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Excerpt: The Google Search Side show on Video is my attempt to entratin you with something new! So  here I am going to sum up the problems I see with Google search. The catch is I’m going to do  it with videos slideshows and music. Personal Search: Well this was getting the rounds heavy in the dojo the other daty and well this sums up just how pervasive Personal Search is. Goes beyond Cookies is at least IP aware, specially if you have any Google account… and other than my brother I don’t know anyone who doesn’t. Google Social Strategy: Fails miserably because it’s now creating “the follower…

Google SEO Side Show on Video! is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: The Title is somewhat true but it’s not just Twitter,  Social Media and Networking sites are affecting blog engagement and comments in particular. Social Media is partially responsible and was definitely a catalyst for change in the habits of the linkeroti (not a spelling mistake think link rot) and according to some stats and forecasts this could get worse before it gets better. This is the second post on blog engagement with more to come! In the first Twitter: Blog Engagement Killer or Lazy Linkeratti? I discussed the phenomena of decreasing blog engagement on one of my favorite blogs. I first started to think about this…

In 2009 Twitter Put Blog Engagement into a Death Spiral is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: This post was started right after the ReTweet changes were made… alas before I could finish the RT was rolled back and releases out of Beta! Believe it or not I was continuing with the 3 Stooges theme from the Twitter Lists post for the dev team… in fact the video is a Stooges Classic “The Plumbers”! Twitter Tries To Change Retweets, Doesn’t Get The Social In Social Media was pretty condemning of “the boys” basically saying they didn’t know their audience. MilwaukeeSEO did consider both sides of the story and did defend “the boys” to some extent. I think Twitter do in fact know their users all…

Twitter Ads or Forced ReTweet Etiquette? is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Generally I’m not a big fanboy of the Twitter development team, management’s business capabilities/acumen, or a believer that twitter is much more than the future property of one of the big boys! Twitter lists are the first truly great development to come from this team in a while. They are bringing the functionality of  Tweetdeck groups to Twitter.  Anne Smarty did a post on the uses for twitter lists. Although these are useful for promotion (nothing wrong with that) the benefit of lists to users are many fold. As a developer I can think of 1/2 doz. things on the promotion side…

Twitter Dev: Rockin’ da Lists Hard! is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Social media as I understand it is about engaging your audience to learn their concerns, needs and wants through human discourse and interaction. To start this post I pose this question: after reading a post if your visitor leaves a tweet instead of a comment has the goal above been achieved? The other day, Shaun over at Hobo Web posted a great piece on his feeling that the “linkerati” are linking less with more discretion and how twitter is affecting comments on blogs. It was that post that started me on the path to considering the ramifications of adding twitter to comments of blogs. I had been noticing less engagement…

Twitter: Blog Engagement Killer or Lazy Linkeratti? is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Seems Mr. Obama’s socialization of healthcare and banks has the search engines joining the fray. Thursday my Tweetdeck was lit up with the buzz of deals between Twitter and Bing and Google. Bing also signed a deal with the monstrous Facebook Social Networking mega site. These social networks will be sharing their feeds with these search behemoths’. Not unlike Mr. Obama’s tentative foray into social medicine and banking, the major search engine, that’d be Google, the lesser Bing, who it seems has  jumped in the deep end, only to find, it is actually the shallow end of the twitter pool.  I’ll explain…

The Socialization of Search! is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: I read a post today on Tech Radar that implied that twitter, facebook and social media in general was costing the British economy £1.38bn a year in lost revenue and income.  Quite honestly this made me laugh, especially after I read the first comment on the post which summed the “survey” up nicely in my mind. If your interested in reading the article, go right ahead: Twitter ‘costs Britain £1.38bn’ Stop wasting time Tweeting, beg British employers Centred on the UK alone and having surveyed only 1460 office workers about their use of social media and Philip Wicks, who conducted the…

Social Media costs business and the economy billions is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: You might be trying to figure out what the hell the word “phishing” means(and how to pronounce it) right now, so lets clear that up. I pronounce the word as “fiishing” because for me, the significance and definition are somewhat similar. Here’s are some more definitions and reading material describing the term phishing. Whats phishing? Phishing happens when some arsehole decides to send out automated emails or instant messages with the intent of stealing your username, passwords, credentials or other important or personal information. These arseholes (yes I am going to continue using that term throughout this post so get used to it)…

Twitter Phishing Scams and Arseholes with Hooks is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas