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Matt Cutts speaking plans for 2010

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:57:00 +0000

Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten (!) trips in 2009. This year I’ve resolved to travel less for work. Right now, here’s my current speaking/travel plans for 2010:

March 2-4, 2010: SMX West, Santa Clara, CA. I’m doing a “Ask the Search Engines” panel.

May 19-20, 2010: Google I/O conference in San Francisco. I’m doing a site review session.

June 8-9, 2010: SMX Advanced in Seattle

November 8-11, 2010: PubCon in Vegas

I was gone last week (February 9-13) for the TED conference, but that was attending, not speaking.

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Blog to Book?

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:56:59 +0000

I recently went looking for some software to make a blog into a book. Here’s what I found:

- Lulu will take PDF files for a book. Blogbooker.com will try to create a PDF from a blog. Unfortunately, my blog made BlogBooker choke (I have 991 posts from my blog) — even when I excluded comments.

- Blurb.com will try to create a book from a blog, but it only supports blogs hosted on WordPress.com, not other WordPress blogs. That will help some people who want to print their blog into a book, but not everyone.

- I had the best luck with FastPencil. In order to reduce the size of your exported blog, you’ll first want to go to your comments section, click on the “spam” link and clear out any spam comments by selecting all the spam comments and clicking “Empty Spam”. Then you can export your WordPress blog (from the Dashboard, click Tools, then Export) as an XML file that you can download to your computer. From there, FastPencil lets you upload the .xml file and then select which blog posts to include in the book. You can also filter by time, which I had to do. Even my blog posts (no comments) from the last year and a half still made a 350+ page book, and FastPencil choked on turning my entire blog into a book.

FastPencil did a few things well. Included images were imported, and some formatting such as bold made it into the PDF. But other formatting, such as code formatting and newlines/spacing between paragraphs didn’t make it. Embedded content such as videos or polls were likewise empty. Trying to import my entire blog also didn’t work. But all in all, I was impressed with FastPencil. They also have nice collaboration tools (e.g. you can designate editors, reviewers, co-authors, and project managers to help in writing/polishing the content). The site also works through your web browser instead of as a downloadable program, which appealed to me. If you’re used to WordPress, FastPencil won’t be too much of a change.

It’s still not a point-and-click affair to make a nice looking coffee table book out of a blog, but it’s getting closer. Right now, the “make a book” niche feels like the early days of recordable CDs. Back then, CD-R discs were expensive enough that I would spend time to make sure that I used all the free space on the CD. Eventually prices dropped so much that you didn’t feel bad about burning a half-empty or not-perfectly-polished CD.

If you’ve tried other blog-to-book services or websites, let me know your experiences in the comments.

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Chrome support for Greasemonkey

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:56:59 +0000

Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said

Whoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome (4.0.266.0 on Linux). Chrome offered to install the GM script, so I said okay. The script ran perfectly in Chrome with no changes at all! I don’t know how many Greasemonkey scripts will run in Chrome unchanged, but at least some will.

Last week brought that news as an official announcement. My guess is that scripts that don’t use specific Greasemonkey APIs should be fine.

(Side-note: I found a good post from November that claims that ~60% of Greasemonkey scripts don’t use any sort of special API calls at all. The top API calls appear to be GM_getValue and GM_setValue (16.5% of Greasemonkey scripts), plus GM_xmlhttpRequest (15.5% of Greasemonkey scripts). It’s unclear which of these functions might be worth supporting. Some could have security implications (GM_xmlhttpRequest). Others like the get/setValue functions could be done by using other ways to store data.)

So this is cool. There’s a good chance that your favorite Greasemonkey script might just work in Chrome. Personally, I recommend the dev channel version of Chrome. It gets all the cool features early, and it’s been very stable/fast for me.

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Chipit

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:08:02 +0000

Chipit is Australia’s leading provider of 4 Wheel Drive chips that communicate with the diesel engine better to improve performance, torque and economy. They are easy to install with, Australian and have a money back guarantee.

The project was to design a site that was BOLD and really stood out from the rest.

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Austech Embroidery

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The goal of the Austech Embroidery website was to design a modern, simple showcase of the embroidery and accessory products that this quality business offers. Adaid achieved this goal by incorporating modern Web2.0 standards, clean and stylistic design elements.
Austech is a search engine and user friendly site that is built with future business growth in mind.

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Zodiac Lodge

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:01:24 +0000

The Zodiac Lodge project was completed on a budget with all the functionality necessary to compete with other long stay accommodation service providers. Integrating quoting fields and latest google maps technology into the heart of the site.
This site reinvigorated the business and has provided a modern and stylish look for a fantastic small business enterprise.

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Australian Camper Van Hire

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The Australian camper van hire industry is one of the most progressive and aggressive in the internet marketing industry. Virtually any tourist enterprise relies of search engine optimisation specialists to consult them on how to get ahead of the competition. Adaid have taken on the challenge of not onlydesigning, developing and launching the site, but also steering it in the right direction in terms of organic search. Adaid has been managing the organic search of the Australian Camper Van Hire website for several months now, and we have seen traffic grow at an exceeding rate.

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Flash Website – Yelena Dyumin Art

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Yelena Dyumin is one of the most talent, celebrated, yet under-rated artists that the Australian art community has to offer. The designed art showcase for Yelena was made with the intention of blending in with her style of creativity and portraying her work in a deserving manner. This is not just a site for Yelena, but a means to showcase her work and talent to potential customers, exhibitors and the general public.

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Sydney Graphics Design

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A graphics design service website needs to be modern, it needs to bounce and grab your attention. It also needs to user friendly, fast, easy to administer from the backend and contain functionality that will allow the user to manage pages and functions easily.

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