links for 2008-02-29
Thursday, February 28th, 2008-
Hashtag Backlash!
“Imagine what Flickr would look like if all of the metadata was visually stuck to your photograph. Or what your blog would look like if you had to have a character before every word in your text that was also a keyword. Ick.” -
Superb backlink analysis tool - Firefox extension needed. Uses (a.o.) Yahoo Ajax API, ranks backlinks by PR, your pages by # incoming links, categorizes on linktype and anchortext. _really_ slow but data presentation with drill-down functionality rocks.
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The podcast has really interesting material and interviews, but the closed software development platform/service (with their own proprietary language) they try to promote is not my cup of tea… (exrss tag indicates RSS unsubscription)
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speech-to-text recognition to spawn pages of searchengine-optimised transcripts of video and audio… interesting development!
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pros and cons of Technorati, del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, Google Reader Recommendations, AideRSS and Ask.com