Over the past year or so most of the blog engines have defaulted to using the nofollow tag in comments. This tag basically tells search engine spiders not to follow the links. While this can be handy if you want to mention a competitor it's not so useful when you have genuine contributors to your blog's comments. While I can understand the reasoning behind the introduction of … [Read more...] about Why “no follow” sucks
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Blatant Self Promotion
Just posted this on the company blog … [Read more...] about Blatant Self Promotion
How To Win International Friends – O’Reilly Saga Continues
O'Reilly publish some really good technical books, but that does not give them any divine rights. Their latest "clarification" on the it@cork debacle that I mentioned earlier is really not helping matters: We're not claiming exclusive use of "Web 2.0" in all contexts. Our service mark applies only to "Web 2.0" when used in the *title* of "live events" such as conferences and … [Read more...] about How To Win International Friends – O’Reilly Saga Continues
O’Reilly – Ireland is not part of the US
I am rather amused and mildly shocked by O'Reilly's threats against IT @ Cork (of which we are members). Of course they are now back peddling madly, but I still think it's incredibly heavy handed and ill advised. Unless the trademark was registered in the EU it would have no bearing on Ireland anyway, so I would love to know what they had applied for. … [Read more...] about O’Reilly – Ireland is not part of the US
The Broken Web
From time to time I come across website that simply do not work properly in Firefox. In most cases this can cause some degree of irritation, but other times it is extremely frustrating. At present I am researching cars, so I've been working my way through as many of the Irish car sites as possible in order to gauge pricing etc., Unfortunately at least one of the sites that … [Read more...] about The Broken Web