Google, Digg, Facebook and Being Social

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Google’s “Nofollow” Rule

The “nofollow” tag, when added to a link, prevents from counting the link as such a “recommendation”, thus not providing any search ranking benefits to the site being linked to.

Rumor: Digg close to a $300 million sale

is close to announcing its sale to a major media player for $300 million to $400 million, according to sources close to the company.

Report: Google Organizing Less Than 0.02% of the World’s Information

The later study estimated that between 3,416,281 TB and 5,609,121 TB were produced in 2002, so there was a ~19% annual growth rate between ‘99 and ‘02. Assuming the same growth rate to present, somewhere between 6,869,341 TB and 11,278,629 TB of new information were produced in 2006. There were only 1085 Terabytes Organized by Last Year.

Facebook to Turn Users Into Endorsers

now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product.

The Social Enterprise - What Works, and What Doesn’t

Why should enterprises go social, and what are the compelling reasons for adoption?

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Google Buys FeedBurner?

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Weird. I hadn’t heard about this. I was reading my latest issue of Revenue Magazine the other day and I came across an article letting me in on the big secret. It said that they made the deal back in June. I did a little Google search and came across a few articles covering the issue.

I wandered over to the Official Google Blog and found the official statement from Susan Wojcicki, VP of Product Management. She said that is looking for more avenues to distribute ads for that AdWords customers.

I would say this is a very smart move, considering that is working on getting ads into website feeds. I have been waiting for that one for a while.

So, let’s wait and see what FeedBurner starts to shape up like. I always like to see the changes and enhancements to a product when something like this happens.

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