Archive for February, 2007

Could SEO be a waste of time and money in Web 2.0? According to Anthony Fallon, CEO of Warrington Web Works, the use of RSS, content provided for Website visitors and Google's improvements may have ended the chase for the top ten search positions. Fallon asks: "Is this the end of the SEO industry?"
An article by Fallon, inspired by a meeting with a client, illustrated a quote to this client of $29,000 for a guaranteed place in the top [...]

Trying desperately not to mind the disarray on Web 2.0 Journal’s website, created by an immense number of windows and ads (the visual antithesis of Web 2.0), I read up on some news you might be interested in. It concerns security in the age of Ajax, and it has much to do with what will be covered by a myriad of industry heavyweights at the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, running March 19-21 in New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel.
Who’ll be shining [...]

An article by Lee Miller in WebProNews announces the coming of another assault on Google. This time the attack is on Google's Gmail trademark. IIR Group (Independent International investment Research) recently won a suit in the UK against Google for their UK rights to use the trademark Gmail. Now IIR Group is seeking relief here in the US, and the Gmail.com address may have to become @googlemail.com.
According to the article, IIR Group filed a petition with the US [...]

Do you ever feel dumbfounded about seeing something strange going on on Digg, trying to find the explanation in TOS or FAQ - but without any results, of course? Recently it is too often that we see good stories buried without any evident reason. Blogs that had a couple of their posts on the front page daily rarely have a post or two in a week to reach the front page's heaven. Why?
It looks like Kevin Rose pursues his activities [...]

Over the weekend, I listened to an hour-long podcast (exactly that length, actually) called This Week in Media, one of the many items on the TWIT.tv roster. What caught my attention, however, wasn’t the talk about Joost or Alex Lindsay’s insistence on bringing on something to do with iTunes at least once or twice during each show. It was the roundtable's debate about MSN Soapbox (If you can call it that. It was more like a “list [...]

PaidByCash is a new service from the Retail Expansion Network. Marketed as a way for those without credit cards, and those who prefer not to use credit cards online, to easily use online shopping sites, PaidByCash hopes to increase the number of onilne shoppers while making a decent profit.
The service involves going to a local brick-and-mortar retailer in the PaidByCash network and exchanging your cash for a Virtual MasterCard, which can then be used anywhere online that [...]

Louise Story wrote an article yesterday in the New York Times that you might all find interesting. According to the story Google and Yahoo! have a new competitor in the contextual ad department. Quigo Technologies is a tiny effective and growing company that bills itself as an alternative to the giants.
In the last year a few large media sites like FoxNews.com and ESPN.com have stopped using Google and Yahoo in favor of Quigo. In fact 17 [...]

Prior to February 26th, 2007, BitTorrent only said it was going to turn legal – at least its in-house operations. Monday, however, marked the first day in its existence that it actually did so; that it would play it straight with the movie industry, the television industry, the music industry, and even the PC game industry. And what d’ya know, it’s already off to a crappy start.
Pardon. Bad start.
Why did I feel it was imperative to hit on [...]

With the popularity of Web 2.0 comes an issue with multiple registrations for its adoptees; interactive sites require log-ins, and you'll soon find your list of log-ins requires a better memory than an elephant, as well as feel like you've given your email address to every person in the world. Stepping in to assist is the OpenID project, which allows you to create a single point of registry for any sites adopting its use, with the ability to create [...]