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April 30, 2006
Attention expecting parents! First thing: Congratulations to you. Best of luck through the final weeks or days. Now, if it's not too much of a bother, could you please avoid sending us gigantic emails with attached photos once your beautiful child is born?
script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript "script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style." (tags: ajax Programming javascript webdesign) Save The Internet. Why? And...
April 29, 2006
Google's recently launched Calendar application was pretty impressive at launch, but seems to keep getting better every day. One of the recent additions I've taken a liking to is the SMS add feature that allows users to add new events to their calendar by texting them to GVENT from a mobile device.
will myspace: gapingvoid A recent Technology Evangelist post inspired a sketch by cartoonist and blog consultant, Hugh Macleod. (tags: gapingvoid hughmacleod cartoon) Google's GData, MySQL, and the Future of on-line Databases (by Jeremy Zawodny) "The benefit is that you'd...
April 28, 2006
Michael Arrington reported on Techcrunch today the launch of Yahoo's new Local Featured Listing platform that allows businesses to purchase advertising on relevant yellow pages-like category pages for a flat monthly fee varying by category.
Why AdCenter Will Fly: Traffick On MSN's new PPC program: "The product is cool. It's good. The demographic targeting options and dayparting capability have conference attendees paying rapt attention, more so than you usually see with new product rollouts....
April 27, 2006
I just received an email from Classmates.com announcing that their message boards are now free. Why would they do that? Could it be a reaction to MySpace quickly becoming the #1 site on the Internet for class networking?
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) Where do your visitors eyeballs go when they look at your site? Do they see what you consider the most important content? (tags: usability eyetracking webdesign jakobnielsen useit) gapingvoid: 98052...
April 26, 2006
One very convenient recent enhancement to the Google Toolbar is the addition of autocomplete to the search box. So, when you start typing "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" you only need to get the first eight letters correct to find what you're looking for:
Texas Community College Bans MySpace.com - Yahoo! News "Del Mar College students now have to use computers outside the school's system if they want to visit the popular Web site MySpace.com. The community college has blocked the site in...
April 25, 2006
Daily Kos: We Need You to Save the Internet! SBC CEO Edward Whiteacre: "The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! (YHOO) or...
Let's face it: Even the best columnists at the New York Times bat somewhere around the Mendoza Line when it comes to delivering newsworthy or thought provoking columns. It's simply impossible to write something remarkable in every column.
April 24, 2006
You know how annoying it is when people email you links that are broken because they're too long? It isn't really your friend's fault. The problem lays with the webmaster of the site your friend is trying to tell you about. Wouldn't it be great if you could prevent that from happening when people send links from your blog to their friends? It turns out that it's a fairly simple thing to do.
Google Calendar SMS Tricks - TelegramSam You can now add events to your Google Calendar using SMS. Nice trick. (tags: google calendar googlecalendar sms tricks tips) Who Matters Most in the Food Chain: Joga Who influences decisions within corporations?...
April 23, 2006
The National Association of Broadcasters convention officially kicks off Monday and the press releases have already started flowing. For those not in the know, the big, big media guns are not shown at CES, nay, they are shown at NAB.
MyDD :: Net Neutrality: Gunowners, Moveon, Instapundit, and Vint Cerf Unite for SaveTheInternet.com Short video explaining what network neutrality is and why it's important. (tags: internet networkneutrality mydd) Earth Day Footprint Quiz Find out how large a footprint your...
April 22, 2006
Typically scanners are very boring. Put the image in, hit pre-scan, crop, scan again and save. Yawn. I honestly never thought I would be excited to write a review of any scanner, but the Fujitsu Scan Snap line is nothing short of amazing. I’ll be the first to say that it’s not for everyone, but the Fujitsu S500 is a fantastic scanner that most should at least look at.
Malcolm Gladwell's Blog Keep up to date on Gladwell's latest ideas at gladwell.com (tags: malcolmgladwell blog tippingpoint blink) Email spam vs. web spam Yahoo! search spam fighter, Tim Converse, breaks down some of the differences between email spam, web...
April 21, 2006
For quite a while now we have been promoting the Belkin Pre-N WiFi Router (which has nothing to do with the actual 802.11n spec.) This was the only router that actually worked in my apartment building which is bombarded with 2.4GHz signals from all sides. It’s been about a year, and we’re trying to find a solution that we can deploy in much larger environments. Enter the Linksys WRT54GX4 SRX400 WiFi Router. Ahhhh, that just rolls off the tongue. I think I’ll just call it the SRX400 from now on.
Amazon Goes 2.0 Crazy : Booksquare "Probably you?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve noticed them: the plogs, the wiki, the stats showing what percentage of people who viewed the book your viewing bought it (and, if they didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t buy that book, what book they...
April 20, 2006
I heard a story once that Tabasco increased their sales after hiring a marketing consultant who came up with a very simple solution: make the hole bigger. Bigger hole = more Tabasco use. Could the same rule apply to comments on blogs?
Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace by Mike Davidson How to make a MySpace template that doesn't look like a teenager's bedroom walls. (tags: myspace webdesign templates css) SEO for Real Estate Template Site by Jill Whalen Jill Whalen provides...
Is Craigslist replacing the Yellow Pages? Here is a real-life example of how I used the web to shop for a local service traditionally shopped via Yellow Pages ads.
April 19, 2006
Searching for the net's big thing - BBC The average number of search engines per user is 2.5. Google make 12 cents per search? Seems a little high. Overall searches are up as search becomes, "deeply ingrained into people's...
April 18, 2006
The previous post on this blog was the first published automatically from Technology Evangelist's del.icio.us bookmarks. Del.icio.us is a web based bookmarking program that allows you to bookmark and share bookmarked sites on their platform. Sites are ranked based on how often people bookmark them, creating a unique metric different from that used by search engines that rely more on link popularity.
Web Mail Services Compared: Designtechnica A comparison of 10 popular web based email programs. Too bad they didn't throw web Outlook into the mix. (tags: email reviews webmail gmail comparison hotmail .mac hushmail mytrashmail muchomail mail) Xbmc Fox -...
April 17, 2006
Here are a few observations about this site's web statistics:
April 16, 2006
I've written recent posts explaining how newspapers hurt themselves when they lock their paper's online archives. It limits the traffic and thus revenue generated by their site, and limits the exposure and influence of their columnists.
April 15, 2006
Take a glance to your left on this blog for a new feature: Recent Comments. Publishing a list of recent comments gives visitors a glance into what people find interesting on the site. Clicking the link within the recent comments will take you directly to the that author's comment.
April 14, 2006
Yesterday, I wrote about the significant web traffic costs of locking newspaper archives. To summarize, locking content keeps people from linking to it and search engines from indexing it, eliminating millions of entry pages to the site and the ad revenue that would come with it.
April 13, 2006
The New York Times ran a story on April 9th by Steve Lohr titled "This Boring Headline is Written for Google" about newspapers altering their article's headline copy to make them more search engine friendly. The story explains that search engines like Google use the terms within headlines to help determine the topic of a given web page, so creating a headline that's keyword rich rather than a creative play on words could generate additional visitors to the article through search engines.
April 11, 2006
This got me thinking about 404 error pages. The plumber isn't a 404 error, but he inspired me. 404's are the errors you receive when you reach a page that does not exist. Here is an example of a fairly common 404 error you've probably come across before:
For many years I have been looking for the ultimate remote access tool. I was almost sold on Citrix Online’s GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting line of products until I saw the price. I needed something inexpensive, easy to use and reliable. That product is LogMeIn.
April 10, 2006
You probably know by now that you need to claim and ping your blog to start moving up the Technorati ranks. But what else should you know about this blog search engine?
April 9, 2006
Being a geek has some advantages that go way beyond knowing how to stop the clock from flashing 12:00 on the VCR. But, it's not always as glamorous as it seems. Here are some valuable geek-related resources you may have missed while waiting for your VCR to rewind:
April 8, 2006
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing AT&T for secretly working with the National Security Agency to spy on Americans:
April 7, 2006
I
wrote
back in December about how the Dodgeball.com mobile phone networking
service can be used for dating. At that time, Aaron Landry of
s4xton.com mentioned
that he used the site a lot but not really for dating purposes.
April 6, 2006
If there's one thing you can count on with search engines these days, it's receiving a lot of results to your search. But what can you do to improve the quality of those results? Here are a few tweaks you can make to your search to improve the quality in most cases:
April 5, 2006
Now that Technorati is tracking MySpace blogs, we can see what topics MySpace bloggers find interesting. Technorati tracks the terms used on blogs they index, so spikes in word usage this past week - other than caused by news stories - can likely be attributed to the addition of MySpace blogs to Technorati's search engine.
April 4, 2006
Author bio pages now include links to recent posts. Each member of Technology Evangelist has different interests and areas of expertise, so you may find one author's writing more interesting than the next.
April 3, 2006
Technorati is now tracking MySpace blogs, which means MySpace users can now claim their blogs on Technorati. MySpace users now have a chance to become as addicted to Technorati as they are to MySpace!
April 2, 2006
We're kicking off a new feature today with links to the top-5 most popular posts from the previous month. Here is what got the most buzz.
April 1, 2006
What if you could get paid to share your broadband Internet connection? Sound too good to be true? It may be, but that hasn't stopped WiFiTastic from launching a new broadband sharing platform that pays you cash for turning your home or business broadband connection into a commercial WiFi hotspot.
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