henry-phillips.com

Worth keeping an eye on this specification relating to web notifications, from W3C. Just in draft at present.

Strong opinion on the new GWT keyphrase data – maybe jumping the gun a bit! However, the observation that CTR is likely to become a ranking factor is a very interesting call

Pion Lite – packet-sniffing web analytics data capture solution

Interesting site on HTML5

Interesting piece on post mortems in development

Google Wave on the iPhone. It works!

Can’t believe I hadn’t come across this site before; lots of useful resources for design, blogs etc.

HTML 5, still in draft, has some interesting changes relating to semantic markup. It remains to be seen how these might affect SEO. The draft specification is worth keeping tabs on however.

Matt Cutts gives the definitive Google view on PR sculpting and the effect of nofollow – this will generate more questions than it answers, but there are the following takeaways: (a) you should still nofollow paid links; (b) the more nofollow links on a page, the less value the follow links have; (c) don’t nofollow any of your internal links; (d) basically avoid nofollow as an SEO process. It’s still a conceptual mess, but it’s taken some work off my to-do list…