tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571444986138822592024-02-07T15:30:38.285+10:00Sharing My OpinionAssume I or Anybody is no better then you in anything,
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seek and combine "Knowledge Confidence and Action" and you are 99% there.Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-41412303826462947222011-05-19T14:13:00.000+10:002011-05-19T14:13:19.207+10:00Take down notice due to a Google CSEhttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
An update following the take down notice targeted at uvrx.com:
Following is part of the Email I received this morning.
"We are writing to inform you that we have received a complaint alleging that copyright infringement is taking place on your site uvrx.com.
It appears that the website contains material being copied, reproduced, or otherwise displayed Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-23219911458928898082010-12-01T17:26:00.003+10:002010-12-01T18:08:13.864+10:00Google's Nexus One twitter account hacked?http://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
@googlenexusone spams followers.
After several months without a tweet, the normally quiet, reserved, almost shy twitter account @googlenexusone decided to let one rip... and man, what a stinker.
Being a Nexus One owner, I was glad to see the account tweeting again and was eager to find out what goodies/updates/announcements were being unleashed on N1 owners.Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-81627278200817867112010-08-14T12:28:00.000+10:002010-08-14T12:28:03.240+10:00dotCO domains - any potential?http://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
I didn't jump on the .CO bandwagon and I'm not sure whether that's a good thing, or a bad thing.
I think I only got two of them, one was to redirect, and one because.. Um, I guess because just in case ;)
I do see some potential in the extension, as well as some negatives.
The negatives are, .CO is very similar to very popular .COM, so when someone sees a URL withJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-37809340797656302252010-07-06T16:54:00.004+10:002010-08-14T14:15:00.390+10:00Comment spam on Google owned blogshttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
I’ve been meaning to write a post about all the comment spam on official Google blogs for a while now, but kept putting it off.
Even though I am reminded (what seems like) a few times a week. One time I even tweeted Matt Cutts about it, but my tweet probably got lost in all the other tweets he gets.
Basically ever since I left a comment of my own on Google’s “Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-60638174160756476282010-07-02T16:50:00.003+10:002010-07-02T20:54:39.634+10:00Homeland security presents Disney on ICEhttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.comU.S. government agencies including the "US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE)" and the "Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)", yesterday executed four residential search warrants and seized domain names as well as assets from bank, PayPal, investment and advertising accounts, under the "guise" of a crackdown on Internet piracy.No doubt the crackdown was "Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-55666280492894247582010-06-25T21:35:00.005+10:002018-10-28T17:20:05.853+10:00Australia finally gets the Google Nexus Onehttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
On Friday 25th June 2010, just before the close of business, Vodafone Australia confirmed they are getting ready to sell the Google Nexus One. Over 5 months after its US debut.
Release date and price/plan/contract details have not yet been announced, but VHA have said more details, including timing and availability will be announced next week.
UPDATE: 30th JuneJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-76968009265895414572010-05-15T12:01:00.004+10:002018-10-28T17:21:37.056+10:00Google closing the Nexus One online storehttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
Seems the Google web store set up in early January to sell the Nexus One is closing down.
A blog post by Google's Nexus One board on the 26th April, stated that
on April 30th Vodafone will start selling Nexus One in their UK stores, online, and over the phone. Soon after, they will also begin selling Nexus One in France (SFR), Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-5286624355643237392010-05-07T21:33:00.001+10:002010-09-01T06:55:42.054+10:00How many forum members does it take to change a light bulbhttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb?
1 to change it then post that the light bulb has been changed
5 to share similar experiences
4 to discuss how it could have been changed differently
7 to caution about the dangers involved when changing light bulbs
1 moderator to move it to the Electrical section
2 to argue about the move
1 adminJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-29288195377837736802010-04-02T03:00:00.003+10:002010-04-02T03:18:19.162+10:00Google gives Street View an extra DGoogle LatLong: Google physicists discover extra dimension in Street ViewWell I guess it had to happen,with 3D being headlined in the news a lot lately. It was only going to be a matter of time before the internet giant (aka Google) made the shift towards the extra dimension.I somehow thought YouTube would be first on the list to get slapped with the extra D, but I the YT was beaten by Street Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-534494246396205742010-03-25T21:52:00.004+10:002010-03-25T22:12:15.585+10:00Malware details to leave labs and go primetimehttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.comLabs, in Google's webmaster tools has had a disclaimer of sorts in place since the Labs feature was added back in October 2009. This "disclaimer" states that..."Webmaster Tools Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren't quite ready for primetime. They may change, break or disappear at any time."Well one of the Labs features "Malware Details" Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-39132809586514365902010-02-11T09:58:00.009+10:002010-03-25T21:27:58.025+10:00Google rollout fiber to the homehttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.comGoogle have announced today that they are planning to build an experimental ultra high-speed, open access, broadband networks in a number of homes across the United States, in an attempt to make the Internet better and faster. (and I suspect to help give US ISPs a hurry along).The network is expected to deliver speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second to at least 50,000Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-4764936972436845402010-01-28T22:47:00.017+10:002018-10-28T17:26:36.605+10:00Purchase the Nexus One in Australiahttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
Update: as of the 26th June, The N1 is now available (although a limited number) through Vodafone Australia on a $79 per month contract for 2 years. IMHO, its still a better deal buying directly through Google (while the store is still open).
The Google "Nexus One" phone manufactured by HTC, which made its debut earlier this month, is currently, the most Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-85075996510514152022010-01-23T13:34:00.006+10:002010-01-23T13:58:20.711+10:00Haiti - Google maps updated show devastationhttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.comOver the past few days, Google has been updating the satellite imagery of Haiti, which "I hope will be valuable to aid workers", say's Sergey Brin in his blog.In my opinion, this will give relief workers on the ground a better idea of their surroundings, and to easily spot areas that potentially have a high concentration of destruction and therefore injuries.View Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-32517055128218611632010-01-20T22:06:00.007+10:002010-01-20T22:32:50.873+10:00Twitter fails againhttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.comYes, Twitter is down... Again.Maybe the title should have been "The fail whale strikes again".The reliance many sites have placed on the twitter API and its growth in popularity, sure has highlighted the issues it has with reliability.Twitter is over capacity.Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.Maybe time for a rethink.Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-4120542495855074022010-01-13T12:08:00.009+10:002010-01-13T13:13:56.882+10:00Google review business operations in Chinahttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.comGoogle revealed today, that in mid-December 2009, they detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on their corporate infrastructure.Originating from China, the attack resulted in the theft of intellectual property.Although Google has not said who lead the attacks, they have stated that investigations show the primary goal of the attackers was to access the Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-63535251276440173612009-12-23T15:25:00.009+10:002009-12-27T13:34:40.947+10:00Million Billion Trillionhttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.comMillion, Billion, Trillion.Similar sounding words that have very different meanings.With these numbers being tossed around a lot these days in financial, statistical and general media reports, the general public could be forgiven for dismissing or not really understanding the impact and implications these similar sounding words really represent.I remember in the Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-32814946422363179842009-12-18T16:37:00.011+10:002009-12-18T18:30:22.339+10:00Twitter hacked - Down, but not out.http://www.SharingMyOpinion.comSeems the popular micro blogging site Twitter has temporarily been taken down by hackers.The Business insider claims twitter was hacked by a group calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army", leaving a short lived message on Twitter's home page that said...This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-62772562334060445822009-11-04T15:42:00.004+10:002009-11-04T16:03:11.864+10:00Google noindex,nofollow sidewiki commentshttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.comSeems that Google have had a change of heart regarding the indexing of SideWiki comments.Which should come as a great relief to those who held concerns about derogatory SideWiki comments showing up in search results associated with their site.Doing a search for "site:google.com/sidewiki/entry/" now returns no results because Google to their credit have added the Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-4674668762087012032009-10-20T09:59:00.003+10:002009-11-04T16:08:03.216+10:00Google confirms toolbar PR will remain.http://www.SharingMyOpinion.comAfter Google removed the PR distribution from Webmaster tools last week, there has been much debate about whether the toolbar PR will be removed as well. Good arguments for and against have been raised, but Google get to have the final say.Well less than an hour ago, Google employee Susan Moskwa returned to the thread with this comment.Hey folks,Re: Toolbar: My Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-74136787993913588342009-10-14T20:43:00.015+10:002018-10-28T17:38:52.878+10:00Labs added to webmaster tools.http://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
Google has added a couple of new features to webmaster tools under the label "Labs"
Fetch as Googlebot.
With Fetch as Googlebot you can see exactly how a page appears to Google.
The first is basically a way to see how Googlebot sees your site, from the header information returned to the code contained in the page.
A great way for webmasters to check Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-72753485979119606902009-08-02T12:16:00.003+10:002018-10-28T17:39:43.865+10:00How to get video thumbnail images in search results.http://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
Quite a few common searches done these days, result in having a small thumbnail image with a tiny play button embedded in the bottom right hand side of the thumbnail that accompanies the title and description of some of the search results.
This is especially the case whenever a search query has a related youtube video.
These are "Video thumbnails" and are not to Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-12542690201198058112009-07-25T21:17:00.008+10:002018-10-28T17:41:58.716+10:00Alexa adds user ratings and reviewshttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
Alexa.com.
The company founded in April 1996 that has been providing "Free web traffic metrics, top sites lists, site demographics, hot urls, and more", have just launched a "User Reviews" section to there very informative site, letting users (and webmasters alike) rate and review the sites they own.. I mean visit.
Although you do need to be logged in before Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-38047464838296078462009-07-18T10:38:00.008+10:002009-07-18T12:33:48.625+10:00Upgrading hosting | Opinions wantedhttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.comA few years ago, I started my first site.I got a basic windows hosting package to begin with, then a few months later upgraded to the next level hosting package (still windows) so I could host multiple domains in the one account.This has been working fine so far, although there are a couple of things that concern me about this setup, I have not noticed any indexing Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-38913448630233709042009-05-19T20:01:00.023+10:002018-10-28T17:54:05.091+10:00Make money posting links on Google - Yeah right!http://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
About half an hour ago, after I had finished checking one of my sites "Alexa rank", I decided to have a look at the Alexa "Hot URL's".
I was suprised to see a familiar looking URL at number 5 on the list of hot URL's that I have seen mentioned several times before in a few differant discussion groups. The title of the link is "How I Make $5,000 a Month Posting Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2857144498613882259.post-35647729736686956332009-05-15T07:29:00.007+10:002010-07-27T09:48:25.826+10:00Google's Country Specific Domainshttp://www.SharingMyOpinion.com
While looking at the new layout/design of Google's Webmaster tools, I noticed that the drop down list of Google TLD's provided for the "Top search queries" stats, had a lot more Country specific TLD's added. I hadn't noticed any changes in the list before the new layout/design, so I assume that this is new for WMT's. (Webmaster tools)
Looking at the list, I Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13027747603814917163noreply@blogger.com4