links for 2006-04-28
Friday, April 28th, 2006-
Review of IA summit 2006
Archive for April, 2006
Feedburner hack
Thursday, April 27th, 2006Have you ever wonder how many subscribers a feed has? Well if it is a Feedburner feed wonder no more. Just throw the code below into any html page and replace the BlogName with the name of the feed. In some cases the results are pretty interesting 
links for 2006-04-27
Thursday, April 27th, 2006-
Classic article on web 2.0. Comprehensive eventhough lacks some ideeas
links for 2006-04-26
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006-
Now that this one is live I am waiting for the desktop app
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Simply…No Comment :))))
links for 2006-04-20
Thursday, April 20th, 2006-
Deeper integration between Gmail and Google Calendar through Greasmonkey
Google to offer paid services?
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006Recent history has thought us that Google’s policy is to buy payed services/applications (Picasa, Earth, Urchin) and than release it to the masses for free. A pointer from the Measuremap forums shows that this is going to change soon:
Multiple blogs: lots of people have asked us for the ability to track multiple blogs per account. We will likely release this in two stages: first, you’ll be able to add as many blogs as you want. Later, we will be offering some tools to help you compare the traffic between your blogs. Both of these will probably be paid features when we launch our “unlimited” version of Measure Map.
Yahoo plans for free wifi
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Yahoo plans for free wifi
Originally uploaded by Antonescu Razvan.
A friend of mine sent me this screen showing Yahoo’s intention to offer global free wifi through partners (limited to Yahoo! IM) and full wifi for a decent fee.
SEO Myths part II
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006This is a follow up to my previous 2 posts (SEO myths unveiled & Dirty SEO: a possible explanation for the AjaxWrite success) and again is based on a single case analysis.
In short the previous posts were about the fascinating quick positioning of Ajax Write in Google’s top 10 for the word Ajax due to massive linking from the blogosphere. Today, after 15 days of glory that site is flushed to the position 170 (Thanks Razvan for the data).
Possible explanations for this fall:
- Spam filter. It’s usually considered that quick burst of links in a short period of time toward one site is associated with artificial link and might lead to desqualifing that site in the SERPS.
- A smart processing engine that places sites popular in the blogosphere for a short time in high SERPs (I am inclined toward this explanation)
- Manual removal - Google denies such a thing as a general policy unless we are talking about flagrant spamming
- Sandbox - due to my experience in the past years I still consider that as a myth
OK. NOW things will get interesting because we are talking about a Google owned service: Google Calendar In only 5 days the site ranks as #5 for the word calendar with a competition of 2,420,000,000 results (in the Ajax Write’s case the number was only 146,000,000 results)
Anyone willing to start the bets? I think this result is going to stay there and there is no single argument in Google materials for webmasters that a site can behave like that in SERPs
EDIT:
As some didn’t got it why I find this to be absurd check this out:
Sites’ positions in our search results are determined automatically based on a number of factors, which are explained in more detail at http://www.google.com/technology/index.html. We don’t manually assign keywords to sites, nor do we manipulate the ranking of any site in our search results.
So it is obvious that Google has a REAL problem with double standards
links for 2006-04-14
Friday, April 14th, 2006-
Nice analysis of Web 2.0 Design. Been looking for smthg like that for a while
links for 2006-04-11
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006-
An unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a “who’s who” of military and beltway insiders.
