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Following up on earlier ideas Twitter is primarily monologue, then there is regurgitation of monologues (aka RT) — what ELSE is there?

BTW: Does anyone know of a way to “reverse” links on the web — like an app that creates backlinks on the fly? (e.g. enter a link + a number X, then the application creates a set of pages up to X links back from that link [perhaps also limited to up to Y days])? I think that would be kinda neat-o!

nmw

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Norbert Mayer-Wittmann

LOL — BTW: who gave you the permission to use the English Language? ;P

http://stat.eu.com/pretty-clear-evidence-its-primarily-americans

nmw

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In a word: Yes.

See also: AHA: The primary form of expression must always be a question!

However, if you had asked “Does absolutely every nugget of online content need to be optimized for Google?” then I would equally unequivocally answer: No.

Many / most people do not understand that Google is no longer an effective search engine—it is now an advertising agency.

nmw

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This is really nothing that’s all too amazing

People increasingly turn to the Internet for up-to-the-minute information about, well, everything—blog postings about celebrity antics, status updates from friends, and pictures and videos of political events as they unfold, like the protests over the Iranian election. Studies have shown that these types of search requests are on the rise.

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Today I wrote a mini-rant about the FTC regulating blogs (FTC Regulation of Blogs will probably decrease number of blogs in USA + increase the number of blogs outside of the USA), and it’s reminded me of a question that keeps bugging me: the definition of advertising.

IMHO, advertising is any content for which I have negative demand (see also It’s time to do away with the supply curve — let’s ban it from economic theory!).

This also means that what is an ad cannot be defined for all — information that one person finds useful, another person may feel has a negative impact on their well-being.

Do you have a different / better definition of advertising? If so, please share it!

nmw

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This is pretty stupid — I don’t know how anyone is going to be able to understand such a can of worms — let alone enforce it.

Yet another colossal fail.

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Norbert Mayer-Wittmann

Both will fail. Google already has — the censored “miserable failure”, which was the social web expressing it’s idea.

Now that people know that Google manipulates the results, they are looking for community they were denies @ sites like twitter, which give the impression that we are like birds on an open field, a wide open forum where everyone can hear the other twitterers.

However, twitter.com is a hoax. The management doesn’t listen to it’s users. Instead, it recommends that we listen primarily to Britney Spears + Ashton Kutcher. It doesn’t allow us to see what our peers are saying. It has become, like Google, bogus.… Read More

The jury is out on facebook — but it looks better so far.

Ultimately, however, social will return to the web. It will turn its back on the despot and embrace the community. Those who try to capture the bird will instead drive it away.

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Twitter, Facebook, and related services may pose a more fundamental threat to Google: a new center of the Internet universe outside of search. Twitter, now with 55 million monthly visitors, and Facebook, with 300 million, hint at an emerging Web in which people don’t merely read or watch material but communicate, collaborate with colleagues, and otherwise get things done using online services.

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Google’s Not A Content Company

Yes, that’s “probably true,” Schmidt said, though he stressed the goal is not for Google to be a content company but rather to help those with content thrive:

We need these content partners to survive. We need their content. We are not in the content business. So, you could decide that we’re just evil businessmen

LMAO

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I think I should only be asked to apologize for beating a live horse, not a dead one — because live horses presumably feel pain, but dead horses don’t.

In other words, there’s nothing wrong with beating a dead horse — if you get off on beating dead horses, then be my guest.

Why do I keep repeating myself?

I have no problem with the fact that George Bush was an idiot and a liar — everyone has a bad day once in a while.

My problem is with the fact that so many people let George Bush be president of the United States for 2922 days.

I have no problem with the fact that the creators of twitter have created a really neat-o app.

My problem is with the many millions who think that any meaningful information can be gleaned from a statement limited to 140 chars — except perhaps a marketing slogan (more on that in a moment).

I have no problem with the fact that Google ranks documents

My problem is with the billions of people who think that Google’s ranking of documents means anything:

The judge dismissed the case on the grounds that Google’s formula for calculating the popularity of a Web page, or “PageRank,” constitutes opinions protected by the First Amendment.

“PageRanks are opinions–opinions of the significance of particular Web sites as they correspond to a search query,” according to the decision filed in the U.S. Western District Court of Oklahoma.

“The court simply finds there is no conceivable way to prove that the relative significance assigned to a given Web site is false,” the decision said. “Accordingly, the court concludes Google’s PageRanks are entitled to full constitutional protection.”

So what do I expect that people should do?

People should post on twitter that Google’s opinions about the significance of particular websites are bogus.

nmw

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