When did feed reading become such a burden? I recently thought back to when RSS and syndication were brand new buzz words. When feed syndication was first introduced, supporters raved that RSS would save you time, right? Instead of navigating to 20 different websites to keep current on important news, RSS enabled important news to be syndicated directly to us.
And yes, subscribing to feeds increased my productivity - back when I only had 15 - 20 feed subscriptions. Now I have 87.
How many do you currently subscribe to? 50? 100? 200? Most people don’t have time to keep current with many more than that, right?
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Embeddable videos include YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, Revver and Vimeo. Pownce has just added additional customization options, too. Read a good review of these new Pownce updates at Jeffro 2pt0.
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Round up of SMO coverage from the San Jose SES conference taken from unofficial SEO blog. SMO Speakers at SES included:
Todd Malicoat gave examples for types of linkbaiting hooks:
- attack
- humor
- contrarian (contrary opinion)
- news
- resource
- ego
- picture/movie
He also listed top title ideas and other social media optimization tips.
Rand Fishkin explained social media marketing and said that the social media marketing goal is to build friends and relationships in the blogosphere and at online social sites. Your target social media marketing audience is not same demographic as your customers.
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Why do we love Twitter? Ask Dave Winer and he’ll say (paraphrased) it forces people to create posts that *cut out the crap* and scream the *less is more* anthem. In other words 140 characters or less.
Why not apply this same lean-post principle to podcasts too? Enter the TwitterGram. Not quite a polished publicly-accessible web service, the conceptual TwitterGram is building increasing momentum.
You can contribute by linking your Twitter post to your own uploaded audio file (200K or less). More details on scripting.com.
