Leese Internet Technology

Now that openid.net has announced that google and microsoft are putting out products with openid included in them i guess its time to get on board. with so many technologies changing so rapidly i like to wait and watch to see how things will evolve. i think they have evolved. anytime you have google AND microsoft backing something, its got some wallup – some real umph. its momentum enough for me and we’ll start recommending it to our clients.

For those of you working on more than one machine, we have found that Synergy is a remarkable tool. please visit: synergy2.sourceforge.net to skyrocket your multi-machine productivity.

In case you are wondering – yes it shares a clipboard. We have successfully used it to span Solaris/PC’s and also Mac/Win 98/Win XP systems. Very impressive.

I recently discovered that microformats are being used on Google Maps. Even though I am a few months behind on this discovery, I think that it will really broaden the use and start a trend of incorporating them websites. We have incorporated them into this blog for about a year now, and we really enjoyed enhancing the Niceville Chamber of Commerce website with them and their events. So it will be interesting to see if/how microformats build momentum.

[editor: this post is a condensed version of an email written by Michael Provencher of Sators.com for a client and outlines SEO so well, we decided to post it so that we can direct future clients to it for reading]

[Here] are some things I know as far as SEO. The PAID route, means looking into Google Adwords, Yahoo! ads, etc, etc. Paying for search engine placement. That could be a direction they go, which will mean a little bit of research and communication with them to determine what they are looking to spend, etc.

The “unpaid” route, which still means they pay us, is what we can organically do for them: (more…)

Unbelievable! I used adlab.microsoft.com to test the content categorization of a new client. Yesterday, Sunday, the site hadn’t yet experienced a full upgrade of incorporating raw content into the pages and was strictly flash based and their website didn’t have any recognizable content categorization. By today, Monday morning, I had submitted new sitemaps to all the major search engines and incorporated all that raw content (div hidden) and they are now ranked 23% in their content category of choice. Amazing. For more information on how to get these results for your website …contact us!

There is evidence that even though they are a pain the in neck, sitemaps are a valuable tool. In fact, I just used the sitemap on moreover.com to find out the url for submitting a sitemap.

And in order that this blog be used as a reference for both myself and others, here is a list of locations for submitting sitemaps to Yahoo!, Google, MoreOver.com and Ask.com:

• http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=<URL_HERE>
• http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=<URL_HERE>
• https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites
• http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
• http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=<URL_HERE>

If you lead a software team or work on a team, you need to read this article

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

It is mostly about Customer Service. What is? Software. It’s all about customer service in fact. I mean, you build a User Interface so that your users can interface with it. And if that interface doesn’t make sense (BTW, that was your first line of customer service) then they call or email you (your second line of customer service). In fact, all software serves, and most of the time, serves its human customer. So you have to have people skills and a heart to serve, or you aren’t going to make it. If you only love the engineering side of it, then get into mechanical or some sort of physical engineering …software is for people.