Scaling a Tag Cloud
Like many of you I’m using tag clouds (or related navigation concepts) on a couple of sites, like CoverBrowser.com.
Sometimes I run into the problem of scaling the cloud, when the page is about to get too large and complicated to serve as an overview.
YouTube Goes Retro With Banner Ads And Pop-Ups
When Google bought YouTube, the second question people asked (after "what about the copyright nightmare?) was about how Google planned to introduce advertising into a pure video vacuum. YouTubers have never been keen on being sold anything, not even Paris Hilton.
From XP to Vista
Installing a new operating system on your PC isn’t a task you undertake lightly, especially when the operating system you want to install is substantially advanced and, well, different to the one you’ve been used to for some years.
Anna Nicole BabyDaddy Drama A Good SEO Lesson
The Anna Nicole Smith drama is about to go into its third act as a Bahamian court reveals DNA test result showing that Larry Birkhead is the father of Dannielynn. There’s a reason I told you that on this e-business site: when it comes to traffic, timing is essential.
It’s not a cheap trick if you have legitimate reasons for covering something, right? Regardless of the sketchy ethics, part of search marketing and optimization involves following the trends and being able to predict future trends, as related to your subject matter.
Online Car Research Picks Up Speed
If you’re going to do some car research, odds are good that you’ll be doing it online. A new study indicates that consumers are turning to the web more than ever – and they’re turning, more specifically, to manufacturers’ websites. “Offline” resources, by comparison, seem to be dwindling in terms of importance.
Making The Most Of Your Blog
Blogging has transcended beyond the trendy platform that all the emo kids embraced as the new medium to publicize their fits of melancholy self-talk. Now, the practice has evolved into one of the most powerful vehicles for public information and discussion that the age of modern communication has ever known.
MySpace Moves Into The Trailer Park
Social networking site MySpace has gone Hollywood with their launch of MySpace Trailer Park, a video community that will feature theatrical trailers for film releases.
MySpace Trailer Park is a partnership with Lionsgate independent film studio.
"We expect millions of Americans will come to Trailer Park to check out the industry’s best movie trailers," said Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace.
Google Buys Stake In Maxthon
TechCrunch has broken the story that Google has bought a $1 million dollar stake in the Chinese/Israeli owned Maxthon browser.
The move could represent a significant drop in traffic for Baidu, which is currently the largest search engine in China in terms of market share and Google’s primary competition within the country.
According to some report, Maxthon could account for as much as 25% of Baidu’s overall traffic.
Blogcatalog vs Technorati?
As most of my readers are no doubt aware, I am a strong supporter of sharing the link love, but I always advocate sharing it in a focused manner, preferably from relevant content or from comments and trackbacks. If you trackback/pingback this blog you receive a reciprocal link between highly relevant content automatically, and not only Google and other major search engines count the links as relevant, but also blogging search engines such as Technorati, though with Technorati it is best to do it on a more recent post.
If you want to share the love from your blog, I compiled an extensive list of "dofollow" and "nofollow" resources covering major platforms such as Wordpress (on your own domain), blogger and Drupal. It is also possible on Typepad, and Dawud Miracle and Karen have been discussing ways to present the complicated procedure to remove nofollow on Typepad. Hopefully I will be able to link to a solution soon.
Stopping WordPress Comment Spam
I am now averaging over 100 spam emails every day in my Akismet spam trap. So, thank you Akismet.
But being a conscientious kind of guy, I want to make sure a “false positive” hasn’t got quarantined, so I like to go through the spam comments before deleting them, just to be sure.