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Hey, thanks for the identity theft, Verizon Wireless

Posted on September 21, 2009
So, today, I get this email from Verizon Wireless about their privacy policies for their wireless customers. At first I thought the email was spam because I haven not been a Verizon Wireless customer for OVER 2 years. I imagine my shock when I see my old Vermont cell phone number on the email...

Cuil referrer info (just because you like it)

Posted on July 28, 2008
Because of the hoopla around cuil today, I thought I’d take a peek at this newest search engine’s referrers. Cuil crawler info. I know I’ve been seeing this bot for the past year or so. Cuil’s crawler is apparently called twiceler (is that a pun?) and the user agent string uses cuill...

Rogue SEO spells out oh so not awesome

Posted on July 06, 2008
So earlier today I was doing some catching up on Google Alerts for some domains that I manage. And I kept on finding pages that look like the one below - same formatting, even. When I first noticed these pages the middle of last week, I took them for a stupidly overzealous SEO who was [...

Don?t like Shyftr? Block the IP.

Posted on April 12, 2008
This past weekend there’s been a conversation about Shyftr a new RSS service that allows people to read and comment on full text stories on the Shyftr site, rather making the reader click through to the originating blog to comment. The thought is that folks who care about pageviews for advertising will lose out [...

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6 steps to optimize (and make money on) your Web site - Title Tags

Posted on February 02, 2008
As a real life, in the trenches Web Marketer/Web Designer, I am often asked questions about Web site optimization. This is a subject I think about because the focus of my work is to create Web sites that drive traffic, increase conversions and, of course, make money...

Some real people feedback about bookmarklets?

Posted on January 20, 2008
On the MSNBC developer blog, the question was posed How do you share?. Not in the grade school way, but in the newfangled Web 2.0 way. Overall, the comments from MSNBC readers were pretty… negative. Aside from the “I’ll just paste the link I want to share in an email” or the “I’ll just add [...

Apple TV

Posted on January 18, 2008
For those of you with Apple TV, do you like it? I’m thinking of springing for it, seeing as the idea of downloading movies and watching them on my (nearly outdated last of the mohicans CRT TV) does appeal to me. I don’t watch broadcast TV, I don’t have on-demand anything nor do I Netflix...

Brute force SEO: NY Times using keyword tagging in the page title tag

Posted on January 06, 2008
Building upon a discussion elsewhere on the Web, here’s some brute force SEO for you. Apparently, the NY Times is inserting tagging in the page META title tag, in the instances where it seems that article headlines lack sufficient keywords. Normally, the Times just carries the article’s headline into the page META title tag...

Guy loses his domain due to a Gmail exploit

Posted on December 29, 2007
Had anyone else read this story of David Airey’s domains being stolen from him because of a Gmail exploit? Both of David’s domains have been subsequently restored, thanks to the publicity he received this week. Technorati Tags: Gmail, Gmail filters, exploit, cracked, domain stealing

Netscape Navigator End of Lifed, The Rest of Us Get A Little Nostalgic

Posted on December 28, 2007
Let’s all take a moment and remember the good old days of the Internet in the 1990s … the Netscape Web browser is being end of lifed as of Feb 2008. If you didn’t catch Code Rush, a documentary on Netscape which was shown on PBS in 2000, I highly recommend you do so...

SWSE - Semantic Web Search Engine

Posted on December 23, 2007
This particular crawler is being deployed from the Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE) project, which is attempting to crawl the nascent Semantic Web, including RSS and FOAF data. This is yet another reason why deploying RSS is a good idea for any Web presence...

MSN Live Search - New activity

Posted on December 17, 2007
Has anyone else seen some different activity coming from MSN? What I mean is that I’m seeing the following entries in my search logs, but it doesn’t appear like traditional MSNBot crawler behavior. Why this activity is different: 1) The originating IP address is from the MSN netblock...

Radian6 monitors you!

Posted on December 16, 2007
New crawler in my logs from an outfit called Radian6. From the Web site, they look to be a social media monitoring service for the Google Alerts challenged, I guess much in the same way as those other pre-existing social media monitoring services. Host: 142...

Hack Yahoo Fantasy Football

Posted on December 10, 2007
Heh. If you happen to Google hack yahoo fantasy football we get a SERP that, well Google isn’t quite sure what to display on the SERP. Cleverhack is currently showing as #3 on the SERP, but with no related text. I’ve never seen a SERP quite like this one before...

Feed Each Other

Posted on December 09, 2007
Feed Each Other is yet another online feed reader released in late September. According to one of the developers behind it, the difference between Feed Each Other and other online feed services is that Feed Each Other lets you harness the power of your network of friends and colleagues to help you filter and explore [...

Email Deliverability - trends for the end of 2007

Posted on December 08, 2007
Two trends I’ve run across recently in the email deliverability world. First, and this is for you designers who have to work on HTML email campaigns, the Email Standards Project. Because, let’s face it, the need to use old school HTML 4 for compatibility with current email clients makes baby jesus cry...

YouTube spamming

Posted on December 07, 2007
I was browsing YouTube tonight for that baby got back wedding dance video, which is actually quite hilarious if you haven’t seen it yet. Anyway, there I was searching (view search results) and as you can see, that same video was posted multiple times by multiple people...