After the previous report about StumbleUpon’s recent redesign, the people behind the site aggregator explained on Search Engine Land why they made the changes. In their latest overhaul, it should be recalled that they removed the source links and iFramed all content. StumbleUpon’s Mike Mayzel (Director of Communications), Marc Leibowitz (VP of Business Development and [...]
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No More Direct Links on StumbleUpon
Boasting more than 20 million users, StumbleUpon was considered as one of the most popular social media sites the Internet has known. After the recent changes it executed last December, the social bookmarking site made the biggest shift that its loyal users can remember. Meet the New StumbleUpon Last December 7, StumbleUpon announced the changes [...]
StumbleUpon Gets a New Logo and New Design
StumbleUpon unveiled its new look last week, making it easier to discover new and interesting things across the Web. The social bookmarking site revamped its site design and logo, streamlined its StumbleBar, and rolled out its Channel feature. “Really this is the biggest refresh, in terms of look and feel, that we’ve ever had on [...]
Project Octopus: Delivering Universal Cloud Access
At VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, VMware previewed Project Octopus – a new offering which advances the company’s vision for enabling universal application and data delivery for the post-PC era. Project Octopus will leverage data sync technology from VMware Zimbra™ and Mozy™ to enable enterprise-grade collaboration and information/data sharing. Additionally, Project Octopus will offer easy [...]
Facebook Gets Plus-Like Privacy Controls
Despite Google’s “innocent” entry into the realm of social networking at the end of June, it quickly became apparent that Google+ was a legitimate competitor for Facebook. Plus immediately received acclaim for its improved privacy and sharing controls (Circles), its video conferencing feature (Hangouts), and its group messaging service (Huddle). But Facebook has a big [...]
Google +1 Now Shares, Provides Snippets
On June 1st, Google announced their first 2011 social feature: the Google +1 button. Previously, it had been rumored that +1 was the Google social network, so the SEO community was largely disappointed with the announcement. That didn’t stop webmasters from implementing the +1 button on their sites, however; over the three months that the [...]
How Google Changes Their Algorithm
Google’s Evaluation Team at a Launch Decision Meeting When any webmaster first enters the realm of SEO, they’re likely to run into the term “Google algorithm.” The Google search algorithm is a complex mathematical equation that looks at more than 100 metrics to determine how a site should rank. Beyond being a non-public and thoroughly [...]
Bing Tells Users Its Core SEO Principles
Bing is becoming a force to reckoned with. Since their Yahoo search alliance last year, Bing has managed to take a combined 30% of the search market in the U.S. The migration of Yahoo search to a Bing back-end on a global scale in increasing that power. Now more than ever, it’s important that webmasters [...]
YouTube Launches New Music Platform
YouTube recently reached a settlement with several major music publishers who filed a class action lawsuit in 2007. Not coincidentally, Google used this opportunity to launch a new music platform inside of YouTube. The new music page includes recommendations based on what you’re already listening to, local concerts, information on the most popular songs on [...]
