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We Feel Fine / Movements The system searches newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence and graphically displays it in a several ways. (tags: blog blogs community fun visualization feelings feel) Summary of [...]

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Optimizing for Blended Search: What You Need to Know – SEOspace – Organic Search Engine Marketing with a B2B Twist (tags: SEO searchengineoptimization universalsearch search blendedsearch tips) Internet is Top Resource for Health Information – iCrossing The study finds that one-third of online health searchers use social media resources, and that search engines dominate as [...]

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On Friday DRM took its last gasp and died as Sony, the last of the big four, announced that it would begin to sell it’s catalog on Amazon.com as mp3s. Who knew that it would all end so quickly? DRM had been under fire for years when last February Steve Jobs posted his Thoughts on [...]

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Based on these two articles, that both appeared in the same email this afternoon, it seems that we have a little disconnect. Positive Outlook for Marketing Spend, Better Accountability and Analytics CMOs are upbeat about spend levels, saying they’ll be mostly holding steady or trending upward in 2008. Ad Execs Pessimistic about Ad Budgets for [...]

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Election Prompts Melding Of Old And New Media – 01/14/2008 Television networks teaming up with social networking sites for 2008 election coverage has had mixed results. (tags: politics socialnetworking election2008 television) addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fttrumble.com%2Flinks-for-2008-01-14%2F’; addthis_title = ‘links+for+2008-01-14′; addthis_pub = ‘TTrumble’;

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WatchMouse web site monitoring service – Social networking sites slow and inaccessible WatchMouse found that many online social networks have poor site performance, leaving users waiting for sites to load or encountering errors. Facebook was the worst performer; recording a slow load time and more errors than any other monitored site. (tags: facebook social statistics [...]

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How Many Twitter Accounts Do You Have? Who knew multiple Twitter accounts was so common. I’ll reconsider my usage. (tags: twitter microblogging) NewsGator Upgrades RSS Readers, Provides Them for Free NewsGator has decided to offer all of its RSS readers for free, including the newest versions of NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile and [...]

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Micro Persuasion: The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging The Lazysphere is a group of bloggers who rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another “me too” blog post. In 2008 let’s strap back on our thinking caps and get our blog mojo [...]

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Some of data points that I didn’t call out in my earlier posting about Keller Fay Group and Bazaarvoice’s survey of 1300 online reviewers were that 90% write reviews in order to help others make better buying decisions, and over 70% want to help companies improve the products they build and carry. These findings dovetail [...]

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The value of user comments and reviews in driving trust, spreading the word and encouraging conversion has been pretty well documented, but now there’s data on the overwhelmingly positive nature of these reviews. A study from the Keller Fay Group and Bazaarvoice finds that in their survey of 1300 reviewers positive reviews outweighed negative reviews [...]

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