Man Starts Site To Find Girl Of His Dreams
A story of a man who saw the girl of his dreams on a crowded subway train got the attention of New Yorkers this week.
Is SEO a Job or an Addiction?
I was chatting with one of my clients today and he was noting how their site has been holding steady for a while in the top five and how he’s now nervous about updates.
MDG Monitor Goes Into Google Earth
Last week, Google partnered with the United Nations in an effort to end global poverty. It was truly startling to see the two entities together, and all the better since they had such a laudable goal. The partnership may not have been too effective, though, and Google’s done something about that.
World Usability Day
Yesterday at Michigan State University, a group of like-minded designers and developers gathered at World Usability Day 2007 to discuss how to make software and web applications better for users.
Web usability as a serious issue that is ignored more often that not, and results in the web being plagued with horribly designed sites and applications. There are too many bad websites and web applications out there, and more are being created every day, because of the lack of focus on usability.
Security Around the Gphone & Iphone
With the open handset alliance, the scrutiny for Linux based cell phone operating systems is once again something that security engineers need to think about.
BlogWorld: Cult Of Blogging, Minus Two Members
In a session called “The Cult of Blogging,” the sect turned out to be a little smaller than expected; out of three scheduled speakers, only one managed to show up.
Om Malik gets a pass – the poor fellow apparently threw his back out – but Michael Arrington simply forgot to come, leaving us with Leo Laporte and surprise guest Justine Ezarik.
Random Musings from BlogWorld
Yesterday saw the real first day of BlogWorld–the previous day was an extra entrepreneur and corporate day–and 1500 bloggers descended on the Las Vegas convention center. Despite a few teething problems–poor audio at the keynote, not enough session moderators, and few microphones for audience questions–the conference was a success.
Live Blogging the Personal Branding Summit
This is a great sign. Today there is a very unique event happening throughout the day – the Personal Branding Summit is a telesummit of some top speakers all talking about the topic of personal branding.
Users Trust Information On Social Networks
Over 36 percent of Internet users "highly trust" the information they receive from friends in their online social networks, according to a new social Internet survey from Faves.com
BlogWorld: Future Of New Media Includes Audio
A lot of the blogs you’ll see are all text; there are also plenty featuring only video. But according to Leo Laporte, a sweet spot exists around the concept of podcasting.