Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Impact of search engines in real life…
Thursday, September 21st, 2006 |Tonight I wanted to look up a band and some videos. The band is called Dark. Obviously looking for it is a real pain due to the fact that their name is a common word.
First thought in my head was: “How dumb do you have to be to name your band so simple. You have to think that people will have a hard time finding you in Google”
Than…the second thought: “God damn that band was created in 1997. There was no Google and Yahoo was a basic form of a directory. Nobody thought like that back than.”
In only 7-8 years life changed a lot for many of us and most of our life and business strategies evolve around the search engines and there is no way to escape them. We are just a part of the Matrix and we are feeding it on a daily basis.
But is the Matrix feeding you? Why not?
Google Analytics running at 100%
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 |After almost a year since it’s launch under the Google label, former Urchin traffic analyzer, now Google Analytics runs at full capacity:
- No more invitations needed for an account
- A maximum of 50 websites to monitor
Still, this a too complex tool for the most website owners and I recommend for bloggers to use Performancing Metrics
Bonus Tip:
If you own multiple blogs, install Performancing tracking code and make the RSS feed public. Then go to Netvibes, create a new tab and add all the feeds from the websites tracked. The result will be a nice real time control panel for all of your blogs
On MFA
Sunday, September 17th, 2006 |A few months ago, most SEO and webmaster’s forums were full of people claiming that MFA (Made for Adsense) and other simple affiliates junk websites will be banned from the Adwords program.
For a short period of time, that seemed to be true and I saw a slight increase of the Adsense revenue and no more junk websites. Unfortunately, for the past month they seem to be all over the place again.
So…Google Guys those claims of increasing the quality of the Adsense program were just a PR stunt?
If this is not fixed, on the long run it will affect both publishers and Google. Publishers will remove the Adsense from their websites because their users are mislead and by that Google will loose advertising medium leading to less happy advertisers that will move to other networks.
I wonder what will prevail…greed or quality?
Turn Gmail into a powerfull time management tool
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 |GTDGmail can be easily called paraphrasing another promising service , as the best thing that happened to Gmail since Gmail.
Done by the same guys that created BumbleSearch (aka Andy Mitchell and Chris Korhonen) GTDGmail in short is a Firefox / Flock extension that works on the same principles as Greasemonkey to turn your Gmail account into a powerfull task manager.
In their own words, GTDGmail means:
“GTD - Getting Things Done - is a simple and effective productivity concept: designed so that even the laziest and most scattered of people can be organised and stress free. “
GTD is a productivity concept by David Allen that implies that “that a person needs to move tasks out of their mind and get them recorded somewhere. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate fully on actually performing those tasks.” At the core of the system are the following principles:
- Collect
- Process
- Organize
- Review
- Do
While Gmail COLLECTS various pieces of informations daily, GTDGmail helps you Process, Organize and Review tasks in order to facilitate Doing.
GTDGmail features:
1. Easily Organise GTD Labels:Labels are now structured into Contexts, Status, Projects and References; making it easier to read and use. The labels the sytem needs are very easy created in the Settings section using a wizard like interface.
2. Labels can be applied much more rapidly than in standard Gmail. If in standard Gmail, applying labels is done through a dropdown list, with GTDGmail applying labels is more easy. In the inbox view, an icon provides all the needed labels, or when viewing an email all the labels are listed on the top of it
Apply labels from Inbox
Apply labels from email
3. Quickly Review Outstanding Tasks. Once the labels are setup and applied to a few messages, you can start using the organizing features.
a) Normally from the labels box
b) Using quick shortcuts from GTD Review on top the email messages:
c) Quickly review outstanding GTD tasks that are over a few days old using the new advanced GTD search:
4. Save Specialised Searches. Searches can be created and saved that enable precise queries over your GTD tasks.
5. Send Myself Tasks and References. One of the features I like the most is ability to mail yourself different tasks. You can quickly compose Tasks and References and send them to your Inbox. In order to do this, GTD hides the TO: field and sends emails to your address in the formats gmailaccount+task and gmailaccount+refference.
Other stuff you should know:
1. Legally speaking, any page modifications are against Gmail’s T&Cs. Therefore, as a disclaimer they had to state that you run GTDGmail at your own risk. (GTD Gmail is a perfect addon to Gmail. Google guys should be complete retards killing accounts of users that use it and in fact they should immediately hire Andy)
2. In order to take the maximum profit of GTDGmail you should familiarize yourself with the GTD system. If it doesn’t fit you than there are still options for you. Check the Tips&Tricks section for that.
Kiko is dead
Thursday, August 17th, 2006 |Kiko (online calendar) founders just announced on their official blog that they cannot sustain the project and they are selling it on ebay. Starting bid 50.000 USD
read more | digg story
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Thursday, August 10th, 2006 |-
And some thought that Minority Report was SF
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 |The price of SEO in US
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 |Rand from SEOmoz has an excellent article on the costs and steps of a SEO campaign.
In a field full of “misteries” and NDAs this will be quite a discussed article and I won’t wonder if it makes the front page of Digg and Technorati Discover in no time.
