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Yandex Teams With Seznam on Video Search Results, Now Reports Malware
Dec 2nd
Yandex announced a partnership with Czech search engine Seznam on Wednesday. Yandex developed a video search service that will be provided on the Czech search engine at Seznam.cz.
Utilizing queries based on the Czech language and grammatical str…
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How To Build & Manage Enterprise Search Marketing Teams
Nov 21st
On a panel at a recent conference, I had the pleasure of moderating a great discussion on building and managing in-house SEO teams. What made this panel superb was that it wasn’t just about in-house SEO teams.There was quite a bit of content around hiring, working with third parties, and the…
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Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams
Nov 9th
Grove, a new hosted IRC chat service for teams, launches today. It’s IRC without the fuss, providing hosting, account management, access controls and fully searchable chat logging, as well as a sparkling new Web chat client.
It supports all the great IRC client apps, of course, but Grove takes care of the fiddly parts of setup and hosting. All that’s left for teams to do is sign up and start using it. Starting today they can do so for free at Grove.io.
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Grove is the latest effort from Leah Culver, CEO and co-founder of Convore, and Convore developer/designer Jori Lallo. Culver was a co-founder and lead developer of Pownce, which was an early challenger to the Twitter way of communicating that also allowed attachments and events. Pownce was acquired by SixApart in 2008, and the service itself was shut down.
She got into real-time chat in 2009 when she and Defunkt built a Web-based IRC client called Leafy Chat for the Django Dash that won second place. The popularity of that client and her experience with Pownce sparked her interest in figuring out chat. “Actually, most of the content sent was replies to other people’s content,” Culver says of Pownce, “because people really want to talk with each other.”
Insights From Convore
That insight led to the creation of Convore, which splits the difference between real-time chat and forums. It allows users to create topic-based forums, but replies are posted in real time. It works like chat if you’re present, but it logs conversations like a forum. Culver says the Convore team thought its open-ended appeal would be an advantage, but it ended up making it difficult to identify a clear use case.
Several different use cases emerged: liveblogging, conference chat and internal team chat for businesses. The team chat was the part that piqued Culver’s interest. She decided to create a new solution for that using everyone’s old favorite chat protocol, IRC, but taking the effort out of it by hosting the service, offering a Web client, and providing all the logging, archiving and search. That’s Grove. It launches today, and it’s free.
Why IRC?
Geeks love IRC, but it comes with a few hassles, mainly having to host it, that have led teams away from using it in favor of easier IM solutions. As an old protocol, it also doesn’t support user accounts in the way we’ve gotten used to in the Web 2.0 age.
But IRC has advantages over proprietary tools. It’s a stable, open protocol – “like email,” Culver points out – which means users can use whatever client application they want, on any platform, most of which are open-source and free. Without having to build apps for every platform, Grove can concentrate on eliminating the fiddly parts of IRC, and what’s left is an easy, real-time, logged chat service for teams built around a trusted protocol.
Grove provides its users hosting, user accounts, channel access controls, and searchable archives, as well as a swanky Web-based client. But it still allows all the benefits of an open protocol like IRC, so team members can use whatever client app they desire on any device. Grove lists a few recommended apps on different platforms, as well as the easy instructions for connecting, at grove.io/help.
Chat For 21st-Century Teams
“We’re moving towards a more distributed workforce,” Culver says. “People are working remotely. You want to stay on the same page. Not everybody’s always going to be at the office.” Grove can help 21st-century teams keep in touch, and by handling the tricky parts of IRC itself, the barrier to entry is gone. And since it’s open, teams who so desire can build their own custom clients, or modify existing open-source ones, so Grove can be a backbone for chat that’s tailored to its team’s exact specifications.
As of today, Grove is open for anyone to sign up. It’s currently free.
Culver is speaking today at the Keeping It Realtime Conference about why Convore uses long-polling over websockets for moving its real-time data. She’ll be talking about Grove as well. We’ll post the video here as soon as it’s available.
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SES Berlin Teams Up With OMCap 2011
Sep 26th
Attention German search marketers: get ready for a real treat this October. The ever popular SES Berlin Is running in conjunction with Germany’s other popular search and social event, OMCap 2011.
Both shows have attracted the Berlin audience at …
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Chiropractic Clinic in Houston Teams Up with SEO Company to Develop New Online … – PR.com (press release)
Sep 22nd
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Chiropractic Clinic in Houston Teams Up with SEO Company to Develop New Online …
PR.com (press release) When this SEO advertising strategy takes effect, all a potential customer will have to do in order to learn about this chiropractic office is type in their desired service, such as "fibromyalgia treatment," along with their Houston-area location in … |
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Google Teams with ESPN to Add MLB Baseball, NFL Football Scores to Search Results
Sep 1st
Looking to quickly find the latest baseball score or follow a football game in real time? Google and ESPN have brought the scoreboard straight to the search results to provide live MLB and NFL scores, or send you to game recaps, box scores, schedu…
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Verizon Teams With Intuit to Bring GoPayment Mobile Card Reader to Retail Stores
Aug 25th
Verizon Wireless and financial management company Intuit announced today a partnership that will bring Intuit’s mobile card reader to 2,300 Verizon retails stores across the country. The partnership is yet another big move in the mobile card reader industry that has been popularized by Square and includes Verifone, Erply and PayAnywhere among others.
Intuit operates QuickBooks, a system used by merchants to manage finances. As such, GoPayment fits well in Intuit’s product line. Verizon will be able to put the Go Payment in front of millions of people looking for mobile payment options. It is a win for both companies and a strike to Square, which is putting up a big fight against the large financial companies that are rapidly entering mobile payment industry.
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GoPayment can support BlackBerry, Android and iOS. It offers merchants the ability to create and sell from a list of frequently sold items and customize the receipts for sales tax, tips etc. Card data is not stored on the mobile device and is encrypted twice in the process, from the card reader itself and a second time from the GoPayment app.
The GoPayment card reader will be “free” to Verizon customers granted activation of a GoPayment account and a mail-in rebate of the $29.97 purchase price. The app itself is free and has no monthly transaction or cancellation fees with a 2.7% rate for each swiped transaction. A paid version of GoPayment is available that lowers the per swipe transaction rate to 1.7% with a $12.95 monthly fee, which will be good for retailers with high volume.
Square sells for $9.95 at the Apple Store but consumers get a $10 credit from the company when they sign up for an account. Square also has a 2.7% fee for swiped transactions.
Mobile Point-Of-Sale Growing Fast
Mobile point-of-sale is on its way to becoming a large industry. Intuit says that by 2015, mobile POS will process near $54.8 billion in transactions. Yet, with so many options are now on the market, what is the difference between them? Square has an iPad-based point of sale terminal that ostensibly beats out GoPayments and Verifone’s offerings. Yet, Intuit’s ability to easily integrate QuickBooks with GoPayment is a very useful feature as well (something that would probably not be hard for Square to replicate). The fees for swiped transactions are similar for all the major players in the market.
When Square announced its Card Case and Register in May it said that it had shipped 500,000 dongles and was processing $3 million in transactions per day. No word on how much GoPayment is processing per day at this time. Intuit is a leader in small business payments and processes near $17 billion in transactions over 300,000 merchants a year.
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