Ben Tremblay

Technology, business and change



Evolution Of Search Engine Optimization

In 2000, SEO was mainly about gaming search engines (80% gaming, 20% best Web dev. practices), now it is the opposite: 80% best Web development practices, 20% gaming search engines.

Google Buzz: “Tens Of Millions Of Users Already”

Google Buzz are proudly announcing that they now have millions of users using the service. We certainly don't have the same definition of a user. A user makes the decision to subscribe.

Source: GMail Blog

Filling The Gaps

Life (mostly business) Is All About Filling The Gaps. Most products try to fill the gaps between two other products. It's OK, it just can't go on forever as the gaps become smaller.

Google Buzz, PageRank and PeopleRank

There was a missing piece in Google's algorithm: ranking people. With Google Buzz, here comes PeopleRank.

Having Ideas

The easy part: having ideas. Hard part: communicating them effectively.

Best Vs. Most Popular

"Best" and "most popular" are often confused. They rarely meet.

Website Traffic Vs. Engagement

Website Traffic Vs. Engagement: Traffic can be bought. Engagement requires work. Hard work. Great content.

Versioning The Web (Web 3.0)

I'm pretty confident that one day, we'll stop versioning the web. Because it doesn't make any sense.

What Design Can And Cannot Do

What design can and cannot do: design can help a good idea spread, but can't save a bad idea.

What We Do

Typical "What we do": Insert here fancy terms nobody understands (including potential customers) to describe how great your business is.

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