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Nofollow, noindex, time for nodigg?

Written by: Trick

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In an effort to further a webmaster’s control over their domain, it seems only fitting that Digg should offer such control. Sure doing something nifty and getting noticed for it is grand, but Digg and Slashdot are both known for their ability to render servers helpless and leave them huddled on the ground holding their head in pain.

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SEO for Enterprise - Five Ways to Maximize Organic Search

Written by: David Bayer

As I’ve talked about previously in my post on Web 3.0, search engines today are somewhat limited in their capacity to index information. The onus is on the organization to publish their information in an organized and search friendly way. Some organizations employ in-house search engine optimization experts while others outsource to third party online solutions providers. In either case, I would estimate that 80% of companies are publishing their information within a less than optimal architectural framework let alone an appropriate ontology to tie all the information together.

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Bad Ads 101 : “Subscription Required” To Sign Death Certificate

Written by: juicebox

Here’s an example of the ads I was talking about in Where Have All The CPM’s Gone? post earlier today. Although I can’t decide whether to laugh at this ad, or kill it with fire.

Why? First, Sign Ur Death Certificate. On the side? Subscription Required.

Now, from one angle, this is a clever advertisement, because it has the potential to highly engage the user. It caught my attention, after all, it’s in this post!

However, talk about a classic consumer catch advertisement. It makes me wonder the point of this actual advertisement. Fortunately, I didn’t click the ad for fear of spyware or anything else that could randomly appear.

Another thing to point out was after I saw this ad, I completely ignored the ad sections of MySpace after seeing this for the rest of my session. Absolutely, if this wasn’t making someone money, these ad’s wouldn’t keep running, but at what expense will they stop? The Publishers, or the Advertiser?

Ad Located: MySpace

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Where Have All The CPM’s Gone?

Written by: juicebox

The unrealistic expectation of Advertisers and the dwindling experienced Sales Professionals at Advertising Networks is leading to a bust in the marketplace for many websites as CPM’s continue to fall to an unrealistic price range for website owners.

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Data Visualization - Changing the way we view information!

Written by: Lissette Arias

The samples you’ll see will blow your mind! We’re talking about data visualization, essentially presenting data through the use of visualization. The concept has been around for hundreds of years, a map for example is representing data in a visual form. Today, data visualization is an emerging science of visualization, it’s as Harvard Business Review calls it, a …
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Time to beat Twitter

Written by: Trick

Twitter has become an increasingly important tool in my everyday life. I’m on Twitter constantly reading the latest news from friends. I have friends around the world and it has allowed me to easily keep them in the loop about where I am, what I’m doing, and what I think or need at that time. That is, If their system will ever stay up.

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Data Centers, Power Consumption, and Global Warming - Will the web crash?

Written by: Tyler Shears

So you’ve heard the hype on going green, wouldn’t you like to know how the internet fits into the big picture of saving energy? Every time you search Google you could power an 11-watt light bulb for an hour… Think that’s bad? Wait until you put that into perspective including sites like YouTube and every other bandwidth hog on the web…

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What is Web 3.0?

Written by: David Bayer

What is Web3.0?

Web 3.0, according to Wikipedia, is a term used to describe the future of the web. Web 2.0 would refer to the recent evolution of the web. A brief description of this evolution would be apropos. Wikipedia explores the following ideas in the first 179 words of its definition of Web 2.0

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Social Software: Applications & Sites that Make Me Giddy

Written by: David Bayer

While social software is usually associated with web technologies, I personally don’t know why any collaborative software, social technology or conversational technology would not be included in the definition. In any case, a handful of these technologies have become necessities in my daily activities.

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Microsoft Windows Startup Sounds Over The Years

Written by: juicebox

Came across this on YouTube today and thought I would share it. It’s a video someone made on YouTube which chronicalizes the Startup Sounds of Microsoft Windows from 3.11 to Windows Vista.
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