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Posted on December 15, 2007December 17, 2007 by David Dalka — 3 Comments

Some Outstanding Blog Posts…

Andrew Shotland has a nice post on Google Trends Works for SEO…I think hot trends might even be better in certain cases 🙂 , it’s certainly a thought provoking post that caught my attention and worth some experimentation – it might even prove successful at your next tea party!

Rich Skrenta is doing some interesting blogging lately. Be sure to check out his post Pagerank Wrecked the Web.

Bill Slawski, published an extensive Google patent from 2003, entitled Google Patent on Anchor Text and Different Crawling Rates.

Michael Gray wants Matt Cutts to talk.

And finally Shoemoney wants to know why Yahoo! is asking him to check credit card numbers for validity…

Posted on November 22, 2007 by David Dalka — Leave a comment

Happy Thanksgiving 2007

As always Rustybrick has a great holiday logo summary.

My only add on is the following. Take a minute to read the full history of the holiday – it’s not about a day off and football.

Posted on November 5, 2007November 5, 2007 by David Dalka — 43 Comments

Microsoft Hotmail Blocking Yahoo! Mail as Spam?

This is a joke. But all too real. Microsoft meet Yahoo!. Yahoo! meet Microsoft. Now play nice.

Remote host said: 550 SC-004 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. A block has been placed against your IP address because we have received complaints concerning mail coming from that IP address. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your — Below this line is a copy of the message. Received: from [68.142.237.90] by <A href=”http://n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com” target=_blank>n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com</A> with NNFMP; 05 Nov 2007 14:25:19 -0000 Received: from [69.147.75.182] by <A href=”http://t6.bullet.re3.yahoo.com” target=_blank>t6.bullet.re3.yahoo.com</A> with NNFMP; 05 Nov 2007 14:25:19 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by <A href=”http://omp103.mail.re1.yahoo.com” target=_blank>omp103.mail.re1.yahoo.com</A> with NNFMP; 05 Nov 2007 14:25:19 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 3742.69458.bm@omp103.mail.re1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 894 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Nov 2007 14:25:18 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;

Posted on November 2, 2007November 2, 2007 by David Dalka — 1 Comment

Wouldn’t ATT Acquire Yahoo! Instead of Microsoft?

I have my reasons, some of which aren’t appropriate to make public…

Please discuss…

Posted on October 18, 2007 by David Dalka — Leave a comment

FCF07 – The Role of Mobile Search in Social Computing

Presenter: Charles Golvin, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

I didn’t get around to posting this last week, these are some high points of Charles’ all too short talk:

Mobile data adoption is growing, but skews young. Many people still have not been exposed to mobile ads.

They don’t trust SMS ads. They also don’t want to pay for something in lieu of advertising. In the current state this creates contradictions.

The most interesting thing he said in his talk was when he showed Google mobile search and then stated, “I think Google imitated Yahoo! in this regard”.

Offline visual codes are powerful mechanisms for simplifying mobile call-to-action. (I’d expand this to state that it will become powerful for creating an effective multi-channel strategy as many people are too focused on mobile alone.)

Mobile should eventually be abbreviated, transactional, measurable and integrated with physical world.

Posted on September 25, 2007September 25, 2007 by David Dalka — 1 Comment

Will You Attend SMX Local & Mobile Denver Next Week

I’ll be attending the first ever SMX Local & Mobile conference next week in Denver!!! Chris Sherman, who talks about why he is excited about the event in this post, and Greg Sterling have both put in a tremendous amount of work into researching and programming this highly unique and special event.

You may view the full agenda and you may still register for the event.

I arrive at Noon on Sunday (where is the Sunday pre-conference meetup – The Hyatt?) and hope to meet with as many attendees as possible before and during the event as I look forward to learning about people and seeing the demos in this soon to be revolutionary space.

See you in Denver! I’ll also have room for one or two on the way back to the airport as I’m renting a car while there.