Google Friend Connect – first (premature) thoughts

May 12, 2008

My thoughts are premature, because I haven’t actually seen Google Friend Connect (GFC; can I call it GFC?) in action, I’ve only seen the few screenshots that google has released. That being said, I thought I’d respond to my impressions or understandings of the service, before seeing what it really is. That way if I’m [...]

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Headers and Images – Alt Text and the Weight Factor

April 29, 2008

I am drafting an article for the RI:Technology blog on Screen readers and Search Engines, and was reviewing a paper a colleague wrote about Search. He mentioned sIFR as a technique “to bring content to search engines”. I asked another colleague about this, as I’d always just considered sIFR as a “stylability” technique. We started [...]

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Google “optimizing for mobile”

September 21, 2007

Lately I’ve been doing some reading on mobile apps. I came across a review for Cameron Moll’s Mobile Web Book on 456 Berea Street and then today I stumbled upon an article on “How to make any website a mobile site, with google. The results are pretty interesting! It’s interesting to see how the People’s [...]

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RIA – Rich Internet Accessibility?

July 15, 2007

It is interesting to be getting into the RIA realm. I see the benefits on several levels (‘stickiness’ from a business perspective, general usability), but I am also very aware of the challenges. I have a background in accessibility, so that is a large concern for me even as I want to turn to using [...]

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Sputtr

June 11, 2007

I’ve decided to post some ‘stream of consciousness’ posts on various sites/services I’ve come across. The posts may or may not be lucid and linear, but hopefully they will be thought- and comment-evoking… Sputtr – http://www.sputtr.com I’ve always been interested in ‘search’, or perhaps I mean information retrieval/ categorization. When I was a volunteer editor [...]

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pimped out ads

April 24, 2007

I’ve been a google user since the last millennium. I’ve listened to “the search” on audiobook, read some old student paper by Brin and Page about some odd algorithm they referred to as “PageRank”. But I’ll admit it, the notion of a “pimped out search engine” to use “when your life depends on it” is [...]

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