From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Web News & Views #6

January 29, 2010

in web news

It’s time for the loosely termed “weekly web news roundup” here. I love my Google Reader but there’s just so many sources I’ve subscribed to, that I can’t realistically as much as skim over more than 2-3 days worth of headlines. Speaking of which, Google Reader now lets you subscribe to pages that don’t have [...]

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I just went over my files and I have way over one hundred domain names I need to develop (that’s on top of a similar number of developed sites). It’s daunting. And it’s not lack of ideas that bothers me, just the sheer volume of work that has to be put into these babies before [...]

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I’ve never actually tried to add a file for people to download on any of my WordPress blogs. Until today, that is. I guess there’s always a first time? I had a cat-themed template designed and I wanted to share it with site visitors. Now, with HTML, it’s fairly simple. I have done that before. [...]

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Just when you think we’ve seen it all, a new social media application comes along and wham! it rocks the Internet, getting its founders into the digital Hall of Fame. When it seems the online arena is densely populated with huge corporations, is it still possible for you to come up with the next big thing [...]

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Keyword Synonyms and Google

January 20, 2010

in SEO

I’ve seen so many webmasters obsess over keyword density. My latest encounter with this practice was while submitting an article to ezinearticles. My naturally written articles kept getting rejected by their site because of “keyword density” issues. They measured word ratio and key phrase ratio and ignored synonyms. To adhere to their demands, I opened up a thesaurus and [...]

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Web News & Views #5

January 18, 2010

in web news

I finally got around to checking the RSS reader, so sharing some articles and posts here today. The Haiti Disaster was and unfortunately still is major headlines. Google not only donated $1M but also helped assess damages using their extensive damages. Here’s a post showing before and after satellite imagery, and a link to Google’s [...]

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During the end of December, my Skype account kept warning me that come 2010, I’ll be losing all of the money in my Skype-out account. Since it only came to $6, I didn’t bother doing much about it. The people I Skype with all have Skype too, so I rarely got to use the Skype-out [...]

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So, what is up with the much awaited Caffeine? Back in November 11th I had blogged about Matt Cutts’s announcement that Caffeine won’t be launched until “after the holidays”. At the time, Matt said Google decided to wait with the launch of their highly acclaimed new algorithm update out of consideration for webmasters. The idea [...]

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