Firstly the “What” – Cleaning a database is done to:

Muhammad Saleem, a very perceptive blogger who is also a top submitter at Digg and Netscape, has written a post that looks at the problems with “socially-driven” news sites, using as an example a fake news story that someone submitted to Digg about Sony recalling 650,000 PlayStations. The story made it to the front page of the site in only a couple of hours, and stayed there until it was apparently removed. Muhammad sees this as another example of how many people don’t read stories.

Blogger Niall Kennedy delved into the murkiness surrounding a site that hit the front page of Digg and several other social media websites, and found a hugely intertwined mix of link-baiting and keyword-targeting in place that profits from the viral nature of stories that grab attention.

Now that we’re over last year’s holiday marketing trickeryCyber Monday my big toe!it’s time to accept what the marketing gods have lain before us, and make the most of it. Google is leading the charge this year, aggressively pushing its new Google Checkout product with Cyber Monday special promotions.

Darren Rowse reports Technorati has launched a Link Count Widget which allows bloggers to display the number of inbound links for any given blog post.

Idearc launched their local search engine, which is a spin off of Verizon.

Advertising.com announced a deal yesterday that it will collaborate with Japanese company Mitsui & Co. Ltd. to serve the Japanese online advertising market.

There is no doubt in my mind, that ASP.NET is the most powerful and versatile platform for web applications at the moment.

A group blog I write for on occassion is hosting a carnival of customer service and invited the group to contribute.This is a business blog directed towards small and medium sized businesses on issues ranging from legal considerations to SEO. The invite made me think about how SEO can affect a customer’s experience with a site and it’s brand.

Euphemisms are used in many areas of politics.

The rapidly approaching Thanksgiving holiday in the United States will be swiftly followed by “Black Friday,” with shoppers heading out to begin dispersing parts of their credit card limits to retailers.

Enquiro has released a new eye tracking report and it’s worth every penny of the $149 you’ll pay to get your hands on it.

SnapStream has added a new option to their Beyond TV video recording software. It will allow users to create DVDs for their favorite television shows. Users will be able to use a burning plug-in to record their programs.

In today’s business world it is not uncommon for many sales people to work from a home office. At first this may seem like a great opportunity, however, it does create some unique challenges.

PodZinger has announced the results of its proprietary research into consumer behavior and online video advertising viewing preferences. The research reveals that not only will viewers tolerate advertisements that appear during their search for online audio and video content, they willingly accept that short ads come with the territory.

Free translation site Cucumis provides an online community for multi-lingual users to share their linguistical knowledge.

There are some features in the System.Data.DataTable class that a lot of developers don’t utilize.

First up is Christine Churchill (who’s a great speaker by the way).

But you don’t have to have them. Lots of great tips from this site on being more secure and productive with email. Posted by David Utter

On Friday last week, there was a great piece by Julia Beizer in the Washington Post Express about a different category of fantasy games that offer an alternative to Fantasy Football.

I sat down with Matt Cutts for a few minutes at the 2006 edition of PubCon in Las Vegas. We chatted for a few minutes about a variety topics ranging from spam to social media to Kentucky Basketball. View All …

Last week on the Cre8PC blog Kim Krause Berg mentioned two new usability documents released by Larry Constantine. The post led me to one of Larry’s older documents entitled Beyond User-Centered Design and User Experience: Designing for User Performance, which I have just recently read. The previous link will take you to a page where you can download the PDF.

t looks like the Supreme Court has ruled protection over online libel suits.

CBS permitted YouTube to carry clips of shows uploaded by the network, and the result has been that CBS content enjoyed millions of views of those clips for the past four weeks.