Do you know retargeting ?

1.What is getargeting ?

Behavioral retargeting (also known as behavioral search retargeting, or simply, retargeting) is a form of online targeted advertising by which online advertising is delivered to consumers based on previous Internet actions that did not in the past result in a conversion.

Retargeting Marketing Company

Various Internet Marketing companies have added retargeting to their list of methods of purchasing advertising.

Some companies, such as AdRoll, Veruta or FetchBack, specialize in Retargeting. Retargeting helps companies advertise to the 98% of people who visit a website but leave without converting. This is done by displaying ads to the prospect as they surf the internet via various ad networks that the agency buys media from on behalf of their Business Customers. Most likely a company has spent marketing dollars to get a customer to their site in the first place, so the term Retargeting is derived from the concept of marketing to them again, however in a different manner.

Studies suggest that a company needs to have seven different ‘contacts’ with a customer (on average) before they make a purchase. Retargeting is allowing companies to continue the marketing conversation with a customer after they leave a website. This form of behavioral targeting is a growing trend in the online marketing arena

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i don't understand why google can indexed goeshare's artcicle so fast.Just 5 minutes.It is so amazing.Maybe it is because i releases 4~6 posts every day.So,google robo always come to index my new article.

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Testfreaks:A excellent web2.0 style product test website

“TestFreaks have been growing rapidly during 2008 and have now around 4 million monthly users. In the fall of last year we scaled up the organization to sustain further rapid growth, however the global recession have had an impact on consumers buying less home electronics and other more expensive capital goods. This have also had an impact on our growth that during 2009 have been lower than planned. We are therefore reducing the team to a similar size as we had last fall. However, it is not a “Founder team”, we still have 8 employees in our HQ and global team in total of 35 people.”
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Testfreaks, a Swedish based product reviewing site has slowly been gathering attention. It caught our eye from ArcticIndex. Testfreaks can be summed up to be the aggregator of review sites. It pulls in material from more than 4000 sources from 27 markets and aggregates those into one rank – Freak Score.
Testfreaks has been put together by the founders of Pricerunner.com, Kristofer Arwin, Magnus Wiberg and Martin Alexanderson. The founders have therefore plenty of experience from the online shopping market, which Testfreaks is in also. Their business model is to get small commissions from sales done through their links. This sort of model understandably needs traffic. Last October they had about 2 million visits a month, and according to Anton they currently roll around 4M visits a month. Testfreaks has also received a $3 million investment from Northzone last year, according to VentureBeat.
There is plenty of competition in the social shopping market at the moment. In TestFreak’s case however, they mainly work with many of the other shopping sites to bring value for everyone. According to Anton Kuhta, who we had a little chat about the TestFreak site, they usually partner with at least one shopping site on each market to give their users the best possible price. They also work with other review sites – this is because TestFreaks brings in a lot of traffic to these sites so many want to work with them.
Perhaps companies that fall close by with TestFreaks at least from Finland are RunToShop and Fruugo. Both are some sort of aggregators and have similar kind of business models. It will be interesting to see how these companies will perform in the long run as social shopping is still an area that has yet proven itself. There’s definitely a need for more collaboration among these companies world wide – there are untapped benefits for sure.
How do you see this part of the social shopping market? Do you use sites such as TestFreaks when making purchase decisions? http://www.goeshare.com/2009/05/30/testfreaksa-excellent-web20-style-product-test-website/

The review of Firefox 4.0

They’re only mockups, but they show the direction that Web browsers are headed, and it’s definitely a case of less being more.
Mozilla has posted to its wiki early concept designs for Firefox 4.0, and they show a Web browser doing its best to get out of the way of the pages it displays. The interface is decidedly minimal, giving more room for what really matters: content.In the first of several mockups of the Windows version of Firefox 4.0, the browser page tabs are in the usual place, atop the page viewer, but other buttons have been absorbed, with only the most important left on the interface.
In the second, the tabs are placed over the address bar, similar to the layout found in Chrome and the last beta of Safari 4. (In the final version of Safari 4, Apple returned to the more traditional tab location.)
In fact, users of Chrome and Safari will recognize a lot of design elements from those browsers,such as placing the refresh and stop-loading buttons in the address bar. But who knows how the final version will ultimately turn out? These are, after all, just mockups, posted for discussion.
Still, the overall trend is toward a minimalistic interface. And Stephen Shankland, writing in CNet’s Webware blog, appreciates that browser developers are giving him more Web-page real estate:
Mozilla’s ultimate goal is to make the user interface step into the background as much as possible — indeed, the mobile-phone version of Firefox now under development has no visible user interface until it’s needed. “Every time a user has to think about how to do something, instead of what (he wants) to do, we as software creators have failed,” said Aza Raskin, Mozilla’s leader of user interface work.
But it’s not simple to redesign the browsers. Users can be confused when interfaces change, some controls are essential, and hiding them can cause problems.
“The challenge to reducing UI (user interface) is in recognition versus recall. People generally use what they see,” Raskin said. “How can we provide one-click access to everything possible on the Web without also cluttering the screen? That’s a question we are still answering.”
I like these changes, but I also like the convenience of having buttons I use frequently at the ready — which is one reason why I really like the Ribbon interface on the newer versions of Microsoft Office.
Hopefully, Firefox’s interface will remain highly customizable in future versions, so individual users can have it their way.
How do you like your browser interface? Lean, or with all the right tools at your disposal?
http://www.goeshare.com/2009/07/29/meet-the-firefox-of-the-future/

Is Twitter a Google Killer?

Warning: today's column is strictly editorial, so those of you looking for actionable tips might want to check back in next week.
I have been reading a lot about the impending demise of Google for months, even years now. Most recently, it's Twitter search that's expected to push into Google's marketshare.
I pay attention to these things, and because of my involvement in the industry, I guess I'm probably an early adopter (earlier than the typical person). But, because of my years in the SEO Industry, I'm also not one to have knee-jerk reactions when it comes to strategy. I have to be considerate of the long term, while not ignoring the short term.
Let me back up first and provide a little personal history.
My initial involvement in the Interactive industry came when I started working at Lycos, back in early 2000. At that time, Lycos was a pretty big player in search, with both lycos.com and hotbot.com. There was much discussion at the time as to who would be the remaining "Big 3" that would eventually win the search wars. Mind you, the search engines that were considered at that time were Lycos, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, AltaVista, and Excite.
Search back then was the wild frontier. Search was spam-riddled. Keyword stuffing was the norm in search engine optimization. Users would need to click through many pages of search results to try and find exactly what it was that they were looking for. Then, along came a little company called Google. Google had figured out how to deliver much higher quality search results, and delivered them in a very clean interface.
As time has passed, Google has gotten even better at addressing any "spam" issues, and the results have continued to get better and better. Still, though, the methodology of search engine optimization was that you needed to get a page indexed, get links to it, and let it sit for a while, until the search engines would begin to index the page and rank it.
No more.
Google addressed this, too.
Today's Google results are a blend of web results, press release/news results, video results, local results and blog results. I even recently added a Google profile. Instantly, there I was in the search results for people searching "Mark Jackson" on Google. Often, my Search Engine Watch column or blog posts on my company's blog will show in Google's Blog results within the hour for people searching "search engine optimization" on Google.
With our A.D.D. society, a one-hour wait for "fresh" search results doesn't seem to be good enough. No, people want better than that. They want "instant" search. In fact, they want others to do the searching for them. So, they use Twitter search.
A lot of people seem to be jumping on this bandwagon. Now, I am saying this here...I retain the right to change my mind on this, but this is how I'm currently seeing things.
People are trusting Twitter search, and their Twitter friend's opinions (and the blog posts that they link to) more than they are trusting Google's algorithm? What's easier to spam?
I do have some friends that I trust (people that I actually KNOW, not just people that follow me on Twitter or that I happen to follow). And, I do value their opinions. And, I would trust their opinions more than conducting blind searches on Google. So, I think that what is going on with Twitter search is the beginning of something, but there are just too many "bugs" to get worked out for this to be a Google killer, at least in the short term.
There is talk that in the future, to gain "authority" in Twitter and hence "optimize" the search results, you will need to have a lot of followers, post often, and get ReTweeted. Check out this topic on WebmasterWorld. If Twitter Search begins crawling links in your tweets, and assigning reputation points to users, with some new-fashioned SEO, your Tweets will begin ranking highly in Twitter search for your keywords.
You wanna know what else? There are ways to automate a lot of this process. Or, you could do like Guy Kawasaki (and many others) and hire people to post Tweets for you.
So, even though you might trust Guy Kawasaki's opinions, are you really hearing directly from him? Or, someone working for him?
Matt Cutts and his team deserve a lot of credit for what they've been able to accomplish at Google with cleaning up spam. Right now, Twitter Search is just too easy to manipulate. One thing that my years in the SEO industry have taught me is that users want spam-free results, and the good search engines are the ones who find ways to counter those trying to manipulate the results. The easier a search engine is to manipulate, the less likely it is to deliver quality results.
Once someone develops a method of bringing aspects of social into web results that are not easily manipulated, you might then have the tool that delivers quality, fresh results.

From searchenginewatch

本站预祝天下母亲母亲节快乐

看看时间，已经是星期天的凌晨1点07分了。今天已经是母亲节了，在这个世界欢庆的母亲节到来之际，我祝福天下的母亲快乐，幸福，儿孙满堂。又乱说话了~~~

谷百优的money昨天去了听胡宝介老师的网络营销课，内容还是相当丰富，虽然内容都是面对新手。但是还是获益匪浅~~网络营销这门课程还得是多实战，多实践，没有人可以单纯依靠理论就可以获得好的成绩。

就说到这里吧，祝福完天下母亲之后，当然要祝福我的母亲啦~~我希望我的母亲长命百岁，延年益寿~~好像把我母亲说得好老那样，晕~~~才50岁~~应该说龙精虎猛，精神抖擞~~哎~~我的语文功底真是有问题，用词相当粗糙~~

就说到这里吧~~

谷百优上

转载注明来自谷百优

有点无聊~~不知道要做什么~还得更新

谷百优工作室又来跟大家更新了~~更新纯粹是为了更新，并无它意~~所以这篇文章注定内容是少点，大家不要介意~~今天是母亲节，我希望天下的母亲都快乐幸福，健康欢乐~~

文章不想再更新了，看看时间都1点25分了，再不睡就要倒下了~~今天去了华工听胡老师的课，长途跋涉，还是挺累的~~晚安了朋友

ClickEquations This Weekend

A new upgraded version of ClickEquations will be available next week. More details about the new features and enhancements will be posted here on Monday.

In preparation, we’ll be doing some work on our servers over the next few days.

Here’s what you can expect:

• ClickEquations Manager will be disabled Friday May 1, at approx. 5pm EST. It should be re-activated late on Saturday May 2nd.
• ClickEquations Reporting will be down for a few hours on Saturday afternoon May 2.

To keep up-to-date on any changes to this expected schedule, and all future service upgrades and interruptions, clients should follow our new client-only twitter stream @CQstatus (www.twitter.com/cqstatus).

This is a ‘protected-updates’ twitter account so after you submit a follow request, send us an email to support@clickequations.com with your twitter name and we’ll approve you.

We’ve got some great and frequently-requested new features and improvements to roll-out next week. Please check back Monday to learn all about them.

站内链接优化关注必须4个要点

外部链接可以比喻成一个工厂的业务经理，那内部链接就好像一个工厂的厂长。 我想站内链接优化对于一个网站的重要性不用多说了，两者相辅相成，缺一不可。今天我要谈谈一些内部链接的看法。

　　一.导航栏尽量少用图片

　　有些网站为了追求美观，导航栏都用了图片或者Java下拉菜单等，但是 搜索引擎对文字的敏感性远远高于图片或者其他，如果想更搜索引擎对着干，就不妨用吧。

　　二，建立网站地图

　　我们旅游去一个陌生的地方，有一张地图肯定是方便找路，方便到达我们要找的地方。同样，一个网站有了网站地图，同样方便搜索引擎对你网站页面的抓取，同时不要忘记把网站地图的链接放到首页去了。

　　三，网页互相链接

　　就好像我在这篇文章中的“搜索引擎”就是实用了文字链接功能，因为这样一来，不仅能提高PV值，同时整个网站更像一个蜘蛛网，既有栏目组成的主 脉，也有网页之间的适当链接。我的这个站qq个性签名使用的锚文本链接就涉及到我的主推关键词，而那两个主推的关键词都指向首 页，目的就是增加首页的权重。同时相关文章内部也相互连接。

　　四，文字链接

　　导航栏中的文字链接一定要能够准确地描述其栏目的内容，自然而然在链接文字中就会有关键词，但切忌堆砌关键词。我们推崇的关键词密度是2%~8 %，谷百优这个站参与到这次的比赛当中，很多人都将关键词密度提得过高，最终会受到惩罚，我们拭目以待。以上四点内容，都是官 方的一些说法。在这里我只参杂了自己的一些看法，希望大家互相交流。

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Fresno Pacific offers new global MBA

Its new global MBA from Fresno Pacific University is designed to prepare Valley professionals for success in the world economy, the university says.
“The traditional MBA is just the functions of an organization—marketing, accounting, etc.—you assume it’s a domestic organization,” says Dennis Langhofer, director of the program. “We assume we are working ... to prepare people here (in the Central Valley) to work in a global environment.”
The degree’s international component comes through in the faculty, curriculum and foundation. Mr. Langhofer, who is also the interim dean of the School of Business, has run his own business and studied and taught leadership.
Justin Dermon, who teaches finance, is a Fresno native who moved to France at age 12 when his parents (his father is French) became missionaries there.
“You just can’t be in your own little place and ignore what’s going on around you,” says Mr. Dermon.
They are joined by Peng Wen, a native of Taiwan who has been teaching economics at the university since 1990. He is also a member of the economic advisory council to the Taiwanese government.
Another feature of the global MBA is that students will see the world they’re learning about. A two-week international trip, perhaps China or France, is included in the tuition. Study in those nations is expected to give participants experience with international business perspectives, the chance to apply critical analysis and practice in leadership and teamwork skills.
Classes will meet one night a week, and there will be an online component, as well. The 41-unit program will take 16 months and the first group of students is scheduled to begin studies in August at FPU’s North Fresno Center.
The need for the global MBA is real. FPU’s research in the Stockton to Bakersfield and Central Coast regions suggest demand for graduate-level education will increase hand-in-hand with the need for people in management-level positions.
Candidates for the program may be traditional B.A. graduates or working professionals who have completed their bachelor’s degree. The goal is to prepare them to be entry- or middle-level managers, or to operate their own businesses.
Fresno Pacific University offers undergraduate and graduate programs to about 2,400 traditional and adult students on its 42-acre main campus in southeast Fresno or centers in North Fresno, Visalia and Bakersfield. The university also reaches 14,000 students across the nation and around the world through professional development studies programs.

Giving MBA Graduates the Edge in a Tough Job Market

BOSTON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Hult International Business School is offering its incoming September MBA students the opportunity to extend their studies and graduate with a Master of Finance degree at no extra cost, it was announced today.
In effect this means students at Hult, the world's first global business school, will be able to graduate with two degrees in only 18 months.
The Master of Finance has been designed in consultation with banking and finance professionals and will provide first-class training for exceptional students wanting a more detailed knowledge of finance than offered by an MBA. The program consists of a number of core courses that lay a solid foundation for a career in finance, a range of electives covering the main areas of applied finance, and an action learning project bringing theory to life. Program topics include Financial Analysis, Company Valuations, Investment Banking, Portfolio Analysis, Investment Strategy, Financial Instruments and Capital Markets.
The MBA + Master of Finance program is designed for professionals who want to fast-track their careers in finance, especially those interested in careers related to:
- Investment, commercial and retail banking
- Investment management, hedge funds, security analysis and brokering
- The finance function of major for profit and not-for-profit organizations
- Capital markets, trade and risk management
- Accountancy firms, regulatory bodies and investor relations
Dr Richard Joseph, Dean of Hult International Business School and former investment banker, designed the program in collaboration with financial professionals and academics. Dr. Joseph worked at Citibank, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns before entering academia. He drew on his experience in corporate finance, securities trading, and mergers & acquisitions to develop a rigorous and highly relevant curriculum.
President Stephen Hodges, himself a former banker, added, "We are offering our MBA students the opportunity to earn two Master's degrees because this will substantially help them in their job search."
To celebrate the launch of this exciting program, all successful Hult MBA application submissions before April 30th, 2009 will be given a US$25,000 scholarship. The scholarship covers the tuition fee for the Master of Finance.
Hult International Business School (http://www.hult.edu/) operates campuses in Boston, London, Dubai and Shanghai. Its MBA program is ranked by both the Financial Times and the Economist.

Google’s Black-Box Social Network

Google wants to conquer the social networking world without creating an explicit social network.
Rather than trying to revive its Orkut networking site, which has been a flop outside of Brazil, Google is weaving the various components of social networks through its existing services. Your contacts in Gmail and Google Talk, for example, are being turned into a list of “friends” with whom you can share photos from Picasa or blog posts from Blogger.
Another piece of Google’s decentralized social network is an option that lets people create a profile page with photos and the usual tidbits about where you went to school and so on.
On Tuesday, Google began a campaign to get people to create these profiles, using its biggest gun: the Google search engine. If you want to control what people see when they search for your name, create a profile and click the box to have it included in Google search results.
While some people may well want to do anything they can to hide from the prying eyes of surfers around the world, many more in this narcissistic era will want to ascend to the stage Google is offering them.
There are good write-ups of the nuances of this feature from Danny Sullivan, of Search Engine Land, and John Battelle, the author and ad-network entrepreneur.
Are the new profile pages enough to get Google’s ersatz social network to rival Facebook and MySpace? I don’t know. But it doesn’t hurt.
As much Google’s strategy makes a lot of business sense, I think it has some real problems for users. Social networks are not just software with features they are –really—communities. What you do on MySpace, Twitter and Facebook are different because each has different rules about who can see what about you and different norms that have evolved for what is acceptable behavior.
Facebook, for all its missteps, has really defined a high standard of control for users. It’s easy to change which group of people sees what information about you. And you can see how this plays out. Google lets you have a little control over who sees your phone number and other contact information. Otherwise, everything in the profile is public.
More troublesome to me is that the rules and norms of all of Google’s features are hard to figure out. That is in keeping with the company’s style. It evolves products over time, and tends to offer limited options hoping that default settings work for most people.
That may be the best way to make a search engine, map site and maybe even an e-mail service. But I don’t think it’s the best way to create services where people share sometimes very intimate details about themselves.
For me, I don’t really want strangers to see pictures of my kids. But I love to show pictures of my kids to my friends. Maybe Google lets me do this, but the interface is too hard for me to figure out. I also find Google’s version of the social graph Google Friend Connect inscrutable.
I think Google has a huge set of advantages in becoming a hub of social communications and media sharing, with YouTube, Blogger, Gmail and of course its search engine. But the company and its users may well be served by bringing all these features into a more coherent interface around which user expectations can be built.
When it comes to your personal thoughts, contact information and your photos — be they of your kids or your bachelor party — saying trust the black box just isn’t good enough.

Twittering, rapid media may confuse morals

LOS ANGELES, April 14 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher raises questions about the emotional cost of the heavy reliance on a rapid stream of news snippets from TV, online or Twitter.

First author Mary Helen Immordino-Yang of the University of Southern California said that humans can sort information very quickly and can respond in fractions of seconds to signs of physical pain in others. However, admiration and compassion -- two of the social emotions that define humanity -- take much longer.

The researchers used compelling, real-life stories to induce admiration for virtue or skill, or compassion for physical or social pain, in 13 volunteers -- the emotion felt was verified through a careful protocol of pre- and post-imaging interviews.

Brain imaging showed that the volunteers needed 6 to 8 seconds to fully respond to stories of virtue or social pain. However, once awakened, the responses lasted far longer than the volunteers' reactions to stories focused on physical pain.

Normal life events will always provide opportunities for humans to feel admiration and compassion, but fast-paced digital media tools may direct some heavy users away from traditional avenues for learning about humanity, such as engagement with literature or face-to-face social interactions, Immordino-Yang said.

Immordino-Yang did not blame digital media.

"It's not about what tools you have, it's about how you use those tools," she said in a statement.

The study is scheduled to appear in next week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online early edition.

Twitter Worm: A Closer Look at What Happened

It looks like Twitter's website has been scrubbed clean after several bouts of the "Mikeyy" or "StalkDaily" worm plagued the service. Even though the threat seems to have passed, questions remain about just how serious this attack was and if there will be any repercussions for the worm's creator.

Worm Attacks Bird

Early on Saturday, April 11, the Mikeyy worm started to spread via Twitter posts by encouraging you to click on a link to a rival microblogging service StalkDaily.com. As soon as you clicked on the link your account would be infected and begin to send out similar messages encouraging your followers to visit StalkDaily. Then your followers would become infected and the worm's infection rate would grow. You could also catch the worm by viewing infected profiles on Twitter.com.

Twitter fell victim to about four different Mikeyy worm attacks, but now seems to be worm-free, according to the BBC. The security firm F-Secure tracked one particularly crafty version of the worm: users would receive a message telling them how to remove Mikeyy and would be encouraged to click on a URL shortened using the bit.ly service. The bit.ly address would then redirect users to a Twitter profile named "reberbrerber," where users would be automatically infected. Since this variant of the worm used bit.ly to redirect traffic, F-Secure was able to track the worm. According to the company, the bit.ly variant of the worm mostly affected users in the United States and was clicked on well over 18,000 times.

Mikeyy was authored by Michael Mooney, the 17-year-old creator of StalkDaily.

Attack flirted with distaster

By malware standards the Mikeyy worm was relatively benign since it only directed users to a rival site. However, F-Secure's chief research officer, Mikko H. Hypponen, told the BBC the attack could have been much worse. Hypponen says it would have been a simple trick for malware authors to modify the worm to infect a user's computer, where more serious offenses like identity theft could have occurred.

Even more worrying is the fact that this worm used a well-known exploit and has infected other social networks in the past. According to Twitter's blog, Mikeyy was similar to the Samy worm that infected MySpace in 2007.

Aftermath

While it seems that Twitter has stomped out the Mikeyy worm, it is unclear whether Twitter is still vulnerable to this kind of attack. Twitter says it is conducting "a full review of the weekend activities," and that "everything from how it happened, how [it] reacted, and preventative measures will be covered." However, Twitter has yet to say whether this type of attack can happen again or why such a common exploit was left vulnerable in the first place?

The fate of Mooney, however, seems a little less ambiguous. Referring to the 2007 Samy worm, Twitter notes that "MySpace filed a lawsuit against the virus creator which resulted in a felony charge and sentencing." Twitter then goes on to say that it "takes security very seriously" and "will be following up on all fronts." So much for Mikeyy and perhaps even Mikey.

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All “New” Web2.0 Business Models are Advertising Supported

On the way to the airport, I was thinking about the Mindshift Web2.0 Panel that I just sat in on, asking myself why it is that the most highly regarded web2.0 companies don’t make any money. The holy grail exit strategy seems to be: get acquired by yahoo or google … but that can’t be the only business model, because you also have the facebook and myspace models, and more recently, sources tell me that digg.com is cash flow positive. But these are all ad-supported and in terms of getting “rich,” which is supposedly the unstated goal of most entrepreneurs, it’s yahoo and google that make dollar signs appear in the eyes of most bootstrapped web2.0 ventures.

Of course, I first questioned my underlying premise – is it true they don’t make money? I did some napkin math on flickr just prior to the yahoo acquisition, and based on assessing a random sample for pro accounts, it appeared to me that flickr was not making enough money to be profitable. I know, I know, the value to yahoo was not in cash flow, it was the value of the network, but let’s think about that for a second. The value of the network was small for flickr, it was large for yahoo, which is what commanded the acquisition multiple. So how does yahoo monetize a network. That’s right … through advertising.

So is it true that all web2.0 business models are advertising supported. That depends which internet camp you are in. Is the internet all about software? Or is the internet all about media distribution? I am in the latter camp … and media distribution has been advertising supported for at least the last century. When you also consider that web2.0 attributes, such as social networks and community aggregation, only make advertising more lucrative by commanding more contextual application and a correspondingly higher CPM, then it makes sense that the web2.0 business model is advertising-based.

But what if the internet is about software development? In the absence of shrink wrapping, I think that software is no longer a product that you can sell for money. It is merely an enabler of user experience that helps people get things done. Increasingly, getting things done is about media consumption and community building. Basecamp aside, people are unwilling to pay for most consumer-facing applications. I wonder if that will ever change.

If you rewind the clock all the way back, ebay and amazon.com are web2.0 companies – they create networks to engender trust between buyers and sellers, they use reputation managers and recommendation engines, and they highlight simplicity in their business models (if not in their user interface). And yet, they don’t make money through advertising. Instead, they make money by taking a little off the top of transactions. Ebay aggregates buyers for sellers and amazon aggregates sellers for buyers, but their revenue is transaction-based. But again, the “user-customer” doesn’t pay for this, the “seller-customer does.”

I know that people scoff at advertising, but isn’t that where the business models need to be centered? Or do the business models even matter as long as yahoo and google are collecting the advertising dollars for us?

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Twitter Hit By StalkDaily Worm

According to Techcrunch reports, Twitter suffered from Saturday StalkDaily worm attacking. Once the user visits the site, the computer will be infected and will send a large number of Twitter spam messages, which will lure users to visit other websites called StalkDaily.

It is not clear the specific circumstances of the worm. But as we see, during someone visit to the infected user’s personal Twitter page, other users will also be infected. It is reported that the worm will modify personal Twitter page “About me” section and add a point to a link to the worm.

This attack began at the United States Saturday morning, many of the blog have paid attention to the worm.As we can see through Twitter search, there have been hundreds of articles and news related to the virus in just a few minutes.

The official of Twitter released a piece of news on Saturday morning. Twitter has been the attention to the incident, and the majority of this issue has been resolved. But Twitter spam inspection account also announced that the worm turned up again.

In order to ensure the safety of the individual pages, the users had better use a third-party Twitter software to login in their account to prevent read other people’s personal page, For example,you can use DestroyTwitter,a very good software,which you can send and get tweets in time.

Two new tech from engadget

In a recent interview with Elevation Partners' Roger McNamee, the Palm investor explained that Palm knew it had to step up its game after RIM launched the BlackBerry Pearl, which he described as "the first real consumer electronics product in the smartphone category." The Pearl launch served as the coming out party for the BlackBerry brand among consumers as RIM began stepping up its advertising, and the product's narrower hardware design was a noticeable break with the staid stylings of previous BlackBerry devices.

Indeed, back in November of 2006 as Palm rolled out the somewhat consumer-focused Treo 680, I wrote a Switched On column noting that the Pearl broke with the evolutionary path that RIM had been on and served as an example for the kind of hardware shift Palm needed to make.

Palm finally answered the Pearl with the Centro, a compact, inexpensive, and successful smartphone that has apparently served as the final resting place of the original Palm OS architecture. However, between the release of those two devices, the entry and subsequent SDK of Apple's iPhone proved a far more significant turning point in the evolution of consumer smartphones. The iPhone's resonance and popularity have provoked responses from many competitors, but there is a particular contrast in the flagship CDMA touchscreen handsets released by RIM and Palm --- the other two smartphone developers that grow their own operating systems -- since then.
This time it has been Palm, with its back against the wall, that has made the clean break from the past and created an experience that looks modern, clean and elegant. At this point, the Pre appears to sacrifice some discoverability versus the iPhone and Palm has had to accept tradeoffs without as much marketplace power as Apple to drive as deep an SDK or proprietary connectors as Apple has. However, Palm's webOS rewards with a fluidity evident in both the multitasking navigation among applications and the potential for seamless integration of Internet data into its core applications.

In fact, if its capabilities match to the promise extolled in the McNamee interview, the Pre will live up to its name literally by taking -- or at least suggesting -- actions on your behalf in anticipation of your needs. The venture capitalist gives as an example that the phone might offer to email people you have a meeting with when it detects that you are running late. This level of active assistance would leverage the power of inputs such as GPS and the Internet that were not broadly available at the advent of the Newton, the first digital handheld that sought to take a more active role in managing your life. Since then, most PDAs and smartphones -- and even the iPhone -- have been more passive pocket computers. The imperfect information often provided by these inputs may make this more of a novelty for the near-term, but Palm is certainly ceding nothing on the ambition front.

In contrast, while the Storm has certainly done the iPhone one better in many respects, with a higher-resolution autofocus camera that can shoot video, microSD, Bluetooth stereo, integration with turn-by-turn directions and unlimited music (if you take advantage of those services), and of course, excellent mobile e-mail capabilities for those who have a BlackBerry server. But by keeping the basic popup menu-driven operation of previous BlackBerry products intact, the overall user experience is fractured between the worlds of swiping and typing.

The Storm may have strong appeal to those accustomed to the BlackBerry experience and who want a larger touchscreen. But RIM, like Microsoft, now needs to make more significant changes in this new competitive landscape that includes the approachable finger-driven experience with which Apple broke ground and the richness of knowledge that Palm is pouring into a foundation. It's great to have a Pearl, but when taking advantage of a gestalt that marries new interfaces to the new Internet, the world is your oyster.

If you live anywhere but Japan and you're looking to put yourself through that seasonal ritual of torture by getting a good, hard look at everything Japanese carriers have that you can't, look no further. Engadget Mobile has assembled complete galleries and details on every one of KDDI au's new models presented as part of its Spring 2009 collection -- and yeah, needless to say, there are some whoppers in here. So have a look, read through, and cry softly to yourself for a while; don't worry, you're not the only one.

Happy Spring Festival

January 26, 2009 by money

Today is our chinese Spring Festival,a traditional festival for China.These days,the children can get much pocket money from adult.And there are a lot of activities held.Every family has a big lunch together no matter how busy you are.Everyone works out have to get back to their parents home to be together.

For celebrating this special festival,many search engine in China change their logo.You know,2009 is Cattle year for China.So almost every logo contains a cattle.

• Here is Google China logo:
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• Baidu logo:
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• Yahoo China logo:
  
  Soso logo:
  
  Sogou logo:
  
• Which logo do you like best?Is it all cute?

How to Decide If You Should Become an Entrepreneur

This is a guest post from Tim Clark, who writes about money and meaning at Soul Shelter.

In response to October’s quiz about entrepreneurial “types”, a reader named Pace posed some intriguing questions:

• What are the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs?
• Are they demographically different from unsuccessful entrepreneurs?
• Or is it all due to individual differences?

At the heart of Pace’s inquiry, I think, is something many people long to know: How can I decide whether I should become an entrepreneur?

Here’s the first part of my two-step response, and one I sincerely believe: If you’re seriously thinking of starting your own business, then you have what it takes to start your own business. We’ve seen that “personality” and other personal attributes are poor predictors of entrepreneurial inclination, let alone success.

But at the same time, we need to move beyond simplistic “you can do it!” exhortations and faith in sheer willpower.

So here’s the second part of my answer, in the form of three questions that will help you drill down to the hard realities of whether you should start a business.

What industry are you targeting?
The choice of sector in which you start your company could be the single most important factor in your success. Most entrepreneurs — and remember, we define “entrepreneur” as anyone who starts a business, including one-person, home-based sole proprietorships — start their ventures in mature, low-growth, highly competitive sectors. And that’s why so many entrepreneurs (again, we’re talking about the entire population of self-employed people) fail, or earn less than they would as employees.

Those who launched software companies between 1982 and 2002, for example, were 608 times more likely to have their startups join the Inc. 500 than those who launched restaurants, according to Scott Shane, a professor of entrepreneurial studies at Case Western University.

Deliberately choosing a higher-growth sector, such as healthcare or education, is a smart first move (see J.D.’s discussion of recession-proof jobs, which touches on high-potential industries ).

What is your work experience?
Most entrepreneurs, naturally enough, start businesses in sectors where they already work. So here’s the first takeaway: if you currently work in a mature, low-growth, highly competitive sector, becoming an entrepreneur in that sector will predispose you toward failure. If you work in the restaurant industry, for example, you should not become an entrepreneur — unless you are extremely talented and savvy about both your niche and the industry as a whole.

What should you do if you’re in the above situation but still committed to starting your own business? Consider switching industries first. But start by getting a job in the new sector, rather than launching a new venture in unfamiliar territory.

Will you focus on businesses or consumers?
Many new entrepreneurs want to target consumers. That’s natural because all of us, as consumers ourselves, have a basic understanding of, and affinity for, many consumer products and services. But most successful new companies focus on selling to other businesses rather than to consumers (they are business-to-business, or “B-to-B”, rather than business-to-consumer, or “B-to-C”, ventures).

Why? Businesses tend to make rational purchase decisions, so if you can demonstrate that your service or product provides cost savings or a quick return on investment, you’ll make sales. Consumers, on the other hand, can be, well, downright irrational in their purchasing habits, at least compared to businesses. Marketing to consumers can be far more difficult, and you must often depend on retailers or distributors to reach them. Unless you or someone on your team have a strong track record of successful consumer marketing, you’re more likely to enjoy success targeting businesses.

So there you have ‘em: three questions to help you decide whether you should become an entrepreneur. Keep in mind that these are simply guidelines, and that some entrepreneurs successfully ignore them. But why not let the facts improve your odds?

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/01/25/how-to-decide-if-you-should-become-an-entrepreneur/

how to design a two-language navigation with CSS

Hi, recently,i found a new design technology of CSS,that is how to design a two-languange navigation with css.Do you know what does it mean?In fact,that means the words of the navigation are different with your mouse on and off it.Now,let me tell how to achieve this effect.

HTML:

And then,Here is css code:
a{
color: #FFFF99;
text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover{
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: underline;
}

#nav{
padding: 10px 10px 0;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 1em 0 0;
list-style:none;
}

#nav li{
float: left;
margin-right: 1px;
}

.bi{
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
}

.bi:hover{
z-index: 99;
}

.bi:hover span{
visibility: visible;
top: 0;
left: 0;
cursor: pointer;
}

.bi span{
position: absolute;
left: -999em;
visibility: hidden;
}

#nav li a,.bi:hover span{
line-height: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
background: #eaf4f7;
color: #666666;
display: block;
width: 80px;
text-align: center;
}

#nav li a:hover,.bi:hover span{
color: #FFFFFF;
background: #90d9f1;
}

.bi:hover span{
padding-top: 2px;
}

#navbar{
background: #90d9f1;
height: 7px;
overflow: hidden;
clear: both;
}

Finish.Do you want to know what will the effect be?Just have a try.

iControlPad iPhone add new gaming control to your lovely iphone

The iControlPad project first showed off their joypad accessory intentions back in August, promising a combination case and gaming controller for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. Now developer ZodTTD is back with a video of the joypad in action (playing quake4iphone, no less), together with an update on how exactly the project is progressing. Find both after the cut.

The independently-powered controller has a D-pad, four gameplay buttons (A/B/X/Y), together with start and select buttons. There’s also a power LED. Apple have repeatedly called the iPod touch the next generation of portable gaming console, so we wouldn’t be surprised to find developers and users all enthused about the iControlPad.

ouldn’t be surprised to find developers and users all enthused about the iControlPad.

As well as the hardware, ZodTTD is promising the sourcecode too, so that developers can give their iPhone and iPod touch titles iControlPad compatibility. No word on release dates or pricing (although $30 was originally suggested), but at least it looks like the iControlPad isn’t vaporware.

I add adsense at the right sidebar

I found i have to add adsense at the right sidebar.Because you know,i want to make some money for my study fees.

So,if you think the ads are useful for you.Please click on them,Thanks.^ ^

Baidu Adds Suggestions To Search

Baidu now has search suggestions for a couple of search products, including web search, image search, video search and maybe more. It has suggestions for both English and Chinese language. The suggested search keywords are different in different search products.

Update: MP3 Search has suggestions too.

Great!i access to the final

The day before yesterday,i attended an english competion hold by Nanhai strict.And i finally access to the final competion.

Does Blog fade in China ?

In the past year, there is a continuing discussion in the Chinese blogosphere on whether blog culture is dying down. Moreover, recently bokee.com and blogchina.com, the two earliest BSPs founded by Fang dong-xing in China, are at business crisis. Fang is looking for investing to transform the websites into multi-media community platform.

What we see is: BSP and services related with blogs are slowly disappearing, blog has passed its golden days and walked into a dark future. The main reason is because the services around blogs cannot make a profit.

Why can’t they make a profit? The content quality of blog is better than SNS, Twitter and Digg, their traffics are high. They should be able to get income from Ads. However, at present, blogger’s income is too narrowed. Basically, they depends on Google AdSense. Which means their profit is affected by Google.

When Google entered the scene, it developed a huge number of blogging tools, such as google reader, feedburner, blogsearch, etc… which destroyed other BSPs dream for profit while google has a monopoly status in the market.

Blog is more open and individualized, its content quality is relative higher. SNS is more closed, especially towards search engine. It contrasts with blog’s openness and affects information dissemination. A good article is very difficult to get disseminated via SNS. Now most of the SNS in China are coping the facebook, which is a dead end. The best SNS is Tencent’s QQ, but you can’t find any similarity between QQ and facebook. The funny thing is Tencent never claimed itself to be a SNS.

From:moon-blog.com

I built a new website--Goeshare

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The copyright infringement verdict between Qunar and Ctrip

Qunar.com has expressed disappointment over the decision handed down on January 6th by Beijing’s Haidian District People’s Court.

“While Qunar follows the principles and nature of search engines, in this specific case of the partial display and linking back to limited content on Ctrip’s website, Qunar was deemed to have infringed Chinese copyright law,” stated the travel meta-search engine.

“The action brought by Ctrip to try to limit Qunar’s search parameters is seen in the broader context of the growing success of Qunar, which has seen traffic to its site increase seven-fold in the last year. The suit pertains to the crawl, partial display and link to user-generated comments for hotels that reside in full on Ctrip. Visitors to Qunar are taken to the Ctrip site to view the complete user comment.”

The court ruled that Qunar.com should stop its infringement activities, pay damages of RMB 1,000 to Ctrip.com and make an apology lasting for 24 hours on the front page of its website. This decision by the district court will have no material impact on Qunar nor it’s future plans.

“Qunar is considering the judgment and will decide on the appropriate course of action in the best interests of its shareholders, clients and users.”

The story of this event

In April 2008, Ctrip.com found that Qunar.com was copying commented articles from Ctrip.com in its hotel area. Ctrip.com said that it had been encouraging its members to publish comments on hotels and these comments were arranged by Ctrip.com, which cost a lot of time and energy. These comments had become the important reference and standards for members’ booking of hotels and were precious information resources of Ctrip.com.

Goeshare’s opinions:

money:Considering qunar is a growing but small company and Ctrip is a famous Listed Company,i think this event is just a kind of speculation in order to be focused on.You know,a small company always need this change to improve itsvisibility.

Mic:I can’t agree more.As we all know,Qunar is just a small company but a growing rapidly company.Through this kind of measure,it is very easy to achieve its goal.You know,this behavour of copyright infringement verdict won’t be punished seriously in China.

From my site:Goeshare

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Google Woos Allies With Apps Reseller Program

Having overthrown the old business model for selling software and made incumbents fearful along the way, Google could use more allies in its crusade to move computing off premises and into the cloud.
On Wednesday, the company's fan club is set to grow. That's when Google plans to expand its friend list to include 50 new resellers of its online applications.


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Cartosfot won the best mashup award at Mashup Camp with an application that combines Google Maps with Flickr photos, Wikepdiia, events on Eventful, and Weatherbug for a complete view of any location. The occasion is the commencement of Google's reseller program for Google Apps. Aspiring resellers can apply online. If accepted, they'll be able to buy Google Apps Premier Edition for 20% off the $50-per-year price and offer it to their customers for a profit, starting in March.
Google is offering support, training, and tools for sales, marketing, reporting, and customer integration, while allowing resellers to manage billing and the customer relationship.

In conjunction with the launch of its reseller program, Google is capping the free Google Apps standard edition at 50 users per organization, though existing businesses with more than 50 standard edition users, along with educational and nonprofit accounts, will remain unaffected by this change.

"This is the beginning of what is likely to be a foray into building more of a partner ecosystem for Google," said Jim Murphy, research director at AMR Research. "Relative to companies like Microsoft, they're way behind in that area. Of course they would be. They're still in the early stages of entering the enterprise market."

Google's goal is not just an external sales force. It wants to support partners who will develop value-added services and make cloud computing more appealing for businesses.

"As these resellers move up the value chain and build more solutions, you'll see more opportunities being created," said Paul Slakey, director of enterprise channel sales at Google.

Slakey suggested that Google App Engine might be one way that its partners develop custom business services, but adds that there's no reason other cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services couldn't be used.

Tony Safoian, president of IT firm SADA Systems, said his company has been providing services around Google Apps for about two years. Not only is Google gaining traction among enterprises, he said, but the economic pressure is assisting Google's ascent.

"The state of the economy is accelerating the process," he said. "We feel all organizations will have a significant part of their infrastructure in the cloud. It's just a question of who goes first and when."

Google claims that more than a million businesses are using Google Apps and that more than 3,000 businesses are signing up daily.

Rishi Chandra, senior product manager for Google Apps, acknowledged that while some businesses remain reticent about cloud computing, the issue he's more frequently confronted with is education. "Customers are asking the question now about this new opportunity in the cloud," he said. "We see growing awareness about cloud computing in general."

Murphy is less willing to characterize the cloud as a done deal. As he sees it, mistrust remains. "It's hard to bank on anything in the cloud," he said. "With Google at least it's easy to trust the viability of the company."



http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212900291&subSection=Hosted+Software

Palm Pre: Possibly as low as $149?

Now that everyone has seen Palm’s new phone, the Pre, and wants one, the biggest question remains pricing. Initially, it seemed that Palm planned to charge more than the $199 (and $299) that AT&T and Apple charge for the iPhone, since Palm’s chief executive Ed Colligan indicated it was a better device, and as such could command a higher price tag. This seemed confirmed by a report a few days ago that the Pre may be $399 on Sprint’s network. But those numbers have been clarified a bit further.

Palm is still finalizing pricing for the Pre, but tentatively is talking about charging either $399 or $499 for Pre without a contract, says Mobile-review (Unwired View breaks it down in English). But with a contract, those numbers are expected to fall to either $149 or $199 — which would put it at or below the iPhone price in the United States (which requires a two-year contract with AT&T).

The report also suggests that Palm may be limited to an initial production run of 200,000 units due to a shortage of displays, but that bulk production will be ready for the holiday shopping season of 2009.

I still have yet to play with a Pre, but if it’s as slick as it looks in the videos, $149 may be a killer deal for the device.

From:http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/01/12/palm-pre-possibly-low-149

AUTOMOTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

AUTOMOTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
SERIES I & II 2003 - 2008

lamborghini gallardo. spring 2007.

lamborghini murcielago. summer 2006

ferrari enzo. summer 2005

mclaren f1. spring 2007

mclaren f1. spring 2007

lotus exige s & triumph daytona 675. summer 2008

porsche carrera gt. spring 2007

porsche 911 turbos. summer 2005

ferrari enzo & maserati mc-12. fall 2007

ferrari f40. summer 2005

ferrari f430. winter 2005

ferrari f430. winter 2005

ferrari f430. fall 2006

ferrari f430. summer 2008

ferrari f430. summer 2008

ferrari f430 & f50. summer 2008.

porsche carrera gt. fall 2006.

chrysler 300C. summer 2008

From:http://www.behance.net/Gallery/PHOTO-automotive/149406

Dangdang Launches Book Preview

Dangdang, one of the biggest online book sellers, just launched an ebook preview channel.

Launch your favorite IE, and go to read.dangdang.com. There’re many books to read. But don’t expect it’s so friendly as Google book search. It’s using jpg format. That means you cannot copy the content. It prepares three font size for you, but you can hardly read the content even with the largest size. That’s why I call it a preview channel.

But anyway this is great stuff. Being able to preview the content is very important for online purchasing research. One less reason to go to the real book store.

I think this is the right thing for an online book store or any web site that’s book related, though there’s still room for improvement, like better supporting of Firefox.

I don’t have much expectation in the new 9taps. I want Douban to improve its book researching features. If I will have to read review in one place, and see preview and buy in another place, I will probably just go directly to the latter, especially there’s review there too.

Lexus HS 250h Concept

Lexus HS 250h Concept
Claiming the title of “world’s first luxury hybrid,” the Lexus HS 250h is not a hybrid version of another Lexus model, it’s an entirely new car. Although numbers have not yet been finalized, Lexus says it will be the most fuel efficient car in their lineup. They say MPG will be “higher than the Smart microcar,” which is currently rated at 33 city/41 highway. With a decent sized four-cylinder 2.4-liter engine that produces 187 horsepower, that’s an accomplishment.

As for its carbon footprint, the HS uses plant-based eco plastics in upholstery and luggage trim and trunk panels. In total, 30% of the interior and cargo area utilizes eco plastics and 85% of the HS, including the battery, is recyclable.

The luxury features are impressive. Ten-way power seats, moonroof, premium audio, lane departure alert, multifunctional navigation (you can send mapping information to the car from your computer) and Safety Connect (which is Toyota’s version of OnStar).

Lexus slots this new model between the IS and ES, so that will give you a peek into the pricing when this “nearly ready for production” car will be on the street (we’d guess starting in the mid-30s).

(Lexus)

iHome released iP29 / iP49 / iHMP5 iPod

iLuv already dropped a bundle of iPod alarm clock / speaker systems here at CES, so it follows logic for yet another "i" company to dole out a helping of its own. Kicking things off is the iP29 portable speaker case, and stepping up the excitement level from zilch to one is the iP49 rechargeable audio system with alarm clock / FM radio for iPod and iPhone. Lastly, the iHMP5 two-in-one stereo speaker / headphone system enables users to listen in private or enter into "full speaker mode" for the posse to tune in. As with most everything else announced here at CES, pricing and availability have yet to be revealed.

HP Firebird 803

• NVIDIA nForce 760i SLI chipset
• Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz processor
• 4GB of RAM
• Dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800S cards
• Two 320GB SATA drives
• Blu-ray
• 5-in-1 card reader
• 6 USB, 1 FireWire, 2 eSATA, 1 S/PDIF and 1 DVI dual-link
• Bluetooth
• 802.11n WiFi

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365 Ways to Live Cheap!Are you ready?

Today I am reviewing new books written by two colleagues: Trent from The Simple Dollar and Leo from Zen Habits. As you read these reviews, please remember that I am friends with both authors.

Mary Hunt bills herself as America’s favorite cheapskate. In 2005, she published a little volume entitled Everyday Cheapskate’s Greatest Tips, which contained “500 simple strategies for smart living”. Hunt’s book didn’t offer any sort of narrative or broad overview of money — for that you would need to read her other books. Greatest Tips was just a collection of 500 one-paragraph money-saving ideas.

My colleague Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar has just released his first book, and its approach is similar to Everyday Cheapskate’s Greatest Tips. In 365 Ways to Live Cheap!, Hamm offers a year’s worth of one-paragraph “tactics” for saving money. (Hunt calls them “strategies” and Hamm calls them “tactics” — what they really are is “tips”.) I like Hamm’s tips better than Hunt’s: they generally seem more useful — and certainly more motivational.

If you’re familiar with Hamm’s writing at The Simple Dollar, you know what to expect here: solid, down-to-earth advice with an emphasis on the useful and the practical. Hamm divides the book into 19 chapters offering tips on topics like:

* Appliances
* Banking and investing
* Clutter
* Energy use
* Love and marriage

Unlike Hunt’s book (which is divided into 20 broad categories), Hamm also includes two chapters of general tips for flexing your frugal muscles. Hunt’s tips are much more detailed. She offers tips like how to store paint, how to thicken gravy, and how to clean up soda pop. Hamm’s tips are more general: plan ahead for car replacement, install a programmable thermostat, exercise more frequently. Both books are useful, but I think Hamm’s is more applicable to my own life.

Books like these don’t lend themselves to easy review. They’re not meant to be read from cover-to-cover. Instead, they should be used as resources, as pools of ideas. Looking for ways to save on electronics? Pull out 365 Ways to Live Cheap! for tips like this:

136. Know the features you need before you shop
If you’re about to sink some money into a new electronic item, know what features you actually need before even beginning to shop. List exactly what you’re looking for before you even start looking at research materials. This is much the same psychology as preparing a shopping list before you go to the grocery store. It keeps you focused on exactly what you need instead of being distracted by something else that might come along. Before you even begin to research your purchase, know exactly what you want.

For a book like this to be useful, you have to be able to find the information you want. Fortunately, 365 Ways to Live Cheap! is well-organized. There’s no index, but each section has its own table of contents. As a bonus, Hamm’s book is beautifully designed. And it’s cheap! (Only eight bucks.)

Hamm’s book isn’t for everyone. It’s not trying to be The Tightwad Gazette or Your Money or Your Life. This is a compendium of tips (or “tactics”), and as such, it succeeds admirably.

From get rich slowly

finish exam

after several days final exam,i am almost released.there is only English tomorrow.And finishing exam also means the winter holiday is coming.

Perfect.The holiday,i have planned i would do many significant things and improve myself.

17-inch unibody MacBook Pro with non-removable battery rumored for Macworld

Our folks in Asia are at it again with some pretty startling news. The 17-inch MacBook Pro is going Unibody, like the 13-inch and 15-inch models. That, in itself isn't really that big of a deal; it was widely expected. The big news is that Apple is making a super slim battery pack for the 17-inch MacBook Pros that will last much longer than current models. However, you won't be able to remove the battery pack. It will be inside the machine, just like iPods and iPhones. How?

Those of us with three year old MacBook Pros can attest that these batteries lose a significant amount of performance over time and need to be replaced. It isn't quite clear how Apple will deal with this issue. They may have new technology that can take more charges, or they may offer a service replacement similar to the replacement of a motherboard or hard drive. Maybe swapping out the battery will be as easy as swapping out RAM.

Obviously, these new 17-inch displays are expected to be revealed at Macworld 2009 and will also likely be outfitted with Apple's high gloss screens. Apple has come under fire from graphics professionals for not offering a matte option to their glossy screen Pro models.

Additionally, the 13-inch Plastic MacBook is widely expected to be phased out which might bring the cost of the Unibody MacBook down closer to the $1000 price point. We can't verify this, however.

9to5Mac is reporting that a unibody, 17-inch MacBook Pro will be announced at Macworld, following in the footsteps of the previously released unibody 13 and 15-inchers. The rumor, backed up by some "whisperers" at Macrumors, isn't really an earth-shattering surprise -- though the accompanying revelation that this model is expected to have a slim, extended-life, non-removable battery is rather eye-opening -- and somewhat disappointing, considering the lameness of non-removable batteries. We'll know for sure on Tuesday at the keynote.

Update: Apple Insider is now independently confirming the imminent arrival of the unibody 17-incher, and also corroborating the fixed internal battery theory.

iPhone Gloves,it is fun

ccording to the patent:

“the glove system may include an inner liner and an outer shell. The liner may be formed from any suitable material, including a material that is thin, electrically conductive, has low thermal conductivity, and/or has an “anti-sticky” finish. The outer shell may include at least one aperture through which the inner liner may extend to operate the input mechanism of an electronic device (e.g., on at least one finger tip). In some embodiments, the aperture may be at a finger tip of the outer shell. In some embodiments, a closing mechanism may be used to maintain the aperture closed when the user is not operating the electronic device. For example, an elastic ring may surround the aperture such that, in its non-deformed state, the aperture is substantially closed. The user may elastically deform the ring to allow the liner to pass through the outer shell.”

someone said:"I just ordered these, but I hesitate to even recommend them at the moment since it's been almost 6 weeks since I placed my order and I haven't received them yet. They emailed me and said that it's taking an average of 1 month to fulfill orders (though they haven't bothered to update their site so you know this before you place your order). I'll do a full review if/when I get them...

These black leather or stretch gloves with flick-back fingers called freeland let you “stay warm and keep in touch.” The fingertips stay back with magnets, a handy feature. $40 for the leather version, $20 for fleece. Bike messenger-techno-geek chic.

3 successful technology and business genuis

Dunia web (baca:internet) telah merambah menjadi suatu layanan dan kebutuhan yang sangat penting saat ini. Padahal dulunya, layanan internet juga memiliki berbagai macam kendala dalam pengembangannya. Namun tidak dipungkiri bahwa pada akhirnya pengguna internet akan semakin bertambah jumlahnya dari masa ke masa, dan internet bisa dikatakan sebagai sebuah "kebutuhan" daripada sekedar layanan biasa. Siapa sajakah yang telah membuat Dunia web menjadi begitu prestisius di mata para penggunanya? Inilah beberapa orang yang sangat berjasa dalam menghidupkan Dunia web.

1. Larry Page, Eric Schmidt dan Sergey Brin, Eksekutif Google

Jika harga saham Anda mencapai USD 500 per lembarnya, Anda berarti berhasil mengumpulkan uang sebanyak USD 33 miliar. Anda dapat menjalankan mesin pencari yang paling ramai trafiknya di Internet. Proyek kecil-kecilan Sergey Brin dan Larry Page asal Stanford berkembang menjadi gardu Web yang paling banyak dibicarakan. Schmidt meninggalkan Novell untuk bergabung dalam jajaran direktur Google pada tahun 2001 dan segera menjadi CEO perusahaan itu. Dengan mendominasi dunia periklanan online, Google sepertinya siap melakukan perjalanan akuisisi dan membeli YouTube menandakan langkah besar terhadap dominasi menyeluruh dalam bisnis Web.

2.Jimmy Wales, Founder Wikipedia

Banyak pengunjung online menganggap ensiklopedi Internet Wikipedia sebagai penghentian pertama dan terakhir dalam pencarian sebuah topik. Konten yang dihasilkan penggunanya menjadi sangat dapat diandalkan sehingga majalah Nature mendeklarasikannya sebagai “sumber yang hampir seakurat [Encyclopedia].” Situs tersebut dikutip sebagai sumber informasi dalam lebih dari 100 keputusan pengadilan di AS sejak 2004. Tetapi popularitasnya juga menjadikan Wikipedia sebagai target oleh para spammer, kasusnya sangat banyak sehingga Wikipedia untuk sementara waktu memblokir akses dari seluruh negara Qatar untuk aksi pengeditan. Untuk menggagalkan usaha spammer, Wales putuskan penghapusan tag “nofollow” pada link eksternal, memberitahukan mesin pencari untuk mengacuhkan link dalam mencegah peningkatan buatan terhadap peringkat mesin pencari target link ini. Strategi ini menjamin keunggulan Wikipedia bahwa pencarian akan terus meningkat. Tetapi Wikipedia hanyalah langkah awal Wales. Ia juga meluncurkan mesin pencari pribadi bernama WikiSeek yang melakukan pencarian terhadap situs-situs yang disebutkan dalam Wikipedia.

3. Matt Mullenweg, pendiri Wordpress

Dia adalah founder dari software blogging open source, Wordpress. Setelah berhenti dari jabatannya di CNET, Matt Mullenweg menghabiskan sebagian besar waktunya sebagai pembicara pada berbagai konferensi dan mengembangkan proyek-proyek open source, yang diantaranya adalah Wordpress. Pada tahun 2005, dia menemukan Automattic, yaitu sebuah perusahaan pengembangan web, yang merupakan perusahaan yang mengembangkan beberapa proyek ternama seperti Wordpress, Akismet dan Gravatar.

Wikipedia raises $6.2M needed for its operations

January 2, 2009 (IDG News Service) The Wikimedia Foundation has raised the necessary funds to operate Wikipedia until the end of June, the nonprofit organization announced Friday.

personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, posted in December on the web sites of Wikipedia and The Wikimedia Foundation, raked in $2 million from over 50,000 contributors in just eight days. The financial support will allow the foundation to cover its operating costs for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2009.

In his thank you letter, Wales specifies that donations will go towards the foundation’s day-to-day operations, including servers and bandwith and improvements to open source software, as well as the salaries of its small staff of 23 people. Funds will also go towards supporting Wikipedia’s international network of volunteers and outreach events like Wikipedia Academies, in-person workshops that help attendees learn more about how to use and edit Wikpedia. I’m especially excited about Wikimedia producing online video tutorials to help those who can’t attend Wikipedia Academies.

"This campaign has proven that Wikipedia matters to its users, and that our users strongly support our mission: to bring free knowledge to the planet," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in a statement.

A personal appeal from Wales -- Wikimedia's chairman emeritus -- posted on the organization's Web site on Dec. 23 triggered a boost in donations: More than 50,000 contributions totaling $2 million were made in the next eight days.

Wikimedia's goal was to raise $6 million to fund its operations through the end of its fiscal year on June 30 of this year.

If advertisements were plastered all over the site, people would likely feel the need not to donate, and Wikipedia would feel too corporate, like MySpace or YouTube — an identity at odds with its free culture ethos. Wales has blogged about his belief that advertising is not right for Wikpedia, preferring that donations come directly from supporters who have a stake in the community.