In its attempt to outrun the pace at which Google+ is expanding, Facebook has now come up with the “smart” friend lists. Smart being the operative word here as it auto groups your friends into these lists. The purpose behind this is simple, to bring together friends that share or shared a common platform.
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Googler, Jed Burgess has announced that if you have the latest version of Google Chrome “you can now talk into Google Maps to look for places and get directions.” For now this service is available in the U.S. alone and is extended to English language users only.
In the aftermath of the civil disorder that gripped London and a number of other English cities last week – it included murders, assaults and a great deal of property destruction and damage – attention is firmly on the system of justice in England and what’s happening to the thousands of people arrested and charged with an offence of one kind of another, typically looting or doing criminal damage.
Google had announced to roll out Call metrics for its users in the USA and Canada. Yesterday I received mail for the same.
Here’s how the email reads:
You know the old saying, “It’s not the size of your Facebook fan page, it’s how you use it?” There’s a lot of truth to that. For nearly 18 months, we’ve been tracking the Top 50 Branded Facebook Fan Pages purely by size.
This morning I saw a post on Facebook – a friend was confused about all of the “#” (hashtags) he was seeing in Facebook statuses. I remember a few years ago, when TweetDeck first allowed users to share the same update to Twitter and Facebook, I was sure to not send a status update to Facebook that included a “#”. But now, are users incorporating hashtags into their Facebook status as a new social norm? Is “#WINNING” in your Facebook status no longer a #FAIL? …Heh.
Last month, Twitter and Facebook made some moves to hide RSS feeds and put focus more on their APIs. There was the typical ranting that followed the news, some in favor of RSS and others not. Now that the conversation and controversy of RSS being killed again has died down, I wanted to address the real question behind Twitter’s and Facebook’s decisions. As I have said before, RSS is not dead, it is infrastructure. RSS had hoped to be adopted by the mass consumer, but the tools did not provide a truly user friendly way to consume it. That being said, a lot of tools are completely dependent upon RSS. Any news reader that aggregates information from various sites uses RSS in the background. Most, if not all, blogs will publish RSS feeds as well. So, RSS is not going anywhere except it will be continue to be in the background of a lot of applications.
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I’m noticing a disturbing pattern among some SEO marketers. Anytime their search rankings fluctuate, they blame it on “the Panda update” that Google made to its search ranking algorithm. Now, lots of pixels have been spilled on Panda, with most angles addressing the crackdown on content farming and other low-quality content that has been increasing populating the top results. And a lot of the changes in search results can be directly attributable this algorithm change. But not everything.
I’ve spoken to two savvy SEO marketers in the past week that swore to me that their sites have plummeted in the rankings since Panda, but more than that is going on in both cases.
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