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Youtube Says Farewell To Link-to-Blog Feature

26 mars 2010. Commentaires fermés

The « link to blog » feature will be taken down soon (picture above). Here is the explanation from the Youtube team: We routinely review the usage of YouTube features in order to make sure we’re

The Selective Twitter Status Application Evolves

17 mars 2010. Un commentaire

To duplicate your Twitter updates automatically onto Facebook you have two pretty nice applications out there: the Selective Twitter Status and Smart Twitter. I will go over the Smart Twitter application later, and focus

Friendfeed Inflates Feedburner’s Subscribers’ Count

16 février 2010. Commentaires fermés

I recently discovered that your Frienfeed subscribers’ counter has a direct impact on your Feedburner’s subcribers’ counter. As you can see below, I have linked a fresh new blog to my friendfeed account, and

Constructing Google Buzz

13 février 2010. Commentaires fermés

Of course Google Buzz’ got a buzz: the Gmail team implemented it into every gmail inbox out there (around 100 million), without even providing an opt-out feature to kick it out of our traditional

+500 Best Green Blogs — Awesome List — URLs, RSS, Twitter, Facebook…

8 février 2010. Commentaires fermés

During one of my missions, I built up a list of green bloggers for marketing purposes. My job did not just consist of collecting blog urls and names, but also the writers’ names, email

Influencing Google on "Web Influence"

5 février 2010. Commentaires fermés

I recently realized the « about hyveup » page was ranked 3rd in Google with the keywords « Web Influence« , and 1st with « Influence web« . I was really impressed by the rewards of my SEO efforts, so

Contributing to @rwwfr

2 février 2010. Commentaires fermés

Today, the big news for me was my first post in ReadWriteWeb France. It’s not the most amazing piece of content I have ever written, but I know that writing for this blog is

The Minitel, A Web’s Ancestor

1 février 2010. Commentaires fermés

This, my good friends, is the Minitel, the ancestor to the Web. We French folks, have had that baby in our homes since the 80s. They have become really rare today, but when I

Don’t Be Twitter’s Pawn, Boycott The SUL!

26 janvier 2010. Commentaires fermés

Recently, Twitter underwent a major overhaul of the Suggested User List. Instead of having one big list of tweeps picked by the staff, there is now a directory organized by category, and no more

Looking For Published Google Docs? Bing It!

18 janvier 2010. Commentaires fermés

In September 2009, a Google employee, Marie, announced via the Google Docs forum that published Google Docs (which are made public by default) would be crawled, indexed, and used to serve SERPs: This is