Posted by randfish

We haven't had a good roundup post in a while and I figured it's about time right?

• I have to agree with Danny on the Yahoo! election win - their map system (live version is here for as long as they keep it up) was incredibly well-constructed and up-to-date; even more impressively so than my old standy - Electoral-Vote.com. Also Gary Price noted in the Ask blog that their instant answers this week were custom-crafted. Why doesn't Google ever do anything cool like this?
• Congrats to Patrick Gavin who's TLA firm was acquired this week. Here's to hoping that their level of service continues to improve over the months to come. They recently added linkbait to their list of services; it's a little less customized than what we do but also much more reasonably priced.
• Barry's look at cloaking for religious reasons is fascinating to me. Obviously my personal Judaic background is ethnic rather than religious so have no fear that SEOmoz will shut down on Friday night.
• Lee Odden interviewed Adam Lasnik - I know it's all over but Adam's one of the moz team's favorite folks so I've got to give him some props.
• Matt Cutts reviewed Compete and linked to SEOmoz's study covering external visitor data. The odd thing - his link sent under 100 visits over the past week; my guess is that either everyone who reads Matt's blog had already seen it or it simply wasn't a very compelling link (or least likely of all Matt's blog just isn't getting that much traffic - I'm fairly sure that's not the case).
• Philip noticed this first but this guy made it Technorati's Top 100 (a long time goal of mine) simply by auto-registering at 5000 forums. I wonder what percentage of those are still providing SE-juice; probably a higher number than we'd think.
• Dave Sifry issued his bi-annual State of the Blogosphere this week - looks like we're finally seeing a slight slowdown in growth and some maturity in the space.
• Guy Kawasaki (whom I'm speaking with at two events next week but have never met before) tells us how to get on TechCrunch. Sadly this seems to be most Web 2.0 companies' idea of how to market themselves these days.
• Andy went all "mozzie" as he called it and opened up the stats for his recent search marketing scholarship. I love to see the top referrers for each article - it's fascinating who leveraged what sites and resources to drive traffic and win the contest.
• I've been compared to Obi-Wan-Kenobi - quite flattering even if the intent was to parody :)
• Ten things to avoid when blogging - 5 from Neil & 5 from Todd.
• Donna's got the scoop on what to ask Ms. Dewey. Honestly I could live without her (Dewey not Donna - I'd be lost without Donna).
• Bill's got a whole new look for SEO by the Sea - much more readable I like it Bill. He's also covering how spam reports affect rankings; must read stuff.
• Cristian Mezei is turning into a must-read; his coverage of Alexa's new GUI is excellent.
• Shoemoney had me on his show last week - here's the link to listen; there's nothing revolutionary but I did turn the tables halfway through and asked Jeremy some questions about why he gets so much negative attention. I can certainly say that the impression some people have of him (which might be deserved from his online presentation style) does not match up with the man in person (or on the phone) who's generous friendly intelligent humble and tactful; I think he just likes the attention (don't we all?).
• What is so f***ing cool about your product? Kathy Sierra shows once again why I basically link to every blog post she writes.
• I'm kinda jealous that Brian Clark has his own user-generated commercial. It's pretty clever though.
• You'll need the NYTimes login to read it but this article on how VC funding for web startups is changing is very engaging.
• On a similar thread VentureBeat is showing what VC's are investing in nowadays and how much. The visuals in this post do a very good job illustrating the specifics.
• Anyone else see the new Yahoo! beta mail system - in my opinion it's nearly perfect.

What did I miss?

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