Archive for February, 2007
Monday, February 26th, 2007
It looks like Google has started a new (as far as I know) experiment. Results from Youtube and Google have the attached video that can be seen in the SERPs by using the show video link.
This thing I saw it just once in Firefox and couldn’t replicate it again, neither in FF and neoither in IE7.
For details see attached screenshot

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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Performancing metrics might return for free to the general public.
New York,NY — February 14th,2007 — SplashPress Media, owner of numerous sites including The Blog Herald, one of the oldest sites on the internet covering blogging news and new media, has announced it is acquiring the core assets of Performancing.com including the bloggers’ community and Performancing Metrics.
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Loren Baker has a nice (even though common sense) link/digg bait list about how bad nofollow tag sucks. And they conclude that sucks. And it sucks very bad. And it sucks even in blog comments (imagine the horror):
1. NoFollow = NoWorky. Using NoFollow in blog comments, the original intent of the tag, does nothing to discourage comment spammers. Using other anti-spamming tools such as question, math and plugins such as Akismet and SpamKarma for Wordpress is much more effective.
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8. Commenting on a blog post is the same as adding more relevant to that blog post. A thought provoking one sentence post can lead to pages of comments. If someone takes the time to help build your site’s content via posting comments, it is professional courtesy to give them some link love.
But this is just another don’t practice what you preach article as they still have nofollow tags for thei blog comments.
Not anymore. Nice job and a good example (hopefully) for the others
P.S. I am still using it cause I am too lazy to remove them. But I will. I promise. I’ll stop procrastinating right now and install DoFollow
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
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a free tool which allows you to create an account, add as many websites to it as you want, and then provides you with real time information about each site, including Page Rank and Alexa ranking.
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
January 2006:
Yahoo! Go Desktop
Yahoo! Go Desktop is a suite of applications that will make it easy for consumers to keep up-to-date on and interact with their world of information. Consumers will be able to use the individual Yahoo! Go Desktop services to connect to the information that matters to them online, but without having to open a browser window on their personal computer.
The initial services available as part of Yahoo! Go Desktop will be the Yahoo! Widgets Engine and a Yahoo! Go Desktop dashboard. The Yahoo! Go Desktop dashboard will connect consumers’ personal content to their services and their Internet community. For example, consumers will be able to link their personal contacts to Yahoo! Local, which will make it easy for them to update their address book with their favorite local businesses.
(Yahoo! Press Release)
One year later:
- The whole Yahoo! Go concept has been reduced only to mobile (link)
- Yahoo! Go Desktop is now officialy just the old, plain, boring and pointless Konfabulator (link)
Well…after I stoped believing in fairy tales, I need to stop believing all the fake demos made at CES using probably some flash movies and not real applications.
YOU BASTARDS!

EDIT: In a strange coincidence (
), Guillaume asked himself the same questions and also got some official answers
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
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Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser, and from this screenshot, you can infer several things: unlike Netscape 8, Netscape 9 will contain more standardized support for newsfeeds (a.k.a. Live Bookmarks); it will also have tight integration with the Netsc
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
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Backlink Watch shows you the anchor text and PageRank of inbound links for free.
Jim Boykin’s top 10 analysis tool shows how your link profile compares with the link profiles of the top 10 ranked sites.
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
For the past 2 months I noticed that Google Analytics, at least weekly if not daily is missing traffic data for a few hours. This is getting very annoying especially with the death of Performancing Metrics and the lack of usability on Feedburner Statistics.
Does anyone else know a good (and free) blog analytics solution?
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