“We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us” M. McLuhan
I believe that many of you who are professional bloggers, journalists, scientists, researchers, scholars, strive to become more productive and efficient writers. Having in mind the fact that writing is one of my top five professional activities, I would like to share some of the simple and practical tools that I use in the writing process, and that can facilitate your productivity.
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A group of Facebook engineers, along with engineers from Twitter and My Space, have rebuilt Google’s new personalisation feature head on by offering a bookmarklet that integrates other social networks data from Social Web into searches.
The bookmarklet is called “Focus On The User” and compares Google’s recent Search Plus Your World to those that would be, the engineers say, more relevant.
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Wolfram Alpha is known as the math student’s best friend. It is a free online search engine that answers some of the toughest math questions. If a student was unable to derive a specific equation, this was the place to get it done for them.
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As SEOs it is our job to explore every opportunity to increase our client’s traffic and CTR, concentrating only on Google search is not a smart idea. In my humble opinion SEOs that focus only on Google are not doing their job properly.
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We wrote earlier this week about the 18 January blackout protests world wide of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act). Also, the international Global community reported about it, and TED has released a video of professor Clay Shirky called “Defend Our Freedom To Share (Or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)”.
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The immense size of on-line social networks and their operators’ restrictions on user bandwidth makes actually counting the number of users each serves prohibitively expensive if not impossible, which in turn makes it difficult to measure the effectiveness of initiatives such as marketing campaigns.
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Microsoft Research releases social network platform which resembles rivals. Is Microsoft bringing anything new to the table or is this just another ‘me too’ attempt by the software giant with too much money?
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Wikipedia, an online free-content encyclopedia, the largest self-organised and self-sustained collaboration system on the Internet, announced that the site will go down on January 18th for 24 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, contemplated this idea earlier, but has had a final decision following the announcement that Reddit — the Web news and aggregation site — will black out its services in protest of online piracy bills on Janury 18th.
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In an attempt to provide users great content, Google is testing a new feature, called authorship support. Google hopes that this new feature will benefit both authors of content and users who are looking for quality content.
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