A week of Tweets about search engine marketing, advertising, analytics and Kansas City, through 11/01/2009.

• Twitter lists are live, allowing ‘users to create groups of Twitter users into categories.’ Search Engine Land
• The ’slew of product roadmap announcements’ from Facebook have ramifications for ‘all page and brand managers.’ Inside Facebook
• What Garmin did to paper maps, will Google do to Garmin? BusinessWeek looks at ‘Google, Garmin, And Free Navigation.’
• MapQuest has refreshed their map styles, enhancing the ‘map-viewing experience.’
• Google Analytics changes: Engagement Goals (reaching an involvement ‘threshold’) and Goal Sets (totaling 20 goals).
• A distant 4th in the search-engine horse race, Diller says he’d be willing to sell Ask.com. WSJ
• Yahoo testing real-time search, but may be looking to OneRiot instead of Twitter. Washington Post
• ‘Is the youngest person in your office your social-media expert?’ WSJ takes a look.
• Concerned about upgrading in WordPress because of plugin compatibility? Check out this feature.
• The DMOZ/Open Directory Project is still around. So, what is it? Nice summary at Search Engine Land.
• Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle.”
• AOL has 3000 journalists on staff. Ready to ’spew out’ content in a secret new CMS project. TechCrunch
• ‘Not Helpful At All’ is how 63% of US small biz execs rate social media for lead generation. via eMarketer
• Newspaper circulation down 10.6% in 6 months. WSJ moves to No. 1, only top daily with an increase. AP
• ‘How easily can real-time search turn into real cash?’ NY Times
• Joe Posnanski blogs about the difference between golf and other sports. ‘Golf looks easy.’
• Our friends at Dobies Healthcare Group ‘connect the dots’ in this post for hospital marketing leaders.
• ‘Internet relic’ GeoCities takes its last byte on Monday as Yahoo ends the free website building service. Mashable
• To go along with Twitter agreement, ‘Bing Search Engine Cutting Status Update Data Deal with Facebook.’
• Google has ‘reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results.’
• Bing now has ‘access to the entire public Twitter feed and (has) a beta of Bing Twitter search for you to play with.’
• On our Group 3 Solutions blog, we take a took at ‘Keyword Placement for Organic Optimization.’
• Can you outsource SMM (Social Media Marketing)? Virginia Nussey at Bruce Clay Inc. takes a look.
• Back from Baltimore and loving Southwest’s EarlyBird Check-In. don’t have to do online check-in EXACTLY 24 hours prior to flying.
• Blogging platform WordPress still working on 2.9, but ‘back-ports’ some security updates into version 2.8.5 .
• ‘More Powerful, Flexible and Intelligent’ Google Analytics.  We like 20 goals per profile!

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