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Is Sarah Lacy Making Sponsored Posts on TechCrunch?

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If you read TechCrunch, you may have noticed a post this weekend about Blueprint Cleanse, a health product designed to cleanse your body. On the surface, the piece seemed to be a  “California” lifestyle piece, however, after doing a bit of research it turns out there’s a lot more intrigue, questionable journalistic ethics, and deception [...]

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New Website ViralConversations.com

November 6, 2008

So if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been the past week, I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a new website ViralConversations.com. The idea behind Viral Conversations is putting business owners who have a product or service, in touch with bloggers who are interested in reviewing it. The difference between this website and other website [...]

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Digg’s Most Valuable Asset is User Data … Who Else But Google Needs That

July 26, 2008

As much as I loathe rehashing news stories I’ll throw my hat into the failed Google buying Digg story.

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SMX Social and Charity Party

September 25, 2007

Are you coming to SMX social in NY on October 16th and 17th? Did I mention I’m going to be speaking along with other people like Rand, Rebecca, Neil, Cameron, Chris and whole bunch of other people too? Did you know Stephen Spencer will also be there, and he always drops some good tips. So [...]

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Looking at Sphere Blog Search and the Sphere It Bookmarklet

May 2, 2006

I filled out an invite to be part of the beta program for Sphere blog search a long time ago when Steve Rubel mentioned it back in October. I never was accepted but I was notified this morning it was live and I could blog about it after 7am so here goes.

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Google Current and Google Zeitgeist

April 25, 2006

So there I was cruising over to Google Zeitgeist hoping to find some data on local searches and I’m still upset that Zeitgeist doesn’t have an RSS feed (Hey Matt Cutts if hook you up with some Red Bull’s in Vegas can you make that happen for code jam 2006?) and I stumble across Google [...]

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IStockphoto Acquired

February 10, 2006

I can’t see how you could be a player in this space and not have heard of Istockphoto, but hey I guess it’s possible. They have one of the largest most diverse library of stock photos all available for about $1 a pop. [...]

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US Government Wants Google’s Data

January 19, 2006

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone as it was bound to happen sooner or later, but the US Government wants Google to turn over some of it’s search records and history.
MercuryNews.com Feds after Google data
The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of [...]

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Live Blogging the Golden Globes

January 17, 2006

Is blogging. especially live blogging considered journalism? As the great Jedi Master Yoda said “Difficult to see the future is, always in motion, the blogosphere clouds everything…”. Ok well not exactly but he did say something close. The question still remains though is [...]

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Internet Based TV Network

January 15, 2006

Earlier this week Google launched Google Video, a service which allows you to download and play videos. Some big time players are participating in the distribution like CBS and the NBA. While some of these videos are free many of them have a nominal download fee (currently $$3.95 or less). This puts them on a [...]

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MSN Live Email Screen Shot

January 1, 2006

I’ll admit I don’t use my Hotmail account for much of anything anymore but here’s a screen shot of what the new MSN Live email screen looks like. It works pretty much like an Ajax style Gmail.

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Jeremy Zawodny in Dell Hell

December 31, 2005

Jeremy Zawodny seems to be going through his own version of Dell Hell right now, and anyone who spent 60 minutes on the phone with a call center in India can empathize with his situation. However I’ve said this before (Bloggers Influence on [...]

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John Battelle: Google and AOL Lame or are Telling Porkie Lies

December 23, 2005

In Case you missed it Google “clarified” some of the issues about the AOL partnership on their blog. Now John Battelle wonders if there isn’t a bit of “interpretation” going on
 John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Clarifies

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Washington Posts Extends Free Archives

December 23, 2005

While the New York Times has a decidedly schizophrenic approach to online content (making the old stuff subscription based, but publishing a free real estate blog). The Washington Post is at least moving in the right direction (WashingtonPost.com Extends Free Content Window)

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World Wide Web Now Serving Over 1 Billion Users

December 19, 2005

According to Usability Guru Jakob Nielsen the internet now has over One Billion Users

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Marc Antony Laptop Ransom, and Possible J. Lo Pictures

December 19, 2005

According to Engadget Marc Antony’s laptop was stolen and is being held for ransom. Since the alleged perpetrators are asking for a cool $1 million speculation is running high that some juicy pictures of J-Lo are on the laptop. Could this be another case of someone reverse engineering some celebrity passwords?

Hey, I still get traffic [...]

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Google Top 10 SERP Algorithm

December 18, 2005

I got it on a very reliable source that post AOL the Google algorithm for the top 10 SERPS is going to look pretty close to this.
$URL(1) = “AOL.com”;
$URL(2) = “Weblogsinc.com”;
$URL(3) = “Amazon.com”;
$URL(4) = “Wikipedia.com”;
$URL(5) = “Ebay.com”;
$URL(6) = “Craigslist.com”;
$URL(7) = “About.com”;
$URL(8) = “EPinions.com”;
$URL(9) = “Bizrate.com”;
$URL(10) = Random_Blog();
RANDOMIZE($URL);

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Got Dugg, Kinda

December 17, 2005

My post over on Threadwatch about What Google gave up to Get AOL got Dugg, pretty kewl!
Digg Story

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Technorati Goes Deeper

December 13, 2005

Has anyone noticed Technorati going deeper than they used to? They also seem to be moving much quicker. I run a vanity search for my nickname to see if anybody mentions me [graywolf] and lately I’ve noticed it’s picking up my name from any posts I make at threadwatch and even comments I made on [...]

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Graywolf Interviewed

December 9, 2005

Aaron Pratt who runs SEO Buzz Box has been interviewing SEO folks like Jim Boykin, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, and Smart It. Earlier this week he asked me to do an interview, So if you’re in the mood to hear what I have to say check out my interview.
I find it kind of funny hownobody [...]

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