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New Google Maps UI Calls For Shifts In SEO Tactics – Search Engine Land
May 21st
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New Google Maps UI Calls For Shifts In SEO Tactics
Search Engine Land Last week at the Google I/O developer conference, a newly redesigned Google Maps design was introduced. While a number of online commentators have virtually gushed about the new interfacing from an end user perspective, there may be a less-than-rosy … Google Unveils Conversational Search Product At I/O Conference |
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New Google Maps UI Calls For Shifts In SEO Tactics – Search Engine Land – Search Engine Land
May 20th
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New Google Maps UI Calls For Shifts In SEO Tactics – Search Engine Land
Search Engine Land Last week at the Google I/O developer conference, a newly redesigned Google Maps design was introduced. While a number of online commentators have virtually gushed about the new interfacing from an end user perspective, there may be a less-than-rosy … Google Unveils Conversational Search Product At I/O Conference |
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New Google Maps UI Calls For Shifts In SEO Tactics
May 20th
Last week at the Google I/O developer conference, a newly redesigned Google Maps design was introduced. While a number of online commentators have virtually gushed about the new interfacing from an end user perspective, there may be a less-than-rosy view for many local businesses. Thus far, the new…
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Anonymous Calls For A CISPA Blackout To Protest The Bill's Privacy Threat… But Nobody Listens
Apr 22nd
Anonymous has called for an Internet blackout to protest CISPA, the much maligned cybersecurity bill that threatens your privacy more than it protects it. But without the support of Reddit, which co-sponsored last year’s SOPA blackout, the Web isn’t listening.
About 200 hundred sites have joined the #CISPABlackout today in protest of CISPA, which last week passed the House of Representatives. That may sound like a big number, but the list mostly consists of small sites within the hacker community. That’s a big contrast to the last year’s SOPA protests, which drew support from huge organizations like Google and Wikipedia.
Blackout your website: (requires some basic HTML/CSS knowledge): bit.ly/11dtXv6#CISPABlackout
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) April 22, 2013
Exceptions include the nonprofit Fight for the Future, which has tweeted solidarity but has not blacked out its site. Another is Stan Lee’s Comikaze, the comic book convention backed by the former Marvel Comics head honcho, which has blacked out its site.
A Reddit Divided
Reddit itself appears conflicted over the CISPA blackout. Some Reddit sections, aka subreddits, have switched their background color to black and added a CISPA protest banner and link, but have stopped short of a full blackout that would inconvenience users by obscuring links. As of about 11am PT, subreddits including “pics,” “politics,” “funny,” “askreddit” and “technology”) have black backgrounds, although their listed links remain visible in the foreground. Reddit’s front page and subreddits such as “news” and “worldnews” remain un-blackened.
It’s a clear case of the hacker collective overestimating its influence, as my ReadWrite colleague Dan Rowinski suggested to me in chat earlier today. “Without Reddit, it is just Anonymous proclaiming something into its own echo chamber,” he wrote.
It also doesn’t help that Internet firms themselves are divided on CISPA. Microsoft and Facebook may have recently walked back their support for the bill — which, by the way, faces a veto threat from President Obama — but Google hasn’t taken a position. And a rogue’s gallery of telcos, ISPs and other tech firms support CISPA.
CISPA threatens our privacy by essentially giving the government a blank check to monitor all of our online communication, without a warrant. So a sign of solidarity blacking out the Web would be a good thing. But it seems the collective isn’t as influential in garnering support as it is when its making cyberattacks. Which is too bad, because this mission would actually be a good thing.
Below is a video from Anonymous explaining more about the blackout:
If you want to contact your local senator or congressperson, check out this list of contact information from Anonymous. Here’s some background on Anonymous’ plans and how you can further support the blackout.
Lead image via Imgur, although it’s circulating across the Internet and its provenance is unknown
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German Privacy Regulator Fines Google Over Street View Data Collection, Calls For Tougher Financial Penalties
Apr 22nd
A fine of 145,000 EUR (roughly $189,000) is trivial for Google. But that’s close to the maximum fine allowed by German law ($150,000 EUR). The fine is being imposed on Google for violations of German privacy and data protection laws stemming from the so-called “WiSpy” episode in…
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Google’s Eric Schmidt Calls For Civilian Drone Regulation
Apr 15th
Yes, THAT Eric Schmidt is worried about privacy: “How would you feel if your neighbor went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their backyard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?”
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A Call To Action For Calls To Action
Mar 7th
Is the traditional call to action really as effective as we think? Are consumers really as simple-minded as we think? Is there a better, more data-driven way to validate (or invalidate) our blind faith in the call to action? Let’s find out.
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SEO and Conversion Monitoring – Remember Your Phone Calls – iMedia Connection (blog)
Jan 16th
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SEO and Conversion Monitoring – Remember Your Phone Calls
iMedia Connection (blog) SEO is a great way to get in front of a large online audience and more traffic to your site increases your chances of creating sales through your website. Some firms forget that the majority of phone calls begin at website level, and data about the … |
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Oh, The Irony: Judge Koh Calls For Apple/Samsung Patent Peace
Dec 7th
The judge that presided over the Trial Of The Century patent dispute between Apple and Samsung is now calling for global patent peace between the two companies.
There is more than a touch of irony in this request.
Judge Lucy Koh was the judge that played referee between Apple and Samsung earlier this year, an epic court battle won by Apple with a jury verdict forcing Samsung to pay its biggest rival $1.05 billion for copying Apple’s design and patents in a variety of its smarpthones and tablets.
Like any giant court case, though, the end is never really the end. In many ways, the jury verdict was just the beginning.
Samsung has asked Koh for a retrial based on alleged misconduct by jury foreman Velvin Hogan, as well as to reduce the overall payment Samsung owes Apple by analyzing the jury’s award line by line. For instance, Samung now owes Apple $58 million for the “tap-and-zoom” infringement on Samsung’s Prevail smartphone. Koh said she might reduce that to $8 million, according to The Associated Press.
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But forget all that. According to the AP’s report, Koh told lawyers from the two companies, “I think it is time for global peace.”
This is not the first time that Koh has called for detente between Apple and Samsung. Right before the jury went to deliberation in August, Koh urged the top executives from Samsung to come to a settlement. No settlement was reached and the jury ultimately awarded Apple $1.05 billion.
The irony is that the case has made Koh a highly recognized name in the U.S. courts for her stewardship over Apple patent cases brought in California. She has been involved in 19 Apple-related patent disputes since being raised to the level of District Court judge in 2010. That includes injunctions against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 (which she later dissolved after the case went to the Federal Court of Appeals) and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (also reversed).
Koh may have be calling for peace, but she is also one of the biggest perpetuators of the farce that is the patent system in the courts.
What Would Posner Do?
Koh would do well to look at the example of Richard Posner, a judge of the U.S. Court Of Appeals for the Seventh District in Chicago. When it came down to a patent fight between Apple and Motorola in June 2012, Posner simply would not allow the two sides to battle it out in court. He dismissed the case with prejudice (meaning neither could refile their claims) and that was the end of that. Posner criticized both Apple and Motorola for “wild conjecture,” weakness in their cases and trial preparation and failure to present enough evidence.
Sound familiar? Except for the evidence (which can be misleading considering what some companies define as evidence), the Apple and Samsung fight has been filled with wild conjecture and a variety of other issues. Koh not only wasn’t able to stop Apple and Samsung from fighting, but she has become an instigator in their three-ring court circus. Posner would be part of no such thing.
In addition, since most of the cases in Koh’s court have gone in Apple’s favor to some degree, the Cupertino-based iPhone maker may think it has found a friend in the legal system. This is likely to bring more cases from Apple to Koh’s court.
Granted, it is hard to compare Koh and Posner. Koh has been a District Court judge for two years while Posner is something of an American legal legend (he traded very public barbs with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this year).
Still, Koh’s call for peace between Apple and Samsung rings hollow. She has done nothing to actually force or enforce such a peace. And now her hands are tied, making it more difficult to clean up the mess that she was an integral part of creating.
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Lee Joon reveals Oh Yeon Seo calls him late at night? – allkpop (blog)
Nov 18th
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Lee Joon reveals Oh Yeon Seo calls him late at night?
allkpop (blog) He responded to the question saying, “There is a reason” and looking over at Oh Yeon Seo he stated, “I'm really going to say it” and revealed, “Oh Yeon Seo called me in the middle of the night“, shocking Oh Yeon Seo with his unexpected revealing and … |
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