NoDiamonds

I live in Palo Alto, which is in the middle of Silicon Valley, about 40 miles south of San Francisco. Just a few miles from my house are Google, Yahoo, eBay, Apple and many other cutting edge technology companies. Plus there is Sandhill Road, also know as Venture Capital Central, and Stanford University, which provides …

The Wikipedia is a free web-based encyclopedia with content written by an army of volunteers. It's a fabulous resource and gives me hope for humanity. Wired magazine reports:
In 2005, the nonprofit venture is the largest encyclopedia on the planet. Wikipedia offers 500,000 articles in English – compared with Britannica's 80,000 and Encarta's 4,500 – fashioned …

There's an easy way to find out which pages of your site that have been indexed by the big 3 Search Engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN). Search for site:www.yoursite.com. If the number of search results don't match your website's total number of pages, it means some pages may not be listed. Some pages are invisible …

I read a post the other day on Slashdot (News for Geeks, Stuff that Matters), still the web's most popular blog as of March 2005. Slashdot is about technology news, and they had a discussion about whether Google was still clearly superior to Yahoo and MSN as a Search Engine.
Inspired by that thread …

I already talked about how you can keep track of blog updates by using bloglines.com in a previous post, How to read blogs. Apart from reading blogs, there is another powerful way to keep track of news on a topic which is often faster.
This is done through search feeds and news alerts. I first discovered …

You may have seen spam email or ads on the web promising to submit your site to hundreds, if not thousands of search engines. That may be very well, but 3 search engines have 96% of the market (as of December 2004): Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Search Engines: the Big Three
AOL, which comprised 9% of all …

Blogging is perhaps the most effective marketing tool a small business or consultant has. Here's why:
- search engines love blogs and they immediately increase traffic to the website (100% increases within month is common)
- you can establish a reputation as an authority in your field
- blogs allow for instant feedback through the conversations with readers …

Here’s one “old” way to read blogs:

Find a blog you like
Bookmark the page
Frequently remember to check that bookmark to read the new entries

If the blog which interests you has an email subscription box (see top right for this blog right here), you may be able to enter your email. In which case, every time there …