Web Tech Gossip

This page is a index of non-technical opion-oriented essays related to the web tech. Gossip and commentaries about web companies, SEO (search engine optimization), spam, social networking sites, internet policies, etc.

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Google

All About Google

• Google: “Don't Be Evil” vs “Don't Do Evil”
• What is Google Plus and Google+ Songs (humor)
• Are Googlers the Minions of Google Marketing?
• Google Sidewiki Block
• Google's nofollow Rule
• Google Blogger Porn Content Policy
• Google Search Problems ＆ Alternative Search Engines
• What Happens If Google Shut Down Your Account?
• Adjust Your Google Ad Preferences, or Opt Out
• SEO: Underscore vs Hyphen: How Google Webmaster Advices Hurt Quality Writers 📺
• Steve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant
• Why Does Google Give SEO Advice?
• Google Search Now Requires JavaScript (2012-04-12)
• Google Pushes Invalid HTML to the World
• Google's sitemap.org Got Hacked?
• Gmail State-Sponsored Attack Warning
• Google AdSense Ban on Ancient Sculpture 2012-09-02
• Google Plus Favicon Change 2013-03-15

Social Networking (Google Plus, FaceBook, Twitter, Tumblr, …)

• Why I'm Removing Tech Blogger Celebrities and Googler on G+
• Women in Tech: Today's G+ Recommendation? You Decide.
• Anonymous vs Google: the Origin and Culture of Anonymous
• Nymwars: Google Plus Account Real Name Policy Debate

Misc

• Steve Jobs on Apple and Google Websites; Screenshots
• My Personal Photos of Steve Jobs (1955 〜 2011)
• Steve Jobs Presenting the Apple Circle Building
• Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs's Death
• the Death of Dennis Ritchie, John McCarthy, Steve Jobs, and Hackers
• Tech Humor: Apache vs Node.js vs NGINX 📺

• Amazon Closes CA Affiliate Program
• Apple iPad, Censorship

• TV Has Arrived on The Web

• Micropayment On The Web
• URL Shortening is BAD
• Monolithic Web Pages

SEO

• What Your Google Plus Strategy Should Be?

• Anti-bot Test: CAPTCHA!
• Web Advertisement in 2011: JavaScript Popups

• Google Search Ranking Ingredients (SEO secrets)
• 7 Things You Need to Know About SEO
• 3 Twitter Facts You'll Never Forget
• Domain Names, Cybersquatting, Resell Market
• Popular Money Making Websites
• Monetize Your Website
• Advantages of FeedBurner and Some Web Feed History

Spam

• Spam Text Collection: Unicode-Obfuscated Spam
• Where Do Spammers Came From?
• Spy vs Spy; Tech Geekers vs Spammers
• Spamlicious: Buy Twitter Followers
• Twitter Spamfarm
• A Egregious Case of Twitter Spam
• Grayhat SEO Use Translation as a Method to Generate Inbound Links
• Twitter Spam Technique: Ask Nice Questions, Get Real Interaction, Confuse Spam Detectors
• Machine Generated Spam
• Spy vs Spy; Tech Geekers vs Spammers
• comp.lang.lisp is 95% Spam
• Linkedin Spam Filter Collateral Damage

Internet Sociology

• Google Blogger Porn Content Policy
• Internet is For Porn
• Google Reader RIPS
• Google+ Which Circle to Put Your Friends In; Google+ Real Name Account Debate
• Facebook's Ethics
• A Cross-Cultural Look of Sexual Anthropology thru orkut.com
• The Demise of orkut.com
• Are You Getting Truth From Pop Blogs?
• Facebook Girls: Dating Ads Collection
• Cookies, Super Cookies, Your Privacy
• Reddit = Porn Fodder
• Internet Hipsters and Hipstering of our Age
• Technology for Knowledge in Past Decades

Wikipedia

• Encyclopedia, My Experiences
• Death of Encarta
• The Heart of Wikipedia: Why is Wikipedia Successful?
• On Wikipedia's Misinformation
• Wikipedia Morons
• Lispers and Wikipedia
• the encyclopedic internet

• Wikipedia ban on Editing Tibet
• Wikipedia Article on Cindy's Torment
• Wikipedia and Photo of Human Vulva

• Think Twice Before You Donate to Wikipedia

misc, unsorted

• To SOPA or Not to SOPA? Stop Online Piracy Act
• MegaUpload Crime Boss
• iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Xoom: Pixel Dimension, Resolution, Density
• Screen Size Comparison: DVD, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Blu-ray
• What's Kindle, iPad, Android, and All That Jazz??
• Modern Tablet Computer Features
• Tablet Computer: Touch-screen Interface Pros and Cons
• What Encoding Do Chinese Websites Use?
• The Ease of Making Money by Professional Blogging
• Humor: CSS Experimental Pain, Window Blind