Boyink! - Spring Forward on the Web

“One of the most obvious, yet surprisingly overlooked, components of a search strategy is the creation of quality content.” Link >>

Yes, I’m still here and still alive.  The Boyink clan returned this week from a 10-day vacation in South Texas—our longest family vacation ever. 

We visited 3 Mexican border towns, experienced South Padre Island during Spring Break, and spent a day at the Brownsville Zoo.  Mixed in with those busy days were lazy days spent reading, swimming and bike-riding.  All in all an interesting and relaxing time!

Watch the PhotoBlog for some choice snapshots from the trip.

You may think visitors to your company’s Web site are carefully reading every word on your home page. But they’re not. People glance at a fragment here, a fragment there, and decide within a matter of seconds whether to stay or leave. Link >>

While some continue to debate the usefulness of tag-based folksonomies, others are starting to build abstraction layers on top of a growing body of user-tagged data. Link >>

Wow.  Anyone else remember Pointcast?  I’m probably dating myself terribly here…but I remember being beat over the head with “Push” technologies, and being told by a Pointcast employee that they were going to be soooo big, which I thought was interesting for a service that pushed information to a desktop when the screensaver was running (IE no one around to see it).

Here’s a summary, and a longer story about the company.

I’m not sure why I thought to check the URL to see what was there, but I sure didn’t expect to see the pointcast.com domain abandoned to the point of being one of those “search the web” kind of sites with the domain being for sale.  Seems like the name would have retained some equity for someone.