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Search engine optimisation (SEO) campaigns and social bookmarking may not initially seem like strategies which can work together, but one expert suggests that combining the two can hold a range of benefits.Writing a guest post for Search Engine Land, BlueGlass's Jordan Kasteler comments that "combi Read More

It was great to present at the Sphinncon conference today alongside Kelli Brown, Tal Siach and Miriam Schwab – I’ve posted my slides and tips below to share with everyone online:10 tips to improve your social graph for search Read More

Last year, we introduced our new workspace on Assembla and announced our intention to store all of the Open Source elements of the splatforms.com infrastructure in their Subversion repository. Since that time, we have not done much more with our Assembla space other than to take advantage of the fr Read More

Innovation and change on the Internet happens at a blistering speed. Remember GeoCities, Webvan or Kozmo.com? When online grocer Webvan went bankrupt in 2001, today’s biggest social media companies, Twitter and Facebook, didn’t exist.The Internet continued its evolution in 2010. In this week’s colu Read More

It surprises me how many really smart people I meet still doubt the power of Twitter.It seems the urge to be a naysayer of Twitter is really strong for some. I think some of this stems from the early days of Twitter when it was presumed that it was a technology to tell people what you ate for lunch Read More

Last month, we published a list of the target web sites that we had accumulated up to that point, with a promise to go back and update the list on occasion, as it always seems to be evolving as time goes on. After giving that idea some thought, it now seems like the more appropriate [...] Read More

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is my favorite social bookmarking system. It’s simple and unassuming. It’s also one of the first web apps that used tags for organizing content. But there are recent speculations that Delicious is being shutdown by its owner, Yahoo!The service started small, and sta Read More

The idea behind PageRank is that if a page is important, other web pages will link to it. The more important the linking page is itself, the more weight (“link juice”) that link would have. This system works amazingly well, instantly bringing up relevant pages for almost any search, without giving Read More

Threadsy gets $2.9M for one-stop social networking: The San Francisco-based startup has raised a second round of funding to help users manage all emails and social network updates in a single place, according to an SEC filing. Threadsy, which works in a web browser, gave users the option to “dislik Read More

In my last post, I discussed the origins of social networking online, beginning with CompuServe, Prodigy, the Well, then the rise of AOL, Geocities and Yahoo Groups. Next began the era of “spam-based” networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Co-founded by Sean Parker (yes, the same Read More