Paul May co-founded BuzzStream, a CRM for link building and PR/social media that allows online marketers to manage relationships and be more effective in getting results, be they links or press. He gave me the following two-part interview about the software creation and startup process. If you've ever been solicited to SEO a startup with a unique new product, you know that the project is futile or almost.

Here are my notes on the interesting points in Google's presentation to Goldman Sachs' Tech and Internet Conference. It's noteworthy not just for seeing the trends in where they're going, but for the principles that govern their thinking and the way they want to be perceived. 1( Google saw Japanese users paying relatively less attention to ads vs organics results.

According to a new study , no one really cares what you're tweeting.* ' #wtvr Of course, it didn't really take a study of 1.2 billion tweets to find that out, though at least now we know just how much people don't care! No, it didn't take a study because if you just use Twitter, you'd know it intuitively. And if you speak to Twitter advertising networks, they'll admit that their CTRs are terribly low )far below 1%(. )Ditto Wayne Liew's data .( In fact,