Site Promotion: 12 Essential Strategies for Building and Structuring Inbound Links
From: www.marketposition.com

"Link Description: Date: Feb 2, 2005, 18:16 PST"

E-Mail Marketing: Fear of Spam Prevents Newsletter Subscribers
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"A strong fear exists that subscribing to e-mail newsletters will result in more spam. Recommends strengthening your privacy policy and disclaimer that you won't sell your list. Date: Feb 2, 2005, 15:34 PST"

Ads and Affiliates: Tracking Print Ad Responses
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Recommends short subdirectories in print ads to help track response. Rather than redirecting to the home page, suggests developing specific landing pages for each ad or ad group. This will be much more effective in closing the sale. Date: Jan 26, 2005, 14:46 PST"

Local Marketing: How to Promote Your Local Business on the Internet
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Announces the publication of a 43-page book that focuses on Internet marketing for a local business. Offers specific techniques for search engine optimization, yellow pages ads, local portal sites, PPC ads for local searches on Google and Yahoo!, geotargeting, and e-mail marketing to local customers. Date: Jan 25, 2005, 08:10 PST"

Site Promotion: How Does Google Use Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)?
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) helps Google and others maintain relevancy by distinguishing in search results between polynyms, words with multiple meanings, and providing relevant results in cases of synonyms. Date: Jan 19, 2005, 13:45 PST"


Reactions To The MSN Search Debut
From: www.webpronews.com

"On Tuesday, Microsoft officially entered the search engine industry with their official launch of MSN Search."

Napster Versus iTunes
From: www.webpronews.com

"Napster, once the most recognizable names in music downloading, is preparing to challenge the current music download king Apple's iTunes."

International Search Engine Usage Trend
From: www.webpronews.com

"In another story from HitsLink...International Search Engine Referrals Out Pace Domestic."

Google Adds Local Tab To Homepage
From: www.webpronews.com

"So Google changed their homepage again, they added the "Local" tab to the search interface."

MSN Messenger Faces Bropia Worm Threat
From: www.webpronews.com

"A variant of the Bropia worm is targeting MSN Messenger, disguising itself as photo of a roasted chicken with a bikini tan line."


Spam Equals Money
From: www.wired.com

"A new report shows just how much time and money is lost to spam. Also: PDAs lose their edge and sales to smart phones & hellip;. Amazon is still selling but also losing money & hellip;. and more."

Google Hits New High
From: www.wired.com

"Somehow the search engine defies Wall Street and becomes even more profitable. Also: Study shows that cell phones make us drive like senior citizens.... Smartphones get new software and become closer to PDAs.... and more."

Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill
From: www.wired.com

"Apple's music player apparently is wildly popular on Microsoft's campus. Thousands of Microsofties own the devices, to the great irritation of management. By Leander Kahney."

Microsoft's Search Is Over
From: www.wired.com

"Catching up to Google and Yahoo, Microsoft joins the search-engine business. Also: Hewlett-Packard creates a replacement for semiconductors.... Dell makes safer, cleaner PC for the EU.... and more."

Chip Off the Old Cholesterol
From: www.wired.com

"Backed by the food industry, scientists make a tortilla chip that lowers cholesterol. Also: The key to all cars has been made; thieves everywhere rejoice & hellip;. Kodak buys Canadian company to help digitize its future & hellip;. and more."


Mind in Matter: NRC Human-Centered Technologies Webcasts
From: webword.com

" "The National Research Council is presenting a series of four seminars on human-centered technologies and behavioural science. Each seminar will highlight a different research area of NRC involving the study of human subjects: People in Buildings; Aviation Human Factors; Information Technology; Neuroscience and Health."

Learn more now..."

Linky Links
From: webword.com

" The Coming Blog Wars: Google vs. Yahoo

A beginner's guide to The Next Big Thing (del.icio.us)

Tools You Might Have Missed

Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully

How to Study: A Brief Guide

del.icio.us + gMail

Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for WindowsXP

So you want to be a consultant...?

Writing Efficient CSS

Aliens Cause Global Warming (Michael Crichton)

Package Design Patterns

Shneiderman's "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design"

Readability Of Websites

Don Box - What goes into a great technical presentation?

How Companies Turn Customers' Big Ideas into Innovations

The last Americans: environmental collapse and the end of civilization (Jared Diamond)

Mobile and Open: A Manifesto

BitTorrent, eXeem, Meta-Torrent, Podcasting: "What? So What?""

The cultural importance of usability testing
From: webword.com

" "...you have to consider cultural differences in usability/requirement, even for countries that speak the same language."

Good reminders.

Read the article...

Related: Usability Around the Globe: Resources
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The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004
From: webword.com

" Web Pages That Suck -- "Nobody cares about you or your site. Really. What visitors care about is getting their problems solved."

Harsh but true.

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Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill
From: webword.com

" "I don't really care if it pisses them off," he said. "I'll argue why they're doing it wrong. If you want me to stop using it, give me a product that works and is as easy to use."

Read the story..."