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SYS-CON Media's SEO/SEM Journal (search.sys-con.com), is the first and only global publication to present the hottest timely topics on the merging search engine optimization and search engine marketing industry. Learn how the professionals get their web pages to the top of the search engines for the keywords they target.Jul. 3, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 144 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Yahoo!, a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place ...Jul. 3, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 728 |
 Yahoo! is investing significantly in Cloud Computing to support the company's global applications and audience of more than 500 million users. Yahoo!'s cloud confronts technical challenges at an almost unprecedented scale - requiring tens of petabytes of storage, tens of thousands of m...Jul. 2, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 502 |
 STAMFORD, Conn., June 12, 2009 — Worldwide business intelligence (BI) platform, analytic applications and performance management software revenue reached $8.8 billion in 2008, a 21.7 percent increase from 2007 revenue of $7.2 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.Jul. 2, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 380 |
 Having used both sites for about two weeks, there is still a great deal I am learning to do with both Ulitzer and Ning, but a reader asked if I would do a quick comparison, so I will.Jun. 30, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,327 |
 I would not have written this blog in the year 2000 and by now I am highly opinionated towards Google, of course in a good way. During my graduation years (1996-2000), I used Rediff and Yahoo! search for my college projects, and ACM seminars. In the year 1996/1998, Google was known but...Jun. 30, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 650 |
 Even my 90 year old Grand Mother is aware that Microsoft have dominated software products. But where have they been in search? Microsoft Live Search handled about 9 or 10% of searches but that pales in comparison to Google's 60% and Yahoo! at over 20% of searches. But perhaps now, fina...Jun. 27, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 923 |
 The Chinese government has come down like a ton of bricks on that American icon Google, basically branding it a smut merchant, ordering it to block links to foreign sites and apparently disabling – at least sporadically – Google Search, Google Apps, and Gmail if not all Google services...Jun. 26, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 559 |
 The US Green Building Council sent a press release out today announcing that all buildings seeking LEED certification will be required to provide energy and water usage data on a recurring basis as a precondition to certification. The new requirements will be part of LEED v.3, which al...Jun. 25, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 203 |
 Most of us are unaware of the fact that Google toolbar Page Rank (PR) varies from Google actual (internal) Page Rank. Within Google's actual databases, each of your pages is stored and does have some form of numerical Page Rank calculated value. This is quite likely to differ from the ...Jun. 24, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 460 |
 We are very excited to bring to you Rebel Brown's Positioning eBook It's Not About You Anymore. Rebel Brown is a go-to-market strategist and Spin Doctor specializing in start ups, turnarounds and start-arounds in the high technology arena. She has helped to define, position and launch ...Jun. 23, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 256 |
 Search Laboratory, a British outfit, is managing the multi-lingual pay-per-click side of a pre-packaged service designed to help UK SMEs boost their international trade. With partners Google, Royal Mail, HSBC and the Institute of Export, it’s providing a service called Export Box meant...Jun. 22, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 501 |
 Since there are lot many websites that are activated on the internet on the daily basis, it has become to market them regularly. The search engine marketing and SEO are the tools generally used to do the marketing of the websites on the internet. However, the online market is also as d...Jun. 22, 2009 07:52 AM EDT Reads: 371 |
 An affiliate is someone who sells another businesses products or services on their behalf and/or provides leads for that business and gets paid a percentage of what is passed on or sold. You don’t have to deal with warehousing, customer complaints, pricing and so many of the other hass...Jun. 20, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 419 |
 Bing hasn’t exactly broken Google’s stranglehold on search but Microsoft’s scores are inching up thanks to it. According to comScore, Microsoft captured all of 9.1% of U.S. Internet searches the week before Bing was released, 9.1% Bing’s first week out and 12.1% last week and its share...Jun. 18, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 520 |
 It seems an age ago but remember back to last week when Google started a guerilla attack on Microsoft with a plug-in called Apps Sync for Outlook, which was supposed to let Google replace Exchange at the back end without it being the least bit obvious to Outlook users. Well, Microsoft’...Jun. 18, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 806 |
 I have been waiting for a worthy topic to make my first Ulitzer post and the events taking place in Iran are sweeping the Internet and world by storm. Below is an email providing a first hand account of the events that took place in Tehran on June 15th, 2009. My sincere hopes and wishe...Jun. 17, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 788 |
 The CIA and its black ops buddies have bought into Lucid Imagination, the start-up commercializing the Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies. Lucid says search is big right now in spy circles, particularly a full-text search engine they can tinker with like Lucene. Nobody’s saying...Jun. 17, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 447 |
 For the past 8 years I've been a great fan, user and evangelist of wikis. Wave picks up the original idea from old-time Smalltalker Ward Cunningham and moves it 25 years into the present. Wave is what Ozzie's Groove always wanted to be, but Ozzie missed the Internet, so it found a good...Jun. 17, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,212 |
 Solid Oak Software claims the Green Dam “censorware” that the Chinese government has ordered pre-installed on every PC sold in China starting July 1 contains programming code and proprietary encryption techniques from its anti-pornography CyberSitter package. In fact, it thinks that Gr...Jun. 16, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 529 |
 Although I think email is a good and measurable way to accomplish direct marketing, I also think we need better tools to filter the types of organizations sending email. Sometimes the best defense is to keep changing your email address similar to a witness protection program. Congratul...Jun. 16, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 430 |
| The initial response to Bing, Microsoft’s new 10-day-old search engine, is favorable. According to comScore, Microsoft’s share of U.S. searches was up two points from 9.1% to 11.1% after a week and Microsoft’s penetration of daily searchers went from 13.8% to 15.5%. Now the trick is to... Jun. 12, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 601 |
 I just read SYS-CON's response to the recent attacks in Fuat Kircaali's Social Media Terrorists blog entry. I realized the email quoted at the end of Kircaali's blog was also copied to Ted Weissman of Lois Paul & Partners, a public relations firm with clients in technology.
If this...Jun. 12, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,926 |
 We’ve all been there. Sometimes when you rebrand, you want to transfer your old domain to a shiny new web address. Many don’t realise though that you should actually ensure you transfer the age, authority and trust your site has in Google to this new web address.Jun. 12, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 469 |
 Rather than try to get the throngs of immovable Outlook and Office users to switch to Gmail and Google Apps, it’s going after Exchange with a new Apps Sync for Outlook plug-in that lets Outlook messages, contacts and calendar appointments sync with the $50-a-seat Premier Edition of Goo...Jun. 11, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 488 |
 Twitter is the dumbest thing I have ever seen, I can't believe my eyes. What is wrong with you people? Did you lose your minds? Get a job, do something, leave this stupidity alone. Now, I have to rescue my cell phone (blackberry) from the direct text messages and advertising spam, infe...Jun. 10, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,344 |
 As consumers, we’re loyal to our brands. Whether it’s Mac vs. PC, Nike vs. Adidas, or Starbucks vs. Dunkin Donuts, we like what we like. And it’s tough to convince us that some other product/service/website is as good as our favorite. Companies go to great lengths and expense to try...Jun. 10, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 311 |
 Last week I posted a PowerShell function library for Microsoft’s newly introduced search engine at Bing.com. The function library was appropriately named PoshBing. There was a log of interest in the script so I quickly moved it off my blog and onto a CodePlex project under PoshBing.
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 Google has hauled out a next-generation yellow enterprise Search Appliance based as usual on a customized firewall-protected Dell PowerEdge rack server. The Linux-based widget is supposed to have a new architecture and new software as well as new hardware but is still years behind bein...Jun. 5, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 746 Replies: 1 |
 A strange dynamic has taken hold on the internet. Just as people expect sunshine and air to be free, they also expect internet based software applications to be free. Ok, maybe not completely free… they agree someone should pay, just not them. Damn you Google, damn you Yahoo! ...Jun. 5, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 877 |
 Criminals have created accounts in Twitter and published thousands of comments in them under the topic 'PhishTube Broadcast' to push them into the ranking of most popular topics. These comments contain links to a spoof Web page used to propagate the PrivacyCenter fake antivirus. This n...Jun. 3, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 546 |
 Google, Yahoo, Apple and other big high-tech firms are under investigation by the Justice Department for “negotiating the recruiting and hiring of one another’s employees,” according to the Washington Post. That’s collusion and a nasty antitrust problem for them if true. The paper, whi...Jun. 3, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 692 |
 Carabiner Communications, a public relations firm serving start-up and fast-growth technology companies, has made available a new white paper to help business-to-business (B2B) companies launch social media programs to connect with prospects and customers. Entitled "Social Media: How B...Jun. 2, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 696 |
 Google didn’t kill HTTP. Neither did Colonel Mustard or Professor Plum. In fact, HTTP is still very much alive. Jun. 2, 2009 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 687 |
 Search Engine Optimization bridges the gap between search engine optimization and web development with their search engine friendly web design & development service that not only engages the user but ensures high visibility and traffic to client sites.Jun. 2, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 301 |
 "Mass psychology" scientists study this kind of phenomena and the "mass psychology of fascism" is of course the most famous lab case. The extraordinary experience SYS-CON Media lived through became part of a Forbes Magazine investigative cover story called "Attack of the Blogs" that fo...Jun. 1, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,151 Replies: 1 |
 2009 has proved to be very exciting when it comes to new features and enhancements. Many companies, especially big brands, have taken recession as a pause for self analysis and they have been constantly upgrading their infrastructures for the time when economics crisis will be over. Se...Jun. 1, 2009 05:10 AM EDT Reads: 710 |
 I recently posted a discussion topic on a couple of marketing-focused groups on LinkedIn. It was suggested that I post the info on the blog so that it could be more easily shared with others who might not be on LinkedIn (but I invite you to join in the Idiomatic: Conversation Marketing...May. 31, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 573 |
 Google has a new open communications and collaboration platform up its sleeve that the public won’t see for a few months called Google Wave. It combines features of e-mail, instant messaging and document sharing. Conversations, so to speak, wouldn’t be conversations any more; they’ll b...May. 30, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 811 |
 Although Google Wave is not open for public yet but after a preview at the features just introduced by Google I think Google Wave is much better, interactive, fun and less-hectic than some of today's top social media tools.May. 30, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,351 |
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