The Republican presidential candidacy is still far from decided, based on the split primaries and mixed polls so far. So here's another source for trying to figure who's really pulling ahead -- the number of new Facebook fans that each candidate is getting, according to the Inside Facebook Election Tracker.Mitt Romney is finally making some strong gains this month, in contrast to his Facebook performance over December. By "strong gains" I mean he's been attracting a roughly similar number of f…
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As just about everyone should know by now, the seeds of what grew into Facebook were planted at Harvard. Might there be a bunch of mini-Zucks lurking in the dorms of Cambridge? If so, a new venture capital firm — the first housed right on the Harvard campus — wants to find them.
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The Windows release of Kinect is coming up in a couple days, but for most people that won't be a major event: the Kinect they have is sitting on their TV or in a drawer, waiting to be taken out for an impromptu Dance Central 2 party. Of the 10 million Kinects out there, the only ones connected to computers are the ones being fiddled with by the various hackers and students making science projects out the things.But according to the Daily, Microsoft is hoping to remedy this particular situation…
- 13 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:39pm -

Yesterday's announcement that Twitter would be selectively censoring tweets based on country was not well-received. But part of that announcement was the assurance that the process would at least be transparent. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.They also mentioned that they were working with Chilling Effects to make notices and orders sent to Twitter publicly available. At the time of the post yesterday, the site wasn't up yet, but you can now browse it at chillingeffects.org/twi…
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Y Combinator has just announced the newest partner to join the prestigious firm: Geoff Ralston. Ralston's previous credentials include founding Four11, which was acquired by Yahoo back in 1997 for $96 million and served as the foundation for Yahoo Mail. Ralston spent eight years at Yahoo, eventually becoming Yahoo's Chief Product Officer. Several years after leaving Yahoo he was named CEO of Lala, before it was acquired by Apple in 2009.Most recently he cofounded Imagine K12, a tech incubator…
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The Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls & Steve Gillmor - is recording live today at 1pm PT. Recording has concluded.
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Wuh oh, Samsung — better watch your tail. While Apple might not be seeing any impact (be it positive or negative) on iPad sales from the launch of the Kindle Fire, Samsung's Galaxy Tab ought to be feeling the heat.Tapping into the data provided by their app analytics platform (which they estimate has found its way onto around 90% of the Android devices out there), Flurry highlights a few surprising numbers.
- 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:45pm -

This meme is certainly making a strong case to be one of the biggest of 2012. Sure, the first episode of “Sh*t Girls Say” was uploaded at…
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The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…
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An extensively choreographed “It Gets Better” music video — set to Lady Gaga‘s “Hair” — gained stea…
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The make-believe town of Beckinfield is the setting for the Mad Libs-style show of the same name, which uses crowd-sourced amateur actors from a…
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It’s no secret Apple, one of the most valuable public companies in the world, is making major cash off today’s tech gadgets — but how mu…
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It’s not always clear how Facebook apps interact with the data you share on the social network. Are they allowed to broadcast it? Sell it?…
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Twitter‘s new approach to censoring tweets has users rallying around the hashtag #TwitterBlackout — a call to boycott the micr…
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Posted by randfishHaving content that goes viral can seem like the luck of the draw, but there are a number of steps you can take to improve your odds. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we will show you a few things you can do to increase your chances of having that well crafted content spread through the internet like a wildfire. Thanks for watching and don't forget to leave your comments below.Video TranscriptionHowdy SEOmoz fans. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Frid…
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Posted by Tim GriceThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.The title of this post may come across a little contentious, however I hope by the end of it you understand where I am coming from.Over the years, I have been privileged enough to work with some large businesses that can afford to throw big budgets at…
- 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 10:04am -

Posted by Dr. PeteJust over a week ago, Google launched a massive change to search personalization, Search Plus Your World. Along with this change came a new toggle switch to shut off personalization. Below the Google search box and above the results, you’ll see something like this:The default, person icon is personalized results, and you click on the globe to shut off “your world” (I won’t comment on how little sense that makes). Of course, we already had personalized results an…
- 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 7:34pm -

Posted by JoannaLordFor the past year retargeting has been getting some serious attention. I've been fortunate enough to speak on it at a variety of shows, brainstorm over coffee with some cool companies and even blog about how to use it and how to leverage it for SEO.  No matter who I am talking with or what the venue the number one question asked is "Who should I use for retargeting?" Over the past two years some retargeting companies have really emerged as leaders. While we haven't us…
- 4 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 9:23pm -

Posted by jhammackThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.Videos Indexed in the SERPDid you know that major search engines want you to make video sitemaps for all of your embeds, even if you're hosting on Vimeo or Youtube?Not only does it help them spider your website by giving the search engines clues as…
- 4 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 10:26am -

Posted by randfishEarlier tonight, I sent out the following tweet:Have any questions about search, social, content, conversion or analytics you want answered? I'm taking requests for the Moz blog tonight :)— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) January 24, 2012I was clearly under-prepared for the amazing responses. In order to tackle such a magnitude of great questions, I'm giving myself some rules for replies.If I don't have a good answer, I won't tackle the question. For example, Nat…
- 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 10:55pm -

Posted by willcritchlowIn the real world, things go wrong. While we might all wish that everything we did was "fix once, stay fixed", that's rarely the case.Things that were previously "not a problem"(TM) can become "a problem"(TM) rapidly for a variety of reasons:someone changes something unrelated / without realising it would impact you or just screws up (e.g. deploying a staging version of robots.txt or an old version of a server config)the world changes around you (there was…
- 6 days ago, 22 Jan 12, 10:38pm -

Two weeks ago, Google launched Search Plus Your World. Since then, Google has faced strong criticisms that SPYW is making its search relevancy worse and favoring its Google+ social network too much. Not so, says Google search chief Amit Singhal. Most Google users are happy, Singhal said. Of course,...Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
- 7 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:11am -

Bing is reportedly now out of betaphase in Deutschland. According to Microsoft, Bing has 10 million users or 20 percent of active internet users in Germany: Mittlerweile benutzen fast 10 Millionen Nutzer in Deutschland regelmäßig Bing, das sind 20 Prozent der aktiven Internetnutzer hierzulande....Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
- 13 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:27pm -

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search In Pics: David Beckham At Google, Google’s Moscow Office & Bing Bar In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled...Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
- 14 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:58pm -

Search Marketing Now will present “Mobile Search: The Agency Opportunity,” on Tuesday, January 31 at 1 PM EST. The free webcast features Steven Schuler and Patrick Peters, both from Yahoo!’s mobile division. They’ll give an overview of the current mobile landscape, then...Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
- 14 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:57pm -

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. David Beckham At Google: Google’s Moscow Brick Desk: Bing Bar at...Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
- 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:14pm -

Marketers have had a couple weeks to digest their fourth quarter numbers and assess their successes and failures from a period that can be a whirlwind, particularly in the retail sector. Now, with Google’s Q4 earnings report and Yahoo’s out, we’re getting a chance to compare our...Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
- 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:07pm -

The debate about what should — and shouldn’t — show in a Google search result for “santorum” has been well-documented, at this point. But I’d like to use this now famous search to illustrate something else: how it appears Google is taking its eye off the ball of...Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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