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Why SEOmoz's #Mozcation should come to Manchester
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Ok, so Manchester may not be as exotic and warm as other entries but by Jove we do have fun up north! It pretty much rains here 90% of the time and our summer lasts approximately one week and then we have winter for the other 51 weeks of the year but that doesn't stop our SEO lot meeting up every month…we are a hardy bunch!
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Not only do we have a great and dedicated group that get together to discuss all things digital marketing (whilst drinking large volumes of alcohol, because we do that in Manchester) our great city holds a whole host of SEO and digital conferences and get togethers. From the amazing SAScon which has had speakers such as Bruce Daisley (sales director of Twitter) attracting over 200 attendees to the Big Chip Awards which takes place every year and recognises industry wins. We don't stop there, oh no, our northern city is all about fun and we even have MancDigiBowl where everyone joins in for a fun (aka competitive) game of bowling.
Manchester has some Key Influencers in Search
Didn't you know that Manchester is home to some some really influencial players in Search, Analytics and Social. Here are just a few:
- Peter Young (Regional Head of SEO, Mediacom)
- Alex Moss (Co-Founder and Technical Director, 3 Door Digital)
- Shane Jones (Head of Social Tech, mycleveragency)
- Rhys Wynne (SEO Consultant, Manual Link Building)
- Martin Bryant (Managing Editor, The Next Web)
- Gareth Hoyle (CEO, Manual Link Building)
- Neil Walker (Founder, Quaero Media)
- Simon Wharton (MD, PushON)
- Richard Gregory (COO, Latitude)
- Guy Levine (MD, Return on Digital)
- Phil MacKechnie (Head of SEO, Carat)
- Ben McKay (Head of SEO, MoneySupermarket)
Footy, Beer & Community FTW! RT @alexmoss I nominate Manchester, UK mz.cm/NCcEx3 for an @seomoz #MozCation
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What Manchester Has To Offer
Manchester has been twinned with a number of famous cities such as Cordoba in Spain, Saint Petersburg in Russia and Los Angeles in the US. Yes, LA has the weather, scantily clad women rollerblading and long sandy beaches but we have Manchester City and Manchester United and who doesn't love a bit of footy?
Contrary to belief from many, including our capital of London, we are not hillbillies, we do have electricity and we don't all live in houses like those on Coronation Street. In fact, Manchester has been a city of some amazing firsts! Did you know that the atom was first split here? We are home to the first railway station in England and more importantly, none of us would be in a job without Manchester (well…kind of). In 1948 the first stored computer was built at the Victoria University here which contained all the necessary components which were essential to the modern computer we all know, love and use today! So if that isn't reason enough for you to come here (although it should be) here are some more just to persuade you that little bit extra.
Manchester is the second most visited city in England after London, but London is the capital and would obviously get visitors so we are technically the most visited city in England if you look at it with a slightly warped reasoning. Musical greats have been born and bred in these rainy parts such as Oasis, The Smiths, Joy Division and the Stone Roses and so using song titles from these four influential bands we give you the following final push to get SEOmoz to come to us: "Please, please, please let me get what I want" so I "Don't look back in anger", Manchester is like "Breaking into heaven" it will be your "One Love" and we are definitely "What the world is waiting for" (well the digital marketing world at least!)
P.S. If that still wasn't enough, Henry Royce met Charles Rolls in the Midland Hotel and went on to make some of the most amazing cars ever…just saying.
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BMW has recently published a promotional spot for the new M3 GTS, the extreme version of the Bavarian model. To better illustrate what the coupe model can do, the Germans chose the asphalt on the Nurburgring circuit.
The BMW M3 GTS is capable to develop up to 450 hp from a 4.4 lter V8 engne coupled to a 7-speed M-DCT gearbox. We presented you recently a video shot by an amateur, that surprised the M3 GTS on the Nurburgring circuit. As a conclusion, now, we know, that they were shooting that day for this official video that you'll see in this post.
Entering deeper intro the model's specifications, we find that for the interior are available Alcantara leather, carbon fiber elements, six-point safety belts and more. The model comes also with a rollbar for safety. The price of the model is 115,000 euros. If you want a BMW M3 GTS, you have to know that the model will be built just on order.

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April 7, 2009 | Decent Bluetooth |
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Once you get this working it performs well. If you have an older laptop, it is difficult to perform the updates to the software. The only way to update the software is to use a bluetooth connection. My laptop doesn't have a bluetooth connection, so I had to go out and purchase a usb bluetooth device. Once you get the unit updated, it performs fairly well.
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Installation was easy, as is operation. Using the product is easy but the audio quality so far is poor. Placed microphone on steering column as advised but audio quality is still bad enough to get complaints from people on the other end of conversation. Not sure if mic is picking up vibrations or just poor audio characteristics of the mic itself. People say audio cuts out or is choppy like a cheap BT headset. There is no rating for audio quality in the STAR graph ratings... so, over all it is an OK unit, kinda spendy for the audio quality.... Not sure I would recommend this unit unless used in a very quiet environment.
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installed product myself and worked fine just sometimes when the other party says that i sound like i'm in a cave so I just move closer to the mic. overall good product
January 12, 2010 | Not a bad unit, but strange UI |
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This unit installs easily, looks good and sounds good. But it has a very strange user interface. Kenwood definitely needs to get some new UI talent...
The Garmin GPS part of the UI looks great -- very much like portable Garmin units. Navigation is fast and easy. Selection of destination is via touchscreen (typical Garmin). The default female voice is a little robotic sounding, but definitely passable. Combined with a huge and bright screen, this is probably the best part of this Kenwood unit. I added both the Bluetooth speakerphone module and the Sirius satellite radio module. The individual boxes are small (about 1.5" thick and 4" x 4" width. But the cabling -- holy cow. I think I've got 12+ total feet of interconnect cabling that I had to fold up and zip tie. That is in addition to the Sirius, GPS and microphone cables. The Kenwood Bluetooth module is a little disappointing. Even with the nice microphone they provide (it is on the end of a 8' thin wire, so you can put it just about anywhere), the sound quality is pretty tinny. You can hear the other party on the call quite well through the passenger front speaker only -- they do this to reduce feedback -- and it sounds ok. But most people you talk to will complain that they can hear a lot of background and engine noise. There is no noise cancellation or VOX, so they will even hear the background noise when you are not talking. Not suitable for conference calls unless you mute... The Sirius module works great -- excellent signal reception even if you put the antenna inside the windshield. Occasionally will drop signal if under a bridge -- I'm sure it would be better if antenna were outside. But again, the user interface on the head unit makes use of Sirius a little frustrating. You can save favorites, scroll through the channel listings, etc., but it just isn't as easy to use as Sirius units I've had in my BMW or my Stilletto2. You can easily short the parking indicator wire, so it is easy to enable DVD playback for your passengers. But aside from testing, I've never needed to watch a DVD while driving (probably a good thing). I didn't buy the iPod adapter, but given my experience so far, I would guess that it would probably sound fine, but be frustrating to use. Again, the UI is the major disappointment with this unit...
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This worked perfectly with my old phone. What a great convenience when driving. But does not work with my 3G Iphone.


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Yes, this was a real thing you could do this morning. Square Enix since removed the app, not long after launching it and just after Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote about it. We can't imagine why, though Square sent over a statement that cleared it up nicely:
"Earlier today we launched an app based around Hitman: Absolution that allowed you to place virtual hits on your Facebook friends. Those hits would only be viewable by the recipient and could only be sent to people who were confirmed friends. We were wide of the mark with the app and following feedback from the community we decided the best thing to do was remove it completely and quickly. This we've now done. We're sorry for any offence caused by this."
This attempt at crude viral marketing is reminiscent of other hackneyed ads, such as Resident Evil 6's human butcher, Resident Evil 5's real-world severed-limb hunt, the brass knuckles EA sent us and quickly requested back for Godfather 2, or The Walking Dead FPS' necklace of human ears. Rockstar similarly caved under pressure with Bully in the UK, changing the name to Canis Canem Edit after a maelstrom of hyperbolic public attention labeled the game a "Columbine simulator."
If you want to experience the Hire Hitman app – too bad, because it's gone. Take This Lollipop, however, is still live on Facebook and uses the same premise, though it doesn't allow users to engage in name-calling, bigotry, death threats or misogyny.
BAFTA winning creative agency Ralph has teamed up with videogame publisher Square Enix to create a personalised video experience that lets fans put a 'hit' on their mates on Facebook.
The experience brings the iconic character of Agent 47 to life in a moody, live action video which incorporates the target's individual information from their Facebook account. Agent 47 tracks them down and pieces together his sniper rifle before assassinating them with cold, clinical precision. Pulling together a collage of their photos, the victim then witnesses their life flash before their eyes.
Despite its seemingly dark heart, the experience has its tongue firmly in its cheek, allowing users to input whatever ridiculous reason they want for their friend to be terminated. Whether it's their bad taste in clothes or inability to get a round of drinks in, the target is left in no doubt as to their 'crime'.
"Hire Hitman" was created to celebrate the best selling game Hitman: Absolution. The experience is another opportunity for fans of the series to immerse themselves in the Hitman universe.
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nections that Mohawk has set up through Liaison over the past 18months represent the culmination of Stamas' vision to create whathe calls a "service-oriented architecture in the cloud."The model has allowed Mohawk to quickly and inexpensivelyset up new business relationships without worrying about thetechnical details, thereby producing new revenue opportunitiesand millions of dollars in cost savings.
"SOA was the answer because it works based on the concept of loosely coupled services, and geography doesn't matter," Stamas says. He briefly considered building an SOA in house, but "my head was spinning at the costs and complexity," he says.
So, early in 2010, he began working with Liaison on his idea. Since then, the services that Liaison provides have moved beyond straightforward provisioning and management of B2B data mapping and EDI connections. Liaison now handles all connections, whether they're between on-premises applications, from on-site systems to the cloud or cloud-to-cloud.
Recent projects include a process by which another cloud service provider, StrikeIron, provides up-to-date currency exchange rates to Mohawk's on-premises ERP system at the time of invoice for international orders. Another inserts freight costs into each customer order on Mohawk's website by way of cloud-based transportation logistics service broker Mercurygate. And a Web service created by Liaison checks Mohawk's websites and its ERP system to ensure that items are in stock and relays availability information to customers before they place their orders.
"We have over 30,000 of these checks a month and they happen in real time, synchronously, in two to three seconds," Stamas says.
Liaison serves as the intermediary for every type of transaction, performing the necessary integration and data management work with Mohawk's customers, suppliers and other business partners. The vendor also presents the connections as services for Mohawk to use as it wants, and offers a business activity-monitoring tool that keeps tabs on service levels from end to end.
"With Liaison, all types of data integration flow through the sameservice-oriented infrastructure, all [data] payloads are defined as ser-vices, all interactions are managed via Web services, and all integra-tions use a publish-or-subscribe model" in which services are eitherprovided or consumed, Stamas explains. "They have the tools andplatforms, the enterprise service bus, messaging bus and service reg-istry — all of the components of a service-oriented infrastructure.It's a foundation on which we build our own unique integrations."thousands of integrations it has already built, Lheureux says. Com-peting vendors are starting to move in that direction as well.
B2B integration traditionally has used a messaging approach to synchronize data, but Mohawk uses a services-based model. Integration workloads are managed by two Web services: One at Mohawk and one at Liaison.
Because Mohawk's IT organization has been abstracted away from the technical aspects of creating and maintaining all the different types of connections, Stamas says his group can focus on working with the business to develop new business models and connections with new business partners.
Tony Hunter's job is to pursue those business models. As Mohawk's IT manager and business process architect, he helps to identify opportunities for the business and presents Liaison with the specifications. Right now, for example, he's working on connecting Mohawk's e-commerce website to a cloud-based service that provides real-time information on freight costs. Mohawk currently offers UPS and FedEx options on its website, but those aren't the best-priced services for some customers. For instance, "less than truckload" (LTL) freight tends to be less expensive than UPS or FedEx for orders over 150 lbs.
"We are losing order opportunities because of [not offering]a freight cost," says Steve Giangiordano, Mohawk's manager ofaccounting services. So Hunter created a specification for a Webservice that pulls LTL freight charges from Mercurygate's cloud-based freight brokerage service and presents the data in the cus-tomer's order on Mohawk's website. "They hit a function key andthey know right away what the LTL rate is. It's amazing," Huntersays. "Once we have that in place, the problem will go away."Mercurygate is a CSB like Liaison, but it provides freight datain the cloud, and on demand, rather than integration services.
Using a CSB has also improved security, Stamas says, because everything flows through a single point by way of a VPN connection. "Inside the cloud, they have all of the data security precautions you'd expect from a PCI standards-compliant data center," he says, adding that Liaison supports the AS2 communications standard, as required by Mohawk's bank. "Going through a single point gives you an extraordinary benefit in securing transactions. The alternative is anarchy — people doing this through Web browsers, coming in through Port 80 and poking holes in your firewalls."
» A cloud-based SOA was the answer to B2B integration hassles at Mohawk Fine Papers, says VP of IT Paul Stamas.
Liaison is on the leading edge of an industrywide trend in which traditional providers of managed B2B services are becoming what Gartner analyst Benoit Lheureux calls a cloud services brokers, or CSBs. In addition to offering data integration and customization services, CSBs provide an aggregation point for all types of business partner interactions.
The differentiator for Liaison is that it has the in-house expertise necessary to perform integrations quickly, and it can draw upon
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