As one of the biggest content creators on the net, Yahoo wants to rank high in Google and other search engines. Tony Adam , Yahoo’s SEO Manager , is responsible for helping the company optimize so it could get more search engine traffic. These are words that, when people type them into a search engines, you want your company to be one of the first results they see. In our interview, he gave me some basic search engine optimization tips that anyone could use, including: Pick your keywords

Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. But, you know, I think it wasn't until after my first real company StubHub that people, I think, thought of me in that light. So I contacted the owner of the company and proposed to him that I be a distribution outlet for their product in retail channels outside of the Massachusetts area and began to help that company get In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or

This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Example What do I mean? Here’s the block that you see when you look at a blog enabled by Disqus (a third party commenting tool that can be embedded One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in... Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010

The last chapter for Internet homepage Geocities has been written, with Yahoo telling its last remaining users of the service that it will shut down on October 26th. According to Yahoo, as of October 26th, GeoCities sites will no longer appear on the web. In addition, the company warned users that they will lose all access to their account and files, with all of the files being deleted from Yahoo's servers Yahoo had initially said it would shut GeoCities in April. The shutdown puts to bed one of Southern California's original Internet success stories.

In a major deal, search portal provider Yahoo and software giant Microsoft said that the two companies are in a deal where Yahoo will replace its own search engine technology with that of Microsoft--with potentially huge repercussions to Yahoo's Southern California search engine marketing operations. Yahoo and Microsoft said that Yahoo will use the technology behind Microsoft's Bing search engine to power all of the web search aspects of its web site, with Yahoo taking over premium search advertising sales for Microsoft. The two specifically said, in an oblique reference to Google, that the move would provide an alternative to advertisers, so that they no longer to have "rely on one company that dominates more than 70 percent of all search."

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). This Panel will Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities.

was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA .” We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves.  But But we have a great city for building technology companies. Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

lalawag has been able to confirm that Tony will leave his post at Yahoo! would be lying to say I haven’t been egging Tony on for months now to leave Yahoo!. Here at lalawag we’re just happy he managed hookup with such a great company. Now Tags: Events Featured People tony adam yaho Beloved local SEO and baker  Tony Adam is moving on up. lalawag to join  BillShrink as Director of Search Marketing.

On the table in California, is a new bill co-written over the last two years by Dan Balsam (a 3rd-year Law Student at UC Hastings College) and Craig Kleffman (of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office) which attempts to leverage all "loopholes" in the federal law -- which they believe to have made the spam problem worse. ( see how ) Opponents to the bill believe legitimate companies would be exposed to unnecessary lawsuits because so many spammers are outside the country. ( see the bill in it's entirety ) At yesterday’s Assembly committee hearing in Sacramento, supporters