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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Disqus - Latest Comments for Omadsense</title><link>http://disqus.com/people/dcd378717b2f0ad90870f214b63fa250/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:57:34 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Google AdWords Unveiling New Negative Keywords Tool</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/google_adwords_unveiling_new_negative_keywords_tool/#comment-9414824</link><description>I agree with Alan Mark.&lt;br&gt;if you have specific key words you want to target - what difference does it make. And as far as novice - they are usually trying to reach a broad target so again - ?????</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 08:08:13 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: AOL Hopes New Feed Reader Can Gain Audience</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/aol_hopes_new_feed_reader_can_gain_audience/#comment-9415310</link><description>I agree, with so many options - other than the people who like to be confined to AOL space, who would use it?</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:32:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Google Acquires Server Software Firm PeakStream</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/google_acquires_server_software_firm_peakstream/#comment-9415375</link><description>Well, It all sounds good. But it still leaves me wondering when will all this acquisition game will stop. Google and others are gobbling up everything up - soon we'll have google net rather than internet.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:58:57 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Googly Goodness</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/googly_goodness/#comment-9415770</link><description>Thanks for the update .</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:55:19 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: No Surprise! Google Takes Early Lead</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/no_surprise_google_takes_early_lead/#comment-9415848</link><description>I wish microsoft and Yahoo would have combined to kick googles butt.. dreams.....</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:36:17 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Spotting Negative Social Media Marketing</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/spotting_negative_social_media_marketing/#comment-9416125</link><description>It's sad that people would stoop to such low tactics - I know about the "ban in Digg".&lt;br&gt;I signed up an posted 1 "posting" went back 3 days later and was banned for to many submissions - now how did that happen?&lt;br&gt;Competitors can be ugly...........</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:38:28 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Hispanic impact on e-tail is growing</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/hispanic_impact_on_e_tail_is_growing/#comment-9416215</link><description>being hispanic myself - one of the problems a marketer has in reaching the hispanic community is more than just language barrier. If your familiar with the culture you know that even between puerto rican, mexican, spain thier are cultural and language defferences. example:&lt;br&gt;"ahora" means now for a puerto rican, to a mexican, it means later.....</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:19:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Facebook All the Rage; Scaring Google?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/facebook_all_the_rage_scaring_google/#comment-9416248</link><description>well, google if it does get 'frieghten" can afford to pay any price to aquire it. Even though it was stated the Facebook has no plans to be bought out - everyone has a price.&lt;br&gt;Hell, I would've sold it yesterday if I owned it [ I want to be a millionair ].</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:03:45 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Is Click Fraud a Tired Topic?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/is_click_fraud_a_tired_topic/#comment-9416536</link><description>Click fruad - well, i've cut back my use of adwords becuase it seems that if google is not jacking up the price - the clicks are irrevelant [ little sales] . most may blame my short sales on my sales picth - but my free vistors who come from other sources - buy and a much higher rate.......?</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:21:42 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Google AdSense for Games Coming &amp;#8220;Soon&amp;#8221;</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/google_adsense_for_games_coming_8220soon8221/#comment-9416525</link><description>I don't mind people making a buck - but you have product placement in games already, ads all over the site, and ads in videos, before videos and after videos - it's now going into games ---- can you say spam... people are going to start ignoring ads like they do banners.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:25:33 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Google Investors Betting on Impossible Growth</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/google_investors_betting_on_impossible_growth/#comment-9416611</link><description>The old principal was buy low sell high - google is too high for the average person anyway.....&lt;br&gt;But I would love it if Google bought Weblo: &lt;a href="http://www.omadsense.com/id98.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.omadsense.com/id98.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;It's sort of like second life.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:39:44 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: 98% of Journalists Use the Web for Research</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/98_of_journalists_use_the_web_for_research/#comment-9416695</link><description>The concern to me would be that there are many sources online or skechy, and the net s clutered with blogs that only really point to ther main sources - so reaserching can be difficult.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://htp://omadsense.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;htp://omadsense.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;on my site i try to create my own articles and give plenty of resources or i get permission to post legitimate articles.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:30:21 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Widgets for Tracking Internet Trends</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/widgets_for_tracking_internet_trends/#comment-9417472</link><description>Interesting - I thought google already did all that... my concern is while it sounds good, still bring ups the thought "big brother is watching" kind of feelings. Do they really need to treack everthing I do online......</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:50:59 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Facebook Asks Google to Remove Leaked Code Blog</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/facebook_asks_google_to_remove_leaked_code_blog/#comment-9417501</link><description>Well, I guess if your big enough you could get google to move quickly - or if you have the money to threaten a real lawsuit that is. If it were me, They would probably ignore me and then cliam they have to many emails and contacts [which they ignore] to move quickly to every response.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:59:33 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Truveo Relaunches to Dominate Video Search</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/truveo_relaunches_to_dominate_video_search/#comment-9417546</link><description>I simply have no belief in anything AOL does... I would be surprised if three years from now we would even care if it closed down.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:32:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: New Yahoo Search Marketing Features</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/new_yahoo_search_marketing_features/#comment-9417598</link><description>I don't like it's enough - sound remenicent of stuff google does? What about opening service to public so advertisers have more oppt. more eyes. I hate google but atleast if i wanted to jion they would let me in.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:45:07 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Google Still Chipping Away At Microsoft</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/google_still_chipping_away_at_microsoft/#comment-9417640</link><description>Your only helping to fuel the rumors - but I hope they do buy Yahoo.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:26:11 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Leveraging Facebook for Business</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/leveraging_facebook_for_business/#comment-9417684</link><description>I still have a difficult time using Facebook - may be I'm used to myspace and the other social sites. But I like what has been presented here.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:07:54 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: MSN/Live Webmaster Portal in Private Beta</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/msnlive_webmaster_portal_in_private_beta/#comment-9417655</link><description>This is a promising sign that MSN/Live is really beginning to take search seriously- I think, a step in the right direction.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:14:29 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Does the Federal Government Hate Search Engines?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/does_the_federal_government_hate_search_engines/#comment-9417726</link><description>Conspiracy,.....wait&lt;br&gt;I don't know, as suspiciouse as it looks, why would they not want to be so easily found. besides, they should know by now that the more suspiciouse it looks - the more people want to look.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:17:28 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Net Evangelist Rejects Regulation</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/net_evangelist_rejects_regulation/#comment-9417963</link><description>What a cunumbrum???? the do no evil copany is affiliated with evil and they say it's not thier fualt.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here's a video where criminals use google in order to commit thier crime:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.omadsense.com/myopinionon/id15.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.omadsense.com/myopinionon/id15.html&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:22:39 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Gpay Adds Insult To Injury</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/gpay_adds_insult_to_injury/#comment-9418104</link><description>is any one concerned that it's becoming a society of "big brother" controls you. In the past people were afriad that big brother [ be it government or any larg entity] was watching and controling everything. Now it seems people want a large entity in control.&lt;br&gt;oh, the guise of it's helpful is nice but let me see - can be tracked, controlled, google or anyone can freezy an account for any reason and your dead in the water. look at paypal and ebay - one glitch and the world freaks but hey, lets hand over the keys to our very existence. gee - i guess those futuristic movies were right all along.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:37:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Will Google Buy Earthlink?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/will_google_buy_earthlink/#comment-9418236</link><description>Rumors, but now Google will hear of it and think about it. I certianly hope google couffers dries up becuase i don't want a google world.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:36:22 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Google Selling Top Organic Spot?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/google_selling_top_organic_spot/#comment-9418287</link><description>I hear Google make a big rip about webmasters and paid links... but google is basically doing the same thing. And yes people do get confused with the sponsored links - I know several people who don't distinguish the difference between organic and the lightly colored yellow box with a small print word all the way on the other side. i am sure that the reason we had hackers on the sponsored links a while back is becuase people thought and probably still think that it's part of the organic search. And I mean in America.......</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:57:07 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Free Google Adwords until November 18th</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/free_google_adwords_until_november_18th/#comment-9418416</link><description>Sounds like the bait and switch game to me.... Dangle the free carrot get them in the door, converting landing pages to this mobile formate and then - the short time frame is gone and like it or not, all the effort spent obligates most to continue with service....&lt;br&gt;I expect nothing less from this gorilla - gorilla tactic... if beat up opponents and side track clients...</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:34:06 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Google&amp;#8217;s Street Views Could Break Canada&amp;#8217;s Privacy Laws</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/google8217s_street_views_could_break_canada8217s_privacy_laws/#comment-9418378</link><description>No the question should be, why doesn't america have such rules... we complian about the poparatziiiiis .... yet it's ok for google to drive down the street with an automatic camara catching pictures of people and publicly displaying them without consent... hey, if they catch you with your pants down... i bet you wouldn't want that online....</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:05:16 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker, Preparing Digg Challenger?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/yahoo_buys_buzztracker_preparing_digg_challenger/#comment-9418454</link><description>Oh, I love rumors... but the problem is that digg is not the threat, google is. And until they do something about truely challenging google -....it's all a waste...</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:08:42 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Zimbra Email Acquired by Yahoo</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/zimbra_email_acquired_by_yahoo/#comment-9418569</link><description>I see the drive, intent, and action - but I want to see the synergy.... Purchasing to compete sounds nice, but execution is where it all counts.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:45:40 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: InfoSpace Sells Switchboard.com; Is Mobile Business Next?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/infospace_sells_switchboardcom_is_mobile_business_next/#comment-9418546</link><description>Switchboard - wow, I remember that. i didn't realize it was still around....or of use... I guess the value is in there somewhere?</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:37:33 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: NBC Shows Free for Download</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/nbc_shows_free_for_download/#comment-9418851</link><description>techniquelly ??? what is free.........&lt;br&gt;nothing online is free becuase it always has a tie in. Think of google, every free service provides google with revenue or opportunity to make revenue. Youtube, free video - isn't that why thier trying to monetize the videos.....&lt;br&gt;Free, yea, but they will get something. After all, they are here to make money not give it away.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:14:20 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: DMOZ Delisted?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/dmoz_delisted/#comment-9419019</link><description>lets pretend we have newbie readers and actually explian why it benefit or hurt the webmasters if DMOZ is removed from Google. I personally never liked the DMOZ system and yes I submitted some sites [ years ago] i never stop to think if they ever were approved or not...</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:48:00 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Facebook/Microsoft Plot Thickens</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/facebookmicrosoft_plot_thickens/#comment-9419232</link><description>Consider Google, how much did they pay for youtube... now thier trying everything to get a return on that investment.&lt;br&gt;Facebook will be faced with the same problem. It will have to produce to give MSN a return, and the question will be how and will it fall well with it's type of users????</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:34:41 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Microsoft Acquires Jellyfish - Apparently Shuns Peanutbutterfish</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/microsoft_acquires_jellyfish_apparently_shuns_peanutbutterfish/#comment-9419305</link><description>Sounds nice but Microsoft will change it and the deal with cash back, sounds old. That can change once MS over pays for it and needs to make money from it.Remember Ebay - made for it's users and you see how fees just keep popping up....</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:54:05 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Yahoo Launches New Search Interface</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/yahoo_launches_new_search_interface/#comment-9419298</link><description>I personally like it and prefer it over the others.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:56:22 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Are Digg Editors Burying Your Story?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/are_digg_editors_burying_your_story/#comment-9423370</link><description>I've always known something was "fishy' - How can you have a story that is digged 20 minutes ago - have 500 diggs and an interesting story that is 3 days old only have 1 or 2 diggs?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As far as editors playing thier part in the scheem - I had a friend who gave up on Digg. he would post [ digg] a story and get no results, only to find a similar or same story digged by someone else an have great results. He even went as far as to check the similarity of how the story was written - and with none to little difference - his diggs never got more than 3 diggs. Interesting......????</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:41:09 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Could Cost Per Action Overtake Cost Per Click?</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/could_cost_per_action_overtake_cost_per_click/#comment-9423512</link><description>only if people like Google want to lose money.&lt;br&gt;money dictates and while CPA may help the marketer the search engines [ Google] lose money and i don't think they will allow that.&lt;br&gt;yes i said allow - after all, google has every one by the ..... excuse me.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:20:39 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Steve Ballmer&amp;#8217;s Internal Email Explains Yahoo Bid</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/steve_ballmer8217s_internal_email_explains_yahoo_bid/#comment-9423726</link><description>of late "branding' has been a key word... in online business respect. Zen mentioned respect and tearing site apart as concern...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How will they deal with branding .... Yahoo online is a better brand name than MSN ... so do they blend or drop a name that has cost billionds to build brand recognition???????</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:25:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: AOL Buys Goowy Widget Creator</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/aol_buys_goowy_widget_creator/#comment-9423792</link><description>I think AOL will hangout a bit more if the MSN - Yahoo deal goes thru. The factor being they have the "competition" side or need. The same argument Scared Google is throwing around while it owns more than have the search on the net.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:01:10 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Podcasts&amp;#8217; Audience Growing, Maturing, Disappointing</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/podcasts8217_audience_growing_maturing_disappointing/#comment-9423820</link><description>I'm sorry - I just find it hard to believe in that growth - who in thier right mind would give up the large tv or the computer or laptop 15 to 21 inch screen to watch a screen the size of three fingers. &lt;br&gt;I know they aren't going to watch the superbowl or the olympics on it??&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's probably more teens, tweens,and kids that will enjoy this and then get back to thier tv when they get home....</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:21:55 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Yahoo Acquires Video Platform Maven Networks</title><link>http://marketingpilgrim.disqus.com/yahoo_acquires_video_platform_maven_networks/#comment-9424123</link><description>the question what is the benefits to end user?</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omadsense</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:57:34 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>