Daily Links for October 30th through November 1st
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
- Full List: America’s Safest Cities – Forbes.com – Surprisingly, we're number #21.
- Omar bin Laden on his father | vanityfair.com – A son of Osama bin Laden paints an intimate portrait of the man who would become the world’s most infamous terrorist.
- The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave – Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.
- Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell – In short, these games try to get people to pay cash for in game currency so they can level up faster and have a better overall experience. Which is fine. But for users who won’t pay cash, a wide variety of “offers” are available where they can get in-game currency in exchange for lead gen-type offers. Most of these offers are bad for consumers because it confusingly gets them to pay far more for in-game currency than if they just paid cash (there are notable exceptions, but the scammy stuff tends to crowd out the legitimate offers). And it’s also bad for legitimate advertisers.
- You Aren’t Average | SEO Book.com – We need to keep in mind that most people don't see the internet as we do. Most people don't know what a browser is. Most people cannot tell a paid search result from a non-paid one. People certainly do not understand that the site they are seeing in first position may only be there because some smart SEO has helped ensure that happens.
What is "spam" to the trained SEO eye may be perfectly acceptable to the end user, so long as the user gets the answer they want.
- A WORLD SERIES DIVIDES A GARDEN STATE Population Statistic – The irony: By trying to co-opt the identities of two neighboring metropolises, New Jersey ends up with no true identity of its own. In other words, no matter which baseball team wins the World Series, New Jersey is still full of losers.
