Archive for January, 2008

Thinking locally successfully

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

There are plenty of blog posts out there that are happy to regurgitate the short list of local search hangouts, Google Local, City Search, Local.com and all the others. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with getting listed there if your only goal is getting a free link and possibly ...

Joost’s coup, or how Sociable was saved

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Joost de Valk released the newest version of Sociable with some major fixes. I was running the Andy Beard hack Anti-Social to resolve the busted StumbleUpon link and the noFollow issue. But Joost has taken things to the next level by simply exercising the GPL license and releasing a new update ...

Personalized Search: A good first look

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

David Harry over at HuoMah tends to spend a lot of time looking over upcoming patents and spotting trends before they develop. I've spent a bit less time looking in to the challenges of Personalized Search (PS) than David, but I think that as long as you are keep a firm ...

More WordPress Plugins

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

With this blog just starting up there is a lot of administriva to still get set up so you might expect to see a few more of these posts as I load the big ol' pig up and see just how much extra code you can hang off of Wordpress ...

WordPress Plugins and Widgets

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Here is a quick list of the plugins and widgets I'm running here. Akismet - duh- spam sucks and Akismet doesn't Dofollow - Just because Google screwed up all things link related doesn't mean we need to follow their lead. Links are "good things" FeedSmith - Another must have plugin. FeedSmith makes getting ...