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“I hate Designer News.“

“I hate Silicon Cape.“

I hate the word hate when it’s used in the context of other people’s projects.

To hate — to feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward something — should be reserved for the things we truly need to get rid of in this world.

Let’s hate injustice, intolerance, and the way women are treated in the tech industry. And let’s use our extreme hostility toward those things to spur us into action.

Let’s not hate products and...

“I hate Designer News.“

“I hate Silicon Cape.“

I hate the word hate when it’s used in the context of other people’s projects.

To hate — to feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward something — should be reserved for the things we truly need to get rid of in this world.

Let’s hate injustice, intolerance, and the way women are treated in the tech industry. And let’s use our extreme hostility toward those things to spur us into action.

Let’s not hate products and...

Duane Forrester, the face, the connection, the personality for Bing and the webmaster community has been downsized. This week, Microsoft announced huge layoffs and part of those layoffs included letting Duane Forrester go...

Duane Forrester, the senior product manager in charge of webmaster outreach for Bing, has lost his job as part of the recently announced layoffs at Microsoft. The move leaves Bing without one of its longest-serving and recognizable faces to the SEO and publisher community.

Forrester posted the news on his blog today, saying he’s not upset with Microsoft over the change and happy that he’s made a positive contribution to companies and SEOs. From some of his post:

Microsoft announced...

You are cloxacillin, a kind of medication and an entity that some people may not know a lot about, but part of a bigger class of medicines that people are familiar with. And you’re taking a visit through a search engine as someone has been recently...

There is no doubt that the perception in the industry is that negative SEO is a problem.

So much so, that in our last poll, only 11% thought negative SEO doesn't work. Now that we have "white hat" clients requesting negative SEO and and most SEOs feel it is easy to do, it is an issue...

This should come to you as no surprise... Google has added a new Google Webmaster Tools report for showing webmasters mobile usability issues that they pick up...

There are some great answers in the Quora thread How do you prevent scope creep in agile projects when usability testing? From Todd Zaki Warfel’s answer:

Usability testing doesn’t have to be a formal 3 month engagement. There are plenty of resources out there for doing rapid testing, which can easily be worked into a typical 3-6 week sprint cycle. We do it all the time. Take a week out of the sprint to plan, test, compile recommendations and get to work implementing them. Or as Jeff...

When I was in law school, I was a teaching assistant for an environmental law professor. One of the tasks he had me working upon was a review and analysis of electronic databases that could be used to assess natural resource damages when some...