Dec
17th
links for 2007-12-17
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Microsoft fired an unexpected shot that was heard around the world when it announced the early public beta release of its widely anticipated virtualization hypervisor, Hyper-V.
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Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP) for OSX
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MySQL has a number of user interface tools for the desktop. If your host permits, this is a great way of managing and querying your MySQL database.
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Amazon has just announced SimpleDB, a database hosted as a web service that application developers can plug into. Despite one curious choice, this is just brilliant strategy on their part.
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A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can’t force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase.
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Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.
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Andrew provides some insight into how you can push your site into the stratosphere of Search Engines simply by watching the trends!
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Because first impressions are so powerful, you should always be trying to improve the experience for new visitors in a way that will encourage repeat visits.
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BlogPulse is a window into the blogosphere… open it daily to discover the people, issues, blogs, posts, commentaries, tidbits and news that bloggers are discussing.
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A fantastic list of WordPress Plugins - some that I’ve not seen before!
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Sergey asked me and a number of other bloggers what the most important element of business blogging is. Some great responses here!
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Marketers, agencies and ESPs reveal in a survey what they do and don’t do with email campaign metrics.
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It appears Radiohead has ditched the effort to sell their music online with a “pay as you’d like” approach. I think that’s a mistake. Radiohead will surely profit from concert revenue in turn for lost sales.
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You’ve read in one too many places that your website should include a blog in order to get better positioning in search engine results.
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Hispanic Trending has evolved through the years into an aggregator of meticulously selected news and commentaries related to the Latino market.
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