Archive for July, 2008
Reduce Spam to almost Zero by simple Blocking
Spambots and badly behaving bots seem to be all the rage this year. While it will be very hard to block all of them, you can do a lot to keep most of the comment spammers away from your blog and scrapers from harvesting your site.
Spambots also have to identify as user agents on servers, so that people gathered their “names” in the long run. There are a bunch more, but blocking to many may cause the server to slow down. Here we go. Just follow this simple steps to reduce your spam attacks!
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28 Stunning and Creative Tech Advertisements
Whenever you flipped through a tech related magazine, how often you stopped and stare at a tech ad for more than 3 seconds. Chance are most of us will ignore them. The problem with tech ads are just like the others, they have to very clever and really creative in order to catch some attention. Here are some really cool technology related advertisement from notable companies like Sony, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, etc that don’t suck.
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Top 20 Important Factors For Google SEO
Given that there is a heap of websites out there who are on the first page, what is their secret? It is a little industry term called “SEO” and it stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO basically consists of the customization of your website, its content and its internal and external links to assist in the overall indexing and ranking of your website in popular search engines. There are many contributing factors that are used in determining a website’s ranking and every search engine is different. This makes trying to optimize your site for Google, Yahoo, Live and the many others quite a painstaking task.
Our journey begins by defining some of the key contributing factors that Google uses to determine a website’s and webpage’s ranking within its results. These factors range from keyword use to manipulating internal and external links and the list goes on. To get you started, they have listed the top twenty factors that you should focus on in order to help get your website that little bit closer to the top of the search engine results listings.
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Fast Thumbnail Viewer Plugin for Wordpress
Thumbnail Viewer plugin for WordPress is simply used to overlay images on a page, similar to Lightbox JS. The javascript is from the Image Thumbnail Viewer code from DynamicDrive. The javascript included in Thumbnail Viewer from DynamicDrive is much faster than Lightbox JS, although not as feature packed, which is the entire point.
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41 Trends and Innovation in July and August
trendwatching is an independent and opinionated consumer trends firm, relying on a global network of 8,000 spotters. Our trends, examples and insights are delivered to business professionals in more than 120 countries.
Here’s a special edition (July / August 2008) of their Trend Briefing, listing plenty of new and updated trends, including 41 related new business ideas, illustrating just how much is going on right now. Aimed squarely at encouraging our entrepreneurial subscribers to execute even more of their ideas, small and big. Time to get even busier

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Knowtebook has relaunched - Moohaaa!
We are proudly announcing that during the last hour Knowtebook has relaunched. It took some weeks of brainstorming and hard work, but now we are better structured, designed and you have more possibilites to publish your own content and can make a lot of suggestions. A new brand (the moos) with a new design where choosen and we would like to hear some feedback from you. Shall we improve some parts of the site? What would you like to find here, ….? Tell us everything you want! We have an ear for you!
Struggling:
We recognize some problems of our flash based tag cloud in the sidebar (Update: fixed). We will try to get it work as fast as we can, since it is the main navigation through the topics. During the next days we will sort out a bunch of not relevant content with deadlinks for example. It is hard to keep the over 1000 posts updated. So be pation with us the next days, please.
Help needed
We are also looking for guestwriters and people who want to support Knowtebook. If you are interested please get in contact with Sebastian. The wishes and the message: make it to something unique!






