Posts Tagged ‘Social Networking’
What Comes Next in Social Media?
The coming of Oprah and Ashton Kutcher to Twitter brought a whole new meaning to the way the social site is perceived today and will be perceived in the future, according to social media expert Chris Brogan. He relates the situation to when the telephone came about saying that with Twitter, some will reject the service after a time, but there will still be newcomers anxious to get involved.
comScore Reports on Search Growth
According to comScore year over year data, the U.S. has a strong search market. (It’s great to read a sentence that has the words “market” and “strong” in it, huh?) In this video, Jenni Tafoya of comScore gives us a positive report based upon their data. To be exact, comScore found that total U.S. searches to be at 18.7 billion, which is up 38 percent year-over-year.
Companies Join to Change Future of Web
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to transfer your data from your profile on one social network to your profile on another social network? The Data Portability Workgroup is aiming to do that very thing. WebProNews Reporter Abby Prince talked with Chris Saad, DataPorability.org’s Co-Founder and Chairman, about the initiative.
The Data Portability Workgroup contains [...]
Social Networking Meets Reality?
Moving along in the social networking craze, LifeAt.com and MeetTheNeighbors.org offer a way to get to know your real neighbors in your apartment building or your neighborhood. WebProNews Reporter Kara Ratliff spoke with Chief Operating Officer for LifeAt, Matthew Goldstein and Creator of MeetTheNeighbors, Jared Nissim about the two companies. For more information on [...]
SMX Social Media, NYC 2007: Cindy Krum with Blue Moon Works
Senior SEO Analyst from Blue Moon Works, Cindy Krum spent some time talking with Reporter Kara Ratliff of WebProNews at SMX Social Media 2007 in New York City. Krum talks about how you can use MySpace to really brand your product. She describes the steps you need to take and the woahs of [...]
SMX Social Media, NYC 2007: Rand Fishkin
What is social media? Why is it important? Why is it so popular now? At SMX Social Media 2007 in New York City, WebProNews Reporter Kara Ratliff caught up with Rand Fishkin of seomoz.org to get these answers. Fishkin discusses blogging and social networking and what could be in store for the future of social [...]
Shop.org: Donna Hoffman from the Sloan Center for Internet Retailing
Donna Hoffman, the Chancellor’s Chair and Co-Director of Internet Retailing of the Sloan Center, spoke with WebProNews at the Shop.org Annual Summit in Las Vegas. Hoffman discusses unique characteristics of the Internet that are leading to trends that Internet retailers really need to know about including social networking and personalization. She also talks about the [...]
Yahoo Shares Plummet Over Facebook Belittling
Yahoo incorporated shares plummeted downward in premarket trading after reports say Yahoo may regret belittling the network site Facebook during negotiations. Last year, Yahoo attempted to buy Facebook beginning at $1 billion dollars and then even offering $1.62 billion dollars; but the two sides could not agree. Yahoo missed out on a great opportunity since [...]
SEO Cloaking Debate
USA Today has turned its website into a big experiment in social networking. The changes made by the newspaper let their visitors “browse and engage” their content in several new ways. USA Today opened a new blog called ‘Community Center’ where they will track story comments and user-submitted photos.
The world of SEO has another cloaking [...]
Google Links, Social Networks and more
Google has your links, but they haven’t always shown you all of them. Now they will, thanks to a recent update at Webmaster Central.
Webmasters who verify ownership will be able to see a much larger sample of links to pages than they can now with the “link” operator. Search expert Danny Sullivan said Google kept [...]
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