links for 2008-05-29

It still utterly boggles my mind that a court sat, heard the rules about the robots.txt and the 'no-cache' meta tag that are the currency of the net which would have covered this exact use case, and still found against Google. Boggles my mind...

This must be the article that Shane was flagging up in advance the other day.

The blog that sparked the spat. With all the link-love that this has been getting, It'll end up as one of the Telegraph 'site links' on Google. Can't see why it should have been moderated, unless they have a firm policy on posters giving out phone numbers

Didn't think this retort would be long in coming, but seems petty from both sides to cherry-pick extremist UGC from the other site. What next, leaving comments on each other's sites using sock puppet accounts and quoting that back as news?

"Glamorous TV presenter Kirsty Wark's decision to wear a short dress during a BBC broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival has triggered a flood of complaints". Any old excuse to re-run that Emily Maitlis 'legs' picture again, eh lads?

"Microsoft's John Martin has shared a preview of the new Microsoft social bookmarking tool. Based on the limited detail I can see, the tool is not all that innovative when compared to Delicious and other social bookmarking tools out there today."

"One of the biggest challenges for social media marketers is retaining visitors for more than just a few seconds. I think all of us have seen the difficulty with increasing pageviews from these visitors". Suggests good internal links within the copy.

As I've argued before, if Microsoft were going around trying to patent the way people used their 'open source' fingers on something as ubiquitous as touch screen panels will be, all hell would break loose. Apple do it? Everyone shrugs. S'cool, innit?