Why SEO lost importance

Cameron Chapman wrote an interesting post at instantShift today, he explain well about the position of SEO in web development & internet marketing world lately which is getting less & less important.

Social media is a big part of the blame for this situation. People can now ask their friends or complete strangers for recommendations on virtually anything, and get human-filtered results within minutes through Facebook, Twitter, or other social networking sites. Internet users are also becoming more savvy and can cut through search results to find the best content, regardless of optimal placement for the best keywords.

Even in cases where search engines still send significant traffic to a site, search engines are becoming so much more intelligent that it’s getting harder and harder to get good placement unless you’re providing the best content.

According to Chapman’s article, the 7 main reasons why SEO is getting less important are:

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jQuery Mobile Announced : Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets

Really interesting post from Dion at Ajaxian i read today explain about the new jQuery mobile project as announced by Jhon resig himself the founding father of jQuery. The jQuery Mobile project is supported by Palm with their webOS platform, Mozilla with Mobile Firefox and Filament group the creator of EnhanceJS

jQuery Mobile: Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets. A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design.

Great move and cant hardly wait to test it when it become available

Multiple Google Account Signin

Just realize that google now allow multiple account sign in, I had few google accounts to access different google services like: gmail, reader, analytics, apps etc. and its silly when i need to signout and re-sign too often. I used to using greasemonkey scripts and then finally stick with using different browsers at same time, but that was then, now you can login with multiple account simultaneously

1. Go to your account settings at the top right (settings -> Accounts and import -> Google account settings) or (Settings submenu when available)
2. On the list of personal settings you will find at the bottom options to edit multiple sign-in
3. Edit, turn it on
4. On your account name at top right (youname@gmail.com) there will be dropdown nav (arrow next t it) open dropdown -> signin to another account
5. Now you can switch to different account easily

Thanks Google! love this

jQuery validation engine, jquery inline form validation

jQuery validation engine, yet another nice form validation plugin for jquery javascript framework, comes with language localization supported and many predefined validation rules:

• optional: Special: Only validate when the field is not empty
• required: Field is required
• length[0,100] : Between x and x characters allowed
• minCheckbox[7] : Set the maximum checkbox autorized for a group
• confirm[fieldID] : Match the other field (ie:confirm password)
• telephone : Match telephone regEx rule.
• email : Match email regEx rule.
• onlyNumber : Numbers only
• noSpecialCaracters : No special characters allowed
• onlyLetter : Letters only
• date : Invalid date, must be in YYYY-MM-DD format

but you also could define a custom validation rule i.e:

"telephone":{
"regex":"/^[0-9-()]+$/",
"alertText":"* Invalid phone number"},

Has been tested in Internet Exploder 6 & 7, Firefox 3+, Safari 4, Chrome 1+

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Js.Class Ruby style javascript

JS.Class is a library designed to facilitate object-oriented development in JavaScript. It implements Ruby’s core object, module and class system and some of its metaprogramming facilities, giving you a powerful base to build well-structured OOP.

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