tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67654312009-03-01T07:46:59.518-06:00Notes to myself that others might find useful. Generally pertaining to web site design and marketing, and, oddly enough, to the specific needs of a Costa Rica based internet business and art-related web sites... a little diverse I know, but there you have it.Bennoreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765431.post-85790433331146651702007-06-29T10:17:00.000-06:002007-06-29T10:17:10.704-06:00

DARPA wants to build a better Internet - EngadgetFrom the looks of it, DARPA thinks there's plenty of room for improvement, stating the goal of the program as nothing less than to "improve transfer speeds, network routing efficiency, reliability, simplify network configuration, and reduce cost," adding that it's also interested in new addressing schemes to supplement the current IP scheme.# If

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I have had a frequent and regular problem with making my background images show up in Firefox. I do a search for "background image won't display in Firefox" and find that others too have the problem. Oddly enough this search has not yielded information that actually helped me to fix the problem. So I had to scratch and think. After much trial and error, I have figured it out. Here is what I

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It is interesting to think of how, 10 years ago, using the Internet was a novelty. I remember how most people were saying that people just wouldn't buy anything on the Net. I first heard of Amazon.com by means of a radio interview of Jeff Bezos, and him talking about people's reluctance to use their credit cards on the Internet. Now Amazon.com is a household name and people are VERY comfortable

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This is an amazing blog about the next innovations in search trends.You may feel relatively satisfied with the current search offerings of Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN. Search today is undoubtedly much better than what it was in the second half of the 1990's. But Internet search is still in its infancy and there's much room for improvement. Moreover, the super high valuation of Google on NASDAQ

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Its difficult for me to say that its my favorite since there are so many that have become vital to my online experience. Its just that I have lost so many bookmark files. With this extension, you not only eliminate the danger of losing your bookmarks, but you can synch all of your computers to have the same up to date bookmarks.Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer by Foxmarks LLCFoxmarks keeps your

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It appears that a pay-per-click campaign's worst nightmares have come true. 'Click Fraud' Threatens Foundation of Web Ads - washingtonpost.com: "'You don't make tons of money,' Park said. 'But once you start clicking and you get actual payments, it becomes an addiction.'Park is one of thousands of people around the world who receive e-mailed lists of Web sites every day to click on for cash.

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I just found this bit of info in an SEO newsletter that I receive regularly. I really like the emphasis on good quality content. We sometimes get to focusing too much on getting links. This is called external merit, or off site factors that promote web sites. This is indeed important, but what we really need is a good quality content site.Here is the bit:I highly recommend keyword analysis,

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The below is from a newsletter that I subscribe to at Pandia.com.The SEOmoz Page Strength indicator This has not stopped SEOmoz.org from trying. They are now presenting a new “Page Strength Indicator” based on the following measures: Links pointing to full URL (Yahoo) Links pointing to domain (Yahoo) Position for first four words of title tag on target URL (Google) Age of Domain Links from

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This article makes some interesting points about how Google views domain names, and why it is sometimes better to purchase an existing domain.What Google knows about your domain name: "Last year (2005), Google became a domain name registrar but they haven't offered domain registration services in the meantime."The article goes on to speculate a bit as to why Google may have become a registrar.(

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I kept reading about these things, these Google Site Maps. I read a lot about them and still don't know if they are worth the time and effort, but I am expending the time and effort, so I figured that I ought to catalogue it. A complete discussion with extremely diverse opinions of the feature can be seen by clicking here.On Google's site: About Site MapsUsing the Sitemap Generator

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Table 1: Search Share among Top 3 Search Providers, April 2006 (U.S.)Search Provider Apr-05 Search Share Apr-06 Search Share Percentage Point ChangeGoogle Search 47% 50% +3Yahoo! Search 22% 22% 0MSN Search 12% 11% -1Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, May 2006The top two search engines showed robust growth over the past year. Google Search grew 34 percentyear over year, followed by Yahoo

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New Tricks of a Browser Look Familiar - New York Times: "(An example of a phishing fraud is an e-mail message that says, 'Your eBay account will soon be closed; click here for details.' Worried, you click the provided link and confirm your account information. Unfortunately, you've just handed over your credit card and account numbers to the Internet baddies, who have set up a fake eBay screen

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New Tricks of a Browser Look Familiar - New York Times: I guess that since Microsoft is about to release a new browser that there is a bunch of attention now to the topic of browsers. The only reason that I ever open up Internet Explorer is to see how a new web page I've made renders in it. It is a curious thing that this old, outdated, easy-to-hack browser is still the option of choice for 85%

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I am having a problem getting a CSS defined background to a CSS element #header to show in Firefox. I did a search for the problem and found a pretty good thread about the problem at Webmaster world. The general consensus was that IE is non-standards compliant, and Firefox is. So one should write for Firefox and it'll all render in IE. Below are a couple-a links to validators.CSS ValidatorHTML

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This site offers a test of DNS integrity. There have been some site hijackings based on insecure DNS practices on the part of some ISPs. This site offers a test for your ISP.This site will provide you with a DNS report for your domain. A very large percentage of domains have DNS problems; this site will help you find those problems and fix them. Also, the "Mail Test" tool will help find mail

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After getting the java/OpenStream trojan horse virus, I did a little research to find out the best way to get rid of it. I came across this excellent article posted to the forum over at Grisoft; the folks that make that excellent free Anti Virus software AVG. Anyway, you'll notice that it is a multipronged approach to keeping your computer squeeky clean from all viruses, spyware, trojan horses

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Every time that I arrive at a website that requires sign in, or has a form that I need to fill in, I remember the days of Gator, the spam-meister of all time. The little program offered to remember all your passwords and fill in forms, and all that it asked back was that you allow them to barrage you with spam. There are times when I almost miss that racket. I just found this little program

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The advent of the Internet has created a new universe where behavior patterns are unknown. For instance, how will people find what they are looking for on the web? It has come to our knowledge now that the majority use search engines. We know that most people click on the organic links in the Search Engine responses and not the for-pay ones. Understanding how a human will use the virutal world

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I remember when Microsoft was considered the barefoot, cool place to work. Everything wsa laid back and casual. Somewhere along the line MS became a behemoth, and it seems that the people don't like behemoths. After squashing everyone's darling Netscape with uncanny business practices, MS has slipped into behemothdom, the quintessential BIG business, and nobody seems to like them.Google has

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The importance of being first in search engines. How can you benefit from this?: "A recently conducted study (PDF) examined the links users followed on the search engine results page. They found that 42% of users clicked the top result, and 8% of users clicked the second result. This confirms previous studies that the number one result gets many more clicks than all other results. In this study,

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I don't know how important this would be to the common Joe on the street. I don't know if I'm even going to use it. But the information is just esoteric enough... and I might find myself using it at some point, that I figure: hey, how else can a guy remember such a tip without sticking it in his blog?Sending Gmail To Your Mobile Phone: "Did you know you can have Gmail forward your new mail to

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In my ongoing efforts to get organized, a project that I'll likely take to my grave, I have purchased an HP 1955 Pocket PC. My good friend Larry of No Blood fame, and who is a nut for such things, sent me this list of utilities for the gadget. From this list, I have investigated the first 2, and have bought them both. So I am assuming that the list, in its entirety, is worthwhile in the

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Its hard to imagine that an internet browser that is built into the code of the Windows operating system could be losing ground to one that needs to be downloaded and installed. But this is the case according to the recent statistics below.Firefox's global usage share has reached 11.5 percent, says One Stat. Internet Explorer is still the browser of choice for the vast majority of the online

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How to deal with Google's latest search engine algorithm: "What is latent semantic indexing? LSI means that a search engine tries to associate certain terms with concepts when indexing web pages. For example, Paris and Hilton are associated with a woman instead of a city and a hotel, Tiger and Woods are associated with golf. Google has been using this concept to determine suitable

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Latent Semantic Indexing: "LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXINGTaking a Holistic ViewRegular keyword searches approach a document collection with a kind of accountant mentality: a document contains a given word or it doesn't, with no middle ground. We create a result set by looking through each document in turn for certain keywords and phrases, tossing aside any documents that don't contain them, and

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