Content and Marketing-Uneasy Bedfellows
Thursday June 30, 2005
I just read an article from the Internet Search Engine Database that brought up some interesting points; mainly, that if you want to really drive away customers and screw up ... Read More
To Be Linked, Or Not To Be Linked-That Is The Question
Thursday June 30, 2005
From the BBC:
"Visitors to Shakespeare's birthplace town of Stratford-upon-Avon can now get a virtual guide to show them around. A personal digital assistant (PDA), hired for £8 a day, provides ... Read More
T-Mobile and Google Team Up
Thursday June 30, 2005
This from Ynot.com:
"T-Mobile has announced it will use Google’s web search engine as the starting point for surfing the net on its mobile phones. T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom's mobile arm, is ... Read More
Yummy! Personal PDF Library
Thursday June 30, 2005
This via researchbuzz.com:
"Ten thousand thanks to LibraryPlanet for a pointer to Yummy, a PDF directory that runs on tags and is hooked into a print-on-demand service.
PDF files tend to be ... Read More
Respect - Find Out What It Means To Me
Thursday June 30, 2005
From ComputerWorld.com, I just read an interesting article that discusses a study done on the top 100 largest US companies. The study was attempting to figure out how these various ... Read More
Google Maps API
Thursday June 30, 2005
What the heck is a Google Maps API? Simply put:
"The Google Web APIs service is a beta web program that enables developers to easily find and manipulate information on the ... Read More
Multiply.com, Another Social Networking Tool
Wednesday June 29, 2005
How was I not aware of Multiply.com??? This site is similar to Yahoo My Web 2.0 and del.icio.us in that you share content, links, blogs, even audio and video ... Read More
Fun Site of the Day - Crank.net
Wednesday June 29, 2005
If you ever really want to take a look inside the minds of people who, let's say, think differently than you, than you'll want to check out Crank.net. As it ... Read More
Fake Google Headlines...or Not? Bwah hah hah!!
Wednesday June 29, 2005
GAH! This just in from Google Blogoscoped:
Google Says "Sorry" for Giant Gmail Data Leak
Google Admits Satellite Imagery "Mostly Fake"
Google Engineer Caught Artificially Slowing Down Search Results for ... Read More
Yahoo Mail Gets A Facelift
Wednesday June 29, 2005
This via InternetWeek.com:
"Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it plans to begin testing this summer the biggest overhaul ever of its web-mail service, changing the interface so it behaves more like ... Read More
Google Earth
Wednesday June 29, 2005
Google has released its splendiferous new tool, Google Earth. What is it?
"Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at ... Read More
Yahoo My Web 2.0 Beta Social Search Engine
Wednesday June 29, 2005
I learned via Flickr that Yahoo is unveiling its Social Search tool, in beta as of today. Here's some information to get you started.
What is it, exactly? Yahoo My Web ... Read More
Images, Photographs, and More
Tuesday June 28, 2005
I love looking at beautiful art on the Web, and it astounds me how creative people are. Here are just a few of the best ones I've been looking at ... Read More
Cool Site of the Day - zefrank.com
Tuesday June 28, 2005
Pick your timewaster:
Learn to Dance Properly
Look at people playing with their food
Play Matchsticks
I love, no, I lurve zefrank.com. Hundreds of fun things to do.
Related:
Find more fun stuff to do, take ... Read More
MSN Search Gets Its Game On
Tuesday June 28, 2005
This via SearchViews:
"MSN Search has added a number of new features, including the ability to search blogs as part of an upgrade that includes the addition of new ranking system, ... Read More
And Speaking of Del.icio.us....
Tuesday June 28, 2005
I came across a great way to organize your del.icio.us bookmarks today. It's a fast download and is a great way to get my starting-to-get-unwieldy mass of bookmarks organized. One ... Read More
McGruff Revisited
Tuesday June 28, 2005
Yesterday I wrote about McGruff the Crime Dog and his efforts to stop online crime. The link that was included in the New York Times article was definitely NOT the ... Read More
Del.icio.us Bookmarks
Tuesday June 28, 2005
First of all, have you checked out del.icio.us? Simply put:
"del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, ... Read More
Google Re-Unveils Personal Search
Tuesday June 28, 2005
This just in from SearchEngineWatch:
"Google has released a new version of Google Personalized Search, this time in a format intended to constantly monitor what people select from search results and ... Read More
Good Way To Organize Your Searches - Free Download
Tuesday June 28, 2005
I came across a great (free!) download at Lifehacker today. It's called the Scrapbook Firefox Extension. Simply put:
"ScrapBook saves bits of web pages with notes to your computer along with ... Read More
Take the MIT Weblog Survey
Tuesday June 28, 2005
Do you have a blog?
This survey is put together by MIT and only takes about 15 minutes. Give it a try.
Book 'Em, McGruff the Crime Dog
Monday June 27, 2005
According to the New York Times Technology section, McGruff the Crime Dog will be taking on online bad guys.
"His message has gradually broadened to included participation in neighborhood watch groups, ... Read More
Site of the Day - OddTodd.com
Monday June 27, 2005
Elf up! Wanna get a....cook-ay? How about just laugh like you've never laughed before? Then head on over to OddTodd.com, a collection of quirky, funny, and somewhat disturbing animated cartoons. ... Read More
I'm Dreaming Of A (highly successful search campaign) Christmas
Monday June 27, 2005
It's time to start thinking about Christmas already if you have a site that sells something. According to Marketer Today:
"If you've been marketing online for the past year then you're ... Read More
Cool Site of the Day - Google Satellite Maps
Monday June 27, 2005
Google now has satellite maps available of almost anywhere in the world, including Beijing, China, Cairo, Egypt, and Cannon Beach, Oregon. Make sure you put both the city and country ... Read More
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping Online, from CNet.com
Monday June 27, 2005
This just in from Cnet.com:
"The Supreme Court handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file-swapping, ruling Monday that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible ... Read More
Google to Launch Online Video Playback Today
Monday June 27, 2005
Via John Battelle's Searchblog:
"I've confirmed that Monday Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for ... Read More
Search Engines and Trivial Pursuit
Monday June 27, 2005
Apparently, search engines can't play Trivial Pursuit very well. It's probably the lack of opposable thumbs...but I digress. Michael Liedtke of BusinessWeek Online decided to conduct his own Trivial ... Read More
Microsoft Longhorn and RSS
Monday June 27, 2005
At the Gnomedex conference these last few days in Seattle, which I would have dearly loved to attend but didn't (next time!), Microsoft unveiled officially its plans to ship RSS ... Read More
The Bloglines Plumber
Sunday June 26, 2005
Just got this message when I tried to login to my Bloglines feeds:
"Hi,
I'm the Bloglines Plumber. Bloglines is having a little database problem. We'll now be back at 9 Pm ... Read More
My Name is Lyndon Johnson, and I Invented the Internet
Sunday June 26, 2005
This via Buzzmachine. Apparently, Al Gore did not actually invent the Internet, but LBJ sure had a hand in creating the atmosphere necessary for it to flower:
"I believe the time ... Read More
Computer Bowl-East Coast (whup!whup!) and the West Coast (whup!whup!)
Sunday June 26, 2005
I love me some Internet Archive. This site is great for finding stuff that people had probably wished were lost in the depths of cyberspace, including this tidbit via the ... Read More
Half Of Online Americans Use Search Engines For Shopping
Sunday June 26, 2005
Here's a good statistic from ZDNet.com:
51% of online Americans use search engines for shopping by ZDNet's ZDNet -- 51% of US online adults use search engines for shopping, according ... Read More
Site of the Day - Penguin Remixed-Get Down With Your Bad Self
Sunday June 26, 2005
If you have always had a secret longing to be a DJ, then Penguin Remixed is for you.
"We've gathered together thirty of the best spoken word samples from some ... Read More
Top Ten Search Engine Optimization Forums On The Web
Sunday June 26, 2005
Here are my Top Ten search engine optimization forums and message boards on the Web. Most of these are ones that I read on at least a daily basis. You'll ... Read More
Toothpaste for Dinner? Site of the Day
Saturday June 25, 2005
Microsoft and RSS
Saturday June 25, 2005
From SearchViews.com:
"Microsoft is expected to announce that it's expanding its support for the web publishing standard Really Simple Syndication (RSS). The extension to RSS would allow it to better support ... Read More
The Anatomy of a Search Engine and How It Affects Search Engine Optimization
Saturday June 25, 2005
Search Engine Journal has a great article by guest writer Dave Davies about the guts, so to speak, of search engines and how they can affect search engine optimization.
Basically, this ... Read More
More and More People Are Feeling Unsafe Online
Saturday June 25, 2005
According to ComputerWorld.com, more and more people are not having that perfect shopping experience online.
" Consumers are buying less online because of concerns about identity theft and security, according ... Read More
Ebay News
Saturday June 25, 2005
Just read on CNet.com about the big annual Ebay conference in San Jose, California, and it seems that a lot of power sellers (those with a certain amount of sales ... Read More
Sites of the Day-Acronyms, Lewis and Clark, and Alien Abductions
Friday June 24, 2005
There are three Sites of the Day today because I couldn't pick between them.
Acronyma.com is a search engine that only searches for acronyms and their meanings. As of today, ... Read More
Chat Rooms and Sleaze? You're Kidding Me!
Friday June 24, 2005
Apparently, chat rooms are not the bastion of righteousness that they once were. In this story from InternetWeek.com:
"In trying to provide privacy to its chat-room users, Yahoo has run up ... Read More
Technorati Live 8
Friday June 24, 2005
What is Technorati Live 8? Simply put:
"Live 8 is a series of concerts and events across the world which are being staged to highlight the problem of global poverty. It's ... Read More
I Used Google To....
Friday June 24, 2005
According to Google Blogoscoped, you can learn a lot about how people use Google by simply typing in the phrase "I used Google to". Here are my results from this ... Read More
Time.com's 50 Coolest Websites for 2005
Friday June 24, 2005
Time.com has put out their list of the 50 Coolest Websites 2005, and it makes for some interesting reading. Here are a few of my favorites:
The Museum of Online Museums. ... Read More
Babababa, etc.
Thursday June 23, 2005
If you're a songwriter and you've run out of the ordinary relationship material from which to pen your angst-ridden ditties, all you need to do is turn to the Web. ... Read More
The Internet-Find Music, Images, Nuclear Secrets, and More
Thursday June 23, 2005
There's nothing quite like accidentally file-sharing confidential nuclear information to completely sink your career and make an arse out of yourself. From Japan Today:
"A large volume of classified technical data ... Read More
A Dear John Letter With An Internet Spin
Thursday June 23, 2005
The city of Chicago apparently is just not a good place to, ahem, seek out a lady of the night. If they catch you soliciting a working girl in the ... Read More
Inflated Results? We Don't Need No Steenkin' Inflated Results!
Thursday June 23, 2005
The Search Engine Journal reports that the CEO of Technorati has a question for both Google and Yahoo:
"“Can someone from Google or Yahoo help me to understand why their reported ... Read More
Site of the Day
Thursday June 23, 2005
Probably the most impressive site I've come across for finding event information all over the world (including in my own neck of the woods), WhatsOnWhen.com is an utterly fantastic resource. ... Read More
We Promise. We're Really Not Trying to Compete With Paypal. Really. Honest.
Thursday June 23, 2005
Google "has confirmed that it is developing an online payment system, although it says it has no plans to take on EBay's PayPal service. Following media speculation about such ... Read More
A Novel Approach To Keeping Your Computer Virus-Free
Wednesday June 22, 2005
Dude! I just came up with the best, yeah, the BEST way to keep my Web surfin' fast and easy. Yeah. It's called "surfin' nekkid." See, I know that there's ... Read More
MySpace.com-Making Some Pretty Good Headway
Wednesday June 22, 2005
I learned today that Myspace.com "has surpassed both Hotmail and Google to become the fifth ranked web domain in terms of page views, according to comScore Media Metrix (source: BusinessWire)."This ... Read More
MSN Search Launches Beta Version of New Local Search
Wednesday June 22, 2005
From MediaDaily News.com, I learned that MSN Search has entered the local search competition already staffed by Google, Yahoo, and America Online.
"The service provides geographically targeted search results of businesses ... Read More
MTV.com Pays A Bundle For Neopets.com
Wednesday June 22, 2005
From the New York Times:
"The MTV Networks unit of Viacom Inc. said yesterday that it had bought the closely held Neopets Inc. for $160 million, adding the youth-oriented Web site ... Read More
Watch out for popups-security issues
Wednesday June 22, 2005
From Cnet.com:
"Several popular Web browsers contain a vulnerability that could be used by cybercriminals to steal personal data, security company Secunia has warned. The flaw would allow a phishing attack ... Read More
Another Site of the Day-AFI Movie Quotes
Wednesday June 22, 2005
Okay, yes, we have two sites of the day today. From Blogcritics.org, I got a sneak peek at the top 25 movie quotes of all time. Looking at this list ... Read More
Site of the Day-AlwaysOn and Technorati Open Media 100
Wednesday June 22, 2005
I subscribe to and read at least 70 different RSS feeds a day, and many of them are blog feeds. From AlwaysOn.com and Technorati.com, the "power list of bloggers, ... Read More
Kids and the Internet
Wednesday June 22, 2005
According to eSchool News Online, more and more preschoolers are online.
"Before they can even read, nearly one out of every four children in preschool is learning a skill that even ... Read More
Oodle.com Releases Beta Version
Wednesday June 22, 2005
Just read in Crain's New York Business News that Oodle.com has released a beta version of its new search engine tool specially targeted only towards the New York area.
"As ... Read More
AOL Search Readying New Portal Site
Wednesday June 22, 2005
From Computerworld.com, I learned that AOL Search is getting ready to release the newest version of its portal site. The main draw of this portal (at least to me) would ... Read More
Internet and Trust-Should They Go Together?
Tuesday June 21, 2005
I read an interesting article today from Cnet.com that talks about the trust and credibility dilemma that is inherent on the Web. One of the Net's biggest draws is that ... Read More
Google Map and Census Hack-Site of the Day
Tuesday June 21, 2005
I am not a programmer, other than WYSIWYG HTML editors and other such tinkering tools, so when stuff like gCensus comes along, I am wildly appreciative. The owner of this ... Read More
Google Rumor-Possible Rival with ITunes?
Tuesday June 21, 2005
There's a rumor going around the Net that I found on Scripting News that possibly, very possibly, Google might be developing a rival to Apple's ITunes. I'll report more as ... Read More
Mamma.com Releases New Tool for the Invisible Web
Tuesday June 21, 2005
Mamma.com has developed a deep web health search tool, currently in beta. It's a nice, clean search tool-no extra ads or "fluff" to clog up the results or search ... Read More
Free Video Access on CNN
Monday June 20, 2005
Just learned from Search Engine Watch that CNN is now offering free video access on their site; this fall they also intend to offer a subscription service for archived video ... Read More
Yahoo Mindset
Monday June 20, 2005
Check out Yahoo Mindset. What is it?
"A Yahoo! Research Labs demo that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! ... Read More
Yahoo Will Be Updating Index Tonight
Monday June 20, 2005
According to Yahoo's search blog, they "will be making changes to the index tonight so you should be seeing more of your pages in the index as well as some ... Read More
Interview with Blowsearch.com
Monday June 20, 2005
Read my interview with Richard Kahn, the COO of Blowsearch.com, and Joe Holcomb, the SVP of Marketing for Blowsearch.com. We discussed the Blowsearch toolbar, the secured instant messenger techology they've ... Read More
Downing Street Memo
Monday June 20, 2005
If you want to see an example of Internet word of mouth in action, read the following from BTC News:
"BTC News White House correspondent Eric Brewer, the first correspondent to ... Read More
Earthquake and Other Natural Phenomenon News
Monday June 20, 2005
With all the earthquakes lately in the state of California, I thought it would be a good idea to pull out my list of natural disaster news sites. Everything is ... Read More
Site of the Day-Gataga
Monday June 20, 2005
Gataga is a unique search engine that searches only del.icio.us, blogmarks, blinklist, jots, spurl, furl, simpy and connotea. All of these sites are either social bookmark hubs, RSS ... Read More
Father's Day-Google Style
Sunday June 19, 2005
Learn more about Google and the artist behind all these neat drawings.
RSS and Search Engine Optimization
Sunday June 19, 2005
Short for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, this handy service is revolutionizing the way we search for content, and is a prime tool for radicalizing the way we ... Read More
That's a Big Twinkie-Possible Google Shake on the Horizon?
Saturday June 18, 2005
My earlier post about how Google rates websites might have some interesting implications for a possible Google shake up coming soon. According to SelfSEO.com, Google's March 31 filing of their ... Read More
Search Engines and RSS - Can They Compete?
Saturday June 18, 2005
An interesting commentary today from particletree on the importance of RSS. The author makes an interesting point:
"n RSS feed is a blog distilled to its core essence. If you ... Read More
Most Americans Really Do Like "The Man"
Saturday June 18, 2005
Interestingly enough, while most American citizens are somewhat suspicious of the government, they really do want it to make the Internet safer. Isn't that kind of like asking the ... Read More
AOL Search Gets in the Web Portal Ring
Saturday June 18, 2005
AOL Search has decided to jump feet-first into the web portal realm mostly frequented by MSN Search and Yahoo.
AOL Search, MSN, and Yahoo...let's have a little chat, shall we?
AOL. ... Read More
Google Plans to Offer Online Payment Services
Saturday June 18, 2005
This just in from the Wall Street Journal via John Battelle's SearchBlog: Google is planning to offer an online payment service similar to Ebay's Paypal, but most likely with the ... Read More
Holy Security Breach, Batman
Saturday June 18, 2005
"Hi, Joe MasterCard Holder. Yes, this is your friendly account representative. Just wanted to let you know that your interest rate is going down and we might have had just ... Read More
Google Puts Some Oomph Into Adwords
Saturday June 18, 2005
Google Adwords will soon be able to deliver more targeted ads to users by specific sites. This enhancement is aptly named Site Targeting, and according to Google, this Site Targeting ... Read More
Google Vs. Libraries
Friday June 17, 2005
InternetWeek.com just published a very interesting article on Google and its plans to scan the contents of university libraries and make them free and accessible to the public.
"Google is digitizing ... Read More
Google and Yahoo-News Face Off for Michael Jackson Case
Friday June 17, 2005
If you were one of the literally millions that were breathlessly waiting for the verdict in the infamous Michael Jackson trial, you probably plugged into an online news source in ... Read More
Steve Jobs-"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"
Friday June 17, 2005
Found the text of Steve Jobs' commencement address to Stanford today in my crawls across the Web for interesting and educational sites, and though I'm not a huge Apple fan, ... Read More
Site of the Day-Google Advanced Operators Cheat Sheet
Friday June 17, 2005
Want to have a Google cheat sheet? Then check out our Site of the Day, Google Guide Quick Reference Cheat Sheet. The author has made this page into a nice, ... Read More
Google unveils Mobile Web Search
Friday June 17, 2005
Google has created a Mobile Web Search that will make it very easy for you to find sites created specifically for viewing on mobile technology devices. These ... Read More
New Study Reveals That A Lot Of Us Read Newspapers Online
Thursday June 16, 2005
According to a Nielsen/NetRatings study, "Nearly one-fifth of Web users who read newspapers now prefer online to offline editions.....The online edition of the New York Times Co.'s flagship paper, www.NYTimes.com, ... Read More
Yahoo and the Invisible Web Team Up
Thursday June 16, 2005
From Elinor Mills of CNet:
" Yahoo began testing a service late Wednesday that allows people to perform simultaneous searches for information contained within subscription-based Web sites.
While most search engines crawl ... Read More
Find Father's Day Gifts Using A Shopping Search Engine and Site of the Day
Thursday June 16, 2005
Father's Day is coming up this Sunday, and there's still time to find something on the Web using shopping search engines.
However, for the father who has everything, I especially appreciate ... Read More
The Louvre-Online Tours Updated
Thursday June 16, 2005
The Louvre has updated their official site to include online tours that while are nothing like the real thing, are astonishingly gorgeous anyway.
Note: This site seemed a bit buggy ... Read More
Rural India To Be Hooked Up To Internet Soon
Thursday June 16, 2005
I think that I tend to take for granted that I have this amazing resource called the Internet available to me. There are a lot of people in the world ... Read More
Download the Internet-For Free, Even
Wednesday June 15, 2005
Guess what? You can now download the Internet for free. Make sure you have a very high speed connection because I'm looking at, say, maybe about 4,000 years give or ... Read More
Interesting New Desktop/Browser Manager Tool
Wednesday June 15, 2005
There's starting to be a bit of a buzz on the Net about a new desktop manager and organizer tool called Optimal Desktop. It's getting good reviews at Tucows, Softpedia, ... Read More
How Does Google Rank Websites?
Tuesday June 14, 2005
This came across in my Bloglines feed today:
"Google have recently filed United States Patent Application 20050071741 on March 31, 2005, in which many of the search giant's secret ranking criteria ... Read More
Google Getting Ready for Web Video Search
Tuesday June 14, 2005
This just in from ZDNet:
"Google is expected to unveil a search engine for Web-only video this summer that will let people preview media clips from its Web site, CNET News.com ... Read More
Search Engine Optimization-The Basics of SEO
Tuesday June 14, 2005
In a very basic nutshell, search engine optimization, or SEO for short, is making your site and the site's individual pages visible and relevant to both search engines and search ... Read More
Find Free Clip Art-Buttons-Graphics- Icons-Images on the Web
Monday June 13, 2005
Searching for clipart is made easier with these resources. Find free clip art, graphics, buttons and icons for your Web pages with these clipart search engines and directories.
Microsoft Introduces Tabbed Browsing Toolbar
Saturday June 11, 2005
Microsoft is joining the ranks of Google and Yahoo with their updated MSN Search toolbar, which includes desktop search (the ability to search your own computer files). Additionally, this is ... Read More
Cool Sites of the Day
Friday June 10, 2005
Once again, my ongoing procrastinating of household chores and other jobs is paying off for you, my dear reader, as I'm trawling the Net for great sites that will only ... Read More
Does The Internet Have A Limit?
Thursday June 9, 2005
Folks, I'm sorry to announce that yes, the Internet has suddenly reached its last page. Who knew? My sources tell me that they "just didn't see it coming."
For ... Read More
Microsoft CEO states that Google is "a one-hit wonder"
Wednesday June 8, 2005
I am a longtime Microsoft user and fan. Right now I'm running a Windows XP system and I haven't had any problems with it. However, I'm a bit perturbed ... Read More
A Few Good SEO Blogs
Wednesday June 8, 2005
Search engine optimization blogs are a bit tough to find, but the ones that I've found and listed here are absolute treasures. I highly recommend that you put these in ... Read More
How To Request Links
Tuesday June 7, 2005
Requesting links from other site owners is sometimes a really good way to go about building your site's popularity. By sometimes, I mean that for the most part, the best ... Read More
Cool Sites of the Day on the Web
Monday June 6, 2005
The problem with being someone who reports about the Web is that there are literally soooooo many sites that I could pick for Site(s) of the Day. Seriously, lots of ... Read More
Google Launches Google Sitemaps
Friday June 3, 2005
If you have a website and you would like to have that site get noticed (and honestly, who wouldn't?) then Google's launch of Google Sitemaps is for you. As stated ... Read More
June Scavenger Hunt
Friday June 3, 2005
Test your knowledge of classic TV shows, classic literature, and classical music with June's Scavenger Hunt. All answers can be found online using search engines, search directories, or other resources. ... Read More
Search for Local Blogs
Wednesday June 1, 2005
I just read about a great blog search engine called Blogdigger that enables the user to search for blogs in their local area. This service is kind of like ... Read More