So, today, I get this email from Verizon Wireless about their privacy policies for their wireless customers. At first I thought the email was spam because I haven not been a Verizon Wireless customer for OVER 2 years.
I imagine my shock when I see my old Vermont cell phone number [...]
Because of the hoopla around cuil today, I thought I’d take a peek at this newest search engine’s referrers.
Cuil crawler info. I know I’ve been seeing this bot for the past year or so. Cuil’s crawler is apparently called twiceler (is that a pun?) and the user agent string [...]
So earlier today I was doing some catching up on Google Alerts for some domains that I manage.
And I kept on finding pages that look like the one below - same formatting, even.
When I first noticed these pages the middle of last week, I took them [...]
This past weekend there’s been a conversation about Shyftr a new RSS service that allows people to read and comment on full text stories on the Shyftr site, rather making the reader click through to the originating blog to comment. The thought is that folks who care about [...]
As a real life, in the trenches Web Marketer/Web Designer, I am often asked questions about Web site optimization. This is a subject I think about because the focus of my work is to create Web sites that drive traffic, increase conversions and, of course, make money. Aside from designing [...]
On the MSNBC developer blog, the question was posed How do you share?. Not in the grade school way, but in the newfangled Web 2.0 way.
Overall, the comments from MSNBC readers were pretty… negative. Aside from the “I’ll just paste the link I want to share in an [...]
Building upon a discussion elsewhere on the Web, here’s some brute force SEO for you.
Apparently, the NY Times is inserting tagging in the page META title tag, in the instances where it seems that article headlines lack sufficient keywords. Normally, the Times just carries the article’s headline into [...]
Had anyone else read this story of David Airey’s domains being stolen from him because of a Gmail exploit?
Both of David’s domains have been subsequently restored, thanks to the publicity he received this week.
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Let’s all take a moment and remember the good old days of the Internet in the 1990s … the Netscape Web browser is being end of lifed as of Feb 2008.
If you didn’t catch Code Rush, a documentary on Netscape which was shown on PBS in 2000, I [...]
This particular crawler is being deployed from the Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE) project, which is attempting to crawl the nascent Semantic Web, including RSS and FOAF data.
This is yet another reason why deploying RSS is a good idea for any Web presence.
Has anyone else seen some different activity coming from MSN? What I mean is that I’m seeing the following entries in my search logs, but it doesn’t appear like traditional MSNBot crawler behavior.
Why this activity is different:
1) The originating IP address is from the MSN netblock.
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New crawler in my logs from an outfit called Radian6. From the Web site, they look to be a social media monitoring service for the Google Alerts challenged, I guess much in the same way as those other pre-existing social media monitoring services.
Host: 142.166.3.125
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Heh. If you happen to Google hack yahoo fantasy football we get a SERP that, well Google isn’t quite sure what to display on the SERP. Cleverhack is currently showing as #3 on the SERP, but with no related text. I’ve never seen a SERP quite like this one [...]
Feed Each Other is yet another online feed reader released in late September. According to one of the developers behind it, the difference between Feed Each Other and other online feed services is that Feed Each Other lets you harness the power of your network of friends and [...]
Two trends I’ve run across recently in the email deliverability world.
First, and this is for you designers who have to work on HTML email campaigns, the Email Standards Project. Because, let’s face it, the need to use old school HTML 4 for compatibility with current email clients [...]
I was browsing YouTube tonight for that baby got back wedding dance video, which is actually quite hilarious if you haven’t seen it yet.
Anyway, there I was searching (view search results) and as you can see, that same video was posted multiple times by multiple people. Honestly, [...]
Good grief, Yahoo Small Business really fouled it up big time on “Cyber” Monday. It seems that the shopping cart for both Legacy and Merchant Solutions stores went down for at least 11 hours. Holy Moly.
Considering the types and size of stores that use the Yahoo platform, you’re [...]
Looking through my log files, I find a crawler from a company that doesn’t yet quite exist on the Web, the user agent sans descriptive URL looked sorta spammy, so I had to Google them.
Not much on the homepage but a three columned div layout with a Web [...]
Christmas is a month away and the 2007 holiday season has officially begun. While online merchants have been preparing for weeks, if not months for these next three and a half weeks, let’s go take a look at e-commerce trends for holiday 2007.
-Since Christmas arrives on a Tuesday this year, [...]
Has anyone else seen Google Page Rank drops for e-commerce sites during this most recent PR update?
I’m beginning to wonder if Google is trying to degrade SERPs for specific products.
Technorati Tags: Google, PageRank, SERPs, e-commerce, ecommerce, online shopping [...]
I’ve written about Yahoo deliverability earlier, but now it’s personal.
The mailserver I use is being deferred via a 421 code by Yahoo, and judging by the fact I’m on shared hosting and the mailserver IP has been spotted on some minor blocklists, I’ve got a virtual neighbor with [...]
iConcertCal is a neat little plug in for iTunes that will scan your iTunes music library for artists and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts and new CD releases. Pretty cool.
It’s such a clever idea, I just have to wonder why Apple hasn’t included it already in [...]
Well, not madness, but something definitely weird.
I was wondering if anyone has seen any iPhones getting onto networks they should not be on. I am aware of a situation where an iPhone jumped on a wifi network with WEP and MAC Address filtering enabled.
The thing is, the iPhone [...]
I was hit with this referrer string by an iPhone using visitor… URL makes me think that it’s an up and coming iPhone specific Google start page. The IP was from the AT&T network.
Technorati Tags: Apple, iPhone, Google, Google Search, [...]
One thing to note, I think I’m getting better battery power now after a few full battery drains and then leaving the iPhone to charge overnight. Once I fully charge the iPhone, I am getting the power plug icon.
Yesterday, without wifi on and without using the iPod, I got [...]
Why yes, there is an RSS reader built into the iPhone. To access RSS feeds on the iPhone, all you need to do is enter the RSS feed URL into the Safari address bar. The feed is seemingly fetched through [reader.mac.com]. Radical, huh?
In fact, one of my readers [...]
In case you were wondering about the iPhone picture quality, here are two pictures I took on Friday night in Old City Philadelphia. Of course, there is no flash or zoom on the iPhone.
Korean War Memorial Statue
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Just for you non-iPhone owners out there - let’s see if the iPhone can blend.
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[...]Oooh, just wanted to share that I got a few accessories for the iPhone.
-The Griffin PowerJolt Car Charger for iPhone
-Case Mate iPhone Leather Case for iPhone. It even came with a protective clear film for the screen, which I liked.
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First, a serious whine which is that I think my iPhone battery is not going to last even 300 charges. The iPhone not only feels a little hot to the touch, but today I was using it as an iPod for a few hours, with wifi turned off and checking [...]
Because you all knew I would post this…The iPhone User Agent
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3
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