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Halliburton Bounces Boing Boing

Content filters, the scourge of office Internet goof-offs everywhere, claimed a very high-profile victim by blocking people behind those filters from visiting the most-heavily trafficked blog on the Internet.

Stanford Daily At It Again

I’m just going to shake my head in shame. The Stanford Daily was caught 10 months ago spamming the web with fake articles designed to generate Google juice.

Website Usability – Is Your Site a Boy Band?

Born out of the imagination of managers and producers and assembled like a dysfunctional puzzle, the boy band is a marketing phenomenon designed with one specific goal in mind.

Yahoo Launches New APIs

Yahoo has just not quite made available new APIs via the Yahoo! Developer Network.

First UMPCs Shown; More Origami Details

Intel revealed, to an extent, the first Ultra Mobile PCs. CNet has a picture of the device, which has a 7-inch screen, x86 processor, and runs full versions of modern operating systems.

Yahoo Syndicating Shopping

A revved-up version of the Shopping API Yahoo made available today on its Developer Network offers commercial clients product search, price comparison, ratings & reviews, and shopping browsing too.

Reuse or Write New?

Sometime last summer I was involved in a fairly complicated Perl project. It was one of those “Well, it’s just like the thing you did for X, but now we need it for Y and Z”.

Oodle Partners with Lycos and Backpage

We’ve gotten a sneak peak at a new press release coming out later today from classified search engine Oodle.

LL Cool J and NBCU Loves the Ladies

Yes, the ladies love cool Jeremy – and, now, there’s proof that NBC Universal loves the cool ladies as well as it bought iVillage for $600M.

Walmart uses bloggers, NYT says

Walmart is starting to use bloggers, this New York Times article says.

Fold Looks Promising

Fold is a Web 2.0 start page that looks promising.

New Microsoft idea: Clipboard for the Web

Ray Ozzie just showed an audience at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference a new idea: clipboard for the Web.

Simple Schedule

I often get asked for web-based scheduling programs. I’ve done quite a few of them over the years, sometimes using scripts available from the web, but more often writing my own simply because I don’t like modifying other people’s code.

Danah disagrees with me about MySpace

Danah Boyd wrote me last night and said she “vehemently disagrees” with my reporting that ugly design is behind MySpace’s success.

Search Relevance is Dead!

I’ve been saying for a long time that the race for “relevance” among search engines is over.

Laying Tracks For Shopping Feed Standards

Submitting product data to comparison shopping sites and search engines can be a taxing process. Each engine has its own feed format and special requirements that create extra work and lower ROIs for retailers while reducing revenue and efficiency for the engines (especially the smaller ones). Understandably, then, a movement has begun to standardize the process.

Digg Gives Thumbs Up To Comments

An updated comment system for the Digg user-contributed news site offers several new features, including ratings for comments and a three-minute window to edit the comments one makes on a story.

How to Drive the Right Customer Management Software

As companies battle to win new customers and keep current ones, more companies wanting to leverage their sales and marketing strategies, strengthen their workforce, and utilize the best tools available, are making Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software choices.

Marketing via Wikipedia

I’m sitting in an airline lounge at Dulles, having just finished a talk on new media to the annual gathering of US Army Public Affairs officers.

Seth Godin’s speech on Marketing at Google

Six time best selling author, Seth Godin speaks to Google as part of their Authors@Google series.

Blogs, Consumer Generated Media and Buzz

One of the areas of online marketing and PR that continues to gain interest is buzz marketing through blogs and similar consumer generated media.

MSN Not Beating Google In Six Months

After stirring up the search engine world with comments that MSN Search will be more relevant than Google in six months, Microsoft Europe president Neil Holloway backpedaled from his remarks.

MSN adCenter Open Enrollment

Precise demographic targeting is the wave of the future, and adCenter has delivered an advanced platform that’s poised to deliver enormous value to search marketers.

Microsoft’s adCenter PPC ad platform has excited search marketers since it appeared in beta form last year. Why? Because for the first time, we can target searchers by age, gender and to some extent, by lifestyle.

Business Blog ROI

Katie Paine has conceded a point to Shel Israel: As cheap as they are to set up and maintain, there’s really no need to measure the ROI of blogs.