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Thursday, 8th February 2007

Why people hate SEO... (and why SMO is bulls$%t). Jason Calacanis explains SMO, or “Social Media Optimisation”—digg spamming now has its own TLA.

# 7:47 am / jason-calacanis, seo, smo, spam, tla

Pipes. New Yahoo! service for combining and remixing Atom/RSS feeds using a really sophisticated drag-and-drop UI.

# 7:52 am / atom, draganddrop, pipes, rss, syndication

Yahoo!'s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet. It's a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.

Tim O'Reilly

# 8:08 am / pipes, tim-oreilly