landscape

Yahoo! has been a very influential provider of social services online for quite some time. Over the last few years they have either created or purchased online social sites, here is a quick breakdown of some of the major start-ups and acquisitions:

I was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion titled, “What Advertisers Want” at the PostieCon conference in Las Vegas, hosted by Payperpost – which has recently changed their name to IZEA. 

My first session of BlogWorld was Chris Heuer and Marshall Kirkpatrick presenting "Understanding the Social Media Landscape." Social media Web sites are places where people, businesses and organizations can connect with each other. Chris described some of the tenets of social media:

Online Marketing Blog’s coverage from day one of Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2007 Who is the biggest engine? Who’s growing? What verticals are better than others and what does this all mean? Those were a few of the questions talked about in the the Search Landscape session.

Session talkers at SES San Jose 2007 bounded around the topic of the search landscape: what's popular, and who's the most used among the major players in search.

Recently the the seo community has been abuzz with news that the Yahoo/Overture keyword tool has not been functioning and that it may be gone permanently.

In the e-commerce game, there is a lot of talk of eyeballs. Like in other visual media, the more eyeballs focused in one place, the more valuable that place becomes. The darlings of e-commerce to date have been search engines, but industry experts are seeing trends that indicate the portal is coming back in a big way, and search is the gate before the front door.

As part of our ongoing Industry Development Initiative, GreenBUILT Research & Development has created the following profile in an attempt to describe what it takes to make it as a second generation SEO.