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Month: January 2009

Social Network Plurk Gets A Facelift

Social Network Plurk Gets A Facelift

In what has recently seemed like a decrease in user activity it appears that Plurk is trying to change its image a little.  When I head over to the social site this morning to login I was greeted with this new home page layout. But is it enough, and did they really come up with a new design that is really going to attract new users?  It’s always been my opinion that the one thing Plurk fails to do is…

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Friend Connect and Favicon's

Friend Connect and Favicon's

So tonight I was looking up something here on the blog and I noticed that my Friend Connect avatars looked different.  Suddenly there were random favicon’s associated with various members of my site.  It’s possible they were there all along and I was oblivious to them, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. I did a little bit of research to see if anyone else had noticed this and at the moment it doesn’t appear so.  I did some…

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You Hang With Gypsies and Something’s Bound To Happen

You Hang With Gypsies and Something’s Bound To Happen

Over the last 6 months or so I’ve been mixing it up with the likes of Mr. David Harry AKA ‘TheGypsy’.  We’ve had some interesting conversations and more recently joined forces to combat the attack of the killer bounce rates.  But apparently camaraderie only goes so far; you see yesterday this fine chap from the great white north tagged me in a meme he got mixed up in. Following his post of 14 things you may not know, that might…

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What The Puck Is Going On With Google Sitelinks?

What The Puck Is Going On With Google Sitelinks?

So over the last couple of months people have been noticing some strange behavior in regards to sitelinks.  In December Search Engine Roundtable made note of sitelinks being cut off possibly due to the use of periods in the text.  Then today, exactly a month after the last sitelinks post, Search Engine Roundtable reported that many sites are seeing their sitelinks disappear and reappear. However, I don’t find any of these things as confusing as the results I discovered last…

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What Broadcast Radio Can Learn From Social Music Sites

What Broadcast Radio Can Learn From Social Music Sites

If there’s one thing that keeps my day flowing its music in my headphones; be it through my Zune, Pandora, or streaming a local radio station.  My Zune mysteriously lost all its juice shortly after I made it in the office today so I decided to stream KROQ’s Roq of the 80’s station for a change.  The streaming station plays in a small player developed by the stations parent company CBS, and has a nice little interface that tells you…

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