Google Gadgets & SEO

Google was offering 100,000 and 275,000 dollars to the developers of applications for Android (Googles mobile phone platform).
The winners were announced today. I am a bit disappointed that there are no charities or non-profits represented, but there are some clever, functional, and useful apps. Functionality appears to be the biggest factor in who won. If [...]

I am writing this post from the Troy, NY offices of We Build Pages where I now work
I have moved from Honolulu to Troy where I will work with Jim Boykin as the Search Engine Marketing Manager for We Build Pages. To learn more, see our announcement at We Build Pages.

Friendster, a very popular friend space on the net, will now support Open Social v.7
I got this from their development team…
As a member of the Friendster developer community, I wanted to let you know that we launched support for OpenSocial, v0.7 this week, which further expands the Friendster Developer Program. OpenSocial applications can now be [...]

Clearspring has added share options for MySpace and Bebo.
More interestingly they have added ESPN fan profiles and Univision Mi Pagina (Very large Univision community personal homepage).
Clearspring also announced two new APIS (reporting and catalog) and and offered some guidance on the MySpace “no link out” problem for flash widgets.
The Catalog API is private right now, [...]

Chris Sherman will be presenting a webcast on the social graph:
“The social graph” is garnering a lot of attention these days, including a vigorous debate between search marketers who believe leveraging social networks is the next big thing, and traditional search marketers who dismiss social search as the latest fad.”
Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 1:00 [...]

Facebook has announced it’s new funding arm of fbFund.
Through this fund Facebook will distribute 10 million dollars to developers of useful apps. There are a couple different ways these funds will go out but I will describe the 2 Million they are giving out in a competition.
A quick run down of how this will work [...]

The Internet Marketers Charity Party
Todd Malicoat and Lauren Vaccarello are helping promote this years event, The IM Charity Party.
Lauren provides 33 reasons to go. To get in, you will need to make a 40 dollar (or more) donation via their team page.
The funds will support:
The Children’s Hospital of Aurora, CO
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
They say [...]

I was drunk much of this but I was able to shoot some video with the help of a couple of people.
SunCity SEOcon was a major sucess and without further ado, here is the video…

It was a good time, I can’t edit video good. If you can’t see this because you are reading this in [...]

This morning I am watching emails of an university who is implementing a web emergency alert system. They are conducting testing today and the general idea is to have a way to instantly, across all their web properties, alert their students and staff and provide the emergency information.
What if Google did this by working with [...]

Aug 9th and 10th:
Phoenix AZ - SunCity SEOcon
Aug 14th:
San Francisco - MySpace Lunch 2.0
Aug 16th:
San Francisco - WordPressCamp
Aug 18th:
San Jose - SES
San Jose - Charity Party
If you are in those cities and need time with me or just want to chat, let me know. I will probably stay in San Fran after Myspace until [...]