Nick W's blog
Yahoo Snag Russell Beattie
- By: Nick W - 19th Nov 2004
My first thoughts? Every Yahoo employee needs a free (or heavily subsidized) color mobile phone with unlimited internet connectivity. Yahoo would never dream of employing people and not giving them a PC with access to the internet right? Even if their job was only marginally related to being online, I'm sure the company wants their employees to be familiar with Yahoo's products and services, right? I mean, they even provide internet access kiosks in the hallways for visitors. Well, the mobile phone is the same way. Corporations need to start looking at mobiles not as a private devices or a cost-center, but as a new way to do business. Want to have the best mobile services on the planet? Get a few thousand of your own employees using mobile data on a daily basis and see what happens!
and from Zawodny:
I couldn't be more happy about this. If you don't already know, Russell is one of those folks who really, really, really seems to get this mobile stuff. He's so far ahead of almost everyone else (especially me) that I just take most of what says on my faith in his vision
I didnt know who this fella was a few weeks back but i've been reading his blog alot, and learning alot about the mobile web
Well done Russell...
BBC World Service via RSS!
- By: Nick W - 19th Nov 2004
From Ian Forresters blog:
I kid you not this is a huge project, to syndicate in over 30 different languages on one site is a worlds first and shows how creative the BBC is as an Corporation. I cant say too much about the future stages of content syndication but other formats are being considered and other options are also being considered. But at this stage all new indexes on the BBC worldservice language sites should be publishing rss. And they should be linked in the html files, using simple feed discovery.
Here's a couple of feeds you might like to get started with:
Now that is cool :-)
Internet Porn is Worse than Crack
- By: Nick W - 19th Nov 2004
Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction, according to clinicians and researchers testifying before a Senate committee Thursday.Witnesses before the Senate Commerce Committee's Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee spared no superlative in their description of the negative effects of pornography.
Sounds a bit alarmist to me. Maybe i just have a resilient nature as i manage to only visit a few well chosen sites a couple of times a week :-)
Doc Searls is Running Drupal :-)
- By: Nick W - 19th Nov 2004
Although he's running the old 4.4 version and has done virtually nothing to the standard "pushbutton" template... garage.docsearls.com
Nice to see someone with Doc's rep using my preffered CMS
Spamming for God
- By: Nick W - 19th Nov 2004
And on the eighth day, the Lord created spam
my my my.... what some folks will do to get their message across eh? Reminds me of my mate doug and his crusade to rid the world of poor quality serps - Funny how these folks would be up in arms if they got a bunch of UCE in their inbox's huh?
Story via MarketingVOX
Make RSS Feeds from MSN Queries
- By: Nick W - 19th Nov 2004
Tara has a nice link to an XMLHub tool that will generate RSS feeds out of MSN search queries, nice!
On a related note: RSS Feeds from Yahoo Advanced Search Queries
Spyware infecting ISP's? - Anyone Know?
- By: Nick W - 19th Nov 2004
See this post about spyware infecting all machines in the house including Macs - Can spyware target IP's now then?
Attitudes to TW
- By: Nick W - 18th Nov 2004
Apparently Im a Machine...
Peter points out some of the good stuff we've covered. It's kind of interesting to observe who likes to link to TW and who doesnt.
There are a few dicernable patterns out there with regard to TW opinion, could be just my over active and admittedly sometimes paranoid imagination though so i'll not expand on that :)
My favorite open opinion was doug heil in a thread that got deleted (not cos of this) over at SEW: "That place if full of BS!" ~ Doug - that's not the exact wording, but its not far off :-)
Have fun at that food and wine thing Peter, sounds cool!
2005 - Year of the Blog Buyout?
- By: Nick W - 18th Nov 2004
And if it doesnt, i'd be shocked i reckon, funny thing about blogs though is that this stuff has been available for years.. whenever you ask someone what makes blogging different they always say speed of publishing, publishing to different categories, syndication tools but that's all old hat really. I've been syndicating for god knows how long and CMS systems allow for rapid publication just as well as a blog -> look at this place..
the big thing is that blogs lower the bar is all, non-techies can get to grip with it much quicker..
Wired: Web Media Buyouts Coming? Kinda
Dont worry about that link so much though, paidcontent's paragraph is more interesting I think...
Maybe 2005 will be the year when bigger blogs get bought out by bigger media companies. I've been looking at more than a few strategic options (does not include buyout) for a year now, but bootstrapping seems to be going well for me so far ...
Anyway, the media-hack-who-hardly-know-about-media quotes Sam Whitmore, who believes that established media brands will have no choice but to adopt blog strategies -- and acquisitions will be a part of it. He predicts that by this time next year, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker and Wonkette, or Jason Calacanis, who co-founded micropublisher Weblogs, will have sold a couple of their blogs.
Play Station Portable Anyone....
- By: Nick W - 18th Nov 2004
Dear Santa.....
Official PSP Site - all in Japanese but it looks hot huh?
Link via slashdot
Santa Loves SEOWhiz and Ducks Arses
- By: Nick W - 16th Nov 2004
Dear Santa
for my christmas, i would like a Freecom USB card pro 1GB....
The Largest Digital Photo in the World
big big big! - story via slashdot
We Love SEOWhizz...
Check the profile.. - too good to be true surely? - thanks ukgimp!
Duck Butts
ducks arses on your ceiling for that "under the waves" feel - that's mental, i want some...
I must be getting old...
GooglePod as reported by Danny Sullivan: I dont even know what a damn pod is!
The Dirty Little Secrets of SEO & How Information Travels
- By: Nick W - 15th Nov 2004
I was browsing the new posts list of one of the busier seo forums this morning when a title caught my eye. The poster was asking if it were true that a certain technique/tactic got results.
It was true, but it's also one of the dirtier, more tightly held secrets out there at the moment and until then, as far as I know, had not been exposed to the masses. So im in a dillema: Do i go straight to Threadwatch and post it as the grade A information it was or...
Follow the title link above for the full post.
MarketWatch gets Shirty over Atlantis Discovery
- By: Nick W - 15th Nov 2004
The EKG Shirt
If you're worried about how much coffee you drink and how little you actually move from your desk (like me..) then this is fun: The EKG Shirt courtesy of Gizmodo
MarketWatch sold for 1/2 Billion
Now there's a nice little earner..
Atlantis Discovered! again...
The BBC report on American researchers discovering Atlantis via slashdot
American researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus.The team spent six days scanning the Mediterranean sea bed between Cyprus and Syria using sonar technology.
They believe they found evidence of massive, manmade structures beneath the ocean floor, including two straight, 2-km (1.25 mile) long walls on a hill.
They say their discoveries match accounts.
Top Firms Unite Against Spam
Cnet report that Amazon, Cisco & Microsoft are among 35 leading firms involved with an open letter calling for email verification tools.
Search Marketing Scams - Cashing in on Ignorance
- By: Nick W - 12th Nov 2004
Over the last week i've happened across three different search marketing scams. Two of them are disturbingly similar - so similar in fact that one would be forgiven for thinking they were written by the same person.
Is this the start of a Search Scam Gold Rush? I think perhaps it is. As Google and others begin to reach out to agencies and the hitherto little touched areas of search results come under increasing public notice it seems that some unwholesome search marketers are looking to cash in on ignorance. Follow the title link above for the full post.
Atom Slides on SEO Timestamp BS Bomb
- By: Nick W - 11th Nov 2004
Atom Nears Final Standard - or Does it?
Tim Bray talks about why Atom should not push more features and set the standard now. Atom is like RSS, only a bit better.
MSN Sliders
Fun / interesting discussion on the advanced search sliders on the new MSN search over at cre8
SEO is BS!
No, really it is...
Google Having Trouble with Timestamps
Google appear to be having some difficulties with the timestamps on the cached pages this wpw thread outlines the theories as to why this is happening. One members site shows a cache of 1969 lol! Not so coincidently just before the Unix epoch....
Incoming....
Time Bomb Attacks may be the next big web hazard:
"Many forms of code injection targeted at web-based applications (for instance cross-site scripting and SQL injection) rely upon the instantaneous execution of the embedded code to carry out the attack. [But] in some cases it may be possible for an attacker to inject their malicious code into a data storage area that may be executed at a later date or time". These "second-order code injection attack" involve injecting malicious code into applications where it is later retrieved, rendered and executed by the victim
Violet Crime Blog Phones MSN about Doubleclicking Round Table
- By: Nick W - 10th Nov 2004
Utra Violet & Gamma Ray Disks
Slashdot post on the various things in the works for creating large capacity disks.
Banks prepare for ATM cyber crime
Securityfocus.com piece on preventative measures from law enforcement agencies and banks on predicted cyber crimes.
Blog Monitoring Service
Mediapost report on a new blog monitoring service called blogsquirrel from CyberAlert - Im not sure why anyone would want to pay when they could use any number of blog searchengines for free, but i've ordered my free trial so I'll soon be able to tell you..
Why Are Mobile Phones so Unusable?
Frank Koehntopp of Mobitopia has an good point about mobiles, i dont even use one these days but when i have to take it, i just have no idea what to do with the damn thing!
MSN Gets a Search Blog
Well, good for them, you'd think they'd make it a little more presentable before puting it live though eh? Thanks Garry & PhilB
SearchEngine RoundTable
...gets a link on the above mentioned msn blog, congrats Barry! you lucky bugger....
Doublclick say Online Advertising Is Stabilizing
..and maturing according to a recent serving trend report.
Jumping the Gun
- By: Nick W - 10th Nov 2004
Just a quickie today, it's late and I need my beauty sleep...
I've spent the last hour playing post ping pong over the new msn with Jeremy Goodrich. I've said before that im often guilty of going to fast and that thread is a classic...
Thank St. Expedite Threadwatch and I have good friends that actually know what they're doing eh?
Hey, i've never run a news oriented site before, cut me some slack, im new ;)
Expediting Linux & Large SEO Hash for Cash
- By: Nick W - 10th Nov 2004
St Expedite - Patron Saing of Nerds
funny piece at Wired on a weird saint for hackers..
Desktop Linux Nears Primetime
Consulting Times runs a piece on how desktop linux for business might not be too far off. I've been running linux as my prime OS for about 3yrs, and havnt had windows in the house, let alone near my pc in over a year. This makes me feel special heh! heh!
SEO for Large Sites
Jim Hedger offers some basic advice for SEO's not too familiar with larger CMS'd sites
SEO Secrets Revealed
This NFFC thread has been going for month now, full of cool one liners and no small amount of both silliness and savvy.
HashCash - Stop Spam on Email, Blogs & Wikis
Slashdot report on HashCash, a system built on the SHA-1 algorithm *nix users will be familiar with. Essentially it's about making the price of entry high, in order to fool spambots of many types. Applications where it could be used include email, wikis and blogs... interestin' stuff!
Little Bloggers Konfabulate over FireFox Scare Tactics
- By: Nick W - 9th Nov 2004
Charlene Li Interviewed on Corporate Blogging
MarketWatch Piece by Frank Barnako intreviewing Forresters Charlene Li:
I think that blogging is going to take off, partly because more and more people are interested. But more than anything else, it is going to get a lot easier to read blogs thru RSS technology. These are feeds put together to push a blog's content to a person's desktop.There is one company which is going to make a huge different in this, and that is Yahoo. Even though Yahoo doesn't have blogs, they have been a leader in integrating RSS feeds into My Yahoo. Now anybody who has a blog can have that appear on someone's My Yahoo. That really is customized media.
It's Only Spam if You're a Little Guy...
landing pages from optimost - I know it's stretching the definition a bit but it does royally piss me off that if i was talking about landing pages out on the forums then i'd get shouted down as a spammer. If a big company does it, it's market research....
Konfabulator
Flashy eye candy for Win users, Gustaf Erikson comments on a blog by Russel Beattie about Konfabulator for Windows - I fear he's right about eye candy being the darling of the massess but wish he were wrong..
Google's FireFox Page
http://www.google.com/firefox - courtesy of inlogicalbearer
I do so love firefox :)
Scare Tactics in SEM Services Marketing
Shari Thurow in a clicz article.
Link development is one of the most overlooked components of a successful SEO (define) campaign.
An Experiment in Natural LInking vs SEO
- By: Nick W - 8th Nov 2004
As SEO's we think about links almost contantly. It's impossible to move on the seo fora and blog circuit without seeing a dozen or more posts or threads about something related to linking. As a natural result of operating in a link driven search landscape we may actually forget what a natural link looks like. Follow the link above for the full blog post.