Facebook social network launched a branded classifieds section using technology from Oodle. This is an excellent strategic move, and saves them hundreds of thousands of dollars and lets them launch instantly. Writing your own code always takes longer and costs more. What is unclear is how much these students will engage in commerce. Everyone I…
From the “sticks and stones can break my bones and words can never hurt me” dept. Leading media executives took a combative tone against Google and internet companies, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new players like Google to be enemies in the forest. In a recurring theme, media owners have a complete misunderstanding of…
There is a great new Wrox book out combining my favorite language (besides French) PHP with search engine optimization. Written by Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie of SEO Egghead, this book teaches search engine optimization through site architecture and page structure and gives real world usable code examples. Unlike books written by marketers, this is…
Many Google employees spend a large portion of their time personally helping webmasters and SEO’s get a better understanding of Google. They also provide tips on fixing their websites’ problems and clarify Google’s crawling technology. One of these awesome people is Adam Lasnik, who posted a ton of helpful and personal information at WebmasterWorld. He…