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Bono
Seeks Yahoo Answers To Poverty
U2's frontman and noteworthy activist takes his turn during the Yahoo Answers
"Ask the Planet" promotion and asks for suggestions on battling the problem of
global poverty.
Digg
Hasn't Topped The Times Yet
Online research firm Hitwise found that the New York Times had almost 20 times
the traffic of Digg for the week ending July 1st, in sharp contrast to blog posts
that have Digg drawing closer to the Paper of Record online.
Ubuntu
Gains Opera, High Profile Converts
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, the "Dapper Drake" release, will be able to run Opera 9; this
means a pair of technology notables who have switched from Mac to Ubuntu will
be a simple 'apt-get' away from having Opera on their systems.
Google
Gets Dictionary-ized
Those in charge of Google's trademark are kicking their desks as the brand identity
they've fought so hard to protect from genericization through nasty letters and
emails to everyone who dared assume "to google" meant "to search" (wow! This is
one long sentence) officially became a verb by being admitted to the dictionary.
The
Latest List Of Search Patents
In the who-has-the-most-search-patent-applications competition, Google has won
the latest round, with Yahoo coming in second. (There is, of course, no such contest,
but it makes things more interesting to pit the companies against each other.)
England
Loses, Online Punters Lose Interest
England exiting the 2006 FIFA World Cup tournament is bad news for online bookies.
Nielsen//NetRatings reports that upon England's departure from the World Cup,
page views at sports and gambling websites dropped by 20 million.
Senator
Ripped For Tricky Net Neutral Wording
Proponents of Network Neutrality have been relentless at highlighting individual
Congress members' failings to protect Internet freedom. Senators John McCain and
Ted Stevens have felt the heat in past weeks. This week, the heat is on Virginia
Senator George Allen, who MoveOn.org believes tried to pull a fast one...
Site
Design According To Drost
Website design is as much an art as a science. Still, some there are some guiding
principles that will, in just about every case, make for a better site. Herman
Drost has compiled a list of 16 of these elements.
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Friday July 07, 2006 |
PayPal's president has been replaced by Skype's president, while eBay drops Google Checkout into the laundry list of alternative payment services banned by the online marketplace.
Editor's Note: Did Google get into the SEO consulting
business? Not really, but what they have done is publish a companion site to assist
in the SEO process. Let us know what you think at WebProWorld.
 You might be able to get "It" on eBay, but you won't get it with Google Checkout. If you get It with PayPal, it will be with Rajiv Dutta's PayPal, not Jeff Jordan's.
EBay announced some changes in senior management after the markets closed on Wall Street yesterday. The shuffling resembled a game of "musical corner offices," but when the music stopped playing, it was PayPal president Jordan left out of the game.
Jordan's departure from the company has been disclosed as a "planned departure." eBay CEO Meg Whitman said in a statement that she is sorry to see her close friend go.
It will be interesting to see where Jordan ends up post-eBay. A year ago, he was looking forward to Google's challenge to PayPal. Now he's out, and we have to wonder if The Fear got to him or not.
EBay appears to be feeling The Fear. Ina Steiner at AuctionBytes noted that eBay had officially changed its Accepted Payments policy to ban Google Payment as an option.
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Steiner also said eBay changed the name of the policy from Safe Payments to Accepted Payments this week. That move looks like a tweak to avoid offending Google and its legal team, since eBay has had no problem implying smaller payment services were not safe.
Our Jason Lee Miller predicted this change in October 2005. That prediction was prompted by changes in eBay's Safe Payments Policy text, which focused on the debut of new payment services:
"From time to time, as new payment services arise, eBay will evaluate them to determine whether they may present trust and safety concerns and are appropriate for the marketplace."
One of the factors involved in determining the trustworthiness and safety of a newly arisen payment service is:
"Whether the payment service has a substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services (new services without such a track record generally cannot be promoted on eBay)"
As part of the executive shakeup, Rajiv Dutta, who only moved up to the Skype job earlier in 2006, will take over Jordan's responsibilities as president of PayPal. EBay noted Skype VP of Products Alex Kazim will get Dutta's former Skype gig.
A new role created for Skype, Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Country Operations Worldwide, will be occupied by Henry Gomez. He will ascend from general manager for Skype North America.
Meanwhile, Lorrie Norrington shifts from president and CEO of Shopping.com to president of eBay International. She will have responsibility for all of eBay's international sites as well as the Shopping.com comparison site.
Whitman praised the leadership abilities of the newly shuffled executives. Now
it's up to Google to actually challenge eBay by doing something with Checkout,
Base, Froogle, and all the other pieces of a potential marketplace it has already.
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The Net Neutrality debate got a little comic relief last week after an impassioned
speech by Senator Ted Stevens against legislating certain limitations on broadband
providers.
Stevens, who is most famous for his "Bridge To Nowhere" grandstanding in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina budgeting, voiced disappointment over the delay in receiving
"an internet" from his staff.
Said the 82-year-old Alaska Republican with the onus of rewriting telecommunications law for the 21st Century:
"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday [five days later]."
Well, internets are really big, you know. But Stevens appears to realize that as he explains how this complex system works. Did you know the Internet is kind of like a stuffed sausage?
…the internet is not something you just dump
something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled,
when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone
that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
You can't go overfilling the tubes! Can you imagine if you put too much cream
into a Long John? Your fingers get all sticky and you walk into the Commerce Committee
covered in internet.
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Is Valid HTML Important?
Ever since search engine optimization has been thrust upon us, there have been
debates about the importance of valid HTML when it comes to search engine rankings.
While I'll never be one to argue against neat and proper coding, I'm
not sure if this is one of the main characteristics of a high-ranking site. By
all means, if you feel more secure by going through the validation process, please
keep doing so. However, don't just validate because you are hoping to jump to
the front page of Google's search results because I don't think you'll get the
desired effect, unless other on-page factors are dealt with first. Let us know
what you think.
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Do
Search Engines Care About Valid HTML?
I just received this article in my inbox via the Entireweb Newsletter and thought
I had to post it to hear comments:
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Like
most web developers, I've heard a lot about the importance of valid html recently.
I've read about how it makes it easier for people with disabilities to access
your site, how it's more stable for browsers, and how it will make your site easier
to be indexed by the search engines.
So when I set out to design my most recent site, I made sure that I validated
each and every page of the site. But then I got to thinking – while it may
make my site easier to index, does that mean that it will improve my search engine
rankings? How many of the top sites have valid html?
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