There’s a thread on the DigitalPoint Forums asking “Wikipedia gone No Follow?”

I was working on a Flex project when I hit a brick wall. I had a very simple form.

I’ve been playing with GMail and Google Reader lately and becoming more accustomed to the AJAX/Javascript interfaces. Which got me to thinking how good are they at separating humans from clickbots.

Sugar CRM is commercial Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes, based on the LAMP stack (Linux-OS; Apache-Web Server; MySQL-Database Server; PHP-Programming Language).

While Phil Lenssen brilliantly handled this particular subject over at Google Blogoscoped, the facts bear repeating (sorry Greg): In a move of staggeringly poor research, the Rock the Vote site updated their index page with tribute to MLK, complete with …

Where ads look like content, or people are willing to pay for ads as content you can make a lot of money, but if your website is about marketing, and you heavily place ads on it there is no way to know how much that is going to cost you.

The Japanese government plans to amend existing copyright laws to make allowances for search engine indexing, according to Japan Today.

You can thin-slice your way, and I’ll probably keep on thin-slicing in my way. What’s not in dispute is that I, you, and your customers will all continue to do so. (So will your friends, relatives, investors, and the police.)

After spending a week writing “Social Media Killed the Press Release Star,” which painstakingly explains in great detail the need to improve the content and overall relevance of PR and press releases as well as putting a microscope on why the hell a social media (or let’s just call it “an overhauled”) release WILL exist, people still don’t get it.

I chanced to find a most staggering item on Karen Blakeman’s Blog entitled UK Government to Close Down Web Sites.

Quality, compelling content that your target audience will read, digg and otherwise link to is the goal of most blog articles.

This in turn brings visitors to your blog, and might even attract a new subscriber or a lead or two.

But what happens when you sit down with your Red Bull, Coffee or other favorite writing beverage, ready to crank out some quality content, but can’t quite think of anything compelling to write about? Here are some of the things that I do that help me get over what my associates call “writers bloggage?”

In their existence, Google Maps and Google Earth have displayed quite a few odd images. Prepare to see a lot more, courtesy of the citizens of Sydney, Australia. Google is going to take some new pictures of the area, and the search engine company has not only given the public a heads up – it’s encouraged them to put on a show for the cameras.

Last week, I mentioned something about my indoctrination into the MyBlogLog phenomenon and how the service – because of their established social network – could become one of the more popular blogger tools available, if they decide to leverage blog …

One of the simplest things a webmaster, who is running a web metrics package to track site statistics, can do to boost micro-conversions (clicked links, clicked ads, etc.) and macro-conversions (sales) is to start a master log of changes.

The new year finally seems to be on track, as new rumors about Google merrily bounced around the Internet, bringing tales of e-book distribution and in-game advertising with them.

The term BrinBoost I recently coined is unlikely to go anywhere.

Download Squad’s Jordan Running took upon the task of discovering which stores, beyond the 15 listed on the promo page, are participating in Google Checkout’s deal that gives ten dollars off the first purchase a new Google Checkout user makes.

Want to find an old Monty Python clip? Or watch a Mr. Bean sketch? Odds are that you can do so at Google Video, even though the BBC never gave its permission. This story isn’t about some impending lawsuit, though – reports indicate that “the Beeb” wants to strike a deal with Google and make even more content available.

Right now search relevancy algorithms are heavily tied to overall authority, but given enough time publishers and search marketers will undermine that measure of relevancy the same way that keyword density and raw PageRank died off.

If using a well-made Wikipedia entry to boost a site’s PageRank has been part of your search optimization strategy, you will have to cross that tactic off the list.

A recent court decision in Arizona is being touted as a victory for free speech and for the right to speak anonymously online.

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

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

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