An excellent blog post detailing ways to make your Flash site user–friendly on the iPhone and iPad (or in fact any other device devoid of the Flash plugin).

As an SEO I don’t recommend building Flash sites in the first place. But if you must—aim to make it play nicely by following the steps highlighted in the blog post:

• Use SWFObject and make use of the alternative content feature
• Develop a simplified HTML version of your site for mobile devices
• Use JavaScript to detect mobile devices and automatically forward to mobile version of site
• Set viewport to width of iPhone
• Make the iPhone stop resizing text on rotation
• Create an iPhone home screen icon/li>
• Use Helvetica!

Read the article here

I’ve been using Yahoo! Pipes quite a bit recently, partly because it’s so easy to use, and partly because it outputs data in RSS and JSON format.

For instance, if you decide to use the RSS output, you can use SimplePie to parse the data and display it, or you can output the JSON feed using jQuery. I’ve found the later method to be very quick and efficient, and it avoids the need to setup cache folders and cronjobs to automatically parse your feeds at set intervals. (more…)

If you run a business blog, or you regularly post articles on a specific topic you may be reluctant to post off-topic for fear of losing feed subscribers (although hopefully they will cut you some slack by sticking around). (more…)