Your Personal Information Is Not Yours
A couple of things happened to me this week that made me say Hmmmmmmm. I find it interesting how often things happen in groups. Maybe when I’m doing or thinking about an issue I’m just “tuned in” to finding more. First I got a postcard form my old High School, Taylor Allderdice. They are putting […]
Google Opens Up (A Little)
In an effort to open up their formally (and still) secretive formulas for ranking your web page Google has added to their Official Webmaster Blog. It’s a very nice post called “Introduction to Google Search Quality” and is written by Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality. He (I think it’s a he) explains that web […]
I Want To Be Found For Pittsburgh Web Design
A customer of mine, Talk’nTables asked me why he couldn’t be found on Google for his keyword choice of “tabletop advertising”. I explained to him that those words did not appear anywhere on his page. He needed to add them in the headlines and content of his page(s). Within a few days he was on […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Planet Earth Game
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Planet Earth Game by the Discovery Chanel lets you be the executive producer for “Planet Earth”. You will manage seven film crews across the globe to acquire never before seen footage for this groundbreaking new series from […]
Cool Free Tool – LyX
One of my customers who is a writer krahesnest.com asked me if I knew of any tools to help a writer organize their work. She knew that I am a big open source fan and thought that I could help her find something that would be an effective tool for a writer. I found LyX […]
Cool New Free Tool – Freind Connect
This looks really cool. Google is releasing a beta version of Friend Connect, a service designed to let Web publishers add social networking features to their sites. You will be able to add social features to your site without any programming ability. They will provide you with some short snippets of copy and paste code. […]
Can You Post Too Little?
I have a customer called Chamber Musicians. I set them up a blog and at first the postings were pretty often. The other day I mentioned to them that their last post was a bit old. They asked me if it would be better to take the blog down. This presents an interesting dilemma which […]
Great New Free Tool – JWChat
JWChat – Jabber Web Chat This looks very interesting. An easy way to add web based chat or conferencing to your site. The demo is very easy to use and the install seems pretty straightforward. Because it web based none of your users need to install anything on their own computers. It’s free and open […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Mahjongg: Mom Jongg
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) AARP has some very cool free games on their site. In honor of Mothers Day and moms everywhere they have Mahjongg: Mom Jongg. It’s just like online Mah Jongg with Mom in mind. Happy Mothers Day! Play […]
Great Plug-ins For Word Press
I replied to a Craigslist ad the other day for someone looking to update their website. They replied that they wanted several things: google ads mailing list where people can sign up for promotions, news etc take questions from people and compile into a newsletter to be sent out do surveys do podcasts sell ebooks […]
