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That was my first attempt at one of Rand’s SEO comics, so hopefully I did the Boss Man proud. I really don’t have much to offer in this blog post except DEAR GOD, these social media sites’ names are getting totally absurd. Seriously.
What happened to the good ol’ days of MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and LiveJournal? Remember those happier times? When the name of a site indicated what it was? From there it started to get a little rid.iculo.us (I checked, and that URL currently isn’t a site, so we’re safe…for now…): there’s Etsy, Wazima, Darmik, Django (was his name-o?), Mochikit, Zoto…they all sound like characters from The Dark Crystal. Or like Scientology overlords.
I get the whole "Web 2.0 Sexy Explosion! Strike while the iron’s hot!" mentality, but what separates the Woozles from the Wazzles from the Kreblaks from the Zoomubys from the Noonoos? (Yes, I made all […]

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