Google Chrome: Why?
It's been a few weeks since the release of Google's Chrome, and many people have now had the opportunity to try it and comment on its potential impact on the browser landscape. Much of the...
February is "International Tumblr Month"
Tumblr is a fun new site for posting little tidbits of information, including text, photos, audio, video, quotes and chat transcripts. It's designed as a low overhead blog, similar to Twitter in a...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Announces Limited Beta for New Database Service - SimpleDB
The Amazon Web Services team just announced SimpleDB - the long anticipated database service to complement S3, EC2, and SQS. Now there will be an alternative to managing your own SQL cluster within...
Gmail and IMAP - Why You Should Care
IMAP and POP are both popular methods for retrieving email from a server so you can access it on your desktop. Both protocols date back to the 1980's, and both are supported by most desktop email...
San Diego Wildfire Updates with Google Maps
Today Stasia and Kellie wrapped up another Google Adwords Seminar - in the middle of the San Diego wildfires! While they've been making their way through road blocks and airport delays, I've been...
Google vs Text Link Ads
Google has reached a monopolistic milestone with its recent changes to the treatment of paid links. While I believe they are still operating within reason, they are edging ever closer to the danger...
Flexiscale, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Nirvanix Comparison
FlexiScale is a new UK based on-demand computing service, similar to Nirvanix and the EC2/S3/SQS components of Amazon Web Services. While they all provide basic computing and storage through a...
Blog Like a Pirate Day
Thanks t' this handy Pirate Translator 'tis easier than ever t' celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day. In th' spirit o' th' day, we be sharin' some o' our fav'rit piratey diversions. Pirate.app fer th...
BarCamp Nashville on Saturday
Sitening is a gold sponsor of the first ever BarCamp Nashville! If you haven't already signed up, you can register for free here. Events will be taking place at Exit/In, Cafe Coco, and Fiesta...
Google Blocks SERP Tracker for Bad Behavior
First, the bad news.... If you're a frequent user of Sitening's SERP Tracker, you may have noticed a lack of results over the past week. It looks like the sleeping giant has finally noticed us. If...
Notes from OSCON 2007
Today was the first official day of the conference, though lots of folks came early for the tutorials on Monday and Tuesday. Everything I've attended has at least been mildly interesting, and in some...
Live Blogging with Amazon S3
Yesterday's live blogging of the WWDC keynote was a big success. Within the span of about 2 hours we received 20k visitors. Tyler did a great job of posting text and photo updates as they happened...
Google PageRank Updated Daily?
We recently added a PageRank alert service to the Sitening SEO Tools. Historically, the published PageRank for web pages in Google's index was updated quarterly. While it doesn't change a whole lot...
Ruby on Rails with OS X Tiger
I'll admit there are already 12 million documents out there claiming to explain this, but for one reason or another I couldn't get any of them to work as written. Ruby on Rails is undergoing rapid...
Top 10 Reasons Why Digg Sux
10. Too many clicks I have to click through too many pages to get to the story, and then I have to return to Digg to actually digg it. It's partially solved with the Diggless RSS Feed, but that's...
