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Web 2.0 has been coined and used all over the internet, but what is it? FIrst, let me say that is not a technology… There is no reason to put it on your resume, throw it around in meetings and call yourself a Guru in Web 2.0.

According to Wikipedia, the ultimate source of knowledge in the universe next to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Web 2.0 is a term coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004 for one of their conferences. Since then, the term has stuck and everyone is using it. So, what exactly does it mean? Web 2.0 refers to the “new” Internet where Continue reading…

The Good
Technorati is great, but there is a pretty big problem with the way they score your blog. I know they’ve tweaked it in the past, but the algorithms are way off. Now don’t get me wrong, Technorati can really help blog owners. If you’re not using Technorati, you’re crazy - period. Technorati can boost your site stats, but at the same time, it can appear to just be another indexing site. Some days, it drives people to me, others it doesn’t. It doesn’t even appear to be what posts are out and about, traffic just happens.

There are several other good features of Technorati as well. Continue reading…

So, you want to be DUGG? What makes a good candidate? Who actually does the Digging (ha! I made a funny!). I’ve been DUGG 3 times in the last month, only once is my own doing. But, in that time, I’ve noticed something about DIGG, Slashdot and the incoming links that follow your posts. Ultimately, all of this relates to traffic to your website.

A true DIGG/DUGG
Ultimately, I’ve only been DUGG once. I classify a DUGG as a decent amount of traffic or unique visitors. I get a good amount of hits, but its mostly from people just browsing around the site, not unique visitors. Getting 6,000 unique visitors in one day is being moderately (if that) DUGG. Continue reading…

I’ll probably catch some flack for doing it, but I recently submitted one of my posts to DIGG. In doing so, I started a study (as well as promoted myself). I’ve been meaning to start a website about Blogs and CMS agents, but I don’t have enough stats to get a good idea of the people that are using these type of programs.

A quick note about DIGG. The way you word your post and the topic itself have a heck of a lot to do with the traffic you get. The following 2 posts where light years away from each other in terms of incoming traffic.

Newest post: The Perfect Template Engine
gibcus submitted by gibcus 2 days ago (via webtekconcepts.com)
Still looking for the perfect template engine? Well, its probably already installed on your computer, not your webserver… Looking for user comments since I’m probably going to start up a website that deals with Blogging and CMS. -No Comments (on DIGG), 649 hits from this. No extra DIGG mirror website coverage.

Older Post: eBay is dead
alexlawrence submitted by alexlawrence 31 days ago (via webtekconcepts.com)
Found an interesting story about the problems with ebay and how its going downhill. -55 Comments (on DIGG), A Topic Warning: “The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate”, 6400+ hits and a crap load of DIGG mirror website coverage (ie: EveryDigg). I’m still getting links back to the eBay is Dead article and comments, a month later.

The first one looks more like a survey when you read it. I wasn’t attempting anything like this when I wrote it, but trying to make the post a bit more down to earth and acknowledging that I was the author of the story. Note to self…bad…

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Google recently lit up the online coding community with their Code Search, even I was surprised by this. But, what about the code search websites that where already running? To my surprise, while browsing over Slashdot, there where still developers that didn’t know that Krugle or Koders existed. They still did the tried and true normal Google search or books. While I maintain a small collection of books, they’re mainly for design, not examples: AJAX & PHP or Object Oriented PHP, etc. For those weird problems, I use a search engine. The problem comes into play with the different engines. Which one is better, which one has better results? Continue reading…