Google Implements Social Graph API and hCard in Profiles (16)
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this February, Google released its Social Graph API, which allows developers to give users the option to easily find data on their social connections around the web. Google itself, however, hasn't really implemented any of this technology yet. Starting today, however, it seems Google is starting to surface some of this information from your Social Graph in your Google Profile, which might be a first sign that Google is planning to do more with these ...
Can We Predict The Outcome of The Presidential Election With Each Candidate’s Traffic Data? (14)
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Can traffic to a Presidential Candidate’s homepage be used to gauge who will win this year’s election? Hitwise has published recent data on the traffic both American presidential candidates have seen in the last month (ending 8/23), and while the results may not shed much light on the forthcoming election’s outcome, they reveal a few interesting trends. Hitwise has ranked each state by two criteria: its contribution to each site’s total traffic, and the the ...
Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong (25)
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Have you turned up your nose at YouTube for being born from low quality, financially unsustainable, pirated content? If you've made that argument in conversation before (and we now many people do) - new claims from YouTube itself now indicate that you'd be wrong. The official Google Blog made a post this morning following up on a New York Times story last week where the company claimed that 90% of the owners of copyrighted content ...
Russia Is Rising In Internet Population (18)
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For Web companies looking to expand abroad, Russia needs to be at the top of their list of markets to enter. Russia has the fastest growing Internet population in Europe, followed by France and Spain. In a comparison of 16 European Internet populations by country, comScore reports that Russia’s Internet audience for the month of June grew 27 percent year over year, compared to 21 percent growth in France and 15 percent growth in Spain. ...
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lmjabreu said:
gee, portugal's the only one with an unknown y..something growth
Scientists Work Out Way to Capture 3D Texture Info in a Flash [Textures] (12)
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Some scientists at University of Manchester in the UK and Dolby Canada in Vancouver have worked out a way to capture 3D info of complex-textured objects really simply with a camera flash. You should care about this because it's likely to make the textures applied to characters and objects in computer games way more realistic: normally texture capturing needs expensive devices like laser scanners. Instead this technique uses something a bit like high dynamic-range photography, ...
How Social Media Opens The Door For “Happiness Marketing” (4)
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Marketers cause unhappiness. Really, when you strip it down to bare essentials, that’s our job: to make consumers unhappy with what they currently have, so they’ll buy what we’re selling. I don’t like this much. I never have. (BTW, this is Kat writing. Invariably, people assume it’s Jason, being that it’s his blog—anyway, moving on…) While my career has been what could charitably be called “eclectic,” marketing—more specifically writing marketing copy—has been a big chunk ...
Digital PR and SEO Series: Part 1 (8)
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What exactly, does Web 2.0, social media and even SEO have to do with public relations? Everything! You’d be hard pressed to find any modern public relations agency practice that isn’t researching or already implementing a digital PR strategy including search engine optimization, blogging/blogger relations and social media. The winds of change are here and many Public Relations practitioners are scrambling to adjust to the opportunities presented by shifts in both consumer and journalist behavior ...
Hillary's Speech: The Video (1)
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http://www.techipedia.com/2008/social-media-traffic-debate/ (27)
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While I prepare to relocate (I’m moving next week!), I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter, a blog on social media, marketing, and more. You can subscribe to more of his ramblings here. A few weeks ago I wrote a post over at SEO Scoop comparing the quality of search engine traffic against social media traffic. The aim of my little experiment was to ...
Thirteen Reasons To Vote Republican on Election Day (1)
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1 - So we can stay in Iraq and invade Iran. The American way of life is so much more superior than anywhere else in the world, and we have millions of illegal aliens to prove it. 2 - We need a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, to insure that the Constitution is strictly interpreted and treated as an impediment to circumvent just like George W. Bush has done for the last 8 years. ...
Why Are Some of My Placements Holding While Others Are Dropping? Or What the Hell Is Google Doing? (1)
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The real value to a professional SEO is not that they can get you on top. It's that they can KEEP you on top! I’m sure we’re all seeing strange behavior from the big G these days. Or maybe it’s just me. We’re used to seeing things like a general drop in positions for most of our target terms across the board. If our top tier stuff dropped, we could expect a drop in our ...
Weekend roundup (1)
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I am confused. In Sunday's NYT, Roberta Smith declares that public art is "one of contemporary art's more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one." Sure. There may be an argument to be made in that direction.But Smith did not make it. First, her definition of 'public art' is curious. She specifically excludes earthworks -- many of which, most famously Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, and Michael Heizer's ...
Heatmap Tables with Excel (2)
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This Heatmap Table shows you the revenues and the discounts of a company over the course of one year per product group. The size of a bubble shows the revenue made in a particular month and the bubble color shows the discount rate given. The discount rate has been encoded as a range of green colors, ranging from a light green, for low discounts to a dark green for high discounts. The years and product ...
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S.Hamel said:
Lots of fun with Excel!
The Art of iPhone Battery Life (64)
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Some of my buddies have expressed astonishment that I get approximately thirty-six hours of standby with my iPhone, so I'm sharing my settings. Note: this is my second 3G iPhone--I returned the first one because I was getting only five hours of standby time. This is my usage screen. One thing to notice: I don't talk much on the phone--"talk is not cheap" in my book. I am totally an email/tweet centric person. This clearly ...
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Michael Hyatt said:
This is great advice. It is especially helpful if you travel. When I'm in town, I keep my iPhone plugged in. The battery life truly is terrible. I hope this is something that Apple can fix going forward.
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Loic Le Meur said:
I should follow Guy's advice to get better from mine
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Tibor said:
I'f you want your brand new iPhone 3G to last longer, here's tips from Guy Kawasaki.
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colladude said:
iphone battery life
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ScrewTheMan.com said:
Guy's approach is a bit extreme- I really don't think I should turn off all of the advanced features on my phone. But it's a good example that the iPhone's standby time can be improved with some customization. We just need an app to support Locations and swap settings like the Macs too.
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adam said:
I consider my iPhone a "tinytop computer that can also send and receive phone calls" as opposed to a phone that can "do email and browse."
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Stewtopia said:
all good tips. the only thing that I would add is turn the brightness down to about 1/4.
