Citysearch, a division of IAC, wants to build out Sidewalk.com as a local guide site, and instead of launching their own coding project is testing the crowdsourcing waters. Entrants get a shot at a $10K prize and (possibly) additional funding to realize the project. Here’s the outline of ...
The dust has settled after my back to back Web conferences in Austin: WebmasterWorld’s Pubcon South, and South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, and I thought I’d take a minute to compare the two. I’ll start by saying that any such comparison is beyond apples & oranges… the two conferences ...
I remember in the early days of the Web it wasn’t uncommon for a site to tell you that you could only view the site in a particular browser, or that if you didn’t have a specific resolution you might not see everything. Eventually, web designers figured out that ...
Although the Stanford Web Credibility Guidelines are a few years old now, they are still a great starting point for anyone trying to boost their web results - ecommerce orders, business inquiries, and so on. While some of their ten guidelines seem obvious - “Make it easy to contact ...
The concept of crowdsourcing - letting a bunch your users create your product, or at least enhance it - is a staple of Web 2.0. Now, we see that European social networking site Mister Wong is crowdsourcing their corporate identity by holding a logo design contest. The contest ...
At every Pubcon at which I’ve done a community building presentation, master community builder Brett Tabke has emphasized the importance of getting real community content as high on the page as possible. Brett is the architect of WebmasterWorld, the Web’s busiest webmaster community and one of the most successful ...
“The SEO Playbook - Welcome to the Rabbit Hole Alice” is a must-bookmark post by Todd Malicoat, aka Stuntdubl, that compiles a massive list of search engine optization resources that shed light on every area of SEO. From content to links, from site structure to general SEO, Todd has ...
ZDNet blogger Tom Foremski poses the question, “Is Search Broken?” Foremski’s thesis is that Google, Yahoo, MSN et al should be able to find Web content and figure out what it’s about without so much human intervention: (more…)
A few days ago, CNET reported that big retailer Target was sued by blind patrons because their website lacked standard accessibility features to accommodate visitors with impaired vision. While one can look at this lawsuit as yet another example of litigation run wild (one early report pegged the incident ...
As I mentioned in my general post about the Stanford Web Credibility Project, I’m going to look at each of their points in some detail. The first guideline from their research is Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. The researchers further ...
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