Archive for the ‘General’ Category
  • 05
  • Oct, 07

Wierd Google Shiftiness

I do a lot of niche research these days. One of my criteria has been a competitive and reachable first page of SERPs on Google. Those that look unattainable end up getting ruled out. While doing this research I noticed something very interesting…
We’ve all been taught to believe in the power of incoming links. Links […]

  • 09
  • Aug, 07

The Domain Name Shuffle

“Help! I’ve changed something in my domain and now it’s all funky! How long is it going to take before it all works again??!?”
I just spent the last week slowly moving over several domains to a new server. I’m worn out by it all… but now it’s done. Here’s some things I’ve learned from the […]

  • 04
  • Aug, 07

Borrrrrinngg….

A story on Digg today got my attention. It was a discussion on how our insults have decayed from a clever retort to todays “pwnt!”
As I sat thru and read them I got quite a good laugh, and suddenly found that a little wit sure goes a long way.
Little insults like:
“Some cause happiness wherever they […]

  • 03
  • Aug, 07

Gotcha!

Had an interesting experience today. In the quest to debug one of my apps I was talking to someone with an interesting problem. His email address was getting double encoded.
Example:
user@domain.com
Normally becomes:
user%40domain.com
When it passes thru the browser.
So what happens when, for some strange unexplained reason, the info is double encoded?
The % in %40 becomes encoded too, […]

  • 29
  • Jul, 07

Changing servers…

It’s been extremely laggy and slow around here lately. Just a note to let everyone know I’ll be moving servers in the next day or 2. So if I drop off the face of the net for a day, you’ll know why.
Wish me luck!

  • 25
  • Jul, 07

Viral videos come true…

The power of viral videos is unquestionable.
But how can you use it to sell your product?
Well just look below. Notice the simple product placement. It’s the centerpiece of the entire video.
Just makes ya think “dang that blender is cool!” On their website you can even buy one in a nicely placed “order now” link.
See the […]

  • 24
  • Jul, 07

Is the web generative?

Is the web a generative media?
Can the world wide web create a completely new brand presence or does it merely reinforce previous ones?
The vast majority of sites are found by search engines. When people search on a term, they already know that term. They may be looking for a topic, or they may be […]

  • 20
  • Jul, 07

And thus it begins…

So here we are. At the start of it all.