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We are quite sucessful at getting new business as our services are very niche, catering for SEO guys, but how much difference does SEO make?
We’ve just decided to run an new SEO campaign to simpilify our web pages!
A new blog has been started to follow what we are doing, and feedback to what our results are!
Fingers crossed the time spend will reap the benifits.
I don’t often do this, but here is a great Video.
Tracy Chapman “Fast Car” live.
Accidentally caught the guy on BGT singing this. He was OK, but she is superb
Just who do judges think they are? Making up the law as they go along, doesn’t it make you proud about our un-written constitution, that cannot be broken, because it doesn’t exist.
The internet makes this kind of thing impossible to keep quiet. (The Barbara Streisand effect strikes again).
Judges need to wake up and realise that it’s wrong to silence the press, otherwise, sooner or later something that is of the utmost importance to the public will not be able to be reported on because of a stupid Super-Injection. It’s a slippery slope!!
Luckily for us the Americans are not bound by the UKs reporting laws.
The identity of CTB: Forbes
Twitter pages you keep hearing about!
Update: Lib’ Dem’ MP names Ryan Giggs
Gigaom have made a list of the Top 50 cloud innovators as they see it.
Article: Gigaom
I know in the company I work at, developers treasure their, hard fought for, second monitors. But how would you feel if your second monitor was taken away and given to another employee.
This is the dilemma one such person had and Slashdot has an article.
Articles: Slashdot
Well I never. Those folk at Redmond are supporting CentOS on their Virtual Machine platform, just to keep it running and wind up the folk at RedHat.
This is a bold move from Microsoft, who have already supplied drivers to Linux for Hyper-V.
This is a move which I applaud, despite it’s reasoning not quite being 100% customer orientated.
Article: The Register
May 26th 2011 is the date for the big ‘Cookie’ change to take effect. After this site a website cannot drop a cookie on a visitors machine without explicitly asking them to authorise it.
Now I’ve been developing technologies on some of my sites, which tracks anonymous users, so I can give them a better experience and build up information about them, which I can then store, should they sign up.
How likely is it that this will fall short of the “unless absolutely necessary to function” clause?
What do people think about these new draconian measures?
I think it all boils down to the argument, “Should people who don’t know how to use the internet safely, be allowed to use the internet?”. Answers on a post-card please!
Dropbox has been cashing in on gullible users by saying that it is able to de-duplicate content, whilst still remaining military/bank safe. But how is this possible. If they don’t have the encryption keys to your files, how can they check whether the content is the same? Answer: They do know the encryption keys, and so they are not as safe as they say.
Did Bin Laden really have a huge stash of porn in Pakistan, whilst surrounded by his Taliban mates? Or is it more likely, as more and more people suspect, that this is American Governmental spin?
Articles: Independant US
Here is a link to a movie which makes compelling viewing. It show how people are getting more and more targeted internet content.
Taken to the extreme, this could make us all extremists. An example being that if I was right wing in my views, the different sites would show me more right wing content and less left wing content, possibly giving you more and more reinforcement eventually leading to extreme views like fascism. Or if your views were left wing the systems would show you ever increasing content eventually tending towards communism?
Are our views being polarised by Bayesian algorithms?
Are you seeing the internet, or are you seeing what the internet wants you to see?
Movie: YouTube