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How Google’s Social Search Works
on Oct 27, 2009 in Search Engines Social Media / Web 2.0 Facebook Google Twitter Google announced their new Social Search product this week on their blog.  Google Social Search is still in the experimental phase but it looks promising. Once you factor in Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and a Blog, most of us publish a lot of...



How Bing Will Rank Your Tweets
on Oct 27, 2009 in Search Engines Social Media / Web 2.0 Google Microsoft Twitter I blogged a few days ago about Microsoft Bing and Google’s announcement that they were both going to start incorporating our Tweets into their search results.  There has been a lot of speculation as to how these Tweets are gong to show up in t...



Remembering GeoCities (1995-2009)
on Oct 26, 2009 in Miscellaneous GeoCities Yahoo™ I would be remiss if I didn’t make mention of the fact that Yahoo pulled the plug on GeoCities today.  If you are wondering what GeoCities was, my best guess is that you weren’t around in the 90’s.  Before social networks were all ove...



Be Careful What You Say on Facebook & Twitter
on Oct 22, 2009 in Search Engines Social Media / Web 2.0 Facebook Google Microsoft MSN® SEO Twitter In case you haven’t heard this already, Google and Microsoft (Bing) both announced that they will be displaying tweets from Twitter and status messages from Facebook in their search results.  Now for the most part I know that most of us alread...



SEC Suspends Officials from Arkansas-Florida Game
on Oct 21, 2009 in Sports Arkansas Razorbacks College Football (NCAA) I made the comment to someone today that I don’t think that I have ever seen a more pathetic job of officiating than I did this past weekend when Arkansas got cheated, on several occasions, by the officiating crew.  I am not for sure if these...



#RefreshCA Meeting – October 27th
on Oct 20, 2009 in Central Arkansas Refresh Social Media / Web 2.0 Web Development #RefreshCA Elgg Our October Central Arkansas Refresh meeting will be on October 27th this month, we usually get started around 6:00 or so but don’t worry if you come in late.  Last month Rob McBryde did a presentation on Joomla and it was awesome!  If yo...