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We’ve Added a Facebook Like Button to SEJ

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This week Facebook rolled out some new tools and cupdates to their Open Graph that lets publishers utilize the new Facebook Like option and other Facebook sharing tools on websites, articles and specific web documents. Selena put together a nice wrap up of the announcements here on SEJ. I’m happy to announce that we are now testing the Facebook Like button on SEJ posts, and if you look up, you should see it right above this post. If you click on the Like button, you will not only vote on this post, which may one day positively affect our content as an external social citation metric in the upcoming Facebook search algorithm or whichever engine uses the Facebook data … but you will also share your favorite SEJ posts with your Facebook friends. ESPN.com, IMDB and other major publishers have already launched this tool, and thanks to my good friend Dave Brown, we’re testing a WordPress Plugin that lets any WordPress powered blog add the Facebook Like button as well. Dave will have a write up about the Plugin here on SEJ next week, but in the meantime, I’d like to ask for reader feedback. How do you Like the Like button? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . We’ve Added a Facebook Like Button to

2010 NFL Draft Online : Live Video & Twitter

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The 2010 NFL Draft will mark the first time the drafting of college players by NFL teams will be held in Prime Time, and not during the weekend, as the NFL has expanded the event to 3 days, in a similar fashion as they did with the 2009 Probowl, holding it the weekend before the Super Bowl. This year, the 75th NFL Draft will start tonight at 7:30 pm, and is being televised on ESPN and also the NFL network, which will be airing 24 hour NFL Draft coverage. I’m pretty excited to watch the draft on ESPN tonight, to see where this class of intense defensive players and QB’s are picked up, and to see what the Baltimore Ravens (my hometown team) does with their #24 pick. But if you’re like me, your cable provider may not offer the NFL Network, so my 2010 NFL Draft experience will be limited to ESPN. Fortunately, there are alternatives to watching the Draft Live Online, and also following this year’s Draft via different tools and mobile apps. Watch the NFL Draft with Live Video NFL.com is hosting live streaming video of the NFL draft beginning at 7:30, when the St. Louis Rams will be on the clock with their #1 pick. The live stream will be at NFL.com/draft/2010/live/landing . CBSSports.com is also covering the NFL Draft with video coverage and detailed team and player rankings & information at Inside the Draft. ESPN has Draft coverage on 2010 NFL DraftCast also with Live Video and detailed team information and NFL news. In addition, ESPN has extremely cool integration of Twitter Feed and Facebook conversations around the Draft that even shows your Facebook friends who are watching the NFL Draft on ESPN. Between NFL.com, CBSsports and ESPN, there is no shortage of live streaming video coverage of the 2010 NFL Draft. Follow the NFL Draft on Twitter The official hashtag for this year’s NFL Draft is #NFLDraft which you can follow on your mobile, PC or favorite Twitter application for updated NFLDraft info, rants and insight … in 120 characters or less. There is also a very good Twitter account worth following called NFLDraftBible and of course you can follow NFL Player reactions on Twitter via their Twitter accounts; here’s a great list from Listorious . In addition, if you want to find friends on Twitter who may also be watching the NFL Draft or follow your favorite players, try the Google Labs Follow Finder. For example, you can check out the followers of Chad Ochocinco or ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr . Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . 2010 NFL Draft Online : Live Video &

Google Increases Government Lobbying by 57%, with $1.4 M in Q1

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In Q1 2010, Google spent $1.4 million in lobbying money with the federal government bodies, which was an increase of 57% over $880,000 from Q1 2009. With the company having interests far beyond search, I’m expecting this lobbying spend to climb even more over the course of the year, as Google is getting more involved in FCC rulings, government programs and assistance in pressure on other governments with its global business growth… especially in China. Here’s a rundown of some of the spending from the Associated Press : Google tried to influence legislation intended to prevent U.S. technology companies from cooperating with repressive foreign governments that restrict free speech and violate human rights. [ China ] Google also lobbied last quarter in favor of the FCC’s proposed “network neutrality” rules, which would require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. Although the big phone and cable TV companies oppose such regulations, Internet companies such as Google say rules are needed to prevent Internet access providers from favoring or discriminating against Web sites and services. Google lobbied on the FCC’s national broadband plan, which lays out a roadmap for bringing affordable high-speed Internet access to all Americans, and on efforts to find more wireless spectrum for mobile broadband services. In Q1 2010, the bulk of Google’s lobbying was spent on lobbying the Congress, the FCC, the Federal Trade Commission, the Commerce Department and the Justice Department. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Increases Government Lobbying by 57%, with $1.4 M in

80% of Google Buzz Powered by Bots & Feeds

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Google Buzz may be a centralized microblogging system, but for the most part, its not run by humans .. instead; robots. What better way for Google to gain access to real time Twitter data (if Microsoft ever buys Twitter and blocks Google access) than have Google users run auto tweeted material through Buzz? PostRank has an interesting study on the percentage of Buzz that is powered by feeds and bots. Turns out, approximately 60% of the content on Buzz is from Twitter! Many users have hooked up their accounts to automatically repost their content from Twitter either directly, through FriendFeed, or via another service. The runner up to Twitter? Another set of bots! This time, it’s automated alerts from feeds, e.g. CNN publishes a new story and a bot pushes it out to the Buzz stream. All in all, those two sources account for almost 90% of the Buzz stream, and even in the remainder there is a long tail of Google Latitude updates, ping.fm, and others. Unfortunately, there just doesn’t seem to be much original and/or human-generated content in Buzz. For one, I’d like to see a comparison between Buzz and Twitter on these stats, but for the most part, this is what I expected out of Buzz … another version of Friendfeed. How about you? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . 80% of Google Buzz Powered by Bots &

Yahoo Buys Me.me Domain for its Twitter Style Yahoo Meme

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Yahoo has purchased the domain Me.me, for its Yahoo Meme microblogging service – the Yahoo version of Twitter. With its earnings up in Q1 2010 over Q1 2009, and things looking good for Yahoo with improved ad spending, it will be interesting to see other moves the company makes over the next few months. From paidContent : Yahoo … calls the purchase “an essential component of our online branding strategy.” The buy may suggest that Yahoo is readying a wider roll-out of the service, which has not been advertised widely. On Meme, users write up short entries and add photos or videos to their pages, which are called “memes;” users can “follow” other memes and track entries from those pages via one central dashboard. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Yahoo Buys Me.me Domain for its Twitter Style Yahoo