Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Links and concepts related with SEO and SEM

(tags: aaronwall mindmap seo sem searchenginemarketing marketing resource)

“… backs up and restores your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, cookies.. Rebuilds your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Easily synchronize your office and home browsers.”

(tags: addon backup bookmarks browser firefox extension plugin synchronisation synchronization)

Jyri Engeström’s writeup of the PICNIC workshop on social network portability september 28th. (the comment referred is mine)

(tags: socialnetworking socialnetworks portablesocialnetworks twitter jaiku egoposting)

# Blogmarks API
# Blue Dot API
# Cogenz API
# Jots API
# linkaGoGo API
# Ma.gnolia API
# OnlyWire API
# Rrove API
# Scribble API
# Shadows API
# Simpy API

(tags: api apis bookmarking socialbookmarking linkspaces linklogging)

Receive tweets that contain a word – enables channels, tagging…

(tags: twitter mobile im search subscriptions tracking tagging channels groupware groupsms)

“The array of initiatives and working groups and acronyms in identity is large, seemingly growing all the time and very definitely a bewildering jungle to the newcomer… somebody had to post a simple map to the place, and that might as well be me.”

(tags: list johannesernst digitalidentity usercentricidentity identitymanagement standards)

“everything that isn’t core to the community (…) needs to take an immediate backseat to addressing the concerns of our superusers. If you don’t have the community, you become just another hollow web app. And without the people, what fun is it?”

(tags: communitymanagement usergeneratedcontent usergeneratedmedia communitybuilding socialsoftware)

Draw and explain like you were working on a whiteboard. I would definitely use this if I had a tablet PC…

(tags: screencasting sketchcasting sketchcast elearning blogging animation presentation collaboration visualization visualisation)

[Dutch] “de drie grote internationale zoekmachines Google, Yahoo! en Live Search [hebben] elk hun eigen manier om met punten en komma’s in getallen om te gaan”

(tags: dutch nederlands searchengines comparison searchoperators searchsyntax)

“It’s common for enterprise website developers to implement search engines with out-of-the-box functionality, point it at their content repositories, and then just leave it at that… Quality search results only come about through applied effort.”

(tags: enterprisesearch corporatesearch intranet search enterprise taxonomy searchengine)

Summary of academic research on social networks: concepts like “Weak ties”, centralisation, centrality, singletons, giant component, middle region… (Boxes and Arrows)

(tags: academic socialnetworking socialnetworks research community socialdesign)

“Anyone who has ever thrown a party or held a meeting has had this unvoiced fear: what if after all the work of preparation, nobody shows up? Or worse, people show up, take a quick look around, decide it isn’t worth their time and leave!”

(tags: communitybuilding communitymanagement collaboration socialsoftware socialnetworking socialnetworks communities)

10 minute audio PodCast interview of Dan Pink by Elliott Masie, focused on design, personalization and “A Whole New Mind”

(tags: mp3 creativity innovation interview danpink podcast tolisten)

“shows where people have looked at when using Virtual Earth, the engine that powers Live Search Maps: the darker a point, the more times it has been downloaded” Great idea from Microsoft Research, but not enough data for Western Europe to be meaningful.

(tags: data geography virtualearth microsoft attention heatmaps statistics geo mapping visualization research)

This list contains links to a number of patent applications and a few papers involving ways to rerank search results. Most of these were published after the creation of my previous reranking list. (-SEO by the SEA)

(tags: ranking seo patents searchengines serps)

Search engines try to match words used in queries with words found on pages or in links pointing to those pages… the order that pages are returned to a searcher are based upon an indexing of text, text in links pointing to, and link popularity.

(tags: algorithm algorithms ranking list serps pagerank seo)

Tags
Canonical Redirection
Post Workflow Improvements
Pluggable Dashboard
$wpdb->prepare()
Atomlib
Deprecated Functions
Multiple Category Widgets
Pluggable RSS Library

(tags: wordpress wordpress2.3 upgrade list blogging)

Introduction to and rationale behind OAuth – writeup by Chris Messina.

(tags: oauth authentication standards protocol chrismessina)

“Pledge of allegiance” by David Recordon of Six Apart to open social networks and network portability with some short demos on OpenID, XFN and FOAF.

(tags: sixapart openid portablesocialnetworks davidrecordon socialgraph screencast socialnetworking)

“We need to stop building independent spider webs of sticky siloed social activity… to stop fighting the nature of the web and embrace the design of URIs for people… to have a user agent that actually understands what it means to be a person online.”

(tags: socialsoftware social_software socialnetworking interoperability portablesocialnetworks socialgraph chrismessina digitalidentity)

Inventory of OpenID criticisms:
Security, Privacy, Trust, Usability, Adoption, Availability and Patent Problems.
(by Stefan Brands from Credentica)

(tags: openid security privacy authentication criticism list)

OpenID Auth 2.0 relies on discovery schemes to validate identity, FOAF relies on the RDF’s formalism of the notions of identity, assertions (of identity) and claims (about identity). How to harmonize intuitive notion and the formalized concept?

(tags: openid foaf rdf digitalidentity research academic)

“every which way you can look at a keyword to get an idea of metrics, value and potential from the engines themselves”:
Search Term, Intitle, Inurl, Inanchor (and combinations) Counts
Blogsearch counts
Related terms
common usage and phrase combinations…

(tags: keywords keywordanalysis seo research seomoz tools lists searchengines)

(Yet another)

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Calculate probabilities of Noncommercial,Commercial-Informational, and Commercial-Transactional intent of the visitors of a website. “Uses terabytes of search data.”

(tags: microsoft advertising adcenter analytics marketing tool analysis urlanalyser siteanalyser)

WordPress plugin turns all your categories into subdomains. It works on your post permalinks too.

(tags: wordpress plugin subdomains dns subdomain)

“If you’re curious about some techniques of spammers and the intersection between economics and spam, check out this talk by Ross Anderson at Google” (via Matt Mullenweg and Greg Linden)

(tags: spam towatch video economics security antispam google googletechtalk)

Advertise with functionality: ads are “mini applications”, applications are ads. Ad Agencies will need more developers to push their clients’ functionality all over the web. Ad Wigets can be shared anywhere, so will compete on “usefulness”…

(tags: ads adsense widgetsense google appsyndication webdevelopment widgets gadgets advertising marketing)

“entirely new widget analytics platform for tracking gadget success and interaction, open caching proxy hosted by Google’s geo-distributed servers, and the introduction of YouTube as a video hosting and transcoding platform free from any Google branding.”

(tags: niallkennedy widgetsense appsyndication adsense widgets gadgets applicationhosting caching)

Babelfish for Microsoft – unlike Google Translate, they do support Dutch

(tags: translation languages tool service dutch microsoft dictionary)

[Dutch] 3 verschillen tussen Europese privacy richtlijnen en APEC framework:
- uitzondering voor “publicly available information”
- geen uitzondering voor ras, afkomst en sexuele voorkeur
- formulering te algemeen (handhaafbaarheid)
(Arnoud Engelfrie

(tags: dutch nederlands privacy google law legislation regulation standards analysis arnoudengelfriet)

“It is common to segregate different aspects in different places [but] it may be possible to link these separate identities, because the movies, articles, or authors you mention are from a sparse relation space whose properties allow re- identification”

(tags: datamining privacy video google academic algorithms databases search towatch)

“Scroogled”, Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life? (Short story in Rader Magazine)

(tags: corydoctorow google scifi privacy fiction bigbrother dystopia)

“Need an antidote? Spend 10 minutes collecting everything you need to work on a problem, and unplug the internet for 2 hours. You’ll finish in 30 minutes.” (Matt Mullenweg)

(tags: attention productivity continuouspartialattention concentration gtd timemanagement mattmullenweg)

Generate customized CSS menus and download for free.

(tags: css generator navigation menu webdesign tool service xhtml)

Site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page: widgets, analytics, frameworks, publishing (WP, blogger…), advertising, CDNs (Amazon S3…), standards, and hosting (webserver) software.

(tags: tool analysis analytics webdevelopment technology builtwith)

“What wasn’t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others,” Ms. Schiller said.

(tags: newspapers publishing advertising businessmodel nytimes journalism free)

“The Semantic Web sees meaning as something that needs to be added to documents… Web 2.0 seeks to discover the ways that meaning has already been implicitly encoded by the way people use documents and digital objects, and then to extract that meaning..”

(tags: semanticweb web2.0 timoreilly semweb wisdomofcrowds collectiveintelligence)