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Al's originals (which account for 50% or more of the material on each album) each have a specific style, and are often a homage to some of Al's favorite artists (DEVO, Zappa, Aerosmith, Talking Heads, Boingo & MANY many more...) So from the start, we know the
he wants, and the kind of signature parts and sounds that will help convey that. Sometimes we are left to our own devices, and sometimes Al wants a very specific part or fill. So there's a certain amount of input that we have on the originals, and over the years we've learned there are certain little things he likes, so we don't require a lot of direction. But as the writer/artist/producer, Al always has the final word.
The process is also very efficient: Al makes a demo for us with 5 or 6 originals, we think about parts for a few weeks then get together
to rehearse and massage the parts. Then the band records a demo and we privately ponder the songs a little more and zero-in on parts. Then we're in the studio, ready to cut them all, usually in one day.
With the parodies, there's no input whatsoever, since we're copying existing parts & sounds. If Al says we're doing "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" (Offspring,) we use that recording as a road map, possiblly incorporating arrangement or key changes. We do a huge amount of pre-production on our own in terms of writing-out parts, assessing sounds, and in the case of sequenced songs, creating samples and sequences. No rehearsal is necessary, since there are no subjective parts to work on - we are copying another song note-for-note - and we show up at the studio playing the songs for the first time as a band, typically tracking them all the same day.
With respect to the parodies, copying parts and sounds is difficult work. We aren't permitted to just 'get the flavor' or play a few signature parts. Our version has to be as close as possible to 100% accurate, with the knowledge that 99% is probably not acceptable. It's often a trying process where we have to 'backwards engineer' recordings to decipher parts and how sounds were achieved. I'm pretty sure that there are no other guitarists, bassists, or drummers who have the sense of purpose (or the patience!) to chart every note, every dynamic, every mistake, and every tempo change for their recordings.
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COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö Tonight is homecoming at Columbia City High School (CCHS) and many students will create memories that will follow them throughout their adult lives. But for a group of CCHS alumni, memories of the past will make way for new homecoming memories.
For the second year, Helen Hockemeyer, CCHS band director, has organized a band comprised of high school alumni for homecoming night.
After last yearŌĆÖs turn out of 16, Hockemeyer decided to put the alumni band together again. Classes represented in the group went as far back as 1950.
Last year, Carolyn Hyndbaugh, a CCHS graduate with the class of 1976, participated in the band. Once again, sheŌĆÖll take the field with the other alumni to partake in the homecoming festivities.
ŌĆ£CCHS band alumni have fond memories of being in high school band. It is a team effort to put together field shows, and most members become close friends throughout the experience,ŌĆØ said Hyndbaugh. ŌĆ£Homecoming offers an opportunity for us ŌĆśhas-beensŌĆÖ to come back and feel the excitement of taking the field again.ŌĆØ
Hyndbaugh is now the band director at Indian Springs Middle School, proving that past experiences can shape the direction of careers, talents and hobbies.
ŌĆ£I often think of Keith Gnagy and Marvin Hall, who were the directors when I was in the Columbia City Junior High School band,ŌĆØ Hyndbaugh said. ŌĆ£I owe a lot to them and their guidance in one of the best activities I participated in as a student. Thank you, Helen Hockemeyer, for providing the opportunity.ŌĆØ
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First responders saw scene as shocking or 'surreal'
Editors Note Sept. 16, 2008: The original story had the incorrect name of the search dog foundation.
Ron Weckbacher was at a back-to-school event for his 9-year-old son at Pinecrest School on Friday when he got the call.
The Thousand Oaks resident and his search and rescue dog, Abby, were needed at the site of the crash between a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train.
He and the 10-year-old black Lab arrived in Chatsworth around 8 p.m. They scoured the Metrolink cars that were still upright and then turned their attention to the toppled first car.
Working amid the twisted metal, debris and gasoline mixed with blood, Abby had to be extra careful as she sniffed for any person who could still be alive.
"She had to maneuver around broken windows, sharp metal and glass," Weckbacher said.
He and his dog were among the many first responders at the scene of the crash Friday. With 24 dead at the scene and 135 injured, personnel from various Southern California agencies worked for nearly 24 hours to treat the wounded and recover those who died.
Helping the lead agencies out of Los Angeles were Ventura County firefighters' Urban Search and Rescue team, two Ventura County paramedic squads and several local ambulances, said Ventura County Fire Capt. Ron Oatman.
Weckbacher and Abby were one of three Canine Disaster Search Teams trained by Ojai-based National Disaster Search Dog Foundation.
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Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Alan Barrios was among the first to arrive at the scene, and even with 32 years experience as a firefighter, it was a shock.
"I have to say, this is one of the first ones where I was one of the first ones to get here and I was overwhelmed," he said.
The scale of the crash had an effect on first responders, said Los Angeles Fire Department Battalion Chief Greg Gibson, who is also a chaplain.
"This is off the charts," he said. "In any other scenario, other than active combat, where do you see 25 dead, 135 injured?"
Los Angeles Fire Department Medical Director Dr. Marc Eckstein arrived about 5 p.m. Friday, about a half-hour after the collision, and saw the first Metrolink passenger car crunched by the locomotive, which was pushed back into the first car. Some passengers — dazed, bleeding and in shock — were able to walk away from the crash and were treated at the triage area that was already set up in nearby Chatsworth Hills Academy's athletic field.
Even with 25 years of emergency response experience under his belt, Eckstein said nothing could prepare him for what he saw.
"The carnage was surreal," Eckstein said.
Eckstein's main goal was to make sure all passengers were treated in the triage area according to the severity of their injuries, and then transported by ambulance or airlifted from the scene.
However, Eckstein did grab his medical bag from his car and helped a woman who was barely breathing and had serious head and leg injuries.
"That was a challenge because as soon as you get there, you want to jump in and take care of a patient," Eckstein said. "There were some patients there who literally took their last breath there."
Doing the job
Barrios focused on addressing one problem at a time. The first priority was putting out the fire beneath one of the train cars; the next was to get to the victims.
Barrios told frantic passengers to stay calm, that they were safe. All of the first responders were relying on their training to do their job, he said.
"I think everyone was pretty focused," he said.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy John Ebert wasn't on duty, but he worked anyway. He was riding the Metrolink on his way home to Thousand Oaks when the crash happened.
Though he suffered a collapsed lung, a severe puncture to his right leg, and a broken hand, collarbone, scapula and ribs, he reported the crash over his radio and aided fellow passengers for about half an hour.
"He went immediately to help others," said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Ebert, 54, was listed in good condition Monday at Simi Valley Hospital.
Searcy Jackson III, a Los Angeles Fire Department Urban Search and Rescue team member, helped free passengers from the first car. It was so badly mangled that bodies had to be cut out from the crushed metal.
"It was just bad," he said. "It seemed like something out of a TV movie."
At one point, he saw a hand sticking out from the wreckage. He and others worked to uncover the arm, then a shoulder. They eventually pulled out a survivor and put him on a stretcher.
Jackson went back to the scene on Saturday. He didn't notice how long he'd been at it until he was told it was time to take a break. The firefighters weren't allowed to work for very long stretches, he said, to keep from getting over-involved.
Barrios also returned Saturday morning, after five hours of sleep, to work his regular shift. By then, it was a recovery — not a rescue — effort. But he still held out a small measure of hope.
"You never know," he said. "There might be someone in one of those voids. We might get one of those miracle situations."
Barrios had wanted to return to the scene Saturday to see the operation end.
Gibson said the psychological effects of being at a scene like the train wreck settle in later with emergency responders.
"It's like a marathon. They don't want to quit because they're trying to rescue somebody or make sure that a loved one is recovered," Gibson said. "When that intensity is let down is when you start to realize what's happened."
Gibson was not present at the crash site, but said other chaplains were there talking to firefighters.
Crisis management teams went to fire stations Sunday to debrief those who worked at the crash, said Los Angeles Fire Capt. Tina Haro, a spokeswoman for the department. The debriefings allow emergency responders to talk about their experience.
"It gives them a chance to get it off their chests," Haro said.
Eckstein left the wreckage about 1 a.m. Saturday and went home to his wife and two children.
"She gave me a hug and the kids made me a sign: Welcome home. We're proud of you and we love you,'" Eckstein said. "But you are still kind of numb and you think, Was it a nightmare? Was there anything else you could've done differently? Did you do the best you could?'"
He hasn't returned to the scene.
"I don't want to go anywhere near there," Eckstein said.
How to help
- Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village will hold a blood drive today in memory of Paul Long, a teacher killed in Friday's train crash. The drive, sponsored by the UCLA Blood & Platelet Center, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 1104 at Calvary Community Church, 5435 Via Rocas. Room 1104 is adjacent to the church's parking lot on the south end of the school campus. Donors must bring identification, be at least 17 years old and weigh at least 102 pounds.
- A blood drive for crash victims will be held Wednesday in the Air Force One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the library, 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley.
- The Simi Valley Community Foundation can help the families of those injured or killed in the crash by setting up memorial or medical funds. The foundation is the nonprofit arm of the Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce. For information, contact Leigh Nixon or Jackie Snider at 526-3900.
- The Ventura County Community Foundation can assist in establishing memorial funds that benefit charitable groups or scholarships. Call Hugh Rawston at 988-0196, ext. 116, for information.
- The Moorpark Chamber of Commerce has opened an account at Wells Fargo Bank in Moorpark to help crash victims. People can make donations to the "Train Victims Benefit Fund." The account number is 9738485896, and donations can be made at any Wells Fargo branch.
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Cambridge Network shown opportunities at Haverhill Research Park
Posted: July 05, 2014|
Members of a Cambridge-based networking group have been given a tour around Haverhill Research Park.
Visitors were told about opportunities for both small and large businesses on the site – and also learned about the "hub" of the new park.
Planning permission was granted last month for The Epicentre, a four-storey innovation centre for businesses.
Louise Rushworth, of Cambridge Network, said: "We are delighted to have learnt about the opportunities Haverhill Research Park can offer both now with a virtual office, and as the development progresses.
"We look forward to visiting again, and forging closer links between Haverhill and Cambridge."
A virtual offer for the centre has already launched – and businesses are being encouraged to sign up now to receive use of an innovation centre address, a domain name and post handling services.
Those signed up for the virtual deal will also be able to use conference rooms and meeting spaces at Days Inn Haverhill at a reduced rate. Free Wi-Fi is also available to virtual office tenants.
Nic Rumsey, director of Carisbrooke, said: "We were very happy to host the Cambridge Network meeting, and show the potential opportunities for small and large businesses alike.
"Our goal here at Haverhill is to provide high quality accommodation in a great location to tenants or freeholders at cost effective prices – yet still with a Cambridge postcode."
The research park is on Three Counties Way, Withersfield, and is located on the borderse of Cambridge, Essex and Suffolk.
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1856 Born on 6 May in Freiberg, Moravia.
1859 Move from Freiberg to Leipzig.
1860 Family settles in Vienna.
1865 Enters Leopoldstadter Gymnasium school.
1873 Hears essay 'On Nature' (attributed to Goethe). Decides
to study medicine at the University of Vienna. Reads Oedipus Rex
for final school examinations.
1877 First publications, on intersexuality in eels and on Petromyzon.
1881 Graduates as doctor of medicine.
1882 Engaged to Martha Bernays.
1882-5 Works in Vienna General Hospital.
1884-7 Researches into the clinical uses of cocaine.
1885-6 Studies under Charcot at the Salpetriere, Paris. Charcot
1886 Sets up private practice; marries Martha Bernays.
1887 Treats nervous diseases in his practice; introduces hypnotic suggestion.
1891 Writes On Aphasia, about language disorders and neurology.
1893-6 Works with Josef Breuer on case histories (including that
1895 Drafts Project for a Scientific Psychology, an attempt to work out a psychology based on neurological terms. Birth of Anna Freud (Dec 3)
1896 First use of the term 'psychoanalysis'; death of his father.
1897 Freud's self-analysis begins, leading to the abandonment
of the
1899 Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams in December with the publication date of '1900'. Freud's favourite book containing dozens of dream analyses on the way to "the royal road to the unconscious".
1901 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life; introduction of the 'Freudian slip'.
1902 Founding of the Wednesday Psychological Society.
1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality ; 'Dora'
case published
1906 Freud becomes friend and colleague of the Swiss adherent of psychoanalysis, Carl Gustav Jung.
1908 Salzburg: first international meeting of psychoanalysts.
1909 Freud and Jung travel to the U.S.A. and give the Clark Lectures:
first lectures on psychoanalysis in America. (Freud is not enamoured of
America; calls it a "big mistake".)
1912 Jung returns to U.S.A.
1912-3 Freud publishes Totem and Taboo which explores
how culture and society are rooted in the prohibition against incest, an
assertion contrary to the development of Jung's studies.
1914 Secession of Jung from the official psychoanalytic movement.
1915-7 Introductory Lectures given.
1919 Freud observes soldiers traumatized by the war.
1920 Death of daughter, Sophie. Publishes Beyond the Pleasure
Principle which introduces new theories of the 'compulsion to repeat'
and the concept of the 'death drive', as well as a revision of the 1900
theory of dreams as wish fulfilments. 6th International Psychoanalytic
Congress held at the Hague (the first after the war)
1921 Publishes Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.
1923 The Ego and the Iddeals with a new account of the structure of the mind, revising the 'conscious/pre-conscious/ unconscious distinction to be found in The Interpretation of Dreams.Freud diagnosed as suffering from cancer. Freud's grandson, Heinerle, dies. Freud writes: "I don't think I have ever experienced such grief.. Fundamentally everything has lost its meaning for me"
1926 Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. Freud makes anxiety the cornerstone of his developmental theory.
1927 The Future of an Illusion. A consideration of the
origins and function of religion. Freud, here, explicitly states his atheism.
1930 Civilization and its Discontents A profoundly pessimistic
account of the irreconcilability of personal drives and the demands of
1932 Why War? - an exchange of letters with Albert Einstein
1933 Freud's books, along with other psychoanalytical works,
publicly burned by the Nazis in Berlin. "Against the soul-destroying
glorification of the instinctual life, for the nobility of the human soul!
I consign to the flames the writings of the school of Sigmund Freud"
1936 Freud's 80th birthday. Honoured by the Royal Society in
Britain who make him a corresponding fellow.
1938 Freud moves to 20, Maresfield Gardens, London NW3. Continues work, seeing patients and finishing Moses and Monotheism and An Outline of Psychoanalysis.
1939 Dies in London on 23 September .
1942 Freud' s sister Adolphine dies in Theresienstadt transit camp. Mitzi, Rosa and Paula transported to Treblinka extermination camp.
1856 Treaty of San Stefano ends Crimean War. George Bernard Shaw and Woodrow Wilson born. Heinrich Heine dies.
1859 Darwin publishes The Origin of Species. Third edition of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation. Building of Suez Canal begun. Austria at war with Piedmont.
1863 International Red Cross set up at Geneva.
1865 Mendel discovers the laws of heredity. Abraham Lincoln assassinated.
1860s Bismarck engineers movement towards German unification.
1868 First plastic (celluloid) produced by John W. Hyatt. Dry cell battery patented by Georges Leclanche.
1869 Franco-Prussian War.
1874 Safety Bicycle invented by A.J. Lawson.
1875-6 Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
1876 Internal combustion engine designed by N.A. Otto. Battle of the Little Big Horn.
1877 Edison's phonograph. Russo-Turkish War.
1878 Mayerling Affair: heir to Austrian throne commits suicide.
1881 Assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
1883 Carbon-filament light produced by T.A. Edison and Joseph
1885 Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler construct first motor car.
1886 Statue of Liberty unveiled.
1889 Eiffel tower opened for the International Exhibition in
1894 The Dreyfus Affair : a wave of antisemitism sweeps France.
1895 First public cinema performance in Paris. Roentgen discovers
X-rays. Pocket camera produced by Kodak. Oscar Wilde imprisoned for homosexuality.
1897 Karl Lueger, antisemitic mayor of Vienna, elected.
1898 First commercial wireless telegram transmitted.
1900 Blood groups discovered by Karl Landsteiner. Arthur Schnitzler's
play 'La Ronde' causes a scandal in Berlin. Friedrich Nietzsche dies.
1902 Lenin writes What is to be done?
1903 Wright Brothers' first powered flight at Kitty Hawk.
1904 Russo-Japanese War. Pavlov receives Nobel Prize for work on digestion.
1905 First Russian Revolution crushed. Sinn Fein founded. Einstein's
Theory of Relativity. Binet's first intelligence test.
1907 Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina. Picasso and
Braque found Cubism.
1912 War in the Balkans.
1913 First Charlie Chaplin film. Proust's A la recherche du
temps perdu published.
1914 Passports made compulsory for foreign travel.
1916 Easter uprising in Ireland. Saussure's Course in
General Linguistics published posthumously
1917 Russian Revolution. 'Balfour declaration' on Palestine.
1919 Eclipse expedition shows the bending of light by gravity,
as predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Treaty of Versailles
signed June 28. "Spartakus' revolt brutally suppressed in Germany
1920 First meeting of the League of Nations. Nazi party formed
in Germany. Degrees first open to women at Oxford University
1921 Founding of BBC. Partition of Ireland.
1922 Mussolini rises to power. James Joyce's Ulysses published.
1923 Great Depression in Germany and Austria. Ruhr occupied
by France and Belgium.
1925 Hitler's Mein Kampf published in Germany
1926 General Strike in Britain.
1927 First Five Year Plan in Soviet Union. Lindberg flies solo
across the Atlantic.
1929 Stock Market crash on Wall St. Alexander Fleming discovers
1932 James Chadwick discovers the neutron. Franklin D Roosevelt
elected president of United States.
1933 Hitler gains power. Reichstag fire and book burnings in Germany.
1934 Austrian Chancellor, Dollfuss, murdered by Nazis. Mao Tse Tung sets out on Long March
1935 Leucotomy introduced by Egas Moniz. Antisemitic Nuremberg Laws passed in Germany.
1936 Beginning of Spanish Civil War. First BBC television transmission. SS Deathshead division established to guard concentration camps. Olympic Games held in Berlin
1938 Munich Agreement; Nazis annex Austria.
1939 Nylon stockings invented. Outbreak of Second World War.
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I guess at the end of the day it just frustrates me a little, that in the pop industry, true talent is not as important as portraying a cool image. Most of my favourite drummers are just groovers who add a few tasty fills here and there. Not stick yeilding maniacs.
The only thing that annoys me about Meg thing, is the acclaim that is poured on her, by people who maybe don't know what good drumming is meant to sound like, whether it is complex or very simple. I know this is not Megs fault. Man I would love to play to massive fans like she does. May be I am jealous.
As far as drum set ups go, she would almost qualify for the tom angles thread. Makes it look worse with the swirly design on the rack tom resonant head . I think Pollyanna is a little in love with Meg, and love is blind.
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Aiming for an A+ in General Paper Cambridge is a great thought, you've already raise your own self to "yourself" since you know you are worthy of that kind of achievements. Usually people with that frame of mind, will do whatever it takes to achieve it. But there are also some who will just keep it as a "thought". Why is this and how to remedy this kind of passiveness in yourself?
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I have stressed a lot of times of practicing upon the The Secret Of Writing Good English! Practice, practice and practice – You will succeed with style!
- Keeping a special notebook where you write all words that you do not know the meaning of. Write them down, open your dictionary and find their meaning. Once you find a good meaning, write it back in your notebook. To know if the meaning is really good, show your notebook to an elder, your parent or your teacher and ask them to verify.
- Everyday open your notebook and read those words and try making sentences with them. And try to memorize those words and use them in your class writings, like in essays..etc
2) There are different topics to write on essays and Cambridge GP essay paper is set to allow different students to write on different topics.
So, the best thing is you spot which areas you are most motivated and comfortable to write for. For example, I love writing on topics with Art/Science in it. So I would concentrate on having as much vocabularies and expressions, informations, descriptions and anything related to them. I would then attempt several papers containing titles with those areas. As I write, I start seeing some patterns in my essays and I spot which ideas, descriptions and examples will most probably fit in any title having those elements of Art/Science. Then you use them again in the others..etc
3) Stay in touch constantly with your GP teacher.
Yes, give him all your essays to mark. Go give him all the pain needed, don't give up if he says he is busy. Observe when he gets out of the class or when you find him free, go get him! Sit down and discuss with him what you lack in your essay and writing. Where you could improve..etc. A teacher interaction is vital if you want an A+, else it's a B.
4) Maintain an atmosphere of trust within yourself.
It is also very very necessary that you build positiveness in your mind whatever the situation. Keep focussing on your aim and keep thinking you will get that damm A+ whatever it takes and that's it! Keep that thought everytime, when you wake up, when you go in that class and before you go to sleep!
5) Read English Stuffs EVERYDAY
You should spend a minimum of 30mins EVERYDAY on reading English. Read out loud. Ideally 1hr is great per day. Try to say out loud words that you have difficulty in pronouncing.
Things You Need To Keep In Mind About Reading Only
Forming the habit of reading English news on BBC and CNN online websites everyday, will that improve your english writing?
Reading is a factor to help you in building up vocabularies, observing how words and sentences are being constructed and keeping you updated with new words and idioms. But reading only will not help you improve your english writing and grammar building.
Improving your English consists of a COMBINATION of reading, observing, hearing and WRITING! It is very very crucial to write EVERYDAY also. Construct phrases with same words but different meanings..etc
English Cambridge Is Also About Question Papers, Do Not Forget That!
A side point, don't just concentrate on essays, cultivate and work out your question type papers also. Since only essay will not bring in the A+
All the best guys!
What Was That! Mark Zuckerberg Only Made A Comment!
Mark Zuckerberg just made a comment on facebook asking "What Happened?" and bingo! That comment gets 331+ LIKEs within an hour and still going up! (Just check it out for yourself)
A Picture Talks For Itself – Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Comment
The words free and advertising don't often go together in real life. Getting more site traffic takes time and effort, finding a way to effortlessly gain more clicks is always good news.
A method for generating more traffic quickly was right in front of me. Banners brought a lot of attention to my site, but not every format allows this type of advertising. Then I discovered another way to use the same pull of a banner that did work in almost in any format.
Social media sites like Twitter, and Facebook, where typical banner advertising is not allowed does have another way to utilize the same drawing power.
Thumbnails can advertise your site as easily as a banner will. The best news is this tool is less expensive to have created and is welcomed with open arms on most social sites.
Smaller Package, Better Visibility
Since thumbnails are allowed on Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites, they become visible. Blogs, chat forums, and other social media sites enthusiastically welcome users to upload a thumbnail with open arms.
My guess as to the reason that thumbnails do not receive the attention they are due is because most people never realize how efficient they can be in helping to generate that click.
Using the Thumbnail to Generate Attention
The thumbnail is really a smaller, and more portable type of banner ad. While leaving a message through many types of social media such as posting on Facebook, or using Twitter your thumbnail works the same as banner ad would in giving anyone who sees it a view of your message.
Thumbnails can be designed and created in many different sizes. Having a selection on hand for the different websites you will visit that allow thumbnails is great idea. Common pixel sizes are 50×50, 80×80, 100×100, 170×170, or 200×200. The pixel that is recommended for iTunes is 600×600.
My wife Arlene created a popular website called EpilepsyMoms.com. She found out how well thumbnails could work in generating interest in her podcast by using professional and descriptive graphics.
Having thumbnails created by a professional could be done at a low cost, and Arlene had two sets created, one with her website address which is already descriptive in what the site is about and one that promotes her podcast.
Simple Ways to Generate Traffic
When working online the easiest ways often work the best for you. That is why the technique for promoting a product or service with a banner is very effective. It's easy to use and can be re-used often. Thumbnails are just as usable and can bring that same exposure on sites where banners can't be utilized.
Using Facebook and Twitter to Build Your Brand
Using social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn business have found a natural for introducing their products and services to people via numerous exposures online. This is the best type of promotionfree!
A well thought out and carefully designed thumbnail can even offer a tempting link back to your website from many social media sites. A plain picture or name doesn't necessarily carry the message you want, or create the desire of everyone viewing it to click the link and go to your site. Having a professional graphic can gain attention instantly giving those viewing it a reason to want to know more.
Businesses Gain Attention on Facebook and Twitter
Online retailers, affiliate marketers, promoters or really anyone using website promotions will find it's smart to have a set of banners and thumbnails of various sizes.
In the same way, a carefully crafted banner draws attention so too does a well-designed thumbnail establish and build your brand, which can then increase click through rates to your site.
Your thumbnail can bring more people to your site wherever you blog, chat in a forum, or leave a comment on someone else site. No matter where you go online, this can work as a continuous draw for your site.
Get Tons of Traffic for Your Site
Thumbnails have the drawing power to bring thousands to your site. And because thumbnails have more applications in many more places, these smaller versions of banners are more versatile and adaptable.
Grabbing Attention is Key
Polished, professional, and personable thumbnail graphics grab attention. Thinking of thumbnails you might have clicked on or followed back yourself chances are good these carried an image that first caught your attention, and then made you want to know more. You can even give your photo some retouching from a professional.
Posts or Tweets With More Power
As you post a tweet on Twitter, or make a comment on someone else wall in Facebook a thumbnail speaks for you. The greater number of times you use these sites with your thumbnail representing you the more clicks you will see.
I have found this to be true on sites such as Kitcars where I am a frequent poster. Most major blogs where you write, post, or even simply respond to a message, as a commenter will allow the use of thumbnails. With the thumbnail, you are not a 'John Smith' type of poster, and people will want to know more about you. Following your interesting thumbnail link thousands will pick up the trail to your site's door.
Creating a Dynamic Thumbnail Graphic
1. Use a Good Photo
You don't need to hire a professional photographer to get the best feature all photos need most your smile. A smile is a welcome, and people instinctively respond to you. The background should limited and professional, and be sure there is enough light. A digital photo will work just as well as one taken by a professional camera. A photo retoucher can often help work out problems with a photo you want to use.
2. Find a Graphic Pro
Hiring a professional graphics designer will go a long way to getting the best thumbnail possible. Professionals will have software that can give your graphics a smoother, perfect look. A pro can even retouch your photo to look its best on a thumbnail. Arlene had several thumbnails inexpensively created for her by a professional and she was happy with the results.
3. Keep Text Simple
The wording on graphics should be short and get your point across. The name of the site and a word or two such as Arlene did with by using the name of her site and 'Podcast' conveys a clear message. Too much text will detract from the message.
4. Find a Style
Once you find a look that works for you don't keep changing it. Changing too often will confuse those viewing it and they might not remember you as easily. Keep details between your thumbnail, website, and brand as similar as possible.
Give It Drawing Power
Should you think I'm making a big deal over something that is very simple consider this: the saying that people judge a book by it's cover is true, and your thumbnail is going to be the cover for every Twitter tweet, Facebook and blog comment, or chat forum thread. Over time, this can number into the thousands of images all working for your site or other promotion.
As Arlene worked on her site and wanted thumbnails created, she decided to use a source she used previously with success. Since she had much of the work for her site done using a service provider site, she quickly found a professional do a touch up on her photo and use a few simple words to convey her message.
As the mother of a child with epilepsy, she wanted to reach as many other mothers as possible who might be facing the same challenges making this site important to her. This was a job she had to keep on a budget, and the results were exactly what she wanted.
She also had a professional graphic designer create banner ads, header graphics, and an image for the audio player she features on her home page. Using these types of sites, a professional is not expensive, because there are many professional writers, technical pros, and others all competing for jobs. Easily negotiating with someone to handle any budgeted job from clerical to a web design is not difficult.
Never Miss Your Chance –Gravatar
Not too long ago I found myself at a site and wanted to post my thumbnail after making a comment. Looking through the settings however, I wasn't able to find how to add the thumbnail.
After some searching, I was able to find out that many places where you find blogs, chat forums, and commenting boards use a system called Gravatar service to place thumbnails.
Going to Gravatar.com I realized that all I had to do was upload the thumbnail on this site, and then give it an assigned email address. From that point on all I had to do was go to any place I wanted to comment or post and use my email address in the usual field and my thumbnail appears without my having to do anything else.
Not A Secret From You
A professionally created thumbnail graphic can provide you with a constant stream of traffic to your website at no cost. With a little effort getting your thumbnails designed, you will be ready to go.
Over to You
Are you satisfied with the thumbnail you have now?
This is a guest post by:
James Martell started his own affiliate marketing business in 1999. Now, a sought after speaker at industry conferences his insights into outsourcing, marketing and natural search are also shared in a popular podcast. James and Arlene live near the seaside in Vancouver with their children.
What Is Color Picker?
A software or program to create a desired color scheme? Well, not really. Color picker is a small wonderful piece of software which allows you to 'pick' a color anywhere on your screen. Yes! I mean just about anywhere on your monitor! You wanted to know the exact color of your toolbar? This is made possible with the magical color picker, which has been conceived by iconico.com.
Color Picker For KDE Linux Only?
Color picker, ideally, is for Windows-based operating systems. But the open-source community is so great that there exists a Color Picker for Linux systems too. But here there's a catch. The Nix color picker is only for linux based on KDE desktop. For example, on Mandriva linux you just have to right-click on your toolbar and select color picker from the available executable programs 'Add-able' on your panel or toolbar.
Gpick – An Advanced Color Picker For Gnome Desktop – Ubuntu!
In the open-source world, everything is possible and magical. There's now an advanced color picker, named as Gpick, for Linux systems based on Gnome Desktop, for example, Ubuntu Linux!
How To Install Gpick On Ubuntu?
It's as simple as downloading the .deb package of Gpick at linuxine.com
Once downloaded, you just have to double-click on it, provide your user password to proceed to the installation setup and voila!
How To Use Gpick On Ubuntu?
Once installed, gpick will most probably be placed in your Applications>Accessories>gpick.
1) Launch the program
2) Select any color area on your screen that you want to know the value of
3) Let your mouse pointer remain still on that point or area
4) Now click on your Space Bar – The color value has been snapped and saved!
5) Right click on the color you find on the polygonal shape and click on Copy to clipboard. You will find your color values there. Enjoy!
Who Uses Color Picker Or Gpick?
Color Picker or gpick are mostly precious to people indulged in web design and graphics, where the need to know the exact Hex color and name of a particular color area is vital.
Most often while writing, some people are confused when it comes to capital letters; which word should start with a capital letter and under what circumstances?! This is because Capital Letter usage is mostly done by intuition by most of us; do you know exactly when to use capital letters? If yes, I invite you to see if you got it right – if no, you have come to the right place, continue your reading below.
When To Use Capital Letters?
1) Beginning of a sentence
This is the very basic and classical usage of capital letters in the
english English language and any language since old times.
2) When using proper nouns
Wakish, Duffy, London, Manchester, November Jupiter, etc.
3) For adjectives formed from proper nouns
Elizabethan poets, Scotch whisky, the French language
4) When using 'special proper nouns'
Please note that 'special nouns' is not an official word class, but it is just how I'm personally tagging the following:
God, Christ, Bible, Trinity, etc.
5) For a pronoun or possessive adjective applying to 'God'
"They trusted in God that He would save His people"
6) For the first person singular, I
But this does NOT apply for 'me, my, etc..'
7) For personification (often used in poetry)
- If Winter comes, can spring be far behind? (Shelley)
8.) For the chief words in title of people, books, plays, etc.
Elizabeth the Second, Alfred the Great, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Tale of Two Cities
9) For salutations or forms of addressing (often in letters)
Dr, Mr, Mrs, Miss, etc.
10) In letters, for the greeting and complimentary close
Dear Sir,…
Yours faithfully,…
11) When using abbreviations of degrees, titles, etc..
B.Sc ==> Bachelor of Science
Q.C ==> Queen's Counsel
M.P ==> Member of Parliament
12) For the opening words of direct speech
"Blogging is my passion as well as my job", said Darren Rowse
But the capital letter should not be repeated in the second part of a broken quotation:
"I am working hard now," he said, "in order to provide for my old age."
13) For the first word in each line of poetry
First liner..
Second liner..
Third liner..
But this convention, as far as I remember, is however being disregarded by modern poets. (New generation, new styles)
Have I missed Any Other Uses Of Capital Letters?
If you think so, please do use the comment form below to add to this list, thanks.


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Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland, is being awarded a $9,050,000 Firm Fixed Price contract for four Theater Missile Tracker Prototype Kits and four Correlator Prototype Kits applicable to the AN/TPS-75 radar system. Contract is expected to be completed April 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The solicitation was issued in November 1994 and negotiations were completed in May 1995. Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air force Base, Massachusetts is the contracting activity (F19628-95/C-0037).
Texas Instruments, Inc., Defense Systems and Electronics Group, Dallas, Texas, is being awarded a $7,900,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee order for Block V software upgrades to the AGM-88C-1 HARM missile. Work will be performed in Lewisville, Texas, and is expected to be completed by May 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00019-93-G-0179).
PW Construction, Inc., Upland, California, is being awarded a $6,937,285 firm-fixed-price contract for modernization of a Bachelor Enlisted Quarters (BEQ) at Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California. Work is expected to be completed August 1996. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 199 proposals solicited and 14 offers received. The Engineering Field Activity West, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, San Bruno, California, is the contracting activity (N62474-95-C-2859).
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $7,154,372 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee provisions contract for engineering services to analyze and develop technologies for unmanned undersea vehicles. Work will be performed in Woods Hole, Massachusetts (90%), Newport, Rhode Island (5%), Keyport, Washington (3%), Panama City, Florida (1%), and Andros Island, Bahamas (1%), and is expected to be completed by June 1999. Contract funds in the amount of $50,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 122 proposals solicited and one offer received. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, Rhode Island, is the contracting activity (N66604-95-D-A128).
American Housing Technologies, Incorporated, Atlanta, Georgia, has been awarded a $19,999,954 Federal Government Share of a total $24,999,147 cost sharing/completion contract. (American Housing Technologies will bear the remaining $4,999,193 cost). The contract is under the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, and is for the conversion of designated Russian housing units. Specifically, the work consists of the conversion of an existing factory building to civilian use by the manufacture of 475 units of pre-fabricated Russian housing. The work will be performed in Moscow, Russia, and is expected to be completed by July 6, 1997. The land, the facility and some labor will be provided by Russia. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were 300 bids solicited on April 29, 1995 and 14 bids received. The contracting activity is the Defense Nuclear Agency, Alexandria, Virginia. (DNA001-95-C-0135)


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Singapore Airlines (SIA) has released the first publicly-available video clip of Airbus's A380 evacuation trial that took place at its Finkenwerder facility outside Hamburg, Germany on 26 March.
The two minute video sequence (below), appeared on the SIA's A380 microsite overnight. The clip shows preparation for the test, in which 853 volunteer passengers and 20 crew members left the aircraft within 78s, as well as exclusive infra-red footage from the monitor cameras inside the hangar. The tests were carried out to meet European and US certiufication requirements. Flight group editor Kieran Daly was the only journalist onboard the trial. Read his first hand blog account here.
Airbus originally showed the video clip at internal meetings last month, but declined requests to make it public. flightglobal.com filed requests under European Union access to information regulations with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), for whom the video sequence was made, to bring the video sequence into the public domain. It is not clear whether this prompted the manufacturer to release the clip.
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- Kollisionen schwerer Ionen (1)
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- Intermediate mass dileptons from secondary Drell-Yan processes (1998)
- Recent reports on enhancements of intermediate and hight mass muon pairs producedin heavy ion collisions have attracted much attention.
- Hadron yields from thermalized minijets at RHIC and LHC (1999)
- We calculate the yields of pions, kaons, and Æ-mesons for RHIC and LHC energies assuming thermodynamical equilibration of the produced minijets, and using as input results from pQCD for the energy densities at midrapidity. In the calculation of the production of partons and of transverse energy one has to account for nuclear shadowing. By using two parametrizations for the gluon shadowing one derives energy densities differing strongly in magnitude. In this publication we link those perturbatively calculated energy densities of partons via entropy conservation in an ideal fluid to the hadron multiplicities at chemical freeze-out.
- Gluon versus sea quark shadowing (1999)
- We calculate the shadowing of sea quarks and gluons and show that the shadowing of gluons is not simply given by the sea quark shadowing, especially at small x. The calculations are done in the lab frame approach by using the generalized vector meson dominance model. Here the virtual photon turns into a hadronic fluctuation long before the nucleus. The subsequent coherent interaction with more than one nucleon in the nucleus leads to the depletion sigma(gamma*A )< A*sigma(gamma * N) known as shadowing. A comparison of the shadowing of quarks to E665 data for 40Ca and 207Pb shows good agreement.


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NEW YORK (AVAFIN) -- A total of 702 block trades were executed during the market session,
typically at least 10,000 shares or more represent a single block unit. Block
trading activity shows that $32,555,755 worth of shares were bought
and $19,891,621 worth of shares were sold by institutional investors.
The positive net cash flow of $12,664,133 into the
stock shows that investment houses have positive outlook for shares
of Sprint Nextel.
A deeper look into options trading also reveals that traders hedged their positions with options
where 4,168 put and 26,790 call contracts exchanged hands leading to a 0.16
put/call ratio.
The last trading session witnessed a low of $2.90 and high of $3.11 during the day. Shares of Sprint Nextel
gained $0.16 (+5.44%) to $3.10. The current trading volume of 59M is greater
than average volume of 50M shares. The stock's 52 week low is $2.10 and 52 week high is $5.75. Within the last quarter, the shares have gained 10.71% of their value.
Sprint Nextel is the third-largest carrier in the United States, serving 47 million customers directly and 6.3 million via resellers using two separate nationwide networks. About 13% of sales come from the long-distance unit, which provides fixed-line phone and data services. The firm spun off its fixed-line local phone business in 2006, acquired Virgin Mobile in 2009, and owns a roughly 53% stake in Clearwire.


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Most people overvalue ideas and being first. You don't have to be first to have a good business, and you don't have to be unique. Far more important than being the first is just the simple foundation of giving your customers good value. Give good value for every dollar spent, and that will build return business, and word-of-mouth advertising, and a good business.
Instead of asking yourself whether you're the first, ask yourself can you get customers? Can you get enough of them to make it work? Will they recommend you, and come back for more? If you can answer yes to these questions, then you can build a business even if you aren't the first.
Relatively few successful start-ups depend on the ideas or uniqueness. What matters is doing it, starting it up, getting it done. For example, when Apple Computer started in 1976, thousands of people had the same idea. Altair and MIPS were already producing. Every hobbyist club in the country talked about it in their meetings. Jobs and Wozniak, however, did it. They found the resources, contracted people, took the risks and started up.
There are plenty of good examples. Was Federal Express patentable? No, but they did it. Look at Amazon.com; it was a good idea, but easily copied. In that case they knew they had to move fast and gain visibility very quick, to pre-empt competition. McDonald's? By the time you've had a good idea, so have hundreds or thousands of others. Build some advantage first, develop the idea and work with it, bear down and make it work.
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McCarton Ackerman grew up in Connecticut with a loud-mouth catholic and surly Jew as parents. His unique upbringing forced him to have a way with words from the get-go.
His liver miraculously let him graduate from Ohio Wesleyan University in 2008 and he ventured out into the recession with a perfectly useless degree in Creative Writing, completely and utterly screwed.
He took on a series of jobs afterwards including a receptionist, tennis instructor (despite hating coaching) and teacher (despite hating kids) before moving into a writing career. Since then, he has had his work published in Time Out New York, Huffington Post, abcnews.com, usopen.org and The Fix, among others.
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Implementation concepts for distributed cooperative transmission
We have studied this using a multi- cell simulator with 19 sites having three sectors each.
Seamless realtime traffic handover policy for IEEE 802.16m mobile WiMAX
We used NS-2 simulator with 20 cell sites in an area layout where users can travel at up to 360km/hr speed that is rated as high speed in WiMAX standardization.
Digital Cellular Telephone Interaction With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
Other technologies, designated as group 2 in Table 4, were used in an open-loop transmit mode (i.e., producing the typical pulsing format of that technology without being in communi- cation with an active cell site or base station simulator ).
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We have developed a very detailed standards-compliant cell - site discrete event simulator to evaluate the stretched connection model.
Wireless phones and cardiac pacemakers: in vitro interaction study
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3D Beamforming: Performance Improvement for Cellular Networks
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Position-assisted fast handover schemes for LTE-advanced network under high mobility scenarios
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2009 World Mobile Congress preview
The annual world mobile congress (wmc) starts today in Barcelona, Spain.
The WMC will bring a lot of news and announcements. As the largest mobile phone show in the world, GSMA not only attracts people from around the world, but also sets the stage for what will happen in wireless for the next 12 months.
Although this will be the first year in a few that I haven't had the opportunity to participate directly, I'm looking forward to following some of my favorite mobile blogs and news sites this week to stay at least partially connected to what is happening. Look for mini-updates in my twitter feed and some summary stories on this blog.
Look for some big announcements this week including a new smartphone from Toshiba and Acer, an upgraded mobile platform / os from Microsoft, hopefully news of a 3G GSM version of the Palm Pre, more Google Android devices, news on rival app stores to compete with Apple, details into how Nokia is going to focus more on services than hardware and probably nothing from Apple who were noticeably absent last year as well.
What are you hoping will be announced this week?
February 15, 2009 No Comments
iphone sales top blackberry… but here comes the gphone
Although it's impressive that the iphone outsold the blackberry and it's also impressive that the gphone has 1.5 million pre-orders, keep the following in mind:
- RIM has not been able to launch the Blackberry BOLD in the U.S. (the largest market for them) due to issues AT&T has been having with certifying it. If the BOLD had been on sale the last few months as expected, the numbers would look very different
- RIM is releasing a few new consumer driven devices over the next two months including the new clam-shell pearl, a curve with push to talk, and the thunder – RIM's touch screen version meant to compete with iphone head-on
- Don't confuse pre-orders by a carrier with sales to consumers. They're very different… and most initial reports on the gphone say it's no iphone killer as it's heavier, clunkier and the interface is nothing new or innovative. No word yet on who will be the first carrier in Canada to carry it either.
2009 is shaping up to be the year of the smartphone as all the major players are releasing "iphone killers" and you can expect Apple to have a few surprises of their own. More competition and choice can only mean good things for consumers.
October 26, 2008 No Comments
@CTIA Day 1 – Exploring mobile web strategies
CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment is dubbed the largest technology event in the mobile industry covering all aspects of wireless data. It's actually a smaller event than their annual wireless conference in Las Vegas every spring, but the focus at this show is actually more relevant to the mobile marketer.
The show officially starts today; however, I arrived Monday night in order to participate in a pre-show event called exploring mobile web strategies. The event was organized and moderated by Ajit Jaoker from futuretext.com who did a fantastic job of pulling in some heavy hitters in the mobile space for presentations and panels.
I took 9 pages of notes – much of which I'll share on this blog over the coming week as seperate entries…although if you've been following me on Twitter you've already gotten a preview of what is to come. Topics that really caught my attention were:
- Understanding and enticing the mobile user by Carol Taylor (Director of User Experience at Motricity)
- Mobile personas and segmentation by Pankaj Asundi (VP Media and content at Ericsson)
- Panel discussion around mobile social networks with senior representation from myGamma, mocospace, itsmy, mig33 and intercasting corp. This was probably the highlight of the day for me and will warrant it's own entry with perspective
- Monetizing digital communities by Jouko Ahvenainen (Chief Strategy Officer of Xtract)
- Panel discussion around driving mobile web adoption with representation from Openware, Vantrix, Skyfire, Greystripe and Admob
- Panel discussion around mobile advertising – today and tomorrow with representation from Ericsson, Yahoo!, Admob and Nokia
- Designing for mobile by Barbara Ballard (CEO Little Springs Design)
- Mobile search – present and future by Bena Roberts (President, Visibility mobile) and Michael "Luni" Libes (Chief Architect of Medio Systems) – who I ended meeting later that night at the Moco mixer party
Overall it was a great start to the week. I've got a full day of meetings and sessions planned today and will likely be taking more notes for future posts. I've also brought along my video camera – so you can expect to see some video blog entries similar to what I posted at GSM and CTIA in Mach.
I'm also still adjusting to left coast time. Speaking of which, it's time for another coffee
September 10, 2008 4 Comments
Apple gets it mostly right with the new 3G iphone which is good news for mobile marketers
Finally the wait is over.
Your new iphone is coming July 11th and it's twice as fast as the one you bought in Buffalo a year ago and half the price – making this a device made for the masses.
It's also coming with pretty much everything we were hoping for. My predictions were mostly right – 7.5 out of 9. The .5 was for saying the new phone would look different… I guessed that the new battery for 3G would make it a thicker device and we now know it will be thinner!
Some are disappointed that the new iphone isn't coming with a front facing camera (for video chat), or a flash – or even a better camera. Nokia has a 5 meg camera with the N95… couldn't we at least have a 3 meg camera?
Mobileme is a new feature that looks really interesting. Similar to other services i've seen such as SugarSync, Mobile me essentially allows you to synchronize your email, contacts, calendar and documents across multiple computers and your iphone. It also comes with push email – so like the blackberry, you will be instantly notified when email comes in. You even get your own login at me.com (I wonder how much they paid for that domain!) where you can access all your info through a web interface – much like MS Exchange today if you are on a corporate infrastructure.
Besides the business / enterprise updates, there wasn't much to get excited about on the software front – but that's ok. The official and non-official developer communities will fill in any missing pieces like they did with the first generation phone.
Having said that, it's very cool that loopt is now part of the iphone 2.0 platform. Loopt is a mobile social networking platform that incorporates location. I blogged about this months ago here when i said the future of social networking is creepy. At the time i was more jazzed about a similar product from Alcatel called geopepper.
What is interesting is that Steve Jobs used the Treo 750 and Nokia N95 as comparison devices for loading webpages. It's interesting because he didn't mention 2 new products that will challenge Apple for downloading speed; the new blackberry bold and thunder (expected to be out this fall) as well as the new Nokia N96 which is a faster & updated version of the N95.
The new iphone, or iphone 2.0 or 3G iphone is a huge leap forward from the first version released over a year ago, but it's still not the mostly technically advanced or sophisticated when compared to devices that are already on the market.
Having said that, who cares.
It's not about the technology, it's about the experience. Like I've said before, a great user experience will trump great technology and Apple has improved on something that was already pretty super awesome.
Why is that good news for Marketers?
Consider this… 98 percent of iphone users are browsing online, 94 percent are using email and 90 percent are texting. Approximately 80 percent are using 10 or more of the phone's features.
For marketers who think mobile marketing is only about text 2 win campaigns, the introduction of the iphone and other competing products this year will make the mobile device a rich environment to acquire, retain, or grow customers beyond the 100,000 or so iphones that already migrated here in the last year.
June 10, 2008 15 Comments
Social Media is ruling the mobile web
We knew this was coming… but results from a new report from Opera, a Norway-based mobile browsing company even surprised me!
According to the report, 40% of global mobile web traffic starts with popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, hi-5 and facebook.
That number grows to 60% when you look at U.S. numbers – which is not surprising as Americans tend to spend more time on the mobile web relative to SMS than other markets. No Canadian specific data was published in the report.
It will be interesting to see how mobile-first social networking site and utilities will impact this number in the next 12 months.
Other mobile social media sites to watch are:
- itsmy.mobi (and check out the blog & demo I published back in Feb here)
- bebo.com
- faceparty.com
- friendster (making a come back?)
Interesting enough, Nokia's own mobile social media site (mosh) did not make the top 10 most visited on any of the countries reported in detail within the report. I guess owning ~40% of the global handset market does not guarantee software or mindshare dominance.
You can read the full report here.
May 28, 2008 1 Comment
Nokia changes their social networking strategy with potential facebook deal
As reported in mocoNews.net, Nokia is in talks with facebook to both port their platform to Nokia and to potentially buy a share. With around 40% of the world hand set market, Nokia could significantly increase facebook's exposure in Europe.
This proves that just because you build it, it doesn't mean they will come.
Partnering with facebook to get their mobile platform on every Nokia device could mean their own mobile social network Mosh will never make it out of beta as it has not been successful in capturing significant mind share. This follows another mobile social networking flop from 2007 – the Sprite yellow yard.
Looking at the failure of mobile-centric social networks just re-enforces my point of view that mobile can't be treated as a stand-alone channel. It's a natural extension of interactive (web & email) and works best when supported by a multi-channel marketing plan.
This will almost certainly remain true until the mobile web catches up to the "desktop" web in terms of consumer usage and adoption.
January 21, 2008 2 Comments
Ten 2008 Mobile Predictions
It's a silly excercise, but everybody does it. After a banner year for mobile in Canada, here are 10 outrageous predictions for 2008:
- SMS third-party advertising – every SMS you send is 150 characters…most of which is sent as blank space. I predict new services will take advantage of this in 2008 to deliver SMS advertising to off-set mobile costs for the consumer (but only if they opt-in of course)
- Mobile Web advertising will take a piece of your media buy. We've seen it happen with online media…now with more inventory becoming available off-deck, the time is right to test and pilot this channel
- MMS Common Short Codes will finally arrive and usher us into a new era in Mobile marketing in Canada….or at least catch us up to the rest of the world.
- Mobile payments (m-Commerce) will start to emerge from text books, blogs, and sales pitches. Look for pilots from Interac, Visa and at least one of the major banks next year.
- The iphone will finally arrive in Canada – but it will be the second generation 3G phone that will support higher internet access speeds and cool features like video calling. This will be offered exclusively on the Rogers network – but don't be surprised if another non-mobile retailer offers them for sale first
- Fixed or low-cost data plans will be universal across all carriers in Canada. It's already started with Bell and Rogers now offers an $80 / month plan for 500 megs of data – plenty for most of us. It's still a long way from other plans around the world that are 4 times cheaper or better, but it's a start
- Due to fixed or low-cost data plans, look for the mobile web to catch fire. Marketing campaigns will start incorporating mobile web strategies as part of their marketing mix
- A new mobile carrier will be announced. The Canadian government announced the opening of new spectrum and is reserving a piece of it for a new player and with special engagement rules that will make it easier for a new competitor to enter the market.
- Google will continue its charge towards world mobile domination. Look for their gphone sometime in the 3rd quarter and look for them to either bid on spectrum in the U.S., buy a carrier like Sprint outright to own a piece without having to go through the auction process or leverage their new mobile platform called Android to get direct access to many subscribers across many carriers.
- Social Networking will make the leap from desktop to Mobile as a primary interface / access point
Even if only a few of these come to fruition in 2008, it will be a great year for Marketers and a great year for Consumers.
Happy Holidays!
December 25, 2007 9 Comments
Microsoft joins the mobile advertisting party
In the past few months we've been watching as Google, AOL, Yahoo, and Nokia have been making moves to extend or enter the mobile advertisting space.
Microsoft has decided to also join the party and has started placing ads on their U.S. MSN mobile page to follow efforts already made in Belgium, France, Spain, Japan, and the U.K.
The Bank of America will be one of the primary buyers of ad space – supporting their innovative mobile banking website and experience at bankofamerica.mobi. Paramount Pictures and Jaguar are the other two primary buyers.
Microsoft also plans to bring new features such as astrology, movie tickets through movietickes.com, ringtones, wallpaper, games and video clips on MSN Mobile via an agreement Microsoft has with Thumbplay.
Although Microsoft is late to the game, the mobile advertising space is still young and relatively small. This is not like the nineties when Microsoft had to catch and kill Netscape who already dominated the browser market.
December 12, 2007 No Comments
Google vs. Nokia – the next cold war?
The announcement of Google buying Jaiku is making waves in the industry. Imran Ali at Mobile Messaging 2.0 is calling it the most significant acquisition ever by Google. I'm calling it the continuation of a cold war arms race between Nokia and Google for world domination. Well World Mobile domination (the new WMD?) anyway.
From the East (or near-East… or near-near-East) there is Nokia. They are already world leaders in the mobile device space and have a neat mobile social network called MOSH. With their acquisition of Enpocket they now have a best in class mobile ad-delivery platform. With their acquisition of NAVTEQ they now have a best in class GPS-based mapping system to compete in the location based services (LBS) space. With the Gartner Group forecasting that GPS based handsets will grow to around 40% by 2011 from 13% in 2007, clearly GPS or LBS could become the next killer mobile application. With all these acquisitions in the social networking / content space, Nokia is starting to look a lot like Google…
From the West we have Google. They own search world wide and have become a massive advertising power with their Google AdWords platform…. a platform that is now being offered for free for mobile for a limited time. Some have speculated that a mobile AdWords platform could subsidize carrier costs for the eventual release of a Google phone into the marketplace. Imagine a 3G phone loaded with Google widgets that costs little to nothing for the consumer. The g-phone could be an i-phone killer… or anything Nokia killer.
Combine the Google acquisition of Jaiku with the other recent announcement that Google also purchased Zingku – a mobile social utility tool that is web and SMS based and we have the makings of a mobile social networking platform that will rival all others. Consider that Google already has a great installed base with Orkut (which is more popular than facebook in some parts of the world), it wouldn't be a stretch to say that they'll be playing in the mobile social networking space very soon. With all these acquisitions and developments, Google is starting to look a lot like Nokia…
Who will win this cold war…or will one buy the other eventually? One thing is for sure, following the mobile space is going to be very interesting over the next 18 months!
UPDATE 10/11: Nokia is also going into mobile search – check out this article on mobile semantic search!
October 10, 2007 19 Comments
Identity 2.0 – where does it begin?
Recently I've come across discussions around the future of online identity – specifically around the idea of creating a global or universal ID badge / profile etc… that you can reference or link to when you need to. Instead of filling out multiple profile forms for every social network you register for or instead of creating multiple online avatars for your favourite metaverse, why not have one global digital identity mechanism….kind of like having a passport or driver's license that will be recognized across the web as authentic ID.
Today we can identify visitors through the tracking of their I.P. address and /or through cookies…but the problem is that it's nearly impossible to track people as they switch computers or restart their machine (assuming dynamic IP addressing is turned on).
Check out the video by Dick Hardt. The video really brings to life the idea of "identity 2.0″ and offers some insight into where or how this will evolve on the web. You should also check out Mitch's blog entry on global avatars and Mike Kujawski's article on the importance of branding yourself as an authority online.
In the mobile space we use phone numbers instead of I.P. addresses as an identifier. With people changing their phone numbers less fequently then they would change computers, leveraging your mobile number as your access key to a global digital avatar is an interesting concept to explore.
Recent efforts by Sprite and Nokia's (with MOSH) to create mobile social communities could mark the beginning of the mobile device becoming the primary digital interface…and therefore a potential leverage point for those seeking the holy grail of identity 2.0.
August 28, 2007 5 Comments


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Officers opposed to shortlisted travellers' site
Posted: November 17, 2012|
A DECISION by Swansea Council to shortlist a field in Llansamlet for a second travellers' site was opposed by some of its own officers, a report leaked to the Post has revealed.
The site in question is off junction 44 of the M4, on a field bordered by Peniel Green Road, Gwernllwynchwyth Road and the Swansea Vale "spine road".
In the council report from April this year, under a section headed Economic Development, officers said: "The site slopes steeply to the north, is highly visible to the main entrance to Swansea Vale, is dissected by high voltage cables and has no service connections.
"Its development for high quality permanent commercial land use is part of an ongoing strategy for the future regeneration of the Swansea Vale area. Its use for a permanent travellers site should be resisted."
It was one of five sites short-listed earlier this year by a council task and finish group, comprising officers and councillors. Various criteria were used in this process.
The other four sites were at the old greyhound stadium, Cockett; the rear of Parc Melyn Mynach and the proposed cemetery, both in Gorseinon; and Milford Way in Penderry.
The shortlist emerged from a list of 19 potential second travellers' sites in Swansea.
Nine of the 19 sites had objections under the Economic Development heading, including two of the five eventually shortlisted: the greyhound stadium and the aforementioned Llansamlet site. Llansamlet is meanwhile home to Swansea's authorised travellers' site at Pantyblwyd Road, which is full.
Councils must provide adequate accommodation for travellers and a report has said a second site is needed.
No final decisions have been made about where the second site is to be located, and the process by which the shortlist was arrived at is the subject of two independent reviews.
A council spokesman said the task and finish group had considered 1,006 sites "against set criteria".
He added: "Any sites taken forward for consideration need to meet these criteria. We will be launching a full public consultation which will give the public every opportunity to comment on the proposals."


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John Allender (left) and members of his Squirrel Busters video crew peppered Mark Rathbun with questions at his Ingleside on the Bay home on April 18 while carrying recording equipment. This image was taken from a video Rathbun recorded of the incident at his doorstep.
Church of Scientology defector Mark Rathbun says he is constantly tracked by a group calling themselves the Squirrel Busters that seeks to root out what it calls false Scientology practices.
An unidentified member of the Squirrel Busters film crew stands in Mark Rathbun's driveway in Ingleside on the Bay on April 18. Rathbun said he is being harassed by the crews because he defected from the Church of Scientology.
Former Scientologist Mark Rathbun looks out his front balcony window, pointing out where a group called the Squirrel Busters has rented a home in Ingleside on the Bay. Rathbun said he sees the group and their film crew outside his home at least once a day.
Former Scientologist Mark Rathbun shows two of the police reports he's saved, including one where he claims a group called the Squirrel Busters parked a car with cameras to spy on him at a restaurant.
Film crews in Ingleside on the Bay have sported T-shirts that say "Squirrel Busters" and have a photo of local resident Mark Rathbun's head attached to a squirrel's body, with a red line crossing out the image.