My SEO specialist Jason today uncovered a sort of inefficiency in the way Flickr’s tags only search works. Maybe someone else has seen this first, but I’m giving him full credit until proven otherwise.
Try this fun little experiment: Find a picture that is tagged as “New York”, that is the whole phrase and not smooshed together like “NewYork” or separated like 2 tags “New” and “York”. Now search that user’s photostream for tags only and use “new… Read More
By sheer will and authority I own Frankenbits. It doesn’t matter if it makes sense or not, or if you are familiar with Frankenbits, the fact remains, I own it. Sure, I may be going out on a limb, claiming to be master of all that is Frankenbits, but I feel confident in my standing in the Frankenbits community. I have put a lot of thought into this thing we call Frankenbits, and have come to the realization that I… Read More
So obviously recent events has me thinking more about Mahalo and their proposed model of organizing information. It’s spectacularly flawed not just in scalability, but in it’s core concept. Consider the following:
With the Mahalo model a given result is created by an editor. It is up to that editor, or group of editors, to be the sole decision maker in what businesses get exposure. You have to wonder how they will make this decision or gather their pool of… Read More
So this series of Scoble videos are making the blog rounds and well, Scoble pretty much caught a nasty case of foot-in-mouth disease if you ask me, brought on by a nasty Calcanis infection. Apparently Mahalo is going to end Google in 4 years (as well as Yahoo! and MSN) and SEO is entirely devoted to spamming the engines.
Wow, now I haven’t seen that level of reckless ignorance since, well, earlier today when Michael Vick said… Read More
The Digg Effect, Getting Dugg, Diggination. No other news article discovery service to date has quite had the strong broad appeal of Digg. People have coined specific phrases to characterize the impact it can have on getting noticed.. or wreaking havoc on servers. What the web has done for getting content published, sites like Digg have done for getting published works read en masse.
The short answer for how Digg works is a short description and title are submitted for… Read More
