The 2012 SEO Tactics infographic from Response Mine Interactive breaks down the tactics they use to get the highest rankings for their clients in 2012, and expect them to stay the same for the majority of 2013. The four main tactics are on-site influences, off-site influences, reporting & analytics, and keywords via 2012 SEO Tactics – Blog About Infographics and Data Visualization | Cool Infographics.
Informative infographic illustrating aspects of SEO.
Even libraries need to consider SEO in order to improve their visibility to their target communities and users. A list of 11 free search engine optimization tools for beginners.
via Free Search Engine Optimization Tools | LimeIsBetter SEO Services.
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As the coding education bubble swells, there’s room for some companies to target more specific audiences, including women exclusively. Fifty percent of the female population isn’t exactly a niche group, but it’s not a frequently targeted market in the technology industry, either.
No Boys Allowed: Four Coding Schools Just For Girls – ReadWrite
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You can now re-visit the first web page ever — built 21 years ago — by directing your browser to the first ever web address. On Monday, the files for the website were put back online at the first ever URL: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
via 1st website ever restored to its 1992 glory – Technology & Science – CBC News.
Very cool to view the first website – all text and hyperlinks. Not all the links are valid. As an information professional, I especially appreciate How Can I Help ? and What’s out there? by Subject (classified by subject of interest). Project Gutenberg has been around a long time!
This video, directed by Richard Dadd and Dan Fryer of British creative studio The Bakery, tells the story of a boy who stumbles upon the last remaining bookshop. via What Would It Be Like if Book Stores Died Out Completely? | Gizmodo.
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In 2012, scientists achieved an engineering feat which combined billions of years of development by nature and the next generation of bio-engineering, opening the gate to a new frontier of bleeding edge data storage technology.
This new data storage solution is encoding DNA to store digital data that can hold millions of gigabytes of data for thousands of years without any power. Researchers, since then, have sought means to code DNA like a data storage device and the results of these works have been nothing short of ground-breaking. After all, DNA is nature’s storage device, replicating and propagating genetic code over thousands of generations.
via Digital Data Finds an Ancient Abode in DNA | Information Space
At this point, people probably associate the internet with wasting time more than they do with saving it. But as we get ever-lazier, we’re figuring out to use the internet to do things like connect garage doors to the internet, set temperature levels on fridges, do timed shut-downs on wireless routers and basically make it possible to control every element of domestic life from a phone app. All of these devices need to be on the internet to operate and Shodan – a privately developed search engine – has been busy sniffing them out.
via Is Shodan Really the World’s Most Dangerous Search Engine? | VICE UK.
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A Search Engine For The Internet Of Things | Fast Company | Business + Innovation – The Modern MLIS
On April 13, 2013 the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) was launched, an initiative that brings together digitized sources from a number of cultural institutions in the United States. In November 2012 the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) started which combines the digital collections of over 2,000 institutions in Germany. The DDB is still in its beta-version. A Wealth of Knowledge is the motto of the DPLA. In this post I will try to make a comparison between the new American and German national digital libraries.
via Digital wealth: comparing national digital libraries | Rechtsgeschiedenis Blog
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The rise of the Internet of Things means billions of physical objects will soon generate massive amounts of data 24 hours a day. Not only will this make traditional search methods nearly impossible to use, it will also create an environment where instead of looking for things in the world, those things will be seeking us out to give us all sorts of information that will help us fix, use or buy them.
via How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search – ReadWrite.
WorldAffairs 2013 Keynote: Chris Anderson – The Maker Revolution | Stephen’s Lighthouse
Insightful keynote and Q&A discussing topics including industrial revolutions, manufacturing, machine power and brainpower. Desktop, digital and cloud = the third industrial revolution. Also some great anecdotes and stories on creating “things,” intellectual property, uses for drones, education and digital design, and more.
“Anything you can imagine you can make real.” – Chris Anderson
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