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Samuru: A Search Engine Designed By An SEO – Search Engine Roundtable
Apr 22nd
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Samuru: A Search Engine Designed By An SEO
Search Engine Roundtable Brandon Wirtz, an SEO who started his own search engine named Samuru, aims at making a search engine that is spam free. Doesn't every search engine have that aim. Someone posted the search engine to Hacker News where Brandon explained how … |
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Search Engine Designed By Denmark Researchers Helps Medics Diagnose Rare Diseases
Apr 18th
Technical University of Denmark researchers have designed a search engine that indexes specific sets of databases to help identify rare diseases. Users can query patient symptoms on FindZebra.com which crawls over 31,000 medical articles focused on rare and genetic diseases to deliver medically…
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African Designed Smartphone, Tablet Hits Mainstream Markets – Social Media SEO
Dec 27th
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African Designed Smartphone, Tablet Hits Mainstream Markets
Social Media SEO An African designed smartphone recently hit mainstream markets, following the success of its tablet predecessor. Both devices come from the high-tech startup VMK, which is owned by Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou. The tablet is called Way-C, … |
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HootSuite Update Designed To Bridge Enterprise Silos
Oct 2nd
HootSuite’s new conversations update looks like a boon for community managers who need to keep tabs on their company in real time. But it might also foster communication throughout large organizations.
HootSuite’s new internal communication tool, which rolled out in public beta less than a week ago, lets a team chat in an environment that’s like AIM on steroids. It allows posting, commenting and liking messages within conversations. You can take conversations on the road via smartphone. Even non-HootSuite users can participate.
With this update, HootSuite is trying to break open the silos that separate various departments in a business – marketing, customer service, PT, management – each with its own location and communication tools. It offers a tool for inter-company communication, in real time. No more long email chains and costly conference calls.
“It’s helping businesses achieve full social collaboration,” said Nick Cicero, a social media strategist who works with small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. Such tools can help companies trying to integrate social media into multiple networks, such as community management and customer service, he added.
“Internal collaboration is what makes organization-wide social media possible,” Cicero said. “In order to keep social media flowing from all different departments, there have to be people on all levels with social media. Products like this make that super easy within the social work flow.”
Salesforce dropped Marketing Cloud, its internal conversation equivalent, about 10 days before the HootSuite launch. With major social media players lining up to address real-time internal communications, could this be the next step for social networks? It just may be, especially if Twitter’s TweetDeck incorporates this kind of functionality. Keep your eyes peeled, because that update may be next.
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St. Louis SEO Company Leap Clixx Launches Fusion Packages Designed For … – STLtoday.com
Sep 28th
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St. Louis SEO Company Leap Clixx Launches Fusion Packages Designed For …
STLtoday.com St. Louis SEO company Leap Clixx has developed an online advertising solution that blends together a website, localized search engine optimization, mobile marketing and map optimization into one simple platform. These fusion packages are specifically … |
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Google I/O: Google Introduces Nexus Q, Its First Ever Device Designed From The Ground Up
Jun 27th
At Google I/O Wednesday, Google took the wraps off of Google Q, a mysterious, spherical, Android-powered computer for home entertainment and software designed by Google from the ground up. It doesn’t stream media from another local device like Apple’s AirPlay. All its content comes from the Google Play cloud.
It plugs into the best speakers and TVs out there using optical outputs. It has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC for connectivity, as well as USB ports “to encourage general hackability.”
Nexus Q allows for social streaming of music. Friends can add their own music from Google Music to the device, so anyone in the room can DJ the party straight from their phones. The Nexus Q will be available for pre-order on Wednesday for $299, starting in the U.S.
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SEO Company, LocalStomper.com, Announces the Launch of a Newly Designed Website – PR Web (press release)
Apr 24th
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SEO Company, LocalStomper.com, Announces the Launch of a Newly Designed Website
PR Web (press release) SEO company, LocalStomper.com, has redesigned their website to better serve their clients. Local clients are at the core of the Local Stomper business model and companies of all sizes can benefit from the new website and services. Rio SEO Debuts as the Leader in Reporting and Automation Software for SEO 10 SEO Metrics Every Company Needs to Measure Regularly Montreal SEO 7 Services Provides a Special SEO Package for Small and Medium … |
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Facebook Action Ads: Designed for Investors or Advertisers?
Feb 15th
When Facebook announced the Open Graph at the f8 conference last September, marketers immediately realized that the additional Facebook actions would eventually lead to new marketing options as a result of increased social context. Now, Inside Facebook is reporting that Facebook is testing a new type of Sponsored Story that is based on Open Graph [...]
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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?
Oct 27th
In April, Facebook announced the Open Compute Project (OCP). It sounded pretty crazy at the time: Facebook was proposing an open, commodity infrastructure for Web-scale infrastructure. But the idea has legs, and today announced a formation of a foundation for the Open Compute Project. Will your next servers be designed by Facebook and friends?
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The project started when Facebook was looking to save energy and improve efficiency with its data centers. The first one that Facebook put together provided a 38 percent increase in energy efficiency, and reduced the cost of building the data center by 24 percent.
If you’re still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of Red Hat.
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I spoke with Red Hat’s VP of corporate development, Mike Evans, today about the company’s involvement with OCP. Evans says that the company got involved after a few customers started suggesting that they look into OCP, and after OCP participants recommended to Facebook to pull Red Hat in.
Evans says that the OCP concept, that of solutions being produced in the open, is right up Red Hat’s alley. “I like the fact that when it’s all said and done, it adds value end users.” End users here, of course, being Red Hat’s customers. Consider it the inverse of Oracle’s engineered systems, where Oracle claims to save customers money by building proprietary systems top to bottom.
The question is whether vendors like HP and Dell are going to start offering these commodity systems in volume, and whether they’re going to become standard for smaller customers than Facebook. Evans says that there’s a few scenarios. One is that the commodity servers become mainstream for everybody in the market. The less optimistic scenario is that the OCP systems only catch on with the “create your own universe” builders like Facebook, Google and Amazon. He says that the truth is “probably in the middle,” depending on whether enough vendors get behind OCP.
Right now, the market belongs to smaller vendors like Synnex that are putting together systems for Facebook.
I think the player to watch here is Asus, though. If you remember, Asus really elbowed its way into space at the big boy table with netbooks. It was primarily a vendor known for parts, not full systems. Asus has done a lot with the boost it got from the EeePC systems. They could play their cards right and become a major server vendor as well.
Red Hat has already been involved certifying hardware like the Intel and AMD reference boards, so it’s not a stretch to say that companies could be buying OPC systems in the next year. So the question is whether customers are going to be demanding these systems next time they talk to their suppliers. Are you?
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How Facebook Mobile Was Designed to Write Once, Run Everywhere
Sep 29th
Facebook has the most downloaded native application of all time. It also has perhaps the most visited mobile website of all time with nearly 350 million users and growing from feature phones to the smartest smartphones. It is available everywhere. The company started working on mobile solutions in 2006 and since then have grown with the times, using the tools available to them as they went along, from m.sites and WebKit touch interfaces to now the precipice of HTML5. Facebook’s creed, or really just a way to make their developers’ lives easier, is to write once and run everywhere. This has been next to impossible.
Facebook mobile is predicated on browser technology. As Facebook’s engineering manager Dave Zetterman says in the transcript below, the browser is what Facebook is good at, how it got to the point it is at now and how it is going to iterate for the future of mobile. We will touch on the future tomorrow, but be sure to read Fetterman’s presentation at Facebook’s f8 developer conference below because it will inform what we are going to explore tomorrow morning. Really, how did Facebook design for all those platforms and devices?
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What is below is a direct transcript with photos from Fetterman’s f8 presentation. A few things to note:
Facebook mobile has its backbone in its mobile website. Everything that is built into the native applications actually comes from the mobile Web. Think of the way PhoneGap wraps a browser-based website and that is how Facebook approached the problem. And then some.
HTML5 is the future. The fourth page gets into how all of this history is leading Facebook to a precipice of change with HTML5 and the so-called Project Spartan.
Also note that Fetterman talks fast and occasionally swears. He is the classic Facebook engineer: kind of young, pretty brash and supremely confident. The transcript is as true to his actual words as possible.
Changing Mobile Standards Through The Past Five Years
We took an extreme HTML-based approach to this. So we will go into how we do this so you can learn how HTML5 is the way out of a lot of these problems.
Because, it wasn’t really always this way for us. We have had the same mobile problems that you guys have. We are following the same mobile ecosystem that you guys are following to develop for your users.
So, we have the same problems of cross-platform development that you have and we are hoping that you can learn a little bit from us. So, we have been learning to deal with these issues with what we call “FaceWeb” and learning a new opportunity to get out of this that is emerging as we speak called HTML5.
So, in 2006, building a mobile presence meant that you had a WAP deck that was based on an HTML application with SMS and all of that. But, as you all know, mobile changed fundamentally in 2007. What happened then?
[Crowd] – The iPhone.
The iPhone! Great. What else happened in 2007, perhaps unveiling in the room that you are sitting in right now?
[Crowd] – The Platform.
Yes, the Facebook Platform API. So, what changed for us is that we had to develop a second user experience for the iPhone. A computer in your pocket that no longer sucked. So, it could have Javascript, a CSS and a really rich interaction model. In addition there was Facebook for BlackBerry, Facebook for Windows phone, for Nokia, for Samsung, for everyone now available through the Facebook API.
How about 2008? What was the big thing that happened in 2008?
[Crowd] – Ummm … Android?
I will pretend that I heard the iPhone App Store. What most developers don’t realize is that the first version of the iPhone, you could build websites but the App Store was not available to later. So, in 2008, the App Store enables us to build Facebook for iPhone. The flagship, the vanguard, the best substantiation of Facebook. Based off the API, the same way that you guys are building apps off the API now.
In 2009, what changed in 2009?
[Crowd] Ummm … Android?
Android, yes. I will pretend that I heard Android. Android was the new player in 2009 and really started taking off. So, all of a sudden we have all of these users on all these devices using Facebook mobile in the wide rainbow of lovely different experiences across Android, iPhone, Windows, the Web. That was great from a user perspective. What sucks? The environment for my developers, essentially. You have the bad old days. You have four different platforms to build for something essentially. You want to build for all of those groups? You are going to have to build the sucker four times. Then there are all of the features – groups, deals, the new profile. All of this stuff and the matrix got really bad. So, we have to build things four times which means that the code gets slow. The code gets old. There are different versions of parity and things just don’t work together which makes it extremely difficult for a fast moving company like Facebook.
Next page: Fetterman describes how Facebook reconciled M.Sites and Touch
