I was the victim of a hacking which I only found out about yesterday. No amount of 2 step verification could have helped here to my knowledge, and I am a believer in 2 step verification. Nothing I could have done differently could have made a difference. The scary thing is how long it could […]
Optimizing Image Search & Wikipedia for Hockey Players
Images and Personal Branding On The Radio While driving to the train, I normally switch between a bunch of crappy radio station music (it’s my guilty pleasure, don’t judge!) and Eric and Kathy in the morning. I actually find them pretty hilarious. Well, they have a segment called “Sharp Attack” with Patrick Sharp from the […]
Rand Fishkin – The Internet’s Chuck Norris
Everyone knows the hilarity of the Chuck Norris meme. And for the fear of my own life, I dare not say much else about it, less Chuck Norris, (who is undoubtedly watching this post), round houses me in the face. What people fail to realize is, in our internet community, we have a legend in […]
Personalized Search Panel at SMX East
At SMX East, there was a talk on The Current State of Personalized Search. The panel consisted of Jack Menzel from Google and Stefan Weitz from Bing. Danny Sullivan was the moderator. A few interesting thoughts came out of this: 1. There is no longer anything called Personalized Search (said Stefan Weitz). All search is personal. Its […]
How a Missionary taught me SEO
Well, not really SEO. More like Black Hat SEO. Anyone who reads this blog may have figured out by now that I am an Orthodox Jew. Not long ago, my wife received a book in the mail titled “they thought for themselves” by Sid Roth. The premise of the book was, 10 inspirational Jewish stories […]
Facebook Open Graph: Making one big Social Internet
Imagine for a moment an internet personalized for you. At the f8 conference this past week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, announced the new Facebook Open Graph platform which will bring us one step closer to that personalized internet. Facebook connect is a thing of the past. While connect was successful, Facebook Open Graph is predicted […]