Yahoo Joins Opensocial

Techcrunch is reporting that Yahoo will join Google’s Opensocial. Should be interesting since Yahoo is really trying to open up their search results

Web 2.0 Expo

I didn’t get a chance to go to the Web 2.0 Expo this past week but Richard at ReadWriteWeb has a good breakdown of what happened.

Web 2.0 Expo Summary

Is it the Product or the Person that makes a Company

Loren over at SEJ has a great post about the difference of Popularity of Digg and Del.icio.us. I have to admit that Kevin Rose has become an Internet Rockstar and his popularity has helped make Digg even more popular. It’s amazing what both Josh and Kevin did and I give them both credit for creating something that the people would love and find useful which is the purpose of building web apps.

A Really Cool Plugin

Mike over at Techcrunch has a write up about a cool new plugin that lets you randomly go through the pages of a persons blog. I would add it to this blog if there wasn’t only 8 page to it!

 Mikes Write Up of WordPress Plugin

Link Building

What I have learned while trying to get websites ranked on search engines that content and quality link building is key. Link building has become tricker now a days with people now being able to buy links on sites that have a high Pagerank or other websites not wanting to link to you because they are your competition. So where do you begin if you are a new site and want to get links and build up your Pagerank? Well here are some resources that I found that could help you:

The Cleansing Of The Links

Paid Links Under Scrutiny By Google Again

SEO using keyword domains

Decipho Blog

With not being in school anymore and having more time to work on Decipho and writing on this blog, I wanted to add more topics to write about and mention. Not only will I still write about the progress of Decipho and new features we add but I also want to write more about how search engines work and how to get your websites ranked. I also want to write about new technologies that come out that I find interesting and adding video clips that I find funny or interesting. I hope to have at least two or three post on average so please stay tuned!

Down Time

We want to thank everyone who has signed up and used Decipho this past week. We never expected that many people to visit without us really spreading the word. We also appreciate all of the feedback you have given us and we plan on making some changes to make Decipho better. To do this will be offline for a while starting on Friday as we make upgrades to the system and improve the technology. If you have any questions or feedback, please email us at admin at decipho dot com. We hope to be back online with all of the new features in mid November.

Thanks again and sorry for the inconvience,

Steve

Progress

Just an update but things have been going smoothly lately with Decipho that I think we’re close to our public launch. I’m hoping that in the next couple of weeks my next blog post will be “We Finally Launched.”

Power of Search

To show you the power of search, a friend of mines did a search on my name and found this embrassing web page of mines that I created in a summer school class in the 7th grade that I thought they took down. This summer school class was the first time learning how to program and I think I have come a long way since then

Got Free Time

We are currently looking for more programmers to help us develop Decipho.com. If interested in helping us create a new way to search, please send us your resume to decipho at yahoo dot com.