It’s been a super busy week here at work. I’ve been integrating a design our graphic designer here put together (he rocks) for our new content management system (CMS), working to finish up an SEO audit for a site that really needed it, migrating our sites to different web servers, working on our new content strategy, and outlining a new product that we’ve been working on here at Talk. Because of that, I’ve been a little slow to get a few posts I’ve been working on out, but they’re coming up – rest assured.
In the mean time, I wanted to share with you 3 posts that I found particularly interesting that apply to internet technology and what might be significant developments with some online properties like Twitter.
1. The former VP of Google’s Search Quality is now the VP of Operations at Twitter. As such, it’s on surprise that Twitter is starting to get more serious about their search as they begin to index the links that are shared on twitter. Depending on how things go, there could be some newer, interesting times on the interwebs.
2. One thing I’ve always thought was brilliant was how Google has always had these smaller strategies with their various properties like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Reader, iGoogle, and so on. These smaller strategies obviously had bigger purposes behind them, with an even larger strategy behind that. It’s no surprise, now, as what Google is really moving toward is having one account to rule them all – socially integrating their services.
3. URL Shorteners have become very popular. It’s difficult sometimes to see where the value in these are, but from the beginning of its launch, I (and many others) could see Bit.ly was going to take the delicious cake. Well, it has, and the reason is because they’ve got an awesome plan. A small aside to that – I wouldn’t be surprised if we see an API develop that allows a custom URL shortener for sites. There’s a need for it, certainly.
While not qutie as mentally juicy to me, I still thought it was interesting enough to further the thoughts on why firefox could be the real facebook challenger. Nothing against Mozilla, but I don’t quite see it happening in the same light. I do think browsers will be undergoing a significant change, however.