Date Archive: May 2007

Remarkableness changes the relationship between prospect, customer, and marketer.

Todd Andrlik’s Power 150 is a great resource.

Microsoft announces a no-mouse no-keyboard computer.

Jott is a free transcription service, converting calls to email.

To erase permanent marker from a white board, first draw over the mistake with a dry erase marker, then erase.

SEO tip from Google’s Maile Ohye: for human and spider friendliness, keep the number of links on any given webpage to 100 or less.

I enjoyed speaking this morning at the AMA’s Hot Topics In Search Marketing. There are still some seats available for the last city on our tour: Chicago on June 22.

Titles matter a great deal for online marketing: for pages, for products, and for posts.

I much prefer the old positioning and look. Your thoughts?

A repost of a SEL article, suggesting that opacity is Google’s Achille’s heel, and that Extreme Transparency is the solution.

Interesting ideas: Fabjectory, AlternativeConsumer, GoLoco, and MooBella.

I want to offer offer public and enthusiastic thanks to my fellow ACCM panelists: Anne Vargo (CDW), Karen Crist (DMInsite), Brian Smith(SingleFeed), Cam Balzer (DoubleClick/Performics), Craig Kronenberger (iCrossing), and Kim Painley (Kinetic).

I had the honor of presenting with CDW’s Anne Vargo this morning at ACCM in Boston.

Simon Nynens, CEO of Wayside Technology, speaking about service and execution at ACCM.

Jimmy Wales on WallStrip: “The main thing wrong with Google is that everything is secret, proprietary, closed. Search should be open.”

Vecosys reports rumors Google is buying Feedburner.

Google announces Universal Search, a move to integrate different search products into the core Google search results page. Also: interesting timeline search and geography search over at Google Experiments.

Blog fonts: small, medium, or large?

This post describes how to compute optimal bids in paid search.

Stuart Brown explains the power law observed in Technorati ranks.

I’ve been thinking recently about how one’s perspective influences what one sees.

From Todd Andrlik, a six minute video on a British subliminal advertising experiment.

Google Reader is the primary tool I use to read blogs. Here is how I use tags to organize the feeds I’m following.

On May 25th, I’ll be speaking at the AMA’s Hot Topic Series on Search Marketing in New York.

Hate bad captchas, hate ‘em! Yes, let’s defeat the ‘bots, but please, consider the usability implications.