Metal Buildings Spam In Google

Chicago based Cshel has a nice post on Google index spam in regards to metal buildings. I agree with her as I see this type of spam in my akismet comments coming from .edu domains which have obviously been hacked or compromised.

This must have been a ton of work to research and is worthy of wide attention to this significant problem! It will be interesting to see how Google responds if at all.

It also reminds me of a recent post I did regarding the relvancy of Ahmed.

Happy First Blog Birthday

One year ago today, I started and made my first post on this blog! More importantly, I started an international and quite unpredictable journey of connectedness, friendship acquisition, learning, assumption questioning and personal growth that still amazes me on a daily basis by it’s power to transform my life and the people around me in positive and forceful ways. I’ve had people that I’ve never met provide introductions to people that have changed my life in ways I could not have imagined and have had acts of kindness and generosity that are simply too numerous to list.

In this first year, I’ve teethed, bruised myself and made some mistakes! In the next year, I hope to start walking as I progress from my crawling phase.

Sometimes people ask me what my goals are for this blog. In the short-term, they are career oriented as I am seeking a leadership position in a transformative, growth company, in the long term they about doing everything I can to make the world a better experience for everyone.

So my primary goals are:

1) Using my financial services, Internet and high growth company experiences and competencies to become one of the world’s leaders in mobile search and monetization. It is my belief that over time the lines between financial services, search and social networks will blur in ways that will amaze the world.

2) Use the Peter Drucker principles and quotes I live to help craft and execute elite experiences for those who interact with the companies I’ve serve in the future.

3) Build a transformative relationships in everyday life, as a speaker at conferences and within the blogosphere.

I thank you for your love and support during this first year and I look forward to the year to come being even better. Give yourself a round of well deserved applause and tell your friends and neighbors what a good job you’ve done supporting me! See you soon. Thanks again!

Google to Present at Upcoming Investor Events

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - May 15, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)
announced today that it will present at the following investor events:

JMP Securities Research Conference
Gokul Rajaram, Product Management Director
Monday, May 21, 2007
2:30 p.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. PT

Goldman Sachs Eighth Annual Internet Conference
Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research
Jeff Huber, Vice President, Engineering
Thursday, May 24, 2007
11:45 a.m. ET / 8:45 a.m. PT

To access the live audio webcasts of the presentations, please visit
investor.google.com/webcast.html.

Interesting Techmeme Visitors That Came to Read MyBlogLog News

There were interesting visitors that stopped by to read my MyBlogLog post! I thought you might like to learn about some of them.

First I wanted to report that this Techmeme only event had an average visitor page view of 3.23 yesterday.

Several months back, I had a major Digg event (Chicago Comcasted) had an average visitor page view of 2.35.

The MyBlogLog post had significantly lower page views overall, but had many other fresh posts written and indication of higher engagement. While you could draw other assumptions here, I’d rather wait to see some other data.

Below is a random sampling of some of the interesting readers that visited the site during the event:

Takuya Misawa, a Japanese Social Entrepreneur

Blog Potato, a site that is trying to build the world’s largest blogroll (feel free to sign up!)

Chris at 10e20, who envisioned a possible version of the rebranding back in January.

Cameron Barrett, someone who has had a blog dating back to 1997 at the urging of Dave Winer.

Stewart Mader, writer of Using Wiki in Education, which is a neat resource.

Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal, who whipped up a great post of his own on MyBlogLog (Always good to see you Loren!)

Roybn Tippins, who originally shared the MyBlogLog info with 100 people.

Ian Kennedy, who writes a blog called Flashpoint - he apparently shares my financial services background from his days at Lehman Brothers and currently works for Yahoo!

Chad Dickerson, who runs the Yahoo! Developer Network seems like a naturally networking and fun guy!

Mark Fulton, who among other things is an authority on domain name investments.

Jacob Share, owner of Jobmob.

Eric Berlin, the Online Media Cultist.

Patrick Schaber, The Lonely Marketer

Dan a “slacker” from Australia who authors The Wrong Advices.

The folks at the Weblog Tools Collection.

Brie from A New Wave of Thinking.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope to get to know you all on a deeper level as time goes by. Please feel free to subscribe to my RSS feed if you have not already done so. Thanks! See you soon.

Gabe Techmeme Rivera Speaks

Beet.tv has a nice interview here. Interesting to me because I have a post on Techmeme right now and it’s still a mystery to me why some posts I think are great don’t show up while others do! Maybe one day someone will figure it out! For now, I’d like to hear ideas and theories, what do you think?

Google Meets The Axis of Evil Comedy

Last week, I heard a comedian named Ahmed Ahmed, who is touring on the “Axis of Evil Comedy Tour”, via a radio interview in which he was asked what it was like having the same first and last name. Much to my surprise, he started talking about how a guy on the FBI’s most wanted list - Ahmed Mohanned Hamed Ali - shows up right next to his when you type - Ahmed Ahmed - into Google…notice the first and second entries in the first of the two photos below. Ahmed has a point when he states that when typing in Ahmed Ahmed twice he doesn’t find the result relevant as I don’t either. But the oddity of this doesn’t stop here…

At present if one types simply - Ahmed - into Google, Ahmed Mohanned Hamed Ali does not show up at all in the top ten results! Even more bizarre is that there are other Ahmed’s that show up prior to him Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (page 4) and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan (page 6).

So I’d like to ask Matt Cutts and Adam Lasnik, search evangelists at Google, just why does Ahmed Mohanned Hamed Ali show up for a search for Ahmed Ahmed and not Ahmed?


MyBlogLog to Rebrand and Make Significant Changes

At SOBcon yesterday in Chicago, Robyn Tippins, who was recently hired as the MyBlogLog community manager, spoke about several major upcoming changes with MyBlogLog.

There are several changes in the works:

1) The biggest news is that there will be a rebranding of MyBlogLog. The exact timing and new brand were not revealed. (YahooBlogLog or MyYahooLog? Time will tell.)

2) A complete site redesign is on the way!

3) A new “Widget 2.0″ is coming with some hover features.

4) Yahoo! is hard at work to remove the offensive photos so that MyBlogLog would be palatable to more conservative business blogs.

5) Some sort of method to turn off your presence for some types of sites will be added.

As they do not have these changes locked in, Robyn would love your comments and feedback. To not overwhelm her, please drop your comments below.

Analysis: The rebranding is not a surprise move. MyBloglog is really only known amongst the first adoptors and blogosphere and getting the Yahoo! name is front of more people in a soft way is a good move. Yahoo! seems committed to making these changes, while listening to suggestions and making the product more dynamic. Looks like the best is yet to come from MyBlogLog.

Mother’s Day 2007: A Search Engine View

Fresh from having a nice breakfast with my Mom on this Mother’s Day, I decided to take a look at the search engine offerings.

Live.com - no offering visible upon my visit.

Ask.com - real nice offering of a heart with a tattoo looking thing that says “Mom”

Google -

 

 

 

Yahoo! - Nice crayon coloring the logo with a nice note. See the full animation by clicking this link.

 

Winner: Yahoo! who got the meaning of the day put into full action! Congrats Yahoo!

 

Happy Mother’s Day Mom!!!

Upcoming Yahoo! Presentations

These upcoming events will be available for streaming online.

Yahoo! to present at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference and
Goldman Sachs Internet Conference during the month of May.
Tim Cadogan, SVP, Search and Listings Marketplaces will present at the
Deutsche Bank Technology Conference. The presentation will take place
on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 1:30pm Eastern Time / 10:30am Pacific
Time.

Terry Semel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Susan Decker,
Head of Advertiser and Publisher Group, and CFO will present at the
Goldman Sachs Internet Conference on Wednesday, May 23 at 9:15pm Eastern
Time / 6:15pm Pacific Time.

A live webcast of both presentations will be available on the Investor
Relations website at
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/calendar.cfm?CalendarID=5.

Mobile Screen Capture and Mobile RSS Readers

Barry Schwartz made a real nice post about how take a mobile screen capture with Quicktake. In addition, he’s ventured into comparing mobile RSS readers, a place I have not yet gone frequently.

Splog Indexed In Google, Using Blogger, Not Linking to the Source

http://businesstrafficoflife.blogspot.com/2007/05/sobcon-chicago-2007-attendee-link-list.html

Why isn’t Google taking action on blogs that are nothing but Feedburner feeds which are obviously splogs?

SOBCon Chicago 2007 Attendee Link List

Successful and Outstanding Bloggers will gather in Chicago this weekend!

Get your list of attendee links for your own blog to link out. It is the list on the site with a few blog links corrected. If you notice other errors, please comment below and I’ll correct the link list when I have time.

SOBcon2007 Chicago Attendees:
Sandra Renshaw
Brad Shorr
Timothy Johnson
Tammy Lenski
Muhammad Saleem
Lorelle VanFossen
David Dalka - Mobile Search Marketing
Todd And
John Yedinak
Joe Hauckes
Tim Draayer
Jeremy Geelan
Carolyn Manning
Sheila Scarborough
Steve Farber
Dawud Miracle
Doug Mitchell
Jeff O’Hara
Dave Schoof
Jamy Shiels
Adam Steen
Hannah Steen
Chris Thilk
Barry Zweibel
Eric Bingen
Ellen Moore
Cord Silverstein
Jean-Patrick Smith
James Walton
Sharan Tash
Vernon Lun
Tony Lee
Scott Desgrosseilliers
Mark Murrell
Kammie Kobyleski
Easton Ellsworth
Mark Goodyear
Ann Michael
Kent Blumberg
Ashley Cecil
Robert Hruzek
Sabu N G
Mazur Krystyna
Lisa Gates
Franke James
Chris Brown
Troy Worman
Karen Putz
Jesse Petersen
Terry Mapes
Andy Brudtkuhl
Lucia Mancuso
Peter Flaschner
Derrick Sorles
Mike Rohde
Thomas Clifford
Rajesh Srivastava
Claire Celsi
Jason Alba
Cristiana Passinato
Sean R.
Alex Shalman
Cristiana Passinato
Brad Spirrison
Ari Garber
Dr. Rob Wolcott
Cheryll Cruz
Sharon Scherer
Jonathan Phillips
Jason Wade
Jill Pullen
Doug Bulleit
Wendy Kinney
Chelsea Vincent
Ayush Agarwal
Paul Mangalik
Premchand Kallan
Xochi Kaplan
Michael Snell
Ella Wilson
James Bergstrom
Raj Majumder
Keith Levenson

SOBcon2007 Chicago Speakers:
Andy Sernovitz
Phil Gerbyshak
Liz Strauss
David Armano
Mike Sansone
Drew McLellan
Mike Wagner
Terry Starbucker
Rodney Rumford
Ben Yoskovitz
Chris Cree
Robyn Tippins
Diego Orjuela
Vernon Lun
Wendy Piersall

Being Responsive

Bill Slawski wrote this week’s Small is Beautiful column on Search Engine Land. Many, many great tips.

Gmail Experiencing Errors

This morning I tried to login into my Gmail account and could not, this is the message I got:

We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to log in while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.

Please try logging in to your account again in a few minutes.

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I’ve never seen this message from my Gmail account before.

Search Insider Summit 2007

It’s not just for animals! Lee Odden is putting on a major blogging clinic of the summit, including a bunch of videos.

Microsoft Strategic Account Summit 2007 - Post 2 SAS

Search Engine Land has a nice summary of the events yesterday.  Barry pointed to a paidcontent.org write up that I had not seen that summarizes things well especially in the online, advertising and video arena. A Media Circus also has a detailed raw summary of the Bill Gates speech.

Again, If you were in attendance, I’d like to hear form you, please drop me a line.

Microsoft Strategic Account Summit 2007

The main parts of the Microsoft Strategic Account Summit are today and Wednesday, here is the schedule. My initial thoughts:

1) I wish it were broadcast online, even the Chris Cornell concert, this is a lost opportunity for exposure to those who can’t be at the summit and build positive PR.

2) We’re going to hear another round of Yahoo! and Microsoft merger talk. Much like Charlene Li, I do not think this is the best path. They would be better off hiring teams of people with experience innovating products and services in different industries. This get past the limiting beliefs of continually hiring passive candidates who demonstrate no loyalty or passion for their present companies.

3) Why is John Battelle the only person at the summit blogging his thoughts? His post is the only one I could find about the opening night’s festivities.

4) I’m interested in information about the people shaping mobile search at the summit, please contact me.

Wordpress Wish

One unified login that stays logged in, for my self hosted blog, the wordpress.com admin panel and all blogs I visit that require login to register.  Thanks for listening.

Twittering Boring Cheese Sandwiches

Adam Lasnik has some provocative thoughts on twittering boring cheese sandwiches…some of what he says certainly resonates and is worth a read.

Google Testing New Search Results Layout

As apparently first explained on Google Blogoscoped and then elsewhere, Google seems to be testing new home page results. If I were designing it I’d move the selector bar a bit to the left as my eye is drawn to it a bit too much, I’d also like to see blogs above news or with the ability to show both results at once.

This “Microsoft” version is interesting as well… http://www.google.com/microsoft#

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