Friday Favorites 1/12/07
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- Chacha gets funding - reported by Andy - Jeff Bezos is making a wise investment. Ironically enough I sat next to Brad Bostic on my plane ride to SES San Jose - and told him most the ways SEO’s would likely try to game his engine. They actually have a pretty cool idea - and is a good engine to watch, if one of the big three doesn’t buy them out first. On a related note - Trexy is pretty cool too.
- Brian likes young techie guys "I live in a bizarro traffic building world where the web activity of the 18-30 year old male demographic determines billions of dollars of purchasing and marketing decisions of a couple hundred crusty, old, outdated white guys." - another priceless post.
- I really don’t know how Rand finds time to work writing about expectations of launching a new domain - as well as an excellent article on keys to online success (it really does seem pretty simple, huh?) Scott, the new mozzer is off to a nice start with a post on brainstorming linkbait as well.
- Brian Clark introduces the SEO 2.0 copywriting series with Permission Marketing 2.0
- Brian Mark has the solution for the Sandbox - the Onebox!
- Oilman vs. Shoemoney smackdown- duking it out over blackhat/whitehat and SEO BS.
- Chris Hooley is on my list of blogs for comic relief - and addition to being hilarious - the man is HUNGRY. More laughs available from Hugh MacLeod - are you the next google?
- Werty is contributing to good causes - if I ever decide to stop just taking from the world Kiva micro loans sounds like a good idea.(you should definitely get a dog dude).
- Kathy Sierra - What comes after usability? - *note to self - bookmark more of Kathy’s excellent posts
- Going viral to build defensible traffic from G-dub.
- Good thinking - John googles his customers
- WidgetsLab - looks like a cool site to inspire new widget ideas
- Tips for getting media interviews from Jolina at the TopRankBlog
- Cache date as new google pagerank - Please Aaron, don’t tell them, they’ll take it away or start sending misinformation
- Scott Orth has a relatively new site - and discusses the pros and cons of working for yourself
- Warming up to analytics series - Todd’s summary - Buy clicktracks today (free trial link) - and I didn’t use my aff link just so you’ll trust the opinion
- Daniel talks web 3.0 - mobile media
Anybody else got favorite stuff from this week?
5 Comments
Brian Mark
January 12th, 2007,
5:24 pm
Wow… I made the list two Fridays in a row.
I see you brushed over all the PR is broken posts. They made me laugh anyway, even if they weren’t worthy of a mention.
David
January 12th, 2007,
6:09 pm
Hey Todd
ChaCha has a pretty cool idea with the guided search.
I went and tried it out and it was a good experience.
The service was good. Although it took awhile for the guide to find what I was looking for. That is understandable though, since it was a very specific request. Once he came back with the results, they were real good and relevant.
I ask if you can submit an url or if you have to wait for a bot to find you. He said wait for a bot.
I tried out the normal search and thought the results were good, but the index is very small. That is to be expected I suppose since they are very new.
Thanks, I will keep a eye on them.
Stuntdubl SEO
January 12th, 2007,
11:16 pm
You mean toolbar pagerank isn’t accurate Brian?
Bill Kelm - Brokerblogger
January 14th, 2007,
7:55 am
“Oilman vs. Shoemoney smackdown- duking it out over blackhat/whitehat and SEO BS.” - How does all this affect the reputation of the overall Search Marketing Industry? Can “A house divided against itself will fall” be applied to any extent here, from the perspective of an “outsider” marketer looking in for the first time at Search Marketing?
Happy New Year, Todd.
Brian Mark
January 17th, 2007,
6:57 pm
Yes… toolbar pr being broken for a few days wasn’t worth a link from your Friday favorites. If it stayed broken longer than that, maybe. But all the “Sky is falling” posts were worth a laugh.