Daily Search Forum Recap: July 12, 2011

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:YouTube Tests New Channel & Video Design Last week, YouTube announced a new design experiment for the channel and YouTube video watch pages. The new look is code named Cosmic Panda.Google Images Source URL Via &surl=1...

Netflix Raises Prices, What’s Next For Users?

Today, Netflix dropped the bomb that it was doing away with its unlimited streaming / DVD combo plan in favor of separate plans for each service. Users (myself included) that want unlimited streaming options as well as 1-DVD-at-a-time rental enjoy …

Netflix Raises Prices, What’s Next For Users?

Today, Netflix dropped the bomb that it was doing away with its unlimited streaming / DVD combo plan in favor of separate plans for each service. Users (myself included) that want unlimited streaming options as well as 1-DVD-at-a-time rental enjoy …

Netflix Raises Prices, What’s Next For Users?

Today, Netflix dropped the bomb that it was doing away with its unlimited streaming / DVD combo plan in favor of separate plans for each service. Users (myself included) that want unlimited streaming options as well as 1-DVD-at-a-time rental enjoy …

Netflix: Pay More If You Want Streaming AND DVDs

If you didn’t like the Netflix redesign, you’re going to love this. Pricing adjustments! Netflix announced today that it is doing away with member plans that let you get both unlimited DVDs and unlimited streaming – something many of us …

Bruce Campbell Joins, Dominates Twitter

Hail to the King, baby. That’s what’s happening on Twitter right now as the almighty Bruce Campbell has joined, just in time to confirm rumors of a fourth Evil Dead movie. If ever an actor exemplified “cult classic,” it’s Campbell, …

Moscow’s Saint Basil’s Cathedral Gets Google Doodled

It has many names – Cathedral of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God, Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed, and of course St. Basil’s Cathedral to most English speakers. But whatever you call it, the beautiful Russian church …

When social media impacts search – 3 areas to think about

Today I attended an event hosted by WOMMA UK which covered the ways that word of mouth is impacting search and looked at how search and social media are overlapping more and more. Search and social are becoming increasingly intertwined, especially with the arrival of Google+, a clear indication of the search giant’s intention to further develop and improve the social nature of search...

Big Business Blogging, The Right Way #IntelSMP

At Intel’s first Social Media Conference in Portland this week, 100+ Intel social media practitioners from all over the world came together with about 20 industry subject matter experts to share and engage social media best practices. One of those speakers was Lionel Menchaca, the Chief Blogger at Dell and a real pioneer in the world of blogging and social media for the enterprise. Lionel told...

Top Blog Posts From The Past Year

Being new to the Distilled team (NYC office…whop whop!) I found myself reading back in the blog archives and realizing, “Hey, there’s some wicked good stuff in here.” This ingenious thought spurred me to troll through a year’s worth of blog posts and create a “Best Of” post.You may ask, “How did you decide what makes the cut?”Great question!I took all the blog posts from the last...

TechCrunch Redesign: Kevin Rose & Chris Sacca Don’t Approve

Sometime over the last 24 hours TechCrunch launched a redesign of their popular blog. Apparently the design began back last fall, before AOL’s acquisition of TechCrunch and suffered “innumerable twists and turns along the way“, according to Dave Feldman, product …

Will Google+ Maim Twitter?

There’s been a great deal of talk about Google+ as a Facebook competitor, but how does Google+ stack up as a Twitter competitor? Some think Twitter should be more concerned than Facebook. I don’t want to say Google+ will “kill” …

Mila Kunis Says Yes To YouTube Date Request

It seems like ever since her turn in Black Swan, Mila Kunis has seen her stock jump from pretty high to astronomical. Something about pretty girls in great films…or sex scenes with Natalie Portman. Either way, her beauty and overall …