Exciting New Features on LinkedIn for Businesses

Have you claimed your company page yet? LinkedIn has rolled out a bunch of new features in 2012 that make it a much more useful site for making meaningful connections as well as building a corporate image.

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Has Google Killed Creativity?

Working with my spouse often makes for some interesting conversations. Over breakfast, he spoke about all the different programs and things he was playing with. Programs like Linux, Red Hat, and Fedora. At the end of the conversation, he commented that in 2012, those programs would never have been called by those names. Their developers, in an effort to increase their ranking in Google, would have called them things like Operating System v3.4, and Free Operating System v3.4.

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Javascript, No-Script, and Effective Web Programming

You know, I have been designing and programming for the web since 1993. I admit that in all that time I have never come over to liking javascript. I’ve come around on flash for certain things, but never javascript and it’s not just because coding it gives me a headache. It just never seemed to be worth the trade-off in security, accessibility, or in SEO, yet over the years, more and more sites have come to rely completely on it to deliver even basic functionality.

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Personal Privacy vs. Basic Internet Services: Google’s Real Name Policy in the Real World

Transparency. It’s the buzz-word for businesses trying to market themselves on the Internet. A lack of transparency can mean a lightning death for a Brand on Social Media.

But what about individuals or individuals who are their business?

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What’s All the Drama Surrounding Custom Domain Names?

Don’t expect to get a custom, generic, or GTLD domain any time soon…or at all really. Here’s the rub.

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