Monday, January 18, 2010

Social Media & SEO

Last August Adam Singer wrote this excellent post on how Social Media has become inextricably linked to SEO. Adam talks about the reinforcement that each gives the other, in a continuously, self-perpetuating cycle. In the last five months I've seen Adam's theory proven true time and time again, both on commercial endeavours and private websites and blogs. Very simply, the links between Social Media and SEO are undeniable.

The 10 key points that Adam laid out are:

  • Search Engines become more sophisticated and powerful
  • An active Social Media push of content builds ever stronger links
  • Regular, original content creates more opportunity to be found through search
  • Search Engines like very regularly updated sites
  • Social Media use drives increased successes
  • Social Media can be build on
  • Beyond links it's also about Digital PR
  • Social Media Communities help grow themselves
  • Content discovered through Social Media is more likely to be shared
  • Engaging, well thought out content is the best


Whether you have your own website or work on a website(s) as part of your job, I highly recommend going and reading Adam's full post.

The Rise Of Google

A great little video showing the story of Google...


"A (very) quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome." - Google

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Where Do You Go

Where Do You Go is a cool mash-up by Steven Lehrburger that creates a heat map of your Foursquare check-ins.

This is my 'Where Do You Go' map of Foursquare activity...


The app runs on the Google App Engine and was created for the Mashups: Remixing the Web
class on New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Besides his blog, Stephen can also be found on Twitter.

Google Toilet

They know what you search for, they know what you email, they know who you call. What's the next step for everyone's favourite global mega brand?

Google Toilet!



via Geeks Are Sexy - cheers guys :)

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Nike True City iPhone App


Last week Nike launched a new iPhone App, True City. The App provides users with user-generated content on six European cities. Nike bill the app as "making the hidden visible through the knowledge and insight of Nike Insiders—local tastemakers". Basically local 'experts' provide the information on each city. Nike considers these individuals as being at the forefront of their cities.

I downloaded the app and had a play around with it, and it's definitely worth a look. My only negative would be that it's only six cities and there's no immediate indication that it will be expanded. On the plus side, however, the app does integrate very well from a social media point of view.

You can download it here.

For those that don't want to download the app to have a look, check out the following video...