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2010-09-02 13:40:09 ~ Web Pro News
NZ Police Clear Google In Street View Scandal
When it comes to Street View and the collection of sensitive WiFi data, Google is, at least to some degree, safe from serious penalties in New Zealand. A police investigation has determined that the company didn't violate any laws.Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff referred the matter to police in June, which seemed to put Google in a precarious position. Logic dictated that Shroff wouldn't call in law enforcement for no reason, after all.But fortunately for the search giant, New Zeal[...]
2010-09-02 12:35:35 ~ Web Pro News
NASA Launches App HD For iPad
NASA has introduced a new free mobile application for the iPad called NASA App HD.NASA App HD features live streaming video from NASA Television, an interactive map with links to all of its centers, quick links to feature stories and launch schedules, a scrolling “alerts banner,” and a NASA Featured” link. The app’s landing page features the solar system, where users can learn more about it, the universe and NASA missions. The app also allows users to view and search upd[...]
2010-09-02 11:35:25 ~ Web Pro News
Google Calls Upon Retailers to List Inventory
Google announced today that it is making public its help documentation for Local Shopping inventory for Google Merchant Center. This is a feature that allows retailers to let consumers know about what they have in stock right from the web. "One weekday evening a few weeks before our son was born, my wife commissioned me to find a box of raspberry red leaf tea for the delivery," says Google Product Search business product manager Paul Lee, explaining the usefulness of such a featur[...]
2010-09-02 11:35:23 ~ Web Pro News
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Portrayed as Evil in Another Video
Consumer Watchdog has created a new anti-Google video portraying Google CEO Eric Schmidt has some kind of evil ice cream man. The video is a commentary on what the group perceives to be Google's lack of regard for consumer privacy. Specifically, the video draws on an infamous quote from Schmidt in which he said that if you have something you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. Here's the video: Consum[...]
2010-09-02 10:35:14 ~ Web Pro News
Yahoo Search Assist Becomes Geo-Sensitive
Under the right circumstances, search engines can turn the names of a person's city and state into ugly words; users looking for local info may have to type them over and over until they wish the founders had stuck to just two or three letters. New Yahoo search suggestions aim to eliminate that problem, though.Product Manager Vivian Lin Dufour wrote on the Yahoo Search Blog this morning, "We're making Search more intuitive by taking user context and applying it to the search experienc[...]
2010-09-02 08:30:32 ~ Marketing SEO
Win a Free Pass to MN Blogger Conference
TopRank Online Marketing is proud to be a founding sponsor of the first Minnesota Blogger Conference. Tickets for this event “sold out” within a few hours and there are over 100 people on the waiting list. Thanks to conference founders Melissa Berggren, Arik Hanson, Suzi Magill and Katie Schutrop, it’s already one hot event.The date is Saturday, Sept 11 (the day I fly to Hong Kong) and the location is at CoCo MSP in Saint Paul. Topics to be presented range from “how [...]
2010-09-02 08:27:30 ~ Web Pro News
Kobo Emerges as the E-Reading App for the Samsung Galaxy Tab
Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy Tab tablet device, and Kobo announced that it is supplying the e-reader technology for it."After much speculation, the new Samsung GALAXY Tab has just been announced by Samsung’s CEO in Berlin, and Kobo is THE eReading application powering the 'Readers Hub' on the new Android tablet," says Kobo. "This partnership is an industry first for Kobo and Samsung, offering the first eReading experience on an Android Tablet to readers worldwide."&q[...]
2010-09-02 08:27:29 ~ Web Pro News
Americans Have A Love-Hate Relationship With Their Cell Phones
Texting by American adults has increased significantly over the past year, but still does not approach the level of text messages exchanged by young people, according to a new report from Pew Internet & American Life Project.Nearly three quarters (72%) of adult cell phone users send and receive text messages now, up from 65 percent in September 2009. The majority (87%) of teen cell users text. Teens text 50 messages a day on average, five times more than the typical 10 text messages sent and[...]
2010-09-02 08:27:28 ~ Web Pro News
Chrome Celebrates 2nd Anniversary with New Stable Version
Google announced today that it is releasing a new stable version of Chrome, which the company says is even faster and more streamlined. In fact, Google claims it is three times faster on JavaScript performance than it was two year ago, when Chrome was first launched (it's the two-year anniversary, by the way)."We've also been working on simplifying the 'chrome' of Chrome," says product manager Brian Rakowski. "As you can see, we took the already minimalist user interface and strip[...]
2010-09-02 07:23:50 ~ Web Pro News
AOL Renews Search Ad Deal With Google
AOL said today it has signed a five-year search advertising deal with Google renewing its partnership with the search company that dates back to 2002. Under the terms of the deal Google will provide search services to AOL’s content network and properties, in exchange for a revenue-sharing arrangement between the two companies which will be expanded to include mobile search and YouTube. “Today is another important step in the turnaround of AOL,” said Tim Armstrong, AOL’s [...]
2010-09-02 07:23:48 ~ Web Pro News
Twitter To Log Clicked Links
Twitter's link service, t.co, is designed to make shortened links easier to read and safer to follow. Initial tests have gone well, too. But an announcement that Twitter will start tracking every t.co link users click has caused a bit of a stir.Twitter sent an email to users last night that in part stated, "In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping service t.co, which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link. . . . When this happe[...]
2010-09-02 07:23:47 ~ Web Pro News
AP Updates Attribution Guidelines, Links Not Mentioned
The Associated Press has revealed some new guidelines for its reporters with regards to credit and attribution. The guidelines come in the form of a letter from AP Senior Managing Editor Mike Oreskes. The guidelines apply to AP reports in print, broadcast, and online news, and stress the importance of giving proper attribution to other publications that break stories. "We should provide attribution whether the other organization is a newspaper, website, broadcaster or blog; whether or not i[...]
2010-09-02 07:08:04 ~ Matt Cutts
30 day challenge update: meditation!
It’s time for an update on my 30 day challenges. Here’s what I’ve done the last few months:June: I didn’t respond to email after 10 p.m. and I read the New Testament of the Bible. Both were interesting in different ways. It turns out that 10 p.m. is a pretty good time for me to turn off email (I’ve tried 9 p.m. in the past and that didn’t work–Google can be a very email-heavy place at times). I’d like to get back to this habit, because it made me d[...]
2010-09-02 06:20:59 ~ Web Pro News
Twitter Releases its iPad App with iPad-Specific Features
Twitter has launched its official iPad app. There's a bit more to this than the standard mobile Twitter app. "Twitter for iPad takes advantage of the iPad's fluid touch interface, letting you move lots of information around smoothly and quickly – without needing to open and close windows or click buttons," says Twitter's Leland Rechis.When you tap a tweet in this app, it opens a pane, and depending on the content of that tweet, you can open videos, photos, articles, etc."Whe[...]
2010-09-02 05:20:18 ~ Web Pro News
Google, Facebook and Boxee Respond to Apple
At Apple's music event yesterday, where the company launched a new version of iOS, a new version of iTunes with a new social network (Ping), a new line of iPods, and a new version of Apple TV, Steve Jobs took a shot at Google involving numbers of smartphone activations. Last month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that Android gets over 200,000 devices a day. "People throw out a lot of numbers about how many devices they're activating per day," Jobs is quoted as saying. "We are doing [...]
2010-09-02 04:30:08 ~ Marketing SEO
Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Google
Aaron Goldman is an accomplished digital marketer that I know through MediaPost’s Search Insider Summit conference. He reached out to me while writing his new book, “Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Google”, and asked if I’d like to contribute. Such a request is a great honor to me but unfortunately, I never did end up sending anything to Aaron even though he was incredibly patient and went out of his way to make it easy.I know what you’re thinking[...]
2010-09-01 22:40:25 ~ SEO Optimization
Google Gives SEO Link Building Advice
The way the search engines operate is almost always changing. Sometimes the changes happen while we sleep and sometimes we are given a heads up way in advance so that we can prepare for the blow. Regardless building links is always going to be an integral part of building up a business online.In a recent blog post Google gives their advice on some ways to build up nice quality links pointing to your website in order to get on Google’s good side.“Directory entries are often mentioned as anoth[...]
2010-09-01 21:10:16 ~ SEO Book
How To Write Good
Yes, deliberate mistake :) It grates when people write poorly, huh. When writers write well, the words almost become invisible. The focus shifts away from technical details, and onto the message. Is there an easy way to write better blog posts? E-mails? Web copy?Let's take a look at three guidelines for web writing. 1. If You Can Say It, You Can Write ItThe Dilbert Mission Statement Generator - sadly now offline - comes up with convoluted gems this:"Our challenge is to assertively network econo[...]
2010-09-01 17:52:17 ~ Web Pro News
Implications of New Gowalla Feature, Facebook Gift Cards
Gowalla has launched a new feature called "highlights" which it describes as "little rewards you can give to places that are important to your life". MG Siegler talks about the potential significance of such a feature."Where this gets really interesting is when you bring the social graph into it," he writes. "So, for example, if I check-in near a spot where a friend of mine asked his wife to marry him, I'll get a message alerting me of that. Or if I’m loo[...]
2010-09-01 17:52:17 ~ Web Pro News
Implications of New Gowalla Feature, Facebook Gift Cards
Gowalla has launched a new feature called "highlights" which it describes as "little rewards you can give to places that are important to your life". MG Siegler talks about the potential significance of such a feature."Where this gets really interesting is when you bring the social graph into it," he writes. "So, for example, if I check-in near a spot where a friend of mine asked his wife to marry him, I'll get a message alerting me of that. Or if I’m loo[...]
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