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This week we had 88 new APIs added to our API directory including an SMS messaging service, virtual server management service, website user and profile management service, business publication search service, proximity platform and telegram hand delivery service. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.

OK, this is cool. A new networking utility called Hachi is taking some of the best functionality offered by LinkedIn (searching by name, company, title, etc. and seeing how you’re connected to other users), and is merging that with your social graphs from other services like Facebook, and soon Google contacts, Twitter and even your Outlook address book. That way, you can see who you know where –

Even if most small businesses don’t understand search engine optimization (SEO), that doesn’t mean they can’t be helped by it. For those who don’t know SEO from their CEO, it is in essence a means of improving the ranking of your business in the Google search algorithm. This in turn, can help a business move up in Google’s search listing. Sonam Lama, CEO of Achieve Visibility, a SEO site special

If you ever wanted build your business with internet marketing, but immediately felt overwhelmed and didn’t know where to begin, Own Your Niche – Hype-Free Internet Marketing Tactics to Establish Authority in Your Field and Promote Your Service-Based Business is your step-by-step field guide.

Google announced today that it has acquired Wildfire, a startup with a viral marketing campaign platform and several offices stretching from Silicon Valley to Singapore.Google product management director Jason Miller explained on the official Google blog that the merger of Google and Wildfire will create "new opportunities for our clients to engage with people across all social services."Wrote Mi

You know, every once in awhile it helps to go back to square one. Those of us who live in the social media bubble often talk so much about what is go

It’s the uber-powerful search marketing signal… and marketers sabotaging it even before it’s had a chance to find a toe-hold.I’m talking about ‘Social Search’, the rising trend of social media-driven local search signals and the callous, narrow-minded and (in some eyes) borderline unethical way in which this potentially useful tool is being perverted by unknowing and uncaring people who spam the

As of this week, the mobile app Read It Later is now called Pocket, has a new user interface and a new price — free. Pocket, developed in 2007, is a cross platform app that integrates with hundreds of reader apps and browsers allowing users to save articles, photos and videos for later reading and viewing.Pocket boast over 4.5 million users and integrates with over 300 mobile apps including Flipb

Everybody watched with amazement when Facebook announced the acquisition of Instagram, a popular mobile photo sharing service, for $1 billion. And now it has announced the acquisition of yet another startup — Tagtile — a mobile marketing and loyalty rewards service targeted at small businesses and merchants. While this seems like another talent acquisition, the timing couldn’t have been better as

Social media marketing and SEO go hand-in-hand. And much like SEO, a social media marketing campaign is long-term and requires consistency in order to be effective. Some website owners are still struggling to measure the effects of their social media marketing campaign and prove ROI. While it may not be as black and white as some marketing efforts, it is still possible to measure social media ROI