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Widgets.com Gets Developed!

So After long last the “Domain King” Rick Schwartz has gotten around to lauching Widgets.com
Looks like it has a nice selection of widgets. Yep, for those that don’t know Widgets are no longer metaphors used in business jargon. They are real live digtial applications that interact with your tech gear, from laptop to desktop, from cell phone to portable gaming/music systems.

Or you can see there is a whole page dedicated to
What is a Widget on the site

A widget is an interactive application that can be installed on web pages, desktop platforms, and mobile devices that accept this type of content. Technically speaking, a web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any HTML-based web page by an end user. Most widgets have a media-rich graphical interface that becomes visible once the code is successfully installed on a web page.
Companies and advertisers create widgets as a marketing vehicle in order to distribute their content to the places that users spend a majority of their time online. Because widgets can be easily grabbed and shared, they have the potential to go viral. People recognize the utility and fun of widgets, and actively endorse them by installing them on profile pages as a way to express themselves to the world. Users install widgets on their pages because they find the content useful, entertaining or cool.
Widgets typically fall into two categories: Social or Utility. Social widgets, typically placed on social networks, blogs and personal pages possess a “one-to-many” opportunity for exposure while Utility widgets are typically utilitarian in function and provide users with features like news, weather, calendars, and notepads.

I admit I have followed the whole life of this prime quality name, but it looks like Venture partnership.

Quick Google Tip

“noindex: /path” in a robots.txt will keep Google from even showing the uncrawled url link in Google’s search results

Google Phone Approved By FCC

I have been wanting to get an iPhone for some time now. I am already with ATT and just learned that the plans include "unlimited" internet for about 5 dollars more than I pay now. I have also just learned that the new Gphone named "DREAM" is a go for google.

Main article I read is here

Latest News
The long anticipated and first Android handset, the HTC Dream is all set for a Fall 2008 Release. You can expect the phone to have some great features and specs to illustrate the power of Android, Google’s new open source mobile operating system.

and to get a even more information on what the DREAM is go here

Hmm now I wonder if I’ll just wait and see what shakes out of the competition. The 4 year old razor still works fine.

Spammy URL Tool

No Spammy Websites When making your websites and thinking of all the ways to go about structuring your site, one question that should be in the forefront of your mind is, how are the Search Engines looking at my website?

From debating on using sub-domains, naming directories and even the very url of your website all will play a role in how the spiders rank, index and file your site.

If you have already built a site (or many) or you are getting ready to build out your site, take a look at what SEOmoz has developed for us.

Check out how SPAMMY your websites are.

Check it here —>

Word Press Finally Upgraded

I have been putting off my WP upgrade for the last 2 updates. But with the release of Google Gears I went through the scary, yet necessary removal of the old and updated to the new.

I feel so cool. But what I did was nothing more than follow what everyone has access to. The Instructions!

http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended#Detailed_Instructions

I used Dreamweaver, but any FTP program should do just fine.

Now I have access to some new cool plugins and the backend user interface is very clean, and using the drop down admin menu is sweet Thank you ozh (get it here)

Now to find out more about the G Gears…..Happy upgrading

Search Engines learns to crawl Flash

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.

Googles full article

More from their Webmaster Central Blog – Here

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Search Engine Land has a very nice write up on the new technology of SE

Their’s is here

And on the topic of video might as well toss in the Official Google YouTube Channel – Here

Did you Get a Google Affiliate Network Newsletter?

When I woke up this morning I found a newsletter from Performics telling me they are now Google Affiliate Network. I recall they were bought up by Google 2 years ago, I think. And Google has truly got there name on a Affiliate Network and will no longer just be know for search (and all the great tools and aps they also give us for free) but they will make commissions of products sales. I bet they get their Google checkout (probably already have) plugged into their Affiliate payment gateway both for the consumer and the affiliate marketer. The Internet evolution continues….

“We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network . Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google’s brand is a reflection of efforts to quickly assimilate our business and teams, as well as reinforce Google’s commitment to the Affiliate channel. Together with our new colleagues at Google we are creating new opportunities for monetization, expansion and innovation in Affiliate Marketing.
… Read the rest ->>>

is .pizza on the way? New Domain Extension Shakes Things Up

(CNN) — A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions — potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.

Paul Twomey is president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

At a meeting in Paris Thursday, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — also known by its acronym ICANN — unanimously approved key proposals to allow domain names using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters.

Here

A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris.

The net’s regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.

Fun quotes

Do you know the difference between Ignorance and Empathy?I don’t know & I don’t care! (from a podcast)
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While listing to CNN coverage about underground brothels the Women reported spoke, ” This is both obscene and intriguing, we can look forward to that report”
I was thinking how this is what our news has come to, looking forward to the obscene.
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Always remember not to rush, take the time to gather your thoughts, then move on. -Allen Shore Boston Legal
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No one expects you to have all the answers or to expose who you are. There is nothing more important than being who you are. -Allen Shore from Boston Legal
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I don’t want your praise, I want your respect. I deserve it! –Denny Krane from Boston Legal (about what he has become and who is his)
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Daily I am amazed at your inexhaustable ability to just live. -Allen Shore to Denny Krane After Discussing the “Simple life vs. Modern time”
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Don’t engage in excesses that become suicidal to one’s character. — That’s just good advice.
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Heard on GeekCast about the merging of technologies, ” Our Asynchronous consumption of content.” I thought is was a mouthful of words that truley discribed what we all wanted from our machines. Just one that does it all and is portable.
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I know the meaning of Enough. (just thinking about the green movement)
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Just needed to get these transfered from sticky notes on my wall and monitor to digital formats for consumptions. Hope you enjoyed them.

What happens when you drink a Coke!

According to Healthbolt, here is what happens to you physiologically when you consume a can of Coke:
In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.