We think Web 2.0 is still alive but we don’t know what it is
Rex Hammock just blogged about the death of Web 2.0. Well, ok, but nobody knows what the heck it is anyhow, (sorry for my strong language). Defining Web 2.0 is a lot like figuring out a Nielsen family.
That’s part of Rex’s point too; this line summed up Web 2.0 perfectly:
“Web 2.0, which meant anything, so therefore meant — and still means — nothing.”
To this day I’m trying to define Web 2.0. I twittered the question but didn’t get much of a response. I blogged about it and had no comments. After I posted a video on Youtube and uploaded a podcast, I still had questions. I checked out a local meetup but nobody could give me a solid definition. I read Wikipedia on the subject but it only had guidelines for identifying characteristics. I give up. I’m headed over to Slashdot.
If you have a few minutes, pop over to Rex’s blog and have a read.
Also, somebody tweet me when they know the answer or when an upgrade is released.
Thanks,
David
PS – sorry, I just felt like blogging even though I didn’t have much to say. :/
Share This Posted in Technology | No commentsCristiane is my super-sweetheart
We’re getting married in August and I can’t wait. I love her with all my heart. 
In response to a rant on DP Forums
This post is in response to a post on Digital Point Forums. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=9431765#post9431765
Somebody had complained that Google was unfair to them just because the site had changed. Google is not a person; it’s a bunch of computers programmed by a lot of people. Google does not hate you and is not sitting on a throne holding a scepter in one hand and a keyboard in the other.
Google does not care.
However, if Google was a person, you just pissed him or her off.
Here’s how you did it…
1. You took all the pages that Google painstakingly cataloged for you over the last 8 years and deleted them or moved them someplace without telling Google where they are.
2. To add to that, Google doesn’t understand why you have a bunch of brand new pages all of a sudden; especially since it’s duplicate content to what’s already in the Google index, (but no longer on the site).
3. You Gave Google more work. You have 95 links on your home page as opposed to the 49 you had before. So…in essence, you’re telling Google, I hate you so much that your page rank means nothing to me…spread it out wherever you want.
4. Your site structure looks more organized to humans but to Google it looks like a bigger mess than it was before. Google doesn’t understand how your site is relevant for the letter “G” or “H”…or any of the other letters in the alphabet.
5. Lastly, Google doesn’t like spider traps. If you’re going to link to a page, make sure the spider can get out by following another link. Blank pages are bad for spiders.
Hope it helps.
David
Share This Posted in Google | 1 commentDomain Age Tool – updated Oct 3, 2008
SEO Valley recently changed the location of the link. It’s updated in the link below. Thanks, David.
I’m sending some deep link love to these guys and/or gals. I finally found a bulk domain age tool that works. I am putting the SEO tool through it’s paces right now. I registered another 5 domains this morning, (3 .coms and 2 .nets). I won’t go into detail other than to say I found an 8 year old domain and others that are 5-6 years old with little effort. I only have about 2,000 more domain names to check and possibly register. Well done, SEOvalley. Thanks for making the tool available and free.David
PS – hopefully the above paragraph was h*u%m!a^n *(r*e@a$d^a%b#l@e 
One of the most underated shows in the history of television.
Buddy Hacket, Jay Mohr, and Illiana Douglas star in the best TV show to ever get canceled…well, before Arrested Development got dumped.
Action. Check it out and give it a chance. Oh, don’t watch it in front of the kids.
Enjoy,
David
Share This Posted in Reviews | No commentsFunny Horoscopes for Wednesday, September 24th
As for my mission: If only one person enjoys this post then I think I’ll give up…
- Aries – You have a pimple somewhere on or around your face, body, or neighbor.
- Taurus – Don’t jump from a sky-scraper with an umbrella as a parachute today.
- Gemini -People have seen your evil twin hiding underneath your skin. (tip of the hat to TMBG)
- Leo – Be careful not to handstand on an alligator today.
- Virgo – Your one shy cookie…or you’re one cookie shy…something like that.
- Libra – Happy Birthday, FRUITLOOP!
- Scorpio – There’s an easier way to get that flavor than pouring coffee on a doughnut…I just don’t know what it is.
- Sagittarius – Don’t worry, the unemployed get benefits too.
- Capricorn – Don Cheadle will not be at your slumber party…don’t lie.
- Aquarius – You have to give 110% effort just to pay the interest for your constant laziness.
- Pisces – Try to avoid the caviar blended espresso; it’s not as delightful as it sounds.
Bag o’ douche with side of
My new favorite site for at least today is: http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/ This never fails to amaze me when you see pretty girls with douche-bags. Not actual douche-bags, you see; that would be a hygiene issue clearly out of my jurisdiction. No, I mean the douchy douche-bag guys that have that same look of satisfied entitlement in every picture they take with a pretty lady, foxy mamma, or swell dame (foxy mamma reference for our older readership; swell dame reference for our much older readership).There are several categories of douche-bag:
1. The gang banger – identified by multiple tattoos with at least 2 on the neck or one on the shoulder and a hands raised motion with some sort of finger contortion that signifies an alliance with a specific group of people; (perhaps other gang members or college fraturnity). These douche-bags are usually found at the beer tent of a regional car show taking pictures with the Miller Light girls.
2. The discontented malcontent non-conformer – This douche-bag where’s his trucker hat with a completely flat brim. His ears are pierced with hoops and his hair is shaped all day long with a shampoo Mohawk…you remember…from this morning? Yeah, they have short hair so it just looks douchy.
3. And others…
Ok, I’m bored and I have work to do so enjoy.
David
There Will Be Blood…and a bad night of sleep
My fiance’ and I watched There Will Be Blood, (TWBB), last night and the movie never got any happier from start to finish. As a matter of fact, it was decidedly worse in the end. But damn! Daniel Day Lewis, (DDL), is an actor. When you look up the word Actor in my dictionary, there’s just a picture of DDL as Daniel Plainview. I have to be honest and say that I did not read anything about TWBB until this morning. If I had then perhaps we wouldn’t have watched it last night. My review is simple: the pace is deliberate. The movie never slows down or speeds up. There are action sequences but they are muted with the signature Paul Thomas Anderson long-shot, (I don’t really know if it’s his signature; I just remember in Boogie Nights the camera following William H. Macy like it did DDL). In my book, the only actors on par with DDL are Don Cheadle, Philip Seymore Hoffman, Gary Oldman, Steve McQueen, Peter Sellers, Sean Penn, and (not just a postumous award) Heath Ledger. I’m sure there are many, many others but my list comes from watching movies with these actors and not seeing the actors anymore. Their perfomances were so different from movie-to-movie that you absolutely cannot see the actor anymore than you can compare apples to oranges. I will probably add Christian Bale in there at some point but not quite yet; I can totally picture Bruce Wayne chasing a woman down the hallway with a chainsaw. Wait, what was I talking about…I forget.
Share This Posted in Reviews | No commentsPPC Rockstars to Feature one of my sites!
PPC Rockstars, as heard on WebmasterRadio.fm, will be featuring reviewing one of the sites that I designed, built and manage…but it’s not what you think. Before you scream, “HOW DARE THEY”, just understand that I volunteered for this. David Szetela, (pronounced Zet-Tell-uh), put the call out for sites to review for an upcoming show. I jumped at it because, frankly, I am not the cat’s pajamas when it comes to PPC or conversion. Add to the fact that on the site they are reviewing I have a todo list longer than my arm anyway so I can only imagine what they’re going to suggest.
Maybe the good news is that over the years that this podcast is listened to, we will have thousands of visitors and maybe even earn a couple of customers.
No, I’m not telling the name of the site; you’ll have to listen to PPC Rockstars on the June 23, 2008.
Thanks to David Szetela of clixmarketing.com and Mary Huffman of ionicmedia.com for their generous offer to help.
Always listening…
David
Yes Google…
I did mean literacy and thanks for asking.
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