21
June
2008
by Brandon Tancott
I have been quite ill this week so haven’t really been online all that much. So today I have been spending a little bit of time catching up on whats happening in the “real world”. Being away and not as active on the blog has meant our rankings and page impressions have dropped quite a bit, so while Im working on my next “real” post I thought I would share something in the hope of getting some attention. I hope you will see the honest ironic humour in this post.
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12
June
2008
by Wesley Palm
After searching it has been found…”The Exact Center of The Internet“!
Click on the “Ex” bellow to see for yourself!
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12
June
2008
by Brandon Tancott
I have always been a very strong activist for Open Source, however with all the benefits it has to offer there are risks.
Having the source code open and freely available allows Hackers to really get under the bonnet and invent devious ways to just piss us off. The bigger the community open source project, the bigger the target. I was doing my usual rounds this evening on Twitter and I got an update from Nik Cubrilovic of Techcrunch fame. The post outlined the recent surge of hacked Wordpress blogs, you can read the article here.
Although as Nic points out the hacked blog can be fixed by upgrading to the newest version or patch and after spending some time cleaning out the links and pages created by the hack, things can be back to normal. But and this is a BIG but, yes the time and frustration caused by a hack can be annoying, my real concern is in the case that the Blog loses revenue, readers and even creditability.
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3
June
2008
by Vaughn de Preez
I recently had the displeasure and inconvenience of being robbed by gunpoint in my own house. There were eleven of us in the house, including my parents and my aunt who has suffered from a stroke. Four guys with guns came in, tied us all up, and stole everything we own…
Jeffery Zide, one of my very good friends later pointed out to me that the perpetrators were speaking Shangaan, they were from Mozambique. I had a really strange mix of emotion the following Monday when news of the Xenophobic attacks first hit the airwaves. My first thought, although I am not proud of this, was great, go South Africa, chase them out. This reaction was entirely based on the post dramatic stress I was feeling, but this got me to thinking….
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3
June
2008
by Wesley Palm
Danny Sullivan, has been discussing the future of search in the next evolutionary step,”Search 4.0″, in a thread on Search Engine Land.
To bring those of you left in the dark for the past few years, “Search” as we know it, has thus far undergone three levels of evolution: (Applicable to crawler based Engines)
Search 1.0 (1996): Pages ranked using “on-the-page” criteria
Search 2.0 (1998): Pages ranked using “off-the-page” criteria
Search 3.0 (2007): Vertical search results blended into regular search results
“Search 4.0″, would integrate; personal, social and human-edited data to refine search engine results.
While many are saying that Danny Sullivan’s assessment is premature, I don’t think that he is saying it is here now, (Which we all know). He is just looking at the next step from his point of view.
“Search engines already make use of some human data. All the major search engines, for example, monitor what we click on within the search results. This helps them determine if a particular listing is drawing more or less clicks than would be expected for the position it holds. For example, if the number two listing for a particular query is getting less clicks than “normal” for a listing in that spot, perhaps it’s a bad quality listing that should be replaced with another.” - Danny Sullivan.
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