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Best of the Blogosphere - June 2008

Hello World

If you’ve ever needed the “Hello World” program in other languages, try this. It has 366 coding languages and 58 human ones.

Move over TinyURL, here comes TinyPaste

TinyPaste takes in long strings of text and converts them to short URLs. Mark walks you through what it does and how to use it. Screenshots included.

30+ Must have Updated Firefox 3 extensions

Now that you’ve updated to Firefox 3, check out these updated exensions; you may find something you don’t know about.

Undelete My Files

If you’ve ever deleted a file and realized just a second too late, undelete my files can help you recover them. Easy to use, free and comes with a file wiper, an option to permanently delete files without recovery too.

Two alternative solutions for site analytics

You might be using Google Analytics, but it’s always useful to have other analytics packages. Samuel walks you through Piwik and Visitorville.

Top 3 tools to find out how a blog performs over time

Tad gives us three great tools (two I’d never seen before), that help you determine how your blog is seen in the blogosphere.

16 Things to Look for in a Website Health Check

Glen tells you what to look out for when examining your sites SEO health

Free online seminar for webmasters from Google - July 8

Three Google teams join forces to bring you a free online seminar. If you want to know anything about webmaster tools, analytics, or optimization, sign up here.

7 elements to make your blog look great

It’s all about structure, balance, color, small details, clarity and emphasis, remarkability and functionality. Michael tells you why these elements matter.

Thank your visitors when they comment

If you’ve ever wanted to send an automated e-mail to new commenters, read Matt’s post and get it right. Do it wrong, and risk alienating your audience.

Developing tactical knowledge on social media websites

In this three part strategy aimed at DIY marketers, Maki defines the tactics to help you be more effective with social media marketing

The Word of Mouth Manual

Dave Balter, from the agency BzzAgent, offers you his book ($45 on Amazon) as a free download. (PDF)

Poll Results and a social media case study

Mark shows you how Sea World and Kami Huyse created a social media campaign that drove 200K Visitors to the park in two months

5 Ways to market your business with little or no money

Drew answers the question “How do you market your business if you don’t have a lot of money?” with five simple tips.

E-mail checklist

If you’re a fan of e-mail marketing, read this check list before you hit the send button.

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Web News and Web Stuff

What is RSS

May 1 was RSS awareness day.  If you don’t know what RSS is, check this video out (3:43 mins)

Alltop – Encouraging the Mainstream

Do you know what Alltop is and who it is for?

No Squint

NoSquint is now available for Firefox 3.0b4; it makes text zoom work the way it’s supposed to

Introduction to Memetics: What is a meme?

Online memes come in many forms, from viral videos to entire content “genres.”  If you don’t know what they are, this is a great article to read.

Video Sitemaps

How to create and submit video sitemap files

Best Practices when moving your site

Planning on moving your site to a new domain? Read this if you want to know how do you do it without hurting your site’s performance in Google search results

Making your footer stay put with CSS

How to dock your footer to the botton of your screen

63 Impressive website background images, trends, resources and tutorials

Including stunning examples and trends, where to find background images, how to control element backgrounds with CSS, and how to create your own.

Analytics

Click Heat

ClickHeat is an open source visual tool for showing “hot” and “cold” zones of a web page. It allows you to see which spots users click on most, and which spots are being ignored.

YSlow

YSlow for Firebug is a free tool for Mozilla Firefox that gives you information about your front-end design to see if it performs well. It gives you a letter grade (A through F) and outlines your web page’s trouble spots.

Social Media

4 Pillars of Social Media Algorithms

Ever wonder why some Digg submissions go hot at 25, while others don’t at 270+?

Twitter Dilemma

To tweet or not to tweet; pros and cons - 50 links and tools

Muhammad Saleem on the importance of community

Social media marketing maven, Muhammad Saleem discusses the concept of community building and the importance of maintaining a strong network.

Rethinking blog comments: Much more than just a quick way to get Web traffic

Commenting can help you get some quick traffic; it may help with search rankings, but did you know it can also help with marketing?

Ultimate Social Media Resource List

Whether your interest is in social media marketing, or general social media participation, this resource list is invaluable in assisting in your journey.

Blogging

How to blog design style guide

Want a better blog design? Concentrate on these nine elements

60 Great RSS Icons for your blog

The first 43 are free, the rest you need to check

10 Ways to improve blog traffic in 30 minutes or less

Creating link clusters, reworking HTML tags, and editing are a few of the tips listed here, why not try them all out?

How to get piles of links, subscribers and comments

Without the ability to gather links, subscribers and comments, your blog can’t grow; read this post to learn more about how to make it happen.

The Writers block guide to producing compelling content

So what happens when you’re due for a blog post but don’t quite have a topic in mind? Here are some ideas that should help when the dreaded blogger’s block hits.

3 Advanced Tips to Optimize your blog feed

Is your feed optimized?  If not, read this.

22 Essential Habits towards blogging success

What marks the difference between a regular blogger and a pro blogger?  Read this to find out.

SEO 2.0

How do images get ranked in Image Search

When you perform a search for images at a search engine, do you ever wonder why some pictures show up before others?  Here’s why.

Measuring SEO success

Some history and how-to behind the personalized search success measurement conundrum, and a blueprint for educating site owners.

Creating a natural link profile for your site

Developing a natural link profile is going to become more and more important this year, especially since Google is taking action against sites it perceives as purchasing links.

How to tell if your domain is banned in a search engine

Do you have a domain that appears to have ranking problems in Google, Yahoo or MSN? If you do, try reading this to find out why.

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.neteffect, April 20, 2008

I thought I’d start putting together a list of posts I’ve found interesting over the past week, related to all things Internet.

Let me know how you feel about it in the comments; should I add or delete categories, whether it is useful - all that - and I’ll see whether it’s a good idea to continue creating a .neteffect each week.

Cool News

Encyclopaedia Britannica - now free for bloggers

You can now get access to the online version of EB for free through a new program called Britannica Webshare - provided that you are a “web publisher.”

ISO may change its processes following OOXML debacle

The International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) may change its processes following the controversy around Microsoft’s Office Open XML.

Google starts indexing Whois domain information

Say you wanted to make a query about the Tech Talk Radio domain. Just put this into Google: [whois techtalkradio.com]

The Pirate Bay launches uncensored blogging service

In their ever continuing battle to free the Internet, The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.

Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky team up to build stackoverflow.com.

The idea is to put together a free programming Q&A site. Register if you want to collect karma.

Web Tools and Tricks

One-line batch script to delete empty directories

Create Web-based audio server in Ubuntu

Replace your out-of-date streaming music server with something a little more recent; includes instructions

ColorToy 2.0

ColorToy 2.0 is a Flash based color scheme generator and picker.

Font Cubes beta

Really cool free fonts for PC and Mac. Register and keep track on your favorite fonts by fontmarking them; you could also use the system to keep track of fonts you have used in your project.

Keyword density cloud

Type in your URL and see the most used words on your site in cloud format

List of social media and social networking sites

Continually updated page of social media and social networking sites at Traffikd

Posts worth pondering

Coding

Should all developers have manycore CPUs?

There are substantial, demonstrable performance improvements to be gained from having a second CPU on standby to fulfill requests that the first CPU is too busy to handle. This applies to Web publishers too.

Blogging

Most bloggers don’t deserve any ad revenue

Why and where do advertisers advertise and where bloggers are going at it wrong.

How to get more visitors for your blog without social media marketing

A short list of actions you can perform to get more visitors without social media marketing

How to attract more productive comments on your blog

If you want to encourage and promote interesting discussions on your blog, take a look at these tips.

Search Engine Optimization

Best Practices when moving your site

If you’re planning on moving your site to a new domain, follow these tips from Google’s Webmaster Central blog to ensure you don’t hurt your site’s performance in search results.

Same site duplicate pages at different URLs

Avoiding the crawling of duplicate pages, why is indexing duplicates a problem, and Yahoo! patent application to handle this problem.

Web Junk

SecurityFocus SQL injection bogus

Matt responds to the so-called WordPress ‘wp-comments-post.php’ multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities.

How to fight splogs

From the how-to Wired wiki

Creepy MySpace interweb stalkers

A bit of code and people can auto subscribe you to their video channel on MySpace. Been around at least six months; still going strong.

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