links for 2007-09-30

Google Earth Easter Egg: Flight Simulator The latest version of Google Earth has an easter egg: a flight simulator. It’s not quite like Microsoft Flight Simulator, but it’s a promising start. (tags: videogames GoogleMaps blogpost) Google Earth spots classified Chinese submarine New super-secret Chinese ballistic-missile Jin-class submarine docked at a Xiaopingdao naval base in China has been discovered by [...]

I Want A Healthy Serving Of Statistics With My Social Networks

I live and die by statistics. I use Google Analytics and Webmaster, Statcounter, Performancing Metrics, MyBlogLog, Feedburner, AddThis, ClickTracks and other for that very reason. I’ve got great statistics for my web sites, blogs, and RSS feeds; so why can’t I have them for my social networking and media sites? The video sharing sites like Google [...]

Google Trends Gets MUCH More Useful For PR Pros

Google’s tool for tracking search term popularity, Google Trends, just got a lot more useful by updating their search term data daily rather than monthly, reports Mashable. The upgrade to Google Trends also includes a Hot Trends tracker that shows you the 100 most popular search phrases for a given day and even look deeper at [...]

AOL News Beta Integrates Social & Conversational Media

My daily contact with AOL is the start page that launches when I open the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) program. I scan that page as well as Yahoo! Instant Messenger’s start page to see what headlines teens and young adults are seeing. Last week, an intriguing headline on the AIM start page  caught my interest [...]

links for 2007-09-24

Social Media and User Generated Content From the ad:tech Miami presentation: "Social Media and User Generated Content" with Pete Blackshaw, Chief Marketing Officer, Nielsen BuzzMetrics. (tags: mp3 socialnetworking socialmedia cgm citizenmedia podcasts ecast) The Wisdom of Sales Trend Predictions The Sloan Center for Internet Retailing, part of the University of California, Riverside, will announce a new Web site tomorrow [...]

Haste Makes Mistakes

I’ve received two comments about the inaccuracy of my last post, Google Docs Explained In (Ripped Off) Plain English. In that post, I said that Google had appropriated Common Craft’s wonderful "In Plain English" format and style to produce a video explaining their great Google Docs service. Had I simply watched the entire video, I [...]

Google Docs Explained In (Ripped Off) Plain English

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Google must really like Common Craft’s Lee LeFever  because they’ve totally ripped off his "In Plain English" gig. I’ve posted LeFever’s wonderful explanatory videos before and I will again, but I came across this derivative video produced by Google that explains Google Docs, which recently added [...]

Search Traffic Convinces NY Times To Adopt Pure Ad Revenue Model

The New York Times announced yesterday that they would discontinue their TimesSelect online subscription program and open up nearly all of their content to the online world for free. For $49.95 a year, subscribers had access to the paper’s columnists’ articles and the archives. There will be fees "for some [archive] material from the period [...]

Emoticons – An Essential Online Communication Tool :-)

Emoticons Originally uploaded by d.rex The humble smilely face emoticon [and it's opposite: ] turn 25 years old today. The text symbol for happiness,  approval, and humor was invented by Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman twenty five years ago today as a tool to avoid misunderstanding of [...]

(Not So) Daily SearchCast – Search Engine Marketing Podcast

Danny Sullivan Originally uploaded by dannysullivan I’ve been remiss, dear readers. Last month I said I was going to do a series of posts about my favorite Internet marketing podcasts. Consider this post the second in the series…and I’ll try to do them more often. I’ve been listening to the Daily SearchCast for several years  but it [...]

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