In the Financial Services category, 2011 will be remembered as a year of volatile swings. The stock market has seen massive daily swings, and has been teetering on a global crisis. What does all this, as well as the continued evolution of search...
Earlier this year, eMarketer released a report documenting the meteoric rise of Internet radio . Market leader Pandora, emerging beast Spotify, and various other players are clearly riding a wave of explosive growth… but in this and other similar...
Google have raised awareness of Earth Day for the last 10 years with a new Doodle. The doodle designs have got more creative and complex with the years and have touched upon different planetary themes and concerns such as solar energy to polar ice...
SES Toronto was held for the first time in May 2004. I was a speaker at the session on "Balancing Paid & Organic Listings. Flash forward 8 years and SES Toronto 2011 will feature dramatically different content.
Worldwide, Internet marketing is changing fast. The leaders of old such as the United States and United Kingdom are still at the forefront, but countries like China, Russia, Brazil, Germany, and France are quickly catching up.
The Boston Globe has just published it's list of "The 25 most stylish Bostonians" and I'm not on it. And I'm starting to think that I may owe SEM industry observer, Meredith A.C. Roth, an apology. Back on July 28, 2004, Roth issued a press release...
The Rutgers Mini MBA Program is offering an accelerated Social Media Marketing Course from December 6 through 10, 2010, on the Piscataway campus. Heidi Cohen, who writes for ClickZ, is teaching the session on Social Media Strategy.
Search Engine Strategies (SES) announced this morning that Peter Morville will be one of the keynote speakers for SES Toronto 2010, which will be held on June 9-11 at the Hyatt Regency Toronto. I know, I know.
Last week, I offered 10 tips for marketers who are going to Search Engine Strategies for the first time. This week, I'll talk to industry veterans who are going to SES London or SES New York for the Nth time.
Tim Armstrong and AOL employees rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning, to signal the beginning of trading - including AOL stock as an independent company. Wall Street responded by dropping their shares by a 36 cents.
The Official Google Blog announced the launch of the Chrome Operating System - late night in California - the entry is timestamped 9:30 pm PST - but an hour and a Twitter link ago - I found it. A number they claim - "30 million regular Chrome...
NCAA March Madness is in full swing, and so is Social Media Madness! We started our own Big Dance with 16, but now the Final Four is starting to come into focus, thanks to all of you who have voted for your favorite social media sites.
With Search Engine Strategies getting underway next week, veterans of SES New York don't need no stinking schedule optimization services -- even if I do offer them for free. A quick look at the conference agenda will reassure them that there is...
The keynote speakers for Search Engine Strategies Chicago have just been posted to the website for the SEM conference. And check out the heavy hitters: Lawrence Lessig, the Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, is giving the opening keynote on...
Search engine marketers on both sides of the Canadian – American border should attend Search Engine Strategies Toronto, which is being held at Metro Toronto Convention Centre June 17-18, 2008. Why? If you are one of the 1,250 alumni who attended...
The biggest Search Engine Strategies conference of the year will be held the week of March 17 in New York City. Whether this will be your first SES New York, or the fifth one in a row that you've attended since 2004, you might appreciate some free...
According to a Des Moines Register Iowa Poll published back in May, 56 percent of the people in Iowa who are likely to participate in the state's presidential caucuses in January “search the Internet for candidates' stands on issues.
I received 5 emails from Yahoo today. Upon opening them I found out I was over $11,000 richer. The largess came from claims I had made last year as part of the class action suit against Yahoo. The claim covered any errors in Overture's budgeting...
Over the weekend, I used Google Suggest on Google News to identify the most common news queries used recently by people keeping tabs on Search Engine Strategies (SES) New York coverage. They were "Search Engine Strategies" and "SES New York.
SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, has released the results from its annual "State of Search Engine Marketing 2006" report. North American advertisers spent $9.4 billion on search engine marketing (SEM) in 2006, up 63...
