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Latent Semantic Indexing. All of the Search Engines have invested in this technology and if they are not using it now, they will be soon.

The definition for LSI is as follows:

Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a technique in natural language processing, in particular in vectorial semantics, patented in 1988 [1] by Scott Deerwester, Susan Dumais, George Furnas, Richard Harshman, Thomas Landauer, Karen Lochbaum and Lynn Streeter. In the context of its application to information retrieval, it is sometimes called latent semantic indexing (LSI) - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~lsi/

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Squidoo has added another new service to its growing list of co-branded services. Create your own TV channel on topics that interest you with SquidVids using YouTube videos. It’s very simple to create your SquidVids Channel. If you don’t already have a Squidoo account, you will need one. Then choose a topic for your SquidVids, and select the most appropriate category. Squidoo will automatically choose 10 YouTube videos that best fit the category and topic. All of this can be modified by you. You can search for YouTube videos to add to your lense from within SquidVids. Read the rest of this entry »

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A friend sent this today … Had to laugh … it’s so true. What if Google Had to Rank in Google?

Not so funny is Google dropping PageRank on numerous sites for selling text links.

Included in the Google Slap are:
netscape.com pr9 -> pr7
washingtonpost.com/ PR7 -> PR5
forbes.com/ PR7 -> PR5
suntimes.com/ PR7 -> PR5
sfgate.com/ PR7 -> PR5
statcounter.com/ PR10 -> PR6
masternewmedia.org/ PR7 -> PR4
autoblog.com/ PR6 -> PR4
engadget.com/ PR7 -> PR5
problogger.net/ PR6 -> PR4
copyblogger.com/ PR6 -> PR4
joystiq.com/ PR6 -> PR4
tuaw.com/ PR6 -> PR4
searchengineguide.com/ PR7 -> PR4
searchenginejournal.com/ PR7 -> PR4
johnchow.com/ PR6 -> PR4
quickonlinetips.com/ PR6 -> PR3
weblogtoolscollection.com/ PR6 -> PR4
andybeard.eu/ PR5 -> PR3
seroundtable.com/ PR7 -> PR4
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Found this site while reading someone’s blog. Kickapps is a community-building application that provides social media on demand for your website. It’s completely customizable or you can go with a default style and have it fully functioning in minutes. Did I mention that it is free to sign up and build your community?

User-Generated Video & Social Networking

A KickApps-enabled website provides your visitors with a complete rich media community experience. Users are invited to upload media and create their very own “personal space” directly at your site. Site visitors are provided with easy to use media management tools to manage their personal space. Similarly, your site administrator is provided an array of easy-to-use media management and administrative tools to ensure that only appropriate content makes it on to your website. Protect your brand with KickApps.

Upload and Deliver Video, Audio & Photos

• Members can upload videos, photos, and audio
• All common media formats are transcoded and displayed in a custom Flash viewer
• No 3rd party player or client-side software required
• Strategically integrate your user-generated content alongside content produced by your editorial staff
• Present your media at your website (and all over the Internet!) in a wide variety of customizable, viral Widgets

Your Site Visitors Create Their Own “Personal Space”

Visitors select a username and password (or use their existing site ID) to join your site’s community. User profiles contain all of the popular social networking features, including:

• Biography and personal questions. As defined by your webmaster.
• Videos, Photos and Audio. Upload, share, tag, and save favorites.
• Blogs. Video, audio, or plain text.
• RSS feeds. Your feeds and new ones added by your members
• Guest books. Members can leave and receive messages
• Friends. Link to other community members, invite others to join

Visitors Never Leave Your Site

KickApps is a “white-label” application service provider (ASP). The KickApps platform is hosted completely by us, but branded completely to your website. All elements precisely match your website’s look and feel. Your logo, your banner, your links, your brand!

• User-Generated Content
• Videos
• Photos
• Audio
• Video & Text Blogs
• Social Networking
• Profiles
• Guestbooks
• Friends
• Tagging
• Viral Traffic
• Video drops
• Widget drops
• Email & invite friends

Log in to the Affiliate Center and deploy your community right now.

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If you want to use the traditional style Adsense on your blogs, and have more power over ad format, there is an Adsense-Deluxe Wordpress Plugin (updated for Wordpress 2) for use with Adsense or Yahoo ads. It really simplifies adding Adsense to your blog and gives you control over where it’s placed and the size of the ad.Features:

• Use simple HTML comments for embedding AdSense or Yahoo! Publisher Network ads in a WordPress post
• Choose from any number of ad styles and format on a post-by-post basis
• Globally change ad styles
• Selectively disable display of individual ad styles or all ads
• Integrated AdSense Preview tool (a sandbox) for seeing what ads will appear on a given page. (Stand-alone AdSense SandBox Tool also available)
• All settings configured through WordPress Options interface (no knowledge of plugins or PHP required)
• Easily test different ad formats and color styles across (all, or) a range of blog posts.
• (Optionally) Apply CSS formatting to the AdSense code.
• Does not display live ads when editing a page, instead placeholders are shown.
• Ads are EXCLUDED from RSS feeds — even if you have full-text feeds enabled. (new in v0.3)
• Preview your ad blocks from the AdSense-Deluxe options page (in case you forget what the ad style looks like), and ads can be clicked without penalty since they use a test account.
• Support for wp-tiger-admin plugin’s CSS in post/page editor QuickTags

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If you haven’t heard of blurb.com, you should check it out. It’s a website where you can self-publish your own book, whether it’s a wedding album, a baby book, a family photo album, or an informational book on topics that you are passionate or knowledgeable in. You could also publish a portfolio that showcases your own business.

The process is fairly simple. They offer free software for creating your book. Download the software and select the type of book you’d like to make. Add photos, text, stories … whatever you want and your book is done. You can have it printed in a variety of sizes and with soft cover or hardcover. There are many different categories to choose from. Some of the more popular ones are Arts & Photography, Travel, Wedding, Children, Biographies & Memoirs, Sports & Adventure, Poetry, Fine Art Photography, Parenting & Families, and Cooking. Got a hobby you’d like to write about or some secret family recipes to share … gardening tips, do-it-yourself tips. Write a book about it.

Once your book is done, you can then offer it for sale in the blurb.com bookstore. Check out some of their bestsellers here. Great service, reasonable pricing for self-publishing your own books.

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SquidBids… “The place for trusted eBay sellers to strut their stuff, showcase their auctions and stores, and get more traffic.”

Squidoo has just launched SquidBids, a promotional tool for Ebay sellers that allows you to set up a page for your products that goes far beyond the average Ebay listing. Here’s Seth Godin’s SquidBid page selling a canoe. Read the rest of this entry »

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The University of California Berkeley has uploaded videos of course lectures on to YouTube, which includes 300 hrs of course material in Chemistry, Physics and Non-Violence, with more to come.

A full list of the videos is here. Also offered is courses on Search Engines, with the first video being SIMS 141 - Search, Google, and Life: Sergey Brin - Google (below). The full list of search engine course videos can be viewed here.

Source: Techcrunch

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If you’re bored and easily amused, check out this site and “blabberize” your own photo or your pet’s photo or any photo for that matter. Example below of my favorite blabber that I ran across… but seriously … do you see the marketing potential for this?


Similarly, JibJab’s new Starring You allows you to make movies “starring you” by uploading your photo and choosing the movies you want to star in. These can then be posted to your website or MySpace, etc. From Techcrunch, “Arrington Goes Nuts in “Unnecesary Force” below:




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