I’m certain that Jerry Yang had long ago realized that he really fucked up the acquisition by Microsoft. Just a couple of weeks ago at the Web 2.0 summit, Yang said that it would still be in Microsoft’s best interest to acquire Yahoo! That sounds like an admission of failure if I’ve ever heard one.
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This morning I was trying to do some analysis with my Greasemonkey script for displaying nofollow information in Google Webmaster tools. Unfortunately, it seems that… Read More »Google Webmaster Tools External Links Detail Error
Earlier this week, the Gmail Blog announced the addition of video to Gmail chat. Just download the voice and video plugin, and you’re good to… Read More »Gmail Adds Video Chat
In 2007, a micro-blogging service called Twitter took the ‘Net by storm. I will often jump onto public (and sometimes private) betas to check out new products, but for some reason Twitter never grabbed me. In real life I am somewhat social, but online I never really developed the kind of presence I would have liked. On the other hand, my college buddy Bwana did a much better job of developing an online presence over the course of many years.
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Last month, I read Jimmy Roger‘s tips & sites for finding freelance blogging work. At the end of the article he mentions that Make Use… Read More »Writing for Make Use Of
Today I put together yet another Greasemonkey script. This script will allow you to quickly submit URLs to Ping.fm. You’ll first need to supply your Ping.fm application key to the script. Just right click on the little monkey 
and go to User Script Commands, and select Set Ping.fm App Key. When prompted, provide your key. Please note that the app key is stored in your Firefox browser settings. Do not use this on a public computer, because it would be easy for someone to obtain your app key from the browser.
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I recently made a minor update to my Google Webmaster Tools Greasemonkey script for displaying nofollow information. The script allows you to learn which incoming links to your website are nofollow links when viewing the detail for a site within Google Webmaster Tools. I have added functionality that will also display the PageRank for the incoming links.
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Life has been very crazy lately, and I’ve been falling behind on my blogging. A few weeks ago I started a new job (within ADT) as a six sigma black belt. The very weekend that I was preparing to drive from Jacksonville to Boca Raton for my first week of training, our youngest daughter had a seizure. Although it only lasted a couple of minutes, it seemed to last forever. We called 911 and by the time the paramedics arrived, she had already stopped seizing.
Read More »Return from Hiatus
A few days ago I posted a feature request for Google Webmaster Tools to provide some nofollow information on external links. More or less right after I posted the request, I started putting together my own Greasemonkey script to provide the functionality I was seeking. When I was nearly complete with my Greasemonkey script, I revisited my post in Google Groups and saw that someone mentioned a Firefox addon that provides PageRank and nofollow status for external links in Google Webmaster Tools. The Firefox addon does exactly what I was looking for plus it also provides PageRank information.
Read More »View External Nofollow Links in Google Webmaster Tools
Google has is officially rolling out the canvas view to all iGoogle users. I’ve been anticipating the official release, as I’ve already updated a few of my iGoogle gadgets to implement the new view. The new view allows a single gadget to take up the majority of the space on the iGoogle page.
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