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Google adds Digg-esque features for Remove and Promote

Glenn Batuyong — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:13:43 +0000

Thanks to Dana D from FriendFeed for posting this gem:

My take: Don’t know how much weight this system will have on actual results but it could potentially change the entire way SEO and placement strategies work.

Marketing and SEO agencies, take note. If this becomes a defacto standard you will need to refocus some of your resources toward manual placement promotion.

Unfortunately for a lot of businesses and small sites this may create a work pill because they will need to constantly push promote their search engine results to keep them from disappearing from listing. It’s definitely an interesting use of the Digg method but I think Google is making search technology non-pragmatic at the cost of accuracy.

Leveraging your Visitors with Twitter [DanZarrella]

Glenn Batuyong — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:43:18 +0000

From danzarrella.com:
Here’s the slides from my pubcon presentation. I’m not sure how easy they’ll be to read without the accompanying talking, and you may need to use full screen to see the detail in the graphics. I apologize in advance.

Leveraging Your Visitors With Twitter

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: social media)

Technology Populism Will Drive the Next Wave of IT Adoption

Glenn Batuyong — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:28:24 +0000

“For many employees, the telephone and e-mail are being replaced by text messaging, instant messaging, and mobile devices, such as iPhones and BlackBerrys, and social computing tools like Facebook and Wikipedia.”read more | digg story

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

Glenn Batuyong — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:45:18 +0000

Usability and the utility, not the design, determine the success or failure of a web-site.read more | digg story

XMPP (Jabber) is the future for cloud services

Glenn Batuyong — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:38:17 +0000

In just a couple of years Google, Apple, AOL, IBM, Livejournal and Jive have all jumped on board. This post explains how XMPP is the future protocol of choice for cloud services.

Joomla 1.5 Goes Gold!

Glenn Batuyong — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:12:34 +0000

Joomla! 1.5 Stable ushers in a new era for the project. Over the last 2 1/2 years the code base has been melted down and reforged into a carefully organized, object-oriented framework.

Warcraft Player Trying To Level Without Killing Anyone

Glenn Batuyong — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:38:08 +0000

A college student is attempting to level two “pacifist” characters up to the top of World of Warcraft’s character progression, characters he’s playing without attacking anything. It’s partly to try out the philosophy of pacifism in the violent virtual world, and partly to see if he can do itread more | digg story

Top 5 Ways Usability and SEO Work Together

Glenn Batuyong — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:54:48 +0000

Usability is totally a different science in the web industry and so is SEO, SMO and accessibility but many of the concepts here mutually help each other. Check this article for the union of usability and SEO.read more | digg story

Novell congratulates itself for selling soul to Microsoft

Glenn Batuyong — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:26:59 +0000

With a few blog posts by top execs, Novell ended out 2007 by admitting that cozying up with a monopolist, predatory company and invalidating all that is open source …was a great idea. Hey, they made off like a bandit with some sorely needed cash; who cares what the long term effects are on the community!read more | digg story

Tech Writer Shocked to See Apple Xserves at CNBC

Glenn Batuyong — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:51:45 +0000

Yeah, well you can’t blame them of course… after all, they’re just the spokespersons for the industry, the tech know-it-alls right? In this video, Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian gets schooled by a system administrator at CNBC while getting a tour of the media giant’s 15 terabyte Apple Xserve RAID/Xsan setup. Makes you wonder if these writers get their credentials by just studying back issues of Computer Shopper magazine.Click here to view the embedded video.