Google’s Beta testing its new service designed to improve Google’s image library. The concept is that you ‘tag’ the image randomly displayed to you and an anonymous partner.

So how does this help all 5.999 billion other citizens of the world? When you tag the image (provided you and your partner do so sensibly), your tag will be added to the image. The next time someone searches for that tagged image, it’ll be higher up the rankings. Not much will be done if one person did it, but on the …

Perhaps could have worded the title better, but it gets the message across. I just switched over to Feedburner (used to use in-house methods) to see what all the fuss was about. So, joined up and claimed my feed. Not too bad. I admit, I had to do it about three times, as it never seemed to save my details. Great! Now what?
This is the point where most bloggers that don’t have a web developer at their disposal stumble. Great, I’ve got my shiny new Feedburner account, and decided to …

I know many people on the internet, and surprisingly, many of them still aren’t aware of what the term viral means. I will take this opportunity to remind you that this phrase has no relation to physical health, and if you have such a condition, you have my condolences. Anyway, I wrote this article to explain the term to those unfamiliar with internet marketing, or simply don’t waste their time on the internet surfing around the most pointless websites.
So what is it?
Thanks to the Google dictionary for the following definitions:
Viral …

I have been searching around on the internet, having a look for some evidence to indicate why I should bother maintaining a nofollow structure on any software I write. It was originally a concept by Google, back in the Pagerank beta, to combat the abuse of link-based spam, but many predicted its failure. Has it really done anything? Well the numbers say no.
The first point that I would like to make is that the actual numbers of link spam has increased 100 fold. You can see that by looking at …

Today, I spent a significant portion of it surfing the net, and I couldn’t help but notice a constant supply of ads, becoming more and more prominent on the web. At first I thought, well it could be a fluke, but after the amount I’d seen rose above 10, I knew that the place had changed. Even Google are doing a Flash Video Ad service.

Even Windows Live Messenger has been including ads like this in their content (the one above was in Live Messenger, hidden until rollover). These are generally …