Discussion with Bruce Clay and Mike McDonald about Behaviorial Search at SES NY 2009

March 31, 2009 Blogging

Mike McDonald of WebProNews sat down with Bruce Clay on camera at Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York and discussed behavioral search or as Bruce calls it personalized search. The video is under 15 minutes and is worth grabbing a cup of coffee and watching.   Bruce also discusses how his new free tools and SEMToolBar will help you faciliate [...]

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YouTube: Trouble with Twitters

March 26, 2009 Blogging

This funny video about Twitter is making it’s rounds on YouTube. Too funny to not post it. I think I even heard Danny Sullivan tweet about pickles yesterday. At first I thought it was odd to tweet about pickles, but now it makes since. About the Author: Bill Baker

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RIM BlackBerry Bold 9000 is Coming to Sprint Someday

March 23, 2009 Smart Phones

I did a Google search this morning looking to see if Sprint was any closer on coming out with the new BlackBerry Bold.  My search was blackberry bold sprint and the first two results were from infosyncworld.  They showed that the AT&T version was released in November of 2008 (we already knew that), but show that [...]

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Google Plans Interest Based Advertising

March 12, 2009 Online Marketing

Google has announced a new ‘interest based’ standard for its AdSense marketing platform. The browsing, shopping and viewing habits of internet users will be analyzed, and on-line advertisements will be matched to their patterns. The intent is to feed pertinent ads to viewers, rather than the current, mostly random loading of on-line ads. For example, [...]

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Attending SXSW Interactive? Must Read Article

March 10, 2009 Internet Conferences

Tom Parish posted a great article over at MarkesOfConversation.com titled 13 Tips to Make your Time at SXSW More Productive and Fun.  It’s a great read and worth the short investment of time. If you attend SXSW Interactive please drop back by and post a comment to let us know what you thought about it. [...]

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Facebook Updates Look to Compete with Twitter

March 6, 2009 Social Media

Facebook is undertaking a redesign of its page in an effort to keep up with the surging popularity of Twitter. While widely acknowledged as the leading professional networking engine, Facebook is concerned by Twitter’s recent success in guerilla/viral marketing, evidenced by its increased use by large corporations and celebrities. Speed and ease of updates, along with [...]

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Kumo.com, can it take Mircrosoft above third place in Internet Searches?

March 5, 2009 Search Engines

Satya Nadella, senior vice president of research and development for Microsoft’s online services division sent an email Monday to Microsoft employees encouraging them to begin testing the revamped search service that has been dubbed kumo.com.  The testing of Kumo is only available on the internal network at Microsoft. Mr. Nadella stated that he feels 40% [...]

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Tom Parish Interviews Dave Evans Author “Social Media One Hour a Day”

March 3, 2009 Social Media

This interview is 7:45 in length. We chat in my studio about SXSW 2009 this year, the rise in people suddenly adopting ’social media consultant” titles, and comments about his book “Social Media One Hour a Day”. This was shot with a rental camera I was testing and I didn’t get the focus as razor [...]

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4webresults.elawsystems.wpengine.com Got a New Look Today

February 23, 2009 Website Promotion

Now that the site is has been upgraded we should be posting more content on the site.  Working on the upgrade of the site took longer then expected and took us away from posting new content for the past few weeks.  We are planning to be adding a “true” mobile site just like what we [...]

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Learning from Others – Countdown to SXSW2009

February 11, 2009 Internet Conferences

Here in Austin we have a social media guy who published a book in 2008 that is full of practical advice. His name is Dave Evans; his book is “Social Media, An Hour a Day”. Fifty-five practical, hands-on exercises walk you through a step-by-step process to an effective social media plan built by you, for [...]

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