Elgan: Why bookmarking is obsolete. Opinion June 19, 2010 07:00 AM ET Computerworld - Since the Web first came online in 1991, it has grown and improved beyond anyone's predictions.
Unlike the gray background, mono-spaced text and ugly graphics on the Web in those early years, today's Web is rich with video, interactive applications and other useful and distracting goodies. But even after all these years, the way we find, navigate and save content on the Web works pretty much like it always did. Here's a page with text. But now there's a conspicuously innovative new option. The service is functionally similar in some ways to social bookmarking sites, but its core function is "curation," which Wikipedia defines as the "selection, preservation, maintenance, and collection and archiving of digital assets.
" Described by one blogger as a social bookmarking tool based on "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," Pearltrees looks a bit like Google's "Wonder Wheel," but it isn't used the same way. Maybe you follow several sports. 29 Worst Practices & Most Common Failures: SEO Checklist Part I. Many consider search engine optimization as a sort of black box.
But once the essential features of a search engine optimal website are laid out in a concise list, SEO is not nearly as mystifying. That’s where these checklists come in. They are designed for web marketers and web developers so that they can easily understand SEO and start tackling it. You can read a full description of each best and worst practice at the end of this, after the two checklists. Worst practices in SEO Partially indexed, poorly ranked, penalized and possibly banned: such is the unpleasant fate of a website that’s not duly optimized for search engines.
The mission of search engines is to supply their visitors with relevant results, so penalizing or banning sites that appear to interfere with that mission is a necessity. Whether inadvertent or not, any of the following worst practices could doom your site to suboptimal traffic levels. Worst practices explained Do you use pull-down boxes for navigation? Analyst's View: Antivirus Rescue CDs. I examine nine AV rescue CDs designed to remove particularly nasty malware to determine which is the best disc, and if the free ones are good enough.
The other day a reader e-mailed me to ask about a situation that hadn't previously crossed my mind. He wanted to know which antivirus software would clean up a hard drive that he had removed from its original computer and mounted as a slave drive in his work computer. Now, every antivirus can scan files on all local drives, but he also wanted it to scan and clean the "foreign" drive's registry—a significantly more difficult task.
My first thought was that the "rescue CD" products offered by many antivirus vendors should do the job. You'd typically use such tools when a nasty threat resists removal by a regular antivirus program, or when malware fights back and balks security software installation. Intrigued by the thought of which rescue CD could tackle the task, I quizzed nine antivirus vendors about their rescue CD products.
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