Build Links Like Google
That’s right, Google does a great job at consistently building links with clever, unique, and fun link building tactics. Sure, it’s a lot easier when you publish a single blog post to 501,000 subscribers, but Google remains hungry when it comes to dominating its own search results (and others) for its products and services using [...]
How understanding natural biases can make you a better colleague.
Everyone uses cognitive biases to speed up their decision making process. They are as old as decision making itself. The most common bias is “confirmation bias.” It’s a great description for the tendency of people to blindly accept evidence that supports their theory, but hold in great skepticism anything that undermines their theory. If you’ve [...]
The Problem with One Identity
One of my good friends, Wilfried Schobeiri, wrote me an e-mail a few days ago about a trend in social media. He writes: I was thinking today about OpenID, Facebook connect, twitter’s connect thing, Google, friend feed, etc…Twitter shows my thought process:
Reddit Users: Completely Unpredictable Liberal Ninjas
A while back I hacked together a script to scrape Reddit users in order to see what the top submitters were doing. I took three top Reddit submitters: maxwellhill, qgyh2, and MndVirus and started compiling data from my scraper. Some of the things I looked at were: url title score category root domain time of [...]