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Monday, June 4th, 2007I’m at SMX in Seattle this week, experiencing the magic of the Seattle weather and the oddities of my laptop’s battery. A few things I will expound on during my free time later:
why this conference’s food is currently winning the ‘conference prize’ for the recent past, excepting that of the MIMA Summit
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Paul Jahn: Still Funk King of Minneapolis
Friday, April 20th, 2007Paul Jahn is funk king of Minneapolis.
New Prominence for Google Notebook?
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention, but when did Google start showing ‘Note This?’ links in search results for signed-in users?
I know Notebook launched in April 2006, but I can’t recall having seen this show up like this prior to now:
Is this another collaborative filter-Web 2.0-data collection manuever? Or is it just a ‘hey, [...]
Updating Local Data for Search
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007During a presentation to members of the marketing team at work yesterday, one question kept coming out from account managers and marketers about creating Google Local/Yahoo Local/Live Local listings, and correcting them when they’re pulling from bad data:
Why aren’t we doing this FOR clients?
In some ways, some of the elements of setting up for local [...]
Nostalgia: Web 2.0 is the Old Web
Monday, March 5th, 2007Every so often, I get nostalgic for Days Of Olde(tm) and the early days of the Web. Those magical days when the Web was all Webrings (invariably of people’s D-n-D characters), lists of CDs, and pictures of people’s cats. On GeoCities.
Then I consider several things:
In 1996, I wanted to move from Chicago to Minneapolis. I [...]
NoFollow Tags
Sunday, March 4th, 2007What with recent hullabaloo about nofollow links following some comments from Google’s Adam Lasnik, I was thinking about how often nofollow isn’t used but should be.
Everyone always talks about the tag in the sense of paid links versus editorial links that Google should count as ‘votes.’ But its when you start talking with a loaded [...]
