Jonathan Allen
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Jonathan Allen

Jonathan Allen is the President of Longneck & Thunderfoot, a brand publishing and digital marketing company. He is the former director of Search Engine Watch 2009-13), an AZBEE award winning blog on search engine marketing, and former co-founder of Moblog, a Webby, MEGAS, RTS award winning & BAFTA nominee, social network for amateur photographers and citizen journalists.

2010

SEO

Facebook Brand Pages Testing Status Updates?

I just noticed that the SEW Facebook page now includes a status update next to the brand name. I find…

06 May 2010

SEO

IAB Promotes Data Transparency Within Interactive Advertising Industry

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the release of “Data Usage & Control Primer: Best Practices & Definitions,” a…

03 May 2010

SEO

SEMPO New Board of Directors Brings Worldwide Focus

The Board of Directors of the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) today announced the election of a new slate…

29 Apr 2010

Mobile

Layar Launches World’s First Augmented Reality Content Store

Layar has introduced a new revenue opportunity for Augmented Reality (AR) developers to target the 1.6M mobiles that have downloaded…

29 Apr 2010

SEO

Healthline Raises $14 Million to Grow Medical Search Engine

A few weeks ago, I got a chance to speak to Dean Stephens, President & COO of Healthline, about their…

26 Apr 2010

SEO

Macroglossa’s Visual Search Engine fails to meet basic expectations

Macroglossa, an Italian search engine based on image comparison, is launching the alpha version of its “Engine Comparer Technology”, theoretically…

26 Apr 2010

SEO

The Meta Tag Is Back With a Vengeance

Following announcements made at the Facebook F8 conference, TechCrunch reports that Google Developers are leaving Facebook due to substantial concerns…

23 Apr 2010

SEO

Yahoo to Add Twitter & Facebook Updates to Search Results

Chief executives from Yahoo told an FT blogger this afternoon they will jump into “social search” this year. Their product…

23 Apr 2010

SEO

Bing Sponsors Explorer to Tweet From North Pole for Earth Day

Today, explorer Eric Larsen (@ELexplore) is due to reach the North Pole and will send the first ever tweet from…

22 Apr 2010

SEO

Google Integrates Social Shopping Platforms, Bazaarvoice First In The Mix

Now retailers and manufacturers can automatically feed full-text product reviews to Google and Google Product Search, via Bazaarvoice’s Social Commerce…

21 Apr 2010