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Web’s third frontier Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development. One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring. Functional explanations emphasize the real time web, collaborative systems and location-based services. Technical explanations argue that the interconnectivity of data is the most significant current development. They consider the web’s new frontiers to be closely related to the semantic web or the “web of things”. B2B Public Relations Firm Blog In marketing and communications, social media is no longer considered new. It’s the new normal. But for the pharma industry, this is not the case. Combine a lack of social media guidance from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) with strict regulatory oversight and high stakes – what do you get?

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO Fitbit has discontinued their Fitbit One step trackers, which seems like a good opportunity to step back and reflect on wearing one for the last decade or so. I’ve enjoyed using Fitbit trackers, but the One devices seemed like they broke down too often. I’m pretty proud that I ended up earning all the activity-related Fitbit badges though:

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang By Jeremiah Owyang, from Silicon Valley In many respects, Silicon Valley sits atop the world. Its growth and influence has made it the globe’s top location for innovation, STEM jobs, IT patents, venture capital funding, and Internet and software growth, and Unicorn startups galore. And yet there’s also been a shift in the Valley’s culture. Growing social and economic rifts have bred fraud, anger and protests. User Experience? - Continuations The (Re)Convergence of User Experience? Something big may be happening to user experience. Bing and Google will soon be showing tweets as part of the search results (they have both licensed the full Twitter firehose and Marissa Meyer yesterday demoed a version of “Social Search”).

Andrew Lark I'm not sure about the logic that says a company that provides a free service - Facebook, Twitter, Quora -- should also provide free telephone support. Users shouldn't confuse them not doing this with not listening - I suspect it is pure business economics. What drives me mad is when companies like eBay and PayPal, who charge for a service can't be bothered providing easy to access support. I'm experiencing this first hand at the moment with Billmelater.

Submit Your Site The goal of Yahoo Search is to discover and index all of the content available on the web to provide the best possible search experience to users. The Yahoo Search index, which contains several billion web pages, is more than 99% populated through the free crawl process. Yahoo also offers several ways for content providers to submit web pages and content directly to the Yahoo Search index and the Yahoo Directory: Yahoo Search Submission The Long Tail Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:46:19 “Priced and Unpriced Online Markets" by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Edelman. Discusses tradeoffs in market such as email, IP addresses, search and dial-up Internet. "Reminiscent of the old adage about losing money on every unit but making it up in volume, online markets challenge norms about who should pay, when, and why." I found this typically academic: dated, dry and pretty unilluminating.

The Measurement Standard: Blog Edition Daphne Gray-Grant's Rapid Writing It's April. And in many parts of the world that means only one thing: Tax season. Web Analytics Software for Web Site & E Lyris' HQ is built on our highly-scalable and flexible cloud architecture that delivers a high degree of effective email marketing with excellence in performance, reliability and uptime. Additionally, the Lyris technology stack is architected to harness the value of big data for marketing success. With Lyris HQ, users will find the single user interface, tabbed UI, parallel campaign and message development, all sophisticated features useful in helping them develop key messaging that will resonate with subscribers across many of the digital touch points along the customer’s buying journey. Lyris HQ’s email online marketing technology will help you build and develop your next email campaign by giving you complete insight into your subscriber’s behavior and fully integrate with your existing CRM or data management software. Lyris HQ Power Edition is for professional online marketers who manage complex digital campaigns.

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Indoor Location and Positioning will be huge! Apple recently acquired WifiSlam for its indoor mapping and positioning technology. Why? Because we spend most of our time indoors, working, shopping, eating, at the mall, at the office, on campus, etc. Google already has Indoor Maps for many airports and shopping malls. The race is on. Empowered Digital Disruption is on everyone's mind. Netflix is replacing people's cable subscriptions. Simple apps like OpenTable and LoseIt! are displacing businesses like Zagat's and Weight Watchers. But if you want to understand why, you need to look back at the 80's and 90's and imagine you are an American manufacturer.

450+ Best Social Media Resources Nobody should be hiding from social media marketing anymore. There has been plenty of time to test the waters and see how you can apply it to your business. Social media has created a platform for instant communication and targeted web traffic that nobody should be avoiding. Seth\'s Blog We still teach a lot of myths in the intro to economics course, myths that spill over to conventional wisdom. Human beings make rational decisions in our considered long-term best interest. Actually, behavioral economics shows us that people almost never do this. Our decision-making systems are unpredictable, buggy and often wrong.

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