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I know its been done to death but I thought I would bring you my take on the big thing from Google this month Google Gears for those who have been living on mars (hows the weather?) Google Gears is a small application designed to help you use Google services offline the first service to get the gears treatment is Google Reader (an RSS reader in case you missed that while on mars to!)

The Good

It works! no it really does work I’m sitting in the middle of a forest on a grey day writing this blog post (The Boss is making us do away days!) while looking through the various feeds I have in my feed reader on my windows partition, interestingly their is some differences between Mac (who install gears via a firefox extension) and windows versions with the windows version being significantly bigger. While in Offline mode Google reader performs well but you do notice the lack of search facilities more, it seems a sham that with such a powerful data set at your finger tips their is no obvious way to mine the data. Read the rest of this entry »

Whether your an individual a company or a marketing/SEO company reputation management will become part of your business and business strategy, knowing what’s being said about you and your clients is not only important but in many business paramount.

Having decided that this is the case your question is how to best to keep and analyse your reputation and brand, you could

• Hire a reputation management company (that would be us right )
• Employ a full time specialist
• Do it or get some one to do it yourself

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Very quick post regarding Google reader if your not using it for your feeds why not?

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