Grant Crowell interviews digital media and television guru, Shelly Palmer, about YouTube’s recent move to expand their upload limit to 15 minutes for non-partner users (from the previous 10-minute time limit). Shelly and I discuss what effect this may have on the quality of videos posted on YouTube, YouTube’s 15 minutes of fame contest, and how YouTube has helped to create “a world now where people are trying to be famous full-time.”

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YouTube 15 Minutes = Fame, Passion, Selectivity, Performance & Profitability?

I interview Dr. BJ Fogg, Director of Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab, on what insights he has to share on the opportunities and challenges with effective video in e-commerce.  Dr.

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The Case AGAINST Viral Video For Business And E-Commerce

So BP’s reputation is obviously on the line. Well, “on the line” is a gross understatement, but you know what I’m saying

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BP Reputation Management FAIL

Onsite behavioral targeting can help you personalize your Web pages to create comfort and confidence for your visitors, ultimately driving them deeper into your site with higher engagement.   Based on learned behaviors and predictive attributes, analytics engines can automatically serve content that resonates with each visitor’s intent and drives action. Such a solution can collect and utilize hundreds of anonymous data point relative to each individual visitor.  Alleged self-learning algorithms can draw out the most relevant attributes for each site visitor, track visitor activity in real time and record and cluster onsite activities

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An Optimization Guide for Onsite Behavioral Targeting

Well I am a day late, but we at least made it to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – there was some interesting readin’ last week from the rise of Facebook the ‘search engine’ to a distinct lean towards the business side of things. Speaking of which, a huge congrats goes out to the SEJ/Search and Social gang whom made news with their merger winth 10e20. Let’s not waste any more time and jump right in.

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Weekly Search & Social News: 06/29/2010

I have once looked at the three ways to display related posts in Wordpress . I have also described that will help your site performance by leveraging your old content and increasing: Click-through; Crawl depth; Possibly, rankings.

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An Alternative “Related Posts” Wordpress Plugin – Where Did They Go From Here

2009 was a massive year for the online video advertising industry as a whole.

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Video Ad Networks – Where Should You Place Your Video Ads?

Welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – I was thinking, we really should have started the ‘SEO Olympics’ or something. Being a Canadian it’s pretty much consuming things up here

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Weekly Search & Social News: 02/16/2010

Facebook has come out with a new page redesign which in my opinion, more and more simulated the web browsing experience moreso than just the social mapping experience. The only problem is, with Facebook constantly referring its users to Facebook fanpages and other controlled content within the walls of Facebook, the overall findability quotient resembles something more of a late 90’s AOL than a 2010 social media world changer. That being said, what really garnished my attention this morning with the new Facebook design was not necessarily the browser aspect of its UI, but moreso the centering of the Facebook Search Box

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Facebook Learns from Google : Centers Search Box on Redesign

Welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – As we draw near to the end of the first month of 2k10, the search world is getting a little more active. Sadly, for this geek at least, we were very light on search patents again this week…

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Weekly Search & Social News: 01/26/2010