Quicklinks: Boats that float, del.icio.us links, captchas, millionaires
Web Quicklinks, Friday 14 December 2007
An amazing photo, a long ugly URL
Del.icio-us linking
Not familiar with social media sites such as del.icio.us and the great resource and opportunity they represent your business or organisation?
This blog post explains what del.icio.us is and how it and other social media sites can be one of the most powerful resources for your link building efforts.
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/social-media/delicious-link-building
Have organised high tech criminals broken the captcha system? Captchas are the challenge - response questions used on web forms to try and ensure the form is being filled out by a human, not an automated bot or spamming tool. This article is a fascinating coverage of the issue, with some great examples of captchas:
It seems an awful lot of programmers subscribe to the “add some crazy patterns and/or colors to the text and pray for the best” school of CAPTCHA design. That’s not only sloppy, it just doesn’t work. The top of this chart is littered with their failed attempts. On some sites, this is OK. They don’t need the same world-class level of protection from bots and scripts that Ticketmaster does– there’s tremendous financial incentive for scalpers to break their system.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001001.html
A beautiful computer case - stained glass, via boingboing.net I want one for Christmas.
Accidental Millionaire
Finally a story to gladden your entrepreneurial heart and restore hope. Yes the story of another accidental 10 something or 20 something year-old internet millionaire.
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