Delta airlines flights will provide wireless internet access in all US territory. No VoIP calls allowed. Flights going in and out of Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco & Miami on Boeing 767 will be first to enjoy Wi Fi service.
Delta Airlines, the largest domestic carrier in the country recently merged with Northwest Airlines expects to have more than 330 equipped airplanes to provide the service by the end of the next year, they will be the only major US airline to offer this wireless service.
The service provided by Aircell’s GoGo is affordable, prices for regular flights, less than 3 hours, $ 9.95 USD and $12.95 USD for longer than three hours.
The well recognized columnist from Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg made a test flight from San Francisco to Aircell’s home base in Colorado to test out the service. He averaged 500 to 600 Kbps down and 300 Kbps up, not a blazing speed, but nevertheless fast enough to access decently all your needs. One important factor is that Skype or messaging services with VoIP capabilities are not allowed.
The next video shows all the details, watch Walt Mossberg explaining his test results and how the service will work.
For the month of September, Google is heading “App to School” by embarking on a cross country bus tour to visit several campuses.
The image shows the Google Apps bus tour. Thousands of schools have already used to computing in education. Here are the new additions:
* Collin County Community College District
* Francis Marion University
* George Washington University
* Indiana University
* Kean University
* Kent State University
* Kishwaukee College
* Loyola Marymount University
* Montgomery County Community College
* New Jersey Institute of Technology
* University of Florida
* University of San Diego
* University of Virginia
If you don’t know what is Google Apps, see the next interesting YouTube Video and begin to take advantage of this free & advanced tool. The only requirement is to have a Gmail account.
Last week came alive a new search engine called Cuil, Founded for some ex Google members. The new kid on the block hadn’t a good start up, the servers went down the first day because a high traffic demand. And people still doesn’t know how to pronounce the name. In Cuil’s proper words they say the name is pronounced “Cool”.
HitWise, an Internet leader in online competitive intelligence revealed the first data for Cuil search engine. Here are some interesting initial numbers of the market share of visits in the U.S.
HitWise:
“One of the advantages of our massive 10 million U.S. Internet users sample, is that we can report on daily market share percentages in a very timely manner. According to our daily rankings data for July 28th 2008, Cuil premiered a 106 position of all Internet sites, and a 10 th position for the Search Engines Category with a 0.6% of visits to all search engines this first Monday. While these opening day stats are impressive, on Tuesday, Cuil slipped to the 12 th position among the search engines and 197 th for all sites.
Another interesting fact is that, on Monday Cuil received 34.6% of its traffic from the search engines (25.7% came from Google) and 26.8% came from News & Media category indicating that news coverage of Cuil launch was successful in driving launch day traffic for the new search engine.”
Alexa also shows another interesting Cuil traffic data from around the world.
By now, the new search engine seems to be an unknown alien in the large Spanish community, only Spain has a little significant traffic data.
Germany takes the second place in visitors from around the world, I expected more visitors from Japan, by now they are far way in 9th place.
Cuil claim to be the “world’s biggest search engine”, so I suppose that they have the biggest database of webpages.
They show the next data in their webpage “Search 121,617,892,992 web pages“. I made a little search test with the next popular KeyWords: Britney Spears, Brad Pitt & YouTube.
Here are the results from Google, Yahoo & Cuil see for Yourself the result in numbers. Cuil practically fails in all terms to shows the largest SERP’s.
Youtube
Cuil 173,211,665
Google 1,250,000,000
Yahoo 1,270,000,000
Brad Pitt
Yahoo 75,100,000
Google 23,600,000
Cuil 9,745,433
Britney Spears
Yahoo 215,000,000
Google 107,000,000
Cuil 136,397,691
This info appears in Cuil website.
Cuil Philosophy in their proper words.
The Internet is getting bigger and more disorganized every day. Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.
What does the name Cuil mean?
Tom Costello, founder and CEO, is from Ireland, a country with a rich mythology around the quest for wisdom. Cuil is the Gaelic word for both knowledge and hazel and features prominently in ancient legend. One famous story tells of a salmon that ate nine hazelnuts that had fallen into the Fountain of Wisdom and thereby gained all the knowledge in the world. Whoever ate the salmon would acquire this knowledge. A famous poet fished for many years on the River Boyne hoping to catch the Salmon of Knowledge. When he finally caught it, he gave it to his young apprentice Finn McCuil to prepare, warning him not to eat any. As Finn cooked the salmon he burnt his thumb and instinctively sucked it to ease the pain. And so it was Finn and not the poet who gained all the wisdom of the world
Images beside the results. How do the pictures are selected?
We know from our research that people can make better and quicker decisions about relevance and quality when they can see an image from the website. We do our best to take images from Web pages that accurately reflect the content of the website. Many websites are full of images, so we use advanced algorithms to determine the best image to show the user.
This concept about the images is one of the errors that I noticed, Images do not correspond in many cases to the shown webpage, where are they coming from?
All search engines show their results in the same way, Cuil try to innovate and try to change the rules. They show results in columns and implement different ways to show results using roll down menus and some kind of tagging.
Domain history in the way back machine. Something that I noticed, is the weird past of the Cuil Domain, it was initially registered in July 30, 2001 and had this look.
The www.cuil.com website is currently being completed as a local portal directory of Health-Club.net the ultimate guide to local neighbourhood gyms, aerobics, fitness, physique and health clubs for the UK National Directory
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Then in March 21, 2007, the domain name was for sale. Take a look.
The domain name www.cuil.com is for sale. Prices in the region of US $ 4,250 Get On The Web Limited registered for its own websites, portals and client projects a number of generic domain names (including this one) some years ago, which are now no longer required. We are considering selling this domain name alone, or the domain name plus partially-developed website. If you are interested in this domain name please complete this offer form.
The domain name was in this way until Mar 21, 2007, date that I suppose Cuil was acquired for the current Owner. Tom Costello.
Let’s see how this new search engine performs. It’s too soon to define Cuil search engine performance. What will make different to the new Cuil, Have you try it?
This morning I received a newsletter from ComScore, a leader in measuring the digital world (NASDAQ: SCOR), where they are revealing that American Apparel has ranked as the top online advertiser displaying ads among apparel retailers in the United States. A huge total of 483 million ads were delivered during the month of April reaching 49 million Internet users. American Apparel is beating names like: NBA, NIKE, ARMANI & LEVI STRAUSS.
Here is the ComScore list of top apparel advertisers in the U.S. Market
American Apparel, LLC
UnderArmour.com
SnorgTees.com
L.L. Bean, Inc.
LaneBryant.com
Nordstrom.com
Spiegel Inc
Giorgio Armani S.p.A.
Levi Strauss & Co.
BustedTees.com
Nike
NFLShop.com
Endless.com
Skechers.com
American Apparel takes advantage of the social media phenomenon and advertises heavily on Social Media websites.
The majority of display ads were delivered via social media networks. Almost half of its ads appeared on top social network sites: MySpace.com 24 % and Facebook.com 19 %, while AOL carried nearly 12 %.
The social Media phenomenon
Let´s remember that there is a whole world out there in MySpace, FaceBook & YouTube, millions and millions of people practically socializing (living there), the old fashion way just to check your email is gone, persons love to: chat, video chat, video call, messaging, sharing photos, sharing friends, sharing videos and sharing everything that can be shared, that’s why American Apparel delivered so many ads in those communities. There are many more social networks that capture internet users. Do you know the phrase “Are you following me?”
American Apparel Display Ads in social media sites April 2008
Fox Interactive Media, including MySpace
Facebook.com
AOL LLC, includeing AIM
Photobucket.com
Yahoo! Sites
Google Sites
Time Warner – Excl. AOL
Amazon Sites
DeviantArt.com
eBay
The press release is also available at: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2367
Source: comScore Ad Metrix
The List of non profit organizations that help people in the United States & the United Kingdom will grow with the help of YouTube.com
A YouTube Blog announcement begins thus:
Do you want to connect with your volunteers, supporters and donors but do not have the funds to launch an expensive outreach campaigns?
All non profit organizations always need support in any way, and now with the help of YouTube they will have access to multiple benefits with an excellent tool from the online video sharing king. Non profit organization will able to setup free brand channels on YouTube.
It’s well known that anyone can register at YouTube and have a free account, upload and share videos easily, that’s a fact, but if you are a non profit organization you can have more advantages using YouTube.
Perhaps you are wondering what is a YouTube brand channel? Let me explain the basics because a brand channel provides a number of features that are not available for standard user channels.
YouTube brand channel characteristics
Branding is the word; the first difference allows you customize totally your channel to reinforce your organization brand identity on the net with your logo, slogan or corporate image.
With a brand channel you create a destination page for your brand on YouTube, giving you the opportunity to have relationships with your consumers and visitors.
You can have a channel page banner to display at the top of your brand channel. You can integrate a link for the banner or an image map that specifies where different areas of the banner should link.
The branding box shows additional communication as well as an opportunity to embed links on your channel page. The box contains only text.
You have a featured auto play video when users visit your channel page
And a More from this User section on the watch page can be customized to attract additional traffic to your other brand channel content.
Benefits of having a non profit organization brand channel at YouTube
Premium branding capabilities and increased uploading capacity for videos up 1 GB.
Video rotation in the “Promoted Videos” areas throughout YouTube website
The alternative to drive fundraising through a Google Checkout “Donate” button
Listing on the special Non-profit channels and in the Non-profit videos pages.
Here are some good examples of YouTube non profit organization members.
Take a look at the 2 next images to see non profit brand channels at YouTube.com
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There are some requirements that your organization must comply, they change depending of your country, but you can find all the information at YouTube.com
What are you waiting for?, if you comply with the requirements, grab a brand channel at YouTube and begin to attract visitors and people that may contribute with your noble causes.
The next videos show you the way to have presence for your organization at YouTube, and how you can deliver your message to the world’s largest online video community.
This procedure may be useful sometimes if you are planning to share your revenues or partnership with someone else.
These are the Facts that the Google AdSense blog confirms.
The maximum number of products per page will remain the same.
If you don’t own the website, you will need to receive permission from the site owner to display your ads on their web pages.
It’s not possible to divide fifty / fifty the earnings between accounts, so any revenue generated will be credited to the account associated with the ad unit that was clicked or viewed.
Any shared site that displays Google ads must also comply with the AdSense program policies.
You’re totally responsible for the content of any page where your ad code appears. Before placing your ad code on another publisher’s site, it’s recommend reviewing the site for any policy violations.
The Google AdSense team makes a final advise, before you give your code to another publisher, try to use the allowed site tool in the AdSense control panel to monitor where your ads are appearing to keep your account in good standing.
The Google AdSense program is one of the most used because the mayor leadership of Google search engine in the world, but there are more options available out there if you are planning to earn money online. Some websites like Amazon, eBay or Chitika also offer different alternatives for affiliate marketing.
There is a simple rule to earn money online with your website, traffic, a lot of traffic, without it, you will earn enough money only to buy pop corns and a Coke.
