// Internet Duct Tape

RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).

• [SEO] The Blogger’s Guide to SEO
  • (seo, blogging, marketing, tips, blogs, google)
  • (seobook.com, 1152 saves, 100 inbound links, 100 diggs)
• [IDEAS] The Top 20 Ways to Come Up With Amazing Ideas
  • (creativity, ideas, writing, blogging)
  • (skelliewag.org, 635 saves, 67 inbound links, 902 diggs)
• [FACEBOOK] Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript
  • Technical look at Facebook Beacon aka “how the hell did my Xmas gifts for Timmy show up in my Facebook news feed?!”
  • (facebook, beacon, privacy)
  • (radiantcore.com, 236 saves, 80 inbound links, 59 diggs)
• [RSS] Sink or Swim: Managing RSS Feeds with Better Groups
  • Google Reader tip
  • (rss, productivity, feeds, reader)
  • (43folders.com, 100 saves, 35 inbound links, 6 diggs)
• [MUSIC] thesixtyone – a music adventure
  • an online game where you increase in levels by picking out music that will become popular
  • (music, mp3, mmo)
  • (thesixtyone.com, 51 saves, 9 inbound links, 187 diggs)
• [STARTUPS] Ruthless enough for a startup?
  • Interesting look that a lot of startups that are now common names did some shady stuff in the beginning to get users.
  • (business, startup, startups)
  • (glinden.blogspot.com, 45 saves, 32 inbound links)
• [CODE] PHP in contrast to Perl
  • Completely trashes PHP
  • (php, perl, programming, comparison)
  • (tnx.nl, 40 saves, 31 inbound links, diggs)
• [FACEBOOK] Facebook, you owe me one Christmas Present.
  • Because of asinine privacy settings, buying christmas presents for other people on sites completely unrelated to facebook can be broadcast to all your friends — including the intended recipients.
  • (facebook, socialsoftware, stupidity)
  • (weblog.muledesign.com, 27 saves, 18 inbound links)
• [CATS] Social Marketing Intern
  • I Can Has Cheezburger is hiring an intern
  • (jobs, lolcats, intern)
  • (centernetworks.com, 18 saves, 26 inbound links, 1674 diggs)
• [SOCIAL] Twitter and the Twits
  • People reveal the truth with status updates
  • (twitter, communication)
  • (ricksegal.typepad.com, 12 saves, 9 inbound links)
• [MOVIES] Movie Sequels We Need
  • I found it funny.
  • (humor, movies, funny)
  • (wilshipley.com, 6 saves, 4 inbound links, 2 diggs)

Legend

• saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
• inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
• diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com

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