Hosting has always been a little bit of a dog eat dog industry, but with CDNs it gets a little more complicated because you are paying for a specifc quantity of a specific resource… bandwidth.
Read more on SimpleCDN – Being Killed By CDN Competitors (VPS.NET)?…
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…
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…
A google engineer playing games with data is a bad thing.
It is bad when it happens with communications, especially when kids are involved.
It is bad when it might be used for competitive reasons such as Adwords data that was eventually settled.
Read more on Google Data Tied Together – Get On Your Tin Foil Hat…
Lots of rash statements get written by new media types after a press conference by Google, as an attempt to grab attention or to validate their business model by detrimenting that of others.
I am glad Matt Cutts, Marissa Mayer and many other Googlers have been fairly quick to defend the continued need for some kind of Search Engine Optimization, because ultimately a lot of what is SEO helps Google index content and find relevance.
Read more on Keystroke Optimization For Google Instant…
The IAB in the UK is reporting that from 1st March 2011 the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) will now have its coverage extended to include additional forms of online marketing and communication.
Read more on ASA To Oversee UK Websites & Social Media…
Digg is a community of millions of users but it only takes a few hundred to stage a significant protest – a few thousand active diggers working in a coordinated manner and Digg might have to rethink their current plans… after a year+ of development.
Read more on Reddit.com Hostile Takeover of Digg.com #diggrevolt…
The FTC doesn’t like fake testimonials – they can also get you in trouble in the UK.
I have covered disclosure in blog posts extensively but fake testimonials just irks me.
Read more on You Too Can Debase Yourself Or Your Business For A Fiver…
This is just a quick look at basic SEO factors and how Digg screwed them up.
I am a SEO geek – if there were 140 characters on Twitter that have meaning – I might want to be able to find it, or help other people to find it.
Read more on Topsy Search & Twitter Backups…
