FCC Seeks Comment on Free Internet Plan
Autor admin | 23.06.2008 | Category SEO
Source: Reuters The Federal Communications Commission is seeking feedback on a plan to provide free Internet access throughout the country with a new spectrum auction, the agency said Friday. Under the proposed rules, the winning bidder for the new spectrum would have to filter out pornography and other inappropriate content. It would also carry an open-access requirement, so that all devices and software applications could run on the network. Those provisions and the free-service requirement leave unclear who would actually bid on the proposed auction. The requirements could also spark opposition from incumbent wireless carriers, who have previously raised objections to open-access provisions. (Read the full post about ‘FCC Seeks Comment on Free Internet Plan’…)
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HP Open Sources Unix File System for Linux
Autor admin | 23.06.2008 | Category SEO
HP is opening up its Tru64 Advanced File System (AdvFS) to the open source Linux community in a bid to help further Linux file system innovation.
The AdvFS file system, which has its roots in Digital Equipment Corporation’s Digital Unix, is used in mission-critical deployments by HP customers. But HP, which gained AdvFS through a series of acquisitions, has its own flavor of Unix, HP-UX, with its own file system.
HP’s move to offer AdvFS to the open source community comes as Linux continues moving upstream into deeper mission-critical deployments — where users often expect certain types of Unix functionality that has yet to become available in mainstream Linux file systems.
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Google Trends for Websites Adds to Comparison Sites Confusion
Autor admin | 23.06.2008 | Category SEO
Google Trends for Websites Adds to Comparison Sites Confusion
If you want to see how your site is doing compared to the competition, then the new Google Trends for Websites is yet another option to conduct your research. Following the lead of sites like Compete.com and Alexa, Google Trends for Websites allows you to see a graph of traffic to the sites you designate.
But Google Trends for Websites is only adding to the confusion caused by Compete and Alexa. I used all three to compare SearchEngineWatch.com, SearchEngineLand.com, and SEOmoz.org, three of the leading search blogs. I got three very different graphs. Check out these screenshots.
With all three, there are definite seasonal dips.
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Matt Cutts Shares 5 SEO Tips with USA Today
Autor admin | 23.06.2008 | Category SEO
Matt Cutts Shares 5 SEO Tips with USA Today
USA Today recently asked Google’s Matt Cutts for tips to help sites rank in their search engine. Cutts offered up 5 tips plus a word of advice in implementing the tips. Here they are:
- Spotlight your search term on the page. If you want to be found for your keyword, make sure that term is on the page you want to rank.
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Google Trends for Websites Adds to Comparison Sites Confusion
Autor admin | 23.06.2008 | Category SEO
Google Trends for Websites Adds to Comparison Sites Confusion
If you want to see how your site is doing compared to the competition, then the new Google Trends for Websites is yet another option to conduct your research. Following the lead of sites like Compete.com and Alexa, Google Trends for Websites allows you to see a graph of traffic to the sites you designate.
But Google Trends for Websites is only adding to the confusion caused by Compete and Alexa. I used all three to compare SearchEngineWatch.com, SearchEngineLand.com, and SEOmoz.org, three of the leading search blogs. I got three very different graphs. Check out these screenshots.
With all three, there are definite seasonal dips.
(Read the full post about ‘Google Trends for Websites Adds to Comparison Sites Confusion’…)
Yandex to Open Labs Office in Bay Area
Autor admin | 23.06.2008 | Category SEO
Yandex to Open Labs Office in Bay Area Russia’s most popular search engine has officially announced plans to open a labs office in Silicon Valley. This news began to leak last week with the departure of Yahoo SVP and General Manager of Search, Vishal Makhijani. Makhijani will be President of Yandex Labs in the Bay Area, and will report directly to the CEO of Yandex. Yandex says it sees about 1 billion searches per month. Last month, Google saw 6.8 billion searches, while Yahoo saw 2.2 billion, according to comScore. Yandex came in third in European search market share data for the month of March. “We did not hesitate to go the extra mile to find this rare talent,” said Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex, the parent company. (Read the full post about ‘Yandex to Open Labs Office in Bay Area’…)
Hot, Tiny Ads: Banner Ads for Mobile Screens
Autor admin | 23.06.2008 | Category SEO
Last week I stepped you through the creation of your first mobile content advertising campaign. This week I’ll describe best practices for designing mobile banner ads that’ll help you maximize response and conversion rates. I’ve already devoted two columns to best practices in non-text ad design (”Contextual Advertising Best Practices: Banners and Video Ads,” and “Every Picture Tells a Story: Non-text Contextual Ads”). A mobile banner ad needs to work really hard despite its diminutive size. (Read the full post about ‘Hot, Tiny Ads: Banner Ads for Mobile Screens’…)
So Far, Twitter Falters On The Political Front
Autor admin | 23.06.2008 | Category SEO
So Far, Twitter Falters On The Political Front
This weekend, the Personal Democracy Forum hosted a Twitter-only political experiment. The participants gave it the old college try, including a Time magazine blogger and Obama and McCain representatives. At least so far, Twitter falters on the political front.
My main complaint is that it’s too hard to follow the topics among the participants. Also there’s no simple way to browse all their tweets together, beyond the most recent 20 messages.
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Is Vista Still a Flop With IT?
Autor admin | 23.06.2008 | Category SEO
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of Windows Vista’s demise have been exaggerated.
Somewhat, at any rate.
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. recently released a report that indicated Vista still isn’t ringing many bells with major IT shops.
“A year of overwhelmingly bad publicity, coupled with opportunities for continued XP ‘downgrades’ or potentially skipping over Vista for Windows 7, look to have meaningfully eroded support for Vista and are likely to impair the product’s overall adoption,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoted the report as stating.
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