One of my friends takes great joy in tormenting Google cheerleaders. He likes to say things like “I’m going to use Yahoo, it’s the best search engine”, or “I’m going to Yahoo for it, that way I will actually find it”. When he wants to find something Y! is the first place that he goes. [...]
Ends vs Means Mature people who actually care about the world don’t ponder the question “do the ends justify the means,” because they know that there IS no end. From Decemberist via tecznotes
From Bubblegeneration we get what I am calling the Media 2.0 maxims. 1) Network economies dominate search. 2) Viral economies dominate microcontent/communities. 3) Distributed economies dominate personalization/microchunking. The point is that if you can put all three together, you realize a *huge* scale advantage, because you’re realizing nonlinear returns to scale along all three dimensions.
via i-mode Business Strategy: Yahoo to launch it’s own billing solution for mobile content in Japan. It means they can now provide full access, content and billing to end users independently from carriers
O’Reilly talks about What Is Web 2.0, including these Web 2.0 Design Patterns 1 The Long Tail Small sites make up the bulk of the internet’s content; narrow niches make up the bulk of internet’s the possible applications. Therefore: Leverage customer-self service and algorithmic data management to reach out to the entire web, to the [...]
SEOmoz | Search Engine Ranking Factors Here is a list of factors in SERPs, aggregated & weighted by a very respectable group of SEOs. Excellent reference for SEO.