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Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:

Google crashed between 8:40 and 9:55 ET yesterday, preventing people from Googling to find out why Google wasn’t working. Oh noes! Speaking of Google, they recently overhauled Google News as well as updated their blog search algorithm, and they’re allowing trademarks to be used in US Adwords copy. Geez, no wonder there was downtime. Methinks Google needs a little R&R.Congratulations to Barry Schwartz–he and his wife just had a baby girl. Mazel tov!Now I know what I should work on the next time Rand’s out of town at a conference (wait, that’s next week…*evil laugh*).R.I.P. 3D Realms. Your perpetual release date for Duke Nukem Forever made for a lot of Internet lulz.Ladies and gentlemen, Frankenfrog! It’s alive! It’s ALIIIIIIIIIVE!!!

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Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:

Compete has rolled out a bunch of changes, adding user generated tags, a new interface, dynamic graphs, and more. Pete Meyers has hired a new intern, Yoozer, and he’s here to answer your toughest questions about usability. Are you a small business and scratching your head about this newfangled Twitter thing? Check out this Twitter guide for small businesses and hop on the 140 character bandwagon. Man, Twitter is all over the place lately. Is it bad for journalism? Marc Gunther seems to think so… Last Twitter link (for now): Brent Payne is all…well, atwitter (sorry) over the fact that Alyssa Milano responded to his tweets. [insert lame Who’s the Boss joke here]  Tony Adam counters Darren Slatten’s theme winning post about reputation management with a post saying online reputation management does matter. I smell a feud! 10e20 offers up some basic tips for online and offline social networking. PROTIP: Befriend Chris Winfield. He and his hair are among the most powerful social media marketers in the biz.
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Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:

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Sorry this roundup is delayed. I had the damn thing about 60% completed earlier today, but then Mel brought in a pig full of beer, which we proceeded to drink during lunch. A couple of glasses later, I returned to my desk and inadvertently hit whichever combination of keys on my keyboard is the equivalent to the “Back” button on my browser, thus losing my post. After work, I went to the liquor store (wow, all this talk of alcohol sure makes me look like quite the drunkard…) and, after making my purchases, was prevented from entering the store’s parking garage because two car thieves were getting busted by four squad cars’ worth of police officers. Then, once I finally started to hunker down and get some work done, Jane distracted me with something horrible. Thanks, Jane.
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For our first roundup of the new year, I’ve decided to change the format a bit and present the links first. I’ve also included notable YOUmoz entries from the last week, so hopefully you folks will enjoy the weekly YOUmoz roundup in addition to the other stuff.

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We’re rolling out with some new blog theme days at SEOmoz. As Jane mentioned yesterday, Wednesdays will now feature a social media post, and the rest of the week is as follows:
Legal Mondays (courtesy of Sarah Bird, Esquire and Polly Pocket Litigator)SEM Tuesdays (we’ll do our best to discuss PPC, conversions, landing pages, and the like)Social WednesdaysRecap ThursdaysWhiteboard Fridays
This being Thursday, I thought I’d unveil our first official Recap Thursday post (we’ve sporadically done some in the past, but now it’ll be a regular feature) and link out to interesting stories, news, and other tidbits that popped up throughout the week:
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This weekend, Mystery Guest, Vanessa, Todd& I all hopped a flight from Seatac up to Edmonton, Alberta at the request of our dear friend, Ken Jurina. Ken’s companies, Top Draw& Epiar were celebrating not only their combined 21 years in business, but their many clients and recent spate of successes. At 32, Ken’s been able to achieve amazing things - I’ve written about Ken’s company here on SEOmoz in the past, and their technological prowess, particularly in the realm of automating keyword and topical research, has grown impressively even since that time. You can get a small sense for some of the value Epiar’s able to provide to clients (and its own properties) from their blog posts, including this recent one on Presidential Candidates and ROI.

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