AJ Kohn

"Astana's Alberto Contador says he considers seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong to be "just another member of the team"." - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

+1 Chris Baskind - Mike Reynolds

"Every slice of this 4th of July cake looks like the US flag... A little taste of independence in every bite!" - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

And now that I've gotten my fill of the repetitive nature of things I've refined the search to having at least 1 comment. Now I get to see real discussion on the topic and will get factual updates as they become available. - AJ Kohn

What TV station is the tour on this year? And is there any live online coverage? - Mike Reynolds

Mike, it's on Versus every year. http://www.versus.com/ - Rochelle

Thanks Rochelle, don't think we get that but every now in then it's there. - Mike Reynolds

Smells like a newspaper reader. Imagine Arrington being the one to save newspapers and find the new delivery method. We'll never hear the end of it! :) - AJ Kohn

I think there will be a natural backlash against this, particularly as bloggers figure out that links to their blogs (from multiple domains) will help them via SEO. Zombie RTs aren't a good sign of authority, only ephemeral popularity. - AJ Kohn

"Ever since the new Google Blog Search homepage launched, we've been fielding requests for a myriad of different features. Today we're happy to announce the launch of our most requested feature: RSS and Atom feeds. Simply click on the links under "Subscribe" in the left-hand column of the Blog Search front page to subscribe to any topic or story in any feed reader, like Google Reader." - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

This explains the odd behavior in Google Blog Search for the last few weeks. You can always tell when Google is launching new features - just before they do the product goes a bit haywire. - AJ Kohn

Good alternative to Google Alerts. - Meryn Stol

"Here we sit again but this time with the mid-to-high end properties staring into the abyss. They have not fallen anywhere near what the low-end has mostly because high-end borrowers were given more exotic, high-leverage loan programs such as Pay Option ARMs, 5/1 interest only loans, and 100% HELOCs to live off of.  Arguably they have more reserves and better jobs, which have kept them paying for the depreciating asset much longer than with Subprime borrowers.   The Alt-A and Jumbo Prime borrowers simply have loans that afforded them more time.  But that has all changed and defaults across this space are surging. Foreclosures are coming, but not before the market begins its slide that ultimately will take the mid-to-high end market down 50% to 70% from its peak 2007 levels." - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

IMO, this is *the* blog for CA related housing information. - AJ Kohn

"Every time Mashable does a Twitter story, have a shot of chilled vodka. Be prepared to get very drunk. If Brian Solis writes a blog post less than 1,000 words, have some champagne. This deserves a special drink." - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

"We cats are better equipped than you humans for taking over the social media sphere anyway" - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

Robert Scoble won't be happy when he hears about this. - AJ Kohn

My view is, no. Social Media has no chance of being nearly as big as SEO. - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

I agree, it compliments SEO but should not be the sole focus of a marketing campaign. - Mike Fruchter

@Mike: Agreed. SEO is ... huge. It ensures that you are being found through the way most people interface with the Internet (search). Social can be an effective strategy but it simply won't touch as many people as search. It might help you find evangelizers (which is important!) but I think we're already seeing social media retrenchment - so only really *really* good social marketing will survive. - AJ Kohn

Gross. Hide. - Rochelle

still happy, never started that habit... - Jacob

So true. The combination of post-click marketing and SEO (post-click SEO) is the real goal. - AJ Kohn

SEO tool that helps you do some serendipitous optimization. - AJ Kohn

FriendFeed FTW! - (jeff)isageek

Indeed! - Alex Scoble

"What appears to be happening is that they're trying to react to some aspect of backlinks but unfortunately the house of cards is teetering" - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

"Starting today, you'll find a cloud of "Common Terms and Phrases" on the Book Overview page for some of our books. This cloud represents the distribution of words in a book: big terms are more common in the book, while small terms are rarer." - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

"HubSpot's June '09 State of the Twittersphere analyzes data from more than 4.5 million Twitter accounts over a nine month period to measure Twitter growth and report statistics on tweets, the Twitter user base and user geography. The study finds that despite obvious growth in the number of Twitter accounts, over nine percent of Twitter users are inactive." - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

"Perfect for summer, or anytime." - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

NOM! (nom slurp?) - Ladybug Heather

"GoogleBot will follow the redirect 5 to 6 times, and then give up. Never more than 6, never fewer than 5." - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet

How can RT be <=6 and >=5, if RT is <5? - Aaman Lamba