular online personal finance tool Mint is not only well-known for its array of money management, personal expense tracking, and budgeting tools, but it is also a popular knowledge resource, mostly via its blog and tools such as Financial Fitness. It makes sense, right? Combine information with knowledge and you have a potent financial combination. [ READ MORE ]

Facebook as the Future of Micropayments

Electronic Arts’ acquisition of Playfish in a deal worth up to 0 million signals that Facebook’s virtual goods economy is thriving. [ READ MORE ]

Orange UK Sold 30,000 iPhones on Launch Day

Well, this definitely puts Verizon’s 100,000 sold Droids on its first weekend into perspective: Orange UK has announced it has sold 30,000 iPhones on the first day of launch. [ READ MORE ]

Strange Bedfellows: Dolly Parton Endorses Internet Explorer 8 [VIDEO]

  • November 13th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

If you already use Internet Explorer but haven’t upgraded to the latest version yet, there are plenty of reasons to do so. But perhaps none is as adorable as the following endorsement from none other than the Smoky Mountain Songbird herself, Dolly Parton. [ READ MORE ]

‘Get Google #1 Page Rank with Simple ‘Do-it-Yourself’ SEO Website Optimization … – Online PR News (press release)

  • November 13th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

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SEO experts: Now Google’s a phone company, too – Brafton

  • November 13th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

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Moon Bombing Redux: There’s Water on the Moon!

  • November 13th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

Although the LCROSS mission last month (aka the “moon bombing”) that was broadcast live on TV and the Internet may have not provided any spectacular footage, it did apparently deliver some remarkable findings. [ READ MORE ]