Archive for the ‘social media’ Category

SEO, Social Marketing & Scientology

Monday, February 18th, 2008

My last post, about how YouTube’s new features will affect internet marketers, garnered a lot of attention—but not from SEO and PPC professionals. It was my first paragraph, about YouTube’s response to the Anonymous-vs-Scientology online battle, that got attention.read more | digg story

Why You Should Let Users Define Your App

Friday, February 15th, 2008

There's an old well-worn addage that says, "The customer is always right." On the surface, it means that you should always strive to provide good customer service. But on a deeper level, it means that if your customers do things with your service that you never intended, perhaps ...

The Facebook Valuation Debate: IPO Highly Unlikely Before 2010

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Investing site The Motley Fool has an interesting debate today between three of their reporters, who all take different arguments in the debate over Facebook’s valuation. Of course, technically speaking, we already know the answer is $15 billion, since Microsoft and several other investors have purchased small percentages of ...

YouTube’s Videocracy Reveals the Future of Online Video

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Ian Shaefer, CEO of Deep Focus Marketing Agency was invited out to the YouTube Videocracy Event in New York City last night, and aside from hanging out with Tay Zonday, he blogged a number of platform improvements on deck for the video sharing giant. The topics covered seemed to go ...

FriendFeed Recommendations? Who Are You Likely to Like?

Friday, February 15th, 2008

FriendFeed is a life streaming service, in the form of a social aggregator. You may have heard Mark “complain” about it in the same way Pete used to complain about Twitter, but as the beta testing progresses, folks seem to be adapting to FriendFeed…or maybe FriendFeed is adapting to ...

Is The Compulsive Internet ID Card Coming Soon To A Computer Near You?

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft joined VeriSign yesterday at the OpenID-Foundation. The organization is working since 2006 on plans to introduce a Internet-ID-Card that will make all passwords obsolete. Critics warn, of course, about massive security risks involved in a "All-in-one-internet-pilot-license". You will get one password for ...