Category Archives: Technology

Robert Scoble vs Facebook (or Freedom of Information vs. Commercial Silo-ing)

By André SC | Published: 3 January 2008
The Robert Scoble vs. Facebook saga is me thinks a taste of some of what is to come in the year and even years ahead. Its the old silo-race rearing its ugly little head again. Basically Facebook is saying you’re allowed to use ‘your’ accounts information as long as you do so manually, thus their [...]
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WordPress 2.3 ‘will break a few plugins’

By André SC | Published: 28 August 2007
A brand new – and much better way of dealing with the old tags vs. categories dilemma is probably one of the most exciting aspects of the new WordPress. On the downside it means that some of the more interesting plugins – those plugins that work directly with the database will need some intensive care [...]
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A link exchange strategy that makes sense

By André SC | Published: 21 July 2007
I like what Mr Des Walsh has to add to the usual rhetoric about the increasing pointlessness of ‘link exchanges’ and unsolicited requests for reciprocal link.
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the new UNIVERSAL Google search

By André SC | Published: 17 May 2007
The interface design changes that go along with Google’s new ‘Universal Search Model’ – maybe it means Google wants to make more of the decisions for the user, maybe they feel the blended search result types makes specific search types less important – which it probably does. Google’s New Navigational Links: An Illustrated Guide … Those [...]
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kiss online radio goodbye, courtesy the Royalty Rates Crisis

By André SC | Published: 16 May 2007
imagine there was a law passed on an ice cream tax, and the tax rate depended on... You can still kiss your favorite on-line radio station goodbye.
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…just a nation of copycats?

By André SC | Published: 15 May 2007
ideas on their own, no matter how original or brilliant are utterly worthless.
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‘there are no rules out there in the blogosphere’

By André SC | Published: 13 May 2007
'Name and shame offensive bloggers'? Perhaps, but only if your intention is to support them, and to what ever end? Oh, and anonymity, me thinks like fairness and good taste can be a pleasant comfort but is mere illusion, nothing more.
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Ebay + Stumble Upon = a Big Deal ?

By André SC | Published: 9 May 2007
eBay has taken the idea of supply chain efficiency off the scale. Now add to eBay one very popular discovery engine with in depth profiling intelligence, and you have the makings of something truly impressive, almost scary.
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Some Ends and Odds of SEO

By André SC | Published: 7 May 2007
ITWEB’s new publication ByteSize, inaugural edition (March 2007) features a nice short and sweet introduction to SEO on page 98, geared like the rest of the publications smartly at the SME context. It closes with a url for a Forrester report based on interviews with 20 companies, including Avenue A | Razorfish. (ByteSize is a [...]
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