Oliver Tani

Of course. Microsoft decides that they’d like get social as well. I mean seriously, don’t they get beat up enough as it is? Officially, I’m out on this one. People don’t take stands quite often enough, so I am.

I mean think about it. How many friends do you have? No, not how many people do you know, or how many people do you say hello to everyday, but how many people do you know, trust, and actually be willing bet that they’d NEVER lead you in the wrong direction? I can only count about a handful of people, besides my family, that would fall into this category. These are the people I would want in my social network. One thing that’s very hard is to decide who to listen to and who not to listen to these days. There are so many self proclaimed “experts” that its just obnoxious. At least I know I can trust my real friends. I don’t want to trust some weird kid named Tom who slouches.

Honestly though even Yahoo! Answers is a bit too “let’s hear what advice this 13 year old kid has to say about my IRA Rollovers”. Maybe it’s just me being untrusting, but so be it. Good luck with that. I’m Out.

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Apparently, a Japanese theater will be playing Colin Farrell’s ‘The New World’ with scents synchronized to match with certain scenes.

A floral scent accompanies a love scene, while a mix of peppermint and rosemary is emitted during a tear-jerking scene. Joy is a citrus mix of orange and grapefruit, while anger is enhanced by a herb-like concoction with a hint of eucalyptus and tea tree.

The smells waft from special machines under the seats in the back rows of two movie theaters, which create different fragrances by controlling the mix of oils stored in the machines, company spokeswoman Akiko Suzaki said Wednesday.

That’s awesome. I want that.

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Lovin it. This thing is awesome. It’s like a tool, that I can write stuff in different days, so I know what’s going on and coming up in my life! Imagine that! I’ve never heard of such a thing.

Alright, alright, this one’s actually kinda cool. Gmail has even been adapted to automatically see when one of your emailes make mention to an event so it can be added to everyone’s calendar easily. What I really like is that you can add things just by typing like “Dinner with Beatrice at Joe’s Crab Shack on Friday April 14th”.

Take a look. I guess I need to start using my gmail account more now.

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So their new tool seems pretty cool. Take for example the virtual pet site at NeoPets.com. This site has been targeted by typo-squatters to serve pornographic-themed ads if it is misspelled. One such misspelling, neoppets.com, is currently serving ads promising naked photos of Britney Spears or other adult images. Kids these days are screwed up enough as it is… we don’t need to be feeding them a constant flow of smut, popups and spyware each time their chubby fingers can’t spell something on the keyboard correctly. Strider could potentially help us out here:

When a user visits a Web site, her browser may be instructed to visit other third-party domains without her knowledge. Some of these third-party domains raise security, privacy, and safety concerns. The Strider URL Tracer, available for download, is a tool that reveals these third-party domains, and it includes a Typo-Patrol feature that generates and scans sites that capitalize on inadvertent URL misspellings, a process known as typo-squatting. The tool also enables parents to block typo-squatting domains that serve adult ads on typos of children’s Web sites.

Of course, it can only be installed on Internet Explorer. Go figure.

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OMG, you’re only a PR4? That’s Ghetto. Any of my friends who have my link on their site that has less than a PR5, please remove me immediately or I’ll sue! I can’t stand these people. Seriously. Are we still talking about this issue? I mean it’s 2006 for God’s Sake. Let’s take a look at some people in the SEO community who know what they’re talking about and try to learn from them.

First off, what does Aaron Wall have to say?

“Instead of chasing PageRank I like to find the low PageRank sites that rank well in the search results,” says SEOBook author Aaron Wall. “What links do they have? Why are they ranking so well? If you get the types of links that those sites have, and if you have a compelling website that other sites actually want to link to the PageRank will naturally fall into place without you developing a wonky link profile trying to artificially boost your PageRank.”

Hmmm, but what could he possibly mean by that? Does that mean if I find out that a site with less than a PR4 is linking to me, that I should write them a letter and demand they remove my link on their sub-par page?

Or how about that one dude, Andy Hagans?

“With each new Google update, it is apparent that PageRank counts for less, while other factors (trust, age, authority links) count for more,” said Hagans.

“Really, the importance of the green pixels is now negligible, aside from a very rough indication of a site’s link popularity and assurance that it isn’t banned in Google. But as long as Google continues to show PageRank in the toolbar, it will never ‘die’ in the public consciousness.”

But what does he know? Quite a bit apparently.

Even Eric Ward, who has been building links long before pagerank even existed and while Mr. Page and Mr. Brin were still in highschool says that “…trust and link building, not chasing PageRank, are the most important parts of the search strategy.”

Man, that’s 3 people who do more than teach others, they make a living doing this, and look at what they’re all saying! Trust me. Anyone can get high Pagerank to their site. So people, it’s time to pull your head out your asses and get your shit straight.

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Some say these guys are the biggest posers ever. I simply can’t believe those people. I mean, they’ve got some guys who want to actually create rap albums with them. Plus, that balla “Cripmoney” backs them, and although people say he’s probably the biggest idiot in the world, I think he’s got a ton of street cred to go around… I just say, Share the wealth Cripmoney, you’re making the rest of us look bad.

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