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SAMS, SBMS, and SEO Appeal to the International community to demand that … – Albany Times Union
Feb 12th
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SAMS, SBMS, and SEO Appeal to the International community to demand that …
Albany Times Union The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), The Syrian British Medical Society (SBMS), and the Syrian Expatriates organization (SEO) appeal to the International community to demand that the Syrian authorities allow safe transport and adequate treatment … |
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SAMS, SBMS, and SEO Appeal to the International community to demand that … – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Feb 11th
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SAMS, SBMS, and SEO Appeal to the International community to demand that …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), The Syrian British Medical Society (SBMS), and the Syrian Expatriates organization (SEO) appeal to the International community to demand that the Syrian authorities allow safe transport and adequate treatment … |
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SEO Link Monster: All About the New Blog Network that Promises Top Ranking for … – International Business Times
Feb 8th
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SEO Link Monster: All About the New Blog Network that Promises Top Ranking for …
International Business Times By Kukil Bora: Subscribe to Kukil's RSS feed At a time when recent alterations to Google's algorithm in ranking Web sites have affected many, a new SEO tool named 'SEO Link Monster' is generating a lot of buzz in the Internet marketing world. Future of SEO: Change, Convergence, Collaboration Googler: SEO Is A Bug, And Google Is Trying To Fix It Google Clarifies: No, Ads Shouldn't Help Rankings & No, SEO Isn't Bad |
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WikiLeaks May Move Servers to International Waters to Avoid Shutdown
Feb 1st
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard much from WikiLeaks. New leaked data continues to trickle out here and there and Julian Assange is even talking to the press, but major bombshells like the Iraq War Logs or Cablegate haven’t been dropped since late 2010.
Part of the relative silence has to do with the fact that Assange is currently under house arrest in the U.K. and WikiLeaks still faces a financial blockade and an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. The future of the organization is anything but clear, but when it comes to the site’s ability to continue operating, they’re not taking any chances.
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WikiLeaks’ backers are now considering buying a boat so they can move their operations into international waters, according to a report from Fox News.
The idea is to relocate WikiLeaks’ servers to somewhere that falls outside the jurisdiction of any country, such as the Principality of Sealand, a former World War II sea port located off the coast of England. The structure has been ruled to be outside of the U.K.’s jurisdiction and its self-proclaimed ruler has declared it an independent mini-state, even if no other nation recognizes it as such. The facility was once used to broadcast pirate radio signals and is currently used as a safe haven for Internet hosting.
A Pivotal Moment For the Web and the Rule of Law
The idea emerges at a pivotal time both in WikiLeaks’ history and in the historical intersection of the Internet and the law. Two weeks ago, U.S. authorities succeeded in coordinating a cross-continent sting operation to arrest key executives behind Megaupload and shut its website down. Just today, the Swedish Supreme Court rejected the appeal of three Pirate Bay cofounders, who were convicted of copyright infringement-related crimes in 2009. Shortly thereafter, the Pirate Bay website started redirecting to a Swedish top level domain to avoid seizure by U.S. authorities.
Of course, piracy and alleged espionage are two very different things, but in the last several weeks, we’ve seen the extent to which countries will go to prosecute those who once considered themselves immune due to geography. Assange and the WikiLeaks associates have little reason to not take the U.S. government’s pursuit of them seriously.
Whether or not moving WikiLeaks’ severs to international waters would make a difference is up for debate. Some have argued that as long as the people behind the organization are not also living in on some rusty old abandoned aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean, they could be fair game for prosecutors. There are also logistical and technical challenges that come into play.
The plans haven’t been officially confirmed by WikiLeaks or any of its representatives.
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Did International Markets Cause Google’s Loss Of Love On Wall Street?
Jan 24th
Wall Street wasn’t terribly impressed with Google’s figures for the last quarter of 2011 announced after the bell last thursday. To a normal person, you would think that generating $2.71 billion profit and significantly beating your own previous quarters would be a cause for…
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International Reaction to Megaupload Indictment: This Means War
Jan 20th
A sizable chunk of Internet traffic went dark yesterday. No, I’m not talking about a SOPA protest. The #91 Web site on the entire Internet, Megaupload, was taken down after U.S. authorities executed a warrant to seize its Virginia-based servers and arrest four of its proprietors in New Zealand. To give you some perspective: On Google AdPlanner’s scale, Walmart.com is #97. Social document sharing service Scribd.com is #90. Huffington Post is #86.
To pretend it’s a revelation that Megaupload trafficked in illicit material is like Claude Rains being “shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” That said, its “front parlor,” if you will, had many legitimate customers who had posted non-infringing files. So the big question that Colombia’s NTN24 news anchor Mónica Fonseca* asked me was essentially, “What has happened to everyone’s files?”
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Earlier today, I appeared on NTN24′s “CST” program (Health, Science, Technology) to discuss the ramifications of the Justice Dept.’s seizure of Megaupload’s assets and domain names. In response to Fonseca’s question, I said that folks who had uploaded legitimate files to their “cyberlockers” won’t be able to access them today, and will probably find them gone anyway if and when some form of Megaupload comes back online from outside U.S. borders. My ReadWriteWeb colleague John Paul Titlow shares the same sentiments.
Has the United States started a war in cyberspace, I was asked? Certainly there’s no doubt of there being a war on, I responded, although there’s some doubt as to who really started it. In any event, it’s clear that the Justice Dept. has fired a huge salvo, and the battle is now raging.
What lessons should consumers take away from this turn of events? I told Fonseca that it doesn’t take very much due diligence for a conscientious consumer to spot the difference between a legitimate cloud storage service with the consumer’s interests at heart (I cited Dropbox, SkyDrive, and Box.com as examples) compared with one whose interests lie in goading him to partake in illicit file sharing. There’s a reason there are no independently-managed search services pointing to files on a site like Dropbox. It’s not out to make files popular; it’s out to provide customer service. When a service promotes itself as free, but continues to offer services behind a gilded, camouflaged door marked “premium” or “subscribers only,” consumers should get the hint.
New Zealand
Commenters believing yesterday’s indictment had been timed to coincide with recent White House events on anti-piracy, such as the Administration’s backing away from SOPA/PIPA, were proven wrong in an early Saturday, New Zealand time, report from the ONE News agency. It quotes a detective inspector with New Zealand’s counterpart to the FBI as saying it had conducted a joint investigation with the FBI since early 2011, which led eventually to yesterday’s arrests.
New Zealand-based political blogger David Farrar made this interesting observation: “Whether or not [Megaupload founder Kim] Dotcom and others have broken the law, will of course be a matter for the courts. It is worth noting that the NZ courts will not extradite unless the charges are for something that is also an offence under NZ law.”
Brazil
Some perspective: A report released today from broadband services provider Sandvine estimated Megaupload’s share of all traffic for file storage and backup purposes (which would include cloud storage providers) was less than 1% in the U.S., but 11.4% in Brazil. Its share of all traffic among fixed access networks (i.e., non-mobile) is about 1%, which is somewhat less than the 4% the site claimed in its own music video, but is still a substantial chunk.
A search of Megaupload-related traffic among Brazilian domain names (*.br) today turned up a greater-than-average number of Megaupload search sites – the independently-run, volunteer-maintained indexes referenced in the Justice Dept.’s indictment – plus quite a few Brazilian resellers of Megaupload premium plans. Although basic file sharing is among the features Megaupload typically provides for free, so-called “unlimited” plans, according to the DOJ indictment, enable customers to post suspiciously long media files and enter into rewards programs, giving them rebates when those files become popular. E-mails uncovered through DOJ raids, mentioned in the indictment, indicate that Megaupload’s proprietors were particularly interested in the popularity list, giving users advice as to how to rank more highly.
The nature of such advice would make Megaupload no longer eligible for the safe harbor protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, should the allegations prove true in court.
United Kingdom
At this time last year, U.K.-based search monitoring services provider Envisional made an estimate of the amount of total Internet traffic devoted to obviously (or, put another way, “shockingly”) infringing content. Envisional limited its analysis to non-pornographic content, for understandable reasons (its people probably couldn’t stomach the idea of wading through all that, and I don’t blame them). Non-pornographic content was estimated to consume 23.76% of all fixed access traffic.
Some 5.12% of all fixed access traffic was devoted, by the firm’s estimate, to infringing traffic directed to cyberlocker sites, the biggest of which was Megaupload.
In a debate article published earlier today by the U.K.’s Guardian, the political leader of that country’s Pirate Party, music teacher Loz Kaye (who is not an MP) debated IFPI Chief Executive Frances Moore.
Kaye argued that it’s not really viable to estimate the damage Megaupload may have caused to the movie, recording, and publishing industries based on lost revenue (the DOJ indictment estimated a half-billion dollars) since the business model of these industries are, in his opinion, antiquated and failing. He stated he believes Megaupload could essentially represent the new music industry that should supplant the old one, saying, “We all – pirates and artists – have an interest in a properly functioning and free Internet. Last year 70% of the total volume of British music sales were digital. The [British recording industry group] BPI would do well to remember that its future income is dependent on the very people it is currently antagonizing.”
To which Moore responded that the new music industry is represented more by iTunes and digital music stores, not glorified file sharing sites. “We’re licensing music widely to sites like iTunes, Spotify and Deezer,” Moore writes. “This growing digital music business is fantastic for artists and for consumers. Yet it can’t survive in a market rigged by illegal piracy. Events such as the U.S. Justice Department charging Megaupload are important developments – not just for the music industry, but for the whole creative economy.”
* Wait, wait a minute, did he say “Mónica Fonseca?” As in, the fashion model, the spokesmodel, the judge on the Latin American version of “Project Runway?” The girl on several relationship-ending posters and calendars all over South America? Yep. The same.
Now, perhaps it’s NTN24 policy and perhaps my wife called in to make a special request. But because I don’t speak Spanish, when I’m being interviewed by Mónica via Skype, I hear her questions via a translator. Today it was Andrew. And I don’t see Mónica asking the questions until after NTN24 makes the replay available online.
Still, if you’re wondering, she’s a very good interviewer and speaks well to her subject matter. Perhaps through the marvel that is technology, my wife and I will have the opportunity one day to speak more directly with Mónica and her husband, Colombian screen sensation, actor Juan Pablo Raba. (My wife has policies too.)
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Newest International SEO Challenge: Hreflang & Canonical Tags
Jan 17th
2011 was a fantastic year in international search marketing. We saw expansive campaigns, better structures, and even new industries pour into the global scene.
Then, last August, Google threw in a wrench and rolled out Panda internationally, whi…
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International Academy Of Web Television Awards Demonstrate Maturity Of Online … – ReelSEO Online Video News
Jan 14th
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International Academy Of Web Television Awards Demonstrate Maturity Of Online …
ReelSEO Online Video News The following is an index of our more popular video search engine optimization (Video SEO, VSEO,… Many of us here at ReelSEO are still settling back into our routines following the awesome SMX West… Google has been giving users "instant previews" … |
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Amazing International Mobile Stats for 2011
Dec 30th
Mobile Inquirer released this infographic, Top 5 Mobile Phone Statistics of 2011. It shows the top 10 countries in regards to mobile phone use and the U.S. is not #1 or #2. The top global smartphone operating system for quarter 3 of 2011 is not iOs or Andriod. Check out the mobile local search stat [...]
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International SEO: Three French Hens – Business Insider
Dec 12th
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International SEO: Three French Hens
Business Insider Even with a background in Cultural Anthropology, I occasionally catch myself thinking about SEO from an ethnocentric point of view. For the most part, the clients I work with are focused on a domestic audience, and so I may only need to account for … |
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