The Twenty Fifth Yicrosoft Directory day ..
I couldn't stand having my posts showing as server time which is in the U.S.A. & I wanted to show Australian time.
The sNews forum has a post explaining how to do this called [MOD] Time Offset
It's easy to install & makes me happy :)
Comments (0) 29.02.2008. 13:29
The Twenty Fourth Yicrosoft Directory day ..
Microsoft has declared a truce with the open source community.
The Redmond giant said that they would make available, for no cost, the APIs for Office and Windows Server initially, and eventually the APIs for Windows Vista, the .NET Framework, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
The one gotcha attached to the arrangement is that Microsoft has pledged not to sue open source developers working on non-commerical software -- the moment money becomes involved, Microsoft patents and royalities kick in.
The move has not received universal acclaim with the European Commission expressing doubt over whether Microsoft would actually do what it stated it would and saying that the announcement would not affect its antitrust investigations against the software giant.
"The Commission would welcome any move towards genuine interoperability," read the statement. "Nonetheless, the Commission notes that today's announcement follows at least four similar statements by Microsoft in the past on the importance of interoperability."
It's been a big week for Microsoft as it has been fined a record 899 million euros by the Commission for defying sanctions imposed on the company for abusing its dominant position in the software market. Microsoft also announced students would be able to get their hands on free copies of Microsoft's Visual Studio, Server 2003 Standard Edition, Expression Studio, XNA studio for developing Xbox 360 software and SQL Server 2005.
The free developer tools announcement was discussed by Bill Gates in a video interview.
Comments (0) 28.02.2008. 09:53
The Twenty Third Yicrosoft Directory day ..
The best Web Analytics Products
The recent release of Google Urchin raises a few questions for Google. WebProNews Reporter Abby Prince compares Google Analytics and Google Urchin.
Find out all the details including what one web marketer considers to be some disadvantages to Urchin only on WebProNews: Google Urchin Examined
Manoj Jasra was often asked by colleagues, clients, and blog readers for comparisons between different Web Analytics Products:
“What are the differences between Google Analytics and SiteCatalyst,” “How do I know which web analytics product to use?”
So he did some research and has compiled a list of resources which compare analytics products. He also grabbed the ‘feature’ page links from various web analytics vendors so that all this data could be accessed in one place.
Enjoy: http://webanalytics.globalthoughtz.com/web-analytics-comparison
Comments (0) 27.02.2008. 13:44
The Twenty Second Yicrosoft Directory day ..
The evolution of SEO to DAO
Interesting article over at Search Insider
"The future of SEO as defined today is a bleak one. Whether we merely change the description of SEO or use a new acronym like DAO, the days of success being optimization for 10 text links on a standard results page is going to end up just like our old description of the engines: as dinosaurs. Extinct dinosaurs."
Comments (0) 26.02.2008. 23:54
The Twenty First Yicrosoft Directory day ..
Do Search Engines Get Bored ?
From the Search Engine Optimization Forum at Web Pro World
If a site seems to 'work' - the visitors (mostly new) appear happy with the content/structure etc, and the search engines are happy to rank it - is there any value in making small, regular changes to the content to make it appear 'fresher' to the engines, even if this does nothing for the visitor?
I've read that fairly static sites may get crawled less frequently but so what?
I tend to the view that 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' - unless you can make the visitor experience more worthwhile. On the other hand, algorithms don't have feelings.
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Comments (0) 25.02.2008. 20:52
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