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Sunday, May 20, 2007
Congratulations Professor!
Hey Professor, just wanted to say it was a pleasant surprise to wake up Saturday morning and have you talking to me via my TV on ESPN. TimWoolleyRacing is huuuuuge!
Even though it's small and insignificat...I wanted to give you a little more Google Juice so here it is....
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Have a good summer Alex! Get as far way from Newark as you can.
Final Posting: University of Granada Wikipedia article
The University of Granada was a stub article which made it difficult to edit because you can only add and not change anything about it. I had studied at the University of Granada last Spring and thought that I could add something. The stub article mentioned nothing about the school where foreign students take classes, the Center for Modern Languages. I added this information to the site and it is still there. The next couple of edits were adding links to the External Links Section. I added the web page of the Center for Modern Language. The third edit was a little change in the wording of one link. My fourth edit was a little better because I did some searching. I found out that the University was actually founded by the Moors 200 years before Kind Carlos V had supposedly founded it. I added that to the article today and don't' know if it will stay.
Final Posting: Seville, Spain Wikipedia article
I was most proud of my Seville, Spain edits. Out of the four Wikipedia article, I feel as though I added more valuable knowledge to this one. The first edit I made was regarding the Torre Del Oro, a look out tower that is still around today. I added the interesting fact that when the Torre Del Oro was built, they built the stairwell with ramps instead of steps so that cattle and horses to go up and down the tower in order to bring the watchmen food, etc. My second and third edits were simply punctuation corrections but I made up for that with my fourth edit. I was very surprised to see that people had forgotten to add the very famous author, Jose Zorrilla, to the list of famous people from Seville, Spain. Zorrilla, by the way, is the man who wrote the world renowned "Don Juan" novel. I'm sad to note, however, that my edit regarding the Torre del Oro is no longer there.
Final Posting: AAU Wikipedia Article
At first I had no idea how to edit a "Stubbed" article. This means that you can't change it, you can only add to it. So that's what I decided to do. In the "External Links" sections I added the official webpage to the following Amateur Athletic Union sports: Baseball, Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, and Soccer. It's not a lot, but it enhanced the page. It's information that was relevant and belonged on the page. Hopefully other members will see what I put up, and will add to it themselves. Isn't that the point?
Final Posting: Scituate, Ma Wikipedia Article
When I first saw the wikipedia article for my hometown, Scituate, MA., it was already a highly established page. I read over the whole article and thought that I had nothing to add. After thinking about it, and re-reading the article, ideas came to mind.
The first thing I noticed was that the famous nieces of President John Adams were not on the list of "Famous Scituate Residents". The girls names were Rebbecca and Abigail Adams. I added that these girls fended off the British army with music. This was definitely my most meaningful edit for the article. My second edit was adding the fact that Jim Longbord played for the redsox. My third edit was the fact that Abigail and Rebbecca Adams were near the Lighthouse when they fended off the British. Finally, my fourth edit was merely adding the word "only" to better clarify that two high schools were all boys and all girls respectively.
Univesity of Granada Wiki edit #4
FOR MY FOURTH AND FINAL WIKIPEDIA EDIT OF THIS CLASS I DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING EXTRA SPECIAL.....I added that the University of Granada was first founded by the moors in 1349. The article had said that it was founded in the 1500's by Emperor Carlos V. This is partly true, but the whole truth is that the Moors first started the University.
Univesity of Granada Wiki edit #3
For my third edit of the University of Granada article I changed the name of the external link to "official site of University of Granada". The external link was initially named "official site", but I decided to add "of University of Granada" so it would be more clearly understood which official site one might be surfing to. I didn't do it as a necessity, I did it as a courtesy.
Univesity of Granada Wiki edit #2
I added a link to the homepage of the Center of Modern languages school that is part of the University of Granada.
Seville Wiki Edit #4
For my fourth and final Seville, Spain wiki edit I added the author Jose Zorrilla under the "famous people born in Seville" section. Zorrilla was the auther of the famous Don Juan Novel.
Seville Wiki Edit #3
For my third Seville, Spain edit I changed a comma into a parenthesis in the Flamenco section. because it was grammatically correct to do so.
Seville Wiki Edit #2
I added to Comma in the third sentence of the section entitled "Seville and the Port".
Scituate Wiki Article Edit #4
For my fourth and final Scituate, MA edit I added that B.C. High and Notre Damn Highschools are boys "only" and girls "only". I added the "only" because I believed it helped clarify the article. Check it out
Scituate Wiki Article Edit #3
For my third Scituate, MA edit, I added that Rebbecca and Abigail adams fended off the British with music NEAR THE SCITUATE LIGHTHOUSE. This is a very key element because the lighthouse is famour for being the the Adam girls' residence. Check it out
Scituate Wiki Article Edit #2
For my second Scituate, MA Wiki edit I added that Jim Longborg was not only a winning pitcher, but a winning REDSOX Pitcher. Check it out
Cullenoscopy Blog: Required Blog Commentary #1: "Sony Blackballs Blog Over PS3 Rumor"
In Sean's article: Required Blog Commentary #1: "Sony Blackballs Blog Over PS3 Rumor" , Sean discusses what happens when some big shot company tries to censor the web: they don't succeed. What happened is that Sony was upset because some gaming blog, Kotaku, published an article about how Sony's PS3 has some functionality issues. Sony asked the blog not to publish the article, but Kotaku did anyways.
Sony Replied:
"So, it is for this reason, that we will be canceling all further interviews for Kotaku staff at GDC and will be dis-inviting you to our media event next Tuesday. Until we can find a way to work better together, information provided to your site will only be that found in the public forum. Again, I take absolutely no joy in sending you this note, but given the situation you have put me into, I have no choice. - Dave Karraker, Sr. Director.
Sony's Threat, however, did not last long. According to Sean's article, a bunch of Blog bonded together and protested Sony. This, in turn, forced Sony to apologize and thus lost them the battle.
Sophia's blog: Global Neighbourhoods
In Sophia's article "Blogosphere comment #5: Global Neighbourhoods", Sophia discussed and successfully demonstrated how to put a picture into an individual blog post. Well done Sophia. She went on to comment about how it is nice to be able to actually see what people are blogging about. Her article has a beautiful picture of a small pueblo town in Mexico called "Cancun". She says her time there was more about having fun and not so much about the site seeing, but I'm sure it was more of an even balance then she really remembers. I'm glad she had a great trip.
In Class Material: The Network Effect
The Network effect, in one word, is totally cool. The more who have it, the better it is? There's not a lot of that in today's world. In today's world, the more who have it or use it, the less cool it is. But online, the law of physics does not apply, up is down, black is white, the more who use it, the better it is.
In effect, the network effect is the name giving to something that gets better with the more people who use it. Examples of such programs is myspace, skype, facebook, etc. The way it works is best explained using the fax example. A fax, by itself, is useless. However, when someone has another fax, the usefulness of the first fax rises, and continues to rise as the number of fax users rises. Same goes for myspace...the more myspace users, the more useful myspace is.
This is the Network effect.
In Class Material: Advertising Programs
We had a very interesting the other week in regards to advertising programs and search engine optimization. As it turns out, affiliate programs help with search engine optimization due to the created inbound links. Examples of such affiliate programs is adwords or amazon's affiliate program. Also interesting to note is that affiliate programs are word-of-mouth advertising platforms that have an economic incentive. Those who use it, get paid on a cost per action business model. The general question then arises, what can you do to enhance your search engine optimization?
1. As a business, you need to know what are your relevant keywords?
2. Wibsites will be multiple pages, so match EACH page and optimative it four a couple keywords
3. Title tags: put keywords in the title tags
4. Use appropriate body text.
5. Add keywords in the metatags.
6. Have a lot of inbound links.
7. Anchor text of inbound links.
There you have it, go get em' tiger.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Number 1 Search term for 10 Catagories
There was an article posted on ClickZ that listed the Top 10 Search Terms for 10 Catagories.
This is a list of the number one search term for each Catagory:
1. IT and Internet: Paypal
2. Automotive Manufacturers: Toyota
3. Movies: IMDB
4. Internet Adverstising: Unclaimed Money
5. Food and Beverage Brands and Manufacturers: Pizza Hut
6. Pharmaceutical and Medical Products: Lexapro
7. Blogs and Personal Websites: Myspace
8. Broadcast Media: CNN
9. Shopping Rewards and Directories: Consumer Reports
10. Travel Destinations and Accommodations: Hotels.com
What does this mean? It means that everysingle company whose name, product or service is on the above list is doing amazing advertising or is so part of everybodies everyday life that they don't need to advertise. Hotels.com, for instance, should be applauded for being the number one searched word in its catagory. CNN, meanwhile, is CNN...the most viewed TV station for news in the United States and it is no suprise they'd be number one.
Microsoft to buy Aquantive
According to the article, "Microsoft will acquire ad company aquantive", Microsoft is planning to buy Aquantive in order to keep up with rivals yahoo and google on the online advertisment game. Microsoft believes this move will greatly enhance their online advertising platform and help them take a competitive advantage against some of their rivals. Microsoft knows, however, that they cannot compete with Google's dominating acquistion of Doubleclick.
Microsoft is to pay $66.50 per share for the buy out, around $6 billion in total and about 85% more than aQuantive's closing price yesturday.
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