Google’s Very Own Facebook Is Out

If you’ve gotten an invitation, you can now start using the Google+ project, which is Google’s still-in-development, but quite nifty, version of Facebook. It promises to give you one more place to make status updates, share last night’s scrumptious dinner pictures, see what your friends are up to, and let your boyfriend know that the

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Silicon Valley Roars Up an Arms Race for Washington Power

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has just nabbed Larry Summers for the board of Square, his latest tech start-up. In case anyone thinks they’re mistaken, that really is Larry Summers — former Treasury Secretary, ex-president of Harvard (the one who couldn’t live down a no-confidence vote after denigrating women’s aptitude for science) and very recent Obama

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SEO Basics

Search Engine Optimization, or more commonly known as SEO is the art of maximizing your blog or other site to rank highly when searched for via search engines. If this occurs, your visibility to internet traffic will increase and is perhaps the most important factor of your site along with its contents and design. The main facet of SEO is to figure out what words, or ‘keywords’, visitors to your site will use to look for your page and how to successfully use these keywords in a relevant way to improve your website’s status.

Perhaps the paramount factor to a high page rank is to have your keyword inside of the title tag, or what is clickable when a search engine displays results. While this may sound intuitive, the first step to a successful page rank truly is that basic! When an internet visitor is looking for a site for any topic, an informative, brief, but intelligent title tag will make them more likely to pay your site a visit. The best URL structure comes from using the post title as part of the URL while eliminating the post date. This allows it to be readable to the robots that work for search engines, but gives it a human touch and ideal SEO benefits.

Dealing with SEO properly is truly essential to having a webpage that is both visible and relevant for search engines. While catering to keywords and having search engines love your site may be nice, finding a balance between hits and quality is a necessary and good step to take.

Twitter and Facebook the New Nielsen?

Twitter rankings and Facebook Likes have been all the rage for some time now. If someone isn’t bragging about the number of followers or Likes they’ve so far accumulated, they’re probably busy (breathlessly) citing as proof of importance the number of followers someone else has been piling up. Although there’s hardly a soul left who’s

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Congressman Resigns After Hitting the Wrong Button to Sext on Twitter

Thursday was Anthony D. Weiner’s last day as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 9th congressional district. The former Congressman issued his resignation from the same senior center in Brooklyn that once saw him announce his successful 1991 run for City Council. Just last month Weiner was being thought of as NYC’s next mayor, but

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Facebook’s New VP of Global Communications is Joe Lockhart, Ex-White House Press Secretary

Joe Lockhart was White House press secretary during Bill Clinton’s indelible Monica Lewinsky years, and next month, in a testament to Facebook’s increasingly significant presence on the world stage, Mr. Lockhart will become that heralded company’s VP of global communications. For the new gig, Lockhart is saying goodbye to his present post as managing director

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American Grad Student from Georgia Fesses Up to Authoring “Gay Girl in Damascus” Blog

Writing from Istanbul, Turkey, the American grad student Tom MacMaster, currently studying at the University of Edinburgh, confessed to being the “sole author” of the blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus.” MacMaster began the blog in February and featured entries of the fictional life led by Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, a young lesbian blogger

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Who Uses Twitter the Most?

As part of its continuing study, “Internet and American Life Project,” today, the Pew Research Center published an update to its reporting on the use of Twitter in the United States. The update detailed that roughly 13 percent of American adults connected to the internet are Twitter users. The report’s findings reveal an 8 percent

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Facebook’s Facial Recognition Feature Rolled Out to Rest of the World

At just about half a year old, the still relatively new facial recognition feature that enables Facebook photo tagging assists first became available to American users in December. Now, the Zuckerberg group is nearing completion of a worldwide roll-out. Many are glad. The next time a photo album is uploaded, it will no longer be

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Lady Gaga and Eric Schmidt Invest in Backplane, a New Social Network

The new entertainment- and sports-focused social network in not up and running quite yet, but tidings of its forthcoming existence has just hit the electronic presses courtesy of Evelyn M. Rusli at the New York Times. Rusli tells that Troy Carter, Lady Gaga’s business manager, and his friend (in high-tech places) Matthew Michelsen are the

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