links for 2008-05-12

"An alternative 3D view to read, play & interact with news from msnbc.com online. users are able to customize news channels, sort them by theme or time, browse & save specific news stories, or just gaze the news go by in auto-mode".

"Then I did a bit of work as a citizen electrician. Yeahhhh, really sticking it to The Man there. Rather than getting an electrician to come in and fix our light switch, I bought one, replaced the old one..."

"I’m going to assume that the fact that some Yahoo search results that point to Google with a malware warning are a sign that their new partnership with McAfee just needs a little tuning". Ooops.

"Imagine TiVo on steroids combined with a search engine like Google. That product is called SnapStream TV and it allows thousands of hours of programming to be recorded and then, using closed caption transcripts, brings keyword search to any content".

Excellent base-up guide to SEO from a web designing point of view - although I spotted a couple of head-in-sand 'why would I do this?' sort of comments. Bless them.

"Recently I wrote a post that took me a long time to write and was well crafted timely pillar content which nonetheless failed miserably on social media, even the site I targeted directly". Overview of the factors in getting magic social marketing dust.

Interesting analysis of activity on Sphinn, but maybe it isn't unexpected that a social marketing community site of the world's leading social marketers has an odd usage pattern. I'm one who Sphinns search related stuff I like, but never submits/comments.