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Posted By Neceros on August 30th, 2009 | Tagged: Google, Open Source, Wave I’m not sure how I’ve missed this so far, but I have. This new technology Google is building is absolutely, obtrusively astounding. If you haven’t heard of Google Wave yet, I assure you it’ll be known very soon.
Since I can’t really explain everything about Google Wave any better then the developers themselves I’ll just point you to their videos. This video is the best one you can view, but it’s the longest. Below you’ll find the developer conference from Google. 1:20
The video below is a shorter edited version of the video – Still gives you the info, but nicely edited.
Email, SMS, Wiki, Blogs — These are things of the past. Get in line and look ahead to Google Wave (even if you don’t like Google: Since it comes with a protocol, you don’t ever have to see or touch google code or applications. It’s literally replacing email!)
Posted By Neceros on August 13th, 2009 | Tagged: Color, CSS, HTML
Posted By Neceros on July 31st, 2009 | Tagged: internet, Standards, WordPress I hate stale things. Really badly. When I see something stay the same all day, like my kitchen’s dishes not getting done or the garbage from four days ago still rotting the now unclean air, I get irritated. That’s probably why I like WordPress so much, among other reasons.
 Great Flickr picture... WordPress continually evolves, and does so in a timely and sophisticated method. Not only that, but it’s built around a great code base that everything upgraded just seems to be better then it was before without offering us a slew of new bugs. Sure, it can happen occasionally, but for the most part I’ve never had an issue with WordPress. Ever.
Recently, they’ve been going over what should go into the upcoming release: version 2.9. Most of the options and conclusions include media; which I think is a smart move. They’ve already got a plethora of text-based communication standards that exceed my needs, so why not move further into the picture and video portion? It’s a good idea. However, I think there may be another option that would be wise…
Audio. I can tell you the difference in experience can be measured up in a few simple calculations that are so basic and primitive that we don’t ever think about them: What do I see and what do I hear? Sight and sound, more specifically, visuals and sound, are the key to making something extraordinary or just successful. If you don’t believe me, look into how much money goes into making a movie and the costs of each article. Visuals and audio are such a big portion that it pales in comparison to what the actors and producers make — though they still make way too much for what they do. But that’s a topic for another blog.
WordPress has zero functions for incorporating audio elements into it’s core. But it’s not their fault, really — most of the web is this way. In fact, most of the time when I come across audio on a web page it actually makes me angry. How dare they use my speakers without permission?! Silly as it is, though, the web could be made so much better then how it is today if we just thought about more of our senses and started stimulating other organs besides the eyes. Hey, keep it civil in here, will ya?
Still, I hope soon the web becomes ready for more audio standards. We’ve already got video (which, admittedly, has audio most of the time anyhow) everywhere and expect to see it in everything we do, including advertisements and other things we don’t necessarily like. However, I’m not the right mind to develop what a good transition would be to using sounds and music in our everyday browsing, so I’ll leave that up to the pros.
Posted By Neceros on July 29th, 2009 | Tagged: WordPress It’s not too shocking, but WordPress has announced that they are no longer offering support for their legacy branch for 2.0.x. I’m not an expert, but I doubt many people were left on this version anyhow.
Read more here.
Posted By Neceros on July 24th, 2009 | Tagged: AdSense, Blogging, Google 
When you finally find a result you’re looking for in Google search, and start to read or browse whatever it is you’re looking for don’t you love it when advertisements are slapping you with things you don’t want, or weren’t even looking for in the first place?
Whew! That was a long sentence. Honestly, though, it’s very frustrating when the ads you’re seeing are distracting or showing you subjects having nothing to do with what you’re actually trying to find. Many times I will search for something and get side-tracked because of an ad relating to nothing I meant to find, but something else entirely.
Well, apparently there’s a way to get around that. This tip is for blog owners, though. If you own a domain and use AdSense on it, I’ve learned from SlyVisions that it’s easy to specify what things should be shown in ads. When you set up your Adsense account you were able to specify this type of information, but did you realize that you can make the targetting even more specific from within your post? It involves using these tags to wrap around your desired content:
<!-- google_ad_section_start --> and <!-- google_ad_section_end -->
That’s it! However, it may take a couple weeks for it to show up, says Google.
Cool, huh?
Posted By Neceros on July 8th, 2009 | Tagged: Blogging, Google, MailChimp, Website, WordPress I’ve been browsing WordPress websites lately, including blogs, downloads, plugins and other useful hints. One I took particular interest in is right over here. Take a look and you’ll find a plugin that…
- Helps you see where your traffic is coming from
- How many people come from email and articles
- What people are looking for
- And more…
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Blip.tv video.
Posted By Neceros on June 27th, 2009 | Tagged: Blogging, SEO, Traffic How to promote your website by blogging
In today’s internet most people already know what a blog is. The everyday man and woman is familiar with blogs and even see4 them in the News and on TV. Blogs are common place now, and that is a good thing for everyone.
Even further, blogs are looked at by Search Engines, like Google and Yahoo, as high demand articles to index. This means your blog will be rated higher if it continually gives the search engine up to date articles.
Blogs are easy to use, easy to make and interesting to view
The biggest attraction to blogging was how easy it was to setup. Most blogs were created or hosted on websites that normal people could access and just start typing. Over the years, blogs got better and more refined as a whole. Today, most people use WordPress or Blogger, among others, as the basis for their online entity.
I use WordPress, thus I know firsthand how easy the software is to use and what it can do. Yet, I am still shocked at what I find people doing with WordPress. It’s so vast and powerful that you can almost indefinitely make anything out of this simple, effective blogging platform with little work.
Even better, blogs are extremely friendly to the viewer. Links are uniform, in most cases, are titled efficiently and just plain looks good. Top that off with the ability for the creator to use pre-made templates, or interfaces, and not only will you have a pretty website, but you’ll have one unique to your style.
So, with all of this praise going towards blogging software, are there any downsides? Sure. Everything has it’s ups and downs.
All internet software is able to be hijacked in one form or another. Bugs are constantly updated and holes fixed. While it’s possible most people won’t have any issues with their favorite blogging software, it’s almost possible that some will. WordPress is updated constantly to increase the security of the writer and the reader.
I’m sure in the end something else will come along and take over the crown of statute that blogging carries. Hopefully it won’t be too soon, and even more, hopefully it rightfully takes the top by actually being a better suite of tools. I doubt we’ll see the dismissal of the blog anytime soon.
So, what do I do?
Here are some good tips to remember when blogging when trying to get traffic, or hits, to your website:
- Link to other blogs relating to your topic. Be sincere about your comments and trackbacks and you will go far in getting traffic.
- Write unique articles about your topic. Even if they are short, if they are your own writing and add to the conversation, then you will succeed.
- Post in forums relating to your topic. Add to the discussion, and point people to your website in the thread.
- Record videos or audio about your topic and post it on your blog. Video and Audio are weighted more than text in most places, if they are proper and concise.
- Be sure you follow Search Engine Optimization techniques.
Lastly, it never hurts to pay for advertising. In all honesty, this is the most effective and true ways to get traffic. You don’t even need to pay much in most cases — sometimes only a couple cents per click!
Please comment to let me know what you think.
Posted By Neceros on June 20th, 2009 | Well, I’ve been delving into the world of WordPress just recently here. I’m finding all of this stuff fascinating.
I’ve read an awesome article on trackbacks “How to Get More Links with Trackbacks.” It was just the thing I needed.
It’s funny, actually, in a sad way. I remember a few years ago people talking about this wonderful new thing called WordPress and blogging. At the time, forums were the big thing to do. If you could afford vBulletin or the like you were the king of the internet. If I had just listened and started way back then I probably would have saved myself quite a bit of traffic-woes.
That said, I’m on board. I’m gonna be staying a while, and I’m lovin’ it.
Peace.
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