links for 2008-04-18

UK repeat of Miles' brilliant presentation about IA input into designing social networks that work - Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:30 pm

A list of the PowerPoint, PDF and SlideShare versions of the presentations from the IA Summit in Miami

"Google care to explain why this isn’t a paid link page? Any reason you haven’t dinged the page rank of this known link seller or cut their ability to pass page rank or anchor text? Selective rule enforcement is one of my major problems with the big G".

"Search marketing and Web development are closely related: it's hard to market a poorly-designed site. And many search marketing professionals have clients who paid a lot for a Web site design. They're often reluctant to make even the smallest changes".

"Our objective is to be the first general purpose search engine where the results are ranked by quality rather than popularity. As a one-stop destination site, we want to offer the users credible and fresh results in every vertical".

"The Web might have just gotten one step closer to a universal 'social dashboard' capable of managing an array of blogging, messaging, networking, and media applications. It's a small step, but still a move in the right direction".

"More & more effort is needed to get noticed, make friends and fans. Beside being loyal, consistent, truthful, there is one proven technique to gain power within social media and your targeted community - that is 'be everywhere at the same time'".

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I say. What was wrong with that black'n'white mast ident from 1954?

"The problem with online polls is it can be difficult to prevent an orchestrated campaign to engineer a result. Which is why the Scotland on Sunday editor has emailed users of their website that he will not be publishing the results of the latest poll".

"Over the last few days I’ve noticed a couple of what I believe to be spam submissions to Sphinn with links to topgear.com, the official website of the BBC TV show fronted by Jeremy Clarkson". Also cites BBC Top Gear URL activity on Digg.