Microsoft Launches Windows Vista
It’s here after 6 years and more than $25 billion in R&D. According to the research firm IDC, Windows Vista will be installed on more than 90 million computers worldwide in its first year, including 35 million in this USA generating sales of about $70 billion in products and services.
According Wikipedia, Microsoft had originally hoped [...]
Wikipedia to add Nofollow Attribute to Links
Wikipedia has added rel=”nofollow” onto URLs in the en.wikipedia.org’s article namespace. This move was in response to a rumor of a “search engine optimization world championship” contest targeting Wikipedia.
The attribute was implemented on January 20th. Here is an example from the Wiki Backlink page showing that the attribute has been inserted into the link [...]
Performancing to Shut Down Partners Ad Network
Chris Garrett, Performancing CEO, announced today that they will shut down the Partners Ad Network. Ads currently in the system will continue to run until the end of the month at which time the ad code will stop working. Bloggers are instructed to take ad code off their templates then. Remaining ad time will be [...]
Performancing beta tests “Network Ads”
Advertisers have have been a bit slow at booking individual ads on Performancing Networks member blogs (especially for low traffic blogs). Bloggers have complained that the publisher sign-up medallion takes up valuable sidebar space. As a solution, Performancing has launched Network Ads. They’re CPA (cost per action) ads that fill unsold ad space until a [...]
Hide your Email Address from Spammers with Escape Code
There is nothing worse than having your email inbox fill up spam just after you set it up. You need to post your email address on your blog/webpage so that readers/customers can contact you. How can you prevent the spammers from getting it while allowing legitimate users access? WordPress plugins and scripts that use CAPTCHAs [...]
Naked Conversations - on Amazon’s Best Books of 2006 List
Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel made it on Amazon’s Best Books of 2006, Top 10 Editors’ Picks: Computers & Internet.
Robert Scoble helps run Microsoft’s Channel 9 Web site. He began his blog, Scobleizer, in 2000 and now has more than 3.5 million [...]
Printable Semacodes for Wikipedia
Semapedia.org allows creation of printable semacode tags to Wikipedia pages. Semacode is a software company based in Ontario, Canada. It is also this company’s trade name for a machine-readable visual tag which encode internet Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Semacode camera phones have built-in readers and web browsers.
The example shown here is the semacode tag [...]
