Yahoo news service

Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. The site was created by a Yahoo! software engineer named Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN and BBC News.

In 2001, Yahoo! News launched the first "most-emailed" page on the web. It was well-received as an innovative idea, expanding people's understanding of the impact that online news sources have on news consumption. Yahoo allowed comments for news articles until December 19, 2006, when commentary was disabled. Comments were re-enabled on March 2, 2010.

By 2011, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization. Veteran journalists (including Walter Shapiro and Virginia Heffernan) were hired, while the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps for the first time in February 2012. An Amazon-owned marketing data collection company (Alexa) claimed Yahoo! News one of the world's top news sites, at this point. Plans were made to add a Twitter feed.[7] In November, 2013, Yahoo hired former Today Show and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo! News. She left in 2017.

Here is some of our coverage

Yahoo News UK - Reporting Accounts launches podcasts

Yahoo News USA -Reporting Accounts launches podcasts

Yahoo Finance Australia - Reporting Accounts launches podcasts

Yahoo New Zealand - Reporting Accounts launches podcasts

Yahoo Canada - Reporting Accounts launches podcasts

Yahoo! Celebrity (as omg!) debuted on June 12, 2007, with little fanfare, with the original press release being published on Yahoo!'s corporate blog. Upon launch, MediaWeek reported that Yahoo is hoping to skew more toward a female demographic with omg!, and that Unilever, Pepsi, and Axiata (Celcom & XL) will be the sole official sponsors of the website. Due to heavy publicity on Yahoo's front page and with its partnerships, readership took off, with four million readers logging on to omg! in the first 19 days alone.[11] As of autumn 2007, omg! registered over eight million readers a month, and is the second most-read gossip website in the United States, ahead of People and behind TMZ.com.

In December 2012, Yahoo! reached a deal with CBS Television Distribution to cross-promote its Entertainment Tonight spin-off The Insider with omg!, re-branding the show as omg! Insider. In January 2014 it was announced that CBS Television Distribution was to revert the name change back to The Insider while omg! would become Yahoo! Celebrity.

Social media sensations - Folkd and Reddit

Two really great social media sites which I always use to spread the message from my posts are Reddit and Folkd

Reddit

Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits", which cover a variety of topics such as news, politics, science, movies, video games, music, books, sports, fitness, cooking, pets, and image-sharing. Submissions with more up-votes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough up-votes, ultimately on the site's front page. Despite strict rules prohibiting harassment, Reddit's administrators spend considerable resources on moderating the site.

As of February 2021, Reddit ranks as the 18th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the US, according to Alexa  About 42-49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9-8.2% and Canada at 5.2-7.8%

 Reddit's logo consists of a time-traveling alien named Snoo and the company name stylized as "reddit". The alien has an oval head, pom-pom ears, and an antenna

Our Reddit profile  https://www.reddit.com/user/reportingaccounts100 has been running for a few years and is

Folkd

We started folkd.com not as social search engine but as a social bookmarking service. So thousands of people stored their favorite links on our servers. After a while the best websites bubbled up by being bookmarked over and over again. So we made all these quality links available through our search form and the social search engine was born.

Why is it better than normal search?

First, people are not fooled as easily as machines - they only save a link if they think it is worth it. Second they often store additional information with a link - like a description or some helpful keywords. Using folkd you will get access to this additional knowledge to discover the web faster and find new websites you probably would have missed otherwise.

 

Our folkd profile https://www.folkd.com/user/AdrianLawrence has only recently been added. 

The reputation rank of our users calculates from various indicators. But if you constantly use folkd, post, recommend and visit the items and make some friends - you will `levelup` very soon :)

 

 

 

Player FM

Player FM or PlayerFM is a podcast discovery and cataloguing service which lists podcasts hosted across different podcast publishing sites. It was created by software designer Michael Mahemoff in 2011

 Player FM helps you discover, download and play podcasts. We love podcasts because they are a great way for people to learn, be entertained and stay informed while on the go. We started with the Player FM web app, which works on desktop, phones, and tablets. And now, we have both the Android and iOS apps too.

Player FM is a widely-used podcast directory and podcast player with over 20 million listed episodes and 90 million users as of 2020.

And while it's vital to get listed in major directories like Apple and Spotify, platforms like Player FM are equally important; they attract podcast enthusiasts and are more search-friendly to independent creators.

Buzzsprout is now fully integrated with Player FM, allowing users to submit their podcast from their dashboard with one click. Let's take a walkthrough of the directory and review of its key features. Then, we'll show you how to list your podcast to the platform!  

Here are some of our podcasts that have reached through to Player FM via buzzsprout.

Doctor Martens IPO is a big success

Lookers Returns from suspension

Reddit Day Traders take on Wall Street

 

Player FM interface & top features

Player FM is available as a web app, Android app, on iOS, and all major operating systems and devices (iPad, iPhone, Chromecast, Android auto, and Android wear.) The player is completely free wherever you use it, with the option to upgrade to premium for bonus features (more on this in a minute.)

The home screen features popular new shows and a search bar at the top to look for content based on title or topic. When you search for a podcast, you'll get a list of sub categories to help narrow your results. The app features over 500 sub-topics, helping users zero in on specific podcasts and making your niche content easier for listeners to find. 

Money Saving Expert Post

Great post on the moneysaving expert forum

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/77931359#Comment_77931359

See how helpful they were in linking to a page on reporting accounts!

 

Found them

https://www.reportingaccounts.com/uk/01323856/o'rourke-civil-&-structural-engineering-limited/ They seem now to be based

BRIDGE PLACE ANCHOR BOULEVARD
ADMIRALS PARK CROSSWAYS
DARTFORD
KENT
DA2 6SN

Their former directors can be traced from the following link:-

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01323856/officers

Thanks everyone for your help. The Bridge Place address is where I used to work and I've already tried speaking to people there.
Spoke to XPS and no records but they did mention Hogg Robinson which I'm fairly sure was the name of the scheme from Claybrook. There are some details on the pension tracing system for Hogg Group which I will try.  

The potential of mini-sites

This week I've been busy working on a couple of mini sites the idea being to funnel traffic from one niche site to our main site.  I've no idea if the concept will work but it certainly has been fun playing with the site builder wizard!

You've got to have fun on the web, and its always cool to learn new skills and so on.

Here are the mini-sites I've built

Report and Accounts - https://reportandaccounts.mystrikingly.com/ this is covers all the areas that we offer.

Podcasting - https://podcasting.mystrikingly.com/ this is focussed onto to our podcast offerings.

Compellingmedia https://compellingmedia.mystrikingly.com/ this has been live for a while and seems to pick up a little traffic hence the idea of trying more.

Adrian Lawrence https://adrian-lawrence.mystrikingly.com this is like a mini online CV, not had anything from it, but idea is worthwhile.

As I said at the start of this post I enjoyed the sitebuilder wizard so it was nice to be creative for a few hours even if nothing traffic wise comes from them.

Who We Are

We are a great team

Always over delivering and enjoying working together, happy and cool

Compelling Media is a technology and business solution provider based in Telford Shropshire UK, we also have an office presence in London

Work with Us

We develop websites of our own and promote them creating income and long term value, we employee designers, codes and content writers all dedicated to creating the best solutions we can.

 

Europages a great pan-european directory

 

Europages is a leading online directory that caters for the European business community, the company behind the site is called Visable which is a pretty good name for a business seeking to improve the visibility of companies on the internet.

They claim to have 2.4million buyers per month across 15 languages and receive around 3,000 business listing per month. The idea is simply you create a listing in your home country and the site and its team translates that and uses it across 15 other sites which are all in the language of their target audience.

If you are promoting a site online then links from reputables places help to boost your online rankings so have links from 15 good sites is therefore more helpeful than just a single one.

Anyway I tried their service our this week, and it does seem pretty impressive, here are our listings, lets see how many enquiries we get and if these all or indeed any of them get picked up and indexed by the various search engines.

Europages UK - Our own UK market place, this version is focussed onto the UK

Europages CZ - Their Czech site

Europages DK - The Danish version

Europages DE - Targetting the German speaking world, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

Europages.org - Estonian

Europages FR - French site

Europages LT - Latvian Site

Europages LI - Lithuanian Site

Europages SE - Swedish orientated directory

Europages IT - Italian version of their site

Europages HU - Hungarian site

Europages ES - Spanish version

Business contacts within the European realm are thriving – and more and more medium-sized companies are leveraging this chance to go global. EUROPAGES can be their sales hub! The uncomplicated user navigation enables suppliers to create a strong company profile in no time at all and collect buyer contacts from all over the world.

Our language service package includes up to 15 different languages. Your text is edited by our experts and professionally translated into all your desired languages.

Offer your products internationally with a presence on the 26 EUROPAGES versions. Your company profile appears to everyone searching on Google and is at the top of the search results – regardless of which language your potential customers are using.

The concept is a good one and of course they have registered the relevent domain name in each of the European markets they operate in, so there is good chance this works reasonable well.

Back in the day, Google hit directories hard, but the ones they targetted were little more than a list of links, whereas Europages seems to be much better than this.

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