Happy new year to you all. I hope you all had an awesome time over the festive season and that the year has started well for all of you. I was in New Zealand and it was absolutely gorgeous, if a little cold. I urge you all to go there if you have the chance, [...][...]
December 23rd, 2009 - 12:01 am § in Inspirations
HXAHNY
This is the last post of the entire year. I wanted to thank you all for reading along, contributing, helping me out and generally making SFS not only worthwhile but a pleasure to run. Thank you for all of your support and I genuinely hope that I have given you useful and interesting content to [...][...]
December 15th, 2009 - 10:43 am § in SEO & marketing
10 annoying SEO topics
There are a good number of topics that constantly come back to do the rounds in the SEO blogosphere. They are boring topics because they have been done to death and also debunked to death. I think that really they should be put in a box and sealed tightly shut, then burnt to a crisp [...][...]
December 7th, 2009 - 8:21 pm § in Search engines
10 papers on personalization (PSearch)
Google announced this week that they would start personalising search results, even for users that are not signed into a Google service at the time. It has caused a consistent flow of posts from the blogosphere and quite a lot of comments as well which show that there is a gap in knowledge at some [[...]
November 16th, 2009 - 4:35 pm § in Search engines
Serendipity on the Web
I’ve been catching up on all my reading these last couple of weeks and I particularly liked “From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its Role in Web Search”. It’s by Paul André from Southampton University together with Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais from Micros[...]
November 13th, 2009 - 9:30 am § in Inspirations
3 little books for managers
Having been a manager myself, and of course having been managed many times as well, I have come up with a list of books that pass on some important information and messages. The best managers inspire people, help them grow into their professions or bloom into another and they remain calm when the se[...]
