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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Over the years Toyota has become a pretty big player in the automotive world. However there is now solid evidence that they have finally grown so much that they're just too big for their britches.
Desktop Nexus, a popular desktop wallpaper site, has been hit by Toyota's willingness to abuse ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
You could subtitle this: If Matt Cutts is going to attend, would you even bother making las vegas hotel reservations to attend PubCon?
[insert classic Bronx raspberry here]
My answer: Absolutely not!
To me that's kind of a "Duh Moment". Matt Cutts may be a decent enough guy (I honestly don't ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
The state of Washington is doing something that I think is long overdue. They're going after an SEO outfit for bogus business practices. The state's Attorney General says:
these entities have ripped off their mostly mom-and-pop clientele through a pattern of unfulfilled performance promises and financial shenanigans.
By the way, ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
How often do you get emails from classmates.com saying that x number of people (former classmates to be specific) have been trying to get in touch with you and that all you need to do in order to find out who they are is pay for a membership at classmates.com ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I read recently that YouTube (and their Google puppet-masters) are working on a deal to bring full length television shows to the screens of YouTube viewers everywhere. I have to admit that there's a certain advantage to using the computer to watch ... no HDMI wall plate to install, ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Some time back, in an effort to take some of the value out of comment spam and link spam, Google and then other search engines implemented rel="nofollow". Specifically they said that any link with that attribute would not be followed as their spiders crawled the net.
Now I'm beginning to ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I was checking out the "Yahoo! Buzz" site for the first time a little while ago and ran across an article that talked about the fact that more Chinese visited the official Beijing2008.cn Olympic website than Americans.
After taking a look at the site I know the reason. In fact, ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
You've heard it a zillion times I'm sure (I know I have!) that "America is an overweight nation" and I think that to a large degree it's true. There's more and more people walking around carrying more weight than they should be. Naturally, this means that there's more ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Anyone who's installed AVG 8 probably knows about the new AJAX powered browser plugin called "Linkscanner". AVG installs it as a plugin / Browser Helper Object in any browser it recognizes and then it will scan all of the links on SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) looking for viruses ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Any blogger that's made the move from WordPress 2.3.3 to the new 2.5.x can tell you that the Admin panels have been drastically changed. I've seen a lot of talk about it and there's people landing on two sides of the thing.
One set of people clearly prefer the new ...
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