This time I'm in Madison, WI. I've never been here before, it's a nice place. I'll be back at it Thursday. Melanie will post a roundup today……
Google Enterprise Professional Program Enterprise gains a host of professional partners contributing additional services, including data recovery, archival search, intranet development, SAP integration and security. Included among the new partners is MetaCarta. Its addition to Enterprise, for example, will allow users in government, energy and enterprises to retrieve from…
Google Enterprise Professional ProgramEnterprise gains a host of professional partners contributing additional services, including data recovery, archival search, intranet development, SAP integration and security. Included among the new partners is MetaCarta. Its addition to Enterprise, for example, will allow users in government, energy and enterprises to retrieve from Earth ‘unstructured content’—such as HTML, Word docs, and emails. For $10,000 a pop, professional subscribers gain access to installation, customization and training for enhanced features in Google Search Appliance and Mini.
Y! Finance better looking, bloggier
Google's starting its march into video advertising. For a preview, read my Tivo/Peg Perego scenario… In the coming days, we will be adding click-to-play video ads to the line-up of text, Flash and image ad formats currently supported by the Google content network. Now, this is the start of…
In the coming days, we will be adding click-to-play video ads to the line-up of text, Flash and image ad formats currently supported by the Google content network.
Now, this is the start of something important. It’s not on Google.com, yet, but it’s going to be all over AdSense, and I bet in Google image search and other content sites (Finance) quite soon.
Read MoreTwo items of very related interest today: 1. Wired News Releases Full Text of AT&T NSA Document (Slashdot). 2. Gonzales Says Publishing Leaks Is A Crime (Also Slashdot) Thank God for outlets like Wired. And best of luck….
1. Wired News Releases Full Text of AT&T NSA Document (Slashdot).
2. Gonzales Says Publishing Leaks Is A Crime (Also Slashdot)
Read MoreYow! From CNN: Personal information on 26.5 million veterans was stolen from the home of a data analyst in what appears to have been a random burglary, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Monday….
Personal information on 26.5 million veterans was stolen from the home of a data analyst in what appears to have been a random burglary, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Monday.
File this under "really f'ing irritating." I have probably 50 or so accounts I use on the web – from Wordpress to MT, Wells Fargo to AdSense to AdWords, to lord knows what. And I tend to mix up my passwords a bit. No, well, a lot. And I…
All of this is made worse by Firefox and its ilk, which remembers passwords for you, so you can forget them entirely until, of course, your browser is borked or you’re on a different machine.
Anyway, all this came rushing back to me when I read this post by Xavier at Sun. Seems Meebo users are a lot like me:
Read MoreI get mail from folks from time to time asking me for help finding just the right SEO/SEM consultant. Often they don't want to hire an agency, yet, they're instead looking for an individual who has business experience and marketing smarts, someone whose brain they can pick to help…
As you may know I direct a group of brands, one of which is (very cool, well known brand). We have had considerable success over the last few years on all fronts, yet as you know well, the marketing of brands is constantly shifting with the growing importance of the web.
(Very cool, well known brand) is now embarking on a complete review and plan for its internet strategy, and one component that is needed urgently is great consultancy on its search engine optimization and key word search marketing plans.
Could you recommend who I am our team could work with to develop these plans? I don’t think this is an agency but a person/consultant for whom this work would be a day or so of consultancy, then leading to a more regular (one day a month) consultancy. If this person then leads us to an agency (we have a media agency at present doing regular media) for this piece then that is fine, or even to the hiring inside the company of a person or people around the constant need to be first and best in class in this category.
Read MoreMicrosoft Live (Search) Desktop Microsoft announced its version of an integrated-search desktop that can scour the desktop, corporate network and internet. It's now available to download. "Windows Live Search" is the tentative title, but the product is apparently separate from the other beta by the same name, which is…
Reader JG notes this disturbing incident, an echo of my privacy scenario post. Michael Michalski worked for Allegheny County, Pa., as an emergency dispatcher. He began running searches on the internal computer network and databases to locate his former girlfriend…A supervisor… became aware of Michalski's misuse of government databases…
Michael Michalski worked for Allegheny County, Pa., as an emergency dispatcher. He began running searches on the internal computer network and databases to locate his former girlfriend…A supervisor… became aware of Michalski’s misuse of government databases and placed him on a deferred suspension….Because he still had access to the databases before his suspension began, Michalski continued to gain unauthorized access to personal information about Phillips….Then, while on suspension, Michalski phoned his co-workers at the call center, who allegedly helped him continue the database lookups even though they were aware it was for an illicit purpose.
On Oct. 29… the supervisor met with Michalski and confronted him…Later that day, Michalski shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Ferderbar, and her new boyfriend, Phillips, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.
Searchblog readers pretty much made Web 2.0 what it is, at least for me….you came and supported the ideas, speakers, and companies, and you joined a conversation that I find one of most stimulating in the industry. This year promises to be our best yet, and I know that…
This year promises to be our best yet, and I know that sounds, well, predictable. But so many forces are coming together, and there’s so much to talk about, it can’t help but be one hell of a dialog.
Today the site is open for registration. If you’ve been before, or were on the original invite list from last year, you’ve already gotten your invite. If you didn’t get one, or have changed your email, or just want to come for the first time, head here and request an invite, and tell them you came from Searchblog when you do (there’s a place to do that).
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