The 2000's (or the noughties) have seen the start of the end of a number of technologies people have taken for granted – some for over 2000 years.
Business Insider just did a post on 21 things that went bye bye (or at least seriously started to contemplate the end… they fudged the meaning of obsolete just a bit).
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So, what is your thought on this? Let me know!
There's not much to argue against the steady and significant rise in use and significance of review sites like Yelp, Praized, etc. People like getting non-biased opinion from other "regular" people when they are looking to spend their money.
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YouTube is the top dawg of Video distribution sites. YouTube serves around 80+% of all the video viewings on the internet. That popularity means it offers both a large opportunity and a serious challenge.
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YouTube has been running ads at the bottom of videos for awhile now. I find that they are unobtrusive and I have no problem clicking the quit "X" button which removes them from the video. Greg Sterling over at Screenwerk has a short article about a YouTube advertising test.
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I have the "pleasure" of having a cellular provider in Canada who benefit greatly from the government sponsored quadopoly in cellphone provision.
Here's a customer appreciation promotion that I received by email today – they were also texting me about it at the same time.
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SEO as a business is plagued with scammers (they almost always cold call by phone or email) and people who think they can do SEO cheap and cheerful. They invariably are using software that essentially spams the internet or have a virtual team in another country that produces non native English speaker type content.
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Our recent article on how Google uses your IP address to customize your search results, prompted a couple questions from friends on exactly how that works. I was going to delve into to it a bit more and then I found a good article that describes how it works; and much more! (mmmmmmm, Geekiness!)
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In a back to the future moment, last week Google (through the personage of Matt Cutts at PubCon 2009) announced that site speed might become a ranking factor in 2010. And "Here's the pages we've built for you to learn about speeding up your website". There's a fine article exploring this over at Vertical-Leap's SEO blog.
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What's your next move, after having read this post?
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I had me some ideas to improve this program… and I'm calling shotgun on the Google StreetView BigWheel!
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- StreetView HoverBike Today!
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- StreetView HoverBike Future
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- StreetView Water Skipper
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- StreetView Segway
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- StreetView BigWheel
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Again with the new stuff from Google!
Here's a video from Matt Cutts at Google on the new Google Social Search.
What Does This Mean To Your Local Small Business?
How about you, what do you think?
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