"In terms of readability, these are clearly not 'articles' and I don't promote them that way. I use them as long tail content and link bait. People read them because they're old,not in spite of that." (-subscription required)

"Even as many sites seek to give their users more input, Sphinn is eliminating voting on stories and will use an editorial selection process instead."

A U.S. federal judge has reaffirmed that unfiltered UGC is the responsibility of the poster and that the site operator can't be sued for libel.

"A few years ago I developed the strategy of buying dropped domains with good backlinks and pagerank, and either 301-ed them to one of my main sites, or host them with a bit of content, and link them to my sites. Now, years later, some of those still bring in nice traffic and PR."

Apple to launch their own version of Twitter and Facebook

Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we're very excited to say that we've reached the biggest milestone for our internal team - the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7!

"Members discuss advanced methods of speeding up site performance such as efficient software, hardware strategies, and database optimization." (-subscription required)

Another common question about how to rewrite a subdomain back to a main domain. The answer can be quite complex.

"Starting next July, eBay will no longer let Google provide transaction checkout services on eBay Web sites. It won't allow any checkout service except its own PayPal-featured service. Google Checkout doesn't offer PayPal."

"I seem to be drawing a disproportionate number of foreign customers. I see the site setting for Geotarget and mine was to unlisted. My IP reports Plano, TX but my server is in Chicago, same time zone so no biggie I guess."

Bunch of on-the-page changes = Whole bunch of nothing: "I feel like im flogging a dead horse."

"I need to boost a site up with some content and would like to hire a writer. If I could offload some writing for a bit, I could work on other things to help move a project along."

Indepth article on SEO and Affiliate Links: "... ideas that you might want to consider to eliminate the dup content and split link juice issues caused by the canonicalization problems associated with affiliate links" (-subscription required)

Nice indepth thread on a common WordPress htaccess mod_rewrite problem.

"The number of searches conducted in the U.S. over the last year has decreased by 16% from 10.5 billion in July 2009 to 8.8 billion in July 2010. MSN/Windows Live/Bing was the only one of the top three engines to have experienced an increase in search volume - a 28% increase from 0.9 billion to 1.2 billion."

"I've notice recently that exact phrase match in the title does not seem to work well. It does work if you put quotes around the query phrase, but clearly only geeks do that."

annual refresh of a popular discussion.

With capable GPUs (graphics processing units) becoming an integral part of even the smallest of devices, Google Chrome, as well as Microsoft, are developing browsers that accelerate the graphics card instead of relying on the CPU.

There's now a dedicated URL for Google's experiment with Realtime Search... with new tools and options to bring more search value.

Where is a good place to setup shop?

"... the transition of organic search between Yahoo! and Microsoft is complete"

I think I just identified a pretty major bug in Facebook's 'Like' button, which allows webmasters to write data on FB's social graph, which cannot be 'deleted' *if* they should they make a mistake when they initially implement the code into their website.

Some sites now control 7 to 10 of the top 10 results.

"Visual search and shopping startup Like.com has confirmed that it's being acquired by Google."

"At least one group of scammers has found a way to charge thousands of dollars to iTunes accounts through PayPal."