Link Love: a Site for American Tourists (and Others) in Paris

If you're about to spend some holiday time this summer visiting Paris, I suggest you visit my friend Michelle's site, Gadabout Paris. This west coast American moved to Paris a few years ago and thought it would be nice to share her discoveries with the world: exciting places, things to see, things to do, restaurants not to miss, everything goes…

Google Gets a New Favicon

Did you notice? I've just seen that Google has a new favicon. I couldn't find any new thing across all other services, though (Gmail and stuff). Is this a first step in some bigger redesign process? No more green-blue-red-yellow logo on the search page?

The Real Value of Reddit

Reddit is a cool site to know what's currently hot, interesting or funny on the web. (For the record, I also use a lot del.icio.us/popular and don't like Digg for a number of reasons like stupid captchas, cumbersome submit procedure or site slower than acceptable) But the true value of Reddit (and yet another point where Digg fails pathetically) is……

Facebook acquisition, Google decline or Microsoft social network: everybody is making predictions for 2008. Twitter user predictions08 tracks them. Could be fun and interesting for the next few days.

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Facebook Prettier Profile URL

One of the lesser advertised and known feature of Facebook is that you can link to a prettier profile URL than the default and rather lame profile.php?id=123456789. For instance, my profile URL is either: Ozh (full profile, sucky URL) or Ozh (short profile public page, slightly less sucky URL). From an SEO perspective it does not change a lot since…

I just found out about Google's Music Search (example). Don't expect anything to find illegal MP3s (although Google can be used for this) but this is a neat tool when researching about a band: their discography, album names and release dates, reviews, even lyrics. I didn't know about this.

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"How much does Google hate Text Links Ads ?" This question seems to have a simple answer: google it. TLA doesn't even appear in the first 100 results (while it is obviously #1 result in other major search engines)

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