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[Editor's note: This post is our continued dissemination of content from this week's  SearchEngineStrategies San Jose search marketing conference, where aimClear had 3 correspondents providing our readers notes and articles. The following is from our friend and blogger-associate, Charlene Jaszewski:]

Mobile and Local are tied at the hip, but up until recently the tools weren’t up to the task. But with advent of the iPhone however, all that is changing.

Besides making iPhone a great productivity tool (not to mention GORGEOUS eye candy), Apple has opened up third party application development.

This SES San Jose session demo-ed a few of the existing and up-and-coming applications taking advantage not only of local search, but also of the iPhone’s unique capabilities. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m pleased to join fellow aimClear bloggers here at San Jose 2008. Our collective goal is to provide insight by way of coverage and personal experiences.

Also, welcome to our good friends from Portland and good morning aimClear Blog readers. We’ll be your eyes and ears over the next 4 days.

Since (even cool) blog posts about any event pale in comparison to actually experiencing the in-person power and passion, we’ll do our best to bring home the tone of this live search marketing conference. Truly, the promise of “somthing great” fills the air as attendees stream into the venue for dark roasted coffee and handshakes.

Search Marketing Conferences Rock
It’s great to attend these things. A chance meeting in the conference hall might score that hot business deal/new position that you were looking for. Certainly your attendance will help your brand become more prominent in the Search Marketing Community, as you meet and network with peers.

Be careful though, the parties are legendary. A photo of your drunken “revelry” might end up on prominent Facebook pages tagged with your name. (Isn’t it nice that I chose not to link out on the anchor text “drunken revelry.” It is, after all, aimClear Blog.

I’m done with a delightful hotel breakfast and off to register. Stay tuned…

Todd Mintz is the Director of Internet Marketing & Information Systems for S.R. Clarke Inc., a Real Estate Development and Residential / Commercial Construction Executive Search / Recruiting Firm headquartered in Fairfax, VA with offices nationwide.

The morning sun has barely risen over the Santa Clara valley, but energy and excitement radiate from the very heart of this famed Silicon Valley. Technology industry icons including Adobe, BEA Systems, Cisco, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Hitachi and so many others call this northern California enclave home. The GooglePlex is just a short commuter rail ride north to Mountain View.

There could hardly be a more fitting location for Incisive Media’s classic August search marketing conference, SearchEngineStrategies San Jose 2008. This 10th annual rendering of SES SJ has attained a rarity of stature, structure and attendance by a decade of excellence in total search marketing immersion. Read the rest of this entry »