Can social media activity affect organic search rankings?
Facebook Launches Open Graph Action Links For Apps
marketingland.comFacebook applications will be getting a bit more customized thanks to a new Open Graph feature, action links. Instead of just liking an actionable item, apps will be able to leverage the Open Graph Platform to customize the links that a…
Facebook Edgerank: what marketers need to know
econsultancy.comPosted 03 May 2012 11:29am by Kelvin Newman with 0 comments
It’s been nine months since I wrote the original Ultimate Guide to the Facebook Edgerank Algorithm. I was amazed to see the reaction to the piece.
It clearly…
Traditional CRM vs social CRM (Infographic)
econsultancy.comPosted 03 May 2012 16:12pm by Luke Brynley-Jones with 0 comments
Over the past two years Our Social Times has hosted social CRM conferences in London, New York and Paris.
It’s a fast-growing industry with many specialist…
Pinterest: Top 100 Digital Marketing Boards
Ph.Creative, ph-creative.comWe all know that Pinterest is the rising star of the social space and growing at a breakneck speed. We also know that the use of Infographics is becoming one of the most important and popular ways to illustrate and share ideas on Socia…
C&A Brazil puts ‘likes’ on coat hangers
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The problem with Google's feature creep -
Barry Adams, barryadams.co.uk
As of today, Google has started showing credit card affiliate links in to its search results. Do a search for ‘compare credit cards’ on Google and chances are you’ll see a box below the ads with some credit card deals on which Google earns…
‘Stop and Search’ app aims to keep tabs on the police
By Ian Steadman, wired.co.ukTechnology
Three developers from Tulse Hill in south London have build an app that aims to give the public a way to hold the police more accountable.
Stop and Search UK, built by first-time developers Aaron Sonson, Satwant Singh Kenth…
As with all services like this, that put the onus on the reviewed, it is possibly open to bias - will the people that contribute information be more likely to be negative? …or is just any stop and search a negative experience? This will be interesting to look at when data is collected.
Universes, multiverses and string theory -
Ok, so this isn’t digital marketing…but it’s about another of my interests - physics.
This TED Talk is fascinating and shows us that there might be more than one universe out there.
“Is there more than one universe? In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics (starting with a big one: What caused the Big Bang?) have led to the theory that our own universe is just one of many in the “multiverse.”
Brian Greene is perhaps the best-known proponent of superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in a higher dimensional space-time create every particle and force in the universe.”
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13% of Google UK searches now include author images
econsultancy.comPosted 30 April 2012 12:03pm by Graham Charlton with 1 comment
The use of the rel=author markup to create enhanced listings in Google’s SERPs is growing, with 13% of searches now showing author images in the top 100…
Has the internet run out of ideas already? -
John Naughton, guardian.co.uk
The internet has delivered much, but now seems in a state of inventive stasis
Earlier this year, American legal scholar Tim Wu published a sobering book: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. In it, he surveyed the…
How Well-Run PPC Campaigns Reveal Valuable Inside Information to Competitors
searchenginewatch.comAlthough it seems counter-intuitive, the better PPC campaigns are managed, the more they actually reveal about the company’s inside information. Those individuals who effectively manage these campaigns, at first glance, seem like t…
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