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Generic Top Level Domains: The New AOL Keywords

Posted by Mark on June 15, 2012 in The Internet

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The year is 1998. AOL is installed on virtually every consumer’s home PC, and past the horrible dialing sounds as it connected to the Internet via modem, AOL’s browser software and homepage were in your face. Every company promoted their AOL keyword on commercials and other advertisements. Fast forward to 2012: we’re about to enter [...]

What You Need, When You Need It

Posted by Stephen on June 15, 2012 in The Internet

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…is by far the most annoying thing to find on the Internet when you’re in an honest search for something. This “tagline” is part of a fake “search engine portal” used by the world’s largest cybersquatter, information.com, and this article aims to outline just how they “get away” with these registrations while gaining the audience [...]

Web Darwinism: A Move to a Simpler Web

Posted by Anthony on June 15, 2012 in Theory

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Recall the web of the mid to late 90′s: few images, largely informational, and e-commerce was just starting to take off as more and more users joined this new informational network called the Internet. Then, throughout the 2000′s, Web 2.0 placed a name on a collection of design patterns to move the web to a [...]

An Overview of the iOS Architecture

Posted by Anthony on June 15, 2012 in Hardware

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The iPhone architecture, although generally out of the scope of application development, is a very simplistic design in terms of operating system theory. A decent understanding of it is necessary for a detailed overview of the iPhone’s functionality, and this article may help to satisfy the curiosity of those interested in how it works (i.e. [...]

When SEO Becomes Spamming: Crossing the Line

Posted by Chris on June 15, 2012 in The Internet

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It’s on everyone’s mind every now and again, but nobody ever says it: SEO and spam both have the same goals, yet the ethics involved in the tactics of reaching said goals are what separate one from the other. This post is more of a “Dos and Don’ts” post as far as SEO is concerned. There is a point where optimization [...]

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