Archive for November 17th, 2009

Twitter’s New Retweet: Why You Shouldn’t Hate It

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How You Use Social Media Can Kill Your Business

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Celtics See Success in Competitive Facebook App

Branded app adds new layer of fan interaction for a team that’s already on Twitter and YouTube. [ READ MORE ]

7 Soothing iPhone Apps to Help You Relax

Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry, or through the @Mobclix handle. [ READ MORE ]

Twitter and Facebook Launch on the Xbox 360

We’ve been covering the impending social integrations with Facebook, Twitter, and last.fm on Xbox Live since Microsoft first announced social networking support would be coming to the console back at E3 this June. [ READ MORE ]

Google’s AdMob Launches Interactive Video Ads on iPhone

Video ads on the iPhone are about to get a lot more like video ads on the Web: highly interactive and hard to just skip over. AdMob, the company that Google just announced it was buying for 0 million, has launched an interactive video format for ads running on the Apple device. [ READ MORE ]

Why Small Businesses Should Optimize for Local-Social Search

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

In a rapidly shrinking world, staying atop Dynamic Local-Social Search Engines is a must for Small Businesses [ READ MORE ]

Fliqz adds video SEO service – CNET News

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

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SEO India: Ace Ranking With SEO services India – PR-inside.com (press release)

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

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Image Swirl Brings New Visualizations to Google Image Search

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

Google seems to have a renewed focus on improving the image search experience. For example, just last month Google Similar Images, which uses image recognition technology for filtering search results, graduated from Google Labs and became a default feature of Google Image search. [ READ MORE ]

Robert Pattinson Is Too Sexy to Know What Bing Is [VIDEO]

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

Twilight New Moon mania is in full force. The movie opens on the 20th, but last night was the premiere in Westwood, with every new and old media entity alike hoping to capitalize on Twilight hysteria. [ READ MORE ]

Twitter’s Newest Desktop Client: Seesmic for Windows Launches

Among Twitter desktop apps, Seesmic and TweetDeck are the two biggest, built using Adobe AIR, which allows them to work on multiple operating systems. However, AIR has limitations, since it essentially helps port rich Internet applications onto the desktop. Adding plug-ins and drag-and-drop functionality are just two examples. [ READ MORE ]

STUDY: Most Fortune 100 Companies Don’t Get Twitter

In August we reported that a large number of Fortune 100 companies have embraced Twitter, but how well are they actually using it? A study released today (PDF) by Weber Shandwick says the answer is not very well, and that the majority of Fortune 100 companies don’t really get Twitter. Though 73 of 100 companies [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Adds Support for MMS Photo Sharing (But Only in UK)

Since practically its inception, Twitter has supported SMS (short message service) for updating your Twitter status. If you text something to 40404 in the U.S., your Twitter will update with that text message. However, most smartphones are capable mutlimedia messaging (MMS), which allows you to share pictures and videos from phone to phone. [ READ MORE ]

Mobile OS Faceoff: Apple iPhone vs. Google Android

We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series. Last week we saw longtime incumbent Microsoft Office beat out Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion. [ READ MORE ]

Google Sites Just Got a Whole Lot Prettier

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

Google Sites, a service that lets you create and collaborate on a simple webpage, as well as embed documents, photos, videos into it, was visually a bland affair…until now. [ READ MORE ]

SEO Must Consider Page Speed for Google Rankings in 2010 – Direct Traffic Media

  • November 17th, 2009
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Customize Your Windows 7 Desktop with Bing

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

Following John’s post on Window 7 Personalization you can now add the best of Bing to your desktop. Download from the Windows 7 Personalization Gallery for free, install and then customise your background to change every few minutes to display any number of 19 of the best Bing homepage photos there’ve been. Enjoy that, or [ READ MORE ]

Adobe Releases AIR 2.0 Beta

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO News

Adobe’s AIR platform has been a major boon to bringing Internet applications to the desktop across all of the major operating systems. TweetDeck, Seesmic, and an array of other popular social apps run on the platform. [ READ MORE ]