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Angry Birds
You just knew Angry birds would be here, it’s on every top app list on the net and with good reason. It’s easily on of the most fun, most addictive games on the Market, and playing Angry Birds on the 10-inch Xoom screen is nothing but pure pleasure.
TouchDown
This is the tablet optimized version of TouchDown. TouchDown gets your Email, Contacts, Calendar and Tasks from your corporate Exchange server, and gives you a single tabbed view. TouchDown lets you interact with your exchange account on a tablet device in a unique and integrated way, allowing you to manipulate your emails, contacts, calendar, tasks and Notes from a single application, allowing you to switch between them using tabs on the top of the screen.
Google Earth
Hovering over your house and browsing different places around the world is a treat on the Xoom with Google Earth. The app works beautifully on tablets as to be expected by the Google development team.
Words With Friends
Shortly before the Xoom’s February 24 release date, Zynga’s immensely popular game Words With Friends debuted on Android’s devices. The Scrabble-like game, which is free, is much better suited to the tablet form factor than on any smartphone. Battle other wordsmiths in the living room or match your skills against a random stranger in another part of the globe.
IMDB
Browse the latest trailers, review movies and tv information on the Honeycomb enabled IMDB App. It’s had over 1 million downloads from the Android Market and a solid 4.5/5 average review, I think that says it all. Browsing the reviews, you can see tablet users giving positive experiences with app.
Pulse News Reader
One of the most popular Android apps, Pulse news reader is honeycomb tablet ready.A beautiful application that makes reading news fun and engaging. Pulse takes your favorite news websites and blogs and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on a news article to see a clean and elegant view of the story. Sharing it via Facebook, Twitter and Email is as easy as two taps.
FatBooth – Fat Booth!
Let us not forget the ever so popular Fat Booth App! Kids and adults love the Fat Booth app which allows you to turn a face shot of yourself or friends in to a “fat” version! You can see what you would look like with an extra 60+ pounds on you!
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Rip Off Report (RipOffReport.com) has been online for over 12 years and is one of the fastest growing online complaint sites for consumers to file complaints against businesses and/or individuals. The site has a no removal policy of complaints filed, even if the original author requests a complaint be removed.
The ripoff report site allows businesses to post rebuttals to complaints but this causes the complaints to rank higher on search engines like Google and Yahoo. Most businesses and individuals do not want the negative link about them ranking on the first page of Google. Even if the complaint is not a real bad one, simply having your name or business name show up with the words scam, complaint, or rip off beside it will make people think twice about doing business with you.
RipOff Report has been criticized in the media for several years because of their policy not to remove complaints. The site has also drawn fire from thousands of businesses and individuals because the owner of rip off report (Ed Magedson) allegedly accepts payments from business ranging from $2500-$25000 to “remove the complaints”, however they never remove them, they only post a statement above the complaint that makes the complaint look less damaging. The complaint will still rank on Google and will still get traffic. They mask this service under the once named “Consumer Advocacy Program” or now called the Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration Program. Rip off reports claims that reputation management and repair is not effective and maybe this is an indicator of why EVERY reputation management firm that is worth knowing is listed on rip off report. Could it be that Ed Magedson and ripoff report is targeting the reputation management industry because the industry is the most threatening to his sites revenue and effectiveness?
Online reputation management and repair is a very effective process that will make online complaints less damaging and in some cases disappear from search results. There are dozens of reputation management firms online of which most are copycat companies that preceded the likes of Reputation Defender, Reputation Armor, and Reputation Hawk, which are the three companies that founded the reputation management industry.
Reputation management companies use a tactic called reverse search engine optimization to basically bury the online complaints. Some companies also offer mediation to have the offensive links and complaints deleted completely. To date there is no way to force websites like RipOff Report to remove complaints no matter how erroneous they are, regardless of what any snake oil salesmen or attorney tells you! Ripoff report and sites of their nature are protected under a law called the Communications Decency Act (CDA Sec. 230) which was enacted in 1996. The law protects internet service providers from user generated content, in other words if a member or user of a website posts offensive material or text, the website owner is not liable or responsible for the content.
Hiring an attorney to help you with RipOff Report removal is usually a waste of time. Not even the best attorney in your area can likely force ripoff report to remove a complaint. To date no one has won a major lawsuit against rip off report. If your goal is to make the rip off report links less damaging to your business and make them harder for potential client to find, a Reputation Management campaign is something worth looking in to.
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Remove RipOff Reports with online reputation management. Reputation management is the only effective way to fight back against an unfounded RipOff Report complaint that ranks high on Google for your name or business.
As you most likely already know, RipOff Report (RipOffReport.com) will never remove a complaint from their website, even if the original author requests it be removed.
RipOff Report has been online for over 12 years and continues to grow in popularity and size daily. With over 560,000 online complaints files and hundreds added daily, RipOff Report is one of the most popular online complaint sites of its kind online.
Since there is no way to force them or convince them to remove a complaint you must deal with the issue of people finding it. The most common way people find a rip off report is by searching your name or company name on Google or other large search engines. This is where you need to focus your efforts, on the search engines!
If you can move the rip off report links off of the first few pages of Google you will be in good shape. Most internet users do not click past the first 2 pages of Google. You need to bury that link and bury fast! The longer it stays on page one the more it will be seen and the more comments and additional complaints it will get.
A comment on a ripoff report or rebuttal as they call it will make that link/page about your stronger and will make it rank higher or stronger on Google when searching your name. Do not file a rebuttal unless you want more people to see the entire ripoff report.
Here are some online reputation management tips we found on Reputation Armor’s blog. These tips are spot on and may help you deal with negative links like a RipOff Report:
Register Your-Business.com, .net, .org
Registering your-name.com is one of the most important online reputation management tips that we have seen ignored time and time again. It only costs about $10.00 to register your-name.com and a few dollars a month to host it with content. This name/domain name will almost always out-rank negative links on Google. We use Moniker.com and GoDaddy.com to register domains for our clients and we host all of our active client’s domains in-house at no additional charge.
Install a blog, micro-site, information portal on these new domains with unique content.
Use wordpress or a blog platform on your domain. It is very easy to use, install, and update. The site you are on now is a blog powered by wordpress (Free).
Create business social profiles on popular social media sites like Twitter, Facebook Pages, Linkedin, Econnect.Entrepreneur, and others.
Social networks rank very well on Google and are fun and profitable to use. There are hundreds of social networks online these days and more pop up every week. Get online and network and build a strong online presence.
Link these social sites to your new websites (1 link per social site).
Link from your social networks to your own web properties, this will help give yoru web properties more strength and relevance about your name.
Get back links to the new domains and social sites you created.
Back links are basically when you find a website with authority (PR) to link to yours. Do not use sites that are link farms or link directories. Try to find bloggers and websites that do not openly advertise that they sell links.
Network With Bloggers
Find bloggers that will write about your company in a positive manner. There are thousands of blogs that will write about your company or publish an article about you for free or a small fee. Link to your websites and social site from these blog posts to make your web properties stronger.
Join forums within your niche or industry
Become active on these forums. Use your company name as the username and in the signature of all your posts. If you are in the automotive industry, join a forum about cars and become active within the forum.
Write articles and press releases about your business.
Submit these articles to trusted article and press release directories. Again, try to get some links back to other pages about your business from these articles. Try to mention your company name in the first paragraph and when possible in the title of the article. Do not make them advertisements, make them informative.
Create free blog accounts
Sign-up on free blog providers (blogspot, WordPress, and others) use yourcompanyname.freeblogsite as the URL, and start posting original content.
Keep updating and adding content to all of your social networks. Stay active online and be patient.
Online reputation management takes time and sometimes more time. It can be frustrating when you are trying to push down negative links. A reputation management company can help you launch a powerful reputation management campaign that will bury negative links as fast as possible.
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We cover a lot of Reputation Management topics on our blog and keep up with the SEO and Reputation Management Industry. A question that I have seen popping up online recently is: “Is Online Reputation Management Ethical?”
This question is no doubt a good one to ask but the answers I have seen are biased in most cases. Most of the people answering this question are within that industry. I personally think that online reputation management is 100% ethical. Why Not? Certainly all businesses and celebrities use reputation management in some shape of form in order to hide something about them.
Reputation management is not just about hiding negative information and making yourself or business look better. It is also about publicizing the good things you or your business does and about safeguarding your name online and controlling what Google and other search engines rank on the top pages about you.
Sometimes Reputation Management is used by people and businesses that are up to no good, that is a given. I mean here is a service that will hide the fact that you are a rip-off or a poor company. In these cases where reputation management is used to conceal a scam or long-con, then sure it is not ethical.
When Reputation Management is used to repair some information search engines have picked up such as bad consumer reviews and news, it is ethical.
Most online reviews are unwarranted and half truths, usually filed by ex-employees and competitors. Take a look at the Reputation Management industry itself. All companies that advertise online offering reputation management has a bad online reputation (Maybe they buried it), its there on Google! There are about 50 or so websites offering reputation management and all of them have similar complaints, NO DOUBT filed against each other or by a couple of low class SEO guys in the industry. I know for a fact that many of these reputation management firms are good companies and it is obvious the complaints are fake. This is where reputation management is ethical, when you are wrongly attacked online.
What is your take on Reputation Management? Is it ethical? Let us know by posting a comment!
Finding a quality reputation management company is hard with all of the choices online. Below is a list of reputation management firms ranked by popularity as found on iReputationReviews. This is a list of all know reputation management services.
Reputation management services can help you remove or bury bad links about your name or company name. They clean up Google search results by promoting positive information about you and creating new web pages and other search engine optimized content. The new content created is then promoted in the same manner as promoting your own website organically. The new pages will eventually (hopefully) outrank the bad links and push them down search results. You can read and also write reviews about the firms below by clicking on their name!
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ReputationFriendly.com has a new image. ReptationFriendly an online reputation management service just emailed us and asked if we would review their new website design. Version 1.o of reputationfriendly.com skipped right to 2.0 literally overnight.
The new design is clean crisp and very easy to navigate. Since the site sponsors some of our site I figured I would give them the courtesy of a quick post.
ReputationFriendly.com offers flat rate monthly reputation management services for only $99 per month to businesses and individuals.
ReputationFriendly.com is an all inclusive reputation management company that offers an inexpensive way to grow and revamp online reputations. The majority of Reputation Management Firms involve large upfront fees and recurring fees that end up costing thousands of dollars over the life of an online reputation management project.
ReputationFriendly’s costs are minimal and they offer the same intensity of service that other “Online Reputation” companies charge thousands of dollars for.
The ReputationFriendly.com team is consists of search engine optimization specialists, technical writers, content creation technicians, and administrative staff. ReputationFriendly currently has 8 in-house employees and 6 telecommuters on their team.
To learn more about ReputationFriendly and to view their new website, visit them online at ReputationFriendly.com