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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

Direct Marketing Observations

10 years ago seems so 10 years ago in the world of search, social and mobile. In 2000 Google was a 2 year old start-up still trying to create an identity and compete with Yahoo and MSN. In the world of mobile, the evolution has been nothing short of dramatic. Now the mobile device is an extension of our desktop.

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

Insider Pages , Google Maps , Bing Local , City Search , Yahoo Local , Local.com , Merchant Circle. Trend #7 – Make a Mobile Version of Your Website! SMART mobile phones and tablets are taking over and have changed the way we do everything in our lives. We share our lives, immediately as they happen, via mobile.

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The Battle (and Blending) of Social and Search Rages On

Firebelly

Yahoo responded at its SearchSpeak event on Wednesday, saying they had incorporated social features into there email system over a year ago. They will copy the surface layer," said Larry Cornett, vice president of consumer products at Yahoo, on Google Buzz. Many in the blogosphere are calling it a "Facebook killer."

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2 Social SEO Stories You Need To Read This Week

Firebelly

10 Steps for Optimizing the Brand for Social Search By Brian Solis Facebook recently overtook Yahoo as the second most visited site in the United States. Below are two a good articles on the topic this week by Brian Solis and Lee Odden that I thought our readers would enjoy.

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Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Buzz Marketing for Technology

With its gobs of storage, speed and tremendous search/tagging capabilities , you can transform it into a personal nerve center thats available from any computer or mobile device. How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo Alerts). or Google Reader shared feed through Yahoo Alerts.

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WebVisible Contest to Award Free Local Online Advertising to Small Businesses

Bill Hartzer

Each episode will showcase a different component of online advertising – mobile, social, search and more. Two winners will be selected by WebVisible to receive a full-service package, including search engine advertising on Google, Yahoo!, Mobile apps? The Great Divide Watch & Win Contest gives U.S.-based Yellow Pages?

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5 Excellent Productivity Tips For Google Reader

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Setting Your Preferences Clear Google Search History to Maintain Your Privacy Using Gmail as Your Universal Email Account Sending Gmail to your Mobile Phone Using Page Specific Web Search Operators. Jeewaranga Gunasekera : I belive yahoo! Caleb Elston : Great info! Thanks for including the Toluu bookmarklet. Deb : Gmail is so clean.I