BMW thinks that 0.4% of their webtraffic in germany would come from google.
So they even has less of a clue than one would assume:
Search engines direct more than half of all web traffic.
Google is the biggest one. So despite their lame cheating attempt that got them banned last week they only get
0.4% of their traffic from Google? Somebody gotta tell these bozzos how to read a log file.
Most mom and pop shops in the US have a better clue about the internet than BMW.
Amazing.
mandyc19 seems to be online about 320 hours a day.
She certainly does allot of posting.
First Sony tries to ‘rootkit’ people, then the german BMW website get’s banned from google for spamming and now Nvidia gets in trouble for fake postings.
Oh, I forgot all those wikipedia edits by people working for the US Congress.
It all comes down to this:
You will not have enough marketing billions to recover from that. The gullible you still can buy. But not the next generation: Those people know better and will not forget.
And what you can do to it:
Google video slowly starts to host all the things that mattered on those internet. This clip has been around for a while. I saw excerpts years ago.They will never sell any Videos over at google video, but hosting all this is nice nevertheless.
Just finished installing a mail server. Using postfix, courier-imap, virtual domains via mysql tables, spam assassin, postfix admin and finally squirrel mail. Making the gory linux stuff got working was harder than it should have been. Probably because of the fedora core 4 distro I used. Authdaemon woes. Convoluted configuration files and compilation
options. Next time I will try the very same system with a debian install and see if it really can be done with a couple of apt-get commands.
But now that things work it seems to be very nice. ClamAV needs to get added at some point, and there are probably twelve million add ons for squirrel mail etc. But overall it works like a charm.
And running this postfix system means one less Microsoft exchange server.
Looks like most of blogger is offline from here and from where BlogsNow looks.
So I told the bot to stop trying.
I just hope that gmail is been maintained better than blogspot.
Then on the other hand: After installig a postfix server recently I might be tempted to
keep gmail only as a backup.
Sometimes I really really hate the fact that I am always working and never have time to play with things like the above.
I wouldn’t mind building a decent jacket that would write things that were related to the persons position – or something like like that.
Poor danish people. They are really among the nicer europeans.
Really: ever since the Vikings not much bad things came out of Denmark.
I wonder how many people burning embassies now could find Denmark on a map?
Probably about the same percentage then that of americans finding iraq on a map.
It really is the same problem: Stupid people and mental short cuts.
Sony makes amazing technology. Their professional Broadcast division did a great job with the HDCAM SR. Only the name was a gigantic mistake: Much like a Porsche competitor would call it’s car a ‘Yugo RS’.
Branding for the “bravia” seems to be working ok as well.
But: There is no Playstation-3. And there will be none that you can buy this year.
Blueray sounds like Betamax.
Sony was always bigger and more important than the other consumer electronics companies in Japan.
It will have been this size difference that led to their demise: They are not what IBM was to computers in the 70s
or Apple is to the mp3 player market. Still they are big enough to think that they can push their own formats
alone: Betamax, Minidisc, MemoryStick, iLink (only the name was different), and now blueray.
Sony leaned out of the window last year with the Playstation-3 Presentation. They would need to deliver
this year. And I am taking bets that they can not.
Sad really: I loved those Trinitron TVs in the 80s. Nothing came only close.
Times Online writes about Google and their future plan.
Google buying dark fiber is reasonable, makes sense but is hardly any news. Going off in a tangent about google boxes and Cringleys chipping containers would be alright for weblog.
Newspapers are great. Many of them put great care in what they are writing about. But often with technology their quality is poor.
Years ago there were these big discussions about ‘bloggers vs. journalists’. The discussion is pointless. How can you compare a profession to literally everybody? It’s the usual problem in change: People apply the old categories on a new problem: It used to be that Journalists were the only ones that could publish. The internet allows everybody to publish. From 7 to 7 million readers. That’s all. Some people said that the credibility and depth of research would favor Journalism in comparison to bloggers. I think it’s stupid to divide things at this arteficial line. The article above is not a good one. It mixes facts with rumors and pure speculation and is not based on any profound knowledge of the matter.
Some areas of the press where never as good as some people claim it was. Now there is competition.
O google you probably find better information in weblogs then in newspapers. On other matters that might be different.