Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category
Twitter.com Fights Spammers
July 2nd, 2009 | 
Author: Power twitterers have learned that the best way to grow your list is to follow everyone you can. The unwritten rule is to at least follow everyone who follows you. If you don’t, the person who follows you may un-follow you if you don’t return the favor.
The problem here is that as your list grows, you end up with a bunch of garbage and you need a solution to manage all these tweets. Keep the ones you really want to read and hide the tweets from people you never really cared about. But to do that, you need a third-party tool. The most popular of which is probably TweetDeck.
Web Video Marketing Introduction
Video is all over the web, we all know that. But have you ever considered the value of having video on your website for promoting your business? If you do it right, your visitors will appreciate the video and you will gain some SEO benefit as well. Most Internet marketers are successful primarily because they use video in their marketing.
Your visitors love video. It shows them you put some effort into your website. It gives them more information without forcing them to read everything on your website. Video also creates an energy around your products. Motivating a buying decision is much easier with video. Of course your web page can also be designed to motivate a buying decision, but doing both is even better. Want to see an example of that? Check out the super pitchman Billy Mays on one of his websites. (note: I randomly picked one Billy Mays product, this is not an endorsement). Billy Mays has made dozens of product sites and they all follow this format. http://www.zorbeez.com
Posted in Search Engine Optimization, Social Networking, Web Marketing | 
Tags: billy mays, credibility, google, google.com, search engines, youtube, youtube.com | 
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Censorship or Anonymity, What’s the World Coming to?
Sony has begun shipping personal computers equipped with the Chinese-government mandated filtering software days before the July 1 deadline.
http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=13100C1G2AUA
The software, called Green Dam, is apparently designed to filter out adult content to protect the innocent minds of children in China. The linked article discusses vulnerabilities, but I’m not concerned about that. I’m concerned about how far they will go with this censorship technology and who in the world will adopt it in order to control free speech.
