There’s been a nice addition to one of my favorite pieces of link building helper software with this morning’s update. It just keeps getting better and better to help your employees make their link building time actually count, and actually build a couple of links, instead of doing research.

1. Added: “Toggle Highlighting “NoFollow” Links” option.

Wowpen
One of the few things I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show that really made me say “Wow” was this invention, that enables the user to write on a regular pad of paper with a wireless pen sized device, and have the words pictures and characters instantly displayed on the computer screen. I got to try it out and it worked flawlessly.

Nothing from CES that I picture here will change the world, but it was stuff I found pretty cool all the same. Most of the pictures I took on the fly as I was going by, and I really have no other information about them, so I’m unable to provide a link. However, I’m sure that they’ll be show up in the search engines and in the stores soon… Well, most of them…

There’s an online community of search engine marketers called Gooruze that’s picking up steam, and I’ve been lurking there quietly for the past month or so.  The information available there is phenomenal, and I strongly recommend a visit, and signing up for this free community.

On my blog, the Blog Rush widget is showing links to those that do not have the widget installed, and I believe I’ve figured out why.

On the home page of blog Rush today, they address some of the issues people have been discussing in the blogosphere, and while they don’t address my issue specifically, they did say this:

With Blog Rush, you can easily give links to other people right on your blog, and you might get absolutely nothing in return. Wow, this is going to catch on like wildfire, isn’t it?

To be fair, I suspect (hope) it’s just a bug in the program that allows me to link to people that have signed up but are not playing fair… It must be, right? Otherwise, why would anyone need or want to use this thing?

Thursday, August 23, 2007
A 17 year old kid named George Hotz, of New Jersey, successfully completes his summer project to hack (unlock) the iPhone, so that it can be run on any cellular service, not just AT&T.

You’re not alone…
Users all over the country are finding out daily that suddenly, for no apparent reason at all, they are unable to send mail if they want people to reply to their business or personal e-mail addressed other than one that is @comcast.net. This is because Comcast is blocking port 25 , which is your default port for sending email through your mail software.

As an avid listener of Internet radio in various forms, I’m proud to be a resident of Oregon, where two of our congressmen, Ron Wyden and Earl Blumenauer cosponsored a bill to preserve Internet radio.

Today, the courts denied an emergency stay requested on behalf of Internet radio broadcasters and their millions of listeners, and this media is in danger of practically becoming extinct, open only to those that can afford the outrageous royalty charges.

I’m at the Seattle SMX Advanced Show, and last night Microsoft hosted a welcome party. They fed us all the Coconut Shrimp we could eat, along with Spring Rolls, Shrimp Stuffed Filo dough pastries, and an assorted selection of flatbreads, cheeses and fruits.

There were servers walking around with trays of the appetizers, and there were three separate bars with no lines, all serving complementary beer, wine, and cocktails. Nice!

According to CNN, Google announced that they changed last Wednesday,  integrating all of the different types of search results onto the home page of Google, including news, images, video, and a new menu along the top, for access to all of their different Google services.

Google promises to offset postage charges through their latest project, Gmail paper. According to them, here’s what they’re offering…

A New Button
Now in Gmail, you can request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button, and we’ll send it to you in the mail.