WhosTalkin is a new search engine for the social media landscape. It searches across 40+ popular social media applications, providing in depth results not usually seen in the mainstream search engines. In their own words:
WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about [...]
WhosTalkin: New Social Search Tool Launched
Nick Wilsdon · November 7th, 2008
After Hours PubCon Conference Events
Nick Wilsdon · November 5th, 2008
There’s nothing more annoying that constant reminders about events you are not planning to attend, so for my readers who are not going to PubCon, I apologise.
However if you are planning on hitting Vegas next week, I’d like to meet you so here’s a list of the available out-of-hours events to date. I’ll try and [...]
SEM Basics: How to Use a Proxy IP in Firefox
Nick Wilsdon · November 1st, 2008
I’m sure most of my small select readership are well aware of how to use a proxy IP but after writing my last post, a less-technical friend asked for more details. So here you are, a quick 10-minute guide to using a proxy IP.
What is a Proxy IP?
There are computers that allow anyone to connect [...]
Alamo & National Won’t Rent Cars to Russians
Nick Wilsdon · October 31st, 2008
You get used to some restrictions online when you live in Russia. There are a few novice server admins who block Russian IPs and I’ve lost count of the number of times an online order needed to be confirmed. “Yes I live in Russia. No, this credit card has not been stolen”. I think though [...]
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Nick Wilsdon · October 25th, 2008
If you’re only going to bookmark one post this year, make it this one. Bill Slawski of Key Relevance has put together a comprehensive list of all granted patents granted to Google at the USPTO databases.
There are 169 granted patents in all, with 10 in there for Exaflop. A little more than one third focus [...]
PubCon Poker Tournament and FightClub 2008
Nick Wilsdon · October 22nd, 2008
Dr. David Klein has just opened registration for the PurposeInc Poker Tournament, to take place at the PubCon conference in Las Vegas next month. Last year’s event was great fun and the most talked about entertainment event at the conference. If you’re attending PubCon, sign up now!
Don’t worry if you’re new to poker. The number [...]
Googlebot Strips Default Filenames From Sitemap URLs
Nick Wilsdon · September 22nd, 2008
There’s a useful thread over at Google Webmaster Groups that highlights an issue with default filenames such as index.html and sitemaps. As user edralph888 explains:
The URL in our sitemap is in the format:
http://www.domain.com/index.html?whatever=value
The problem with Googlebot is that even though that is the URL we put in the sitemap, it doesn’t use that URL [...]
The DaveN Blog Hack Raises Questions On Google Blacklist API
Nick Wilsdon · September 19th, 2008
When Dave Naylor first reported some issues with his blog, I fired up SERPGuard.com to check out his URL. Our tool interacts with Google’s API to find compromised sites which are listed on their malware or phishing blacklists. Dave’s pages were being dropped from Google’s SERPs, which raised my suspicions he had been blacklisted but [...]
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Nick Wilsdon · September 12th, 2008
John Mueller is a well known face in Google’s Webmaster Help Group and works as a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Zürich. He’s also a regular on Twitter under his familiar username JohnMu. Seeing as it’s Friday, he’s allowing people to send him Webmaster questions through the service.
I don’t know if this is official Google [...]
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Nick Wilsdon · September 8th, 2008
Hamlet Batista has written a useful post on using the PAD system to distribute software and build links. My first online job was in the shareware industry so this is a familiar technique for me. Here are a few notes to add to the conversation Hamlet started. I would recommend that you read his article [...]
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