In an interesting streaming interview yesterday at WebProNews, Google’s Matt Cutts pulls back even more layers around tips to help google find the content on your site:

  • Content, content, content – It’s been repeated by a lot of the SEO masters, which is now validated by Matt.
  • Reputation – I’ve noticed in a few of Matt’s videos (and now in the streaming interview) that Matt is pushing more the idea of your reputation helping you out more in the long run. He seems to be referring to the “blackhat” SEO practice of blog hacking with the purpose of building up backlinks to websites

Unfortunately Matt seemed to have run out of time during the interview, so there was really no advice or tips from him in terms of the relevance of sites out there linking to your own (aka. backlinks). On one hand he seems to say that it’s still very important for calculating your final page rank, but then downplays them.

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GWT 2.0.2 is now available

by erik on February 15, 2010

the google web toolkit 2.0.2 is now available from their site.

It looks like a minor release update with the following fixes:

  • Standard.css missing new layout styles (#4429)
  • Using a PopupPanel in Internet Explorer without a history IFrame throws a NullPointerException

If you’re new to using GWT here’s a direct link to their tutorials.

If you’re also new to GWT 2.0, here’s a Campfire presentation of the new Speed Tracer.

enjoy!

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fathomdb providing database realtime backup services

February 14, 2010

Over at the Building43 playland, Robert Scoble interviewed Justin Barbara, the CEO of FathomDB. It’s worth a view to get an understanding of where Justin is coming from.

Justin offers some great tips and advice for startups and/or smaller companies who try to administer their database servers without the necessary skill or expertise yet [...]

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corporations still struggling with social media brand defense

February 14, 2010

In this “new economy”, the world of social media – along with the internet – has been quickly revealing who is able to adapt to the “transparency” that social media provides in terms of promoting and defending a brand.
I would suggest that (as usual) corporations based in the United States are jumping into the social [...]

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get the “google buzz” chicklet into your wordpress site

February 12, 2010

Depending on your news reader, you may or may not have “Google Buzz” already. It should be showing up for you automatically in gmail, just under your inbox.
Adam Goetz used Buzz to let me know that he thought it was a way to “babystep” users into Wave. Definitely a forehead slapper moment on my part! [...]

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the ruby on rails team delivers the 3.0 beta

February 5, 2010

The ruby on rails crew have been able to bang out enough code to release the 3.0 beta.
Quotes David Hansson:

Rails 3 is focused on bridging the core Rails technology with the new ideas brought in from the Merb team, which joined the Ruby on Rails development effort. Merb is a model-view-controller (MVC) web framework [...]

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what does a “web services plumber” actually do?

February 4, 2010

I have to admit up front that I’m not one of those people that gushes over business cards, or rushes to the printer whenever their title changes. I had a few business cards printed about 8 years ago, and I’m still working on the same box of 250.
So why use “web services plumber”? Why not [...]

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