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Microsoft buys Facebook

Posted on: Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 in: Other

I hear that Microsoft has won the bid for Facebook, and has formally purchased it. I have not seen anything official. I have only heard rumors and “accounts” of the transaction.
A $15 billion check for Zuckerman.
If it is true, I bet you will see integration with Active Directory, Windows Live, and other things… this could [...]

Get your Blog Indexed on Google Almost Instantly

Posted on: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 in: Other, SEO

All you have to do is Digg it.
I know most of you will be aware of this, but it works, and I have a client that has an entire network of folks in India that go around Digging each other’s blogs.
Seems unethical to me.
But alas, such is life.
You’ll notice, my blog gets almost no Diggs [...]

Search Engine Optimization: Silverlight VS Flash

Posted on: Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in: Other, SEO

Ah, they did it. Or so some would have you think.
Microsoft is including an XML presentation layer in Silverlight to address a major problem with Flash: Search Engine Optimization.
Of course, with Flash, you need to use the SWFObject to provide copy to search bots. Otherwise, you are transparent to them.
With Silverlight, you have XML. Quite [...]

Twitter? Why?

Posted on: Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in: Other

I signed up for Twitter.
I told it what I was doing for a day.
My last entry was, “Deciding that this is a waste of time.”
I imagine that for certain environments, under certain conditions, it may provide a cute way to keep people informed as to what you (or a group of people) are doing, but [...]

DMOZ Corrupt?

Posted on: Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 in: Other, SEO

ShoeMoney is a veritable SEO guru. He is, in my point of view, *the* expert on all things search engine related.
Of all the Search Engine Systems, DMOZ has classically been the one with the least bias, the most creditability, the toughest one to get into.
Apparently, they are corrupt and have extorted ShoeMoney.
This really is [...]