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July 31, 2008

Forrester Research Eats JupiterResearch

I wrote about JupiterResearch gets aquired by Forrester Research at Webmetricsguru.com today – but I think Research Analysts are underpaid and overworked/traveled based on recent research I’ve done – and frankly, while I think this merger between Forrester Research and JupiterResearch is a good thing for Forrester, I don’t think it is particularly good for [...]

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July 30, 2008

Social Media RoundTable in NYC – I’ll be there – and speaking, too

Yep, I’ll be attending and speaking at the Social Media Measurement Rountable NYC, August 7, 2008 Katie Paine, author of Measuring Public Relationships and CEO of KDPaine & Partners will be assisting in leading discussion at the roundtable. She will also be joined by Marshall Sponder, the Chair of the Web Analytics Association`s Community and [...]

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July 29, 2008

Build new icons instead of replacing existing icons – Seth Godin

Haven’t gotten much out of Seth Godin’s blog lately – he’s probably to conceptual for me lately – it’s as if the social media marketing terrain has changed, but he hasn’t. On the other hand, he said something today in a post about  Marilyn Monroe, the Mona Lisa and Jackson Pollock where challenge for organizations [...]

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Moving Webmetricsguru.com and the B5media KMM story

I am in the process of getting control of the Webmetricsguru.com domain from Know More Media today or within a few days and hosting it in a new place and in wordpress. Also, I am writing this post from the IPhone with it’s usual limitations. Last weekend B5 circled KMM and it’s bloggers like a [...]

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July 28, 2008

Move over Google, Cuil just arrived and is almost as good, on day 1

As TechCrunch just announced – Cuil has arrived and in the first hour has almost matched Google in quality and improved on Google in related categories – Google Beats Cuil Hands Down In Size And Relevance, But That Isn’t The Whole Story Yeah, Google – take that!   Honestly, Michael Arrington is more of a Google [...]

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July 27, 2008

Steve Jobs health and the invasion of modern media

I am writing this post on my 3G IPhone and don’t have the luxury of capturing urls and pictures (yet). I read about the mystery surrounding Steve Jobs Health in The Guardian just now, and I am feeling as if the media ought to leave him alone, even if he does look a bit thinner. [...]

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house content is favored by the Google algorithm – further proof that Google stacks the cards in their own favor

House content is favored by the Google algorithm – further proof that Google stacks the cards in their own favor – a reference to Google Krol in SeoBook. Content from Google (YouTube, Google Knol) is going to be favored in Google’s Search Results – which for most sites, are the only search results that really [...]

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The Bloggers guide to SEO looks pretty good

The Blogger’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization – by Aaron & Giovanna Wall looks pretty good – and it’s free (I think everything is in the article/post you need).    I guess I made a mistake right off the bat, I should have hosted The Analytics Guru on my own domain instead of WordPress – but [...]

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Microsoft BrowseRank favors Social Networks

Ha, Ha, Ha ….. I bet Google would not really want to employ an algorithm like Microsoft BrowseRank (see Microsoft Search BrowseRank Research Reviewed) – look what BrowseRank would do to the top search results (though the diagram from SEOBOOK doesn’t say what the search query was to generate those results – and they are, [...]

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July 26, 2008

Blogging works!

Yeah, I’d say, Blogging is cool – and ….. replaces older lines like “would you like to see my etchings” ,etc. I guess there’s no telling what a passionate blogger will end up with … [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJ2SegGWyc]

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