We were scanning this fascinating write-up over at SEOMoz about “author/agent rank” when this thought occurred to us. See, the idea is that as social media gets more sophisticated and more data is tracked, search engines could learn how much weight to give an individual’s opinion based on their past web activity. Don’t miss the [...]

Did you ever think you’d live to see the day when you’d read this headline? Here, wait, let’s hear it in OSNews’ own words first: “The world’s most popular operating system will not be receptive to Flash, and Microsoft openly stating Flash is history pretty much means that as a platform for the web, it’s [...]

Lunch Special Today: Reheated Mashables Aw, let’s reblog Mashable and call it a day! Here’s Mashable rounding up some digital media resources, from the past couple weeks. Some interesting finds we’ll pick out for you: 7 Best Practices for Improving Your Website’s Usability – Yeah, we’ll never get tired of nagging you about it. 4 [...]

There just isn’t any web resource that can’t be monetized by traffic-hungry web masters. We were reading through another forum and the subject of people selling Yahoo-Answers level-2 accounts came up. You see, you have to get your account up to a certain level so it has a reputation, and then after that you can [...]

We were laughing like loons at this page examining the things Target, Inc., gets right on their checkout form. It’s funny because Target (the American one, not Target Australia) has a demographic in the lower/working class battlers, and the site’s designed to exploit a lot of base human psychology. Along with the more common-sense ideas, [...]

Every now and then somebody thinks to do a study on how web surfers use their web browsers. Every time, we are shocked to discover that the vast majority of users out there, even in 2011, don’t use most of what the rest of us take for granted. This time they found out that between [...]

“You’d better not bully me or my big brother will beat you up!” – That’s the strategy of the OIN. The Open Innovation Network is a defensive strategy formed out of a business partnership centered around Linux, the members of whom include IBM, Sony, Philips, CentOS, Red Hat, Novell, Fujitsu, and now Cisco and Twitter. [...]

“This case is a serious fraud on the court. We believe this case will be ripe for dismissal with the plaintiff’s compliance on the discovery order.” – These thundering words update us on the status of the most recent lawsuit against Facebook, this time by one Paul Ceglia who claims that 84% of Facebook belongs [...]

Wow, did Google make a social networking splash with Google+, or what? Everybody is talking about it at once! We’ve been doing our best to keep up and to help web designers sort out what they can and cannot do yet to integrate Google+ features in their own site. So here’s a passel of links [...]