Search Marketing News Roundup – Week July 5th to 9th

Here’s a summary of what you need to know in search marketing from last week, in order of recency… Click on headlines to read stories.

Friday July 9th
Consumer Watchdog Believes Google ‘WiSpy’ Potentially Logged Homeland Security Data
Search Agency Update – What Are Companies Up To?

Thursday July 8th
While Twitter Search Booms, Facebook Grows On India And Indonesia As U.S. Slumps
Google “Confident” On Potential In-Depth EU Antitrust Inquiry

Wednesday July 7th
Foursquare, IFC, Huffington Post In Geo-Located Content Deals
Local Search On Smartphones Prime Lead Generator For Businesses [study]

Tuesday July 6th
Yahoo Upshot Blog To Create Search-Driven News Content
Twitter’s @EarlyBird Account To Feed Users With Shopping Deals

Monday July 5th
Skype Moves Near Facebook HQ To Consolidate Mobile, Consumer Electronics Segments
Facebook’s Face Recognition Tagging Feature Signalling Photo Search?

Happy reading and have a good week !

Search Marketing News Roundup – Week June 28th-July 2nd

Here’s a summary of what you need to know in search marketing from last week, in order of recency… Click on headlines to read stories.
I’ve added comments to those entries with noteworthy performances.

Friday July 2nd
>> No article. Sorry folks, I had to be somewhere else…

Thursday July 1st
Google AdWords’ Discriminatory Behavior Needs Tweaking, French Regulator Says
China’s Baidu To Hire 30 Software Engineers On ‘Google Territory’

Wednesday June 31st
Former Facebook CTO Says ‘Google Me’ Social Platform Is For Real

Tuesday June 30th
Apple Won’t Deliver on July 1st iAd Release Despite $1-10 Million Entry Ticket [Report]
Google Stops Redirecting China Queries to Hong Kong Site In Hope For Licence Renewal
EU Request To Retain User Data From Search Engines Sparks Widespread Anger

Monday June 28th
Rumored “Google Me” Service Unlikely To Kill Facebook
Yahoo Management Shuffle Confirming Shift Away From Search And Into Content?
Never Mind Google, 16-year old Muqeet Is Launching Pakistan’s Dedicated Search Engine

Happy reading !

NYC Is Hiring A Social Media Officer: You ?

If ever there was still a need to prove the role of social media, here’s something for you.
Remember, back in mid-February, The Democratic National Committee was looking for a “social networks manager”. Now it is the turn of New York City to recruit its “chief digital officer”.

It’s a big role, integrating organic and digital understanding and capacity in marketing, PR, project management … just to name the main areas.
It involves targeting both NYC residents and visitors — namely tourists.

The person will also have to liaise with the whole bunch of agencies City Hall works with, in order to deliver seamless silky smooth digital content and strategies for the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

I think it’s a great initiative and will be beneficial to the city that never sleeps. Great reputation management move.
In case you didn’t know, I ♥♥♥ NYC. No kidding.

So if you want to work for my ex-boss and ever so visionary leader Michael Bloomberg, you have a few hours left to apply.
Tempted ? Look here. Good luck !

Where do you live and what other city do you think should also hire a social media officer ? And why ?

My Search Marketing News Scribbles – Week May 17-21st

Last week’s summary in order of recency… Click on headlines to read stories

Friday May 21st
Buzzzy Adds Location Tracking To Conversation Search Engine
Google TV Brings Couch Potatoes And Marketing Geeks Together
“Get a Job Interview in 30 secs” via TwitJobSearch-Skype-Twitter Mashup

Thursday May 20th
Whitehouse Ticks Off Deputy CTO As Ex-Googler Bypasses Privacy Rules
Google Faces Oregon Class Action Lawsuit Over Rogue Data Collection
Optify Integrates Salesforce CRM into Lead-Generation Solution

Wednesday May 19th
Facebook And Zynga In 5-year Non-Exclusive Deal – Really?
Yahoo Buys Associated Content At Reported $100 Million
Free ’0.Facebook’ Mobile Platform Launches For Users In Poorer Countries

Tuesday May 18th
Meltwater Barred From Sun Online Content As News International Steps Up Anti-Crawling Policy
Google Says “Failed Badly” On Payload Data Collection
Twitter Sparks Developers’ Ire With In-House Vs External App Dilemma

Monday May 17th
U.S. Q1 Online Ad Revenues Hit Record $5.9bn As Market Looks Up
YouTube Boasts Over 2 Billion Daily Views, Unveils Future Plans
Is Social Conversation The Future Of Polls And Surveys ? [Study]

Happy reading !

They Were All Down

First, there was the Twitter bug that forced the chirpy micro-blogging company to set all follow counts to zero.
I happened to be on Twitter right at that moment and took a shot of Ashton Kutcher’s follow count at nil — ok, yes, Demi Moore’s gorgeous and fun hubby but mostly the one who’d challenged CNN on who’d have the highest number of followers.

The day after, there was the big news in the UK: David Cameron becoming the new country’s Prime Minister. Morale was down in many places… Look at this board post in the London Tube…

“We are doomed !” — pretty strong or what ?
Many thanks to Josh Weller (@joshweller) for allowing me to publish this picture here. His tweet went viral within minutes.
Warm thanks to Annie Streater for spotting the James Cameron bug !!