technology: The War on Spam Goes 3-D With new 3-D Captcha
- 03/29/09 06:42 AM
A while back I wrote a post trying to warn everyone that Captcha as a security measure has been defeated. This basically means that anyone who has a blog or any site that uses Captcha for security pretty much has no security. Spammers could easily hit your site with whatever they want and that’s not good. Well it’s good for them but bad for us. So I had a feeling people were scrambling to find a new method of security. Then I saw this article here. This new technology makes it pretty much impossible for a computer to crack so … (0 comments)
technology: Saving ink and Saving the Planet
- 03/28/09 10:41 AM
This is probably something that most people don’t think about. I know a lot of people are becoming more environmentally aware or conscious and that’s a good thing. Remember that our resources are limited and putting bad stuff back into the environment is not a good thing. Neither is wasting resources. Think before you print might be a saying that you see once in a while but it’s something that you might not necessarily do. Yet it’s very important to remember that saving trees is important. It’s a big waste of natural resources to waste paper. I realize we can recycle … (6 comments)
technology: Google’s Other big Announcement: Major Change to Snippets in Search Results (SEO)
- 03/25/09 04:43 AM
Google just announced some rather big news in how it displays search results (SERP) by now providing an even longer snippet. A snippet is what used to be just a bit of text located right below the link on the results page but now they are rolling out an even longer result. While this is great for the end user this might not be so great for consumers. Ars Technica is speculating that this might lead to more time spent Googling and less click throughs. Translated this means the searcher might get the answer to their question or query without having … (6 comments)
technology: Google Starts Rolling out Semantic Searches and More! Big Big News at Google
- 03/25/09 03:44 AM
For years SEO experts and not-so-experts have been saying that semantic searching will be the next big thing since Kool-Aid. Some have said it was already here and some said it would never come. Well it’s here. Well sort of. Google announced yesterday that “we're deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of its first applications lets us offer you even more useful related searches (the terms found at the bottom, and sometimes at the top, of the search results page)” The thing is that for me it doesn’t seem to … (5 comments)
I often write about the importance of backing up all your files. Why? Because it’s important duh! I am actually shocked at the number of people with websites that don’t even know you are supposed to back up the data let alone have a backup! The same goes for any of your personal data. Think of it as a safe with all your most valuable child hood possessions. If you don’t keep them safe they are but a memory. Why take chances? That’s why I recommend that you have more than one … (8 comments)
It was just announced over at Tech Crunch that there is a new social network in town that works a bit like Twitter. Of course a lot of people are trying to work on things similar to Twitter because if it worked for Twitter why wouldn’t it work for me? Duh! Well that’s not always how things work. You can’t just copy something and expect it to work. That’s why they tried to make Jive.ly a bit different and offer more. That’s the thing that might make this thing take off. The … (2 comments)
As if I have to tell you another reason to get yourself and your listings on YouTube but if you are not thinking out of the box then you might not realize there is a vast, hardly tapped market. How about mobile video? This is a pretty new area for a variety of reasons. First of all it was nearly impossible to have enough bandwidth to view movies on a phone. Secondly it was pretty much impossible because phones just couldn’t process movies. They were basically too limited and the resources necessary would … (5 comments)
Honestly I wish I could ditch IE once and for all. I just hate it. It sucks and there is no other way of looking at it. It’s just another example of how monopolistic practices result in crappy products. No wonder Firefox and the rest are eating up such a large market share. It’s no secret they are simply much better than IE. While IE 8’s release is certainly good news it’s not really going to shake up the computer world when at best it simply offers some of the features that these … (5 comments)
I don’t know about you but a lot of my business depends on local traffic to my website. I like having a national presence and I have had people from all over the country call me as a result of being on the web but keeping it local is important as well. The majority of people who should be using my site and hopefully find it useful would be the people in and around Eau Claire Wisconsin. I do my best to get myself “out there” so to speak and I have a … (6 comments)
You know it’s hard to explain what it feels like when you consider that most people know little about computers so the smallest computer feats make you seem like you are some sort of computer genius. The reality of computers is that most of this stuff is pretty easy it just takes time to learn. Most people are not inherently good at working with computers; they have merely spent more time learning all the nuances. I am often approached by people who are just amazed at what I can do and yet I … (3 comments)
I guess you can only praise Apple for their marketing efforts because they have done the impossible, take an insecure computer platform and market it to the masses as infallible. How else can you look at it when anyone even reading the words I just wrote is already calling me a liar? In fact the last time I even suggested something to this effect I was practically run out of town by an angry mob with burning torches screaming at me for even suggesting that a Windows pc could be more secure than … (9 comments)
technology: Not Discounted Services… How About all my Services for Free??!! Wired’s Chris Anderson
- 03/18/09 05:46 AM
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? The legend of free marketing and offering your services for free certainly seems like a gimmick. But is it? Think about this for a moment because as strange as this sounds it’s not really a gimmick at all but a fact of marketing that a lot of people might overlook but not Chris Anderson. If you don’t know who that is he is the head of Wired magazine as well “the guy behind the long tail theory.” You can just do a search for long tail if you aren’t sure how important that is … (4 comments)
First of all I would like to say that I am probably as sick of hearing about every new social network that comes out as anyone else. In fact I probably read about more of these things every day than the average person. Some are just plain not very useful and when new ones come a long you have to question if it’s even possible to actually have something new! Well in the case of unhub you would be dead wrong because this thing is freakin’ crazy. Want to see what it … (10 comments)
As Real Estate agents we know how important our word choice is and how we must be constantly careful of what we say or do or risk certain liability. Often we are placed in situations that we must know every detail of the law especially such areas as agency relationships or we risk some very huge consequences. Without proper agency disclosure, the simplest thing such as discussing price could get you in trouble with either the seller of the home, the buyer or the licensing board. Not only is it important that you … (2 comments)
As if you needed any other reasons to slim down your bloated blog and website there might be something else you never considered. Ok first of all you probably assume that everyone has broadband which is a bad assumption because not everyone does so if your site loads slowly on a fast connection it’s terrible to people on dialup. Now imagine what it does to people accessing your sites from their phones? I can tell you for sure that they will move onto the next site that isn’t chock full of slow … (8 comments)
I like reading about SEO and I like sharing what I learn about SEO. I know it’s hard for a lot of people to understand all the concepts involved and sometimes there is very conflicting information and other times there really isn’t a single correct answer. But one thing I was told quite a while ago and I thought for sure was correct is apparently a big waste of my time.
Perhaps the single biggest factor in having your site rank well is building good links to it and one of the … (11 comments)
Ok speed is in. It’s one of the biggest selling points for Chrome and a strong reason to use Firefox beyond all the great extensions available. Really everyone is getting tired of slow loading sites and if you see my post here you can maybe fix it on your end by fixing your slow site or blog. But it’s not always the website that is slow and sometimes great content just takes time. But when you have a fast connection like I do at home (10 mbit) then why on earth does … (10 comments)
Ok everyone hates junky slow sites. I mean come on. I have a 10mbit connection at home and some websites take several minutes to load I can’t even begin to imagine what hell this might be like if you are on dialup. So if you haven’t heard this before then you are hearing it for the first time but it’s been said a million times… (Sorry for shouting)
Get rid of your widgets!!!!!!!!!!!
Get rid of the ridiculous backgrounds and images!!!!!!
Not unless you know how to optimize this … (6 comments)
If you aren’t sure what Google Friend Connect is or you never heard about the announcement you can read an older post here. If you want to see one of the new features in action you can go to my Eau Claire Real Estate website here and see what is known as the social bar at the top of my site. In fact I would appreciate if you signed in. It uses open social so you can log in using a variety of different methods. What better way to allow users to interact … (0 comments)
You might not have ever heard of Google Voice because for almost the last 2 years Google has been mostly silent about its development but this is perhaps one of the biggest new applications that they have announced in many years. In fact it could be one of the biggest ones ever next to Gmail. What is it exactly? Well it’s like having a universal phone number, like how Gmail was meant as a way to centralize all your email accounts and make it a one stop email app; Google voice has … (12 comments)
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A while back I wrote a post trying to warn everyone that Captcha as a security measure has been defeated. This basically means that anyone who has a blog or any site that uses Captcha for security pretty much has no security. Spammers could easily hit your site with whatever they want and that’s not good. Well it’s good for them but bad for us. So I had a feeling people were scrambling to find a new method of security. Then I saw this article here. 
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