016: Obama Parody, SEOMoz Nostalgia and Google World Brain Film




Owning Your Own show

Summary: SEO nostalgia with SEOmoz DVD's from 2008! Also featured on Episode 016 of Owning Your Own: Beginning of Time - SEOmoz DVD's from 2008 The Finger – @BarackObama - "Parody" Twitter Account? The Toolbox – Family Matters- Create separate conversations with Family and Friends on Facebook. Open Up And Say AAAA - World Brain The Movie Outro Song (Alan) – Zeds Dead - Cowboy (Germer Remix) Send questions, comments, suggestions or love to podcast@owningyourown.com Episode 016 Nugs of Knowledge Sacagewea is the First Lady of OYO. (3:50) Rand Fishkin is the CEO and founder of Moz (formally SEOmoz) (5:40) Alan's mom was given DVD's from job. (7:35) Many of the talking points from the set of DVD's are relevant today. (some are not). (8:00) Moz is a great resource for those wanting to learn; high quality blogs and guest blogging. Rand generates "Whiteboard Fridays"; often imitated video recorded lessons. (9:25) Barack occasionally tweets but does not often tweet from @BarackObama Twitter handle. (10:40) Can you have someone representing you on social media without disclosing it? We had to make sure so we redid the Finger segment Pinky then "The Thinker" fist is given.  First finger without a finger. Family Matters (not the TV Show) is a Facebook App allows different discussions than friends on Facebook. Did I Do That? We are on LinkedIn Now! Speculated 60% of the books Google has been scanning are copyrighted and did not get permission. 1930's collection of short stories by HG Wells "World Brain", is where the allusion to Google's endeavors comes from. Collection of world's knowledge is something we have to deal with now. Having digital and cloud-based knowledge resource is great but if it's a REPLACEMENT for tangible that is worrisome. 1984 ish implications are the fear. Tangible assets need to be a part of our society as an alternative to "cloud-based" assets.  Cash, books, DVDs, etc... 14 Euros is about 20 American Dollars