Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

AdWords users will now see a list of ‘invalid clicks’ for their AdWords accounts when they login. Details at the Inside AdWords blog.

As grocery stores cut costs and remove staff, they implement more and more self-checkout lines. I love this – even though the enroachment of self-service everything is gradually increasing. But now the grocers find that self-checkout users are not impulse buying – and they are losing money. The impulse displays have not caught up to […]

She chose to use her first and last names for the domain (just as I own larryseltzer.com) and checked it on at least one service for availability. She went back in a day or two to register it and, lo and behold, it had just been registered to an outfit named Chesterton Holdings. Don’t search […]

I love when I learn a new term: Domain registrations have “a five-day period in which a registrar may delete a just-registered domain and get a refund of the registry fee. Speculators have figured out how to use this feature to register domains, publish them with many advertising links, and then evaluate which are promising […]

This is old old old news but I forgot to add it here – Jeremy gave his diagnosis of the implementation of the nofollow attribute to links in blogs. Nofollow has done … nothing. Comment spam? Thicker than ever. Its had absolutely no effect on the volume of spam. Thats probably because comment spammers dont […]

ReadWriteWeb takes a shot at articulating the next generation of search technology: First-generation search ranked sites based on page content – examples are early yahoo.com and Alta Vista. Second-generation relies on link analysis for ranking – so they take the structure of the Web into account. Examples are Google and Overture. Third-generation search technologies are […]

How do you roll out a new polical paradigm? How do you manage PR when the product is a certain, distinct worldview? Well, one you have it appear with a book launch – and then you start the ball rolling… I’m keeping my political leanings to the personal blog – but I find fascinating the […]

Every few months I see a burp in the world of microformats – here’s some more details: Microformats are quick-and-dirty standards for expressing common data types. The standard example is a microformat for reviews which lets a blogger encode the expected data name of the reviewed thing, number of stars, commentary, etc. in a standard […]

Socialtext, who has worked with thousands of companies has released their collaborative software with an open-source compliant license. Socialtext Open is released under a standard open source license, and contains all of Socialtext’s enterprise grade code aside from enterprise management and enterprise integration tools. Socialtext also announced the availability of its Technical Professional Service, a […]

So far, over 12,000 web surfers have signed on as friends of the Corps in response to the latest military recruiting tactic… The Marine Corps MySpace profile… featur[es] streaming video of barking drill sergeants, fresh recruits enduring boot camp and Marines storming beaches… So far over 430 people have asked to contact a Marine recruiter […]