OpenID Foundation Elections

I just joined the OpenID foundation in order to take part in the current board elections.
I’m reading the mailing list traffic with interest trying to figure out which candidates I should support, which ones are going to provide the OpenID with the right mix of skills and experience to make it have even greater success [...]

Peregrine Panel – 1,000 creative and curious people needed

Gregg Fraley, the author of Jack’s Notebook, is looking to build a panel of 1,000 consumers/owners to provide lightening fast market research.  He’s currently up to 86 members.
If you’re a consumer (who isn’t?), creative in thinking and able to express an opinion in under 140 characters, then follow greggfraley2 on twitter or read Gregg’s blog [...]

web spam – beating the system or beating us all?

This weekend at Sheffield BarCamp I saw a presentation by Tim Nash about how some SEO providers are achieving high rankings using web spam.
He explained, quite eloquently, how a technique called Markov Chains is used to create alternative copies of some source content that, to a search engine, has the same keyword profile, but cannot [...]