"Yahoo has teamed up with Target to offer image printing to members of its online photo-sharing service, Flickr."

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WebORB Message Server Chat (with Google Maps)

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JYBE - Join Your Browser with Everyone

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Corporate Blogging Takes Off
...Nothing like blogging about blogging...

Posted by Reid

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"Splogs" clog blogosphere from The Wall Street Journal
Large search engines and specialty blog engines are increasingly being clogged by spam blogs, also called "splogs," which are created -- often in bulk, using automated software -- with the sole purpose of driving traffic to commercial sites. They are able to gain a high ranking in search engines because of their use of popular search terms as well as a profusion of links to each other.

RC - Another reason why I hate most "search engine optimization" companies (and the companies that support them through hiring them). They try to cheat the system rather than support it by developing relevant, yet optimized, content for users.

If your search rankings skyrocket one day and plummet the next, that is a good indication that you are using "spam tactics" in your search engine optimization.

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One of my recent articles is getting a lot of attention. iMedia Connection: Know Thy Blogger, Know Thyself. Normally, fan mail does not coincide with the publishing of my articles. But this article must have struck a chord with the audience, since I've already got a few nods from fellow bloggers and the Edelman crew I cited in the article itself. If you're wondering how Blogging and PR meet online, this is probably an article you want to read. If I say so myself.

Posted by Kelly Abbott

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ONLamp.com: What Is Ruby on Rails?

I've been researching Ruby on Rails lately. Part of my job is to look on the horizon and see what's coming. I'm also partly responsible for helping our tech team develop with efficiency. Making us more productive and responsive is a constant struggle. As Rails matures and as Ruby becomes a viable open source alternative to PHP and Perl (does anyone use Perl anymore, really?), I think we may be looking at another tool for the RDI tool chest here. Not one to grab on to fads without merit, the language is proving to be powerful and easy to learn. Moreover, the MVC-like framework Rails and the command line Gems that help scaffold databases with CRUD-like functionality are truly time-savers. If nothing else, Ruby on Rails is an excellent prototyping language, something as developers we've always lamented did not exist. I encourage any developer to dig into Rails, learn a little Ruby and see what inspiration is wells up in you, too.

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This article (Yahoo Aims To Be Research Powerhouse) goes to great lengths to explain what Yahoo! is doing by way of innovating on the web. As a brand, I've always been loyal to Yahoo! During the boom, they seemed to "get it" when they adopted Google as thier search partnering with lesser search engines. While, over drinks, my friends love to lambast Yahoo! for not understanding how important search is to their other business units, I have always felt that their relentless pursuit of building value in any service allowed them to realize their search mistakes and work toward correcting them. They were the first portal to incorporate RSS feeds into the mix. Their partnership with SBC is proving that there is value to content and content providers as well. And finally, their recent acquisitions of Web 2.0 darlings like Flickr and Upcoming are testament to the rest of us good web developers, that they "get" the user and the user's needs and are valuable enough to invest in. That is, as a leader, they know whose work to promote. When you have Murdoch buyign up MySpace for half a billion dollars (that's not a typo) I'm glad that Yahoo! gets it. The web is not about, nor has it ever been, a promising medium because it represented economies of scale. Instead its value is derived from the ability to appeal to markets of one. The more Yahoo! does, the more I realize that they get it and me at the same time.

Posted by Kelly Abbott

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Lock Down IIS and SQL Server Includes sysadmin checklists for both. Not all items ont eh list are practical (like removing cmd.exe from the server) but the sum of which would indeed help.

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Google Blog Search

Google now gives you the ability to narrow your search to the blogsphere only. Nice to have, if a bit confusing at first.

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Internet Daily: U.S. fights for Internet control
RC: Bad idea.

Posted by Reid

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Web Sites Work
RC: Just had to post this one.

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Networking Pipeline | Google Opens D.C. Lobbying Office
RC: Someone at this level really needs to get in the door with some of the politicians to clear up some of the fuzzy details on recent Internet legislation. At the same time, we need to be careful to realize that it is not the US' responsibility to govern the World Wide Web.

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