A weekly roundup of our Tweets about social media optimization, search engine marketing, digital media and Kansas City.
- 300,000 iPads sold on first day, about the same as the 270,000 iPhones sold on the first day in 2007. WSJ
- Financial analyst: 70% chance Apple will build/buy a search engine for the iPhone in next 5 years. SearchEngineLand
- Survey says that 86% of us ‘believe the decibel level increases when a show gives way to a commercial.’ AdWeek
- [Do Over!] WordPress unfollows everyone it was following on Twitter, turns off auto-follow, starts re-following. WordPress Blog
- WordPress 3.0, Beta 1 is out. Includes merge of WordPress and WordPress MU. Multiple sites soon to follow!?! WordPress Blog
- Kevin Lee at ClickZ asks if we shouldn’t take ‘Engine’ out of Search Marketing to better reflect our what we do.
- Search Engine Land takes a look at moving beyond SEO to Conversion Optimization. Search Engine Land
- Methodist Healthcare launches neurosurgery Tennessee page.
- ‘The value of checking in will go down over time.’ Like social networking fatigue, is check-in fatigue next? Wall Street Journal
- Yahoo to outsource some aspects of search and content of its health channel to Healthline. Search Engine Land
- ‘Trying to find the big influencer w/big audience is really just old mass marketing in a cheap dress.’ Jeff Jarvis
- Mossberg: ‘iPad can replace a laptop for most data communication, content consumption, limited content creation.’
- Even though we aren’t in Kansas anymore (never where), Topeka us to see how close we live to Google, Ks!
- Yahoo steps up its news coverage with the hiring of prominent journalists; Opens new bureau in Washington. New York Times
- The New YouTube: Leaner and Less Cluttered.
- The cloud and climate… Greenpeace: ‘IT industry holds many of the keys to reaching climate goals.’ Nick Carr via WSJ
- Facebook Update: Users Will Soon “Like” a Page to Become a Fan, not “Become a Fan”
- ‘U.S. House Members Ask FTC to Investigate Google Buzz.’ Mashable
- iPad hits Apple Stores , Best Buys on Sat., 4/3. Jobs: ‘We can’t wait for users to get their hands & fingers on it.’ Apple iPad News Release
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