No doubt regular readers of this site understand the high-value of link building. There are of course many ways to build links. Here are just a few: LinkbaitSolid resource contentSocial media promo, coupled with #1 and #2. CommentsForumsBuying them Link exchange Let's look at the last item. For a long time, webmasters simply emailed other webmasters asking for a link. Maybe it's a blogger thing, or we're more vocal about it, but...
Sphinn is a brand new player in the social media space that many of you are already familiar. It's still young, but the calling of new, fresh data to analyze got the better of the math geek in me and I built a few Yahoo! Pipes on their RSS feeds. [This post is a continuation of an earlier Yahoo! Pipes: Analyzing Digg (By Submitter, By Category and Submitter, Filter by Votes)...
Buying YahooKevin Kelleher at GigaOm points out five groups OF potential suitors for purchasing Yahoo, and handicaps each of them. Not too surprisingly, Microsoft has the best odds at 4-1, but with a "strategic sense" rating of only B-. Maybe more surprising is that he set 5-1 odds for Comcast or AT&T with a rating of B. A private equity firm (unnamed) is given 7-1 odds but a strategic sense rating of A-. Other potential...
Opera Board MachinationsOpera, who just released their Opera Mini Beta 4, had a bit of a shakeup. The founder, Jon S von Tetzchner, fired the board of directors before they could fire him. While the stock's share price rose last week, it's dropped over 60 percent since its high in Mar 2006.
In reference to this scandal, Fake Steve Jobs offers the suggestion that rival browsers are killing themselves.
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Eric Ward at Search Engine Land has a great article about what makes the perfect link builder. The question remains, will this become one of those hot jobs that everyone wants filled but few can do? Or can enough people learn? Do you have to be technically-oriented, or creative, or both? A Leonardo da Vinci of blogging? Eric says that the best link builders/ content publicists have certain characteristics. I'm summarizing: they've worked in business...
Webware 100 Web 2.0 ProductsRafe Needleman announced the Webware 100 winners, several of which are Google, Yahoo, and Ask offerings. The list was compiled on votes cast by nearly 500,000 users. I'm not sure that all of them classify as Web 2.0, based on Tim O'Reilly's original definition. But there are a lot of great apps on the list, and who the heck cares about definitions. Jerry Yang Becomes Yahoo! CEOJerry Yang,...
Betty Birner at the Linguistic Society of America discusses how some linguists feel that the language you speak, and your cultural background, affects the way you think. While there is no discussion of search engines, if this hypothesis is true, your background likely affects the way you search - and possibly your success at it. A study of linguistics and search techniques could be the key to successful semantic search engines. For example, there's a...
This is the last part in a short series about Yahoo Pipes and how to use it to analyze Digg homepage stories and any topical trends. Part 1 covered sorting by submitter. Part 2 covered sorting by category and submitter. Part 3's Pipes filter stories by number of votes, then sort by any or all of submitter, category and votes. All of the general Pipes principles presented in these examples can be used to...
This is part two of a short series that uses Yahoo Pipes to analyze information about Digg home page stories. Part 1 covered sorting by submitter (member name). Anything not explained here is probably explained in the last post - so please check there. This part looks at sorting first by story category, then by category and submitter. The former shows any topical bias for the site (i.e., Digg members obviously like articles about...
For those of you that like to follow social media sites such as Digg, an easy analysis tool may be of some use to you. Yahoo Pipes lets you very quickly put together a suite of tools to organize a web feed's items. In this example, I'm going to to sort the Digg homepage RSS feed by the submitter of each story. To do that, we need to manipulate some of the content of the Digg...
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