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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…

comScore stats (US-based) on mobile-for-local trends

Excellent piece on the dangers of using robots.txt in SEO, along with some other good stuff on meta robots etc

MySQL reference

Changes to the way Google interprets nofollow

Really great piece covering Google's increasing ability to index non-standard HREF links
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Those pesky charsets can cause all kinds of problems.