Rumors are a new Apple überchic gadget is on its way: the iTablet. Basically looks like a tablet communicator device that will connect to your Mac.

From the official Portishead blog:

so then.......music for free is it? well fuking great. so if you get our album for nothing or very little , does that mean i can get my boiler fixed for free... --------i could tell the plumber that its all for the love of sharing and its to combat the evil money grabbing corperation that is zanussi. ...............im sure he will understand.

And if you are reading this chances are I'm quite right. Stop spending your money for SEO consultancy, and stop spending your time reading those "SEO experts" blogs. I mean, just look at their faces...

You can now add a photo to your LinkedIn profile.

To know more, A Photo is Worth a Thousand Words or have a look at your LinkedIn profile.

comScore a global leader in measuring the digital world announces qSearch

qSearch 2.0 is the First Service to Report Search Activity for France and the World.

Thanks to the comScore's press release announcing qSearch, we have a peak on the search engines market share in France (data does not take in consideration access from Internet cafes or the like, and mobile devices such as PDAs.)

Excellent, and sometimes hilarious, episode of Authors@Google. This one features mr. Avinash Kaushik, of Occam's Razor fame, on Web Analytics 2.0

If you are wondering what Web Analytics 2.0 means, here there's Kaushik definition from his blog:

Discovered through the pages of this blog, a brand new Google AdSense item. Basically it allows users to search for advertisement, that is users are asked to enter a search term into a classic search input box, hit the button (this having some kind of rendering problem) and land on a result page made up of ads. Sounds stupid, but who knows...

See the following image and video to find out what I'm talking about here.

Another chapter on Search Engine Optimization and speed ranking on Google. Just an example of how web content optimization, and some web 2.0 cross posting may help your site to rank among the first results among millions in a very short time.

Music has the power

Lately I've attended two music festivals in Barcelona, Spain. The Primavera Sound and Sonar, there I saw a couple of bands, among the others Sonic Youth, White Stripes, Blonde Redhead, Modest Mouse, Beastie Boys, Patty Smith, and took some pictures of their shows.

Yahoo has a page dedicated to Wii, the Nintendo video game console, which is quite cool since it's rich in web 2.0 content, user generated or not, and really looks like Yahoo is now a completely different experience. Like it's web 2.0 for them too. And that's the problem.

Brand without a clue

The Wii page on Yahoo is interesting as it's full of external, user generated content such as Flickr images, tags Wii-related from Del.icio.us and MyWeb, features stories, and useful links. The following is the Wii - Yahoo! Games page screen shot.

Now, this page is nice, it has enough web 2.0 features to make you reach the informations you were looking for, you can actually be part of the content as you as a user could be an active user of this very same page. The problems start if you look at the big Yahoo picture, it's web presence that is.

Crosscut Seattle posted a indiscretions on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to issue an e-paper version of their newspaper, Delivered on electronic paper, the Seattle P-I won't be your father's Web site. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer responded, Move to 'e-paper' not a P-I plan, they have no plans in an immediate future in releasing the e-paper version of the newspaper.

The SEO page has been updated with links and details to more Search Engine Optimization tools and resources. Check out Everything you always wanted to know on SEO and web content optimization for search engines to browse through the brand new SEO resources.

Last added SEO tools & resources: a preview

Among the latest added SEO tools, a user tracker featuring heat maps and raw click data, a list of browser extensions for both IE and Firefox, search engines keywords trends, statistics analysis packages.

Check out the complete SEO tools and resources page.

Browse posts on SEO, find SEO Tools and search through selected SEO Resources, have a look at the brand new SEO page on this blog and know more about Search Engine Optimization, and Search Engine Ranking.

Click on the following SEO Search icon to access the SEO page.

As previously posted here, SEO, SEM, and a lot of vaporware, you can save a lot of money and obtain way more results if you implement your own SEO strategy instead of putting your business in the hands of someone's not even good at doing her own web site.

I'm targetting this post mainly at small/medium business with a limited budget available to promote their online presence. Obviously the following is a free and easy approach you should consider even if you are Fortune 500 company and plenty of money to waste. Also consider this applies mainly to Google, but let's be honest, there's just one search engine out there.

An interesting piece on metromix.com about movies second life or how movies life is not set in their early, promotional and marketing pumped-up, glory days. Really worth a reading:

• Business
• Cinema
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I was reading the web statistics for this very blog, tonight, and I found out that somebody's reached it by searching for what is content optimization. I'm using Google Analytics as the stats application for my blog. It's a free tool offered by the folks at Google, it's quite easy to understand (talking about the basics) while still providing plenty of informations and in-depth data.

Ranking 31st among 68,700,000 Google search results

This is how my blog ranks if you look for that specific text string. And this is all about web content optimization, in the broadest sense of the term.