It’s retweeting that counts, stupid. Or not?

What is a conversation?

Is Social Search a threat to SEO?
I think it is. And I tweeted so  yesterday.  And the reason is obvious. What is SEO about? Ultimately, it is about one thing: the ‘website’. It’s about making a website and its pages discoverable, ranked favorably in search results, described appropriately so that searchers hook on the description etc. But ‘websites’ are not ‘in’. Check the diagrams below from Google trends for websites for the past 12 months.

Is the Salmon protocol tasty enough?
Conversations on the social web are mostly performed through comments. But comments are so fragmented. Consider this example: Publisher  publishes a blogpost A regular reader of the Publisher comments on the blogpost Someone else reads the post in  Google Reader and shares it Another comments and reshares the Google Reader item Another decides to share it on Facebook Another comments on above  the Facebook link Another submits the link on Digg Another comments on the Digg link Publisher  has a Friendfeed account and the post appears in his FF stream Another user comments on the FF

What is this in Google Wave?
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People will react to anything :)
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Web 2.0 without javascript?
A couple of days ago I came across this terrifying presentation from John Graham-Cumming. Although the topics covered weren’t entirely new to me, put together in one presentation, had an impact.  I came to wonder if and how would the major web 2.0 sites work, if javascript was out of the picture. I decided to make a little test to find out: I disabled javascript from my browser  and started logging  in such sites to see how would they behave. Here is the outcome for the three most important for me. a. Twitter Most of the functionality was in place: the timeline, friend and followers. From the various buttons