Tim Rogers has written an explosive inside look at the world of Darwin Deason, founder of ACS in the June D Magazine:
Rather, the serious matter—the one that may yet hold repercussions for Deason and for the Fortune 500 company still under his sway—isn’t what happened aboard the Cartoush. It turns out to be the Cartoush itself. In papers filed earlier this year in federal court, it is claimed that Deason, as the chairman and controlling stockholder of ACS, set up a complex scheme of off-balance-sheet corporations that, in essence, provided him free use of not only the Cartoush II and its predecessor, but also a squadron of private jets—all at the expense of taxpayers and the companies he controlled. The charges may interest the SEC and the IRS.
Looks like another Enron-type incident. With all these stories (Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing, Tyco, etc.) you begin to wonder how much of the 90s growth was a sham.
SitePoint Editor’s take on Google and Overture in SitePoint Tribune, Issue 244:
Google, by default, syndicates all of their AdWords ads onto dozens of “content partner” sites including such sites as “a imfilez.com” which serves up articles such as “How to display a fake away message in AOL Instant Messenger” and “How to bust into any chat room” alongside ads for Pay-Per-Click Management services. Poor targeting at it’s finest.
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Overture is also not without fault, thanks to it’s partnership with Gator which pops-up ads with listings from Overture all over the web and its MatchDriver(tm) engine.
SitePoint also links to a useful script Keyword density analyzer, and keyword placement & prominence analysis in the issue.
Search Engine Watch takes a behind the scenes look at the Daypop Search Engine:
There are about 1000 news sources from around the world and about 19,000 weblogs. All the feeds from NewsIsFree as well as the weblog RSS that Blogstreet tracks are also indexed. I believe NewsIsFree has about 5,000 feeds and Blogstreet tracks about 9,000 feeds. Daypop gets about 50,000 page views a day.
Thomas Powell and Joe Lima look at forward-compatible URLs. The look at problems with “dirty” URLs and ways to “clean” them up.
Here are my notes from Presonwood’s Job Seeker Conference that I attended earlier today.
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