Market Ruler, LLC develops software for web marketers – and as such, I’m always on the lookout for new technologies to make life easier on the PPC and SEO crowd.
I recently took the SEOMoz toolset for a spin, and in one of their tests, I saw that they automatically checked the Google PageRank of a site. Since I’m the type who likes to see how this is done … … read more
Quick statistics (as of 3/25/2009 at 4:06 PM) for some popular terms based on the search results on the White House’s “Open For Questions” site: … read more
Like hundreds of others, I have to respond to Eric Clemens Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet article on TechCrunch because it appears to be linkbait or flamebait, or worse. What follows is a summary and discussion of his arguments, most of which seem to ignore the past 14 years of internet evolution. … read more
This expression relates to the coal mining days when ventilation in coal mines was often insufficient, and mining was was a very dangerous and difficult task.
Coal miners would bring a canary with them. Canaries tend to be sensitive to methane and carbon dioxide and so when the canary died … read more
Found a workaround for a window focus problem with Google’s Chrome browser. … read more
Wow. It’s 2009, and apparently DNS can only support reading configuration file lines which are not greater than 255 characters. I received the following error … read more
What part of "Do Not Email" do you not understand?
I used Monster three years ago, and they just don’t get it.
As a quick comment on the service, it’s the “shotgun” effect of … read more
We accumulate a lot of junk in life. And when I say we, I think I mean the “American People”, but what I really mean is: me.
My mother has perfected the art of accumulating things: She still resides in the house-I-grew-up-in (a 6 bedroom, 5 bathroom home) wherein each and every room is populated with … read more
Score one for the users. Facebook changed their terms of service back to the pre-February-4th version.
If you want to share your thoughts on what should be in the new terms, check out our group Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
Thanks to everyone who visited and participated in the discussion. It’s been quite a few days!
Yoink!
As I’ve become embroiled in the hulaballoo over Facebook’s Terms of Service changes on Sunday, there have been many discussions on Facebook (and off) concerning the concept of ownership.
Ownership, in the legal sense, related to “rights” over content. (Or Intellectual Property, in this case.) Photos, Images, Drawings, Music, anything you type into a web browser and submit.
