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New apple products and announcements fall 2010 event

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Twitter like review of the apple special event September 2010.

iPod Shuffle

ipod shuffle
Too expensive. $49 for 2Gb.

iPod Nano

iPod Nano
Too small for touch. So whats the point in Multi-touch?

iPod Touch

iPod Touch
Like it. Amazing features for a music player. Again, expensive.

iTunes 10

iTunes 10
Hate the new logo. Nothing changes with the software that I always hated. Confusing, odd navigation, mysterious playlist and I lose track of my media files.

Ping

itunes ping
Niche pseudo social network. Close minded inside iTunes and doesn’t bring anything new. There is a lot that can be done there. Let’s see.

Apple TV

Apple TV
The actual box hardware and the price are spot on. The software is too basic. I want much more on my TV.
The remote control is one of the things that I think needs someone to reinvent. Hate writing something with the remote arrows and we need to be able to write or comunicate what we want with the box set. How else can we search and navigate through piles of data fast?
This will also be a challenge for the upcoming Google TV. I am curious to see how they solve it.

Why I don’t use Gmail Priority Inbox

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This week Gmail has been rooling out a new feature called Priority Inbox.
After turning it on for 24 hours, I ended up turning it off. Why? Because I believe it clutters my inbox more than it helps.

Priority Inbox sections

The sections in wish Gmail divides Priority Inbox don’t seem to make a lot of sense.
For me:
Important and Unread = Unread
Starred = Read
Everything Else = Spam/Garbage

What is Everything Else!?

The one section I really dont like and also the one that you cannot remove (all others you can change or remove) is Everything Else.

All the emails that go to the Everything Else section can only be of 2 types:
-Spam and should be on the spam folder
-Important and should be out of this section

If I receive an email it must be important for me or else is spam/garbage.

Read Unread

All I need in my inbox are my unread messages so I can read them or the ones that I already read and need to come back.

All other messages should go to the archive, spam or trash. Isn’t that simpler than having some blue bars and emails changing place?

I simply love, adore and absolutely need Gmail

I don’t like this feature but Gmail is the only email client I can imagine myself using today. I love it, it’s my only suggestion to anyone in need of an email account and whenever my computer is on gmail is running on my browser.

BTW – making the Mark read, unread, starred, unstarred options go to a combox, not that smart also. Prettier but annoying.

What it’s like to live on the streets?

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I always had this curiosity about people that live on the streets. How they live like? What do they think? How they ended up living there? all sorts cross my mind…

We may judge them for being drunks or whatever and some of them are but not all and in the end of the day they are people like you and me that somehow made choices and ended up there.

Today I came across invisiblepeople.tv. A place where Mark Horvath shares his video interviews with homeless people.

You can find many interesting interviews and get to listen and know more about people that you would normally not speak with.

I found the next couple interesting because when asked what would they want if they could have 3 wishes, none of them mentioned money. More, the girl even says she would like to be successful but not money wise.

OK… I know one could say they are deluded or whatever. But is just curious.

If you want to follow this project subscribe to the InvisiblePeopleTV YouTube Channel.

This also reminds me of the Interview Project by David Lynch that is somewhat related to this and that I also like very much. This last one is more artistical and a bit dark.

Would I go on a date with you?

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Today I got the following flowchart from OkCupid and as I am sure there are loads of girls dieing to ask me out but are afraid of me turning them down I decided to share it :P

click to view full size

click to view full size

Its not all that complex and there is loads more to the equation but it is pretty smart for the little information I gave them.

Most of all it is really cool and the loads of trends and stats OkCupid have been sharing are getting loads of hype.

I did this post mostly because I think OkCupid is the dating site to keep an eye on and to use (shame it is only in English). The design is great, the usability is good and its free.

Compared to the other free options and the actual number one plentyoffish I would choose OkCupid without looking back. Plentyoffish design reminds me GeoCities (RIP) and it feels like a market, not a fun place where you can find someone that you would like to meet.

But things are looking up for OkCupid:

If I were Markus Frind I would be getting worried.

Fiona Apple – Why Try To Change Me Now

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I’m sentimental
So I walk in the rain
I’ve got some habits
even I cant explain
Go to the corner
and I end up in Spain

Why try to change me now?

I seat and day dream
I got day dreams galore
Cigarette ashes that they go on the floor
Go away weekend
Leave my keys in the door

Why try to change me now?

Why cant I be more conventional
People talk and they stay… So I try
But that cant be
cos I cant see
my strange little world
just go passing me by
let people wonder
let them laugh let them frown
you know I love you
till the moon is upside down
don’t you remember
I was always your clown

Why try to change me now?

Why cant I be more conventional
People talk and they stay…. So I try
But that cant be
cos I cant see
my strange little world
just go passing me by
let people wonder
let them laugh let them frown
you know I love you
till the moon is upside down
don’t you remember
I was always your clown

Why try to change me?
Why would you want to change me?
Why try to change me now?

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A Tribute To Cy Coleman

Analysis of long tail keywords for SEO with Google Analytics

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After the recent Mayday update to Google SERP I decided to have a look into how much was the long tail keywords influenced by this.

Long tail keywords are normally keywords with 3 or more words. To track it down I used the following regular expression: [^\s\+]+(\s|\+)+[^\s\+]+(\s|\+)+[^\s\+]+

Steps inside Google Analytics. Traffic Sources->Search Engines->Google->Non paid

On the filter keyword [containing] I input the regular expression: [^\s\+]+(\s|\+)+[^\s\+]+(\s|\+)+[^\s\+]+

After I just tracked down the last 3 month number of visits with and without filtering the long tail and calculated the % value of the longtail.

long tail keywords/total organic = % of the value for the long tail

5 minutes and I realised that mayday update did *not* influence my sites long tail keywords.

Hope that helps and if someone knows of a simpler or more effective way to do this I would love to know.