Moconews posed an interesting question this morning: will wifi go the way of the public phone booth? Their premise was that public wifi (i.e., at conferences, or busy coffee shops) is often slow and hard to use, while mobile broadband is more reliable. Further, mobile broadband is spreading like wildfire and becoming more ubiquitous. As that happens, is wifi in danger of becoming no longer useful?

My suggestion is that you spend thirty seconds watching this video.









Safe for work, audio is okay. Thanks to Ken for pointing it out. [And Bryan points out this original. Hope the client didn't pay too much for the new one!]



You were going to spend how much to distract me from what I was doing?

There are many people providing social media marketing services. We do! But what you do not get with these services is paid diggs.

Your usual "deliverable" with a social media buy is a top class article, resource, widget or tool, that is attractive and compelling enough to draw votes and links naturally.

The following SEO Optimization post was submitted by Linda Bustos fromElastic Path.

Smart bloggers often use keyword research tools to brainstorm "long tail" opportunities and keyword niches. These keywords are then worked into blog post titles, image attributes, headings and body copy as part of an SEO strategy, knowing that this "low hanging fruit" can drive some very valuable traffic.

Blogs are wonderful for marketing.  But they're terrible for drive-by sales. 

What I mean is that using a blog to sell products or services directly usually brings dismal results.  If you expect a first-time visitor to come to your company blog and immediately buy something, you will be disappointed.  I guarantee it.

Yesterday I was checking my spam folder to see if any legit emails slipped there by accident. At one point I came across one titled "I visited your website http://www.dailyblogtips.com/." Here is what it looked like:

Hi,

We've seen your website at

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/ways-to-make-money-online-with-website/

B2B Online put together an interesting list of five web/tech trends worth watching right now and what they mean for b-to-b marketing. The five trends they identified are:

Widgets

Definition: Widgets are small programs that can be embedded on desktops, Web pages and mobile phones.

Background: Widgets aren't new—buy social networks have helped them explode. These mini-applications are most often downloaded and installed on social network (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn) pages and blog sidebars..

Amber of Lamb and Frog is covering Monday Mayhem, specifically the mayhem that erupts when a commenter cross the lines.

I'm not sure how many of these commenters have ever written anything for public consumption other than their inane comments. A blog? A magazine article? Anything that you actually got paid for? Do you know anything about writing at all? Let me fill you in…

Select Distribution

I recently mentioned the Sigur Rós Hiema video, which was featured on the YouTube homepage for a day and probably got about a million pageviews. An SEO Book reader named Satish discovered that after the video built up a lot of viral media and link exposure the video was set to private mode.

Jonathan Snook knows a fair bit about maintaining a personal brand online, and he has written up an informative post about the steps that all online workers should take in order to build a brand around themselves and their work.

One of the things he mentions is using your real name, if it is unique.