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Do I Change My Site In The UK To Comply With New Cookie Laws?
Feb 7th
People are generally vaguely aware that debates have been taking place in Europe over new legislation which principally affects the use of “Cookies”. European legislation is inevitably more complex than elsewhere because of the way it is drafted by the European Commission and then…
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Another Victory For Big Media in Piracy Wars as Torrent Site Shuts Down
Feb 6th
If recent crackdowns against file-sharing were meant as a warning shot to other site owners, it has indeed been heard loud and clear. First, sites like FileSonic and FileServe voluntarily scaled back their functionality, while others vocally defended their own practices in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown.
Today, popular BitTorrent index BTjunkie shut itself down to preempt legal action of the type experienced by the Pirate Bay, Megaupload and others. The seven-year-old site may not have been squashed directly by authorities, but it is nonetheless good news for the RIAA, MPPA and other opponents of online piracy.
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The voluntary shutdown of BTjunkie isn’t going to single-handedly change the file-sharing landscape, but it’s symbolic of a larger trend in the ongoing war over digital piracy. The copyright lobby has scored several big victories lately, most notably the seizure of Megaupload by federal authorities on January 19. Since that day, the aftershocks have been felt across the Web, BTjunkie’s closure being only the latest example.
Separately, the Swedish Supreme Court recently upheld the sentences of three Pirate Bay cofounders who were convicted of copyright infringement in 2009.
Battling Piracy in a Post SOPA-World
Apparently by pure coincidence, the Megaupload shutdown came one day after large-scale online protests against SOPA and PIPA, the proposed anti-piracy legislation. The timing of the crackdown raised a few eyebrows, as well as questions about why SOPA would have been necessary in the first place.
SOPA and PIPA may be shelved for the time being, but the war between the content industry and the parts of the Internet that they perceive to encourage copyright infringement is far from over. The next battle may be legislative, or it may rely on civil or criminal law. In some cases, the aftershocks of previous strikes will be enough to shake other perceived enemies from their positions, as happened in the cases of BTjunkie and FileSonic.
The counterstrikes in these battles have come in occasionally dramatic flavors such as the DDoS attacks from Anonymous that followed the Megaupload shutdown. More subtle – and far more powerful – is the mass migration of users from one service to another as authorities engage in what appears to be one giant game of Internet whack-a-mole.
There have been recent successes, but the very nature and structure of the Internet raises questions about the longterm effectiveness of this approach. As we saw with SOPA, any attempt to tinker with that structure will be met with fierce resistance.
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SEO Company India Techmagnate to Provide SEO Services to Topperlearning.com … – Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine
Feb 6th
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SEO Company India Techmagnate to Provide SEO Services to Topperlearning.com …
Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine Techmagnate, leading SEO services India company, recently announced that it has signed a deal with renowned education portal TopperLearning.com, for its SEO services. This deal has cemented Techmagnate's position as one of India's foremost SEO services … |
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SEO Positive Partners With UK Hairstyle Site – PR Web (press release)
Feb 5th
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SEO Positive Partners With UK Hairstyle Site
PR Web (press release) SEO Positive has announced a recent acquisition of a contract with 4Hairstyles.com, a website dedicated to showcasing thousands of hairstyles for those looking for style inspiration and design ideas. 4Hairstyles.com is a large, content-rich website … |
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New Reuters Site Turns News Decisions Over To Social Media
Feb 2nd
News agency Reuters launched a Social Pulse, which it describes as a “social media hub” that will display “the most talked-about news, companies and influencers across the Web.”
The site is unique in the news-curating space in that it uses trends from the Twitter accounts Reuters and its journalists follow to arrange headlines: in effect, the news agency is automating editing and story selection and putting it in the hands of “everyone from Nouriel Roubini and Jenna Wortham to John McCain and Rachel Sterne.”
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Social Pulse has a business bent – one key section is where Reuters has posted with Klout to track what the “50 most social CEOs” are reading and commenting on. Other features include WiseWindow, a stock sentiment model for companies, showing whether social media sentiment is leaning toward favorable or unfavorable opinions, according to a blog post announcing the new site.
News organizations have increasingly warmed toward social media in the past several years. New York Times reporters like Brian Stelter and David Carr routinely tweet about stories they are covering and offer commentary to reactions about their reporting. Small and large outlets have used live-tweeted breaking news events and press conferences.
But the Reuters effort appears to be a major step forward in using social media to shape the news cycle. Presumably, story selection for the main news page will remain in the hands of Reuters editors.
The difference between that page and Social Pulse earlier this morning show that what Reuters editors think is important (Facebook IPO, Jobless Claims Fall and a story about the Federal Reserve, among others) is not necessarily in line with what’s getting traffic on Social Pulse, which was topped by a story about a drop in Iranian currency, an increase in planned layoffs last month and a feature on Swiss watch sales.
Of the three articles at the top of Social Pulse, only one – the story about layoffs – was a Reuters story.
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Pinterest the Referral Giant: New Site Driving More Traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn Combined [INFOGRAPHIC]
Feb 2nd
In addition to recently winning the Crunchie for Best New Startup of 2011, a new study by shareaholic is now indicating that Pinterest is driving more referral traffic than Google Plus, LinkedIn, and YouTube combined. The study, which examined aggregated data for over 200,000 web publishers with a reach of over 260 million unique monthly [...]
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SEO Birmingham – Allow Your Web Site be Observed – My Edmonds News (registration)
Jan 26th
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SEO Birmingham – Allow Your Web Site be Observed
My Edmonds News (registration) As any SEO Birmingham based organization will tell you, no-one knows you are presently there; you need to get yourself heard. Search Engine Optimisation to give it its full name can give your site a voice, with a reputable SEO Birmingham based company, … Brooklyn-Based SEO Company Ajax Union Highlights Enhanced Local Internet … SEO Training Course for Small Business Announced by JM Internet Group How Important Is Your Twitter Username To SEO? |
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2012 Is The Year To Cut Your Site Retargeting Budget
Jan 25th
Having made the switch from ‘agency guy’ to ‘vendor guy’ a year ago, I have talked to dozens of agencies in the last 12 months and have been completely blown away by the vast quantity of media dollars that are being poured into bad site retargeting programs. Good money is disappearing into…
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SEO Positive Plans to Launch New Paid Search Site – PR Web (press release)
Jan 23rd
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SEO Positive Plans to Launch New Paid Search Site
PR Web (press release) SEO Positive unveils plans to design a brand new website that will focus solely on advertising its Pay Per Click services. SEO Positive predicts that 2012 will be an interesting year for PPC. After launching a brand new corporate website in early … |
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Why Every Site Owner Needs a Client Friendly SEO Agent – SubmitinME
Jan 18th
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Why Every Site Owner Needs a Client Friendly SEO Agent
SubmitinME But to put it on the business race track, you got to find the right kind of developers, builders, and optimizers, who should not only claim to know all about SEO, but let their work show returns on the track. With so many fake SEO's on the sprout, … Customizing SEO Campaigns SEO Analyst SEO Campaigns Need To Attract Quality Traffic, Not Just Quantity Says Punch |
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