Monday, May 30, 2005

Trouble at the ODP

Trouble at the ODP Trouble at the ODP - By Jim Hedger - May 26, 2005 ... The submission backlog, incidentally, grew so rapidly that the ODP editors opened a discussion forum known as the Resource Zone specifically to address questions and concerns from webmasters. After operating for over a year, the collective of ODP editors that ran the Resource Zone elected to close down the most used service available on the forum, the Site Submission Zone. ... For search engine marketers however, the question of relevance vs. effort comes into play. At one time, a listing at the Open Directory was mandatory in order to guarantee strong listings at Google, Yahoo and other search engines. Today, while still helpful, the strength of a Open Directory listing has been diluted by the search engines themselves. In an article titled, "...Time for The ODP to Close?", Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan suggests three ways the venerable DMOZ could reorganize and revitalize itself. Whatever it does, it should do it soon as the importance of the largest human edited directory of websites is decreasing as quickly as the backlog of submitted sites is increasing. Trouble at the ODP

Sunday, May 29, 2005

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Friday, May 27, 2005

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Memorial Day Memorial Day Memorial Day Memorial Day Quotes and Memorial Day Stories Memorial Day Quotes We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. - Francis A. Walker Decoration Day by Thelly Reahm © Tidbits of Time 1995 Time was, when millions of Americans placed flowers on the graves of family members and war heroes...it was called Decoration Day. The custom was begun in 1865 in Waterloo, New York, to commemorate those killed in action in the Civil War. After WW I, Congress decreed May 30th a national holiday to honor the dead in all American wars. Disabled Veterans sold poppy's each holiday to raise funds for Veterans Hospitals (from the words about poppy's wave in Flanders Field). In 1971 lawmakers moved the holiday to the last Monday in May in order to give Federal workers a three-day weekend....I don't know for sure, but it was probably done at midnight on the last day Congress was in session. In the Thirties I used to tiptoe across the granite markers at Loma Vista Cemetery as a child. Somehow, walking on the raised mounds of grass made me queasy. Decoration Day was a whole family outing. The flowers we placed on our family's graves were fresh picked from our yards and gently placed in rusty vases set into the hard ground. Sweet Peas, Stock, Snap Dragons and even the lowly yellow nasturtiums that wandered over the edge of the wash out back of our house would make a colorful bouquet....we grew them well. Then we weeded around our family gravestones and polished the marker until we could see our faces in them. There was Grampa Hyder, Uncle Ed, Cousin Lawrence (shot in the hunting accident when he was twelve) and Grandpa and Grandma Miller (my half-brother's grandparents) and Cousin Ouita who died in Alaska. It was a bit different then than today....there's more of a military flavor now to the happenings, with bands and marching Scout Troups. Perhaps because we've had so many more wars. And now the fields of grass are strewn with plastic flowers. Not all change is good. For those of you with strong family ties or a bent toward continuing these stories or our genealogy program in the computer, I feel it is important for you to know the burial places of your ancestors. I, personally, have willed my body to the University of California San Diego (La Jolla Campus) for medical study. After any organs are used for transplant or study, the remainder will be cremated and the ashes scattered at sea. I find it a bit poetic that in life I couldn't swim a stroke, but in death I will become a water baby! So, there won't be a graveside of mine for you to place memorial flowers, or weeds to trim around a granite stone. You needn't clutter your mind with a dim memory of where my plot is. Most of us are so distraught at a Memorial Service that we can't begin to remember the location of our loved one's casket laden with flowers. And as the list of our family members denotes, the body has been placed in a cemetery near the town in which they died. If you have moved away from that area it is all the more difficult. Instead I am giving you a different kind of memorial. I give my book of memories "Tidbits of Time" and this poem penned just for you: Scattered At Sea I will be in the waves you ride, on the morning tide.... I will be in the warm, coarse sand you smooth with your hand.... I will be on the soaring wings, of the bird that sings..... I will be diadems in waves As they flow in caves.... I will be in the night moon glade, And damp morning shade.... I'll be the wind that holds the crest, so you'll be blessed.... I'm now the beach in many ways, In sun or fogbound haze.... Then I'll be gone like ebbing tide, But memories will abide.... I want my life to go on having meaning and purpose after I am gone, and because I believe that I will be home with the Lord in Heaven the instant my heart ceases to give life, I have no regret in giving my empty, pain ridden body for Science to study. I am not here. I did not die spiritually. This is not the end. I have life everlasting. Eternity is mine. This is what you are to remember about me on Memorial Day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I hope this reminds you of things you might want to write about for Memorial Day. It's important to leave our values and traditions to the next generation. Write on, Thelly, the Storylady, Cardiff by the Sea Memorial Day Stories One for all Military for those who have been in conflict or been away from friends, family and loved ones all over the world. And for those who have fought and died. As I approach the gates of heaven; St. Peter I will tell; one more soldier reporting sir;I've served my time in Hell. -- Mark Anthony Gresswell Memorial Day Stories I have often asked myself why human beings have any rights at all. I always come to the conclusion that human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because, under certain circumstances, people accept them without compulsion and are willing to die for them. -- Vaclav Havel Patriotic Quotes National Memorial Day Concert 2005 May 29 at 8 p.m. On the eve of Memorial Day, an annual tradition honors the bravery and sacrifice of America's servicemen and women with the top-rated, multi-award winning concert broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. 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Sunday, May 22, 2005

Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketers Host Panel of Local Journalists to Discuss Search Engine Usage in Everyday Life

Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketers Host Panel of Local Journalists to Discuss Search Engine Usage in Everyday Life DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2005--Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association: -- The Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association (DFWSEM) Will Be Hosting a Panel of Journalists from the Dallas Morning News and Star-Telegram to Educate Search Engine Marketers on How to Better Target Members of the Media Search engine marketers may be missing a large market in their current strategies: members of the media. According to a recent Middleberg-Ross, Pew Internet and American Life Project survey, 92% of journalists use the internet for article research, but many marketers may be ignoring these influential members of our society -- or maybe they just don't understand how to reach them. The Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association will be hosting a panel featuring local journalists Marissa Alanis of The Dallas Morning News and Dave Lieber of the Star-Telegram to give insight into how they search in their everyday professional lives. Those who attend the panel will learn how to better target members of the media in their search engine strategies. Featured Panelists: Marissa Alanis, The Dallas Morning News Marissa Alanis is a news assistant in the Collin County bureau of The Dallas Morning News. Prior to her career in journalism, Ms. Alanis worked in the Internet marketing division of the Dallas office of Weber Shandwick, a global public relations agency. While at Weber Shandwick Ms. Alanis worked with AA.com, spirituality.com, Kraft and Coca-Cola. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in journalism at The University of North Texas. Dave Lieber, Star-Telegram Dave Lieber is the "Watchdog" columnist for the Star-Telegram where he has worked for over 12 years. Mr. Lieber has won several awards including the Will Rogers Humanitarian Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, the Katie award from the Dallas Press Club, "Best Columnist" in the U.S. Southwest and in 2003 he was named "Editorial Employee of the Year." His book The Dog of My Nightmares: Stories by Texas Columnist Dave Lieber was recently published. Question and Answer session to follow panel. Meeting Details: Seating limited - to reserve your place, please RSVP to 972-831-2124 Date: Monday, May 23, 2005, 6:30 p.m. Cost: DFWSEM Members: Free Non-members: $10 at the door Meeting Place: Romano's Macaroni Grill in Addison/North Dallas, on Beltline Road between Midway and the Tollway. 4355 Beltline Rd., Dallas, TX 75001 Phone: 972-386-3831 http://www.macaronigrill.com/menu/default.asp?Unit_ID=001.009.0002 About DFWSEM: The Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Organization is dedicated to educating businesses in the Dallas/Fort Worth area about the benefits of search engine marketing. The group meets once a month at various locations throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. To become a registered member of DFWSEM email info@dfwsem.org. Individual DFWSEM memberships are $75 for the first year. Corporate memberships are $175 for the first year and include 3 seats to monthly DFWSEM meetings. Additional seats for a Corporate membership are $50/year. All annual memberships receive a link from DFWSEM to your company web site, and a complimentary subscription to Revenue Magazine. MasterCard, Visa, Amex, and checks are accepted. DFWSEM meets the third Monday of every month at various locations around the Metroplex. For more information, visit http://www.dfwsem.org. Vending Machines by North American Vending: The Toughest Vending Machines on the Market - Written Lifetime Guarantee Vending Machines News: Vending Machines Vending Machines News Vending Machines News Vending Machines Vending Machines SMS.ac SMS.ac SMS.ac SMS.ac sms.ac sms.ac IDC and SMS.ac SMS.ac SMS.ac sms.ac sms.ac SMS.ac SMS.ac SMS.ac Love Quotes Christmas Carols SMS.ac Famous Quotes Beef Recipes Chicken Recipes Funny Quotes SMS.ac Candy Recipes SMS.ac A Christmas Carol Barbeque Recipes Recipes Tool Cabinets Recipes Crock Pot Recipes Famous Quotes

Thursday, May 19, 2005

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Yahoo! Messenger Announces Free, High-Quality Worldwide Calling

Yahoo! Messenger Announces Free, High-Quality Worldwide Calling Wednesday May 18 New Version Also Includes Interactive Photo Sharing, Tools to Expand Online Communities and Enhanced Spam Protection Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today announced a public beta for the next generation version of its popular Yahoo!® Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) service. The new Yahoo! Messenger will allow people to enhance their shared experiences with friends and family around the world with free PC-to-PC calls, a leading-edge photo sharing experience, easy tools to expand their friends' lists and Yahoo! 360 community, increased spam protection and much more. With the introduction of these new features and services, Yahoo! Messenger is taking instant messaging (IM) to the next level by providing an all-encompassing, integrated communications experience. Next Generation Yahoo! Messenger Yahoo! Messenger continues to lead the marketplace by bringing together the most relevant features into one comprehensive IM suite and providing the greatest choice for consumers to stay connected to one another. The next generation of Yahoo! Messenger gives people easy and more personal ways to share experiences than ever before. New enhancements to the service include: Free Worldwide Calling and Voicemail(1): Yahoo! Messenger has enhanced its already popular voice service to allow consumers to far more easily call anywhere in the world for free through high-quality, PC-to-PC calling. Making calls over the Internet gives people more to talk about by being able to connect with friends and family while viewing photos, playing games, searching the Web and so much more. People just need an Internet connection and a headset or a microphone and speakers. Additionally, for the first time, voicemail messages can be left for friends who are away from their desks or offline, and can be easily retrieved through a call history log that displays all voicemail messages, as well as in-bound and out-bound calls. To further personalize the PC-to-PC calling experience, people can customize ring tones for their friends. Photo Sharing: Through an easy drag-and-drop photo sharing feature, experiences are brought to life within a mutual, interactive photo sharing environment. Like sharing photos in-person, consumers can communicate and point to aspects of pictures while viewing photos together. Tools to Expand and Foster Communities: A new set of tools has been introduced to let people effortlessly find, add to and share their friends' lists. Additionally, through deep integration with Yahoo! 360, a community product that helps people keep connected and share content, people can invite Yahoo! Messenger friends to their growing Yahoo! 360 community. Also, those connected on Yahoo! 360 will now see new content indicators next to their friends' IDs which give people instantaneous insight when new content -- such as blog postings, photos, lists or profile data -- is updated. Integration with Yahoo!® Music Unlimited, Yahoo!'s music subscription service, allows people to browse and listen to friends' collections of music and playlists via Yahoo! Messenger. Enhanced Spam Protection: For the first time, Yahoo!'s widely recognized and highly-effective proprietary spam filtering technology, SpamGuard, will further bolster protection for Yahoo! Messenger users. With this new security feature, consumers will be able to report spam or unsolicited IM messages to Yahoo!, which will in turn help improve SpamGuard. Yahoo! Messenger will now be safer than ever, as SpamGuard further limits the number of potentially harmful instant messages sent by spammers. Contact Cards: Consumers can choose how they want to connect with others -- whether it's through text messaging, e-mail, mobile text messaging, or PC-to-PC calling -- right from their friends' list with one click. Additionally, people have one click access to their friends' personalized Yahoo! 360 content right from the contact card. Compelling Search Tools: A prominent search field appears right in the conversation window to easily retrieve relevant Web search information from Yahoo! Search. Additionally, people can save URLs directly from the conversation window to their personal My Web page, a "personal search engine" that enables people to create their own personal online archive by saving their favorite pages, search results and search history. Drag and Drop File Transfer: With improved file transfer feature, people can easily drag and drop multiple files at once, and thumbnails will appear to specify which kind of document is being transferred (e.g. Word, Excel, photo, etc.). Easy Access Archiving: To ensure that people can easily access their previous IM text conversations, Yahoo! Messenger will give people the option to access previous interactions right in the conversation window. Customized Content: To stay on top of the latest in pop culture, most popular searches and entertainment news, people can choose to display the Yahoo! Buzz Index and Entertainment Tonight content tabs in their IM window. Additionally, people can create a Yahoo! 360 blast -- a quick thought to share with their circle of friends -- with the new Yahoo! 360 content tab. The new content tabs join the existing suite of customizable content including the Calendar, Games, LAUNCHcast Internet radio, News, Sports, Stocks and Weather tabs. "We are committed to providing a world-class IM experience for consumers, and we will continue to enhance and extend voice services as a core component of Yahoo! Messenger," stated Brad Garlinghouse, vice president, Communications Products, Yahoo! Inc. "Talking to your computer no longer means you are crazy, it means you are smart, because you are taking advantage of innovative technology and a unique combination of features that only Yahoo! Messenger offers." The next generation of Yahoo! Messenger is launching simultaneously in 18 localized versions around the world including: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Germany, Korea, Mexico, Spain, South Asia, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States and Yahoo! en Espanol. About Yahoo! Messenger As one of the most popular instant messaging services on the Internet, Yahoo! Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) makes it easier than ever for people to express themselves, interact and manage relationships with friends and family. Yahoo! Messenger has a unique and proven history of innovation in instant messaging as the first to offer Webcam functionality, the first to introduce an interactive and shared experience with IMVironments®, and the first to introduce animated emoticons. Yahoo! Messenger is fully integrated with Yahoo!'s other leading services and provides the premier vehicle for flexible, meaningful interactions between friends and family. About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Yahoo! provides online products and services essential to consumers' lives, and offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. IMVironments, Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. © 2005 Yahoo! Inc, All rights reserved. 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Monday, May 16, 2005

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Real Estate Bubble - Housing Bubble

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Yahoo! Premieres Yahoo! Music Unlimited

Yahoo! Premieres Yahoo! Music Unlimited Tuesday May 10, 5:14 pm ET May 10, 2005--Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News) Beta Version Music Subscription Service Provides Fans with Access to More Than One Million Songs for an Unprecedented Value of $4.99 Per Month(1) Enables Music Discovery Through Personalization and Unique Music Sharing via Yahoo! Messenger Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News) today announced the beta availability of its new music subscription service, Yahoo!® Music Unlimited, providing music fans with unparalleled music listening and management functionality at incomparable value with an introductory price of just $4.99 per month for an annual subscription or $6.99 on a monthly basis. The service, available May 11, allows consumers to play tunes from a catalog of more than one million songs, transfer tracks to portable devices, as well as enjoy the unique ability to share and discover music with friends through Yahoo! Messenger. "We are committed to being at the forefront of the rapidly growing online music segment," said Lloyd Braun, head of the Yahoo! Media Group. "Yahoo! Music Unlimited draws on the best of Yahoo! to provide personalization and community features unlike anything else in the marketplace." In addition to allowing fans to browse and listen to friends' collections of subscription music and playlists via Yahoo! Messenger, the service enables them to build personalized music libraries, transfer tracks to compatible portable devices, purchase discounted permanent downloads, listen to commercial-free Internet radio stations and access their subscription service from any Internet-connected computer. "From premium radio to an entirely on-demand experience, Yahoo! Music Unlimited has assembled all the key elements to fulfill consumers' needs," said Dave Goldberg, vice president and general manager, Yahoo! Music. "For a great value, users get to listen to as much music as they want, while utilizing superior innovations in playlist generation and community features to enrich and expand their music experience." Subscription Service with Unparalleled Price, Sharing and Personalization Yahoo! Music Unlimited features include: Yahoo Music Engine: Yahoo! Music Unlimited comes with a free music management application, the Yahoo! Music Engine, which lets consumers rip, mix and burn CDs, import and manage music, and transfer music to portable devices. Large Music Library: Yahoo! Music Unlimited offers a continuously growing online catalog of music composed of more than one million songs, encoded in the highest audio quality (192 kbs) from all major record labels as well as most independent labels. Yahoo!® Messenger Integration: Extending the long tradition of Yahoo! Music's community-based music experience, Yahoo! Music Unlimited makes it easy for consumers to share and discover music among an online community of friends. Integrated with Yahoo! Messenger, the service provides the unique ability for subscribers to browse and listen to friends' subscription music collections and playlists. (1) Personalization & Community: Leveraging the more than three billion song, artist and album ratings of Yahoo! Music fans, Yahoo! Music Unlimited will generate personalized homepages and recommendations based on perceived tastes and subscriber community ratings. As users rate more songs and add to their digital collection by importing music from CDs, downloads, etc., subscribers discover new music through recommendations made by other Yahoo! members who have similar music tastes. Music Portability: Yahoo! Music Unlimited uses the WMA format and Windows Media Digital Rights Management 10 (WM DRM 10). This support enables subscription tracks to be transferred to any portable device that supports WM DRM 10. Instant Playlists: Members seeking music similar to a particular artist or genre can generate instant playlists of dozens of comparable tracks and store them in their personal music library. Instant playlists are a convenient way to discover new music; organize tracks for special occasions such as roadtrips, workouts or dinners-for-two; as well as transfer multiple files to portable devices. LAUNCHcast Integration: Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscribers automatically receive a premium version of LAUNCHcast, the leading Internet radio service. This version of LAUNCHcast offers more than 150 pre-programmed stations, no commercial interruptions, unlimited song skipping, premium audio quality and exclusive genre and artist stations. Access From Any PC: Using their Yahoo! ID, members can access their personalized subscription content from any Internet-connected computer. Download Purchases: The Yahoo! Music Engine provides access to a music download store, allowing users to purchase and permanently own songs for $0.99 per track. Subscribers to Yahoo! Music Unlimited are offered downloads at a discounted rate of $0.79 per song. Downloads purchased through Yahoo! Music Unlimited can be burned onto CDs, transferred to compatible portable devices, and used on a total of five PCs. Yahoo! Music will continue to offer Musicmatch's Jukebox 10 music management and On Demand subscription services. Effective today, Musicmatch On Demand pricing will be lowered to $6.99 monthly, $5.99 quarterly and $4.99 annually for subscribers. Yahoo! Music intends to eventually combine Musicmatch's offerings with Yahoo! Music Unlimited to create the industry's best end-to-end suite of music services. Pricing and Availability Yahoo! Music Unlimited can be accessed by downloading the free Yahoo! Music Engine music management software from http://music.yahoo.com. Yahoo! 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