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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://royal.pingdom.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villain."

With photos, cool photos :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitepoint.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Oh, I *so* needed an extension like this. Dust Me will scan a page or spider a site and compare in page use of CSS with what it finds in the CSS files. It will then generate two reports: unused CSS selectors and used CSS selectors. You can export th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Dave: "Today we’ll look at ‘Search traffic’ and how we can use Google Analytics to dig better understand the efficacy of your SEO program"

Love how the post walks me clearly from "do this" to "see that", even touching upon "so that means...". Alt read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://edition.cnn.com)
Category: Google Other
Powered by waves. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jsonline.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"Jennifer Reisinger says the Sheboygan city attorney ordered her to remove from her Web site a link to the city’s police department [...]

The city went further, the lawsuit claims, launching a criminal investigation of Reisinger for linking to t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Networking
Bringing the ease of blogs and blogging to social networks.

"With Six Apart's recent release of Movable Type 4.2, that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking platform.

web pundits have read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
"It is conceivable that future historians will regard the first day of Google Inc on 7 September 1998, and not 11 September 2001, as the true dawn of the 21st century.

I don't think it's possible to exaggerate the significance of this thing.

I read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bloggasm.com)
Category: News Sites
"In the past week I’ve conducted phone and email interviews with over 50 of Digg’s top users in an attempt to piece together the cohesive links and strategies that make them so successful.

It was during these discussions that I discovered that t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://condomunity.com)
Category: Social Media
Good, long write-up on effective headlines. What makes a good one and how to get to it.

Or: how do you go from "Cheap Condoms, Expensive Condoms" to "World’s Most Expensive Places to Have Sex" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emarketer.com)
Category: SEO
"Online search has become so efficient that most Internet users are now impatient with anything less than great results."

With more searchers clicking first page results and less searchers reporting to be willing to go past page three results, or read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 241 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Other
From the post: "The simple explanation of how the program works is that Google attempts to identify lists on the web as it crawls pages" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 255 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.anywired.com)
Category: Blogging
"The truth is that, while it isn’t easy, it is possible to have both loyalty, engagement and a big audience.

This delicate balance hinges on perception." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 255 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smh.com.au)
Category: Social Media
After receiving questions from the press, Jeff Merkey, formerly at Novell, has made a statement that Jimmy Wales offered to clean up Jeff's entry and place him under his 'special protection'. Protected entries can only be edited by Wikipedia adminis read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 262 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sfgate.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Two-fold problem: misusing money from the foundation and editing an entry in a possible conflict of interest scenario.

As Wikimedia Foundation chair woman Florence Devouard chastises Wales in a personal email; "I find (it) tiring to see how you a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
"If your text is temporarily "hidden" as part of your site's UI but is still intended for the user to see at some point, you probably don't need to worry about Google mistakenly viewing it as deceptive." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 283 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jlh-design.com)
Category: Google
"There are million of various theories out there about how to find out if your site is penalized by Google.

I thought I’d recap what Google officially says, and by officially I mean on their domain and bearing their brand." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 288 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
''If you login to Google Webmaster Tools and go to your "links" and then "external links" section, you may notice Google removed the "Download This Table" link from the bottom. What remains is the "Download all external links."'' read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 288 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Search Marketing
How the process of getting a book summary applies to getting client information to work with.

"From just these few questions, I’ve gotten a feel for the specialty, area of service and the unique value proposition of this client’s business. From s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 290 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wakeuplater.com)
Category: Networking
"The mindset of my generation (18-34) is a cynical one -- a mindset that desires authenticity and is skeptical of randomly nice people (after all, how many times has a "nice person" turned out to be selling insurance, CUTCO knives, or a spot in thei read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ablereach.com)
Category: Blogging
Great step-by-step overview of adding a 2nd widget ready sidebar to WordPress read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.maryschmidt.com)
Category: Social Media
Everything can be found. *Everything*.

The good thing? "...if you’re wiling and able to be yourself in front of everybody and own what you say and do - then you’re going to stand out from your competition." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sethgodin.typepad.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Seth: "Here's what you do:
Put a picture on your website. Something novel but still recognizable.
Or something really useful.
Then, put lots of links to various websites within the image." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ratingburner.com)
Category: Blogging
350+ blogs so far. Includes an ad-price info delivery idea (see: ads). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.news.com.au)
Category: Social Media
Cool social media hotspots become deadbeat boring adult meetups. Where's a teen to hide?

From the article: "And his 72-year-old grandmother sends him online instant messages every day so they can better stay in touch while he is at university."
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 297 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Blogging
As more and more women turn to beauty blogs, the cosmetics industry is taking beauty bloggers serious.

This is what we call the Inverse Target Strategy:

"“It would be foolish to ignore them,” said Ms. Brod, who recently hired an employee whose read more »
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