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--><generator uri="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</generator><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/05696026800398748487/state/com.google/broadcast</id><title type="text">Pilgrim's Picks</title><gr:continuation>CJr7iruQx5QC</gr:continuation><author><name>Andy Beal</name></author><updated>2008-07-18T20:19:11Z</updated><subtitle type="html">Links to news and blogs that didn't quite make it onto MarketingPilgrim.com</subtitle><link rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/newslinks" type="application/atom+xml" /><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216412351221"><id gr:original-id="http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=20179">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0a54f7bf157dc0cc</id><category term="Company &amp; Product Profiles" /><category term="Live.com" /><category term="Microsoft" /><title type="html">Microsoft Searches Jump 15% After Live Cashback Launch</title><published>2008-07-18T19:16:12Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T19:16:12Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/339261275/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.techcrunch.com/" type="html">This isn’t enough data to declare Microsoft’s much derided Live Cashback search product a winner, but the first full month after it launched (June) shows a 15% gain in search volume v. the previous...</content><author><name>Michael Arrington</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch</id><title type="html">TechCrunch</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techcrunch.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216410853261"><id gr:original-id="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32069983.post-5963013365617015427">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/6378afcbc6e39844</id><category term="search results" scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" /><title type="html">Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search</title><published>2008-07-18T15:36:00Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T15:43:48Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/amDG/~3/339101935/matt-cutts-on-ranking-spam-and-future.html" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/" type="html">During a recent visit to the Mountain View Googleplex, I had the chance to interview Matt Cutts for our German Webmaster Blog. While enjoying the California sunshine we chatted about how to rank in...</content><author><name>Maile Ohye</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/amDG"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/amDG</id><title type="html">Google Webmaster Central Blog</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216405262703"><id gr:original-id="http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=20175">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4a42f8071cb10b78</id><category term="Company &amp; Product Profiles" /><category term="gnip" /><category term="MyBlogLog" /><category term="Plaxo" /><category term="Twitter" /><title type="html">Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip</title><published>2008-07-18T17:45:56Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T17:45:56Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/339194274/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.techcrunch.com/" type="html">Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at...</content><author><name>Michael Arrington</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch</id><title type="html">TechCrunch</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techcrunch.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216396689285"><id gr:original-id="http://blog.searchmarketingexpo.com/?p=109">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c960f1fec3640d8e</id><category term="SMX East" /><title type="html">Save $600 With SMX East Pre-Agenda Rate</title><published>2008-07-18T14:37:28Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T14:37:28Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.searchmarketingexpo.com/20080718-093728.shtml" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://blog.searchmarketingexpo.com/" type="html">You’ve probably heard by now that Search Marketing Expo - SMX events are special. Outstanding content. Prestigious keynotes. Unrivaled networking and community. 

SMX East comes to New York City this...</content><author><name>Chris Sherman</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.searchmarketingexpo.com/smx"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.searchmarketingexpo.com/smx</id><title type="html">Search Marketing Expo News</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.searchmarketingexpo.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216395984372"><id gr:original-id="http://www.techmeme.com/080718/p32#a080718p32">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/2ae7b9676dcbfae9</id><title type="html">Legg Mason Capital Management to Support Yahoo! Directors at Yahoo! ... (PR Newswire)</title><published>2008-07-18T14:40:00Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T14:40:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techmeme.com/080718/p32#a080718p32" type="text/html" /><author gr:unknown-author="true"><name>(author unknown)</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://www.techmeme.com/index.xml"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.techmeme.com/index.xml</id><title type="html">Techmeme</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techmeme.com/" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">PR Newswire:

Legg Mason Capital Management to Support Yahoo! Directors at Yahoo! 2008 Annual Meeting  —  BALTIMORE, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Bill Miller, Chairman and Chief Investment...</content></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216393054247"><id gr:original-id="http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=20166">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/84c9d89fb2602424</id><category term="Company &amp; Product Profiles" /><category term="Yahoo" /><title type="html">Fighting For Its Life, Yahoo Uses Its Homepage To Battle Carl Icahn</title><published>2008-07-18T14:37:38Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T14:37:38Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/339050966/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.techcrunch.com/" type="html">Yahoo is pulling out its biggest gun in the showdown with Carl Icahn: the Yahoo homepage itself.  Right now on Yahoo.com, the single most-visited page on the Web (with 304 million unique visitors...</content><author><name>Erick Schonfeld</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch</id><title type="html">TechCrunch</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techcrunch.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216389005469"><id gr:original-id="http://mashable.com/?p=29639">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/72c128d446aa7676</id><category term="Lists" /><category term="Opinion" /><category term="Search" /><category term="Web 2.0" /><category term="Web2.0 Startups" /><category term="facebook" /><category term="fotolog" /><category term="social networking" /><category term="social software" /><category term="web" /><category term="linkedin" /><category term="online presence" /><category term="social media" /><category term="technorati" /><category term="twitter" /><category term="utterz" /><title type="html">How to Build Your Online Brand</title><published>2008-07-18T13:29:54Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T13:29:54Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://mashable.com/2008/07/18/building-your-online-brand/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://mashable.com/" type="html">This is a guest post written by Chris Brogan, who blogs about social media for business at chrisbrogan.com.

There are only so many hours in a day, and you’ve got to determine which social media...</content><author><name>Guest Writer</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mashable"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mashable</id><title type="html">Mashable!</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://mashable.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216388902623"><id gr:original-id="http://www.shoemoney.com/?p=1561">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/81d165ffba1b1eb5</id><category term="wordpress" /><title type="html">Wordpress Theme Directory Opens</title><published>2008-07-18T11:24:44Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T11:24:44Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shoemoney/~3/338918456/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.shoemoney.com/" type="html">Its been about 8 months since wordpress.org stopped accepting themes from designers.  During that time most designers have started releasing themes on their own websites and its made it really...</content><author><name>ShoeMoney</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://www.shoemoney.com/feed/"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.shoemoney.com/feed/</id><title type="html">Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.shoemoney.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216388852696"><id gr:original-id="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080717/1535171711.shtml">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/12fbc2e757bf9a68</id><title type="html">RNC To Sue CafePress For Helping People Promote Republican Candidates</title><published>2008-07-18T00:06:00Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T00:06:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080717/1535171711.shtml" type="text/html" /><author><name>Michael Masnick</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://www.techdirt.com/techdirt_rss.xml"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.techdirt.com/techdirt_rss.xml</id><title type="html">Techdirt</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techdirt.com/" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">Apparently, a few years back, the Republican National Committee trademarked its elephant logo, along with "GOP", "Grand Old Party", and "Republican National Committee."  And, here we are in an...</content></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216388750998"><id gr:original-id="http://searchengineland.com/080718-084348.php">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/6558956f125c331a</id><category term="Google: AdWords" /><title type="html">Google&amp;#39;s Webinar For Webmaster Tools, Analytics &amp;amp; Website Optimizer Now Live</title><published>2008-07-18T13:43:48Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T13:43:48Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/338971189/080718-084348.php" type="text/html" /><author><name>Barry Schwartz</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.searchengineland.com/searchengineland"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.searchengineland.com/searchengineland</id><title type="html">Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines &amp;amp; Search Marketing</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://searchengineland.com/" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a recording of the webinar they hosted, along with the Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer team.  The webinar is available in a 60 minute YouTube...</content></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216388678463"><id gr:original-id="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/will_mainstream_users_ever_learn.php">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d0e7a07bcdda0756</id><category term="Analysis" /><title type="html">Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser's Address Bar?</title><published>2008-07-17T18:42:21Z</published><updated>2008-07-17T18:42:21Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/338273084/will_mainstream_users_ever_learn.php" type="text/html" /><author><name>Marshall Kirkpatrick</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb</id><title type="html">ReadWriteWeb</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">Traffic analytics company Hitwise released search market share numbers for dating websites in June today and two things were striking about the data.  


Ad supported free site PlentyOfFish is...</content></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216388626928"><id gr:original-id="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080717-154429">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9530e2ae18e4706d</id><category term="SEO: Domain Names &amp; URLs" /><title type="html">GoDaddy's New .Me Domains Turning Into Circus</title><published>2008-07-17T20:44:29Z</published><updated>2008-07-17T20:44:29Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~r/sewblog/~3/338351276/080717-154429" type="text/html" /><author gr:unknown-author="true"><name>(author unknown)</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/sewblog"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/sewblog</id><title type="html">Search Engine Watch Blog</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">Seems GoDaddy is having some problems with their just launched .me domains. People were applying left and right for them and obviously GoDaddy seemed to have a "box office" hit with the new domain...</content></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216388590610"><id gr:original-id="http://gigaom.com/?p=14527">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4aea4c2ac19a4436</id><category term="Featured" /><category term="Web" /><category term="advertising" /><category term="google" /><category term="Microsoft" /><category term="ValueClick" /><category term="TAC" scheme="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol" /><title type="html">Why Silicon Valley Should Be Worried</title><published>2008-07-18T19:43:08Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T19:43:08Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/338532622/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://gigaom.com/" type="html">Updated at the bottom: We have short memories in Silicon Valley, which is both a blessing and a curse. We forget the bad times as quickly as we forget the good times.

At the turn of the century,...</content><author><name>Om Malik</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/ommalik"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/ommalik</id><title type="html">GigaOM</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://gigaom.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216388532621"><id gr:original-id="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twinkle_location_aware_twitter.php">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e03619d9534f23a3</id><category term="Reviews" /><title type="html">Twinkle: Location Aware Twitter Client</title><published>2008-07-18T06:01:13Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T06:01:13Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/338720423/twinkle_location_aware_twitter.php" type="text/html" /><author><name>Frederic Lardinois</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb</id><title type="html">ReadWriteWeb</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">Tapulous, the developers of the highly popular Tap Tap Revenge game for the iPhone and iPod touch, released a native, location aware Twitter client for the iPhone tonight. Twinkle (iTunes link)...</content></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216388503471"><id gr:original-id="http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=20144">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/ff63e0fb9d1cc69e</id><category term="Company &amp; Product Profiles" /><category term="FriendFeed" /><category term="moopz" /><title type="html">Moopz Merges Fragmented FriendFeed Conversations Into One Place</title><published>2008-07-18T09:37:34Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T09:37:34Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/338851423/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.techcrunch.com/" type="html">It used to be that if a user posted a link on FriendFeed, they would get a few comments and likes and that would be it.  If someone reposted that link, it would have its own set of comments for the...</content><author><name>Calley Nye</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch</id><title type="html">TechCrunch</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techcrunch.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216386182563"><id gr:original-id="http://www.techmeme.com/080718/p5#a080718p5">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/28cd5ec2a64575e3</id><title type="html">Twitter Chokes Unauthenticated API Requests By IP, Sites Gasp for Air (louisgray.com)</title><published>2008-07-18T08:50:02Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T08:50:02Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techmeme.com/080718/p5#a080718p5" type="text/html" /><author gr:unknown-author="true"><name>(author unknown)</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://www.techmeme.com/index.xml"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.techmeme.com/index.xml</id><title type="html">Techmeme</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techmeme.com/" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">louisgray.com:

Twitter Chokes Unauthenticated API Requests By IP, Sites Gasp for Air  —  Twitter&amp;#39;s struggles with handling high user load have been well documented.  To help the embattled site...</content></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216344007635"><id gr:original-id="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32069983.post-8547576829771452009">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8cf46ba9e27ee11b</id><category term="products and services" scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" /><title type="html">Google Trifecta recording now available</title><published>2008-07-17T22:18:00Z</published><updated>2008-07-17T22:19:55Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/amDG/~3/338446483/google-trifecta-recording-now-available.html" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/" type="html">Last Tuesday, Google hosted an online presentation about three free tools to help analyze and improve your sites. Dubbed "The Google Trifecta," this presentation explains the key features of Google...</content><author><name>Michael Wyszomierski</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/amDG"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/amDG</id><title type="html">Google Webmaster Central Blog</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216323394400"><id gr:original-id="http://www.shoemoney.com/?p=1548">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/ed16f7cbe3c9d75a</id><category term="shoemoney" /><title type="html">The .me Registration Not Going So Well</title><published>2008-07-17T19:04:18Z</published><updated>2008-07-17T19:04:18Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shoemoney/~3/338301743/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.shoemoney.com/" type="html">I am hearing pretty bad reactions to .me registrations this morning.

Here is my experience:

Last night my GoDaddy Rep emailed me and asked what .me domains I was interested in and said he would...</content><author><name>ShoeMoney</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://www.shoemoney.com/feed/"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.shoemoney.com/feed/</id><title type="html">Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.shoemoney.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216321444772"><id gr:original-id="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=983">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/10d1e070c6fbf29b</id><category term="iPhone" /><title type="html">Two Cats One Laptop</title><published>2008-07-17T18:35:29Z</published><updated>2008-07-17T18:35:29Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/testing-iphone-3g-camera/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog" type="html">The new iPhone 3G camera seems to work pretty well. Here’s a test shot with me, two cats, and a laptop:



The iPhone 3G still doesn’t work great for close-ups on very small stuff, but it seems to...</content><author><name>Matt Cutts</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/feed/"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/feed/</id><title type="html">Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216321337972"><id gr:original-id="http://www.techmeme.com/080717/p50#a080717p50">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/cd386b6f5ffd6c5e</id><title type="html">Gmail and Google Calendar to Add Offline Support (Ionut Alex Chitu/Google Operating System)</title><published>2008-07-17T17:50:03Z</published><updated>2008-07-17T17:50:03Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techmeme.com/080717/p50#a080717p50" type="text/html" /><author gr:unknown-author="true"><name>(author unknown)</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://www.techmeme.com/index.xml"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.techmeme.com/index.xml</id><title type="html">Techmeme</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techmeme.com/" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

Gmail and Google Calendar to Add Offline Support  —  It seems that this year Google&amp;#39;s most popular web applications will work offline.  After Google...</content></entry></feed>
