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2010 January 5

Internet marketing news from around the web:

Actuate Extends Community Collaboration with BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 on Latest News from AJAX & RIA Journal
Actuate Corporation has announced BIRT Performance Scorecard 9, the latest iteration of its Performance Management solution. BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 is a Rich Information Application (RIA) that fully integrates BIRT to bring the simplicity and…

Success with a Sitemap! on Latest News from AJAX & RIA Journal
Four or five years ago if you said to your web guru, “let’s make a site map!” You’d probably end up with a quaint-looking single web page that had a list of links and categories indexing your site. You can still find these from time to time. As it…

SEO Tips from a Guy Who Doesn’t Know SEO on Latest News from AJAX & RIA Journal
Aside from not blogging recently, I have been spending alot of time speaking with folks in the online marketing space as I work on building the go-to-market strategy and machinery for VMTurbo.  One area which I knew little about when I started…

Etherpad Now Open Source on Google Blogoscoped
Etherpad, the tool by the company which Google bought to add to their Wave team, has now been open-sourced. “Our goal with this release” writes Aaron at the Etherpad blog “is to let the world run their own etherpad servers so that…

Canaan Partners Backs MotorExchange on PE Hub News: All News
MotorExchange, a New Delhi-based online used vehicle exchange for the Indian market, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding from Canaan Partners. PRESS RELEASE MotorExchange, a “Used Vehicle Exchange” today announced the…

Discussion of Google’s Rumored $500 mill bid for Yelp on GISuser GIS and Location Technology news
More local for Google perhaps! Google is rumored to have tabled a $500m offer for local social network Yelp. According to Adam Bunn, Head of SEO at Greenlight, the UK’s independent search… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website...

Google Browser Size on Google Operating System
Google Browser Size is an experimental service that shows if a web page has interface elements that can't be viewed by a significant amount of people. "Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google. For...

Discussion of Google's Rumored $500 mill bid for YelpGISuser GIS and Location Technology news on Planet Geospatial
More local for Google perhaps! Google is rumored to have tabled a $500m offer for local social network Yelp. According to Adam Bunn, Head of SEO at Greenlight, the UK's independent search... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for...

Lessons Learned from a Hacked Google Account [Security] on Lifehacker
Digital Inspiration is an oft-linked blog here at Lifehacker, and its author is a very savvy digital worker. That said, Amit Agarwal learned a lot about safety precautions when both his Gmail and Google Apps accounts were hacked into. Agarwal’s not…

6 Search marketing experts on ClickZ on Search Engine Watch Blog
Articles from the December issue of SES Magazine are up on ClickZ. This practical advice from search and online marketing practitioners can be found in articles from the most recent issue of SES Magazine; these articles and more have been published…

How to Be A More Productive Blogger [And Add 37 Minutes to Every Hour!] on ProBlogger Blog Tips
This week, on a busier than normal day, I Tweeted that I wish there were more hours in a day (or that there was a pause button so that time could stand still for a bit so I could catch up). The tweet was of course an attempt at humor but the deluge…

SEO Expert Swears In Court That Google Uses Meta Keywords Tag on Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
I was pointed to a filed affidavit (PDF) between Jenzabar & Robert Maginn as the plaintiffs versus Long Bow Group as the defendants. In short, it seems like the plaintiff is suing the defendants over trademark infringement within a site’s…

Q: When is a White Paper Not a White Paper? on How to Hire a Writer
A: When you’re clever enough to get leverage from the content in other formats and forums. I was pleased to see that client Xiam Technologies was making excellent (re-)use of their white paper, “Make It Easy on Me – 3 Ways Operators…

Lead Generation Check list – Part 7: Effective lead management on B2B Lead Generation Blog
My checklist for optimizing the lead generation process so far has included six steps: the mindset of not pushing; repairing the rift between sales and marketing; creating the ideal customer profile (and the un-ideal customer profile as well);…

Why B2B marketers hate social media on Chris Koch’s B2B Blog
In a recent post, I offered some hard research data to support the growing importance of social media to B2B. But this time I want to address the legitimate concerns that ITSMA clients give us when we talk about the wonders of social media. The case…

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