Jure Cuhalev

One of the things most social media junkies do substantial amount of time is read their peers rant about world and give useful hints and ideas. Since there are too many of us out there, there’s a neat trick you can do: piggy back on best stories from someone else.

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It’s now more than a day since Cuil, the latest hyped Google killer launched, and we can reflect on looking at how that went.
According to TechCrunch and a number of other sources, it didn’t go too well, with their servers crashing a number of times. I’ve seen this also happen, failing [...]

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Who needs to find your content? Examples are readers, potential users, customers etc.
Basic requirements:

You need to have an understanding of your potential audience. If you look at your site with wish to make it findable you have to understand your audience.
Semantic markup is good for marking up.
Good context
Accessibility
Search engine friendliness
No barriers [...]

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Here are my notes from tonight’s Web Standards Group London Meetup, the topic was Findability.
It’s a big subject, so he’s going to focus mostly on theoretical aspect. The topic of findability has been very well research by Peter Morville (semanticstudios.com) – Ambient Findability book
“Finding” and what it means.
Dictionary:

Discover or perceive by chance o unexpectedly
Discover after [...]

Having a nice white Google homepage in your browser is somehow reassuring as you know that you just have to start typing in order to lookup the data in the the metaverse.
This all changed when your favorite search engine turned their lights off in order to promote Earth Hour, their initiative to remind us to [...]