Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
On a post from Techcrunch regarding some meta search engine Jeremy Zawodny says the following:
So now a spammer (err, I mean “SEO”) can get money from a search engine by being in the top 10 even if they’re never clicked on.
Comment no. 15
Ok, Jeremy has a very unusual sense of humor and saying things in the face and I LIKE that but putting an equal sign between SEO and spam is quite …not a thing to do. I know that there are suckers outhere spamming blogs and screwing up results (and yes I am no stranger from the black arts) but not always SEO=spam. Proper page formatting, proper site structures, legit sites submissions and tweaking, keyword research, web analytics and so on do not equal spam.
And I think that this dangerous association was started/promoted by Matt Cutts with his posts (miss)labeled “SEO Mistakes“. If a Google engineer thinks that SEO is nothing more than spam and the “mistake” is being caught then this SUCKS big time.
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Sunday, December 18th, 2005
Microsoft Office 12 Beta mailing list just announced a list of blogs written by Microsoft Program Managers:
Why this release is so cool? Here is what Paul Thurrott has to say on it:
Making a bold move–rather than “painting the pig” as they had with previous versions–Microsoft elected to dramatically change the Office user interface for the first time ever. It seems the menu and toolbar-based interface had become obsolete somewhere along the way.
Don’t forget to check the screenshots galleries also.
Update:
To make it easier for you tro subscribe to the blogs above I have created an OPML file conatiuning them. Use this link or point your aggregator to http://razvan-antonescu.info/office.xml
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Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Fresh from the Google labs come out 2 new Firefox extensions:
- Google Safe Browsing for Firefox
Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences. This type of attack, known as phishing or spoofing, is becoming more sophisticated, widespread and dangerous. That’s why it’s important to browse safely with Google Safe Browsing. By combining advanced algorithms with reports about misleading pages from a number of sources, Safe Browsing is often able to automatically warn you when you encounter a page that’s trying to trick you into disclosing personal information.
- Blogger Web Comments for Firefox
Blogger Web Comments for Firefox is an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you’re viewing in Firefox and even make your own blog post about it, all without leaving the page you’re on.
Blogger Web Comments seems like a fun and usefull tool. It also has an “Add Comment” option wich unfortunately works only if you have a blogger account. I just hope that Technorati comes up with a similar extension with a more flexible blogging functionality (allowing multiple blogging platforms)
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
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Mouse hovers examples and details
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Great blog on interface design and information. Hurry to grab the feed
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Article on page footer design. See the page itself for a great example
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Both Google News and Yahoo News are theoretically free of splogs due to manually check of any source (at least in the approval stage). Unfortunately it seems that both news channels started to put a greater accent on quantity instead of quality.
A few moths ago I have used Google News and email alerts for certain keywords but I have gave up due to the great amount of duplicate news created by splogs allowed in the system. One site in particular it was the most annoying. I am talking about addict3d that even for a blind brain dead person looks like a splog but unfortunately not for quality checkers at Google.
Today, to my surprise Yahoo News sent me a IM alert from the same .02 website.
Why this sucks? Well…for the following reasons:
1. Real news producers are left out and don’t receive the deserved traffic
2. It shows a lack of interest from the news channels
3. It makes people gave up on service that it might be useful, and in turn news channels will quit developing further
4. It just SUCKS
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Monday, December 12th, 2005
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Originally founded in 2003 as the Interaction Design Group (IxDG), the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) was incorporated as a non-profit, member-supported organization in September 2005.
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The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments or the web.
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This website features the beginnings of a free, open-content, peer-reviewed Encyclopedia covering terms from the disciplines of Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, and related f
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
Due to massive amount of trackback spam I am taking it off.
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
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