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Meta Tags Constitute Trademark Infringement or Not?

posted by pittfall in news, orm, seo, tips on May 2nd, 2008

A couple of influential court cases in the US have been decided, however, they differ on the overall outcome when it comes to use of trademarked words in META data including keywords constitute trademark infringement.
North American Medical Corp. v. Axiom Worldwide, Inc.
But in this case, I do not think Axiom denied placing those terms in [...]

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MyBlogLog Steps Up Authority for Blog Communities

posted by pittfall in orm, search tech, seo, smo on January 17th, 2008

Today, MyBlogLog added a new feature to the online blog communities… to put it simply, a validation process to verify that you are the owner of the website and have authority over the community.
Why verify?
As an owner of community on MyBlogLog, the Verified check mark is like a “seal of approval.” This shows anyone who [...]

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Yahoo’s Online Social Universe

posted by pittfall in orm, search engines, search tech, seo, smo, tools, video on January 12th, 2008

Yahoo! has been a very influential provider of social services online for quite some time. Over the last few years they have either created or purchased online social sites, here is a quick breakdown of some of the major start-ups and acquisitions:
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2005
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name: flickr
acquired
purpose: photo sharing
similar to: DropShots
status: Top photo and image sharing website online. When [...]

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Technology is not Suited for Small Business - Business Week

posted by pittfall in news, orm, search engines, search tech, sem, seo, smo on January 12th, 2008

Tech ‘Solutions’ Your Small Biz Can’t Use
A lot of highfalutin software and gadgets aim to help you run your company, but too little of it is suited for a small business environment - Gene Marks Business Week
Recently, Business Week offered up a reason to be concerned. In an article (title and subtitle above), by Gene [...]

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Killing Two Birds with One Stone - Knol Tackles Wikipedia and Squidoo

posted by pittfall in news, orm, resources on December 16th, 2007

“Knol” stands for a unit of knowledge, according to the Official Google Blog.
Here are some highlights on Google’s new project:
The challenge posed to us was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.
The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names [...]

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