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Nominations for Semmys and Thanks for SEJ Awards

Bill Slawski — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:52:06 +0000

Initial nominations for The First Annual Semmys Awards, honoring individual blog posts & articles in the Search Engine Marketing Industry, came out last week.

SEO by the Sea was honored with 14 nominations in 6 different categories amongst that initial group. The initial nominations will be reviewed by judges chosen from the Search [...]

Pubcon and Missing Casinos

Bill Slawski — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:04:40 +0000

I am in Las Vegas this week, speaking at, and attending the Webmaster World Pubcon Conference.

I will be speaking at two different sessions, both on the first day of the conference.

The early session is going to be a round robin presentation on SEO 101, with Moderator Jake Baillie, and speakers Bruce [...]

Yahoo’s Usama Fayyad on Datamining, More Effective Advertising on Yahoo, and Social Media

Bill Slawski — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:32:16 +0000

Every business has the potential to gather an incredible amount of data, and a business like Yahoo can be an extreme case.

What kinds of things can you do with that data? Where do you even begin? What interesting patterms might you find in very large databases? How can that data be used [...]

San Jose Adventures, Part 1 – the most famous garage in Silicon Valley

Bill Slawski — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:45:57 +0000

A little glimpse into my journey to the San Jose Search Engine Strategies Conference this past week.

Friday…

I headed out to BWI airport outside of Baltimore, usually about an hour drive, and wondered if I would make my flight after an accident delayed traffic along the way. I hope the people involved [...]

Next Week: Search Engine Strategies San Jose

Bill Slawski — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:25:55 +0000

The Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose starts next Monday, and I’m looking forward to attending, and to meeting up with old friends, making some new friends, learning what’s new in the industry, and sharing some ideas with others.

I’ll be speaking on Monday morning on the topic of Universal Search, at 11:00am, [...]

Cheers to the WordPress 2007 Attendees

Bill Slawski — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:35:37 +0000

I had the good fortune to attend WordPress 2006 last year, and really enjoyed the chance to meet people there, and learn about some of the many different things being tried out with WordPress.

Unfortunately, I won’t be attending this year (wish I was), but it looks like there’s a great list of speakers [...]

Yahoo Confab Micro-Conferences Start Wednesday

Bill Slawski — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:22:15 +0000

The Yahoo Technology Development Group has announced a series of micro-conferences that open to the public, starting with one this Wednesday, December 13th, on Prediction Markets: Tapping the Wisdom of Crowds. (via Yodel Anecdotal)

Speakers include:

Bo Cowgill from Google, Leslie Fine from HP, Todd Proebsting from Microsoft, Dave Pennock from Yahoo! Chris Hibbert, [...]

Pubcon and Google Patents

Bill Slawski — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:36:57 +0000

Pubcon starts this morning in Las Vegas, and I have to race off to register shortly.

I arrived yesterday, and toured around the City a little. The Hotel/Casino that I stayed at a few months ago, the Stardust is now closed, and has a big fence around it, with signs that an auction [...]