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Another one of the sessions we attended at the Make Web Not War conference yesterday, was called “Let’s Start to Work in HTML5”. During this session, speaker Benoit Piette gave an overview of what’s to come in HTML5 and how to implement it and begin trying out its supported features.
Speaker: Benoit Piette
Let’s Start to Work [...]

The final session we attended at the Make Web Not War conference yesterday, was called “Cascading” into CSS3: Exploring the features of CSS3 and the use of jQuery as a substitute. For this session, speaker Nathaniel Bagnell explored the features of CSS3.
Speaker: Nathaniel Bagnell
“Cascading” into CSS3: Exploring the features of CSS3 and the use of [...]

This is the second half of our interview with Ilya Grigorik, the CTO of PostRank. PostRank is a company that provides social media monitoring and analytics, by measuring the impact of tweets, blogs, social bookmarks, etc.
In this installment, Ilya discusses the how the PostRank algorithm works. He explained how the PostRank Algorithm assigns different value [...]

Another one of the sessions we attended at the Make Web Not War conference today, was called “Why Just One Isn’t Good Enough.” During this session, the panelist discussed the advantages of being able and willing to develop websites in/with both Microsoft and open-source technologies. The panelists included:

Moderator: Jeremy Wright
John Oxley
Guillaume Bouchard (our CEO)
and Julian [...]

Today we were at Make Web Not War, a conference that was all about “interoperability” — i.e. blending open-source and Microsoft technologies. While there, our CEO, Guillaume Bouchard, delivered a presentation to developers about SEO for dynamic websites.
Guillaume started by reminding the crowd that organic traffic comprises, on average, half of all web traffic. It [...]

Another person we got to interview at SMX Toronto 2010 was Ilya Grigorik, the CTO of PostRank. Ilya sat on the panel of a session called Social Media: Insight and Inspiration where panelists discussed how search and social media are evolving and influencing each other.
After the session, Ilya gave us a few minutes to discuss [...]

At SMX Toronto 2010, we sat in on one session called Link Building Strategies and Ranking Tactics, where the panelists discussed ways to build links back to your site without paying for them. One of those panelists was Dawn Wentzell from Outspoken Media.
After the session, we got to sit down with Dawn and walk about [...]

Another panelist we had a chance to speak with at SMX Toronto 2010, was Tamera Kremer. She was one of the panelist on a session called Search and Social Media: Insight & Inspiration.
We sat down with Tamera to discuss where she sees search and social media intersecting. According to her, the two will come together [...]

This is another SMX Toronto interview. In this clip, we talk to Larry Bailin, the author of the best-selling book “Mommy, Where Do Customers Come From“.
Larry was the main panelist on a session called Universal & Blended Search Opportunities, and he had some really great advice for brands and marketers. But afterward, we caught [...]

While at SMX Toronto, we got to catch up with with Leona Hobbs, the Director of Communications at the Social Media Group. Leona was one of the panelists on one of the sessions we live blogged, called Search and Social Media: Insight and Inspiration.
After her session, Leona agreed to sit down with us for a [...]