Category: All

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Lists support coming soon to Twitter

Twitter is finalizing the support for groups, which they call Lists.  This is probably the most useful feature people have been requesting for ages.  If you currently follow a lot of people, web interface lacks pretty much any organizational functionality.  That’s one of the reasons for so many Twitter applications and third-party services.  But with this upcoming lists functionality, you’ll be able to group people into friends, colleagues, companies, and whatever else you’d want.

Twitter Lists

Also, see this blog post in Web Work Daily, which explains how publicly viewable list will be useful as a networking tool.

China celebrates 60 years

China is celebrating 60 years of communist rule.  Of course, they’ve organized a huge parade with all their military forces, fireworks, and so on.  Boston.com’s The Big Picture blog features quite a few impressive pictures.  This reminds me so much of my childhood during the USSR era…

China : 60 years of communism

Daily tweets digest

  • PUBlic holidays are called so because you've got to visit a pub. #
  • Played a game of Quake 3 with the bots. It's as good as always. Though I find it hard to concentrate that much for the whole 20 minutes. #
  • Yey! It looks like Inglorioius Bastards are finally coming to Cyprus cinemas tomorrow. http://kcineplex.com/comming.php #
  • College Humor does a Guy Ritchie parody. Awesome stuff, but NSFW due to lots of swearing. http://bit.ly/l1X6v #

Daily tweets digest

  • Google Docs seem to be having a problem with Print Preview and Export As. For at least 5 minutes already… #
  • Spammers seem to be taking Twitter over. Random strings made it into Trending Topics. I see H1N1 in there. :) #
  • For some reason my Twitter digest posts are lagging a few days behind. Must be the Twitter API issue. #
  • Public holidays are my favourite days in the office.Half day of non-disturbed work,a long lunch in the pub,brief visit back to office.Home. #

Google does not use keywords meta tag

I’ve been explaining this to way too many people over the last few years – Google does not use keywords meta tag for ranking search results.  Which means you can totally drop it, or leave it empty, or fill it with whatever you want at all.  It just doesn’t matter.

And the reason for that is really simple.  SPAM and search ranking manipulation.  It started even before Google was around.  Back when Altavista and Yahoo were fighting for the title of the best search engine.  Altavista was using quite a bit of keywords meta tags.  And, as a result, you could often see sites which had nothing to do with the search query still rank at the top.  If I remember correctly, even Google paid some attention to that meta information at the beginning, but it was quite obvious pretty soon that it cannot be trusted.

Now, if you don’t believe me on this subject, either watch the video or read the explaination directly at the Google Webmaster Blog.  Satisfied?  Now stop spending hours upon hours of everyone’s time trying to develop the perfect tool and pick the perfect keywords.  It just doesn’t matter.

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