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The Power of CSS

CSS or cascading style sheets are used to create a set of styles that can be applied to your fonts, tables and most other attributes of your web page.

Battelle Aims For Ad Mogulhood

In his discussion about Federated Media (FM) Publishing with Performancing’s Nick Wilson, noteworthy author/publisher John Battelle touched on the importance of ads for his nascent company.

Page Rank Engine Released In Beta

A new meta-search engine has been released in beta that searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN and organizes results by page rank. P.R.A.S.E. (Page Rank Assisted Search Engine) is designed to eliminate duplicate results and streamline the process of finding link partners when building for SEO.

Amazon Connects, But It’s Not Blogging

A new service from Amazon.com lets authors connect with their fans by posting extra content about their books or forthcoming works.

CSS in Flash: the Return of Crisp and Legible Fonts

A typical challenge faced by Flash developers like me is getting fonts to look like you want them to.

Apples iPod Year And Other Groovy Stuff

A number of tech companies have had big years but none may have had a bigger year than Apple. Apple has become of a part of the zeitgeist as much as pop stars and famous actors. It’s all because of a little handheld music player called the iPod.

Opera, Google Extend Search Placement

Google is the default search option in the Opera web browser for PCs, and the two firms have extended their agreement to place Google on Opera browsers made for smaller devices.

Search Related Philanthropic Foundations

This happens every year. The Yuletide holidays leave a massive hole in the world of search engine news. To be blunt, practically nothing major is happening at this time.

Knowledge Management Creating a Sustainable Yellow Pages System
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How can I “know who knows”? None of us can personally know more than around 250 people, yet we want our companies to be smart, learning organisations where it’s easy to find the right person to talk to.

2005 Search Engine Journal Blog Awards

Many thanks to the readers and responders who nominated our blog as one of the top search engine optimization related blogs of 2005.

Ballmer, Gates, And Glam Rock On MSN

Microsoft plans on making six hours of content available from New York’s Times Square and covering various musical performances during the celebration.

Insecurity At The FBI Jobs Website

Information technology workers who manage to find employment at the Federal Bureau of Investigation may want to make their first task improving the security certificate used on FBIJobs.gov.

Ten Tips for Blogging

Congratulations, you have a blog! Or are thinking of starting one. Here are ten tips to keep in mind while blogging.

Men Are From Google, Women Are From Yahoo
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On the Internet, as in life, men and women have different motivations for doing what they do. According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life, women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities.

2006 Predictions

It is that time of year again. Between the extra helpings of turkey soup and sandwiches, writers of every stripe are making lists of predictions for the coming twelve months.

Search Moguls Embrace Hollywood

Financial Times men of the year, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, will be billed as executive producers of an indie film by an old college friend.

Google Steamrolls Wall Street

juggernaut: n. 1. Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion; 2. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path-Dictionary.com

Shoppers Start At MSN, Yahoo

Internet users may be using Google to sift through all the world’s information, but a slightly higher percentage of online shoppers start their trips on Yahoo and MSN.

Will Musicians Hear The Magnatune?

As Eliot Spitzer gives music fans everywhere the holiday gift of seeing the four major music labels squirm in the face of his office’s investigation of digital music download pricing, musicians may start considering other online options.

Still No One-Stop Travel Search

Though travel bookings remain the largest component of e-commerce, generating over of third of the $145 billion US online market, no single travel search engine (TSE) has emerged as the best one-stop shop for finding the best rates on airfare, hotels, or car rentals, says Consumer Reports WebWatch. The bottom line is, says WebWatch, you’d better shop around.

Flickr Video: A Great Example of CGM

Jonathan Coultons a funny guy. Some time ago, Neville and I played his song “Skullcrusher Mountain,” a love song sung by a typical movie evil genius to the girl he’s kidnapped.

One Man’s Victory Over Spam

A UK businessman found unwanted messages in his inbox, so he turned to a European Union law that permits claiming damages from the spammers in court.