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A Prius in Austin, TX

Wednesday, 01 June 2011 by Paul O'Brien

Having been in Austin for about 6 months now, there’s one irrefutable fact that everyone in Austin acknowledges with a cock-eyed smile; Californians love Austin, perhaps too much. More than that, Steiner Ranch (the neighborhood in which we settled) seems to be the magnet for relocations from the Sunshine State. One of those transplants myself,

Published in Austin, Insights / Research, Local, Startups

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SEO Firms Must Become Digital Media Agencies

Tuesday, 19 October 2010 by Paul O'Brien

One of these days, Marketers are going to learn. It will be a new dawn for marketing! A shining era in which everyone recognizes how interwoven search is with everything a business does. Until then, we’ll continue to plod along… Joe Devine, CEO of The Search Engine Guys in Austin, Texas knows this all too

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Published in Advertising, Search, Social Media

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Identifying Comment Spam with Google

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

I was torn on how to title this post; this is either Further proof of the depths to which Google’s bot will go to crawl your content or An alternative to Akismet Have I lost you? Let me start from the beginning. I have an unhealthy interest in comment spam. It sits in a different

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Google, Natural Search / SEO

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Social Networks Make Poor Advertising Bedfellows

Wednesday, 21 November 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Things arenâ€™t looking good for social networks. The bandwagon web platform which has everyone starting a new company has proven effective in attracting an audience yet, to add insult to injury (I think it is safe to say Friendster and MySpace have proven retention a challenge – the injury), it seems monetization is still out

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Published in Display Advertising, Social Media

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Sphinnaanites Unite! Welcome to the Sphinn Revolution

Thursday, 27 September 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Yes, it is my new best friend. A digg-like news and resource aggregator that filters based on the popularity of content. At its peak, I had over 100 search and marketing related blogs on my reader before turning to Yahoo Pipes to mash them up in hopes of finding the gems among so much content.

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Fun, Insights / Research, Social Media

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Build and Support a Community of Evangelists

Friday, 30 March 2007 by Paul O'Brien

“Bad behavior in the blogosphere” That’s the headline from yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle referencing the recent threats against Kathy Sierra, a popular blogger (Creating Passionate Users) and author who stresses the importance of web design. I’m not going to make news of her terrible experience as, rather than an article worth repeating, it was that

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Natural Search / SEO, Social Media

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