Category Archives: industry

Austin Ad Fed Luncheon

By Chris | September 11, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I had an opportunity today to attend the Austin Advertising Federation luncheon. This is one of the first industry functions that I’ve been able to attend, and I am now looking forward to more. The speakers were Bill Leake and [...]

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Shorter URLs

By Chris | September 4, 2008

The list of URL shortening tools is growing. The first one that I heard of was TinyURL, and I thought it was genious. All of a sudden sending Google Maps and books on Amazon was no sweat. Before this came along emailing long URL strings to less savvy surfers like my Mom or brother was [...]

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Dofollow

By Chris | September 3, 2008

A few years ago comment spam was a huge problem. Any site that accepted comments, such as blogs and any site that had a visitor log was pummelled with thousands of spam messages per day. Search engines decided to address this by creating the nofollow attribute for links, which is basically a way of saying [...]

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Google Suggest

By Chris | August 29, 2008

The web is all abuzz about one of Google’s recent releases, Google Suggest. Yahoo has been doing this for months with their search assistant. As a web user I am lazy, so of course I’d like to type as little as possible. If you show me what I’m looking for as I start typing it, [...]

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