Seesmic for Blackberry – Google Map, Picture Preview and ReTweet

Experience Twitter on your Blackberry with searches, lists, retweets, picture preview, Google maps geo-location and other powerful features. Point your blackberry to http://m.seesmic.com to get Seesmic within minutes.
Dedicated to listening to our community of users, we are happy to share that we have incorporated a set of features in the newest version of our Blackberry [...]

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Experience Twitter on your Blackberry with searches, lists, retweets, picture preview, Google maps geo-location and other powerful features. Point your blackberry to http://m.seesmic.com to get Seesmic within minutes.

Dedicated to listening to our community of users, we are happy to share that we have incorporated a set of features in the newest version of our Blackberry application that will make your Twitter experience easier and helpful. Thanks to our user’s feedback and suggestions, we updated Seesmic for Blackberry with the following features:

ReTweets and Quote function
Seesmic for Blackberry has the new Twitter Retweet (RT) function, which allows you to officially RT a message. Apart from ReTweeting and viewing RTs in your timeline, you can see who ReTweeted you, which RTs you have done and which RTs were sent to you. If you also want to retweet, but also maintain the original message to edit, you can opt for the Quote feature, which integrates the quoted user at the end of the tweet.

ReTweets function

Picture Preview
We are excited to share that you can now see picture previews for image services within your timeline. Also, the same feature is included in the actual tweet Details view.

Google Map Location
Seesmic for BlackBerry users will now be able to see a detailed Google Map Location in their tweets. This feature reads the location as set in Twitter Geo location. Users can just go to tweet details and a precise Google Map of the place it was sent from, will appear.

Google Map Location

BIS-B Connection
Seesmic BlackBerry now becomes available to all mobile users, regardless of their Internet connection. Users who are using BIS-B mobile Internet network, will now be able to do so and enjoy Seesmic’s feature.

These integrated updates of Seesmic for BlackBerry maintain the appeal and functionality of the application. With your help and support, we willl continue to add features and improvements to make Seesmic the best application for mobile, web and desktop!

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Jeff Ferguson of Local.com #ILM09

Lost my voice at SES Chicago yesterday.  Thankful I made it out of O’Hare.  Since I am effectively mute I will probably be doing a bit of blogging at the Kelsey ILM 09 show.
Just came in to the pre-conference at the tail-end of a talk by Jeff Ferguson of Local.com on the different local marketing [...]

Lost my voice at SES Chicago yesterday.  Thankful I made it out of O’Hare.  Since I am effectively mute I will probably be doing a bit of blogging at the Kelsey ILM 09 show.

Just came in to the pre-conference at the tail-end of a talk by Jeff Ferguson of Local.com on the different local marketing opportunities in Google.  Jeff gave an overview of the different local marketing opportunities available on Google – Adwords, Adwords for Maps, and 10/7 Pack SEO.  Sorry I didn’t hear the whole thing but I liked the point about writing content that targets local terms v. national terms.

Perhaps the most important point was made by BIA Kelsey’s Mike Boland when he mentioned my SEL post on Newspaper SEO and how companies need to start a skunkworks to experiment with search.

Wrong Local News in Google News? Here is Why.

Over the past few months, there have been sporadic reports on the wrong local news showing up in Google News. One such thread at Google News Help has several comments about the issue by a Googler named Inbal.

What appears to be the issue when Google shows non-relevant local news in the local search of Google News is that Google is matching incorrectly. Inbal from Google explains, most recently, the root cause of the issue:

The root of most problems reported in this thread is bad geocoding on zipcode: some zipcode maps to the right name (like xxxxx –> Springfield, Mass), but we then think that text is for some other place with the same name. Our engineers have been fixing these zipcode related bugs following your reports, so please keep them coming!

In other cases, the searcher has entered the wrong zip code – but that is not common – what is more common is the issue above.

Finally, the last reason why the local news in Google might not be local is because there simply is not enough local news sources for your area. Inbal said, “there are just not enough news sources to show from a small town, as we may not be indexing some local sources.”

Those are three possible reasons why Google News may not be providing locally relevant news for you.

Forum discussion at Google News Help.



Over the past few months, there have been sporadic reports on the wrong local news showing up in Google News. One such thread at Google News Help has several comments about the issue by a Googler named Inbal.

What appears to be the issue when Google shows non-relevant local news in the local search of Google News is that Google is matching incorrectly. Inbal from Google explains, most recently, the root cause of the issue:

The root of most problems reported in this thread is bad geocoding on zipcode: some zipcode maps to the right name (like xxxxx –> Springfield, Mass), but we then think that text is for some other place with the same name. Our engineers have been fixing these zipcode related bugs following your reports, so please keep them coming!

In other cases, the searcher has entered the wrong zip code – but that is not common – what is more common is the issue above.

Finally, the last reason why the local news in Google might not be local is because there simply is not enough local news sources for your area. Inbal said, “there are just not enough news sources to show from a small town, as we may not be indexing some local sources.”

Those are three possible reasons why Google News may not be providing locally relevant news for you.

Forum discussion at Google News Help.



(Text) Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 4, 2009

itunes-subscribe-video.pngI am writing this weekly recap while on a flight to Chicago. I won’t be able to do the video version, so hopefully this text version will do. I am on my way to Chicago for Search Engine Strategies 2009. SES is actually when I started this site, six years ago on December 2nd. We have written over 10,000 stories here since and almost 2,000 in the past year alone.

On the search front, Google’s Caffeine index finally made it to a data center. Google added a site performance report to Webmaster Tools to show off page speed. Google also confirmed a Sitelinks bug where you can link to a competitor. On the user interface front, Google decided to go with the fade in home page. They are showing more breadcrumbs as site URLs. They also are using larger images in the search results and region tags for some of the results. Bing went offline for the first time in their short history, it latest for 30 minutes. Bing Maps showed Google they can compete by adding street views and augmented reality. There are stories that Yahoo has begun unbanning web sites from their index. Google AdSense banned a publisher for copyright infringement over their own copyright. Finally, there are tons of more AdWords bans going on right now – I called it the Big Ban of December. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Select Topics For This Past Week:

Misc:

Google Webmaster:

Google User Interface:

Bing:

Yahoo:

AdSense:

AdWords:

Please do subscribe via iTunes or on your favorite RSS reader. Don’t forget to comment below with the right answer and good luck!


itunes-subscribe-video.pngI am writing this weekly recap while on a flight to Chicago. I won’t be able to do the video version, so hopefully this text version will do. I am on my way to Chicago for Search Engine Strategies 2009. SES is actually when I started this site, six years ago on December 2nd. We have written over 10,000 stories here since and almost 2,000 in the past year alone.

On the search front, Google’s Caffeine index finally made it to a data center. Google added a site performance report to Webmaster Tools to show off page speed. Google also confirmed a Sitelinks bug where you can link to a competitor. On the user interface front, Google decided to go with the fade in home page. They are showing more breadcrumbs as site URLs. They also are using larger images in the search results and region tags for some of the results. Bing went offline for the first time in their short history, it latest for 30 minutes. Bing Maps showed Google they can compete by adding street views and augmented reality. There are stories that Yahoo has begun unbanning web sites from their index. Google AdSense banned a publisher for copyright infringement over their own copyright. Finally, there are tons of more AdWords bans going on right now – I called it the Big Ban of December. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Select Topics For This Past Week:

Misc:

Google Webmaster:

Google User Interface:

Bing:

Yahoo:

AdSense:

AdWords:

Please do subscribe via iTunes or on your favorite RSS reader. Don’t forget to comment below with the right answer and good luck!



Google Earth 2.0 for iPhone

The Google LatLong blog announced an upgrade that is currently now available in the iTunes App store for the iPhone. Google Earth 2.0 is out and it has new features, including:

  • My Maps Integration
  • Performance Improvements
  • Improved “Icon” Selection
  • Added 13 languages, now 31 languages in total

With iPhone App updates, when they are available in the iTunes App Store, they might not be available for all users. Kind of like when a Google update is out, some people see it and some don’t, early on. Why? Cause of multiple servers and the syncing of those servers can take time.

Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.


The Google LatLong blog announced an upgrade that is currently now available in the iTunes App store for the iPhone. Google Earth 2.0 is out and it has new features, including:

  • My Maps Integration
  • Performance Improvements
  • Improved “Icon” Selection
  • Added 13 languages, now 31 languages in total

With iPhone App updates, when they are available in the iTunes App Store, they might not be available for all users. Kind of like when a Google update is out, some people see it and some don’t, early on. Why? Cause of multiple servers and the syncing of those servers can take time.

Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.



Where have you been in the USA or world?

Googler Douwe Osinga has a great personal project that demonstrates the Google Chart API. Just by clicking a few boxes, you can make an image to show the countries (or states in the USA) that you’ve been to. Here’s where I’ve been in the United States:

Clearly I need to do a trip across the northern [...]

Googler Douwe Osinga has a great personal project that demonstrates the Google Chart API. Just by clicking a few boxes, you can make an image to show the countries (or states in the USA) that you’ve been to. Here’s where I’ve been in the United States:

Where I've been in the USA

Clearly I need to do a trip across the northern part of the country. :) If you run a website, the Google Chart API is a great/free way to add pretty charts to your website or dashboard easily. You can even make google-o-meters

Google-o-meter

and QR codes

QR code

in addition to maps:

World map

If you haven’t tried out the Chart API, give it a whirl sometime; it’s pretty easy.

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