WordPress.org Bullying Open Source Developers

WordPress.org has long been against themes that haven't been licensed under the GPL.

Disavow Tool Works?

I am a large scale sceptic. It's not clear that the disavow tool was the actual cause of the penalty being lifted if you look at the timeline. He did a lot of other work. 

How Voice Search May (Might) Influence Local Search

Alexis Gui talks about the Impact

Consumer Reviews Most Powerful Purchase Influence

"According to a just released study from Weber Shandwick with KRC Research, 65% of potential consumer electronics purchasers are inspired by a consumer review to select a brand that had not been pa

Nominet Sue Registrar for Defamation

Nominet, the controllers and registry of the .UK domain name are suing a registrar for defamation. The content in question can be found at Avoid.co.uk.

Facebook's Privacy Issues run amok

A Crofter small holding in the outer Hebrides looks more appealling day by day...

Google building a massive new HQ in London.

Google are moving from Victoria to Kings Cross... buying up 2.4 ACRES of land in the heart of London.

Facebook "Graph Search", well, sucks

CNN has published an interesting review of the newish Facebook Search Graph feature listing som

Competing is silly; Larry Page prefers "moon shooting" projects

The day after Facebook says they are going to compete with Google in search, Google's co-founder

How I Would Build a Link Network

I keep getting approached by people that are looking to buy links.  Some of them understand the risks & rewards but most people tend to be stupid/ignorant people but I digress.  All o

How long would it take to remove your traces from Google?

There's an interesting story (tweeted by @fantomaster) on how

The New face of "Find" - Google -v- Facebook -v- Amazon -v- ???

So here we are, watching the clocks tick away to Facebook's mega announcement.

Facebook's New Search Engine Will Rival Google

The tech press has been wild with speculation this last week of an imminent "big" launch by Facebook. Will it be a new ad platform, a smart phone or a search engine?

How to lead and cut through the crap

Excellent NY Times interview with a guy I've never heard of on how to lead in business.

Quiet?

So what's the word?

Are we back or not? is fantomaster here?

Remove all Profiles Links and Benefits

May I suggest you remove all profile links and-in message links. They are not needed.

Then maybe consider banning all new signups without recommendation for a few weeks.

Interesting video on knowledge base

and the way it's built. Snagged this video link (http://youtu.be/5lCSDOuqv1A) from Bill Slawski's post yesterday: http://www.seobythesea.com/2013/01/knowledge-base-locations-in-web-pages/ .

Making the link building spammers dance...

If you get enough time, that's the conversation you may engage in with people who invite you buy a PR1 link for $1:

BS: Duplicate Images = Duplicate Content

Since Bing and the Goog

A PM option at Threadwatch? Plus other suggestions?

{Update: The PM option is back but feel free to suggest other features you'd like to see here!}