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Facebook’s challenge to me (and others), as it has tried to compete with Twitter, has been that so much of the user data it wants to share with the world as content to attract visitors and eyeballs has been tied up behind the the privacy barriers set by its own users. How do you get [...]
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Awesome. I do all this work writing about how to be found in search engines and social media, but I could have instead just waited for Best Buy to do it for me. From my email today, a pitch on how they’ll get me found:
They don’t actually do it — a company called CloudProfile does [...]
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So Google wants to speed up the web, to the degree of saying if your site isn’t fast enough, you might suffer a ranking penalty. I’m all for speed. So here’s a suggestion. Google, take a leadership role in developing a web tracking API, so I can have one script that does it all. Here are [...]
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If you’re link spamming, you suck. If you know someone who is link spamming, they suck — and you should tell them so. If you don’t know why you suck, here’s a story about the human impact of what you do. About a year ago, my wife Lorna Harris launched a social news site [...]
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There are times after a long day that I simply grow weary of the internet and what it reflects of the greater world — that it seems to be full of complete idiots. Today is one of those days. I’ll vent, get it off my chest, and perhaps some imbecile out there will learn from [...]
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Well there’s irony. In a Twitter discussion over fair use, quoting and giving proper credit, an example I first tweeted about how much the AP charges goes full circle back to me, without me getting credit. Man, who can I blame someone for stealing my original journalism? A look at what happened, pulling [...]
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Creative Commons is supposed to be this great way for people to license out their works to others. But it’s annoyed me for ages how lame it is in practice, when it comes to Flickr. Let’s say I want a picture of a car to use on my commercial blog. Using the Flickr Advanced Search page, [...]
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After getting yet another Nigerian scam email that made it through the filters, I joked about wanting to write a novel about someone who really did have access to a fortune but couldn’t get anyone to believe them. Then I got pointed to this xkcd comic, which has a joke about the poor company out [...]
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I’ve been bemused watching Facebook over the past few months try to get some of the Twitter mojo by focusing more on “status updates.” I tend to be with John Battelle that “Twitter is a pencil.” IE — Twitter works because it does one thing well. Facebook is complicated — it’s Photoshop, as John put [...]
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A few weeks ago, my computer crashed. Suddenly, I was fully living in the cloud, depending on Gmail for my email, Google Calendar for my calendar, until I could get Outlook up and running again. And I realized that despite Google wanting the browser to be the interface to everything, software applications still have a [...]
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