Here are the story I’ve read today (since I wasn’t at the royal Wedding) and that you might find interesting:

Twitter app permissions
ReadWriteWeb has a story about the new, more detailed login screen for Twitter apps that gives more details about what the app can do with your account but also explains that “a few key permissions are omitted from this screen”

Serious game
James Fallows writes about the return of Clippy for The Atlantic. Microsoft’s annoying paperclip is back to teach you how to use Microsoft Office through a game called Ribbon Hero 2. I haven’t been able to test it yet since we’re still using Office 2003 at work =) Anyway, this might be a good example of a “serious game” that I might try if I can find some time at home.

Creating content for SEO
Search Engine Land tells us more about creating true great and unique content to improve ranking in SERPs. It’s always been difficult for most companies to understand that what web users find interesting is not exactly what their marketing or communication teams find interesting.
The related entries at the end of the article are well worth a look too.

F-Commerce
Social Commerce Today confronts two articles about F-Commerce. The articles are from Econsultancy and Computing Magazine and have a different point of view on Facebook ‘s possibilities for e-commerce.

SEO & Social Media
And finally, a video you could watch, SEOMoz’s Whiteboard friday about Correlation Data for SEO and Social Media Analysis. Rand Fishkin explains the correlation between high rankings in SERPs and the number of incoming links and Facebook shares your pages get.

The trick to get DoFollow links from Twitter no longer works.
Looks like my article made too much noise, which is actually strange and fascinating at the same time since I just launched my blog this week, don’t have any audience and only had like 50 followers on Twitter when I published it.
Anyone still having doubts about the power of Social Media? ; )

Anyway, that just make the trick useless for SEO BUT it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep on using it to advertise your website.
It still creates links to your website that Twitter users can see and visit without using a single character from the precious 140 of your status updates.

In fact, I agree with Adrian’s comment on David Naylor’s blog, it’s a right move from Twitter since whenever someone posts from tweetdeck, seesmic or any other Twitter client, they don’t endorse the client’s website. It’s just a tool they are using.
The links they endorse are the one they post in their updates which, of course, can’t be DoFollow as they would be to easy to abuse.

But I think Twitter misses a point there. They are granting “Verified Accounts” to their most popular users. Which means they know them and reckon their value for the Twitter community. So why not grant them the “DoFollow attribute” on the links they post in their updates?
Any Verified Account who would abuse the system by monetizing it would be easily identifiable and could be downgraded to a normal account.

I have to admit that the hundreds of links Ashton Kutcher posts every week may not all be worth a Dofollow but hey… no system is perfect.