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What is OpenSocial? An Explanation Without Code

admin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:33:00 +0000

Google’s recently released software development tools made a splash. Articles appeared everywhere with the usual social media and social networking buzzwords. But what does this set of software standards and tools from Google really do? Watch the excellent set of videos below to see the leading OpenSocial partners talk about their development projects. Here is my explanation of the power of OpenSocial:

Think about all of the different social networking websites. Think about the volume and diversity of interactions between users. There are millions of these digital transactions everyday. OpenSocial allows the user generated information on one social networking website to be shared with other websites. All of the stuff people do on those sites: comments, posts, lists, friends, favorites, ratings etc. can be organized, mashed up, and displayed on other sites. OpenSocial makes the process possible. Best of all the presentation of information is completely customizable and flows from its source automatically. Its impact on social networking and the web of the future have been understated.

OpenSocial Developer Interviews

OpenSocial Interview Post

New article on local search

admin — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:44:00 +0000

Good morning, we have just uploaded a new article to the resource section of SEO Komodo. The article covers the importance of local search for franchises and small businesses looking to drive traffic to both their website and physical location. It also goes into some other areas of SEO.

Follow the link, SEO and Franchising: the Importance of Local Search for Business.

Check it out and leave your comments about the article here.

I like it!

admin — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:43:00 +0000

Welcome fellow Stumblers! Stumbleupon is essentially a toolbar plug-in for your web browser that allows you to channel surf the web according to your preferences. Stumbleupon is easy to use and provides for a completely different internet browsing experience. It also can be very fun and addictive.

How it works:

After creating an account and downloading the toolbar, hit the Stumble! button. You will automatically navigate to a webpage from Stumbleupon’s index of pages. These pages have been “liked” and tagged by users. New pages are added when users press the thumbs up on the toolbar.

Users associate the pages they like with relevant keywords or tags. The pages you see will depend on your interests (provided to stumbleupon at signup). You can also stumble through” specific categories, search queries, or web sites.

Try it on your pages:

We uploaded the first pages to seokomodo.com on Friday, November 9th and received a little under 300 unique visitors from close to 20 countries in less than two days. It’s fun having even a little traffic with a new domain, right? Stumbleupon can get pages in front of people quickly. Although these visitors are somewhat relevant because of tags, stumbling is still the closest thing to real internet surfing out there. Stumblers are always moving so don’t cry when they only stay on the page for a short while.