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Internet Archive Prevails Over DMCA

The Internet Archive a non-profit group that was founded in 1996 to build an Internet library can breathe a little easier. The Library of Congress has published six exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Smaller Barriers to Increase Conversion Rates

Every online business is focused on their sales conversion, or so I hope. Unfortunately the average online conversion rate is around 3-4%.

Google Must Stay 50 Yards Away From N.C.?

While I can’t claim to have any personal experience with restraining orders, it seems as if they generally involve two people – two human beings, that is. Officials in a North Carolina county recently ignored this convention and took out a restraining order against Google.

CNET editor, family missing

For our West Coast readers in particular, James Kim, a CNET senior digital audio editor, and his wife and two children have been missing since leaving on a Thanksgiving weekend trip from San Francisco to Seattle on November 24th. More …

Nominee for best tech CEO interview ever

Bill Watkins is CEO of Seagate, maker of hard drives “that helps people buy more crap – and watch porn.” The interview with him that’s online at CNNMoney.com is a must-read and an absolute breath of fresh air when compared …

Nick Douglas will post for Huffington

Via Valleywag, their recently dismissed master of mayhem, Nick Douglas, has finally had his new gig revealed, and it’s a step into a much broader blogospotlight than he had with Gawker Media.

Huffington Takes On The Media

Is Arianna going to huff and puff and blow the traditional media down?

Information Security Fundamentally Broken

In May of 2006 I read an article by Noam Eppel on Security Absurdity, Why information security is broken, which can be downloaded here to read the original article.

Technology In PR

Earlier this morning I sat on an PRSA panel about technology in PR, you know, something I clearly have a lot of opinions about.

Personalization in Email Marketing

Marketing by email has grown into a science! No longer can we just throw a hastily written email to our prospects and expect results.

Verifying MSN Bot Activity

Keeping track of your web server stats is an important responsibility for webmasters and SEOers alike. They can provide a lot of valuable marketing information as well as the knowledge concerning which search engines crawlers have hit your site and …

Design, Trust, and Peekaboo

I always liked that line, “If you want to capture someone’s attentionwhisper.” It makes you stop and think for a minute. Another line I swore was my personal tagline in my dating years was, “Once bitten, twice shy.” Both of these can be applied to user centered web design.

C# Programming Aspects and Efficient Types of Training

C# comprises an object-oriented syntax based on the C++ programming language that shares features of several other programming languages (Delphi, Visual Basic and Java being the most prominent names) and places an accent on simplification, reducing the number of symbolic requirements characteristic to other programming languages.

SaaS: the Death Knell for Corporate IT?

The Enterprise Irregulars clubhouse is all abuzz these days about SaaS (Software as a Service, aka on-demand, utility, cloud, utility/cloud computing in a multitenant environment, whatever) and whether it will put an end to enterprise computing as we know it.

Retrieve Subdomain from a URL in C#
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I had to come up with a method that retrieved the subdomain from the current web request on an ASP.NET website.

French Parliament Switching to Open Office

The French parliament has said au revoir’ to Microsoft, according to a Yahoo News report:

Using Windows XP’s Restore Points for PC Recovery
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Have you ever done something to make an improvement and later regretted it?It would be awesome to be able to go back in time and undo the the thing that were supposed to make an improvement.

Yahoo Tweaks Bidding Information

Yahoo’s Search Marketing will make some changes to the information made available to its clients, as they announce alterations to the Manage Bids pages during the transition to its new paid search service.

ClaimID: A Personal PR Firm?

ClaimID is a service that lets you manage the information that is linked to you online. The service boasts that users can influence the search engines, and provide more relevant information when others submit search queries for their specific names.

Unprecedented Holiday Traffic On MSN

Shoppers rang in the traditional start of the holiday gift-buying season with unprecedented traffic on MSN Shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend.

The Google Slap

In the click arbitrage world, some of the least successful players are complaining about something they call the Google Slap.

Changes for Yahoo Search Marketing Bidding

This change has been forthcoming for some time now.

Search Happenings November 2006

You’ve probably heard of Top 5 or Top 10 lists but probably not Top 7. This the spin of uniqueness SEO Space has done for their latest post: Top 7 Search Happenings November 2006.

The Grinch That Taxed Christmas

If you are an avid online holiday shopper, enjoy making some purchases tax-free while you still can.