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Entries from May 2007

Totally Sweet LinkedIn Additions

May 11th, 2007 · No Comments

TechCrunch reported on an awesome feature from LinkedIn which shows you essentially who has viewed your LinkedIn profile. I had fifteen people view my profile recently - here are five:
* Someone in the Internet industry
* Director Business Development in the internet industry
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Tags: Web Business

Poshify Rocks the Party of Blog & Ping

May 8th, 2007 · No Comments

What do Weblogs.com, Technorati, Feedster, Moreover, Bulkfeeds, Feedburner, syndic8, Weblogalot, Blogdigger, BlogRolling, Britblog, TailRank, TopicExchange, BlogPeople, BlogsNow, IMBlogs and Google have in common? They all get pinged when you use Poshify.com!

Sphere: Related Content

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Tags: Web Business

Yes Big Brother, I did steal a grape at the grocery store

May 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Chris Sherman (Search Engine Land) has an interesting look at how Exalead just added image search and facial recognition capabilities to its search engine. Oh, the privacy concerns. Where’s Ben Edelman now? Oh, that’s right - he’s still thinking about popups.
FROM SEL:
Exalead, a search engine that’s popular among librarians and information professionals thanks to its […]

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Tags: Reviews · Web Business

PeteSearch For Firefox

May 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I could not dare pass this one up. There’s a new Firefox add-on that works with Ask.com, Google.com and Live.com and it’s called PeteSearch - YES! Here’s a summary from ResourceShelf:
What does PeteSeach offer?

1) PeteSearch will find the links that point to external pages that the engine has found. The plugin will first check to […]

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Tags: Web Business

Edelman = Captain Obvious

May 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Ben Edelman released a report indicating that popups are artificially inflating traffic statistics. Really? Shocking!
While this may seem completely obvious to those in the Web marketing/promotions industry, you would be surprised at how many media buyers I know personally that still prefer to purchase inventory on visits alone instead of the more accurate metric […]

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Tags: Web Business