Every project, every site comes with alot of risk of investment, no one but the investor knows just how big the risk is on his hand, dealing with the fear of losing everything is really hard specially if you are just starting out in your online career and a big fail like this can put a damper on your development for at least 6-8 months. Most webmasters share the same trait, it’s fact over feeling. Letting your brain do the judging rather then what you want to do.
It’s important to know when to quit but not to have irrational thoughts over cancelling an on-going project just because of a “fear” of failure, the best thing to do at these times is to take a note of all the pros and cons from all the projects at hand and weigh them, to know what your weaknesses are in the project and if you could make those weaknesses into strengths or not, usually when you have more liabilities in a projects its best to call it quits but if you are looking way into a weakness and exaggerating it so much, just to make it a real problem for yourself then you’ll convince yourself to call it quits.
Edmondo seems to be like another twitter site but this one is for educational purposes mostly, it seems that edmondo wants to build a social network site between teachers and students where the teachers update their students about the courses and the latest updates in class etc. So far alot of problems have been reported for edmondo regarding functionality but for the times it does work it has pleased most of its users.
The twitter trend is on a rise i won’t be surprised if more twitter-based sites come up on different niches such as night life, webmasters, gambling, geek etc..
A few weeks ago i covered a visual search engine by google and i knew there would be more who would follow in those footsteps in order to make an “even better” search engine and here we are, ManagedQ has released their visual search which is said to be the visual search engine experiment that actually works.
I ran a few queries at MQ and it seems to have a really great sorting system where it sorts the results of your query by Person, Place and Thing. I think that is what i am looking for mostly at google to find a certain person with a certain thing in a certain place..
Although MQ has its flaws such as query result page titles and various text problems on the main windows of results and the keywords on the place/person/thing area where the keywords are really irrelevant to what’s being talked about.
Apparently microsoft made a 44 point something billion offer to yahoo, people are concentrating on what would happen to yahoo as a search engine but what about the adnetworks?
Yahoo has the highest payouts and Microsoft provides the hihgest ROI that i know of, if msft buys out yahoo and they form an ad network that would pay out like nothing else online, ppc wise and cpa wise. Personally i support msft to take over yahoo, as far as i can see:
Yahoo is a portal - more user oriented - more interactive and entertaining - its based on services for users like games, news..etc its main functions include mail,gaming and news not search.
Microsoft offers a number of services just like google and are really good at them too, at a seminar months ago they stated “Google is good at search we are good at everything else” i’ll post the source as soon as i find it. Msft is also doing amazing with its search engine most of the traffic to this blog is from MSN search anyway.
Above all that :
Yahoo has way too many failed projects in the past
Yahoo was never considered seo-able
It fluctuates more then google does
Its serps are really confusing, misleading and in some cases useless
I’m just waiting for the takeover to happen already so that i can milk their adnetwork ;p
Researchers have used the eponymous search engine, Google, to define in images what the English language looks like (and apparently it looks like a Jackson Pollack painting.) The study has used images from the search engine and ranking computer technology to collect the most commonly associated images fro each word of the English language. Interestingly the use of the Google in this study probably holds some of the Keys for the future of Search technology, and of course SEO as a subject.
Images already for a part of the search engines logarithm, but the development of a visual dictionary which could recognize an image and relate that image to a word without a word tag, would mean that web sites and of course SEO policy would have to update to include a visual element as well. Imagine a search engine that would look truly at all of the elements of a post or page, the words, their semantics and meanings, and the imagery used, to rank that pages usefulness to the searcher.
This, with the advent of the visual dictionary, does not seem to be at all unlikely, nor indeed, too far in the future. So far the research carried out by Linguist at MIT (home of the grandfather of all linguistics, Noam Chomsky) have not talked about the commercial applications of the project, but the use of Google as the medium by which the images were sourced, whilst unsurprising, smacks of a potential Google application of the work.
Where does this leave SEO, well if images are used by a search engine in designating relevance the job of SEO writer will truly become one of SEO Designer utilizing the visual dictionary to design relevant and searchable images. Watch this space for more information.
After buying my daughter an iPod Nano for Christmas this last year and signing up at the iTunes site, I have been getting emails from Apple about their latest products so I thought I would share them with you here at Blueverse.
The fist one I got was an email about the new Apple MacBook Air. It’s the thinnest notebook in the world so far. Apple reports that they have streamlined everything about the way the MacBook works and then streamlined it again. It is unlike any other laptop currently on the market today.
They did keep all the big benefits of the laptop though including the full sized keyboard with backlighting and added an oversized track pad with multi-touch technology similar to that of the iPhone and iPod. The MacBook Air also has a 13.3 inch widescreen LED display area.
Built on a Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 GB of memory this notebook laptop is simply amazing. It has full wireless capabilities that sets a new standard for mobile computing. They are calling it “thinnovation”. With no other laptop coming close to being this thin, it’s easy to see why they can call it that.
Just look at how thin it really is:
There is a lot more to this MacBook Air from Apple but I’m afraid talking about it would only show my techno-challenged side so I’ll just give you the link to Apple’s MacBook Air and let you read about it yourself.
This was quite unexpected, Reps from Gizmondo pulled an odd stunt at CES 2008 where they closed all the flat screen displays on all shows using a TV-B-Gone IR remote, which was kinda funny but mostly just mean and wasted so many people’s time and for this the CEA has banned them. For some reason all of this to me seems like a big publicity stunt for TV-B-Gone.
The conference was held by CEA and they took action against Gizmondo by banning them from further conferences and sent the following statement to the people at CNET:
We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the exhibitor booth operations of numerous companies, including disrupting at least one press event. The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion.
Russia, home of the most brilliant thinkers in social equality (before Stalin buggered it all up) has been looking into ways in which to develop a
Russia, home of the most brilliant thinkers in social equality (before Stalin buggered it all up) has been looking into ways in which to develop a amp;feed=networkfront ">Cyrillic internet, which has got many media watchdogs and defenders of freedom of speech in a bit of a tizzy. Apparently, some people believe that the ‘nationalisation’ of the internet’s infrastructure may lead to government control over content. I’m sorry that should have read, if they do this they will be able to control content and are almost certain to do so. Already Australia and China’s Governments have control over the content of their net. Where will it all end? Will the internet shatter into a thousand small webs, each centred on a geographic or ideological area of influence, each with censorship of content specific to that ideology? How about an Islamic Web under Shari Law, or Christian under Christian Fundamentalism? It is a dangerous road, censorship has always been used as a means to control populations, even in the land of the free McCarthyism still has a terrible legacy for socialists, and the resurgence of Christian Fundamentalism means that declaring yourself an atheist can severely effect your social and financial standing in the community (see Richard Dawkins, ‘The God Delusion’ Amazon, buy it read it and evolve as a person.) the thing that I love the most about the internet (no, not the pornography, although that is nice.) is that I can log on, write a blog about whatever happens to be on my mind, and its there, and people can either read it or not, as the fancy takes them.
If the internet fragments, and is subject to external censorship, then all that ends, and Blogs will begin ‘Good evening comrades of the Glorious Christian/Islamic/Cyrillic/ Whatever Internet, Here are the Government approved opinions. There will be no discussion.’ That, would frankly, suck. I love freedom of speech, and I love the internet, for all of its dark sides, they way it is. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
By the way take the time to watch the interview with Dawkins, and read the book, it really is worth it.
P2P has been targeted by AT&T as in need of a “Technology based solution…” and James Cicconi (VP Legal and External) states that the solution would have to be “network based…” Indeed the infrastructure giant has been in talks with Technology Companies, MPAA & RIAA, about producing a network wide block for copy right infringement. Indeed the growing problem of copyright infringement, especially through P2P technology has caused shockwaves at the head offices of music, movie and media corporations worldwide. Nick Cotton, general counsel for NBC Universal has specifically targeted P2P and suggest that the current situation “…should not be an acceptable, continuing status…the question is how we collectively collaborate to address this.” As difficult as it is to imagine the battling Mass Media companies acting as a collective, it seems that they have little choice, this issue poses a direct and real threat to these companies, as revenues decline and production costs increase the margins are being squeezed very hard indeed. Whilst I do not necessarily agree with copy right infringement, the pressure that the internet has put on the industry as a whole has had some positive effects; it has necessitated change, for the first time in a generation, in the media arts. Music has become far more accessible, and cheaper to legally download, and anybody is able to produce a song, get it on the net and get viewers (Arctic Monkeys being the eponymous web success in the UK, check out their stuff on www.arcticmonkeys.com, they rock.) Cinema has had to innovate and make viewing the product at a cinema a more appealing option to the consumer with Imax and the latest production techniques of films such as Beowulf. So if the corporations manage to blanket the ISP’s and eliminates illegal downloading will these innovations disappear, probably, at the very least the cost of maintaining such control over the web will just be passed onto the consumer in the end, making all of our media more expensive. Lets face it, even with P2P and other copyright issues, the big boys still call all of the shots and still generate huge profits. Lenin said that all art should be free, and that everybody had the basic right to information, but then again, he was a dirty commie.
Second Life (no thanks, it already feels like I’m trying to live more than my fair share of lives) suffers from the credit crunch. OK the global economy is in trouble, money is pouring out of the investing markets and the banks have stopped lending to each other, on top of all this the US sub-prime mortgage sector is collapsing having massive knock on effects around the world (The collapse and subsequent underwriting of the Northern Rock group in the UK, by the government has cost each man woman and child in the UK £1000, around $1900 dollars, so far.) And as a great man once said ‘As Above, So Below.’ Second Life has been in the news a great deal for everything from taking the sensible action of banning virtual bestiality (there is a joke about a Trojan Horse here somewhere) but now it seems as if the bottom has dropped out of the Linden Dollar.
Writing on the second life blog (http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/01/08/new-policy-regarding-in-world-banks), Ken Linden states that Linden labs is unable to protect users of virtual banking services in Second Life, and that there are serious questions about the legality of such institutions. Institutions providing banking services on Second Life have braced for a run on funds as the ban comes into place, the above screen shot is of financier, JT Financial virtual bank on second life, brings a whole new meaning to the phrase virtually bankrupt.
A few weeks ago i covered a visual search engine by google and i knew there would be more who would follow in those footsteps in order to make an “even better” search engine and here we are, 
