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Off to Palo Alto to meet clients and wish them all some holiday cheer!

A set of free SEO tools I hadn't discovered - some interesting ones here: http://ping.fm/7dYMx

No big surprise - Google Launches Real-Time Search - http://ping.fm/nWkCq

For Wikipedia freaks, great tools to help you visualize content relationships on Wikipedia - http://bit.ly/6lkNNv

Google personalizes search results by default even for anonymous users-do those who dislike behavioral tracking worry?http://bit.ly/71RcmJ

Arthur Coleman has published a new blog post "Technical SEO-Analyzing Site Loading Times" http://bit.ly/7pfyHA

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Major upgrade to Google Analytics - algorithmic analysis, up to 20 goals (hooray!), among others- http://bit.ly/8j4oxe.

Comast buys 51% stake in NBC-Universal http://bit.ly/4pG0bx. Maybe Comcast is a lousy cable company because they're focused on content?

An interesting combo of iTV and social media- http://ping.fm/WS2Sb

Not news that Google "Jazz " moves to 3-pane search-like Bing. Try it here. http://ping.fm/RmY19

Latest chart showing % men vs women on social media sites-good info, only surprise Twitter has more women than Fbook-http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/11/27/study-males-vs-females-in-social-networks/

A sad day-Vik Singh leaves Yahoohttp://ping.fm/s1eCv more foundation stone gone-opens door for up-and-comers outside Yahoo

if u r not watching these ppc changes, you should be - http://ping.fm/FLZvy thing in SEO-fundamental shift it google thinking

Very disturbing-Tivo giving behavioral viewing data to Google - http://ping.fm/YPEwC Consumer privacy advocates beware!

Good news-vault improved to 8.0 - all girls strugling with at least one event - must be pressure of states - many lessons to learn from this

Annika' not herself - she looks tired - 8.4 on floor - Kelly trying to get her laughing again

Were up on floor _ here we go

Annika on beam - 8.525 - she split the beam - never before fallen - pressure must be at work :(

Annika - 9.075 on bars. Great score. Annika first bars at her level - no comparisons yet - but that score should do well

First rotation- we're on bars

It's interesting - we're on "the circuit" - we know a lot of these girls pretty well - that really makes it fun

Just found out - Annika is one of 13 finalists her group statewide. Un-:):):):-believable 1st yr level 5

At the gym during warmup. Sitting with central coast gymnastics parents - really nice folks -good luck to your girls. Of course-go anni!

All the gymnasts at hotel at breakfast - kids having fun, parents eyeing the competition

An excellent article on structuring SEO metrics - of course, we were already doing most of this - http://ping.fm/K3RBl

Microsoft Releases Powerpivot - Excel geeks go wild! http://ping.fm/sDYTY

A handy set of domain info and site performance tools - http://ping.fm/YFoHn

If you want to know deep Twitter, follow @pageoneresults. See http://ping.fm/qQqUO - great content

Now here's a combo visual/text search engine that has a unique presentation layer - its interesting http://www.viewzi.com/

This is a "AOL-family" local directory they've been working on - potential yes. Reality no. http://www.patch.com/

Cool-LinkedIn to Integrate with Twitter-Oops! I've been doing that through ping.fm. Another duplication problem coming? http://ping.fm/d3BiN

Great International Travel Site

This is a greay site to find cheap international travel deals.

in reference to: Cheap International Airline Tickets, International Flights, International Flight Deals - vayama (view on Google Sidewiki)

Arthur Coleman has just posted a new blog entry: "Search Engines: Social Media, Author Rank and SEO" http://ping.fm/hh9Hu

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Need to Know about Google Patents

Bill Slawski is one of the best at keeping up with the latest in search technology vis-a-vis patent filings. I am still trying to figure out how he finds these on such a timely basis. Worth bookmarking if you care about such things.

in reference to: Google Trust Rank Patent Granted (view on Google Sidewiki)

Annika made it to state championships with her best score of the season. But the competition is intense

Annika the early bird got up @ 6AM. So off the computer and time for breakfast buffet. Not too many carbs for the competitor

A great new app in Google Labs for newshounds - http://ping.fm/8hdfm - news in timeline form

4:30AM & up in hotel room working in dark (talk about touch typing!) so Annilka & mom can sleep before the big gymnastics zones for NorCal.

6GB of memory & I still manage to max out that and a 9GB swap file. IE 8 leaks like a sieve, but that's not the whole problem.

Morning. From my sister-in-law "If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine Aird

Now this is cool - an online business card service. Another one of those services I never knew I needed until now. http://ping.fm/wz1KS

Want to do audio blogs on your iphone - check this app out http://audioboo.fm/

Interesting service that allows you to track the apps/services you use and for how long - http://wakoopa.com/. Boy do I need this.

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Arthur Coleman has just published a new blog entry "Site Loading Times and SEO Rankings Part 2" - http://bit.ly/3Cb1Jb

I have turned off Twitter entry on Tweetmeme -let's see if that ends my double entries on FB.

Interesting research from Google on how site loading times impact user experience - http://ping.fm/ZsL11

Back at the grind - international analysis for SEO - I love the international overlay - adds so much intellectual challenge - keeps me young

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Not sleeping is good for the blog-can use the extra time to read/write..and keep up with guys who don't have to pay private school tuition

Spent 2 fun hours talking SEO and social media with communications head at York School. How do you communicate "unexpected" in social media?..hmm

Am researching social media on men's topics. Posted radically chauvantistic site on Fbook- definitely not for this feed. Some humor instead: http://ping.fm/cawOn

Murphy's law of demos proves itself once again - two minutes before prezo it worked - now connectivity dies

In San Luis obispo before Annika's last meet Big Sky Cafe is our faborite place to eat. Yum.

big change in search: Bing-Facebook and Bing-Twitter deals-small RT engines now must face the music. http://ping.fm/lDqFD

At Monterey Bay Invitational working the grill - hard to watch Anikka and serve

No Free Lunch: Either I get SEO boost from messaging on Ping via social media amplifier OR improve Twitter authority by entering there. Not both.

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Google Announces New Specification for Crawling Ajax - http://ping.fm/dboPT

Ever heard of a "headless browser" - if not you will need to understand it for the new AJAX crawlability proposal from Google http://ping.fm/VBxIo

Been at the Marriott all afternoon working away - good wireless and good food (shhh...don't tell the kids they want me on a diet).

At S'bucks NY early working-what to say about homeless lady who sits in(upscale, maybe lost job can't afford NY rent)-she has right to live

Caught up with two longtime friends - watched Yankees (they did, I didn't. Now 1 last meeting and then back to blog

With Ralph Severini at the Times Square Marriott doing site analysis - no wifi at my apartment ^&@@^!!! :(

If you haven't seen this & are doing SEO/social media-you must look-reports & ability to measure SM value huge- http://ping.fm/ymuGm

Last session at SMX East - Social Media Analytics - good three days, but short-term memory is utterli (pun intended) full!

great session on social media and reputation management

Probably best public resource page for SEO tools and learning-Stephan Spencers is great but behind a login http://ping.fm/xGBgE

Great linkbuilding session at SMX East - link and content evolution go hand in hand

OK - I'm officially a SearchEngineLand groupie - Just met Josh Dreller of "In the Trenches" - this guy knows search. We're not worthy.:)

Yahoo no longer supports meta keywords tag - they never said anything!

Press release SEO-use images! 15-25% higher CTR. Helps drive blog articles + images last-picked up on image search long after release. Cool

Most ecommerce stores report avg conversion rate of 2%. BUT wide range - Schwans 45.1%, Proflowers 34.1%, for example

A great tool for determining/improving load time on your ecommerce site- http://ping.fm/3W8AD -it matters for indexing of site

Retailers - best practice goals to set for performance of your category pages: Bounce Rate <5%, Exit rate < 5% - Khalid Saleh, Invesp

40% of visitors enter via home page; 60% enter other pages. BUT 60% who land on home leave immediately, only 40% leave content/category pages

Finished SMX East - now off to drinks with Ralph Severini before he heads to the Ferry

finally got connected at Javitz-session on pagerank sculpting ++ -my takeaway is as always, do good UE design and info architecture first

Shari Thurow is right - build good information architecture and that is more powerful than pagerank sculpting -I have written the same thing

Eric Enge case study on pagerank sculpting shows that nofollow change did happen a nofollow not useful any more. New approach is ....?

SFO-wall to wall people. Huge security lines. The entire US travelling public must be saving $ flying red eye. Not me-gym schedule drives

Late night travel - red eye to NYC for SMX East - want to get to first session on pagerank sculpting after Cutt's input at SMX Advanced

Late night travel - red eye to NYC for SMX East - want to get to first session on pagerank sculpting after Cutt's input at SMX Asvanced

up until 4AM building a computer - the problem with being he family IT manager. Scott McNealy had it right - Bill Gates is the culprit. :)

back from a tough day at the gym - first mediocre day in 2 years-there is always a first. Been recovering by doing estimated taxes. :(

"Language is an involuntary emanation of the mind, no work of nations, but a gift fallen to them by their inner destiny"-Wiliam von Humboldt

leaving to go to AlohaFest at Airborne gym. We're a team of 3 vs teams of 10-15. David vs Goliath- Annika may be small-but she's powerful

Up early working away - catching up from playing hooky yesterday afternoon-but that's the beauty of being your own boss-better family time

jet lag hit me at 5PM yesterday - down until early today. Now off to Palo Alto for meetings

A shocker-Danskin, the been around forever selling ballet and dance supplies company-is stopping all orders/shipments for 6 months.

On the plane at CDG. Evan is happy with his memento - our room key (which we took by accident). Annika won't let me off so easy

On the train to CDG airport Au revoir Paris -I think Evan would like to stay

1:30AM Paris - getting ready to come home. Evan had great day - surprise! - kid is quite the traveler and wearing me out with late nights.

At port versaille waiting for a client -gotta pay for the trip somehow...:)

Evan passed his test of strength. He beat me up the steps of Sacre Couer - badly. Dad's out of shape

Good day - on the Eiffel Tower - great view

Jetlag caught up with us - slept until noon! Did Notre Dame and the crypts-now out to dinner with a classmate and then St. Chapelle concert

Evan and I are sitting on the right bank of the Seine hanging out with local kids, listening to music at midnight. Welcome to real life, son

Great day at Versaille - exhausting but great. now jet lag has hit big time :(

Just shopped for lunch at Versaille market-typical French central marketplace-no English spoken here-Rosetta Stone here I come

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finished my latest blog post - time to get Evan up and out on a bike ride to Versaille. This will be a real treat. Never been to Versaille.

Here's a second green social network - doing an "America's Greenest Campus Competition" - interesting WOMM play - http://ping.fm/6l4M2

Interested in being green? Here is one interesting social media site to engage with. http://ping.fm/gka3Q

Up early in Paris-either jetlag or that cheese plate we had-I was introducing Evan to French style meals-dinner, salad, cheese, dessert. heavy

5 hours at the Louvre today-exhausting but well worth it. Wan't intentional-Evan was enjoying the early Mesopotamia wing-fits with school.

Testing mB of message to see plan impact..$512/MB if over limit

Treated evan to a cab from the airport so he could see the outskirts of Paris - talk about the American peso - $75. - last tiime $35!

Treated evan to a cab from the airport so he could see the outskirts of Paris - talk a out the American peso - $75. - last time $35!

The boys have landed in Paris. Evan's first test is to get a cab to the hotel without getting taken

waiting to board flight to Paris. Evan's reading To Kill a Mockingbird for school. What dedication. I'm charging a laptop battery

The reasonable man adapts himself 2 the world; the unreasonable 1 persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

American's coach class is a bit tighter (ummm Evan can you please take the elbow out of my stomach)...:(

Can't get facebook at 30,000ft - they probably like to keep their feet on the ground, so to speak, until they go public :)

We are on the plane-once on board had him open 1 present-his Paris tour book. He's can't believe he didn't sus out the conspiracy. Ha!

On the road-evan is clearly wondering what is up - he asked...silence back

Evan has big surprise tomorrow-he's going to Paris for his 13th birthday (with me). Has no clue - I'll wake him at 5:30. he he!

Finished first meeting in Palo Alto - special errands and then a lunch meeting. Good, busy day

Working away this am - getting ready for meetings with international clients and lunch at Joya (will have to watch the weight, for sure)

Back from Mikhail's Navy meet-Annika placed 3rd overall and 1st on beam. Nice improvement over last week - but still miles to go to zones

readying for Annika's second meet of the year in San Mateo-hoping to see good progress over last week-when she qualified for post season.

good article about how well online retailers are doing in natural search http://ping.fm/utVSe

Put the work aside for the day. Off to our friends yearly end of summer party - gonna be lots of fun to see longtime (not old!) friends

I love Yammer becaue of 1 feature-it sends a daily email showing my latest posts. Wish I got 1 from all 30 of my channels-I'd know they work

Looks like I've recovered from the breach, now it's back to what i was supposed to do when I got up early today. A bike ride!

About to go on a client call - spent most of the am debugging and ensuring my systems are clean from yesterdays hack.

The new website just got hacked, darnit! .Llooks like the Gumblar virus. Exploits a hole in Adobe flash and Acrobat to gain ftp logins. Here's the fix http://ping.fm/aZdVQ

Blog Entry Via Ping: .htaccess Grammar Tutorial – .htaccess Special Characters: I have.. http://bit.ly/1sGbWl

Another good overview of .htaccess grammar http://ping.fm/bJL1a

Oh yea, and doing a beginner .htaccess piece. Here is a link to a great beginner resource http://ping.fm/TgUE3

Home writing the blog (yea) and doing finances (boo). There is never enough time, is there?

back home after meetings in the Bay Area. working on finances and feeding the family (food, I mean). Very punny.... :)

well, I fixed some crawl errors on my sites -- but created one big one - it it this 'network unreachable' error - hard to debug

up early running numbers, the lots of meetings - hopefully will have time to blog today. coffee more coffee...

Celebrated Evan's birthday - now time to bed - another early morning trying to stay one step ahead of projects.

Did a 2-hour ride around Ft Ord with Will Wong. Good exercise - helps to bring your spine doctor along for the ride :)

Distractions all day Fixed crawling issues on the new website-I love .htaccess files-especially with the great Apache documentation (not!)

5:30 AM conference call with Europe. Have my (strong) Pete's coffee, ready to go for the week

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Arthur Coleman (onlinematters) has published a new blog post "Social Media Channel Architectures - Part 2" http://ping.fm/cL61a

If you want to stay on top of the latest new sites/apps as suggested/voted on by individuals, bookmark this site http://ping.fm/PV8Zb Very cool.

For those iPhoners who spend a lot of time on the road a social media traffic app http://ping.fm/NPUhW

Fascinating - a social media gender gap.. women in networks far outpace men http://ping.fm/EB530

A very cool site that creates a mixed media presentation - slideshows of pictures from Flick, Facebook, others

An excellent overview of Google's content network and trends - http://ping.fm/u4aRQ

Up early doing my usual reading, writing and bookmarking and commenting. Catch up from flu last week, Sunday a work day. :(

All the Rising Star parents are in the stands waiting for the Begoniafest opening march in - go Kelly and team!