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A few people have mentioned this idea before, but I’ve still not seen any actual lolcat advertisements out there. In building my latest site Geek Flirt (a social network/dating site for geeks) I realized that lolcats would be the perfect vector for targeting geeky girls, so I gave it a shot. (click for larger images) […]
As far back as 97 (and probably earlier), we knew that people don’t read on the web. Jakob Nielsen recommended using bulleted lists and sub-headings back then. He didn’t use the word (as far as i know) but he was talking about chunking. From wikipedia: In cognitive psychology and mnemonics, chunking refers to a strategy […]
Dan Boberg starts off by talking about pubcon history and yahoo’s involvement with it. Then he mentions panama, they’ve talked to a lot of users to get input on the new system. They’re going to do a demo of it. He’s saying they’re moving away from a search listing position to a marketing position and […]
A few days ago, I wrote Content is dead and resource is king. A few people liked it (or disagreed with it but found it interesting) and ran with it. Now comes this: Suhweet, nice work Ming.
Following my own advice (which some seem to have liked) I went and created a Duplicate Content Detector tool. Its still very beta (like all the other tools I’ve posted) but its simple and it works. Enter your domain name, select which version is your primary domain (with the WWW or without it) and submit. […]
Copyblogger has piece on links and the sandbox for new blogs in Google. The sandbox is often misconstrued (I’m sure Brian understands this correctly however) as a delay on newly registered domains. Its not, its a delay on the power of links to a site. That’s why its so important for new bloggers to get […]