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Tweet Roundup Thru 09/16/09

September 17, 2009 by Darrin Widick 1 Comment

Group 3 Solutions Twitter imageWhat we’ve Tweeted for the last week …

  • New: ‘Google Lets You Tell Them Which URL Parameters To Ignore.’ Improves canonicalization. Search Engine Land
  • Add Tweets to your blog with Twitter Widget Pro. Group 3 Solutions continues our series on helpful WordPress plugins.
  • Captured. By Google. reCAPTCHA.
  • TV commercials too loud? Channel-to-channel noise level variation? SRS Labs has the solution. We need this!
  • ‘Integrated workflow,” says Adobe of Omniture purchase, ‘will streamline the creation and delivery of relevant content.’
  • Facebook reaches 300 million users (70% outside U.S.) and is now ‘free cash flow positive.’ Perhaps $500MM in rev. WSJ
  • TNS Media Intel (via AdWeek) reports that ad spending fell 14.3% in the first half of 2009. Internet display up 6.5%.
  • WSJ: J.P. Morgan estimates that Web analytics revenue will grow from $600 million worldwide now to $2.2 billion by 2011.
  • Fast Flip from Google ‘allows users to scroll through screenshots of news articles.’ Google to share ad revenue with partners.
  • Nielsen (via Search Engine Land) says Bing rose to nearly 11% marketshare in August. StatCounter says 9.6%.
  • Bing asks, ‘Why type when you can see?’ Announces visual search beta. Does require an install of Silverlight.
  • In uTest search competition, Google wins in every category. But Bing favorably surprised 30% of testers. (Via Mashable)
  • Almost real-time Google search tip posted by Search Engine Land (it’s a little tricky but worth knowing).
  • Google XML Sitemaps Plugin for WordPress continues our series of Group 3 Solutions posts about the blogging platform.
  • SIZE matters, Yahoo wil say to prsopective advertisers, in an ad campaign to launch Sept. 22 during Advertising Week.
  • We go beyond Twitter and Facebook to discuss other social sites. ‘Social Networking Roll Call’ by Eva Liu, Group 3 Solutions.
  • On status updates, FaceBook users now ‘can tag connections by using the ‘@’ operator, just like Twitter.’ Inside Facebook.
  • Inside Facebook: FB Lite is mostly for slow conections, but also ‘Reveals Bigger Changes Afoot.’
  • Kudos to Kansas City’s mobank ‘a financial institution with a cool vibe … a natural fit to utilize social media.’ Mashable.
  • Touching. ‘Make History is a collective telling of the events of 9/11 through the eyes of those who experienced it.’
  • MediaPost: Study finds 57% plan email marketing in 2010 budget, 56% social networks, 50% keyword search, 42% radio.

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