Xbox 360 leverages social networking
Facebook and MySpace have made the Internet obsessed with popularity. Sites are adopting social networking features as quickly as we can find and friend each other. It seems only natural, then, that services should adopt social networking features, too.
by Jason Mick
‘Facebook is believed to be under attack by a relatively organized group of cybercriminals.’ -
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site with over 200 million users, is an attractive target for hackers and cyber criminals. Unsurprisingly, the site has been increasingly under attack in recent months. The latest attack comes in a cohesive phishing assault designed to lure Facebook’s users to unwittingly give up their passwords.
By Michel Fortin
googleIn today’s Internet, conversations are cropping up all over the place. People are talking. They are talking about products. They are talking about businesses. And they are certainly talking about their experiences.
By Lauren Hobson (c) 2009
Most of us are well aware that the search engines frequently change their algorithms to improve search results for users (and foil spammers), which can make it challenging for small businesses just to keep up. But as web technology continues to evolve, it also creates new opportunities for small businesses to improve their SEO strategies and boost their rankings as well. Social media (sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Technorati, Digg, etc.) provide an excellent opportuníty for small businesses to not only promote their products and services online, but also to gain significant ground in the search engine results.
By Michel Fortin
article writingThroughout my research, I’m always surprised when I stumble onto websites that are professionally designed and seem to offer great products and services, but lack or fail in certain important elements.
Elements that, with just a few short changes, can help multiply the results almost instantaneously.
by Rebecca Buckman,
The Internet portal didn’t shed light on a possible deal with the software giant as it reported a loss and more job cuts.
BURLINGAME, Calif. — Beleaguered Internet portal Yahoo! reported first-quarter earnings of $118 million, or 8 cents per share, a decrease of 78% from the year-ago period.
Taylor Buley,
The social network loses the case to trademark one of its ad products.
BURLINGAME, Calif. — If Facebook is trying to make a name for its nascent advertising platform, why didn’t it fight to keep its Social Ads trademark?
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based social network launched its Social Ads product in 2007 as a way to target ads from companies to users. For instance, a news item about baseball might appear in a user’s Facebook news feed, and an advertiser may choose to target that user for ads about sports-related clothing.
Evan Hessel, 04.24.09, 05:30 PM EDT
Former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta becomes CEO of MySpace.
LOS ANGELES — Owen Van Natta, the former operations and revenue boss at Facebook, is now chief executive at his former rival MySpace. The appointment was announced Friday and follows MySpace parent News Corp.’s decision the previous day to bounce Chris DeWolfe, the social network’s co-founder and architect of its image as an edgy online hub to Gen Y-ers to flirt and find new music.
By Matt Tuens (c) 2009
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) writing, as a distinct style, was born in the Internet era and has matured before our very eyes in a relatively short span of time. Although it is evolving and maturing still, and will continuously do so, we can define some of the tried and tested steps of content optimization to help unique pages place at or near the top of search engine rankings.
Some experts go on to say that the goal of SEO is two-fold, with the first objective to put out the appropriate “bait” for search engine spiders and the second to serve up useful information to people who want and need it. Debates about priorities continue among SEO professionals, but it is not a good idea to devalue the human factors in any success formula. The singular goal, then, would be to develop, position and refine content in such a way as to satisfy all visitors to the page and/or site, both human and bot alike.
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