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Useful Tools for Blackberry

Recently I switched from a Palm Treo to a Blackberry Curve because it offers functionality that helps me stay connected when my laptop is closed, I’m on the road, etc. It definitely offers more than the iPhone and Palm for business applications. A few of my finds (thanks to some friends) that I think are useful enough to share with others.

Opera Mini 4.1

Mini technolog

Microsoft Still Pines for Yahoo!

Microsoft still wants to purchase Yahoo!, however, now their true intentions are becoming more visible:

There’s yet another chapter in what’s beginning to look like an eternal corporate love triangle: Seems Microsoft just can’t get past it’s obsession with Yahoo’s search business, at least according to The Wall Stre

Happy 4th of July from SEOpittfall

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Happy 4th of July from SEOpittfall

AT&T Offers Up Pogo - Do We Need Another Browser?

AT&T stepped into the online realm last year with the purchase of ingenio, and now they have launched their very own browser called Pogo, now in invitation only beta. TechCrunch has invitations for this limited beta.

Essentially, it looks and acts a

Google Out to Destroy Keyword Estimation Tools?

Google has always offered very valuable tools to advertisers, one of which that is extremely useful to organic keyword research, the Google AdWords Keyword Tool for discovering and building a keyword list. The only limitation is that it expressed search volume and search volume trends as a green bar. This was a great way to see the volume of traffic a particular keyword had in relation to the other keywords on the generated list, but without realistic quantitative data.

It was always a great

Yahoo! Calls It Quits on Another Social Portal

Mash has fallen!

I posted about Yahoo! Mash last September when it was released in private beta and only available through an invitation. Now, Yahoo! will be scraping the fledgling social site, never having a real understanding of it’s true potential.

Cuil is Live

Back in September 2007 I posted about a new search engine on the horizon called Cuill, the next “Google Killer”. Since then, not much has come out about the engine, except additional funding and concerns with their crawlers. Now they have launched their search application and shortened their name to Cuil.

Why so special?

Is Google a Local Pusher?

Back in May, I noticed what appeared to be a test by Google to add more relevancy to search engine result (SERPs) by publishing a search box for geographical modifiers to a requested search query (Google Pushing Local Results). See image below:

If you used the

SEOmoz PRO Training Series - Expert Seminar

Next week, I will be headed to Seattle, WA for the Expert Seminar hosted by SEOmoz.

This looks to be a very interesting two days of expert education covering a list of topics beyond entry level SEO:

Elite Site Architecture for Enterprise, E-Commerce and Micro-Targeted Domains

White Hat Cloaking

“Avoid Being Labeled a “False Positive” - How Black Hat Tactics Impact White Hat Websi

SEO: The Online Triathlon

I am a very competitive person when it comes to many different areas including athletics, games and even sports teams. The fact that I work in the SEO industry is no different. I am pushing myself both in learning what is relevant to their market and keeping abreast of the changes in the industry as a whole. So, seeing that the Olympics is starting soon, I see a very relevant correlation between triathlon and SEO.

A triathlon is an endurance