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Digg Hostile Takeover

Wednesday, 02 May 2007 by
The definitive web 2.0 news directory was inundated with users lashing out to Digg’s catering to industry. With the cracking of HD-DVD encryption codes, the movie industry has been stumbling over themselves with cease and desist letters to prevent sites from redistributing the key. Related articles were removed from Digg resulting in dozens of seemlingly
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The Definitive Search Engine Result Comparison – An Investigative Report

Tuesday, 01 May 2007 by
I’ve received enough praise and criticism of my perspective on Ask’s new campaign that I felt compelled to do investigate the quality of each engine in more detail. As you can imagine, these results are completely biased, being scored alone by my opinion; nonetheless, I felt the experience worth sharing. Within five groups of terms,
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Come on AOL…

Monday, 30 April 2007 by
I’ll let TechCrunch summarize this one as I think the image speaks for itself.
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A Little Digg Will Do Ya

Monday, 30 April 2007 by
Clocking in at 465 diggs yesterday, SEO’Brien went down for the count, unable to handle the hundreds of hits per second. My apologies to those that tried to reach the site, I’ve moved the server to a different host and we’re alive and kicking again. Here’s the article Not About Self-aggrandizement This experience made me
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The Industry’s Nerve Center

Saturday, 28 April 2007 by
Though Peppered with rumor and negative PR, Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick remains, as far as I’m concerned, one of the most important, recent developments in online marketing. Stuart Frankel, President of Performics, responded quickly to speculation of a Performics dissolution with concise reassurance of their alignment with DoubleClick and Google and position as a leading
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Unfortunate Ad Placement

Saturday, 28 April 2007 by
A 404 or Not Found error message is the standard response code indicating that you were unable to communicate with the server hosting the page requested. Its what you see when the site isn’t there.
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Blogging with WordPress

Saturday, 28 April 2007 by
Well that’s the last time I ever do that. I’ve spent the better part of my week redesigning SEO’Brien in WordPress after being convinced of its superiority as a blogging platform. Why? Might you ask. The site looks better doesn’t it? Cleaner and much more aesthetically pleasing. I hope you like it. Besides, it gave
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