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Bing Tags Expands, Makes Pages Linked To Your Profile Public
Jan 22nd
Search engines continue to go old school, encouraging people to “tag” content in a way that makes it feel like it’s 1999 all over again. Today, Bing makes another push in that direction, making content you tag with “Bing Tags” more visibile. Honestly, I feel like this…
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Bing Tags Expands, Supposedly Makes Pages Linked To Your Profile Public
Jan 22nd
Search engines continue to go old school, encouraging people to “tag” content in a way that makes it feel like it’s 1999 all over again. Today, Bing makes another push in that direction, making content you tag with “Bing Tags” more visibile. Honestly, I feel like this…
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Bing Linked Pages Now Called Bing Tags
Dec 21st
Earlier this year, Bing announced a new featured named Bing Linked Pages, that feature is now named Bing Tags. The feature allows you or your friends to “tag” web pages and documents in Bing’s index as being related to you or your friend. The purpose is to make the search results…
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SEO firm linked to fallen Energy Watch CEO Ben Polis in administration, some … – SmartCompany.com.au
May 9th
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Bing Linked Pages Simpler than Google+ Author Markup
Mar 14th
At first glance Bing Linked Pages sounds like an answer to Google’s content authorship markup. However any resemblance is short lived as they do different things. Bing Linked Pages seeks to connect content that is about you rather than written by you
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What Google+ Should Have Been: Bing’s Linked Pages
Feb 29th
Bing launched Bing+ last week, it just skipped all the unnecessary stuff. (It’s not really called Bing+.) There’s a new feature called Linked Pages that allows Bing users (U.S. only, for now) to connect their various websites and profiles to their Bing identities, using Facebook for authentication. You can also link your Facebook friends to their pages.
Thanks to its relationship with Facebook, Microsoft has the advantage of not needing to build its own identity provider or social network. Everyone’s already on Facebook. To build good results for people, Bing will use the same technique Facebook Groups use: get friends to draw their own graph. Just like with Facebook Groups, if a friend connects you to something you don’t want, you can remove it permanently. We all thought that feature would suck for Groups, but it worked just fine. Facebook Groups build themselves, and Bing can build identities the same way.
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The interesting thing is, this is exactly what Google+ is for, but the product isn’t being pitched that way. Google’s social layer is all about establishing the Google-presence for people and brands, so they can appear across Google-land, especially in Search, plus Your World. But Google+ is spun as a place for “sharing.” It has all these pieces of a social network, but people aren’t using them.
It’s a shame, because some of these features are absolutely wonderful. What could be more social than Hangouts? Google+ is full of great ideas, but it is struggling to bring them together. The user experience isn’t there. And that’s all because Google felt the need to build a full-blown social network itself in order to act as an identity service.
Couldn’t Hangouts have just been a Gmail feature?
Social Search Is All We Needed
There’s no need for a new social network, but there is a reason to put personal identities in search. Searching for people has always been a terrible experience. It’s nearly impossible to find the person you’re looking for, unless they’re famous. Search engines need an identity layer.
Bing is just being honest about that. If you want to control the way you appear in search, you can connect the sites and pages that matter to you via Facebook. Your friends can do it, too. When you use Bing to search for people, now you’ll be able to find the content that’s related to them. That’s what Search, plus Your World does for Google, but Bing does it without requiring this new, extra place to waste time online.
Google could have done that. The Google+ profile works exactly the way Bing’s Linked Pages does, allowing users to link their outside sites and pages to themselves. It could have just made a Facebook app, and boom, there are your social search results. But that’s not how the business works. Google and Facebook can’t cooperate. They have to compete for eyeballs around social content, and Facebook is winning.
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Bing Posts To Facebook Timeline If You Use New “Linked Pages”
Feb 23rd
Yesterday, Bing rolled out a new “Linked Pages” feature that looks interesting. But using the feature gives Bing permission to post to Facebook on your behalf. That’s a lot of permission that seems necessary only as a way for Bing to pimp itself. It also means your friends might…
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Bing Linked Pages: Better People Search Results
Feb 22nd
Microsoft Bing announced a new feature named Linked Pages. The purpose is to make the search results for you and your friends more personalized as well as richer. If I am friends with you and you do a search in Bing for [barry schwartz] you will see the following search result at the top: Linked…
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Three Ways To Use Linked In If You’re NOT Looking For A Job
Feb 9th
A post last week on pimping your LinkedIn profile drew a big response, as well as a divide in comments about whether or not people should be using LinkedIn.
One of the bigger misconceptions in comments in emails was that LinkedIn is a primarily a job-hunting site. But there are reasons to use LinkedIn even if you have a job you love, aside from the obvious benefits of keeping up on your industry and making connections with potential business partners.
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Among them:
- LinkedIn is a great contact manager. Not all of your contacts will have their phone numbers in their LinkedIn profile (and if you don’t, you should add it, according to networking experts), but almost all of them have a Web site and primary email address that you can access. LinkedIn also lets you add notes for each contact, much like a regular address book, so you can keep track of interaction with a contact and add information like best contact phone numbers, birthdays and other information you want to remember.
- LinkedIn Today curates news you care about. Every time I log into LinkedIn I’m presented with three news stories that the site thinks will be of interest to me, based on my industry (tech journalism and higher education). I can click through to LinkedIn today and get more stories, as well as recommendations for additional industries I may be interested in. The stories, in my experience, tend to be more enterprising and more focused on trends than the breaking news that fills my RSS, Twitter and Facebook feeds.
- LinkedIn Groups increase the number of people in my business network. Almost every employment and social media expert I spoke with in compiling last week’s post stressed the importance of finding,joining and participating in LinkedIn groups related to your industry. “Join alumni groups, industry groups and professional interest-based groups,” said Kelly A. Lux, a social media strategist at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. “Post links of interest to the group, ask and answer questions and search the group members for new connections.”
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New York Times Longitude: Linked Data + Location
Aug 30th
Earlier this month the New York Times launched a beta testing playground called Beta620. It’s a site for the news organization to try out new web experiments, some of which may graduate to become full-fledged New York Times products.
An interesting Semantic Web experiment went live this week, called Longitude. As the name suggests, it presents a geographical interface for accessing content from The Times. It uses The Time’s large store of metadata, along with Linked Open Data from the Web.
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Longitude displays a set of “Times T” pins plotted out in a Google Map. According to an explanatory blog post, the locations for these pins were all derived from Geonames – a worldwide geographical database. Clicking on a pin pops up a balloon containing ten recent Times articles relevant to that location.
Additionally, some locations have one or two additional tabs: “Natives” and/or “Companies.” Clicking on those tabs presents you with list of locally-born people and locally-headquartered organizations.
It’s a relatively small project, but this type of functionality may become a part of your future news reading experience. For a national (indeed, international) publication like The Times, it’s often interesting to see what stories local to you have been published. Also which local people and companies have been in the news recently.
It’s encouraging to see Linked Data continuing its push into commercial areas like this.
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