Google Artificially Promotes Recent Web Pages  —  Google paid a big price when it started to index pages faster and show them in the search results minutes after they’re published.  The problem is that you can’t rank a page that has just been created because it has no backlinks …

Source:   Google Operating System
Author:   […]

Predictions 2008  —  Has it been a whole year?  I posted my predictions for 2007 on Jan 1, 2007, and here it is, the first day of 2008, and here we go again.  This year I am going to organize my predictions by companies (just the big ones) and trends.  I’m focusing on advertising …

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Can Pay-For-Performance Improve The Quality Of Content On The Web?  —  Nick Denton and Gawker Media are wrestling with the problem of content quality on the web — specifically, how to give bloggers incentives to create content that drives traffic based on quality rather than quantity.

Source:   Publishing 2.0
Author:   Scott Karp
Link:   http://publishing2.com/2008/01/01/can-pay-for…

Survey: Mac OS hit record 7.3% share in December; iPhone up 33%  —  Reflecting strong holiday sales of both MacBooks and iPhones, Apple’s (AAPL) market share grew sharply in December, as measured by a Net Applications survey released today.  —  The Mac hit a record 7.3% share, up from 6.8% last month.

Source:   FORTUNE: Apple […]

Rails Is A Ghetto  —  I’ve more or less kept my mouth shut about some of the dumb and plain evil stuff that goes on in the Rails community.  As things would happen though I’d take notes, collect logs, and started writing this little essay.  As soon as I was stable and didn’t need Ruby […]

Denton to pay bloggers based on traffic  —  Gawker Media dark overlord Nick Denton (pictured) has launched a new pay system for all Gawker Media blogs, after testing it at four of his leading sites.  Denton’s goal is to discourage “self indulgent” posts and “mind-numbing frequency” in favor of …

Source:   Valleywag
Author:   Paul Boutin
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Ten things that will change your future  —  So Google and Wikipedia took you by surprise?  Nick Galvin looks into his crystal ball and explains what you need to know to survive the next decade.  —  Think back to the days before the network we call the internet existed.

Source:   Sydney Morning Herald
Link:   http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/ten-things-that…

The Sears “Community” Installation of ComScore  —  Late last month, Benjamin Googins (a senior researcher in the Anti-Spyware unit at Computer Associates) critiqued a ComScore installation performed by Sears’ “Sears Holdings Community” (”My SHC Community” or “SHC”).

Source:   Ben Edelman - Home
Link:   http://www.benedelman.org/news/010108-1.html