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  • Facebook working on Search, Google still MIA on Social

    I’ve written several times before about the ongoing merger of Search and Social and I expect it’s something I’ll write on a good deal more over time because I think it’s one of the biggest industry changes we’re facing and has the potential to fundamentally change the way people find information online.  Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg…

  • Science, Jazz, and Education

    So I’ve been in New Orleans for the last 5 days for a mini-vacation and for the most part I’m in love with this city.   The food is amazing, there’s live music everywhere, and I haven’t had this much fun in ages.  It got me wishing that there was a way I could be based…

  • Development without Constraints

    A co-worker just shared this video with me, it’s all about the Content Repository API for Java, a new-ish standard for building databases that’s gaining market share in Europe. The standard is open sourced and you can store anything and access the data however you want. The system supports strong typed data, as well as…

  • Socializing your SEO

    Originally posted on the Involver Blog at http://blog.involver.com/2012/06/28/socializing-your-seo-2/  Socializing your SEO I have written here before about the interactions between SEO and Social Media, and it’s a topic I expect to write quite a bit more on over the next several years.  At root, both SEO and Social Marketing are designed to do the same thing…

  • jordanmusic.com

    John Jordan is an absolutely amazing artisan and I’ve been a fan of his work for a long time.  So you can imagine how excited I was when he agreed to barter a new website and a custom facebook app for one of his gorgeous instruments.  After going back and forth quite a bit we…

  • Security Culture

    Most websites today run on non-secure connections (http instead of https) most of the time – and that’s just fine. Browsing pictures of cheeseburger-craving cats doesn’t require a secure connection because the user isn’t sharing any sensitive information. Even e-commerce sites usually only use secure connections for the actual transactions- no one cares what shoes…

  • Is Twitter Censoring the Revolution?

    (Originally posted on the Involver blog at http://blog.involver.com/2011/09/29/is-twitter-censoring-the-revolution/) At this point pretty much everyone who works in Social Media has read at least a couple articles talking about the role played by Twitter and other social media sites in coordinating and publicizing protest movements around the world. Social media has been alternately credited and blamed for…

  • SEO & Social Media Part II: When Elephants Battle

    (Originally posted on the Involver blog: http://blog.involver.com/2011/09/14/part-ii-when-elephants-battle/)  Last week we discussed the increasing role of social media in Search Engine Optimization. These trends are part of a larger seismic shift that is occurring in the SEO world as both Bing and Google increasingly factor social media weighting into search results. We ended with the observation…

  • SEO & Social Media Part I: The Silk Road

    (Originally posted on the Involver Blog: http://blog.involver.com/2011/09/08/seo-social-media-part-1/.) A lot of people think of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as something that you add on to a site, maybe with a paid service that re-writes your meta tags and headers for you.  In this approach you build your site, you add content to it, and then the last…

  • Facebook vs Google: What Will It Take To Win?

    (Originally posted on the Involver blog: http://blog.involver.com/2011/07/25/the-battle-between-facebook-google-what-will-it-take-to-win/ In past blog posts I’ve written about the challenges of figuring out when it’s right to cross the chasm and make the leap into unknown territory. Knowing when the right time is, can of course be a challenge. Jump too early to a new platform and you risk sinking…