I noticed a simple tweet the other day that prompted me to write this post. (Although, this subject has been on my mind for sometime now.) The timing is perfect, when you consider the fact that Yelp is also pushing out some new features on their iPhone App. So, what in the world is this post about

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Monitoring Your Local Business In Real Time

Over the past weeks, I’ve come across a few highly valuable and inspiring articles on using Gmail filters as well Outlook rules for better productivity. This actually goes about organizing your email more effectively in order to do your job better and faster

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7 Awesome Ideas to Use Gmail Filters For SEO Tasks

Tonight President Obama will be addressing Congress, the Nation and the free world with his first State of the Union address. According to multiple news sources, the President is going to discuss financial initiatives including clamping down on US banks, continuing to build out the US infrastructure, the war in Afghanistan and potentially putting a freeze on increased domestic spending program allowances. For those of you who will not be watching via your television, here is a list of online sites like Google’s YouTube which will be airing the State of the Union,commentary and the minority rebuttal.

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Watch Obama State of the Union Address Live Online

Brightcove is expanding their reach to the couch thanks to newly announced tools that will enable customers to create immersive, branded video experiences for Internet-connected television sets and other Internet-connected consumer electronics powered by the Yahoo! Widget Engine. Brightcove customers already taking advantage of the new distribution opportunity include Time Inc., Cars.com, TheStreet.com, Wine Spectator, Slate, and The Hollywood Reporter

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Brightcove Reaches Home Audience Through Internet-connected Televisions

Do you have your own URL shortening service?  Because if you don’t, you’re totally not following the “in crowd.”  Because everyone who’s anyone is launching their own URL shortening service. First, we had Google unleash their own last week (goo.gl).  Google has this tendency to do quite well at most of the things they try, so I expect to see this service used by quite a few people.  The coolest thing about the URL shortening service from Google is the customization options.  Businesses (and individuals, for that matter) can create their own branded short URLs (such as Jere.my, for instance)

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YouTu.be Wades Into The Crowded URL Shortening Space

Well, it’s been quite awhile since we heard of any Google acquisition.

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Google Buys Appjet & Etherpad

Happy Thanksgiving Week to our American readers of Search Engine Journal.

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Black Friday Ads Online : Sites to Check Out

If Twitter finalizes a new feature that is being tested right now, we might soon have a better way of organizing information that are generated by the Twitter tweets. Twitter’s List feature will allow Twitter users to create useful lists of Twitter accounts in various categories such as a list for funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, celebrities and more. Twitter lists can be made public or private

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Twitter to Introduce Lists Feature Soon