http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead Just another Weblogs at Harvard Law School weblog Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:57:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was looking over some search stats and noticed that there is a moderate number of people looking for pink credit cards. Does anyone know what this is? Is there some type of card available that comes in pink? Is this an actual product offered or is there ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2008/04/06/pink-credit-card/ Mr. Gary Lee is running another contest at his site where he writes about internet marketing. (Previously I entered his workspace photo and was dubbed the "smallest workspace" for the photo of my work area while we were in Mexico.) He is giving away a free iphone. It is a pretty ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/07/09/mr-gary-lees-iphone-contest/ These three things may really change the face of web applications.  Google gears lets you store information locally so you can use your web application offline.  Right now the only program I know that uses Gears is Google Reader.  There is a standalone program for Windows and a Firefox program ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/06/16/google-gears-iphone-and-safari/ I read a story about a poll that was taken of high school students. The object was to find out how much they expected to make once they were out of college and had a few years of job experience. The average expected salary? $145,000 per year. I think ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/04/20/american-debt/ Google Crime The act of doing something with your website that Google doesn't like. Using paid links, cloaking, etc. are examples of Google Crime. Google crime is punishable by a penalty in their rankings or being dropped from their index entirely. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/04/20/google-crime/ Google is asking people to submit sites that are selling or buying links.  This is an interesting move.  It sounds like their goal is to test some new algorithms that will automatically discount the value of links if it appears they have been purchased.  My guess is that they aren't ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/04/17/google-and-paid-links/ A week ago I sat down and decided to see what type of traffic is generated by having a link from John Chow.  I posted a bunch of comments and made it to the top commentator's list where I remained for a week.  At the end of the week, I ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/03/29/what-is-a-sitewide-link-on-johnchowcom-worth/ Leadership501 is a site full of articles about leadership. I created it to be a reference for people looking to improve their leadership skills.  I have found that much of the current leadership writing either focuses on being inspirational or very theoretical, so my goal is to try to create ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/03/28/leadership501/ Gary Lee (www.mrgarylee.com) is running a workstation contest for people who work from home, so I thought I'd enter my photo of the work area I had setup in Mexico. (My current desk is undergoing the tax season and newborn baby insurance bill attack, so ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/03/27/my-mexican-workspace/ Amazon has launched an open beta of their contextual ads.  You install a piece of javascript at the bottom of your HTML page and it  will create links from words in your text to amazon products.  When you mouse over the links it shows you a preview of the product.  ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/03/27/amazon-context-ads/