Social Media Optimization (SMO)

I came through this interesting chart this morning that shows the demographic split of Twitter users by age. Fascinatingly the speediest growing segment on Twitter (other than bots) is amongst people 24 and younger accelerated more rapidly than older folks in 2009, according to comScore. Not like most social networks, Twitter began out being more … A Look At Twitter Demographics

The ongoing growth of social media may indicate that we should look beyond a Yahoo-Microsoft merger and other algorithmic-based search engines and explore the possibility of search becoming less important. If people started using social media more, and advertisers thought they could get better results for their money in that arena, search engines would be … Could Social Media Be the Google Killer?

At the Future of Web Apps conference Kevin Rose (Digg, Pownce, Wefollow) gave a cool presentation on the top 10 down and dirty ways you can grow your web app. He took the questions he’s most often asked and turned it into a very informative talk. This isn’t the typical kind of scalability we cover … 10 Ways to Take your Site from One to One Million