All right, here it is... the first chance I've had to blog since the conference began. I guess that's the difficulty with getting to know people who live in town! Between family, the founders of The Next Web Conference and many attendees, I'm very much in good company. I barely had a moment to sit down until this evening and that was at an Irish pub to watch...
Hi, SEOmozzers! I know I said I'd blog the conference "live" yesterday (though that would have been in the middle of the night for many of you) but, as these things go, there was a problem with the WAP at the event and many of us couldn't get online. Really, it was traumatic!
I arrived in Amsterdam early this morning after a long flight and a decent amount of sleep. It's unusually hot here - so I spent the day avoiding my desire to take naps by schlepping around town taking in a few sights before heading to my hotel to primp for The Next Web keynote speakers' dinne...
It's been several months since we launched the 2006 Web 2.0 Awards, but the buzz is still going strong. Later tonight I'm meeting with one of the companies we reviewed. Then, next Wednesday I'm off to Amsterdam for The Next Web Conference, where speakers including Kevin Kelley (of Wired Magazine), Michael Arrington (of TechCrunch), and Kevin Rose (of Digg) will address the way Web 2.0 is changing the way people use the internet.
I've been using the private beta of Farecast for a couple months now and I've really enjoyed it. With the launch of their public beta release today, everyone (in Seattle & Boston at least) can take advantage of the high quality data mining and spiffy GUI that the Farecast team has put together. ...
Ok... Here's my first grey technique that I attempted last week for one of our site (not to hard to guess which one). Our company was confronted with the following elements: -Dire need to start growing our community on a young domain and newly started blog-Virtually no money to spend on it, only precious planned time from actual employees-No knowledge of any kind for viral m...
Rather than make criticisms myself, I'll just quote what others have written in the past and let you make up your own mind. From O'Reilly's blog post on the cease and desist letter sent to IT@Cork: "We...
Suw Charman is covering Xtech in Amsterdam. Today she put up a fascinating presentation from Paul Graham - How American are Startups? There's no direct relationship to SEO here, and the content is slightly un-PC (giving it that rough...
I'm actually impressed by how relatively well researched Fortune's Invest in Web 2.0 without getting burned article (available via CNN.com) is. I like their take on Google's stock price: And believe it or not, it's a boom you'll very lik...
I have little doubt that many of the big name SEO consultants and firms have noticed some phone calls (mostly from Silicon Valley) coming in from major (and minor) venture capital companies. These relationships are blossoming in part because of the great analytic value that an SEO can bring to bear on a given web space and on the incredible variety of knowledge (and variety of relationships) th...
Just to stick with the relevant topic of the week - Paul Boutin wrote a colum yesterday covering his personal opinion of Web 2.0 now that, according to him, Newsweek has used the phrase without quotes for the first time in mainstream media. Beyond that, publicists and self-promoters invo...
I ask those of you for whom the phrase "Web 2.0" is an anethma to refrain from judgement while you read this post and browse the site we've created. Afterwards, when you've had time to process it, I invite you to comment with as much passion (for or against) as you like. My first order of business with this post is to congratulate ...