Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
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Automatically adds embedded videos after links to pages like: glumbert, metacafe, google, yahoo, photobucket, youtube, myspace…(and many others) so you can view the video without opening a new page
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Musings on loss of privacy with _public_ data becoming searchable and addressable: “privacy is both quantitative and qualitative; Google isn’t breaking any laws by posting this data online, but … they are pushing the boundaries of our senses of privacy”
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on the breakdown of bottoms-up regulation systems over time: “self-regulating communities, both real and virtual,.. go through a brief initial period during which their performance improves [...] but then, at some point, their performance turns downward.”
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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at wp-content/db-error.php. This is displayed when WordPress, for whatever reason, can’t connect to the database:
- make sure the file includes any style attributes inline, or reference an external stylesheet (absolute URL).
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bookmarklet that looks for a MyBlogLog identifier on the page you’re on, and uses the MyBlogLog API to dig out information about its reader roll - by Javascript Guru Kent Brewster
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“your reputation on MySpace does say as much about your reliability as an eBay seller as my reputation among the hacker community can convince my banker to raise my credit line. It’s not a technology problem, but one of semantics and context-sensitivity”
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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Ruby code to fetch Jabber messages and post them to Wordpress, parsing the hashtags = microblogging using your own Jabber account and Wordpress installation
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Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms - highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. (via Elise Huard)
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the treetrunk problem: unnatural linking pattern:
A majority of links that come from one domain
A majority of links from one IP/C-Class
A majority of links with identical anchor text/surrounding text
A majority of the links coming to a single page
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Most important contant should be high in the source code - use CSS positioning or more tricky: Javascript Dom manipulation or (even more trickier) the noscript tag
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
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web-tool which scans the picture for ‘important’ sections and allows you to manipulate the size of the image by just resizing the picture’s ‘unimportant’ sections (like big surfaces without detail)
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convert bitmap images into vector format! Works best with items without too many gradient colors
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Hint: write down the date when it was created!
… and have a backup for your emails in Gmail…
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In this post I will give some pointers on effortlessly making pages more unique. (Peter van der Graaf)
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free and paid tools which will help you find which keywords to target and how competitive they are + video offering an introduction to keyword research (from: Seo Book.com)
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free and paid tools which will help you determine how large a competitor’s traffic stream is, and which search terms are sending them the most traffic + video introducing these tools (from: SEO Book.com)
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“over”-optimized sites not attracting new links might get a penalty in Google… (from: SEO Book.com)
Solution: removed repeating keywords on every page, in alt tags for navigational images, …
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presentation at LIFT by Kevin Marks from microformats fame (ex-Apple, ex-Technorati now Google opensocial effort)
Covers all current issues: public relationships via XFN, plugin functionality for closed networks via OpenSocial, Relationship decay,
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
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Free video editor for beginners: mix videos, photos and music together, Add titles and transitions, Upload to the web, Direct upload to YouTube and Flash support
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
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Just a test of the UtipU screencasting software. The client has just a few basic commands: record, pause, zoom in, zoom out, annotate - but that’s sufficient to make small explanatory videos. It uploads files to UtipU.com or saves as .flv .
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Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet, send it out to anyone with an email address. They won’t need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. (Seems useful for surveys etc…)
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Graph visualization in javascript/flash with auto-arrange:
* Renders graphs from xml file over javascript (with swfobject)
* interactive capabilities (movement, etc.) and force directed layout
* color and content customization through external xml file
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the basic steps:
Setting up the Tools
Running an Instance
Modifying Your Instance: Facebook client library, conf file, PHP info file, MySQL squirreliness, Dynamic DNS configuration
Bundling the Instance
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Wordpress plugin showing ads only on search engine traffic and/or posts older than a certain period (i.e. 30 days), or irregular visitors. . Very customizable.
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