I just had to share this achievement by Mike Masnick as he might not see it himself.
The Techmeme page updates extrememly frequently pulling in stories algorithmically with some additional human curation but I have never seen one writer with a lead story and 2 additional reference posts without any additional “noise”, unless you count the larger child branch below. He has one post in that child branch as well.
Read more on Tech Blogging Triple Rainbow…
As the Alpha of One True Fan currently stands it is just a fun game – a little like Foursquare where you can become the “One True Fan” of websites based upon a number of factors. I say that having never used Foursquare or any kind of location based social network. For me locations are the web pages I visit :)
Read more on One True Fan – Next Generation MyBlogLog Empowers Marketers…
It has been announced today that 30M (million) live spaces blogs will soon be migrated over to WordPress.com in a “partnership” between Microsoft (MSFT) and Automattic.
Microsoft is dumping these blogs anyway, and maybe gaining some other value from giving 30M users to Automattic.
Read more on Microsoft Live Spaces Selling Out To WordPress.com – Not Outsourcing…
The Deep Link Engine WordPress plugin was released back in March as part of the launch for a product “Auto Content Cash” by Brian G Johnson, Jared Croslow and Alex Goad.
Read more on WordPress SEO – Deep Link Engine Spam…
A serious problem – I have 2800 “Zombies” that haven’t been fed for 11 days – they like eating my brains.. or the product of my brain, yet can’t get their daily dose.
Read more on 2800 Social Media Zombies Need Feeding On Friendfeed…
Yahoo are today presenting the future of their product lineup and espcially how their search engine will differentiate from Bing… once they are using Bing data everywhere.
But that is just for users… how about website owners, developers and SEOs?
Read more on Yahoo For SEO – Search Monkey Lives On…
Special Update: Google Edition
What motivates people to link to other people? Listed are some of the reasons people might have for linking to you, and I am sure, some of the reasons you might link to other people.
Read more on Top 32 33 Forms of Linking Payola…
I’m either a total idiot or a raving lunatic or both.
I can’t even pinpoint within my data as to when this foolish or unfortunate incident occured because well… just look at the data.
Read more on How I Kicked Myself Out Of Google Blogsearch For Months or Years…
For some reason this keeps cropping up, and I thought I would write a small informative guide.
I know one major web 2.0 property that recently added rel=”dofollow” to links, and there is a massive site doing 40M+ visitors a month which last time I looked was using rel=”noindex”.
Read more on WTF are rel=”dofollow” & rel=”noindex”…
Then the way Google worded this might be of interest.
Read more on If You Happened To Want To Sell Links…
To be frank, 2009 for me was the worst hosting nightmare I have ever had. The whole year.
My hosting problems were dragging me down… they had an acute effect on the quality of my life.
Read more on Storm On Demand Review & $75 Coupon (Expiration Date: 10/15/2010)…
Having criticized the new retweet or “tweet” button that Twitter have introduced, lets see if we can make it better.
This mainly covers WordPress – if you are on another platform, find a geek that uses it to try to do the equivalent, but I doubt this is possible on Blogger.
Read more on How To Create a Better Tweet Button (+WP Shortcode)…
The Twitter retweet code places a link to Twitter on every page you include it, and they didn’t add a nofollow to the link. It is quite possible Google will decide to ignore all these links in the future, especially as it is effectively hidden and not a “vote” for a particular page. The destination of the link doesn’t show similar information to what is in the button.
Read more on 7 Reasons Not To Use The New Tweet Buttons…
The sales page for Thesis no longer mentions footer links though the license agreement isn’t available in public.
The sales page for Headway still requires attribution, subject to the license agreement – but the Headway Theme license agreement is available for public viewing.
Read more on I Create, Distribute & Disseminate Cracked Software (updated 28/7/10)…
I was actually quite supportive of John Reese’s Blogrush experiment. It was spammed to death, the quality of the network went downhill rapidly, people clicked the adverts a lot less, and the targeting system was a bit of a longshot.
Read more on ExitFire – Is Exit Fire A Pending Blogrush Disaster?…
I have long been a supporter of MyBlogLog and in many ways it was the many articles I wrote about how they could improve their site that led me to doing some limited consulting with Blogcatalog.
Read more on MyBlogLog R.I.P Long Live Blogcatalog…
Blogger (Google) and Amazon it seems have collaborated and introduced a way for people using Blogger to monetize their blogs using Amazon.
I wonder if Google is making some money as a 2-tier affilaite referring so many affiliates to Amazon
Read more on Warning: Amazon Blogger Integration Broken…
I think Google have got their priorities wrong with Real Time search, though I haven’t seen this on other “ego search” terms. I checked with Danny Sullivan and Michael Arrington to start with.
Read more on Google Real Time Search Too Personal?…
CAPTCHA Adverts As Part Of Your Sales Funnel & That Patent Thing
The website real estate around forms is both highly valuable and rarely used effectively.
But when I see the tech media oohing about a 3rd Party captcha service that uses ads, I feel I can add something to the discussion.
Read more on CAPTCHA Adverts As Part Of Your Sales Funnel & That Patent Thing…