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Online Communities + Google = Value
A survey of technical professionals shows a startling level of reliance on Web communities by IT professionals. The report from King Research includes these key findings:
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Date: 2007-07-31

Linux and Non-compete Agreements?
There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether Project Indiana at openSolairs is a Linux clone or not.
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Date: 2007-07-31

Time to Unleash Web 2.0 with Open Source
Web 2.0 companies are largely built upon Open Source software. But how many of them do you consider significant contributors to Open Source?
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Date: 2007-07-31

Coldfusion: Using CFTREE for Navigation
A user on cf-talk today asked if it was possible to use ColdFusion 8's new HTML CFTREE as a navigation tool.
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Date: 2007-07-31

Looking at the State of Web 2.0 Security
Some of the commentary back on this blog is that the state of Web 2.0 security is in relatively poor shape, and as we have gone through a lot of the code available from larger companies, everyone approaching web 2.0 seems to have shoved security out the door while they concentrate on making product.
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Date: 2007-07-31

Internet Marketing Podcasts are Priceless
There's gold in Internet Marketing podcasts from the perspective of a listener, and if you listen closely enough, you might sometimes catch bits of invaluable information that drip off stream-of-consciousness style from the podcasts hosts or their guests.
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Date: 2007-07-31

Facebook is the Newest Site for Companies to Block
Neville Hobson writes that more than two-thirds of UK companies are blocking employee access to Facebook and similar sites based on the fear that employees will waste time rather than get their work done.
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Date: 2007-07-31

Windows Vista's Two Firewalls
I've heard that Windows Vista Ultimate has two different firewalls included; I want to be able to scan both incoming and outgoing data. How do I do that? Does it matter which firewall I use?
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Date: 2007-07-30

ASP.NET - Trackback Spam Fighting
Recently, I joined the Subkismet project which is an open source stand-alone comment spam filtering library for ASP.NET web applications founded by Phil Haack.
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Date: 2007-07-30

Even Colleges Spam for Top Rankings
I have recently read up on the US News & World Report college rankings, and to what great lengths some colleges go to manipulate the results and improve their rankings.
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Date: 2007-07-30

Tech Heavyweights on Social Networking
In a backlash against the monster's they have created, consumed, used, and built in some respects the tech heavyweights like Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble, and others are all debating the relative merits of the Web 2.0 creation that they have either created, use, or comment on.
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Date: 2007-07-30

Grow Your Business with Decision Management
A marketing focus today. More particularly a focus on marketing to existing customers prompted by three distinct posts.
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Date: 2007-07-30

Cool Projects that Should Exist
Every now and then I need some modules, components or code snippets for my various projects only to find out on Google that they don't exist.
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Date: 2007-07-30

Server Monitor Alerts in ColdFusion 8
So this isn't exactly old news, but while I've played quite a bit with the new Server Monitor in ColdFusion 8, I never really took a good look at the Alerts section.
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Date: 2007-07-30

Wal-mart's Internet Mindset
Wal-mart has changed its mindset. Andy Sernovitz sees it as a landmark moment for consumer empowerment and word of mouth. Whichever way you look at it, something very dramatic has happened.
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Date: 2007-07-27

Improve Site Performance with YSlow
If you haven't already heard, Yahoo! has released YSlow for Firebug, a Firefox plugin that analyzes your site for ways to speed things up in terms of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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Date: 2007-07-27

Securing Forms in ASP.NET
Do we really need CAPTCHA's to prevent robots posting to our web forms? Not if you run ASP.NET 2.0. Whether you use a form for member logins, blog comments or a web shop you want to keep it as secure and tamper proof as possible.
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Date: 2007-07-27

SaaS vs. OSS? Users choose SaaS
Tim O'Reilly has an interesting post on why the GPLv3 took a pragmatic approach when it came to the "SaaS loophole" (i.e. SaaS apps aren't redistributed; no redistribution means SaaS vendors can use GPLv2 code with modifications and keep the modifications to themselves).
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Date: 2007-07-27

The CFTHREAD Scope
Did you know that ColdFusion 8 has a new scope? The CFTHREAD scope is a special scope that contains information about threads in the current request.
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Date: 2007-07-27

Content's Increasing Importance
To really get an understanding of what good content is about and why it is so important, Copyblogger is a great site to visit.
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Date: 2007-07-26

The Most Important Factors for Internet Marketing
For number 10 in this updated series that was so popular the first time around, I must repeat something that seems obvious to me, but is seldom followed: everything must work together for online marketing success; which means that the architect of the system - the guy in charge must be well versed and take into consideration all these factors: let us review the most important factors:
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Date: 2007-07-26

Knowledge Management - Where Are the Bees?
As I have just mentioned in a previous weblog post, this article is a follow up from the one I have shared earlier on, detailing some of the highlights from the trip to Somers, NY, to attend IBM's Collaboration 2.0 conference event that took place last week.
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Date: 2007-07-26

Adding a Folder to my Windows XP Start Menu?
Windows XP: I'd like to put a file folder in the start menu and then a number of utility program short cuts in it. I know how to add programs in the start menu but this I can't seem to figure out.
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Date: 2007-07-26

Parallels on Mac: Connect USB Devices & Right Click?
I have a macbook pro. Recently I installed parallels desktop on it. But the problem i have is when I connect a usb device to my macbook it is not being detected in the windows parallel desktop.
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Date: 2007-07-26

Analysis & Creativity in Decision-Making
Scott Thurm recently wrote a piece in the WSJ Marketplace section - Now, It's Business By Data, but Numbers Still Can't Tell Future.
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Date: 2007-07-26

Visibility - A New SEM Magazine
Apologies for the image quality as I forgot my camera at home and had to take this with my KRZR.
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Date: 2007-07-26

Does Second Life Need Another Life?
Wired Magazine has pronounced Second Life dead.
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Date: 2007-07-26

"Worker Types" May Increase Success
Vision tests present people with two alternatives ("can you see better through slide A or slide B?"). Multiple-choice tests generally give four options (five, if the professor's interested in making life difficult). And although humans can be rather complicated beings, James Houran believes you may be able to separate them into just eight categories.
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Date: 2007-07-26

Getting Started in Domaining
I've been diving into domaining activities recently, mostly reading, some bidding, and some buying.
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Date: 2007-07-25

Is Meta Tag Optimization Baloney or Good SEO?
While perusing a new social network for the advertising industry, I noticed an interesting question posted regarding whether meta tags were relevant to search engine optimization.
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Date: 2007-07-25

There is Something More to Blogging
What brings people together isn't always understood, but I'm starting to believe that when we're touched deeply, there is a hook of some sort, even if we can't label it. It's something we feel but can't always put into words.
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Date: 2007-07-25

What Exactly is an Ad Exchange Really?
An experience today made it blatantly clear to me that being in the ad exchange business I take it for granted that I know what actually is an ad exchange.
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Date: 2007-07-25

Should Microsoft Buy Red Hat?
Some background:
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Date: 2007-07-25

Email Marketing Should Include A/B Testing
I recommend Constant Contact as an email service provider to our clients looking to do email marketing.
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Date: 2007-07-25

Updating ColdFusionBloggers.org - Using CFDIV for Paging
So once again I'm messing with ColdFusionBloggers to show off some ColdFusion 8 AJAX goodness.
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Date: 2007-07-25

"Marketers Discover Analytics’ Power"... Say What?
The headline of a recent cover page article for BtoB Online's publication (July 16, 2007) stated, "Marketers discover analytics' power." Hmm…isn't it a little late to finally start listening to what many online marketers have been preaching for years?
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Date: 2007-07-25

Measuring Visitor Engagement
What's the most important metric when it comes to determining the health of your site? It's not really a fair question since no one metric tells the entire story, but for a long time page views have been considered one of the most important metrics.
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Date: 2007-07-25

Understand SEO Picing & Get a Good SEO Company
On the Web, technology is developing so fast that even the majority of the self-proclaimed specialists know less than 70% of the stuff (how's that for just coined statistics) and have little practice and confidence with the latest developments of the industry.
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Date: 2007-07-24

PR & Social Media: Can't Anybody Play This Game?
Jimmy Breslin's famous query about the hapless 1962 New York Mets seems apropos of many PR "professionals" these days as they scramble to turn those inviting "Comments" sections of blogs into promotional nuggets for their clients.
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Date: 2007-07-24

Principles of Simplicity
As I've wrote before, simplicity is very subjective and is not considered a first class design principle as unit testing, design patterns, UML etc.
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Date: 2007-07-24

Where Google's OS Is Open
Yesterday, I listed a couple of places within the Google OS/ office suite where the system prefers its own products.
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Date: 2007-07-24

Building a Site - Like Building a House
At Agency Fusion we're fortunate to have some really great clients. For us, a great client is one who appreciates our experience and recognizes our expertise.
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Date: 2007-07-24

Has Your Blog Traffic Plateaued? Try These Strategies
Have you looked at your blog's stats lately and noticed that your blog's traffic is starting to plateau.
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Date: 2007-07-24

Clearing Your SnipEx Cache & CFLib SnipEx Update
While working on some bugs in the CFLib SnipEx server, Mark Drew sent me a great tip on how to clear the cache in CFEclipse.
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Date: 2007-07-24

Stealing the Competition's Customers Through Google Maps
Is it possible to steal customers looking for your competition in Google Maps? It not only appears as if you can, but it might be trivially easy and somewhat troubling that it's possible.
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Date: 2007-07-23

Eliminate Employee Reluctance to Suggest Ideas
One of my pet peeves in the office is walking out into the main work area and asking a question meant for everyone, only to have it met with resounding silence.
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Date: 2007-07-23

Picking an Enterprise Decision Management Pilot
When I was reading Scott Ambler's book, The Enterprise Unified Process, he had some great tips for picking a pilot project that I thought I would shamelessly steal and adapt for a discussion of pilot projects for enterprise decision management or EDM.
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Date: 2007-07-23

Coldfusion 8: onMissingTemplate Example
I just added onMissingTemplate support to ColdFusionBloggers.org. This is something we should all do with ColdFusion 8 sites as it is so simple it doesn't make sense not to.
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Date: 2007-07-23

Coldfusion: AutoSuggest Example
I've added autusuggest to ColdFusionBloggers.org and thought I'd talk a bit about how I did it (and about the problems I ran into).
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Date: 2007-07-23

Web Safe Fonts
Many of you have been asking, "What fonts are safe for me to use" and "What fonts are universal and good for use on the web," Well I am here to help.
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Date: 2007-07-23

Stopping Vista From Showing Last Accessed Files
I've made the move to Microsoft Windows Vista and am digging the new interface, but I am a bit frustrated that anyone else who uses my computer can see the latest applications and files I've worked with right on the Start menu. Is there some easy solution?
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Date: 2007-07-23

IFrames, JavaScript, & How ColdFusion 8 Makes Life Easier
Jay asks:
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Date: 2007-07-20

Linkbait is About the WOW.
When trying to describe link bait to someone outside the industry, it's a bit hard to get the idea across.
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Date: 2007-07-20

SEO For Google In Five "Easy" Steps
A few years ago I wrote the article Ten Steps To Higher Search Engine Positioning. The article was well received due to the breakdown of the core requirements for ranking a website being reduced into simple steps.
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Date: 2007-07-20

Windows Live Cost Growth
Jordan McCollum, Harrison Hoffman and Mary Jo Foley are talking about Microsoft's earnings report, especially the new numbers for the Online Services Business (OSB).
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Date: 2007-07-20

Deinterlace Your Video Footage!
We all know that Flash video is everywhere these days but what surprises me is how little quality control appears to be applied to the footage that big brands push out these days.
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Date: 2007-07-20

Losing Self Respect, One Conversion at a Time
If you mimick leading marketing in your field, then deflect the blowback from the effective marketing onto others who gave you the tips that helped you increase your conversion they may not appreciate that:
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Date: 2007-07-20

Early Stage Leads too important for Sales People Alone
The management of sales leads is critical to generating Return on Marketing Investment. Sadly, sales leads often land on the scrap heap because marketers throw leads over the wall and then expect sales people to catch them.
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Date: 2007-07-19

White Paper Registration A Big Objection
A common debate in the marketing world is whether to require white paper registration or just allow a direct click through to your PDF file.
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Date: 2007-07-19

Do you Trust Your Vendor?
One of the things that I get to do in my new job with VMC is find out what people's pain points are and as I was doing research yesterday on vendors, what has been traditionally outsourced, and who has written authoritatively on it some interesting trends show up in the list.
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Date: 2007-07-19

Improving Marketing Operations Using Enterprise Decision Management
I have been thinking about Marketing Operations (nicely described by Gary Katz here) and I saw a post on Why is marketing operations so important? on Unica's blog.
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Date: 2007-07-19

Preventing Direct Access to a CFC
Chad asks: I am using a CFC for an AJAX-based shopping cart and it works great. But along comes a customer who is behind a proxy.
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Date: 2007-07-19

Microsoft in India's Market
Zack asked: So perhaps a question that might be worth asking is if Windows and Office only costs $3 in China, how sustainable are it's prices in other markets?
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Date: 2007-07-19

Blogs & Articles: Dialogs & Monologues
Jakob Nielson recently published an Alerbox article, Write Articles, Not Blog Postings. and, as is often the case when Jakob offers something, not everyone agrees with him or agrees completely.
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Date: 2007-07-18

How Google Handles Duplicate Content
Duplicate Content is one of the most perplexing problems in SEO. In this post I am going to outline 15 things about how Google handles duplicate content.
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Date: 2007-07-18

Analyzing A Competitor's Website to Protect Your Own
Competitor's websites are among your best tools for perfecting your own website.
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Date: 2007-07-18

Broadening the Measures of Online Influence
Some people think measuring someone's online influence is simply a matter of Googling a name, seeing what Technorati says about them, what Alexa might show and perhaps a look at how many subscribers there are to their FeedBurner RSS feed.
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Date: 2007-07-18

Oracle to Buy Red Hat or BEA?
Matt asks (almost as an aside to a post on a related topic):
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Date: 2007-07-18

Fewer Comments Doesn't Mean the Conversation is Dying
I've been pondering Mitch Joel's post lamenting the declining number of comments left on the blogs he reads. Readership has not declined, according to Mitch.
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Date: 2007-07-18

Increasing Comments On Your Blog
Does your blog feel empty due to a lack of comments? Are you wondering how to get people to interact with you?
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Date: 2007-07-18

.NET - Beware of the FileInfo.OpenText() method
I'm a big fan of the System.IO.FileInfo object in .NET because it wraps the System.IO.File object nicely in a strongly typed way.
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Date: 2007-07-18

Principles of International Website Marketing
I have always fielded questions concerning international strategies, primarily that of US-based companies branching into Spanish-language websites or content. international marketing.
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Date: 2007-07-17

3 Reasons a Competitive CMS Market is Good
If you've spent any time researching content management systems lately, you're aware that the market is absolutely full of competing products. It seems like a new CMS product is announced somewhere on the Web just about every week.
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Date: 2007-07-17

Silverlight a 1.0 Release Candidate
Silverlight Microsoft s alternative to Adobe flash is getting ready to be released as a 1.0 release candidate.
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Date: 2007-07-17

Evil Hack Discovered on Apple's iPhone
SpiLabs has identified an Apple IPhone hack that will allow someone to either own your phone, put it in an infinite loop, or otherwise jack up your phone bill by repeatedly calling 1-900 numbers, and you bet, it is all based on the vulnerabilities found in safari.
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Date: 2007-07-17

Social Network Advertising
Since the emergence of online networking back when Classmates.com was created (1995) there have been a growing number of people rushing to join social networks.
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Date: 2007-07-17

Are You Hiding from Customer Reviews?
Do you allow your customers to post reviews on your website about your products or services?
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Date: 2007-07-17

How Do I Change my PS1 Command Prompt in Bash?
I have read about 15 chapters of your book (Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours) so far. We are using vi. On the PS1 command, how do I see what is in it so I can add to it and not change what is already there? We are using bash.
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Date: 2007-07-17

Google Analytics: Adding Search Engines
I've been diving a bit in to Google Analytics lately, and one of the things you'll notice when you run Google Analytics is that it doesn't recognize every conceivable search engine straight out of the box.
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Date: 2007-07-17

Effective Resume Writing: It's All in Your Head
Writing your resume is a mandatory step in your job search. If you want it to go quickly - at least as quickly as possible - and smoothly, then there are guidelines that you might want to adhere to.
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Date: 2007-07-17

Internal Link Architecture
Jim Boykin recently offered tips to help webmasters understand how to audit a site to see what pages are the most link rich, how internal link equity flows around websites, and how to optimize your internal link architecture.
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Date: 2007-07-16

Data Mining, Predictive Analytics & Markets of 1
Two articles made me think about the application of enterprise decision management, EDM, in the world of customer experience.
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Date: 2007-07-16

How will Users React to PHP4 EoL?
The PHP development team officially announced PHP 4 end of life (EoL):
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Date: 2007-07-16

Librarians Blogging And The Birth Of Library 2.0
I believe in the power of the people. Not in a political way, because I'm not after your vote for anything.
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Date: 2007-07-16

Saving Bandwidth on Your RSS Feed
One of the things you will notice after you have published an rss feed is that it will consume a lot of the bandwidth.
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Date: 2007-07-16

The Transition's Happening
The introduction of consumer-driven Web 2.0 technologies into businesses is set to usher in a new phase of productivity growth that could surpass that achieved during the late-1990s internet boom, according to John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems.
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Date: 2007-07-16

Linkbait Techniques - Reel in Rankings
One of the fastest-growing social media tactics is linkbait, content that draws audiences to a Web site through blogs, news sites and social media portals.
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Date: 2007-07-16

Startup Marketing: Big Bang or Darwinian Evolution
Broadly speaking, I think there are two types of marketing approaches.
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Date: 2007-07-16

Vulnerability Remediation in the Web App Development Lifecycle
Once you've completed a security assessment as a part of your web application development, it's time to go down the path of remediating all of the security problems you uncovered.
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Date: 2007-07-13

Top 10 eCommerce Developments of the Last 10 Years
The Software & Information Industry Association has come out with what they're calling the top ten most important eCommerce developments of the last decade.
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Date: 2007-07-13

Run Flash Media Server on your Mac (in Parallels)
If you are like me and have slowly had enough of Vista then you may have purchased a Mac by now.
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Date: 2007-07-13

Dutch Adobe Usergroup Alive
Last week, the first meeting of the revamped Dutch Macromedia Usergroup, to be called Adobe Usergroup from now on, was held in Amsterdam.
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Date: 2007-07-13

Using EDM to meet CRM Challenges
Two articles in CIO magazine caught my eye this week. Firstly, Meridith Levinson wrote Getting to Know Them, an article about some award-winning systems.
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Date: 2007-07-13

Giving Others the Keys To Your Blog
As a parent with a teenager who runs a quick errand with my car and returns 4 hours later, I understand how difficult it is to hand over your beloved "thing" to somebody.
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Date: 2007-07-13

ROI of Online vs Offline Investments
I am sure I have made similar posts before, but I live in an 8 unit townhome, and just down the street they are hauling away part of a mountain to make room for another one of these.
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Date: 2007-07-13

Outsourcing - Where is the Value Proposition?
There has been much written about outsourcing over the years. The topic originally gained much notice in articles discussing how Japanese freight forwarders placed people in their customers' offices to do the export shipping.
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Date: 2007-07-13

Localizing ASP.NET (Which is Best?)
There are different approaches to localizing an ASP.NET application. You can use a global resource file or local ones.
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Date: 2007-07-13

Should You Fear 301 Redirects Hurting Your Rankings?
SEO Question: I am considering moving my site to another domain name. Do I have anything to fear in moving it? What is the proper way to move a website to a new URL?
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Date: 2007-07-12

Don't Force New Windows On Your Visitors
A couple of weeks ago Darren Rowse asked readers should (external) links open in a new window?.
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Date: 2007-07-12

Getting A Million Links
A journey of a thousand million miles backlinks begins with a single step link
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Date: 2007-07-12

A New Way to Personalize Your Site
I've talked before about multivariate testing, an exciting technique for optimizing your Web conversion rates.
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Date: 2007-07-12

Defining the Knowledge Worker
Here is another interesting article from Collaboration Loop that I am sure you would all find quite an interesting read.
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Date: 2007-07-12

Windows Live OneCare 2.0 Beta Launched
Participants in the beta of Windows Live OneCare 2.0 had their software updated to the new beta over the last day or so. Take a look at some of the interface changes:
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Date: 2007-07-12

Testing Your Code
I was asked to write a post about my views on unit testing because it is a hot subject at the moment.
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Date: 2007-07-11

Startups: Trusted Adviser Or Responsive Assistant?
We've all heard the cliche "The Customer Is Always Right". Those of us that have actually been in any type of business and had real interactions with customers for more than 2 days have learned that this statement is factually incorrect.
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Date: 2007-07-11

When a Task Becomes a Project
Project Management is essential for complex tasks. So how do you know when it becomes a Project? It's not always easy to decide.
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Date: 2007-07-11

Holistic SEO
I think it's safe to say the idea of optimizing web sites for better rankings, traffic and sales is an idea that that has become pretty standard for most web site owners.
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Date: 2007-07-11

ColdFusion 8: Working with PDFs
Ok, time for a little revelation. This may prevent me from ever working for Adobe, but I have to be honest.
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Date: 2007-07-11

Return Format for ColdFusion Components in ColdFusion 8
One of the lesser publicized updates in ColdFusion 8 is the introduction of the returnFormat attribute for the cffunction tag.
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Date: 2007-07-11

What You Need to Know about the New Version of ITIL Methodology
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3 was released in June 2007, seven years after the last critical ITIL methodology update.
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Date: 2007-07-11

Less Writing and Higher Quality
Brian Clark recently highlighted that while valuable blogs continue to gain traction, the bloggers who were only popular because they were early are seeing diminished traffic and are fading in relevancy.
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Date: 2007-07-10

Do You Really Need a Domain Controller?
Let's start out with the good points: there are advantages to a Microsoft Domain Controller model. Centralized user control, fine grained resource access control: these are often useful and very helpful.
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Date: 2007-07-10

Getting Rid of an Unnecessary Firmware Update
Okay, this is driving me crazy! I applied an update a few days ago to my Mac OS X system (version 10.4.10), I think it was for a SuperDrive driver on my MacBook Pro, and it came up with an error message indicating it wasn't necessary for my system.
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Date: 2007-07-10

Can OSS Guard Against Do-overs & Stupid Decisions
BTL posted a ‘highlight' of an interesting interview that Mary Jo Foley did with Iain McDonald, director of project management for Windows Server.
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Date: 2007-07-10

FreshBooks Opens API, Lets in Some Fresh Air
The Enterprise Web 2.0 revolution has been a godsend to small and midsized companies.
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Date: 2007-07-10

Dialogue-based Journalism and Business Communication
I reported on the Danish School of Journalism's dialogue-based journalism experiment on FIR, but didn't have time to list some of the results of the effort.
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Date: 2007-07-10

More Money Publishing Less Pages & Showing Fewer Ads
If you are an individual or a small company, serving some markets directly with a product may not be as scalable as selling ads.
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Date: 2007-07-09

The Web is Messy
The nature of the Web is not neat and tidy. A website is not a project but rather a process of continuous improvement.
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Date: 2007-07-09

Sandbox Theming: Pure CSS Asides
As you probably know, I'm a fan of Sandbox, the semantically rich Wordpress theme for hard-core theme designers. Honestly, I don't know why theme designers would want to work off anything else… it just rocks.
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Date: 2007-07-09

Google, Microsoft Battle Could Trigger Healthcare Backlash
Wireless Healthcare, independent UK based analysts specialising in the application of mobile and wireless technology in the healthcare sector, says that the battle between Google and Microsoft could trigger a backlash in healthcare.
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Date: 2007-07-09

Yahoo Senior Marketer Says to Use EDM (Kinda)
I was reading this interesting McKinsey report - Confronting proliferation ... in online media: An interview with Yahoo!'s senior marketer.
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Date: 2007-07-09

Vista Service Pack 1 Coming Earlier Than Expected
Well, Microsoft kinda lied.
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Date: 2007-07-09

Social Media Press Release - Complementary Communication
AdWeek has a pretty good feature article today about the social media press release.
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Date: 2007-07-09

Problem with Autosuggest
This email came in yesterday and it was pretty obvious to me what the problem was.
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Date: 2007-07-09

Eight Ways to Improve Your eCommerce Product Page
Product pages of online shops are perhaps the most complex of the landing pages, as they have a lot of information, require some action and functionality.
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Date: 2007-07-09

A Var Scope Screw Up
I'm a big fan of sharing mistakes as I figure any mistake I make I'm sure others have as well.
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Date: 2007-07-09