razorshine
by riaz kanani
Archive for January, 2008
January 31, 2008 at 3:44 pm · Filed under: marketing seo
Waxy.org has done some detective work and found that Sitelynx is spamming social networks on behalf of The Times to help boost their search engine rankings. It seems pretty conclusive after reading the post. No comment as yet from the Times or Sitelynx.
Some people have commented that if they had just said they were The Times in the first place then all would be fine. I’m not so sure thats true. People have a habit of lambasting people/companies who try and promote themselves like this, but it is definitely better to be open about it rather then subversive. The New York Times seems to have done a good job of this by using sites like Techmeme to promote themselves openly.
At the end of the day, if your self promotion is helpful to the community site then more people will interact with it and the community wins overall. This has certainly been the case with Techmeme and The NY Times.
January 28, 2008 at 8:56 am · Filed under: bookmarks delicious magnolia
Rather randomly this morning I decided I wanted to go check out how Ma.gnolia was coming along (I loved the interface but there wasn’t enough to move me from delicious previously).
Problem - I couldn’t remember the name.. so I tried the search engines under “bookmark”, “online bookmarks” and “bookmark manager”. Found nothing on Google, Yahoo or Microsoft - so I figured this would be a perfect opportunity for Mahalo (the human search engine).. but nothing. They all suggested Delicious. So I tried delicious and hilariously.. I found Ma.gnolia again 
January 25, 2008 at 5:13 pm · Filed under: mac
hmm.. ordered my first mac today - a mac mini. Irritatingly its dead on arrival and gives electric shocks when you touch it 
sighs. Looks like a call in to Apple support
[update] Credit to apple - it was a very simple process to get a new one sorted - it arrived 3 days later.
January 24, 2008 at 4:38 pm · Filed under: twhirl twitter
For those of you using Twitter, there is a great client out there called Twhirl (recommended to me by Tom Raftery) which I have been using for a while. They have just released v0.6 and improved its memory usage. I guess I’ll find out how much soon - it will be interesting to see if it hits 150MB of memory again.
January 21, 2008 at 8:27 pm · Filed under: google google reader rss
Check out ReadBurner by Alexander Marktl. It shows you the popular shared items on Google Reader and even more interestingly shows you who is sharing your items, therefore indirectly telling you who is reading your blog. Very interesting. Make sure you look for your link on the statistics page after you have burned your link blog.
I would surely have expected Google to roll something like this out - maybe integrated into Google News.
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