Tweets on social media optimization, search engine marketing, digital media and Kansas City for the week ending August 20, 2010.

• Can Foursquare survive the launch of Facebook Places? So far, so good. Mashable
• ‘Google allowing one domain to dominate the first page of search results on some brand-related searches.’ Search Engine Land
• Facebook Places lets you check in, tag friends who are with you, see if other friends are nearby.
• Walter Mossberg: ‘I’ve been testing (Facebook Places) & found it easy to use & reliable…w/logical privacy controls.’
• Corporate blog? Five reasons to do so: Thought leadership, use of human language, building depth, links, fresh content. ClickZ
• [4-Square Lite?] ‘Today Facebook is likely to show off what it has been working on in geo-location arena.’ AllThingsD
• TechCrunch: ‘Dear Internet, please stop clicking on the damn Twifficiency link.’ [Even @MarissaMayer succommed!]
• ‘In the upcoming days’ Microsoft begins the “organic transition” to Bing-powered search results on Yahoo. adCenter
• Facebook moves into the No. 3 spot in the US for video viewers behind Google and Yahoo. comScore via Inside Facebook
• Are your employees harnessing the power of social media for your company? Search Engine Journal
• ‘Explicit Core Search’ numbers are out with Google down slightly, Yahoo up, Microsoft flat. AllThingsD
• TechCrunch: ‘Google CEO thinks people are going to change their names as a way to distance themselves from their past.’
• Eric Schmidt on Google’s challenge: ‘Preserve the franchise in Web advertising when search is outmoded.’ WSJ
• AllThingsD: ‘Multiple sources indicate that Facebook will finally be rolling out its own geo-location offering’ on Wed.
• In a ‘casual statistical look’ at advertising pricing, Cision says newspaper rates rose 15.8% from ’09 to ’10.
• Gr’So You Have Their Attention On Twitter… Now What?’ Eva Liu Doleshal on the Group 3 Solutions blog.
• Google works to ‘separate fact from fiction’ with myths and facts about net neutrality pact with Verizon.
• Twitter launches their Tweet button today ‘to make sharing simple.’
• Hey Tweens. Turns out Mom’s a lot cooler than you thought. MediaPost
• Internet, schminternet says Jeff Jarvis about the Google-Verizon agreement. [Meaning he is baffled.]
• ’4 Lessons Small Businesses Can Learn from Apple’s Antennagate.’ Mashable
• It’s not you, it’s me. Really? ‘Five options that can help you analyze when and why people unfollow you on Twitter.’ Mashable

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