Being Clear and transparent

I like their approach to bugs on the site, so it can be really nice for us if we can also apply that..

http://buzz.blogger.com/

got Time? check out some map applications

all together at: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

A 19$m company?! Not a big deal.

" The real estate search engine and community Trulia, has released Snapshots, a new interactive housing map that is a bit more fun than it should be."

Trulia was founded in 2004 and has raised nearly $18 million in funding, with investors including Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners.

http://www.trulia.com/

This is a 19$m company, not a big deal, we are fast and more innovative! (need more people!! for projects in hand)

Rent or Buy Calculator.

Indeed the question is, how can we implement such for our projects, calculators are always on demand.



"The New York Times Rent or Buy Calculator compares the cost of renting versus buying your home to determine which is a better money move in the long run. Give it your monthly rent, the projected price of buying a house, mortgage rate, and property tax, and it'll determine after how many years buying is better than renting (if at all). If you live somewhere like Los Angeles or New York and your name doesn't end with Rockefeller, the calculator is a little depressing"

Full Article: http://lifehacker.com/393781/rent-or-buy-calculator-helps-you-decide-which-is-best

Google Earth on Map, Not Just a map!, rotate it 3d

We can put the 3d of a house (for focusabacus), or hotel (for our future tourism portal) or anything on map! ..

"Website developers are now able to embed 3D maps, which can be modified using Google’s JavaScript API to add KML data, draw 3D buildings, attach callbacks, and more. The entire embed is powered by a special Google Earth Browser Plugin that end users must install. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox users on Windows."

Read Full at http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/28/google-earths-3d-goodness-comes-to-the-browser/

%3 growth for the first time since october

In US real estate new home prices for the first time since october (after that mortgage crisis) increased %3 this month according to the Reuters Business.

From Donald Trumps University

90% of the world's millionaires made their wealth in real estate.

There's a lot of money to be made in real estate, but without sufficient knowledge and experience, you put yourself at financial risk.

For more than 40 years, Donald Trump has successfully turned real estate into real money.

The Url is dead...

The URL is dead...LONG LIVE SEARCH!
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 by Chris Baggott
In a great post today from ReadWriteWeb called "The URL Is Dead...Long Live Search." My favorite quote:


".....it would seem that long, unwieldy URLs will become even more cumbersome on devices with limited screen size. That makes search even more important, and driving consumers to your product via search seems like a safe bet."

Basically it talks about a big brand (SpecialK) that ran a TV commercial and asked the viewers to search rather than remember a URL. It's a great point, but I still think misguided execution.

The strategy was a big high production TV commercial that I'm sure drove a huge spike in sight visits to download a diet plan. I don't know the exact number of visitors, or how many people actually downloaded the plan.

What I do know, is there are Thousand of keywords associated with diet and weight loss and millions of searches....and those searches happen every day. It's frustrating to me that an old media 'campaign' like this gets so lauded when if SpecialK or any big brand would simply invest a fraction of the resources that goes into one commercial into a corporate blogging strategy designed for SEO they would be able to accomplish a couple of significant goals:


A blog program designed for Search Optimization will throw a very wide net out and attract lots of qualified traffic over a wide range of keywords. Enterprise blogging is one of the best ways to drive SEO.
Real Engagement. The Edelman Trust Barometer for 2008 tells us that the most trusted sources for information are "people like me". What corporate blogging does is allow organizations to create a lot of content written by real human beings....when a searcher finds you, they find 'someone like them' and the result is significantly higher conversion.
Compendium makes easy to use blogging software for small businesses to retailers and serving the worlds largest enterprise applications...all delivered SaaS.

New Trend For Companies

The more the world is globalized, the more the companies are integrated. The following article tells about the new trend how the companies collaborate together so as to achieve and compete.

Take a look so that we can compete:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/technology/25proto.html?ex=1369454400&en=054b9dd9477087ff&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

News Cut & Prepared For You

The http://www.flowww.com/ changes the way we read news and I really like that somebody is getting the best ones for me from flickr, techcrunch, financial times and so on.

So, while you are drinking your own coffee americano (che fa schiffo :)) take a look at the web site.

why have user evaluations or reviews?

Importance of Reviews and User Evaluations

According to JupiterResearch, 77 percent of online shoppers use reviews and ratings when purchasing.

Reviews drive 21 percent higher purchase satisfaction and 18 percent higher loyalty, according to Foresee Results.

In a study of 2,000 shoppers, 92 percent deemed customer reviews as "extremely" or "very" helpful, finds eTailing Group.

BizRate found 59 percent of users considered customer reviews to be more valuable than expert reviews.

In a CompUSA-iPerceptions study, 63 percent of consumers indicated they're more likely to purchase from a site if it has product ratings and reviews.

86.9 percent of respondents said they'd trust a friend's recommendation over a critic's review, while 83.8 percent said they'd trust user reviews over a critic, according to MarketingSherpa.

92.5 percent of adults said they regularly or occasionally research products online before buying in a store, found BIGresearch.

According to Keller Fay, 63 percent of all WOM is positive. Across all Bazaarvoice clients, 80 percent of products rate 4 or 5 stars out of 5.

Importance of DMOZ

Inclusion in DMOZ.org is hard and is in most of the cases a one time chance, DMOZ.org is really important as most search engines give alot importance to sites included in dmoz; indeed it is primary source of relevant information for all the search engines. In the picture above, you can see that (Green Lines), meaning supply of information.

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