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ScobleSearch: Search What Scoble Reads

If the mythology is accurate, you can’t keep up with Robert Scoble’s reading and blogging habits.

Thoughts on ITIL

Interesting, skeptical take on ITIL, by a person (Noel Bruton) with some apparent long term presence in the industry.

Keep It Simple, Sergey – Mobile Local Search

As we have suggested before, Mobile Local Search will be the biggest Internet application in use and in cash spin-offs.

Online Video And The Consumer

Thirty-seven percent of consumers with high-speed Internet access are interested in watching TV online in either short or long form according to a new report from Jupiter Research, “Programming for the Three Screens”.

FlashVars in Flex
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Last month I wrote an article about how to use FlashVars in a Flex application.

LookLocal Mashup from Idelix

I recall first hearing about the initial Beta last year and thought to myself… WOW…

Lotus Makes The Collaboration Play

Information overload has led to communication being a chore in the workplace, but IBM thinks its latest goodies from the Lotus division will make work time more like play time.

Online Retailers And Transactional Email

As the number of consumers shopping online continues to grow, more marketers are becoming interested in transactional emails.

Optimizing Your Social Media

In the last 6-12 months social media optimization has been a very highly talked about and discussed venue for traffic.

Google Reveals Confidential User Information?

While last week’s suggestion that Yahoo was switching browser preferences without explicit permission, was a black mark for the company, it doesn’t come close to the allegations that Google has revealed confidential information about its users.

Random Notes – Vanessa Fox, Blog Tools and Other Things

I’ve been playing in MyBlogLog today (we will probably try the image widget out on Monday) and you can just about lose yourself in there if you aren’t careful… Here are some things you may have missed that could be …

Why On-Page SEO is in Demand

To many SEO’s, having a search-engine friendly website is a concern from the start.

The Link Baiting Playbook

Linkbaiting is all about the bait. In the same way that you can’t catch a giant tuna with a bag of doritos – you’re not going to get the attention of important bloggers, journalists, or other folks with some garbage content or news.

ASP.NET: Easily Block DoS Attacks

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming a more and more common way to bring websites and servers down.

Known Issues w/ Flash Player 9 for Linux

Adobe released the Flash Player 9 for Linux 2 days ago. Here are the list of known issues:

Betas and LEGOs

When O’Reilly talked about Web 2.0 and perpetual beta he was tryng to say (I think) that the classic software release cycle is becoming too slow and self-focused for modern companies and that companies should never stop to enhance their applications and services with help from the community.

Yahoo Launches Personal Finance Website

Seeking to increase its already sizeable lead as the Internet’s leading financial portal, Yahoo has launched a new addition to its Finance site, which is geared at helping users make more informed decisions concerning their personal finances.

Diggers are Nuts about Knuttz

The folks over at Knuttz.net have cracked the code on Digg. So listen up, I’m here to explain to you exactly how they do it (well, with one critical missing detail!)

Bloglines Tops Online Feedreader Choices

If visitors to your website choose to add your feed to their web-based reader of choice, they probably have that feed added to Ask.com’s Bloglines service.

Calling Jonathan Schwartz

Matt Mullenweg (the guy who started Automattic, which produces Wordpress, which runs this blog and many others) tells Jonathan Schwartz that Sun Microsystems isn’t there for startups.

Senate Rejects Blogging Bill

The U.S. Senate has shot down a proposal that would have required some political bloggers to register as lobbyists or face prison time for up to 10 years. The Senate approved an amendment that removed the section that would have required some bloggers to be regulated.

CRM – Eliminate Complexity Layers

Traditional approaches to system development include design of both the application and platform strategies.

Kellogg, Yahoo, And The Glass Teat

When Kellogg pulled a Pontiac and told TV viewers to search for its Special K brand cereal on Yahoo!, Hitwise wondered if people really were the sheep Kellogg hoped they’d be. A line graph later, sure enough, people generally do what they’re told, as long as it’s on TV.

Perspectives on Google Reader

Hitwise is reporting that Google Reader is still lagging pretty far behind both Bloglines and Rojo in terms of market share, despite much love from tech writers throughout the blogosphere.