links for 2006-11-30
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Signs that Google is rationalizing their business.
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Some nice new changes. What I like is the estimated bids for top position - something that Google does not offer at this stage.
links for 2006-11-29
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As a Warcraft player, this stuff fascinates me!
links for 2006-11-28
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Matt Cutts - the Googler who handles SEO does a review of some websites at PubCon.
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Nice little roundup, for Mac Users
African ICT Achiever Awards
Ok - I know a lot of you are probably saying “Enough Awards Already!!”, and I promise that this is the last one (for this year, anyways!). This final award brings the total awards and accolades that incuBeta has achieved this year to 5 in total, on 3 different continents.
I have no problem posting about incuBeta’s successes and awards - given that this blog is our way of communication to the world - but it does get kinda weird when I have to post about a personal success, even when it is linked to the company’s success.
Well here goes nothing:
I am the very proud recipient of the award for “Top Young Entrepreneur in Africa” in the ICT African Achiever Awards, held in Johannesburg this past weekend (to be broadcast on SABC later this week). ITWeb reported on it today. I’ll be posting some pics tomorrow on this posts, and hopefully a video snippet after the broadcast.
A letter from the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, was read out at these awards:
“ICT is recognised as a vital tool that can assist with the development of our country and continent. It is a field that can create substantially new forms of employment and entrepreneurship that are much needed in the country and continent.
“In this context, government has been busy putting appropriate measures in place to ensure there is universal access to ICT services at affordable costs aimed at growing the sector,” Mbeki wrote.
He added that government’s efforts for growth and development are focused on achieving higher rates of investment in the economy, increasing the competitiveness of the South African economy, broadening the participation in the economy, improving the capacity of the state to deliver, and contributing to a better world.
“Universal access to ICT services can now have an impact on all these areas, and has already contributed to an environment conducive for small and growing players to thrive in.”
Even though this is a personal award, it is truly testimony to the fabulous bunch of people at incuBeta that I have the pleasure of working with every day, all our clients and partners! Thanks to everyone who has worked with us over the past few years!
Research Assistant Required - The Search Wars
I am looking to put together a research paper around why Google is so successful at Paid Search (and Yahoo/MSN are not), from a Macro-Economic perspective. I’ve written a bit about this in my post called “The Clash of the Titans“, but I want to go a bit more in depth and do some number crunching around the global economics of this contest. The successful applicant will get co-authoring rights to the report, which will be published on this blog (which reaches about 50,000 unique visitors per month), and potentially some consulting fees if the report stirs enough attention from the right people…
Requirements:
- Reasonable understanding of Macro-Economics & Good Financial Skills
- Solid Report/Thesis writing skills (to prepare a fully researched paper)
- Pay Per Click experience and working knowledge of the industry
- Lots of spare time over the next 6 weeks (Target release date is 15 January)
- Self Starter (I’m just going to point out the things I want covered, and how - and you need to figure out the rest!)
- Enthusiasm!
If you’re interested, please email me at : vlingham@gmail.com with the subject : “Research Assistant” (important, in case of spam filters)
Vinny Lingham is an International Award winning Entrepreneur & Search Engine Marketer. He is currently CEO of Synthasite, a Web 2.0 Startup.
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