A week of search engine marketing, advertising, analytics and Kansas City Tweets (ending 11/13/09).

• What to do if your boss follows you on Twitter? Guardian via WSJ: http://bit.ly/3drnt9
• We’re not hermits! Pew: ‘heavy Internet and cellphone users have larger and more diverse social circles.’ Via WSJ: http://bit.ly/lpdWq
• ‘As resolution…increases, we want to make sure YouTube is the best home on the web.’ 1080p HD. YouTube blog: http://bit.ly/2FVbpR
• Good read from TechCrunch in a 14,510-character post about 140-character Retweets. http://bit.ly/47RlG5
• Three Things YouTube Has Learned From Pre-Roll Video. Advertising Age – DigitalNext: http://bit.ly/2pioo0
•  [Good news for parents] Google now ‘lets you lock your SafeSearch setting to the Strict level of filtering.’ http://bit.ly/4cNmSF
• ‘What do you think “social” on YouTube means, and where would you like to see it go?’ YouTube blog: http://bit.ly/2Va9FB
• Bing updates: Wolfram|Alpha integration, enhanced hover preview, full Page weather/events results. Search Engine Watch http://bit.ly/2AyoZr
• Walmart, GM, GE, Comcast, Eli Lilly, Kellogg Co., MasterCard, Nestle, Disney … all ‘Beat to the Tweet’ by squatters. http://bit.ly/36gSR5
• ‘Local traffic is where the money is’ and ‘Social Media is Taking the News Local.’ Mashable: http://bit.ly/35eiae
• ‘About 29% of the total worldwide internet population (ex China) will be active Facebook users by the end of 2009.’ http://bit.ly/31GWPJ
• Did your city make the list? Kansas City didn’t. Google offers ‘Free WiFi for the Holidays’ at 47 airports. http://bit.ly/14D1ll
• Realtors ‘fighting back against the idea that consumers might be able to use the Internet to bypass them.’ WSJ: http://bit.ly/39YAZs
• ‘Full Caffeine roll out will happen after the holidays,” blogs @MattCutts of the latest Google index update. http://bit.ly/2KT2um
• LinkedIn/Twitter deal lets you send selected status updates from Twitter to LinkedIn. http://bit.ly/2GxSfS
• More bad news for Kansas City: Sprint to cut up to 2500 positions as calls to customer care recede. http://bit.ly/2Ig615
• ‘Did you know that the average American adult eats 22 teaspoons…of sugar a day?’ Dobies Healthcare Group blog: http://bit.ly/2ccC5w
• Will the grand ol’ Rockhill Tennis Club in Kansas City make it? Economy, re-location … sadly, it looks like it won’t. http://bit.ly/p5HqH
• “Facts about Google’s acquisition of AdMob.” http://bit.ly/1bhINz
• Google buys AdMob because it has ‘built a thriving company with great mobile advertising products.’ http://bit.ly/1Y1Cfy
• Publishers usually want content to be found, says Google, but if Murdoch wants it blocked, he can. Search Engine Land. http://bit.ly/32h8lo
• Coming soon: LinkedIn for BlackBerry Home, Search, Profile, Messages. ‘By the end of this year.’ http://bit.ly/14XHRr
• Getting more out of LinkedIn: Mashable offers 7 tips on better reaching the 50 million LinkedIn users. http://bit.ly/kn5Ml
• Heard of ‘Movember?’ Learn how it is ‘Changing the Face of Men’s Health, One ‘Stache at a Time.’ Dobies Healthcare: http://bit.ly/2vdpcx
• Weekly Tweet Roundup from Group 3 Solutions. Search Engine Marketing, SMM, electronic public relations, Kansas City. http://bit.ly/2m39DG
• Murdoch to hide sites from Google? ‘We’d rather have fewer people coming to our websites, but paying.’ Mashable: http://bit.ly/6hdAr
• Nice ClickZ interview with Erik Qualman: Facebook more users than U.S. has population; social more popular than porn. http://bit.ly/1BiPKz
• Useful email marketing lists from ClickZ: 9 rules for success, 5 elements of success, 10 reminders. http://bit.ly/3Ujd08

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