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Excerpt: Convergence Technology is changing. Every device you buy today has a screen and the ability to do the function of three gadgets you bought last year. This characteristic is known as convergence.   We are seeing convergence in many areas of technology and it is important to consider the effect that it will have on our search and surfing habits. Video – a more accessible medium for some topics. Becoming more important because of YouTube and availability of cheap technology, digital camcorders, mobile phones, broadband speeds, fibre optic networks to the home. Mobile Surfing – proper internet is now a reality for many people…

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Excerpt: Twitter is becoming an increasingly popular social media tool. An interesting post on Science for SEO to do with Twitter. Wouldn’t it be great to find out who was an influential member of the Twitter community? Google has an effective algorithm developed by its founders Larry Page and Sergie Brin, known as PageRank. A similar algorithm has been created for the Twitter network, by Daniel Tunkelang called, you guessed it, TunkRank. TunkRank measures your influence in the Twitter world. For those that are familiar with PageRank it uses a similar concept of traversing the directed graph the graph of  follower and…

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Excerpt: As promised, this post is on social media to increase traffic for blogs. Social media is quite a vague term but it is generally accepted to mean any thing from leaving comments in a blog to the large content community sites. A good blog should foster opportunities for communities to interact. Not only does it have a feel good factor that make you want to carry on writing a blog but it also reduces reliance on traffic from search engines and the whims of the mighty Google. The key to success of a blog is to create content that will…

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Excerpt: Having used Twitter for a month or two now, I feel am just starting to get the hang of it. I am not a great conversationalist but I enjoy the constant snippets of conversation that pop-up on my browser like a babbling brook of information. Twitter is supposed to be about what you are doing right now, but it has moved on. It has several roles, it is a human information feed providing up to the minute news on the topics you are interested in. It is has an obvious networking role where you can make new contacts and create new…