The Friday Linker (for 8-18-06)
Friday, August 18, 2006
End your weekend with a list of our favorite news items from around the 'Web, as well as websites that we find interesting. Welcome to "The Friday Linker". Have any cool news items that you think should be here? E-mail Alex Morganis with your suggestions...
Tech News:
Tech News:
- Optimizing your blog for search engines: There are many things that make someone a good blogger, but optimizing your blog is one of the most important. Knowing what search engines look for will bring you one step closer to becoming the next Robert Scoble! In the meantime, however, you can read Neil Patel's tips for getting your blog on the top of the search results.
- Boeing exits in-flight broadband: Being able to work and call friends using Skype was a reality on Boeing flights, but now the aerospace company has decieded to pull the plug on their in-flight broadband service. Why did it die off? Blame the lack of income (Really, who wants to pay $30 for a 2-hour flight of WiFi?).
- Google Opens Online Word Processor: The online word processing service that was bought out by Google in March, Writely, now allows anyone to sign-up and use the service. If you're looking for a great, free alternative to Microsoft Office, look no futher.
- Top Spanish Web 2.0 Apps: The Web 2.0 movement isn't exclusive to just the United States. Richard MacManus shows us some of the top Spanish Web 2.0 services around.
- Web2.0 Logo Creator: Steve Rubel points out a new service that allows you to create Web 2.0 logos using a PHP-based generator. The author even allows you to add a "Beta" tag to the logo. You can see the logo I made for this blog here.
- Yahoo Easter Egg: Many websites may contain "Easter Eggs", a hidden message or feature (You can read more about Easter Eggs on WikiPedia). Now, one has been discovered on the Yahoo! homepage. Go to Yahoo.com, and click on the "!" and you'll hear the Yahoo! Yodel.
- How do you Remove ads from Geocities?: Ever wonder how to get those annoying advertisements off of your GeoCities page? Now Paul Potnuru, a teenage blogger, has created a script that will allow you to do just that. Don't you just love script kiddies?
- PodTube v1.0: YouTube is one of the best video-sharing websites around, so why not put those haliourous Star Wars videos on your iPod? With 1-click, you can easily add any YouTube video onto your iPod.
- You're On Notice!: I'm not sure if any of you watch Steve Colbert's, The Colbert Report, but someone has taken the time to allow anyone to create a fun way to put anything up there and display it as, "You're On Notice!". You can see the one I made here (Try to see who belongs to which company!).
- 10 Definitions of Web 2.0: I often talk about Web 2.0 (I think I've said it over 20 times in just this post!), but are you still in the dark about the whole thing? Read up on it at Twopointouch.
