links for 2007-02-24

  • It sucks when your Web site’s traffic isn’t being measured correctly.
  • Digital media executives watched throughout 2006 as Web 2.0 asserted Internet users’ creative independence from the media giants.
  • Windows developers can now port Visual Basic applications to Linux without modifying their code, using an open source project backed by Novell.
  • After my “Should you worry about SEO” post yesterday a reader asked about Googles Duplicate Content penalty. He was worried about cross-posting his articles and also spammers ripping off his content.
  • Paula and I were at Dallas Fort Worth Airport early a couple of Sundays ago. While we sat, we suddenly heard a round of applause from people sitting and waiting for planes out of town.
    (tags: iraq war)
  • Alright, we’ve been following the RIAA’s increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it’s about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it.
  • Traffic, traffic, traffic! There is nothing wrong with getting more traffic to your website, but why spend thousands of dollars on advertising if you can’t even convert your current visitors?
  • CompUSA will close 100 stores this year, according to an industry insider speaking to us under conditions of anonymity.
    (tags: retail compusa)
  • The relationships among HTML, XML and XHTML are an area of considerable confusion on the web. We often see questions on the webkit-dev mailing list where people wonder why their seemingly XHTML documents result in HTML output.
  • Not the greatest looking page in the world, but WOW… this is packed with tons of tools for Webmasters.