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1 week ago

in Twitter New Follow Features on LiveCrunch Technology Blog
The new followers page is definitely a step in the right direction, but it has a ways to go. Some immediate issues come to mind:

1) There is not enough detail (in most cases) to make a follow/no-follow/block/spam decision. I'd like to be able to get more details about the user w/o visiting their profile page.

2) There should be a "block & report as spam" button.

3) There is still a "referral spam" incentive for spammer to follow everyone under the sun. IMO followers should not now up in the followers page publicly by default (or at least there should be an option for this). I don't want dozens of porn sites, gambling sites, get-a-million-follwers-a-day sites, etc. linked to from my followers page but with the current toolset, it is tedious to keep them off.
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LiveCrunch @Andy you totally nailed what I had in mind.

spam,
report to spam
and I rather have person's bio than last tweet. I mean it's easier to relate to some1 if u know what I mean?

3 months ago

in Finding Photos On the Internet on The Get Smart Blog
Here's another good source for free web/blog photos and other content:
http://gimmefreecontent.com/

<abbr>F. Andy Seidl´s last blog post..Ann Arbor Festifools 2009</abbr>

7 months ago

in Internet marketing experiment update! on Jim's Marketing Blog
Jim, I completely agree with you. My company has been building commercial blogsites for years. We use do-follow links 99.9% of the time.

Google (and other) engines are in the business of finding (and recommending) quality content on a given subject matter and they change their heuristics all the time (more than once per day, on average.) Anyone that believes they know a magic trick (like follow vs. no follow) for influencing Google is mistaken.

Our philosophy has always been: create quality, on-message content and let the search engines do their job. The search engines will continue to adapt and get better at what they do.

Any attempt to develop content *for* search engines is misguided because the search engines change so quickly. But what does not (and will not) change is that search engines are looking for quality, on-message content.

@faseidl

10 months ago

in Fun video on what is Twitter on Scobleizer
An now, as it turns out, you're nobody if you're not on twitter (at least according to the song: http://tinyurl.com/6dvzef ;-)

10 months ago

in Google Chrome Now Live on Marketing Pilgrim
Chrome is disruptive technology.

The interesting questions to me are not if Chrome (beta) is ready for prime time (it is not) or which established browser will suffer more (they all will.) What I find more interesting is that it appears to have all the trappings of a disruptive technology hiding in plain sight.

I wrote more about this idea here:

Google Chrome: Disruptive Technology
http://faseidl.com/public/blog/212172
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