A friend just Skyped me a link to Microsoft’s (new?) SEO offer - “Improve your search-engine rankings and start attracting more sales leads to your company’s website.”
Now I’ve been around awhile and I’ve seen ‘em come and go but this caught me unawares. Still, healthy competition is a good thing, yeah?
Hang on though, don’t Microsoft have a reputation for crushing their competitors?
Read about it here
News in today’s Guardian that 23andme, a start-up company based in Silicon Valley has launched a personal genotyping service. Anyone providing a sample of saliva, and a fee of around £500, can have their DNA run through a gene-reading microchip, the results of which are uploaded to the web.
Using various tools clients can explore their ancestry/origins - and also find out the chance of contracting any hereditary diseases.
So why am I writing about this in an SEO blog? Because they have Google backing them - and Sergey Brin’s wife, Anne Wojcicki, is one of its co-founders.
Hmmm, let me think, what would I do if I had Google bank-rolling my next project? It would probably involve luxury motor yachts in the Mediterranean Sea…
Yahoo yesterday apologised to the families of two journalists currently in jail in China. Both journalists have been given 10 year sentences after Yahoo handed their email over to the Chinese authorities who accused the pair of “incitement to subvert state power” and “passing on information that was designated a state secret” - prompting a US congressman, Tom Lantos, to describe Yahoo as moral pygmies.
One of the incarcerated journalist’s wives said they were “subjected to torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, including arbitrary, prolonged and indefinite detention, for expressing their free speech rights and for using the internet to communicate about democracy and human rights matters”.
Landos yesterday described Yahoo’s behaviour as a “disgrace”.
Read more here
News in the Guardian technology section that Google’s shares reached $700 on wednesday, putting it into the top five American companies beating the likes of Bank of America, Procter & Gamble and Citigroup.
The other members of the top five are ExxonMobil, General Electric, Microsoft and AT&T.
News on the dBTechno site today is Google adding Postini to its suite of Google Apps software.
Google bought Postini in July, vice president and GM of Google Enterprise Dave Girouard said, “With Postini, we saw the potential to deliver a more complete hosted solution for businesses of all sized.”
Postini is is an email service provider with 35,000 business customers as well as 10 million users around the world.
Full story here.
A couple of months ago it was just an idea in the back of my mind, but thanks to the organisational skills of my good friend 4eyes, soon to change his nick to “cat-herder”, last weekend it became a reality - and a roaring success.
Thanks to all that showed up for making this event such a great weekend - especially those that came from the States, Israel, etc. It was a great mix of SEO old-timers and the new generation of bright, young online marketers.
As usual there are a few pics springing up on the web (and a seriously crap video…) - if you’re bored, check out these links 
If anyone has any more - please let me know.
Here’s to the next one - Cheers folks!
Well, it seems like months since this gathering was announced, but now the fun begins
Last minute finalisation of the meals is taking place as the attendees start to arrive - and last night I found out that my favourite American small arms expert and real-ale connoisseur, Mivox has arrived in London for a couple of days before completing the journey to Manchester. With attendees flying in over the next couple of days from Israel, France and Germany - and a few die-hards kicking it off on Thursday, I can almost smell the beer 
Seems odd that this didn’t start with the legendary “Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines”… Still, maybe next year…
PLEASE DON’T POST HERE ANY MORE - GO TO SEOCIRCUIT IF YOU WISH TO BE INCLUDED - ALSO IF YOU WISH TO JOIN US FOR EITHER FRIDAY OR SATURDAY’S EVENING MEALS.
Announcing the launch of SEOCircuit
As the search engine optimisation and marketing industry matures, big changes mean that a lot of the old lines of communication have changed or disappeared. The trend towards private forums and blogs means that there is less direct communication and discussion of SEO and SEM - and the meetings that were so commonplace have become thin on the ground.
I was talking to 4eyes about this and he suggested we start a site to pull together all the info on all known SEO / SEM gatherings - and hence SEOCircuit was born.
Our experience is that these meetings both educate and reassure folks in the SEO / online marketing industry and can be especially beneficial to attendees that would have no one else to discuss / bounce ideas except in a public forum.
Welcome to SEOCircuit
A few of us UK SEOers are organising a meet in Manchester on September 14/15th.
Since there has been a serious lack of meets across the board this year, we would like to make this known to as many people as possible
Britannia Hotel Manchester city centre - plenty of rooms at the moment - Friday £69 for b&b single, Sat £89 for b&b single - Friday £70 for b&b double, Sat £105 for b&b double.
Like the original PubCon all attendees are responsible for paying there own way with drinks, meals etc, no sponsors, no presentations etc, etc - you know the score
Who should attend?
Anyone wishing to share quality time with like-minded geeks to discuss search engine optimisation and marketing generally, Google Universal and all that entails, social networking, FaceBook, Stumbleupon, etc, etc…
Anyone who likes a drink in the company of those whose eyes don’t glaze over after two minutes
Anyone who wants a weekend away in one of the UK’s most vibrant cities
If you are interested please post so we can get a rough idea of numbers.
Go to SEO Circuit for the latest news and to sign up.
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