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Another SMX is in the books and I had a fantastic time! From checking out awesome Panels to speaking on the "Proving the Value of Social Media" Panel to the amazing people, SMX Advanced still is one of my favorite conferences to attend during the year. Of course, this year, a bit topic of discussion was Microsoft launching Bing...which of course was the search engine formerly known as Live Search and MSN...wonder if Microsoft can pick a brand and stick to it with Bing now... That said, there was some other major topics of discussion this year from the entire track ...

So today I was going on about my business when I got like 10 sms messages in a row from Twitter. For no absolutely reason at all either. Then I was like...what the heck is going on? So I looked at who I was getting the text messages from and realized, these seem like people that I would have notifications on for. But, wait a second, I haven't turned on mobile notifications in a LONG time. I guess Twitter is at it again! So, I logged into my mobile settings and saw this: So, ...

The most trending topic on twitter right now as I am writing this post is #fixreplies. It is shocking to me that after weeks of proclaiming that twitter is all about social discovery, we see the biggest Bonehead Decision that twitter could have made. There are posts from around the industry talking about Twitter putting a Muzzle on your friends. Originally, by default, twitter would not show you the @replies sent to other users until you went in and made the change under Settings -> Notices. Apparently, this caused confusion to many people, ...

Sean Percival and I decided that we would give the crowd 12 seconds of SEO and show everyone why we are really geeks at the GeekOut '09. We are 2 of VERY few there that could truly say #iamageek. GeekOut09: Why #iamageek on 12seconds.tv

So, I wake up this morning and see a post written by Darren Slatten completely dismissing the importance of Online Reputation Management. And, I found the post a little comedic at best, so, I'll give him a little bit of credit for that, but, one thing I won't give him credit for is researching the topic. Now, I am not going to attack Darren personally or professionally, because I haven't worked with him, nor do I know his abilities, and, it's just not my place to do so. This is just a post telling you why Online Reputation ...

It's been about a week since we had the Jane & Robot meetup at Yahoo! Santa Monica and I finally have a chance to wrap up the event. I have to say, putting that whole event together with help from some very wonderful people was probably one of the funnest things I've done. First and foremost, it was awesome to have Nathan Buggia and Vanessa Fox out in Santa Monica talking about Search Friendly Web Development. Overall, their talk was great covering things like robots access, search friendly design, etc. I haven't been around a lot of ...

I want to start by saying that raising funding or Angel Capital is something I have ABSOLUTELY no experience with, so, it was absolutely great to hear a panel on something where I was thoroughly engaged. Not to mention the rock star line up of Los Angeles Technology entrepreneurs that were on the panel: Brett Brewer, Rick Smith, Matt Coffin, Bryce Benjamin, Kamran Pouzanjani, and Jeff Tinsley. Anywho, big thanks to Jason Nazar and Docstoc for setting this up again at the Santa Monica Public Library. As usual, in true Jason fashion he started out talking about Docstoc and their approach ...

Well, there has been talk about Twitter integrating its Search functionality into their main site. It turns out the twitter team was testing this out and it has now integrated into the main site, with some pretty interesting functionality. Trending in Main Navigation On the home page, twitter has integrated the latest Trends as a menu item in the main navigation as a drop down. Twitter Search Results Clicking on a trend will pull up the new twitter search page. Here is the search results for Watchmen (update: If you haven't gotten the new ...

Lots a brewing on the Skittles madness tonight because of they're new "Social Media Aggregation" for their domain. The question I have is, was this a move of pure genius? Or, are they shooting themselves in the foot! Age and Demographics to get Started: To start with, before you start to interact with anything Skittles, they make you enter your age. Which, could be a great thing for the simple fact that they could start collecting the demographics of who their main audience is. But, how many people find this as a roadblock? ...

(Yes, Jason, you can use me as a Case Study =P ) Normally, I never write posts telling you about how great a single company is, but, in this case, I feel it is absolutely necessary. Every presentation I give now, I quickly upload to DocStoc before I go up and tweet out the URL. (They also have a ridiculous amount of legal forms and business plans on the site as resources, just an FYI). The reason for this is easy access for the crowd and in case of technical glitches. First and foremost, I do ...