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Twitter & Facebook hurt blogging
Our business view of blogging has always been
that it is a great way of managing content
and documents.
From a social networking point of view
though, it has always been a way of
providing interaction between authors and
readers.
Many businesses took
advantage of this to create 'long tails' of
comment and feedback content that helped increase
search engine ranking.
Recently though, it looks like people are
posting less on blogs and more on Twitter and
Facebook.
Why? Because it's easier!!
read the article ....
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Welcome to the June 2009 edition. A very
busy month at Blot and elsewhere.
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| Paypal for business? |
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Having a reliable, secure payment processing
solution is essential if you are
professionally selling items online.
The Blot e-commerce system has integrated
with several of the popular services out
there, but in the last year or so we've been
asked to integrate with Paypal on quite a few
occasions.
Paypal integration used to be a little
one-dimensional but now their application
programming interfaces have developed
significantly to provide capabilities similar
to some of the big boys.
So much so that they may be changing business
perception of their value..
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Paypal prime-time .... |
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| Wolfram what? |
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Wolfram Alpha is a new search engine, but
with a difference. Instead of indexing
millions of websites, it actually tries to
compute the answer you're
searching for.
For example, if you search for 'Size of
Sardinia',
it will tell you that island's size is 9247
square miles.
Anything that is specific and measurable will
usually give up reasonable answers. It's
less good on more subjective questions -
'best football team' will leave it a little
confused.
If you're an engineer or similar, you'll
probably love it.
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give Wolfram a go..... |
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| Bing! |
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Nothing to do with the old Crosby crooner (who
incidentally I met once on the platform at
Virginia Water train station, but that's
another story!), Bing is
Microsoft's new search engine.
Determined to claw back some of Google's
dominance and with the possibility of a deal
with Yahoo fading, they've unveiled Bing
(beta in UK).
At first glance, it doesn't look much
different from the old Microsoft search
engine, but they say the difference is the
way the results are found. Bing is based on
a new 'decision engine' apparently, that
works out more accurately what people are
really looking for.
Certainly, the results for a search on Bing
are quite different to the same search on
Google. Whether they are more what you
wanted is hard to tell - looks like a hard
sell to persuade people that they are.
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Try Bing... |
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