http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog City Social Marketing Blog Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:35:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Will Google Go Social? John McGowan, City Social Marketing Phoenix - 28 July, 2008 Recently it became known that Google was playing with a “Digglike” interface, the news set the Blogger world ablaze with rumors and predictions.  It seems that the bucket test performed by Google fell silent as fast as it appeared ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/will-google-go-social/38/ In an article on Techcrunch entitled "Google Walks Away From Digg Deal", dated July 26th of this year, it was reported by Michael Arrington that Google walked away from the Google/Digg Acquisition talks.   Michael stated: "Two sources close to the companies suggested that some issue that came up during technical due ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/google-walks-out-on-digg-deal/37/ On July 14, 2008 Techcrunch reported that a “Digg-like Interface” was being tested by Google in an article called “Google Bucket Testing New Digg-like Search Interface.”  .  In the article it was said: “Google has experimented with search features that let users vote on search results, and/or recommend other results than ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/google-bucket-test-does-it-spell-the-end-of-digg/35/ Today Digg released it’s Beta Version of “The Digg Recommendation Engine”.  This Beta Release will be presented to registered Digg users first, based on a random sampling of logged-in users. The Recommendation Engine is a new way of discovering new content on Digg, .it uses  your past digging activity to identify ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/the-digg-beta-recommendation-engine-a-review/34/ Digg Tactics 101: The How To Get More Diggs Follies - Useless advice which may, or may not, sound good A logical fallacy is an inaccurate or intentionally misleading misapplication of logic. I first ran into the term about 30 years ago while learning about how the art of persuasion and propaganda ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/how-to-get-more-diggs-follies-part-1/33/ I ran across this article, concerning How To Get More Diggs, on the net and thought it was interesting: Think Againg Before Submitting Your Diggs How To Get More Diggs seems to be a topic which many out there are pre-occupied over.  When I ran into this blog I thought, "If people ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/how-to-get-more-diggs/31/ Let's keep this one short and sweet. :) The object of marketing is to sell a product, service or idea.  The item you are “selling” may be for monetary gain or other reasons.  This is why I love comments on Social Marketing sites which put self-promotion in a bad light.  To ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/social-marketing-sites-and-self-promotion/30/ I have been a part of message forums and chat rooms for around 15 years now and I’ve come to find that I really enjoy a forum where the Admin/owner of the forum ‘gets it‘.  Recently I joined a message board, which is called ‘a group’ over there, which is ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/social-marketing-central/29/ There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. - Twain attributed this to B. Disraeli There may be some who would ask “What does the Internet Stats for dial-up and broadband have to do with Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking and Internet Marketing in general?”.  This article ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/internet-stats-and-social-marketing/28/ What is Link Juice? The term Link juice refers to “the quality of a Web site’s link power, as in page rank, number of link votes, etc. -- that are obtained rom backlinks”, states Netlingo (http://www.netlingo.com/lookup.cfm?term=link%20juice).  They claim the expression was coined by SEO Consultant Greg Boser. I’ve heard the term Google ... http://citysocialmarketing.com/blog/link-juice/26/