Links for 2005-12-13
- The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 I'm not buying the Web 2.0 = web app concept as such, but this is still a pretty solid list of good web apps out there and hence (at the very least) pretty much a place to find the gold standard to get inspired by...
- The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users I know pretty much all of this stuff, but del.icio.us can have a bit of a learning curve for new users. It's generally worth it in the end though. Explore away!
- Punk photographer Andy Rosen has signed up for Flickr and is starting to post his private collection... Astonishing stuff - and apparently confirmed by various people around the place. Mass amateurisation goes both ways, as professionals start to take advantage of the more innovative tools of the little guys...
- Openomy - an online file-system with tags Haven't had a play with this yet, but I'm intrigued by the idea of enhancing the very idea of online storage in various ways. Bears further investigation...
- Yahoo! offers Movable Type as part of its offering for small professional outfits "Yahoo will effectively act as the preferred provider of Movable Type for small business users, taking advantage of its scale and efficiency, Anil Dash, vice president of professional products for San Francisco-based Six Apart, said in a phone interview."
- Hotwiring Your Search Engine Repulsive SEOs wallow in their own crapulence over on Newsweek, happy to ignore the evidence that search engine position based on lies is always going to be under attack from search engines eager to reduce spam.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
That's a bollocks article in Newsweek. The author plainly fails to make the distinction between 'buil[ding] a new, easy-to-use Web store' and 'pepper[ing] online bulletin boards and shoe-enthusiast Web sites with links'.
Describing the featured SEO as a 'white hat' jars with the actual content of the piece for anyone with a clue about the tactics. Heck, Stone himself talks about how said SEO is 'betting that major search engines misinterpret these ad links'.
It's a total snow job. And will, of course, boost his search rankings.
[ moment of calm before irate SEOs arrive to whine ]
→ Posted by: nick at December 13, 2005 2:15 AM
I think it's important to remember there is a distinction to be made - 'black hat' and 'white hat' SEOs are at completely different ends of the spectrum in terms of the techniques they use (not to mention the many shades of grey in between).
Personally I'm of the opinion that restructuring my content, cleaning up my sites and making sure my links are SE friendly is exactly what the likes of Yahoo and Google would like us to be doing - it makes indexing good content easier.
It might grate on a few people however that you've used pretty damning language regarding SEOs without making that distinction - especially given who you work for.
Oh, and 'black hat' SEOs are aware that they're in a tenuous position - that's why they keep changing their techniques as often as the SEs change their algos...
→ Posted by: Chris at December 13, 2005 8:09 PM
Chris, my feelings on search engine optimisers are pretty much a matter of record - Against Search Engine Optimisers. Obviously I don't speak for Yahoo - if you want to know about that stuff, you can read my disclaimer. Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned 'white-hat' search engine optimisers are either called 'good web designers that build things well for people or help bad sites get good for people' or are oxymoronic.
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at December 13, 2005 8:59 PM
I just about vomited at that article. How can you consider yourself a white hat anything when your sitting there studying patents. ugh.
→ Posted by: Sam at December 14, 2005 2:05 AM