Coders and programmers have the same issue that writers do. Proofing your own work is all but impossible. While Word has spell checker, what does the web have? Quite a lot actually. The best place to start is Firefox’s extensions . To access them go to tools–>Add ons. In the …
Cameron Ley, one of my coworkers was fortunate enough to hear Bill Buxton speak at U of T and Cameron has graciously allowed me to post his thoughts on the event: Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Bill Buxton (http://www.billbuxton.com/) the principal researcher at Microsoft Research, speak at …
As mentioned in a previous post I entered our company’s SEO contest at mattbrandenburg.com. I created a very simple page and on Friday afternoon I was number one in Google and beginning to make inroads on the other engines. This morning however I was nowhere to be found. My website …
There is a great website called the CSS Zen garden. Essentially it is designed to illustrate the possibilities of using CSS based design. Designers and developers are invited to download the html and CSS files, and then create a new look using just those files and changing the CSS. Here …
One of the biggest problems facing companies today is keeping their employees trained and interested in learning.For internet companies it is even harder.In an industry that changes so rapidly you have to really be on your toes.What worked six months ago doesn’t work today!The Search Community of Practice at Critical …
The landscape of search is changing again.As Google universal and similar algorithms are being utilized text based information will hold less and less sway. Podcasts and videos will come into play, as will personalization. (think like Amazon personalization) The techniques that worked in the past do not work …
A good place to start is the beginning. For me that was the Fall of 1992, my first year at university. One of my dorm-mates had just recieved a six hundred dollar phone bill which was the result of his surfing the web to download games from Virginia tech or …