Mitch Joel was given the title “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” by Marketing Magazine. Joel is President of TwistImage, a Digital Marketing agency. He has been blogging since 2003 and podcasting since 2006 with his sites Six Pixels of Separation and Six Pixels of Separation Podcast. Both focus on Digital Marketing and Personal Branding. He [...]
C.C. Chapman is pioneer in the realm of new media, starting his own blog in July 2001, then podcasting in December 2004. He has since become prominent in the podcasting community with his independent podcasts, Accident Hash, U-Turn Cafe and Managing the Gray. He formerly managed PodShow’s Podsafe Music Network. Chapman has been referred to [...]
David Meerman Scott is a viral marketing strategist and online thought leader. With a BA in Economics from Kenyon College in 1983, Scott served as VP of marketing for two technology firms and as marketing director for Knight-Ridder’s Asia division. He now serves on the boards of Kadient, Nashaquisset and HubSpot. Scott is the author [...]
Brian Solis is the Founder and President of Futureworks, a Silicon Valley PR and New Media agency. He is among the industry thought leaders in Social Media having also a founding member of the 2.0 Workgroup and the Social Media Club. In addition to his regular contributions to marketing and tech publications, he regularly blogs [...]
Microsoft created elements of its own local search engine and community, MSN Local, starting in the mid 1990′s. Today, they’ve merged the service and its elements with Windows Live Search (http://maps.live.com/) and MSN City Guides (http://cityguides.msn.com,) both useful resources for people who want information about local businesses, events, and other information such as traffic, weather [...]
On the Internet, information is world-wide, in fact the Internet’s draw is that it connects people to remotely stored information and to other far away people. But world-wide and far away isn’t always best. That’s why many search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN created local search engines – fill in the gaps between here [...]
Google created Google Product Search as its comparison shopping engine, a place where people find the best deals and prices on products. It delivers easily digested listings with a simple search interface and sortable results. How it Works – Listing Google populates Google Product Search in a number of ways: Google’s servers crawl sites around [...]