Roger Montti offers an insightful post on link building for new websites in 2008. If you have no traction you need to find a way to buy/beg/borrow/steal attention. Use that exposure to spread content that turns people on / gets them excited / evokes an emotional response / ties in with their worldview and [...]

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Google adwords fuel new URL attack from IDG News reports that the AdWords credit card phishing attempts continue to be a problem.
Emails disguised as official Google AdWords emails are being sent to advertisers asking them to update their billing information. When an advertiser goes through the link and updated their billing information, their [...]

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The question of the day seems to be, how low will Yahoo go when the US stock market opens later today. Even I,optimistic about Yahoo’s chances on its own, don’t expect it to rise. But maybe the latest blog spin from Yahoo, along with formal news of a deal with Google, will help slow the [...]

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Posted by Nick Gerner
A couple of weeks ago the AIRWeb held its 2008 conference. After seeing Dr. Garcia’s post on the conference I was going read the papers and provide a high-level overview of some of the papers.  However, after I saw that they were holding a web spam competition, my interests headed in [...]

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Man, I love Maker Faire. It’s almost as if Burning Man mated with Slashdot. Here are afew of the fun things I saw today.In the Craft area someone showed the credit cards that they accepted, but the credit card sign was hand-made:Also in the Craft zone was a “postcard machine.” It was a person sitting [...]

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