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Aaron Wormus: Rush product launch. 50% Complete.

Aaron Wormus: Rush product launch. 50% Complete.

Posted by mobile phone:
I have been using Mozilla/Firefox since M7 back in 99.

It has served me well all these years and up until a few months ago I was a fanboy. I have been doing exactly the same thing for the last 3 years. I haven’t installed any plugins, and yet the browser gets slower and slower that I have had to go into IE to do a couple things.

This morning I gave up and installed Opera. I still use Thunderbird and hope that it doesn’t go down the same bloated road as Firefox.

Aaron Wormus: Heading to work late, but I had to finish Open Season.

A St. Cloud, Minn. woman in the middle of a custody battle is facing an unusual order from the court. A district court investigator is recommending that Christa Burton stop breastfeeding her 15-month-old child, Carter.

I guess in a custody battle everything is game…

Full Story Here

Aaron Wormus: Making coffee

Aaron Wormus: Watching Monk

This is in response to Cal’s post on SEO experts.

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It really depends on the framework… Zend Framework is very SEO framework. Others that rely on a lot of ajax or javascript POST callbacks to facilitate basic navigational tasks will stop a search engine dead in its tracks.

I have also seen frameworks which use strange http redirects as part as the controller, this has the habit of killing search engines as well.

Speed is also important in SEO, being able to output the correct http cache tags. You should have complete control over the output HTML, the ability to create descriptive css styles and have full control over the structure of your html output.

Clean URL support is good in ZF, but the default front controller still needs some modification to be truely SEO friendly.

When it comes to SEO experts I totally agree that they are the scum of the earth… but they are also just playing a game that Google set up for them to play.

The monetary value of being #1 on Google is just too much to pass up.

Aaron Wormus: Getting a beer and unwinding.

Blow the dust off your synapses, kids. Remember ENDGAME, the Book Two: Deceit/The Rookie contest? My nemesis J.C. Hutchins and I announce the winners. Swag abounds!

Congratulations to all of the ENDGAME winners!

Direct link to the episode is here.

Aaron Wormus: Heading to work

Aaron Wormus: Awake

Scott Sigler: @spin: wait a second - camping, with "barely" connectivity? Does that mean you "rough it" with a really low bandwidth?

Scott Sigler: @TeeMonster: because you're like the girls we all wanted to date in high school - you just can't say "no"

Aaron Wormus: Mmmm, chilis how has blue moon.

Aaron Wormus: Eating at chilis

Aaron Wormus: Neglecting everything else in favor of mocile blogging.

Posted by mobile phone:
Point your browsers at http://www.wormus.com/annie for the first website of a 6-year-old.

I helped her with some of the technical issues, but the content is all hers.

We are planning on starting a going-to-school blog, and building up a platform from scratch.

Its going to be fun.

Posted by mobile phone:
I am watching cnbc while on the excersize bike while blogging (multitasking++). They had a very.short piece about how yahoo customer satisfaction has grown 3 percent to pass google who has dropped 3 percent.

When I look at the two platforms, I have very little loyalty to google products.

Google search: I use it, but basically hate it. As soon as there is a viable alternative I am going to drop it.

Gmail: don’t really do the whole webmail thing. Gmail has some nice features, but hasn’t done much new in the last few years.

Google IG: pretty awesome, but for some reason I am not using it as much as I used to.

Google docs: Sweet, I love it. I wish they would add the concept of page breaks.

Adsense: a scam, I hate it.

Analytics: I use it but its not that great.

Youtube: great product, one of the only google acquisitions that has a community. We’ll see how google manages it.

And now some yahoo properties I use:

Flickr: premium member since they started. I love it.

Yahoo mail: great technology, by far the best webmail platform available.

Mybloglog: cool blogging community tool. Unique tool, nothing else like it available.

Stumbleupon: another awesome Y! buy a community based around what everyone does best: websurfing.

Yahoo finance: great product, far more features and more usable than the google counterpart.

Yahoo technologies: we use YUI heavily as well as other webservices provided by yahoo.

So you may have noticed that I hardly mentioned any products which were actually created by yahoo, and only a couple original google products.

Maybe the problem with google is that they merge the communities of their acquisitions with the general google brand. Yahoo does as much as they can to keep the communities intact.

We’ll see how google manages to break youtube and how the communities manage once the next big thig movie sharing site comes around.

Howdy, Hardcore Junkie Brian Thomas is running his ass off to raise money for Lupus research. We made him a sweet, one-off jersey to wear during his 50-mile