Once more unto the feed reader, dear friends:- The Rise of Social Algorithms: Referrerals from social networks are beginning to eclipse those from Gooogle. Is this the end of SEO (and the beginning of SMO)?
- Iterating Buzz: People have been quick to dismiss Google's new toy, but they're serious enough about it to be iterating it fast.
- The Internet Explorer 6 cull continues: more web services are ending support for the antiquated web browser that's holding development of the web back.
- Face It. Hyperlocal Needs Facebook: The mass market hangs out in Facebook. You need to find ways of getting your content promoted in there.
- A Lesson in Statistics - to follow on from yesterday's...
- How to blog in three easy steps...
The social algorithms post is really interesting - it was predicted in the Long Tail, and I've been teaching about it for a while now. Personal recommendations are worth more because of the trust relationship that's already inherent. (Though it's interesting to ask people to analyse their trust relationship with Google - we all actually trust it higher than we might think.)