Social Networking and Web 2.0

Google’s Matt Cutts revealed interesting information about Mediabot and how it could influence your Google rankings. If you do it wrong, your web site can get it trouble on Google.

I’ve been really busy with work - so really no blogging. This morning had 30 minutes to catch up on some reading … and this cool tool just jumped out at me [via Servant of Chaos] :

Quick thoughts on this … I wish there was a way to copy the whole word as an image … I had to save each alphabet as a separate image and put them all together. Also, would be great if there was a scroll bar with all options for each letter.

Nice!

Are your Search Engine rankings still yours? Other people might hijack your search engine rankings and they might steal your web site visitors. The worst thing is that you might not even notice it. This article explains how you can protect your web site.

Google has recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm that has been invented by University of New South Wales PhD student Ori Allon. Will this change the way Google ranks web sites?

Every few months, webmaster forums discuss if search engines penalize duplicate content. Can duplicate content affect your Search Engine rankings? What can you do about that?

Martin Lucas and the Center for Social Media have produced a video called “Many to Many - Public Media and the Blogosphere”. The 12 minute video shows the buzz at the Global Voices Summit in December in London, and features Neha and me talking about the Tsunami Help Blog initiative. It also showcases Chris Lydon’s Radio Open Source and PBS’s POV Borders. Directed and narrated by Martin Lucas, this video “takes a look at the emerging world of Internet
self-publishers and citizen journalists and its implications for the larger
world of public media and asks what public broadcasters in the US and the UK are
doing to use new media tools to interact with their viewers and listeners in
innovative ways.” [Martin Lucas in an email to the GV email list].

Mobbed - by MTV Networks Asia and Motorola. It is a digital entertainment platform
which will be targeting youth in Asia-Pacific markets like India,
Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Free downloads, chat rooms, blogs, contests, blurbs, games. Interesting to see the Mobbster Rewards chart - among other things, they are encouraging users to generate content by sending pictures or blogging - users earn ‘moolah’ (explained on the site: moolah is like money, except it’s not. It’s what you need to get Booty,
which is the good stuff. Earning Moolah is easy. In fact, you can earn
it just by hanging out at Mobbed.) everytime they send a picture or a blog post through their mobile phone via sms or MMS.

“Mobbed
reinforces MTV’s commitment
to connect with our audience
on every platform possible.
Not only do we create fun and
cool branded content that can
be downloaded easily at the
click of a button, such as the
Mob Squad mobile animated series,
but we also allow for user-generated
content so youth can express
themselves and take over MTV
via the cutting-edge MMS to
TV platform - Mobtage,”
commented MTV Networks Asia
Pacific president Nigel Robbins.

[Source: Indiantelevision]

JP Rangaswami, who’s fabulous blog I only just discovered, articulates so succinctly, the Four Pillars underpinning the new world of information - Search, Syndication, Fulfilment and Collaboration/Conversation.

It’s very difficult to share just an excerpt - read the full post for sure - still …

“You create, publish, receive information that you never had before. Social information, cooking-pot information. You visualise it in ways you could never do before. You move it and share it and enrich it and aggregate it and disaggregate it using tools you could never have conceived before. And you do all this with presence and location and intention and mobility. You teach it and learn it and shape it and train it. You cleanse it and repair it and fuse it and melt it. The it is information. Yes, this is a blog about information

And the you doing everything is not me nor my generation. All we are doing is preparing for Generation M and learning from them.”