Google is Armed
Ionut found a remarkable bit in a Google PDF titled “Comprehensive review of security and vulnerability protections for Google Apps.” This is from the part on “Physical Security”:
CIPR: Social Media Guidelines
Last November, the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) issued a call to action to the PR community inviting comment on a discussion paper about the opportunities and risks social media present in public relations practice.
The CIPR’s plan was to incorporate it into the association’s code of conduct for members, following the public consultation.
Google Research: Conference and Hard Drives
The Google Research blog has announced they will be holding a conference on scalable systems on June 23 in Seattle. They’re soliciting speakers and offering free food, all in an effort to spread knowledge about systems that scale in order to handle big jobs for huge amounts of people.
Checking Your Navigation
If you’re like most companies, you spend a lot of time obsessing over your home page, but maybe not enough time on your destination pages. As a proponent of doing things wrong quickly, I don’t recommend spending hours on each page trying to make it perfect. So, instead, what’s a quick way to check out the information architecture of those pages?
Using Paid SEO Tools instead of Free Ones
If you take a step back and look at it, the SEO industry is rather odd. SEO experts who are paid thousands of dollars by companies will also freely share tips, tricks, principles, pricing structures, and SEO advice.
Get Your Prospects to Read What You Want Them to
This is actually a great trick to get people reading exactly what you want them to notice the most in your web copy, literature, brochure, proposal, etc.
People are too busy today to read every word of what you say (especially if they are being sold). If you overdo this little “highlight trick” … it won’t work!
Here is how it work. ………. You highlight it for them. Simple enough?
This can work on your website as well as in your direct mail copy. All you have to say is the following;
Gord’s Caffeine-Fueled Vision of the Future
This week, for some reason (largely to do with thinking I could still handle caffeine and being horribly wrong), a number of pieces fell into place for me when it came to looking at how we might interact with computers and the Internet in the future.
301 Redirects Resolve in 2 Weeks in Google
A thread over in the Google Webmaster Groups talks about the Google Sandbox, and about 301 redirects. In this thread, Adam Lasnik jumps in and sets some expectations on the handling of 301 redirects, and also does some myth breaking. Here is what Adam has to say:
Will Joost Live Up to the Hype?
Lots of promise, the hype is there, will it make it, and what will the impacts on the corporate network be?
The folks who brought you Kazaa, and then Skype are taking a long hard look at IPTV, and will most likely shape how that media channel will look for the next 4 or 5 years. I have applied for a Joost beta key, but have yet to get one (so hint, if anyone has a joost beta key that they don’t want, let me know, no its not worth money to me).
Google Apps and Risk Management
Risk management is a huge portion of information security; we gauge risk and in many cases accept risk because we can’t build a ROI on the technology or issue.
However, Google Desktop Applications, or Google Apps is a risky decision to be making, small company or big company it does not matter, it’s a risk, and here are the risks involved.