Web 2.0 Utopia Collides With Reality. Reality Unscathed.
Following in from my post about the dmoz-effect now occurring at Digg, Nick Wilson points to an almighty fallout amongst Diggers. How will Digg owners manage it? Nick concludes: “In summary, I’d be in favor of acceptng a few casualties as par for the course, but also it seems (and i dont know enough to comment with authority here) that …
Adwords For Mobile
Google are testing out Adwords for mobile phones, called Mobile Ads: “Mobile ads are shorter text-based AdWords ads that appear when users search Google from a mobile device. Send users to your mobile web page, or offer them the option to connect to your business phone after clicking on your ad.“ The available countries are United States, the United Kingdom, …
China Biggest Internet Market By 2007
China will have 79 million people on broadband by 2007, whereas the US will have 51 million. “The number of broadband subscribers in China is growing at a staggering 79 per cent annually, and will reach 79 million in 2007, consulting firm Ovum predicted in research released today. Recent estimates from Leichtman Research suggest that the number of broadband connections …
Digg Doing A DMOZ?
They start off with good intentions. Well, we’re sure they start off with good intentions. Then they preach the philosophy that it’s all wide-open, anyone can join in, a true democratic utopia with few rules, no hierarchy, and no masters. It’s nonsense, of course. It doesn’t work in the real world, and it doesn’t work online. Soon enough, people take …
200 Years Of News
Google have released a news archive stretching back 200 years. Their spider has been busy since 1795. “News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.“ Google has partnered with news agencies including Time, The …
Is Affiliate SEO Dead?
It has become a lot harder in the last year or so, with Google in particular. The old push-button > generate > wait for cheque method doesn’t appear to work so well these days.The way forward is to create sites that are more – conventional. Get visitors coming back. Use PPC. Be unique. All that marketing stuff. SEOAffiliate also has …
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