At Pubcon 2009, NVI had a chance to catch up with Jim Boykin of We Build Pages. Jim is known as one of the best link builders in the world, but what’s on his mind these days is Google Caffeine. Jim stopped to chat with us about his first impressions of Google Caffeine, how it might change SEO, and how social media and news seem to play an increasingly important role in its SERPs.

One the last people we caught up with at SMX East 2009 was Brent Csutoras. He’s an internet marketing consultant who specializes in social media, viral linkbait, and SEM,,Brent was also a panelist for a session called “Social Media, Search, and Reputation Management.” So when we sat down to chat, I asked him about what it was in search that’s caught his attention lately, and what business could do better to manage their online reputation.

We caught up with Tamar Weinberg at SMX East 2009. In addition to blogging at Techipedia.com, Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. She was nice enough to spend a few minutes with us to discuss where the social web and SEM intersect, and how brands should be approaching the two.