Tag archives for search engines

Australia Enterprise: list of business online communities

A “top list” of social networks and online communities for business and corporate. Not blogs – they must have community features of many-to-many discussions, leaders, UGC etc.  Here’s my Australian list: Aussie Innovation – drupal site with forums and so on. Aussie Tycoon – vBulletin forum for entrepreneurs Australian Businesswomen’s Network – run mentoring programs [...]

Does Obama really do social media?

Politics and social networks don’t mix?And if they do, how do online communities have a say, and aren’t just ‘used’? I’ve have my doubts about Obama’s commitment to social media. Oh, not to social network marketing – the pushing out, on social media broadcast channels like YouTube and Twitter, of widgets and press releases. But [...]

Search Engine Marketing vs Social Search

Those poor darlings at ADMA had to sit and listen to me waffle on about how Web 2.0 social media, social news, social bookmarking and social search were going to change their world. As they hadn’t yet learnt about Search Engine Optimisation (also, apparently, called Search Engine Marketing), and as social search is not yet [...]

New York Times, Australian Financial Review and advertising

I heard about this on Wednesday – anyone told the Australian Financial Review yet? (Here are my previous pieces on AFR here and here). On Tuesday at midnight this week the New York Times released its archives since 1987 from behind the previous for-pay wall that kept those archives from being searched. Already, it is [...]

Bloggerati Australia: Australia vs the world – web 2.0 technology

Seven years ago, I lived in Singapore. I was there for nearly two years. And even back then, their adoption of technology was impressive. If I rang for a taxi, the automated system would ask me if I was 1. calling from home 2. calling from work, or 3. calling from elsewhere. Then it would [...]

Search: Social Media Optimization(SMO) and Search Engine

some of the many many many faces of flickrOriginally uploaded by fubuki. I wrote a couple of days ago how the war between the traditional search types (how funny to say that now, ten years on) and the new social media search evangelists. It’s been on the boil for a while, but search: social media [...]

Video: Scoble on Living in a Google World

Long Post cos I liked this video: Robert Scoble has a blog called Scobleizer. A book called Naked Conversations:How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers (with Shel Israel) From Amazon Robert Scoble helps run Microsoft’s Channel 9 Web site. He began his blog in 2000 and now has more than 3.5 million [...]