http://struttonis.com/blog Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:47:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While doing a bit of searching today, I stumbled across some obvious testing. A search for "cell phone batteries" brings up a page of results with what appears to be Google products in the right hand column listed under "Sponsored Listings".So a few questions immediately came to mind:Is this actually ... http://struttonis.com/blog/67/google-products-results-showing-in-right-hand-sponsored-listings/ Twitter is leveling up. Biz Stone ( @biz ) recently announced in a blog posting that they are working on a Geo API. Ryan Saver ( @rsaver ) is lead on this project and has been involved with WhereCamp and is enthusiastic about other location tracking services. Biz states that ... http://struttonis.com/blog/62/twitters-working-on-big-brother-api-err-geo-api/ So there's currently a bit of an up roar, Microsoft and Yahoo as most everyone should know by now are jumping into bed together. You can read more about it at http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/080201-070804/ if your unfamiliar with whats going on or have been living under a rock. Bing and Yahoo: What About ... http://struttonis.com/blog/38/bing-and-yahoo-what-about-paid-inclusion/ Smashing Apps one of the blogs on my daily read list recently wrote about a nifty tool that will make designers lives a bit easier. The tool is named Divine, and like its name, its godly. http://struttonis.com/blog/36/photoshop-to-wordpress-conversion-tool/ by xotoko I went looking for a Wordpress plugin to that would link to Twitter @usernames and $hashtags. The first result that looked worthwhile was Tweet. Tweet may lack an original name but that's quickly overlooked. This is a very simple yet amazingly useful plugin. Download the Tweet plugin for yourself and take ... http://struttonis.com/blog/25/twitter-username-hashtag-wordpress-plugin/ First off, my heart truly cries out at the loss of such a figure in our lives. It must be said the he will live forever in his music and his fans. I am sure his family feels otherwise however. They should however take notice that his passing has broken ... http://struttonis.com/blog/21/michaeljackson-micghael-jacksons-death-is-breaking-twitter/ May 19th Google said that they are finally going to listen to all the Adword Professionals that have been pleading to have the "Other Unique Queries" explained. "Other Unique Queries" encompasses all the low volume queries that are reported in the Search Query Performance report. Most users of Adwords ... http://struttonis.com/blog/13/adwords-finally-explains-other-unique-queries/ The Korea Times is stating that the Conficker is a hoax. However KISA officials are still stating that it is far to early for computer users to feel safe from any possible Conficker related threats. My suggestion is to download FSMRT or F-Downadup from F-Secure. It is a free command line removal ... http://struttonis.com/blog/12/korea-times-says-conficker-is-a-hoax/ So Google has its April Fools Day joke yearly. This year its CADIE. CADIE is a "Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entit," or something. CADIE claims that she can no longer let humanity ruin that which is Goolge. It is although somewhat happy, cheerful, and free of any of malicious acts right? ... http://struttonis.com/blog/11/april-fools-is-the-internet-really-the-place/ While doing some of my daily blog reading I happened across a very insightful blog Using Photos to Build Inbound Links written by Matt McGee. This got me thinking of course that it would be extremely helpful to my company to take advantage of Flickr. So I began putting together ... http://struttonis.com/blog/3/a-flickr-tool-that-is-actually-useful/