Twitter is still far larger than its much younger competitor Friendfeed in aggregate terms. But an interesting trend is developing - many longtime Twitter users are noticing that the number of followers they have on Friendfeed is growing far more rapidly than on Twitter. And the conversations at Friendfeed are better, too.

Monday Night Dinner at the Icon Grill
The Top Small Business Takeaways from SMX Advanced

So apparently the ban on revealing secrets from the “Give It Up” session was lifted this weekend, so I thought it was about damned time for me to publish my recap of what is turning into my favorite search engine marketing conference.

Simon Cheng who is a reader on my blog dropped me a question on my email and asked me whether direct mailing still works in the internet marketing community, this is what i feel personally since selling by mail can be easy and relatively inexpensive as compared to advertising them on websites or blogs paying monthly fees that could be out of your budget.

We collect data on Google AdWords advertisers and advertiser legitimacy. Our AdRater browser plug-in provides advertiser ratings to users, and as use

As promised, I have one more longer post about Google and privacy risks coming soon.

In the meantime, here are some recent related news items about technology and privacy:

A year or so ago, I checked out LinkXL and considered selling contextual link ads through them, but for some reason I never did. I don’t remember why I didn’t. I probably just got busy with something else and forgot about them. I do that alot unfortunately.

Is MySpace worth $3 billion, or $20 billion? It depends on how you value a user.

At E-consultancy’s Future of Digital Marketing conference last week, leading industry experts took a pragmatic approach to predicting future trends.

Rather than gazing mistily into the crystal ball 20 years into the future, the conference focused on “right here, right now,” talking about how marketers can leverage existing technologies to be more innovative.

First, you scrape someone else’s content, like this:
Matt Cutts made an appearance today at the Domain Roundtable conference. Matt started things off with a few introductory comments, then spent most of the time answering questions from the audience and from questions that people sent in ahead of time. Here are the highlights of what he [...]

Thats what I was just asked on youtube, because it seems I do have a google account. Matter of fact, I do not have a Google account. Does anyone