Inspired by this article at Read/Write Web, I decided to make a search engine out of one of my bookmark collections. Discover Semantic searches about 70 sites dealing with the semantic web (aka “web 3.0″). It covers W3 recommendations, specifications, tools, tutorials, and dozens of blogs about semweb. If nothing else, it was interesting to [...]
Like every year since spinning off W3Counter from Website Goodies in 2004, it’s exceeded its hardware capacity once again in December. Initially the service shared a Celeron 2.4/512MB server with all of my websites. It then grew into its own Pentium 4 3.0GHz/1GB server, then into a 2-processor 4-core Opteron/4GB setup. This time it’s outgrown [...]
The SEO community’s buzzing over official word from Google that selling text links can hurt your PR and rankings. It’s truly sad that $600-a-share Google is willing to ruin its own search results because they can’t figure out how to differentiate paid ads from useful links. They’re not always different things, either, one of many [...]
I spend more time writing on forums than on this blog, so I’m going to start sharing the more interesting threads I participate in here as well. WebDesignofMaine: Google is number 1. I think Google is going to take over the world. Think about where we are as a civilization, the information age, and who [...]
Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application 37Signals’ book on web application development is now free to read online. No more $19 to download. It’s written without much fluff and with a lot of whitespace — a quick read.
Agile processes, are they killing our children? A cynically comical look at how software life cycles are really done.. among other things. Thanks to dagfinn at SitePoint for that link.
It began with Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company’s founders, decided to build a search engine which didn’t rank pages primarily by keyword density like their competition. Early search engines were easy to fool — fill your page with the same phrase over and over and you’d appear near the top of search [...]
