I am headed up to Silicon Valley tomorrow for Noah Kagan’s first annual wine taste off. The idea is for a wine taste off between entrepreneurs and VCs. I’m not really a wine drinker but I am looking foward to the event as it should be a ton of fun. I will take pictures and post them when I return in a few days.
Danny Sullivan is leaving Search Engine Watch and most likely the Search Engine Strategies conference series as well. This news is creating quite the buzz around the web.
First let me echo what many have already said; Incisive Media is pretty much retarded for not moving mountains to keep Danny around. Search Engine Watch and SES are what they are because of Danny.
As the “Godfather” of search, Danny has played a big role in shaping our entire industry to what it has become today. I wish Danny the best of luck wherever this new path takes him. He will undoutably be successful and the industry will gladly follow wherever he goes.
The first time I met Hiten and Neil they showed me this project they were working on called Crazy Egg. It was a click tracking application so you could visually see where your website visitors were clicking. At the time they had a working prototype and when they first showed it to me I was literally blown away. Not only was I impressed with Crazy Egg itself but I could also tell these guys were very passionate about it and I knew it would be something great. Since that time Crazy Egg has gone through a long closed beta test where it was continually being improved upon to become what it is today, which is far better than I ever imagined it would be.
Early this morning Crazy Egg was officially launched. There has been some great reviews and some not so great reviews. If you have a website I suggest you give it a try for yourself to see what you think. I’m sure you’ll think it’s just as cool as I do.
** Crazy Egg is a product of ACS which is where I work.
There is a lot of good link building resources floating around right now.
Todd Malicoat’s great list of 12 different kinds of links and how to get them.
Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans listed 101 ways to increase your link pop.
Neil Patel breaks link building down into a 5 post series.
Matt Inman from SEOmoz puts on the blackhat and shows us how to get 20 .gov links in 20 minutes.
Aaron Pratt crowns the winner in the Linkbaiting 2006 Awards. Aaron I’d really like to see this taken to the next level. Good stuff.
Noah Kagan wrote a post today on the Top 5 Stupid Trends of Marketing 2.0.
1. Our product is viral
2. Paying $10,000/month to advertise on Techcrunch
3. You need a blog
4. Digg will save us
5. Oh, don’t worry we have a MySpace badge.
You should really head over to Noah’s site and read the description of each one before you read my counters, otherwise you’ll probably be wondering what the hell I’m talking about.
Noah’s a friend of mine and he’s a very smart guy, but this time I think he’s gone a little overboard with the whole hippy marketing thing. Just kidding Noah. Anyways, it’s on bro.
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