A new search engine called Cuil is getting a lot of attention today, primarily due to one of the founders Anna Patterson and her previous employer. On Cuil’s management page we see that Anna is quite the hard core search geek:
Anna’s focus is on scaling architecture, tackling one of the major problems in […]
Working for a large company with popular brands we’ve been approached multiple times by brand stewards with the question/request regarding the syndication of the site’s content. It is understandable why this would be appealing for the business. Syndication on a major portal can bring in additional revenue, increase brand awareness, and increase site traffic. […]
I just read through a very interesting article by Marc Andreessen entitled “The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup“. This is a guy who knows what he’s talking about:
My specific experience is from three companies I have co-founded: Netscape, sold to America Online in 1998 for $4.2 billion; Opsware […]
I started out as a huge Bloglines fan. I use it throughout the day to get the latest articles and posts from all of the sites that I like…roughly 300 as of today. I used to think it was a really helpful aggregator that saved me time and kept me up to date with the […]
Was just making the casual rounds to Digg.com and noticed that the site is down. It’s 12:01 AM PST…..
Anyone else seeing this?
Wonder what’s up…..
According to Mashable iLike has become among the fastest growing music services, with over six million registered users, gaining a whopping three million just since the launch of its Facebook app only two weeks ago.
iLike has gotten a reported three million users since its launch last October, and its growth is exponential, now that it’s […]
There’s a new meta search engine on the block: Sputtr. It doesn’t really matter as everyone uses Google, but my initial reaction to it was positive. I like the design and layout of the website…it has a “web 2.0″ feel to it. Big font. Bright colors. Etc.
It’s a fairly user friendly interfact that allows you […]
Not much time to post, but check out this excellent article by Muhammad Saleem at Copyblogger.com entitled “Writing Headlines for Regular Readers, Search Engines, and Social Media“.
He breaks down the three styles and shows some good examples of titles and headlines.
delivery?
How To Distinguish Paid vs Organic Listings
A lot of people probably don’t even realize that the listings are paid and not organic. The listings themselves may look the same if the manager has used the same Titles & Descriptions for their pages. You can be identify these paid listings by this in the […]
Jason Calcanais launched a new human edited search engine called Mahalo.com.
There is a lot of coverage out there, including Andy, Tech Crunch, ZDNet, Threadwatch, Mashable, and Search Engine Land to name a few.
But I think Brian at Scoreboard Media said it best. Check out his review here…it’s classic.