Web Development Offshoring Challenges
I had a conversation with a client in which he told me about his frustrations trying to get quality web development done overseas.
Adversarial Indexing
I told a client today about a phenomenon known as “adversarial indexing.” Actually, I said it was “known as adversarial indexing” or that “information retrieval scientists call it adversarial indexing,” when I should have said “information retrieval scientists call it something like adversarial indexing.”
Should You Go Niche?
Faced with the massive amount of competition among anything even remotely general online, it’s no wonder why most SEO consultants (including SEO super stars like Aaron Wall) routinely regurgitate the conventional marketing wisdom of go niche.
In fact, lately website owners are taking this to a new level and going extremely niche, creating massive websites to target an extremely narrow subject.
Refactoring Your ASP.NET Project
One day at work i was refactoring my code as I do everyday, when it suddenly hit me that our ASP.NET projects were also refactored in a sense.
Skype Consolidation
Skype went through another “reorganization” this week, and some people are starting to get nervous. The company, which was acquired by eBay in September of 2005, has lost (or gotten rid of) a number of employees recently, and because of this latest restructuring, there are “14 who are leaving or who have yet to find another job at Skype or another eBay company.”
A Social News Site You Can Trust?
With all the social news sites out there do we really need another one? Don’t answer that question yet. What if there was a site that was different than Digg and Reddit? A site that did not rank stories based on popularity but on journalistic standards.
Schmidt: Internet Will Determine Next Election
The most recent round of elections had a lot of people thinking about the Internet’s role in politics. Most onlookers agree that it is becoming increasingly important; Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, believes that politicians must adapt. “The ones that take advantage of this most effectively will be the ones that will be the winners of the next election,” he said.
Google Aids Visually Impaired Searching
Google enhances features of its search engine to accommodate visually impaired user queries.
The Consumer Equalizer: eCommerce Blogging
With blog posts focusing on companies and their quality of service or lack thereof, what can you do to make sure you know how to handle negative posts about your company on blogs?
How does this help the consumer, and ultimately, companies? Can companies learn crisis management when situations flare up?
Let’s begin with the first question.
Yahoo Tells Google To Stuff Its Subpoena
As part of its legal fight against publisher and author groups suing it over its book-scanning practices, Google sent subpoenas to Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Yahoo to gather information about their participation in similar book-archiving operations.