Tweets on social media optimization, search engine marketing, digital media and Kansas City for the week ending August 1, 2010.
- Survey questions give insight on New York Times’s thinking on upcoming paywall. All Things Digital
- In new Suggestions for You feature, Twitter uses algorithm to recommend people ‘that you may find interesting.’
- Kansas City dedicates Founder’s Plaza at the ‘New Arrowhead’ today, with NFL Commish Roger Goodell on hand. Kansas City Business Journal
- Bloomberg: Facebook ‘will probably put off its initial public offering until 2012′ as it grows user base, sales.
- Smart phone apps, digital wallet initiatives turning phones into payment devices in Silicon Valley tests. Wall Street Journal
- Forrester follows-up as Location Based Social Networks report generates a lively conversation.
- ‘Everything that isn’t on the Web or on your TV screen’ isn’t enjoying as much of an advertising comeback. AllThingsD
- RIM’s CEO says his new product will make ‘anyone that looks at it…say ‘I want a BlackBerry.’ All Things Digital
- We at Group 3 Solutions dedicate Tweet No. 1000 to our blog post about our 1000th Tweet.
- Avis was proud of being No. 2 in car rentals. Blekko would be proud to be No. 3 search engine, says Danny Sullivan.
- Facebook analyzes top 100 media sites with FB social plugins, develops list of best practices. Inside Facebook
- ‘Launching the totally redesigned Explorer through Facebook was the most effective way to get the word out,’ says Ford.
- ’35% of all Ask.com queries are in the form of questions;’ 4x other engines. In beta on new Q&A offering. Search Engine Land
- Yahoo/Microsoft alliance gets a slap in the face as Yahoo Japan taps Google to power search. AllThingsD
- ‘Once you build (LinkedIn) into your media plan, you’ll be surprised by how well its campaigns can perform.’ ClickZ
- ‘The time for marketers to get involved (with Location-Based Social Networks) is coming.’ Forrester
- Good SEO tips for blogs from Cision.
- Mizzou grad AJ Schnack and team are ‘nearing the final shooting phase’ on his doc about Branson. indieWire
- Bing to webmasters: Check how your site is showing up in search on Yahoo! & Bing today as we prepare our transition.
- Google to FTC: Newspapers have a business problem, not a legal one. They don’t need a bailout or special protection.
- Campaign: ‘What’s The Worst That Can Happen?’ Answer: You could lose the Dr Pepper social media account. Guardian
- Google’s long-term wind deal ‘gives wind farm developer financial certainty to build additional clean energy projects.’
- “You can’t walk out your house without bumping into a social-media expert today.’ Who will win out? WSJ
- Apple, ‘whose obsession with secrecy borders on monomania,’ opens up the antenna design & testing center. AllThingsD
- Facebook buses carry workers from 7 a.m. to midnight … and the neighbors don’t ‘like’ it. Palo Alto Online (via WSJ).
- [This may make us go to our first Karaoke bar!] Jewel undercover for Funny or Die.
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