In a recent entry I thought a bit about crosslinking in a website.
Now, Matt Biddulph did something quite astonishing, you can see the crosslinking in a action in a flash movie he created.
Now this made me think to implement this too in our companys own content management tool.
The best thing of his del.icio.us “plugin” is, that you gain something by adding keywords to a content. I mean you gain more than higher rankings in google or so.. :-).
Interesting things are going on. Since link spammers put comments on Blogs and get higher google rankings, google told us that you can put a rel=”nofollow” to the links posted in weblog comments. Well, Sixapart (producer of Movabletype) supports the idea among other companies that produce weblogs.
Sure, many people from the xhtml-front think that this isn’t a good idea (are you surprised of that?), but nontheless there are some quite good comments on that.
Well, I’ve got comment spam too (who has not) and I think that it is enought to just change the position of the comment script. Anyone has experience if that helps?
Keith Robinson has written a excellent article about hierarchical vs. hub like homepages:
What I’ve got a problem with is the idea that one way of organization is going to make everyone happy. This will never be the case, and, as with many other Web challenges a compromise will need to be reached. Unfortunately, the nature of the site map deliverable, and the process behind it, don’t really lend themselves to compromise or consensus. This creates a bloated process and quite a bit of effort that is, ultimately, wasted if it doesn’t help people find what they are looking for.
The comments are also very interesting and thought-provoking.
I so often was annoyed by hierarchical built sites where the keywords seemed to obscure to get the information I wanted. When this happens, I go first for a search and second for a sitemap.
Now we have three big web search sites:
MSN Search, Google, Yahoo, while Microsoft’s MSN Search is the latest competitor.
What is the big difference between the three search engines?
Sure, there are different page ranks, according to google-watch there is
on average only a 20 percent overlap between Yahoo’s first 100 results and Google’s first 100 results for the same search
And ok, there are different sites they are searching through.
But why is MSN doing more or less the same thing with huge efforts what google has already done? Yesterday I wanted to search all swiss companies that use/develop semantic web. I can’t search for that! (if you know a site doing that, let me know!). Now what they do is a giant race and some small search will come and eat them all. Why don’t they invent some new? Never heard of Semantic Web? Sure they have! So why are they are doing the same thing again and again? I don’t get it.
Ok, I’ve spent several hours to get MTEmbedImage (a thumbnail tool for Movabletype) working, so I thought I’ll share it with the world.
The stumbling blocks were these:
Wow! I didn’t know there are linux guys interested in tracking/demoscene..
Be sure to check out my favourite mod artists and my tunes as well.. :-)
This is my new Homepage now. You know, for a webcentered guy like me that is something..! For a long time I resisted that blog movement thingie. I thought these are all people that don’t have real life friends but want to express their feelings and thus they are doing this via the web.
It took a while to appreciate that new form of information flow.
