За нещата, които ме вълнуват дълбоко под мозъчните кори

Още дузина снимки на този адрес

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в допълнение още разнообразие от артистични и разнообразни офис-пространства:





десетки още идеи тук или пък там и още повече тук, и тук… и там и тук и там, и тук… побъркана история

За 1 месец в САЩ (18.3 - 20.4.200) се радвах на всевъзможни блага и “продоволствия”, срещи със стари приятели и запознаванства с нови такива, но ако има нещо което ужасно ми липсва обратно в БГ то е достъпа до pandora.com
И преди съм споделял моите лудите почитания към пичовете създали тази уникална онлайн услуга, за персонализирана музика. Дебелите тюфлеци от муз. компании са ги прекършили с условията си за royalty payments и за съжаление сайта е недостъпен извън САЩ. По закон божи на всяко действие има противодействие и са се намерили добри хорица, които да намерят заобикаляне на ограничението, макар и не за съвсем начинаещи. Факта, че ползваш pandora.com вече те поставя в друга лига на Интернет потребителите (нещо като онлайн отворко), така че съветите които ще последват ще са приложими и разбираеми за случайно попадналите фенове в моето блогче.
Всичко на всичко ми отне 4-5мин. да се оправя с патърдията в инструкциите и да подкарам успешно музикалната кутия на pandora.com!

Ето го и сайтчето с всички инструкции и софтуера, който да си свалите: http://openpandora.blogspot.com/2007/06/complete-guide-for-using-openpandora.html - четете внимателно, че си има тънкости. Не случайно се споменава само IE за настройки на проксито - софтуера, който сваляте след това работи с прокси-настройките на IE.

Волюмето на мах, съседите на нож, а аз отново мега-гига-петабита хепи. Да живее ИнтернетЪ и хипарите в него!

Sharing with all those random visitors or fans of my humble blog some great interviews to be inspired from. The one that follows is done by Robert Scoble, an ex-employee with Fastcompany.tv, part of the Fastcompany.com webportofolio.

And let’s the movie begin:

More interviews from Scoble that you might find worth checking out at: http://thenextweb.com/2009/03/06/robert-scoble-scobleizer-leave-fast-company/

A talk about some great European web innovative companies, like Gameforge, Ventee-privee.com, Spreadshirt and others:

The Gillmor Gang staged LIVE:

The internet is a well regulated industry. Google is its regulator. Like Marie Antoinette handing out cake to the peasants, every month Google allots the various web-sites in its index a certain amount of traffic. Certain sites do better than others (Wikipedia, About.com), but for the most part each site takes its monthly Google traffic home and tries to do the best it can with it.

As is the case with any monthly budget, there’s only so much you can do with it though. Unless the budget itself increases, there’s only so much stretching to be done. And there’s only three ways to increase your traffic budget: (1) get more from Google (SEM!), (2) better convert your Google traffic to traffic of your own (and I’ve said my piece there already) or (3) go find a new source of traffic.

Unless you’re in the inner circle (again, Wikipedia, About.com), you can never grow to any significant size site inside the Google regulated industry. The regulator won’t let you. Why would they? If they actually make you a big, important site than the balance of power actually starts to tip in your favor. No regulator likes that. Regulators make the rules, not the regulated.

Not so coincidentally, if you actually look at the recent successful sites over the past few years - YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc. - none of them got there by Google traffic. They created a product and figured out a way to get mass appeal outside the Google regulatory system. To make a bad analogy, if you were a global leader intent on world domination, would you make a plan to achieve this goal by working with the United Nations? No, you would go out and take what you thought was yours. That’s what these big sites did. They flipped the virtual bird to Google and took what was theirs.

full essay@marksonland.com

Следващите големи постижения в Интернет ще са свързани с максималното персонализиране на съдържанието за всеки индивидуален потребител. Поевтиняването на памети, процесорна мощ позволява да мислим не как да спестим процесорни ресурси, а да търсим решения за персонализация. Най-успешните сайтове в бъдеще ще са тези, които съумеят да реализират алгоритми създаващи уникални страници за всеки потребител, без това да води до масовка произтичаща от wisdom of the crowds. Как да персонализираш за “дългата опашка”, а не за преобладаващата част потребители?
В САЩ тази тенденция дава резултати в/у традиоционните медии и за пример може да послужи амбицията на Fastcompnay.com за изграждане на медия и съдържание около онлайн общността им от хора с интереси в технологиите, бизнеса, иновациите, мениджмънт и пр.

Fast Company is about to shake things up again.

Back in 1995, in our first issue, we announced on our cover: “Computing is Social.” It became a Fast Company mantra and helped open the eyes of a generation of entrepreneurs to the possibilities of the Internet.

In November of 1997, before social networking on the Web was called social networking, FastCompany.com started the “Company of Friends,” dubbed the “Fast Company Readers’ Network.”

The network featured members’ professional profiles, online business discussions that were moderated by volunteer group coordinators, and in-person monthly meet-ups of more than 200 regional groups around the world. (Sound familiar? MeetUp.com was founded five years later in 2002 and LinkedIn followed in 2003.)

As progressive as Fast Company was, serving our online community of about 100,000 members was a secondary mission to creating great editorial content.

But no more.

Starting today, we become the first major media website to tackle the following problem: Can a business publication blend journalism and online community to create something better than either by itself?

full story@fastcompany.com

Now comes a new rallying cry: software wants to be free. Or, as the tech insiders say, it wants to be “zero dollar.”

A growing number of consumers are paying just that — nothing. This is the Internet’s latest phase: people using freely distributed applications, from e-mail and word processing programs to spreadsheets, games and financial management tools. They run on distant, massive and shared data centers, and users of the services pay with their attention to ads, not cash.

full story@nytimes

This isn’t the 80’s. The Internet is now a part of everyone’s life so shouldn’t your archaic beast for a site also be? The answer is yes if you enjoy growth. In spirit of how badass Web 2.0 is I have assembled a list of 12 ways to turn your Web 1.0 site into a Web 2.0 site

1. Replace esomething.com with MYsomething.com
Your web site is not web 2.0 if it has some lame “e” in front of it. We all know your web site is electronic! Let’s make it personal with a friendly “my” :).

2. Increase 10px font to at least 12-16px font
Nobody likes squinting their eyes, and no it doesn’t look good. Get rid of the small text and replace it with some easy reading text for us productive people.

3. Change categories to tags
Why would somebody want to read your site if it’s categorized into specific sections? Your content should be dynamically tagged so everyone can keep track of which is more and less important. Get a tag cloud!

4. Change your news section to a blog

People want to know what’s going on with your company besides just formal news. Write something thats cool, funny, stupid, whatever! 1/2 the battle is keeping the audience entertained.

all tips @ this blog