I came across this video podcast episode of PBS’s Wired Science with Luis von Ahn, the guy who came up with “Captcha“, those fuzzy looking words that you have to enter on websites sometimes as proof that you are human.
“Captcha” was developed to prevent automation (usually via scripting) of a process, such as the creation […]
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I revisited today an older post of mine that talks about paid links and the problems that I have with the way how Google is trying to solve the problem. One of the last comments to the post asked a question, which many professional SEOs probably asked themselves too. I never did, because I am […]
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In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as print seem to be archaic.
But print is not just dead yet. As a matter of fact, blogging might be popular with the influencers and early adopters so is the general […]
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The amount of activity and participation of people on sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, Del.icio.us and other so called social media sites and social networks that make up what we call the new Web or Web 2.0, did not go unnoticed by the big business out there.
The possibilities to do something good […]
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Google launched without making much public fuzz about it, the beta tests of a new feature for Google AdWords called “Automatic Matching”.
Dan Thies over at SEO Fast Start broke this just over one week ago on February 22, 2008 and warned advertisers not to “fall for this” and disable this option (which gets obviously enabled […]
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Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web every day and could be announced via an email newsletter and checked out by everybody every day.
The sites were generally good and rich on content. Junk was the exception, so […]
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I know, it has been a while since my last post, but I was crazy busy. I have something else that I plan to write about in my queue, but it is not finished yet. But I have something else ready that is also fairly useful in my humble opinion.
Here is a long and pretty […]
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In case that you are not a frequent SEOMoz.org Blog reader (something I suggest to remedy :)); they are currently conducting a very detailed SEO industry survey.
See the SEO Industry Survey Homepage
The survey asks a wide range of questions about yourself, your employments, type of business, use of tools and services as well as what […]
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Warning! This post uses metaphors and some phrases that are not suitable for children’s eyes and ears. It is directed towards other bloggers and not the average public who does not know about the struggles and fights that occur invisible to them behind blog plug-ins and comment management and review tools and are part of […]
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About Security
There are rarely talks about security breaches and problems that did or could result from those breaches in the public. The reason for that are simple, it is often embarrassing for the owner of the compromised account to admit the breach and for the solution provider to get possible flaws exposed that could result […]
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