**Smoking Gun Entertainment Group plc – Start of Trading on Ofex**
Well after a tormentuous year, Smoking Gun finally listed on Ofex
this morning. Lets hope that this is the start of up and up…
Spam Spam Spam
My blog has been suffering a lot of spam since I set it up, and a lot of it comes from the same group of spammers! I checked my logs the other day and found a huge amout of refferal sites that spam originates from. So many that have somthing to do with online casinos, poker, etc… any way I have finally a installed a .htaccess solution to block these refferals so hopefully I will get less from now on… although I do have one concern, does anyone know if the is a bug speed hit for the work that htaccess does?
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Google toolbar picks where you surf
Google toolbar picks where you surf
This is something I feel unsure about. Basically Google toolbar picks up words on a page and creates a link to somewhere else. The example given that causes problems is that of Barnes and Noble and Amazon. You are visiting Barnes and Noble or any book web site for that matter, and you are looking at a page for a particular book. On that page is the ISBN number and Google recognises this and changes it into a link to Amazon. So now they have directed the browser away from one site to another with a possible financial implication. ie: the browser buys the book for Amazon rather than the store they started at. Now this is something Microsoft tried with Smart Tags and quickly dumped due to external pressures. ( More here… )
There is a Javascript workaround here but this is what causes the dilema.
I personally don’t want anyone messing with my site, any part of it. I want the user to see it as much as possible, as I intended. If I want to add a hyperlink to possible divert the user away then that’s my perogative, so I’m not keen on google changing my text and adding in links, especially as I don’t know where the are going to end up.
However, the user has installed google toolbar and has thus possibly made the decision that they like this process and afterall it’s kind of the principal that the net is built on and great for. The ability to navigate and find more information on a particular subject.
So which is the correct way: allow google to decide what your user sees or deny the user the flexibility?
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Search keywords revisited…
Here is the latest list of strange search requests that have hit my site…
See Also: Strange Keywords
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Internet Friends Tree
I installed the latest wordpress the other day, and just noticed the link on my page to XFN – so I thought, I’d better check it out.
Basically it’s a way of adding a tag to all your links to indicate how you are related or know this person.
Which basically means that you can spider the internet for this information and build a tree of how everyone knows each other… smart!å°åž‹æ·˜æ°”猫