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SOBCon Chicago 2007 Attendee Link List

Successful and Outstanding Bloggers will gather in Chicago this weekend!

Get your list of attendee links for your own blog to link out. It is the list on the site with a few blog links corrected. If you notice other errors, please comment below and I’ll correct the link list when I have time.

SOBcon2007 Chicago Attendees:
Sandra Renshaw
Brad Shorr
Timothy Johnson
Tammy Lenski
Muhammad Saleem
Lorelle VanFossen
David Dalka – Motivational Business Keynote Speaker
Todd And
John Yedinak
Joe Hauckes
Tim Draayer
Jeremy Geelan
Carolyn Manning
Sheila Scarborough
Steve Farber
Dawud Miracle
Doug Mitchell
Jeff O’Hara
Dave Schoof
Jamy Shiels
Adam Steen
Hannah Steen
Chris Thilk
Barry Zweibel
Eric Bingen
Ellen Moore
Cord Silverstein
Jean-Patrick Smith
James Walton
Sharan Tash
Vernon Lun
Tony Lee
Scott Desgrosseilliers
Mark Murrell
Kammie Kobyleski
Easton Ellsworth
Mark Goodyear
Ann Michael
Kent Blumberg
Ashley Cecil
Robert Hruzek
Sabu N G
Mazur Krystyna
Lisa Gates
Franke James
Chris Brown
Troy Worman
Karen Putz
Jesse Petersen
Andy Brudtkuhl
Lucia Mancuso
Peter Flaschner
Derrick Sorles
Mike Rohde
Thomas Clifford
Rajesh Srivastava
Claire Celsi
Jason Alba
Cristiana Passinato
Sean R.
Alex Shalman
Cristiana Passinato
Brad Spirrison
Ari Garber
Dr. Rob Wolcott
Cheryll Cruz
Sharon Scherer
Jonathan Phillips
Jason Wade
Jill Pullen
Doug Bulleit
Wendy Kinney
Chelsea Vincent
Ayush Agarwal
Paul Mangalik
Premchand Kallan
Xochi Kaplan
Michael Snell
Ella Wilson
James Bergstrom
Raj Majumder
Keith Levenson

SOBcon2007 Business Keynote Speakers:
Andy Sernovitz
Phil Gerbyshak
Liz Strauss
David Armano
Mike Sansone
>Drew McLellan
Mike Wagner
Terry Starbucker< Rodney Rumford Ben Yoskovitz Chris Cree Robyn Tippins Diego Orjuela Vernon Lun Wendy Piersall

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Indexing Full Content

I’ve had a recent email volley with Technorati’s Adam Herst regarding certain links not indexing recently in Technorati. I’m not certain that this fully explains the nature or root cause of the issues I’ve had with Technorati not counting several links recently, but they are at least engaged in conversation about the issues.

It would be interesting to see if Feedburner (blog now demolished by Google) could provide a feature to allow a blog to transmit full content feeds to certain trusted parties and partial RSS feeds elsewhere.

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Fixing Akismet Comment False Positives

Robert Scoble posted today about Akismet and the spam filtering features that save him time. But there are times those misclassified posts can cause escalation of a discussion into something more accusatory like deleting comments – that is not fun. For example, Danny Sullivan posting comments on Blake Ross’ blog late last year and the perception that Danny’s comment had been deleted.

I had a similar problem to Danny recently that I was able to fix using the unique learning features of Akismet.

If you are a WordPress blogger and you are having the problem of Akismet treating your comments as spam, please try following the following steps:
1.    Go to your blog on the computer that you have had the problems posting comments
2.    Make certain that you are signed out of your admin panel
3.    Find a post on your blog and post several comments with your email and URL manually the way you would on another person’s blog
4.    Login to your WordPress admin panel and mark the “spam” comments then “de-mark spam comments”
5.    Repeat steps 1-4 above periodically until the comments stop being marked as spam

I hope that some people currently having this problem find this potential solution to be as helpful to them as it was for me. If you can think of someone who has this problem who is also a WordPress blogger, please pass this post on to them.

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Setting up Your Blog to Post to Twitter

Barry Schwartz has set up his blog to post the links directly to Twitter. Very neat. He also made a nice how to post on the subject. Barry is such a posting machine!

I’ll wait to understand his learnings and impact before trying it myself. I look forward to seeing his results on the impact after a few weeks.

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Google Disasterous with the Letter D

Apparently Google has considerable trouble in regards to the letter D.

First the Dmarc founders left Google.

Now http://www.dodgeball.com/ (dead link 11/2010) founders, Dens Crowley and Alex Rainert (please drop me a note if you read this guys), not only have left Google but they posed for a thumbs down photo that they have posted on Flickr, a Yahoo! property. The photo already has over 26,000 views and appears to have a viral element based on the view count growth, the interesting comments on the Flickr photo and a lot of blogosphere reaction. I’m trying to imagine how frustrated someone must be to post of photo of this nature, announce new project associations and state that they are throwing a party “to celebrate our escape”.

Putting my investment management hat on, I’d like for independent analysts to be allowed on the earning call this Thursday. If allowed to do so, I’d like to ask the following question, “Why is Google having such a hard time with HR and staffing issues, whether it is regarding hiring new employees, retaining pre-IPO employees (see podcast) or integrating acquisitions? Has Laszlo Bock’s background proven not to be the right style of leadership and is it time for a change?” The “all big companies are always ineffective” is a major cop out as there are big companies that are admired and in fact some cases adored.

Ideas on what to do with Dodgeball are everywhere you look. The comments on the Flickr photo are fascinating to read. P.S. When searching for these entries on Google Blog Search I found considerable splog/spam (MFA Made for Adsense) sites – Google should work to solve that issue.

http://spudswebnews.blogspot.com/2007/04/did-dodgeball-even-have-chance.html – Dodgeball Founder Departure – April, 2007 post – Dead link November, 2013

http://www.blogator.com/g/2833510 (dead post 11/2010)

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http://www.electrolicious.com/archives/2007/04/did_twitter_kill_it.html (dead post 11/2010)

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http://www.yugatech.com/blog/gooooogle/google-bought-and-killed-dodgeball/ Dodgeball Founder Departure – April, 2007 post – dead link 12 /2013

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http://mcmanus.typepad.com/grind/2007/04/two_dodgeball_f.html (dead link 11/2010)

“http://topicstop.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-alert-google_1007.html (dead link 11/2010)

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“http://ipfreaks.com/dreamscene/?p=2258” (dead post 11/2010)

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“http://www.tmesolutions.co.uk/web_design_kent/Marketing+News/2007-04-16/Google+dumped+by+Dodgeball+founders/3800849030” (dead link 11/2010)

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http://yummy.vermontconnect.com/cool/dodgeball-founders-leave-google-and-that-leaves-dodgeball-probably-dead/ (dead link 11/2010)

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EDIT: November 25th, 2012 – all of the URLs below are no longer active on the web, I’m removing them active link status:

http://youngmanhattanite.com/2007/04/ym-exclusive-dodgeball-founder-leaves.html
http://www.hypersuper.com/article/google-dodgeball-founder-quits-google-will-google-kill-the-service–610415
http://www.wayneporter.com/2007/04/16/dodgeball-knocked-out-by-twitter-google-snacks-on-dclk-is-twitter-next/
http://cellop.com/news/?p=2621
http://www.vecosys.com/2007/04/16/google-google-going-gone/
http://www.kpsforum.com/rss-news/10998-dodgeball-founders-leave-google.html
http://internet.webexpresspro.com/internet-news/disgruntled-dodgeball-founders-leave-google-infoworld
http://www.fixmood.com/dodgeball-founders-crowley-rainert-quit-google-in-frustration/2007/04/16/
http://techfold.com/2007/04/16/exodus-from-dodgeball-googles-growth-working-against-innovation/
http://www.infobong.com/wordpress/2007/04/16/linkdump-for-20070416/
http://pcniche.info/index.php/disgruntled-dodgeball-founders-leave-google/
http://indianinside.info/blog/2007/04/17/dodgeball-founders-quit-google/
http://socialnetworking.knowhow-now.com/blog/2007/04/16/disgruntled-dodgeball-founders-leave-google/
http://www.supermogul.com/2007/04/dodgeball_founders_dodge_veste.php
http://googlified.com/2007dodgeball-founders-leaving-google/
http://www.personalbee.com/227/12457964
http://dodgeball.sport-blog.biz/8626/dodgeball-founders-stop-playing/
http://mobiko.blogs.com/mutant/2007/04/dodgeball_found.html
http://coloradostartups.com/2007/04/16/overheard-at-the-googleplex/
http://ecpm.typepad.com/clickety_clack/2007/04/roundup_tellme_.html
http://www.vidfreeblog.com/2007/04/17/startup-meme-%C2%BB-dodgeball-founders-quit/
http://www.unofficialseoblog.com/2007/04/17/dodgeball-founders-quit-google/