By Gary on November 16, 2009
If you have ever put your email address on your website you will know how quickly spambots get your email address and email huge numbers of messages to your address. There are various scripts (mostly javascript) available which attempt to fool spambots (i.e. hide your email address from spammers) however these scripts are largely ineffective. [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged CAPTCHA, email, email address, hcard, html, junk mail, lottery scams, microformats, OCR, reCAPTCHA, spam, spam filters, spammers, spamming, unsolicited email
By Gary on November 6, 2009
A new Telstra Blog has gone live over the past few days. The new Blog called ‘Telstra Exchange’ is a replacement for ‘Now We are Talking’. From a technological perspective it’s great that Telstra is again using WordPress as the Content Management System (CMS).
Some of the WordPress Plugins being used are;
Extended Profile: From Wordpress.org: This [...]
Posted in WordPress | Tagged Australia, blog, blogs, CAPTCHA, cms, microformats, plugin, reCAPTCHA, rich snippets, telstra, WordPress
By Gary on July 23, 2009
Reading through the Nielsen article ‘Organized Chaos: Global Data Harmonization’ which describes, in the context of categorization, the challenges faced by a single product being used for different purposes, it became very clear how awesome Internet tagging is. Tagging is effectively the ability to designate a single item to multiple categories.
The Nielsen article shows the [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged categories, hproduct, microformats, Nielsen, product categorization, rdfa, rich snippets, search engines, Tags
By Gary on June 16, 2009
The Search Engine landscape has been through a tumultuous time over the past few weeks. First we had Wolfram Alpha emerging from nowhere and then Microsoft Live becoming Microsoft Bing. I was initially a bit hesitant whether Bing was any better than Live however after using Bing a bit I am [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged bing, common tag, google, microformats, Microsoft, pipes, rdfa, search market, search strategy, wolfram, wolfram alpha, yahoo, yahoo pipes