Webcology’s 200th Podcast! Webcology reaches 200 podcasts! Jim and Dave reflect on the news they talked about about over the past five years and on doing five years of radio. Also, Facebook is reportedly testing out controls that would allow users under the age of 13 to participate under parental supervision. The great LinkedIn password […]

Infographics, Data Visualization and YouTube Comedy Videos Jim and Dave discuss infographics and data visualization and how much to use them over blog posts or videos. Later, they interview Darryl Lecraw from Fox Hound Digital and SkitforBrains.tv on YouTube Comedy Videos and building an audience on YouTube. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

FacePalm – The IPO Fallout at Facebook Facebook fallout from Wall Street following its initial public offering. Jim and Dave analyze the past 7 days of declines and discuss the effect on the overall industry. Later, Jim and Dave discuss an article Dave wrote for Search Engine Watch titled Linking to Promote Keyword Clusters. Podcast: […]

Facebook Ads and its IPO plus Google Plus et al Air Date: May 17, 2012 The day before Facebook launches its long anticipated IPO, Jim and Dave discuss the value of Facebook advertising, why General Motors stopped using Facebook ads, and if GM’s decision will be an indicator of how the Facebook IPO will fare. […]

Digital Always Media founding partner Alan K’necht is speaking at the #140MTL conference in Montreal today. Speaker presentations are being shared live-time using video sharing service LiveStream. The conference is currently underway. Alan is discussing social media measurement in his solo session, “Measuring a Social Media Fire” at 4:05pm eastern. Tune in to virtually attend […]

Alan is a go-to source for PostMedia reporters. This weekend he was quoted in a Canada.com story covering a study from Tel Aviv University on mobile devices and the public space. Smartphone users more oblivious to others: study by, Derek Abma, POSTMEDIA NEWS – May 11, 2012  

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II) There is a debate running in the SEO [inbound marketing, online marketing, search engine optimization, search marketing, sem, smm, website promotion] sector these days about how we refer to our […]

Penguin and Panda – LinkedIn purchase of SlideShare – Facebook IPO Roadshow Air Date: May 10, 2012 Dave discusses his appearance on Ecom Experts and how e-commerce is being affected by Google’s Penguin and Panda updates. They also look at the LinkedIn purchase of SlideShare (Powerpoint in the clouds) for 118.8 million dollars. Throughout, Jim […]

Over Optimization Penalty; Evolution of Google With Social Search Air date: March 30, 2012 Jim and Dave discuss Google and the Over Optimization Penalty that Matt Cutts recently announced. They also discuss a Bill Slawski post on the Evolution of Google With Social Search. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Webcology Episode #190: Former Googler Opens Up About Google +, Privacy; Forbes Rant March 15, 2012 Jim and Dave discuss how former Googler, James Whittaker, openly blogs about about how Google is now obsessed with harvesting peoples private information, saying their social media efforts with Google + has been a failure threatened by Facebook. Jim […]