A busy week for such annoucements. MySpace launched their "Data Availability" which allows for data portability. Facebook launched "Facebook Connect" which allows users to take their friend connections and data points as captured in one of these social networks.

Here is a thought experiment that is a bit tangential? What if the API model on Facebook was flipped? What if sites, lets say a news site, opened up their API, and allowed users to upload widgets onto their site? For example, what if you started your day every morning with NYT.com. What if NYT.com opened up their APIs and allowed for third party widget upload? Instead of going to Facebook or MySpace for one's "social networking", a user could continue using their favorite site (in this case a news site). Or, what if I like NYT but dont want to crawl the five or ten other news sites...instead I grab their widgets and upload them onto a page of NYT where I can get a side by side snapshot for that vertical's offering? A Yahoo Finance killer?

The wider web, taking a playbook from the open source movement, could develop widgets for news sites, sports sites, weather sites, etc. Instead of all these "silly" Facebook apps, site specific apps might unleash some creative juices and allow apps that appeal to a broader audience (ie the ones that visit NYT.com or CNN.com, etc). Open Social could power this exercise as it would be helpful to have a central repository with all this app creation.

The question that still needs to play out is who really owns the underlying data and what privacy concerns should be brought to the forefront for a healthy, public debate and discussion? For example, Google still captures one's search queries and stores the info for filtering and analysis to make their search results "more accurate". I understand this tradeoff...but lets say I didnt want Google to use my info and/or I wanted to wipe away my info from their servers. Can I? Right now..not that I am aware of.

Same holds true for the social networks. Removing a Facebook account or MySpace account isnt exactly easy nor trivial for a user. I wouldnt be so confident if I chose to remove my account that my information isnt being stored for some future use?

The topic of user data and ownership becomes really fascinating with the advent of mobile and GPS based location data. If every new phone has a GPS system with long/lat info being continuously sent back to a carrier for a given person's whereabouts, it is not hard to concoct the various scenarios where algorithmic or predictive modeling could garner benevolent or malevolent situations for the end user. What if I dont want Sprint, or AT&T to monitor my exact whereabouts and / or sell this information to a third party who wants to mine this...even if in an aggregated format?

Interesting developments as it relates to personal data, storage, privacy and the numerous tradeoffs from our online behaviors.

"...width does appear to be crawled more thoroughly than depth, and providing links on one or two "index" pages improves crawler penetration. Google was quick to reach and explore the new sites, whereas MSN and Yahoo were slow to arrive, and the percentage of site coverage varied by site structure and by top-level domain.

• Google is clearly king of the crawl: its lowest site coverage was 99%, whereas
• MSN's worst coverage was 2.5% and
• Yahoo's worst coverage of a site was 3%."

Die Versuchsanordnung ähnelt der, die wir am FG vor Urzeiten, als das Web noch 1.0 die Browser noch IE 2.0 und das FG noch 'Informationsmethodik' hießen, durchgeführt haben:

• Beispielwebsite aufbauen,
• Logfiles auswerten, und dann nachschauen
• WANN, WER, WIE OFT vorbeigeschaut hat.

Unser damaliger Topic war "Magnetschweberollos". Interessant war, dass kurz nachdem wir unsere Website zu diesem innovativen Entwicklungszweig der Rollosindustrie 'on the air' hatten, auch andere Rollosanbieter bei der Suche nach diesem Term gefunden wurden.

El programa es Freeware, pesa 670 KB y está en inglés.

Compártelo!, decime que te pareció?

Google is like Marmite- either you love it or you hate it. I love it- so I’m probably not the best person to assess a potential competitor. Powerset differs from Google in that it does not search based on key words and characteristics, instead Powerset tries to understand the whole sentence. It will ‘read’ your search query as a sentence and find the most relevant information. This of course should make it slower as it weeds through the data. The downside is that it only works for searching Wikipedia, so not exactly fair to compare it to Google just yet.

The Guardian readers have given some interesting feedback on their experience of the new search tool. Some like it, some believe it has potential, some detest the interface and others like me are undecided. I do like the nifty preview of search results, click the little arrow and it displays the page.

 
If we are in the information society, a place in which we are used to registering mass amounts of data, information and creating knowledge then maybe we do not need a search engine that takes a whole sentence. Maybe our minds are faster than any computer at filtering out irrelevant information and scanning to find the relevant bits.

This of course is slightly presumptuous on my part as Guardian reader EvilClanger highlights,

'a great deal depends not on the engine but on the user and what they type in. A clever search will get a better result from a poor search engine than an ill-thought-out search on a good search engine. You can't legislate for the competence of your users. In general, tech tries to be cleverer to cope with thicker users, but this often backfires and becomes simply annoying.’

Ok regarding users as ‘thicker’ isn’t the best term to use, rest assured although I’m in IT I often have ‘user error’ moments. EvilClanger makes some valid points and suggestions to do with search engines so it is worth a read.

Below are the figures from Hitwise for search engines in the UK (courtesy of Intraspin). Google have yummed up 74% of the pie!

A competitor for Google?…I still don’t believe it!

آبشار ویکتوریا در زیمباوه. می توانید در این عکس قدرت گوگل ارث را حس کنید

Google Earth coordinates -17.925511,25.858223

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معمای وینفری. یک معمای تودرتوی طبیعی که با چهره اپراه وینفری، ابرستاره دنیای مجری گری ساخته شده است. آریزونا

Google Earth coordinates 33.225488,-111.5955

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لوگوی فورد. بزرگترین علامت تجاری جهان که متعلق به گروه خودروسازی فورد است. دیترویت. میشیگان

Google Earth coordinates 42.302284,-83.231215

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کشتی شناور. یک کشتی که بعد از تصادف از یک سمت بر روی دریا شناور بوده است. عراق

Google Earth coordinates 30.541634,47.825445

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تصادف کامیون. تصویری از سانحه چپ شدن یک تریلر در بیسمارک. شمال داکوتا

Google Earth coordinates 46.765669,-100.79274

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ماشینی بر دیوار. این آخری را باید شاهکار گوگل ارث نامید. این یک باگ ( خطای نرم افزاری) بسیار مشهور در این نرم افزار است!

Google Earth coordinates 52.069207,4.3139865

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البته این مجموعه طولانی تر از این حرفهاست اما شما به من اعتماد کنید. اینها بسیار جالبتر از بقیه بودند!

پیشنهاد می کنم « گلچینی از بهترین عکسهای سونی » را هم ببینید.

مشترک این وبلاگ شوید تا هیچ چیز را از دست ندهید!

Hot off the presses, via CNET.com, Google has just announced the release of a program called Vidnik designed to help Mac users easily record and upload clips to YouTube. The above clip is a test run of that software.

There have been reports of audio/video sync issues occuring with Vidnik, and as you can see in my clip I experienced these as well.

I'll be expanding on this post later this morning as I'm late for work; so check back in a few hours for a more well-considered and expanded post.

For now my initial impression: handy piece of software, but the sync issues render it unusable for the moment.

La red está que hierve.

El pasado fin de semana se ha celebrado en Madrid el "Foro de Internet", aunque, por la temática a la que se ha dedicado, se podría renombrar como "El negocio de Internet". En efecto, muchas de las ponencias tratan casos de éxito en la red, y de cómo convertir toda esta explosión en euros.

Me ha parecido muy interesante, por su claridad, la presentación de Google AdWords, donde se expone su modelo de negocio: actualmente el 6% de los gastos publicitarios se destinan a Internet, que se aplican a la media de 4,2 horas a la semana que destina el consumidor a internet o sea el 11% de todo el tiempo destinado a los medios. Cita además la predicción de Adspend Study H2 2007:

Para finales de 2009 el gasto en publicidad online superará a la TV en el Reino Unido.

Muchos de los ponentes tienen sus propios blogs: Enrique Dans, Carlos Blanco, Eduardo Manchón, Javier Casares o Javier Castilla, seguro que ellos dan más explicaciones del evento. Por mi parte recomiendo las presentaciones:

• Cómo convertir un Blog en un medio de comunicación
• Cómo rentabilizar tráfico y contenido. ¿Cuánto dinero puedo ganar?
• Las oportunidades de negocio en el mundo digital
• Cómo financiar proyectos de I+D+i

Esto es el presente: la pela. Pero también tenemos la vista al pasado: El próximo 16 de mayo, Día Mundial de Internet, Fundetec presentará el libro ’15 años de Internet en España. Anécdotas, experiencias y otros enredos’. Quince añazos ya, como mi hijo mayor. En fin a ver si cojo una copia del libro y me río un rato. Aunque este año parece que la celebración de Internet está dominada por la pastelería y por la música de Nueva Orleans.

En todo esto, y termino, merece recordar que hace cosa de un mes se celebró en Bled (Slovenia) la conferencia El Futuro de Internet, organizada por la Comisión Europea. Un evento enfocado principalmente a las posibilidades que ofrece la I+D para el desarrollo de Internet, concretado en la declaración de Bled:

Se requiere un cambio significativo. Los principales actores científicos y económicos europeos, investigadores, emprendedores, PYMEs, usuarios, proveedores de servicios y de contenidos, ahora afirman la urgente necesidad de rediseñar internet, con un amplio enfoque multidisciplinar, para alcanzar las ambiciones sociales y económicas europeas.

Imagine what it might have been like to be Dr. Kleenex. You invent a modern miracle, the cheap paper handkerchief, and suddenly you become the person blamed for America’s disposable culture, praised for a more convenient life, or both.

There never was a Dr. Kleenex, though — the product was created by a team of researchers at Kimberly-Clark laboratories in the 1920s. But there is a real Craig in Craigslist, and lately he is looking at life beyond his little list that happens to be the seventh-most-popular Web site in the United States.

It is also a site that is deeply tied up with the fate of newspapers — indeed, many in the newspaper industry blame the site’s founder, Craig Newmark, for the downturn in their classified-advertising business.

An ardently no-frills, ad-free, user-sensitive site, Craigslist has, by the estimate of its chief executive, Jim Buckmaster, generated more than 600 million free classified listings. (Though nearly all listings remain free, Craigslist has added modest fees for job listings and real estate brokers in certain big cities, and from those fees the company generates $80 million to $100 million in annual revenue. It has a staff of 25, including Mr. Newmark.)

In the United States and beyond, Craigslist is digging even deeper into the classified-ad markets. Once, an announcement that Craigslist was expanding meant adding cities like Miami, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. These days, it means smaller places like Janesville, Wis., (population: about 60,000) and Farmington, N.M., (roughly 38,000) as well as Cebu in the Philippines and, by Mr. Newmark’s request, a site for Ramallah on the West Bank.

In the face of this expansion, Mr. Newmark is becoming more of a public figure, capitalizing on his success to promote causes that include supporting the Barack Obama campaign and financing investigative journalism — not, he insists, to compensate for any damage Craigslist has done to the newspaper business, which he calls “an urban myth.”

Sitting in a coffee shop in San Francisco a month ago, explaining his plans in neat mathematical style, Mr. Newmark presented an unassuming public presence. He was perched on an ordinary seat, a six-year-old Prius parked nearby, a Kangol beret on his balding head.

He used to spend two-thirds of his time working on customer service issues (including notifying an Internet service provider about a scammer on the site), he said, and the remaining third on “founder issues,” a catchall term he uses for his public-spirited work. That division, he said, would now be half and half.

But before he can extricate himself from customer issues, Mr. Newmark will have to resolve some of the growing business and legal complexities that surround Craigslist, a laid-back operation that is bumping into tough-minded competitors.

A Delaware lawsuit accuses him and Mr. Buckmaster of boardroom chicanery, an assertion they emphatically deny. Their accuser is the online giant eBay, which became a minority shareholder in 2004, with a stake of roughly 28 percent.

And while officials at Craigslist, including Mr. Newmark, maintain that for many years he has not had a significant leadership role there, the eBay lawsuit describes Mr. Newmark, in addition to being a large shareholder, as chairman (the board has two members; it had been three).

The suit was set in motion by eBay’s decision to introduce a rival online-classified site, Kijiji, in the United States last year. Kijiji is already the market leader in Canada, Germany, Italy and Taiwan.

EBay’s complaint contends that after the Kijiji move, Mr. Newmark and Mr. Buckmaster plotted in secret to dilute eBay’s influence in the company, including an effort to deprive it of its board seat. The lawsuit asks the court to reverse those provisions.

Craigslist is expected to respond to the complaint this month, but on its blog it offered an assessment: “Sadly, we have an uncomfortably conflicted shareholder in our midst, one that is obsessed with dominating online classifieds for the purpose of maximizing its own profits.”

The phrase “maximizing its own profits” broadly outlines the fight between the two companies.

Despite its success, Craigslist prides itself on its grass-roots instincts and user-based content — including harnessing its users to identify and block bad actors on the site. Even broad strategic decisions, such as which areas to expand into, are described as reflecting user requests made at online forums at the site.

Article Source: New York Times

Can you say - what the heck are they thinking?  Why would a website want to have social networking tools on it when someone can go to Facebook and MySpace and do this, anyway?  Do they really think people will sacrifice both company and personal brand to add features someone already has access to and the capabilities of on, say, Facebook?  Ok, so you can use the login and password from that site - and it is secure - but still!

Why would a company want to risk the damaging screenshots that could be taken when someone is conducting business you can't even see on your front page?  Or within your site?  The winner here is Google, who gets the data feed - not the person or the website.  This is the kind of thing that scares me about Google - and them getting too big.  This is the kind of thing you'd see the uncle you respect doing, and have thoughts about doing yourself.  Don't.  This is the time that uncle hurt himself doing something truly foolhardy.

As we've said before, you need to protect your personal brand and your online position as if it were your own home.  You wouldn't allow people to play on your porch and have the windows nailed shut and painted over.  Why would you do virtually the same thing on your website, with your name and personal reputation at stake?

http://br.youtube.com/

They are not the only ones who headed for the exit doors.

Paul Buchheit, an early Google engineer who coined the oft-repeated  "Don't be evil!" battle cry, is a founder, with three ex-Google colleagues, of a social-networking company called FriendFeed, which enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. and to to discover and discuss information among friends. Yanda Erlich, once a popular Google product manager, started an instant-messaging company called Mogad, which lets you chat with all your Facebook friends from one IM client. Nathan Stoll, who managed Google News, is hard at work on his new company, Mechanical Zoo. (It's in "stealth mode"- so few details are known.) Former business-development guys Salman Ullah and Sean Dempsey have a new venture capital firm, Merus Capital, that aims in part to fund startups founded by ex-Googler employees. The departures have grown so numerous that the exiles have formed an informal alumni club of ex-Googlers turned entrepreneurs. David Friedberg, another former biz-dev executive, started a company called WeatherBill, which sells insurance pegged to climate risks (nicely profiled in TechCrunch). He recently attended the club's first meeting at a conference center in Palo Alto. "I was surprised by the number of things that were being done that could have been done at Google," he says.

There's been an exodus of executive talent too: Its chief information officer, Douglas Merrill, just left. Several top people have gone to Facebook, most notably Sheryl Sandberg, who ran Google's automated ad sales, and Elliot Schrage, who ran PR. George Reyes, Google's CFO, announced his retirement last summer and has yet to be replaced.

To this old fart, it all seems very normal. Many Microsoft instant millionaires did the same thing in Microsoft's heyday, and so did Cisco engineers. However, for what it's worth, Fortune professes to be worried. "Google has to prove that its quirks - its odd hiring practices (e.g., asking 45-year-olds their GPAs), refusal to play the guidance game with Wall Street, the free food, etc. - will stand the test of time. It has to show that its success is because of its Googleyness (more Googlespeak), not despite it. Even its friends harbor doubts. 'I'm not convinced they're in the ranks of GE or P&G or even Microsoft, for that matter,' says Peter Chernin, president of News Corp., whose MySpace unit is a key Google partner. 'Not yet.' "

Even folks much younger than I can remember all the learned analysts who opined that Google was "overpriced" at $100 per share and was a great short. A recent quote had it around $582.

Still, Fortune does allow for the possibility that all is well, covering all bases: "Then there's the possibility that Google truly is inventing an entirely new way of doing business. 'People are labeling them as just about search,' says Bruce Jaffe, a former M&A executive at Microsoft who came to admire Google the hard way- by competing against it. "'but I'm not sure that's accurate. They've introduced a new model for software. Think of it this way. If they are a household brand on products like Google Maps and Gmail, that may be more than just search.' In other words, getting customers to use Google all the time would make it ubiquitous on the web, as Windows is on PCs. 'It may be that they're in a whole other world from everyone else,' says Jaffe. 'They could be such pioneers that no one will know for years.' "

Something for everyone in this article.

The white paper also led us to spend some time with him recording a Westcast podcast on the topic.

It's all connected to Viacom's lawsuit against Google, claiming violation of copyright in clips posted to YouTube.

"This is the mother of all copyright suits and the implications are staggering," Smolla told us on Westcast. "Both sides have some very strong legal arguments, there are billions of dollars at stake and I'd be a fool to guess who's going to win."

Smolla's white paper is titled "The Billion-Dollar Battle Between Viacom and Google: Commercialization of User-Generated Content and Copyright Protections Afforded to Parody."

It can be accessed on the West Web site. The Westcast podcast with Smolla is here. A news release includes more information.

Subscribe to Westcast in iTunes

Subscribe to WestBlog

Sad note: I got a Google Alert this morning that told me a customer's mother had just passed away in another state. I'm on my way to pick up a card to send my condolences. Email just won't work for some messages.

You might reasonably ask, what does this have to do with marketing? Well, if marketing is about relationships, and I believe it is, then driving to the Hallmark Store, writing a sincere note and dropping the card in the mail will help build an important marketing relationship. If not, who cares? It's the right thing to do.

Home sales declined for the fourth consecutive month as the momentum could not keep up with the record highs of 2007.

Toronto resales were down an average of 10 per cent with 3,467 transactions and the 905 area down 5 per cent with 5,295 April resales.

The Greater Toronto Area had a total of 8,762 houses sold, down 7 per cent from the record 9,452 transactions in April 2007.

Despite the decline in sales several neighbourhoods did experience strong price increases. Downtown Toronto Condos (C01) were up 10 per cent in price from April 2007. Downtown Condos in ( C08 ) were up 20 per cent in price as well from April 2007. North York Condos (C14) were up 8 per cent in price over April 2007.

My Toronto Real Estate web site has the latest Toronto Real Estate Board's Market Watch with statistics on condo and home sale prices.

Internet Marketing is very much a matter of trial and error. However, there are a few musts for independent recording artists. Independent recording artists must have the following types of web pages:

1. Their own website

2. MySpace music page

3. Facebook page

4. Soundclick page

5. YouTube page -- post interviews, performances, videos, and communicate with your fans

Link all of your pages together as well, so people can jump around. Obviously you will have to have pictures made to post on these web pages. You may want to invest in a good video camera, I stress the word good!

Other Internet Social Networks

There are a lot of other on line social networks and web pages you can create. For example, Ludicrous and some other industry vets have created WeMIX.com for independent artists and producers to promote and network. Be on look for more on line communities like MySpace and Facebook.

Blogging --- I recommend Wordpress.com

Pick a topic that has nothing to do with music at all, but something you are interested in and know a lot about. Use your music as background ambiance music, don't forget to post a link so they can find it. Jill Scott's music used to be a Real Estate companies hold music before she became famous.

AVOID MASS EMAILING

Everybody hates SPAM, I know I Do. If you want, have a mailing list people can sign up for.

Catchy Hook

A catchy hook (chorus) is one of the easiest ways to market a song. I know, all of you think you have a catchy hook. However, how many of you would have come up with the Soulja Boy hook? The Soulja Boy Dance? I hate that song and dance but it is sooooo catchy. It stays in my head all day.

This is how Soulja Boy was able to market himself on the Internet and get discovered. People heard the song once, but it stuck in their head all day. I keep using him as an example because he used Internet marketing and that is what you will be doing.

***It's easier to make a catchy hook with a hip hop track as opposed to a ballad. Ballads have a lot more words so you need to be careful***

Web Site Visits Are As Important as Sales

Here is the biggest secret. Website visits are as important as sales. Record labels look at whose getting the most visits on MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and others in addition to who is selling. SoulJa Boy was averaging over 10,000 plays on MySpace.

If you have a MySpace music page, every time somebody visits you get 1 play on your music player. Don't play yourself (i.e try to visit your page 1,000 times a day). It won't help because they check computer IP address. They're looking for artists who are getting hits from all over the world! Not your own home.

***Another Example of Why Internet Visits Matter: A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. She made a website and posted videos of her dancing. MTV came to her!!***

Time magazine gives the breakdown on Tequila's visits and Internet numbers in this article. Here's an excerpt below:

Nguyen—or, oh, fine, Tequila—may be the least lonely girl on the Internet. She has more than 1.5 million MySpace friends. Her MySpace profile has been viewed more than 50 million times. Her self-published single, the profane and attitudinous F___ Ya Man, now playing on her MySpace page, has logged 13 million spins. (To listen to it is to hear the sound track of a million parents' dreams dying.) She gets somewhere from 3,000 to 5,000 new friend requests every day. She is something entirely new, a celebrity created not by a studio or a network but fan by fan, click by click, from the ground up on MySpace.

Read the rest of the article at Time.com or click here.

T-Shirts and Bumper Stickers

No don't sell them, give them to your family and friends. Have them wear them as much as possible. T-shirts make people ask questions. Bumper stickers are hard to miss. The more people see your name, the more likely they are to Google it on the computer.

Give Away A Song For Free

Every now and then give a song away for free. This gets people listening to you. Pick a catchy song, they'll play it in the car with their friends. Next thing you know they'll be visiting your web pages looking for more.

New Technology = New Way To Market

Technology is constantly improving and so is marketing. In 1990 nobody marketed on the Internet because most people did not own computers. Now it's the only way, and almost every home has at least one computer. Be on the lookout for the next technological improvement. Technology defines marketing. Example: Cell phone marketing with Ring Tones.

Ring Tones

BillBoard magazine tracks ring tone sales. Click here to see for yourself. Take your most catchy song and turn it into a ring tone. Put it on your phone, your mom, dads, sisters, cousins, boyfriends and anybody you can find. Next time your dad is golfing with his buddies give him a call. His friends may not like it but they will remember it.

Ever have a friend whose cell phone rang all the time and you hated the ring tone? Still remember what it sounds like don't you? My point exactly, you did not forget the ring tone. In fact you may even catch yourself singing it. That's marketing baby!

They may not even like your ring tone. However, if everybody starts using it and talking about it people assume it's hot. I call it the Jessica Simpson effect.

If you're distributing your music through CDbaby, you can sell ring tones. A couple of the companies CDbaby distributes to allows artists to sell ring tones. One of those companies is 3guppies.com

Internet Radio

It's the newest thing so jump on it. Get your music on some Internet stations. Radio is on it's way out. When you get in your car do put in for favorite CD? Do you plug in your ipod or Mp3 player? Hell yes. People spend less and less time in the car. Gas is almost $4.00 gal so nobody can afford to spend a lot of time in the car.

Everybody is on the computer. Jump on Internet radio and become friends with on line DJ's. Let them remix some of your songs and put them on their mix tape. It's great publicity, just make sure you copyright your music first.

Work With An Industry Producer For $100 or Less

Yes You Can! Trackmasterz is a big name. When you Google them you can see they've worked with Beyonce, Nas, Alicia Keys, and others.

To help aspiring artists they came up with Trackmasterz.com. Independent recording artists can lease beats from trackmasterz and are allowed to sell it with their vocals 10,000 times. Trackmasterz still owns the right to the beat. If a major label wants to use the song they have to buy the beat from Trackmasterz.

On your MySpace, CDbaby, Facebook, etc.. you can say you were produced by Trackmasterz. This will help attract more traffic to your web pages and move you up higher on the Internet search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

Yes, it works. It's a quick read and a great book. In order to succeed in the entertainment industry you have to visualize making it and believe it daily. Doubt cannot stay in your mind. If it enters, kick it out!

In Conclusion

We're in the digital era. Television will be completely digital by February 19, 2009. Radio will soon follow. Does Arista records still make cassette tapes? No they don't. Distribute your music digitally, don't waste money having CD's pressed unless it is for a promotional venue or giveaway. Market your music digitally. Stick to the Internet and keep looking for new technology. As technology changes new markets and marketing approaches are created.

Aqui se puede observar que para tener una pagina personalizada debemos tener una cuenta donde se guarden nuestras preferencias, la cuenta es la misma de mi cuenta gmail.

Podemos ver varios "cuadros", que se llaman gadget, en esta ventana tengo 5 gadget,

el de citas de varias personalidades, entre ellas bart simpson,

el de la nasa que diariamente cambia la imagen,

el de gmail donde veo la bandeja de entrada de mi correo,

tambien uno de noticia y un diccionario.

Ademas tengo una pestaña, que funciona de la misma manera que con los navegadores, en esa pestaña como su nombre lo indica tengo gadget de varios sitios relacionados con la informatica

Desde que conoci este sistema, hace unos 4 o 5 años ha cambiado bastante, recuerdo que antes se podia poner una imagen de fondo, pero eso ya no se puede, lo que si se puede hacer es agregar temas, los cuales son bastante variados, los hay con imagenes de animales, autos, deportes, en general de casi todo, ademas hace poco salio la opcion de agregar temas creados por varios artistas - Temas de artistas -

Pero bueno a quiero llegar con todo esta informacion, resulta que ahora google permite la opcion de que cada usuario se cree su propio tema y que pueda compartirlo con los demas usuarios - link -, y yo como buen ciudadano, me he creado mi propio tema, ya que tenia bastantes ganas de hacer uno.

- Tema de kraysak -

Este es un tema dinamico, en donde la imagen que se muestra cambia cada ciertas horas, mas especificamente cambia cada 3 horas, weno en realidad eso no es tan cierto que digamos, ya que solo puse 5 imagenes :P

Aca, el que lo desee puede ver el tema que yo cree

http://cftaustral.cl/cosillas/temapulento3.xml

En realidad no deseo enseñara a hacer un tema para igoogle, es mas me gustaria que el que quiera hacerse uno, que investigue y que pruebe, hay muchas herramientas para hacerse uno, solo que la mayoria esta en ingles, pero ante cualquier duda me pueden pedir ayuda a mi correo o con un comentario.

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]]> http://nibarcom.wordpress.com/?p=1788 Mon, 12 May 2008 18:02:04 +0000 nibarcom http://nibarcom.wordpress.com/?p=1788 Por ANTONIO DELGADO (SOITU.ES), 03-05-2008

MADRID.- Hoy hace 30 años, el 3 de mayo de 1978, un tipo llamado Gary Thuerk envió un correo masivo a unas 350 personas de la red ARPAnet, la antecesora de internet. En este primer correo de spam, Thuerk invitaba a los destinatarios a la presentación de un producto de DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) donde él era empleado en el departamento de marketing.

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En España, el envío de spam está penado. (iStockphoto)

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"(..) WE INVITE YOU TO COME SEE THE 2020 AND HEAR ABOUT THE DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY AT THE TWO PRODUCT PRESENTATIONS WE WILL BE GIVING IN CALIFORNIA THIS MONTH.(..)"

Inmediatamente después de recibirlo, los destinatarios comenzaron a protestar, aunque nunca fue acusado de ningún delito. Había nacido, quince años antes que la propia www, uno de los principales problemas de las comunicaciones electrónicas. Actualmente, más del 90% del correo que circula por internet es correo basura. Su aumento ha sido espectacular: en 2003 este porcentaje era de 'sólo' el 53%. Según la empresa de seguridad Sophos España se sitúa en la 10 posición de los países que emiten más spam. Otros datos, como los aportados por Google, nos dicen que el 77% de los correos que se reciben en Gmail son spam.

El spam hace perder tiempo, energía y dinero tanto a los usuarios como a los proveedores de internet, por el consumo de ancho de banda que realiza. Además de violar la privacidad de los usuarios, el contenido de los mensajes es en su mayor parte fraudulento, y ofrecen productos y servicios falsos.

La gran pregunta con este tipo de correos es siempre ¿pero alguien pica? Sí. Funciona porque el coste de enviar millones de correos electrónicos es muy bajo, y con sólo recibir una pequeñísima parte de respuestas -inferior al 1%- ya es rentable para los spammers.

La ley

En España, el envío de spam está fuertemente castigado por la Ley de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información (LSSICE) y por la Ley de Protección de Datos. A principios de año, un internauta fue condenado a una multa de 601 euros por parte de la Agencia Española de Protección de Datos porque envió un email de felicitación poniendo en copia visible (CC) a todos sus contactos. Uno de ellos lo denunció y la Agencia consideró que se ha infringido el deber de secreto al incluir la dirección de 42 destinatarios de forma abierta.

La historia

El origen del uso de 'spam' para referirse al correo electrónico no solicitado está relacionado con un sketch de los Monty Python, donde uno de los personajes repite sin cesar la palabra "spam" -una marca de carne enlatada- para interrumpir y molestar a los demás. Sin embargo, no está del todo claro que este sea el verdadero origen del término.

Actualmente, el spam ya no sólo se refiere al correo electrónico, y también está presente en otras herramientas de comunicación como blogs, foros o redes sociales. En ellas no sólo se sufre el spam enviado desde maquinas, sino también el llamado spam social o 'bacon', en el que los usuarios más activos incordian a sus contactos con todo tipo de requerimientos. Además, la percepción del spam está cambiando con los años, y actualmente se utiliza el término para denominar cualquier cosa que no es del interés de los usuarios. Los últimos 'chirimbolos' publicitarios instalados en Madrid en el último trimestre del año pasado, fueron catalogado como spam por muchos ciudadanos.

En la práctica

A pesar de los intentos por acabar con el spam, este no deja de crecer exponencialmente. Bill Gates no acertó cuando predijo en el foro Internacional de Davos en 2004 que acabaría en dos años. La mejor manera de evitarlo es el uso de una mezcla de sentido común, reglas básicas y filtros apropiadas. Algunas reglas básicas para reducir -o no aumentar- el spam son:

• Borrar el mensaje de spam sin abrirlo ni previsualizarlo
• Nunca responder un mensaje de spam ni hacer click sobre sus enlaces
• No responder mensajes en cadena ni enviar emails masivos a los contactos en copia abierta.
• No publicar la dirección de correo de forma directa en foros , blogs y otras páginas webs.
• Utilizar una cuenta de correos alternativa para suscribirse a servicios u ofertas comerciales.

Y tú, ¿cómo te proteges del spam?

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State Finalists and Regional Winners were posted today. More from Official Google Blog:

Starting today, you can vote for your favorite doodle. Your votes will determine the four national finalists. Just make sure to vote soon: you only have until May 18th. The national winner will be announced and the winning doodle will replace our usual logo on the Google homepage on May 22nd. ...

More from Google:

Doodle 4 Google is a competition where we invite K-12 students to reinvent Google's homepage logo. This year we asked U.S. kids to doodle around the theme "What if...?"

Well, the entries are in, and we couldn't be more impressed. We received thousands of wonderful doodles, and choosing 40 finalists for the public vote had to be one of the most difficult but enjoyable jobs at Google in the past few weeks.

So the kids have done their part, and we've done ours. Now it's your turn to help out by picking your favorite doodles. Your votes will help us select a national winner to replace our usual logo on the Google homepage on May 22, 2008. ...

Google says that "you may vote for one doodle per age group." (Perfect!)

Regional Winner under Grades 4-6, Region 6:

Exploration Space

For my "what if" question, I thought and thought and the idea that kept coming into my head was, what if we could explore all of space. I mean if you think about it, we do not know that much about the universe that we live in.

Name: Joel Weikert

School: Western Hills Elementary

State: Iowa

Regional Winner under Grades 7-9, Region 6:

Perspectives on Escher

What if M.C. Escher and his perspective of unreal possibilities became a mascot for Google. He took our understanding of the world around us and re-examined it using his own personal lens. He helps us see possibilities before we could imagine them. Isn't that what Google does today by fostering our own ability to invent and share new ideas?

Name: Belinda Mahama

School: Ames Middle School

State: Iowa

Additional Iowa finalists:

K-3: Mara Clark, A.J. Neubaum

4-6: Noelle Johnson

7-9: Jamie Goodman III

10-12: Kyle Culp, Scott Skophammer

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