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I have been coming across a fair amount of nudity if not outright pornographic images on Facebook when working for a client (fashion related stuff, which quickly led to fetish related stuff, etc) , and wondering just exactly what their policy is on pornography. It can be a little difficult to find, but here it is (from this page):

"You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence."

So I guess the thing is that people that post this kind of stuff have like minded friends, and they don't report each other, so the stuff stays up there? I am not talking about porno spam on your wall from a complete stranger, but photo galleries, wall posts, etc. containing pornography and more often than not copyrighted material.

I guess it pretty much amounts to a don't ask don't tell policy, or nudge, nudge, wink, wink - but to me it just screams again that Facebook's user numbers are inflated for all the wrong reasons (like the gazillion under age kids that use it, etc.).

The IAB is hosting a conference in Milan in a couple of weeks - I am hoping to attend and will blog from the event. My clients know that I have been pushing IAB standard sized ads forever, even though they always seem to push back...

Anyway looks like some interesting seminars and it will be great to meet some people in the business.

If you can take the engineered drone of Matt Cutts (sorry Matt - but you put me to sleep) there is some useful stuff in these videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp

Go read (hat tip to Jakob Nielsen).

Here is my take/addition to this article - people (chefs) just don't realize/know what they need, and they think that they have to sell or dress up their websites just like they do their food - and so they get sold on things by poor developers, or the developer just says yes to whatever the chef wants for fear of losing the job, etc. (and I bet that most chefs/restaurant owners are cheap when it comes to the web because they don't believe in it).

Anyway - there are basic simple concepts that must be followed, as always, no matter what the industry is and we talk about them all the time. Simple navigation, clean design, information quickly and easily. It isn't rocket science - there is no need to "tart" it up - especially in the increasingly mobile world.

This is all a restaurant website needs:

Hours, Location (and a map with directions or directions available via Google), contact phone and email, sample menu (no prices!), sample wine list, and a photo or two.

You want to go crazy and plan to update the site all the time? Add a current menu with prices, current wine list with prices, and a photo album. Perhaps a link to reviews on Yelp and TripAdvisor. Maybe a sign up form for a newsletter (but only if you are going to really send a newsletter).

Insanity levels would include a reservation system via form of some kind.

Otherwise, use blogger or Facebook to add current menu items, announce specials, news, etc. Anything else is really overkill, and not anything someone who wants to eat your food needs.

One of the things I am always going on about is using the tools that are out there. You can do a lot of pretty sophisticated things for free or very low cost. If you are an AdSense publisher, you should be getting their monthly email newsletter, which today contains this info about the new Google +1 button:

+1 Reporting is now available

In our last issue we told you all about the +1 button and how it can help you drive more and better qualified traffic to your site. This time, we're excited to share the new reporting tools Google has designed to help you keep track of your +1 activity.

The best place to find out how the +1 button is performing is in Google Webmaster Tools . You can get more information on how much additional organic search traffic the +1 button is bringing to your pages, how many times your pages have been +1'd by your users and demographic information for those users. If you haven't done so already, you'll need to verify your site on Google Webmaster Tools to get access to these features. In addition to this, Google Analytics is offering the new Social Plug-in Analytics tool. This will give you insight into the different types of actions taking place in your site once users reach it. You'll be able to compare behavior between users who +1 your pages and those who don't, as well as track other social actions and see which pages are driving the highest number of them.

It is good info, and stuff you should be on top of if you are running a web business, blog, or develop sites for clients.

Here is a good tip from MacRumors.com - Make An OS X Lion Boot Disc

I will admit to having bigger plans for this blog when I started it, but like most things I do the germination process can take years. I got it off the ground, but never really gave it the attention it needed. This post hopefully changes that.

I just added a couple of links in the blog roll in the right column - to asymco and Apple 2.0. These are both more business and news related but are things I think anyone who visits this site should probably be keeping an eye on.

I am also planning some articles on affiliate marketing and app making/design etc. As well as web advertising and development in general. Basically the things we work on and read about all day long.

So, more to come. Stay tuned -

Just one of those tips I am constantly looking up for clients - here it is, just add it to the style sheet:

#navbar-iframe { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none; }

Thanks to Amit at Digital Inspiration.

Here is a quick and easy way to generate meta tags for your website, from coffeecup.com, the: Meta Tag Generator We recently did some SEO and social network marketing for TuscanTrails.com. The existing site had no meta tags at all, so we used this tool to make an initial set for the home page (description, keyword, copyright, author, etc.), and then tweaked by hand the remaining few pages. Simple but effective.

Was having difficulty signing into a customers FTP account on Yahoo! Make sure you use the following constructs (i.e. the user name is not enough, it needs to be in the form of an email address):

host or address: ftp.widgetdesigns.com (replace widgetdesigns.com with your own domain name)

user or login: name@widgetdesigns.com (replace name with your Yahoo! ID, and widgetdesigns.com with your own domain name)

password: the password you use to sign in to your Yahoo! account

Are on sale:

So do I. The article makes the case pretty clearly - they dominant the market for search and search ads in France (and most of the rest of the world beside China), and their rules are arbitrary and sketchy. They need to be regulate, plain and simple. Google can make or break businesses - the power they hold is incredible:

Lightbox utilizes jQuery to make simple, effective photo presentations and slide shows on your blog or website. This set of instructions can have it up and running on Blogger in minutes.