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GreaseMonkey: Google Reader Gold Stars Automatically Post To Delicious

Mentioned earlier, the GreaseMonkey script which pushes starred items from Google Reader into Delicious.

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GreaseMonkey: Hacking Web Apps So They Work The Way YOU Want

GreaseMonkey lets you change how other people’s web pages look and how they function — just in your own browser, of course.

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Google Microformats Will Have Large Impact On Online Retail — Not All Good

For better or worse, this is where online retail is heading, and your marketing and merchandising teams will benefit from being there at the beginning.

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Flexibility = Power in Paid Search

There is no substitute for flexible systems and smart, well-trained users.

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Q1 PPC Benchmark Data: Ouch!

Taking a look at the first month and a half of Q1, it looks like the pain in the retail sector is spreading and deepening.

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Software Engineers Wanted

We’re hiring engineers.

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Tip: Recovering Files After Windows “Blue Screen Of Death” Boot Failure

The Linux Recovery disk method worked great when a home computer bluescreened.

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Is Your Online Store Vulnerable To CSRF and XSS Attacks?

An excellent powerpoint giving technical background on some newer approaches for websites attacks..

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Find And Fix Your Inbound 404s

Allowing inbound links to fail on nonexistent pages is a marketing crime.

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OpenSQL Camp, Nov 14-16 2008, Charlottesville VA

If advanced database topics quicken your pulse, check out OpenSQL Camp.

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Akismet Fights Blog Comment Spam

Our blog just crossed the 100,000 mark on spam blog comments.

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How To Export Starred Items From Google Reader Into HTML

Posting my solution on how to export starred posts from Google Reader.

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Security Tip: Never Display Fatal Stack Traces To Users

Never send fatal errors to outside world.

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PPC Musings Via NPR: Chrome, UAL Bankruptcy, and the Freddie/Fannie Bailout

Driving in this morning, three stories on NPR caught my ear as having a paid search angle.

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Chrome: Strong Out Of The Gate

I’ve been using Google’s new browser for a day and a half now. I like it.

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What Google Chrome Means To Retailers: Early Thoughts From Reading The Comic

In the next few days, Google will release an open source browser named Chrome.

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Search Engines From The Engineering Perspective: Notes on MSN’s migration from API v4 to v 5.1

Our thanks to the MSN engineers for the many calls and emails clarifying the V5.1 API docs. These are places we hit snags.

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New Video: Save Time On Your PPC Projects Using RKGDuck

Here’s a new RKGDuck video showing how in a couple minutes you can write a powerful filter to assist with cleaning up keyword lists.

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YAPC 2008

For the third year, we’re proud to have sponsored the annual North American Perl conference, a great geek conference which occurred last week in Chicago.

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What 37Signals “Getting Real” Can Teach Online Retailers

Online retailers seeking more agility in their web development should give “Getting Real” by 37Signals a thoughtful read.

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AJAX for Keeping Online Retail SKU Pages Fresh IntraDay

Crazy idea for a e-comm architecture: render the whole site in static HTML each evening, with prices and quantities accurate as of when written. Then use tiny fast AJAX calls throughout the day to update only those few bytes on each page that really change.

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Why Small Businesses Should Support Open Source

If you’re benefiting from the Open Source Movement, give something back.

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Google App Engine

I’m fascinated by Google’s recent announcement of Google App Engine.

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MIT “Operations Research and the Internet” Talk 30 May 2008

I’m honored to be invited back to MIT to speak on “The Business And Mathematics of Pay-Per-Click Bidding” May 30, 2008, at MIT’s Tang Center.

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Steve Souder Speed Up Your Site Google Tech Talk Video

Here’s a video from Steve Souder speaking about site speed at Google in November.

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