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The Open Directory Project (DMOZ) is once again open for business. The site was effectively down for months. You could view it but you couldn’t submit sites and even editors couldn’t go in to add, remove or edit entries. This situation was caused by a server crash at AOL that eliminated all submissions and basically caused havoc with the sytem.

I won’t bother getting into a full discussion on why they were down. That’s been covered in plenty of other places however the first light at the end of the tunnel was spotted on December 18, 2006 when editors were allowed back in to do their job and now it appears that you can submit again.

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One of the biggest things holding back Yahoo! Search is their preference for Yahoo! content. As a shift in strategy, Yahoo! announced they are opening up their search results to third party data integration. Instead of a typical search result, some of the results with third party data may look like this

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Many web companies significantly profit from the appearance that they are open, but anything of value eventually needs to have some limitations placed on it. In spite of no longer having MovableType installed on this server, the mt-comments file is one of my most requested files. Registration moves you away from The Tragedy of the Commons to something more sustainable.

Asking people to register suddenly makes them nicer because it makes the audience less robotic, and the most mean spirited people are not like to remain once anonymous disappears. It is harder to leave anonymous troll comments without being figured out if you have to create an account to post them. And who has time to set up 100 different accounts?

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Piwik open source web analyticsMySQL, PHP, StatisticsMarch 7th, 2008

piwik is an open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speakโ€ฆ and so much more.

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Social Media Marketing And The Valuable Doors It Can Open For YouWriting by Nick on Saturday, 30 of June , 2007 at 11:13 am

Found an excellent article on social media marketing. You’ve got to read this. I’m not going to recount the whole article, but I do have a few useful comments.

A key concept to social marketing is that it is not designed to immediately provide business but instead it provides the visibility your brand needs to ultimately convert fans into buyers. I often get clients saying “I don’t think being on MySpace will sell anything”. The truth is that often they are correct. Having a commercial presence on MySpace that provides great content and interesting free tools (aka. widgets) serves to raise the awareness of your brand so that users remember your service for later and/or provides you with a podium to share the benefits of your brand. In short, it is important not to forget this essential concept: social media marketing drives brand awareness which later translates into sales.

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