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Monday, April 30, 2012
Manchester City 1 Manchester United 0: Player ratings
Vincent Kompany's header was enough to seal the three points which sent Manchester City to the top of the Barclays Premier League. Here's how Sportsmail rated the two sides.
Google Starts Selling Phones Again, Tablets Appear to Be Next
The Unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus is up first for sale at the new Google Play Devices section. It costs $399 and runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
Schemer updates Android app, opens the doors to all
Schemer -- you know that invite only Google service -- has had an update to its Android application, and has also thrown open the doors to all. Until now access has been by invite only -- think Google Music, Google+, sounds pretty familiar doesn't it. Invites to the service though are no longer required, and anyone can sign up, including right from within the app itself.
The concept itself is pretty interesting, fitting it into your life could be somewhat difficult though. We'll let Google do the explaining -- they do it better than us -- so if you're not familiar, hit the source links at the bottom for more information. There's a short video to be found after the break too. It's kind of fun to fool around with, and now it's open to all it would be rude not to take a look. It's pretty well tied into Google+ too, so you'll find it pretty populated when you step inside.
So, what about the Android application update. Well, besides the ability to sign up now, we also get a refreshed UI. There's a new homepage, with suggestions for schemes for here and now based upon your location, the time and even the weather. Search has been improved with a new search results page showing results from your schemes and other users on one page. You can also search for schemes to do while home vs nearby while you're out and about.
Additionally, we get a new profile page and a whole heap of bug fixes. Whether or not Schemer will stick around, only time will tell. But, you have to love Google for trying out new things. If you fancy trying it out for yourselves, click on past the break for the Google Play Store download links and QR Code.
Source: Schemer
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David Cameron: So things can only get better? Not always, PM
PETER MCKAY: The problems faced by David Cameron and, indeed, Rupert Murdoch, do not seem ‘worse followed by better’ ones. Any light ahead is more likely to be an oncoming express train rather than a safe refuge.
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Tips to Clip: May 2012
By:
Dick Reizner Which Way Is Up?
Some of the most exciting shots are made possible by small lipstick and cigar cameras. They can be mounted almost anywhere: taped to the barrel of a rifle, facing back at the shooter; secured to a helmet, showing the wearer’s point of view. I have used them frequently, but I recently learned two new tips from Mark Shattuck of the Brigham Young University video department.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Camera Class: Understanding the Evolution and Revolution of RED?s EPIC
By:
Jay Ankeney 
When the RED Digital Cinema Camera Company introduced its groundbreaking RED ONE camera at the 2007 NAB Show, they already had 1,080 pre-sale reservations. The RED ONE wasn’t the first digital cinema camera, of course, but it was marketed as the first that independent filmmakers could afford. This CMOS-based 4K camera is $17,500 (body only, more for lenses and accessories).
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'American Horror Story' Casts Chloe Sevigny
Prepare for an epic battle of ferocious girl power-ness when Chloe Sevigny faces off against ?American Horror Story? alum Jessica Lange on the second season of FX's horror anthology series. The actress is set to join the show playing ?Shelly the Nymphomaniac,? which EW.com describes as ?one of the mortal enemies of Jessica Lange?s character.? [...]
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Big Video Services Firm Ooyala Unveils Discovery Engine
Ooyala, the big online video services company, has unveiled a recommendation engine which serves up related videos at the end of clips based on the interest and anyomous profile of the individual viewer.Sean Knapp, Ooyala's CTO and co-founder, says in this video interview that the overarching goal of the new technology is to make the video viewing experience "non-linear" - meaning a continous presentation of content which is more TV-like. He says the company wants to bring viewers beyond the "end screen" a video player.He says early use of the discovery engine by some big publishers has boosted individual consumption of video from 2X to 6X.Knapp is a former Google executive who developed several products including iGoogle. Andy Plesser
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Wasps director of rugby Dai Young hopes club will be bought
Wasps' embattled director of rugby Dai Young fears for the future of the club if the tabled takeover bid from a consortium led by former player Ken Moss falls through.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Why "Ultrabook" Doesn't Mean Much
Intel?s requirements for Ultrabooks aren?t in line with what consumers expect, and it?s going to turn the label into a meaningless buzzword.
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Firefox 13 Beta Gets a Speed Boost with SPDY by Default
Faster page loads are on the way, as is heightened browsing security.
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Yulia Tymoshenko: Prison pictures show former Ukrainian PM and Orange Revolution heroine's bruises
Yulia Tymoshenko (pictured) looks wan and world-weary, the vibrant glow in her blond hair faded. In pictures taken of her in prison, she shows bruises she claims are from beatings.
The Real Impact of the Google SmartPhone Crawler (Part 1): Situation Overview
Posted by Suzzicks
This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.
Not everyone realizes it, but Google has been serving different search results to mobile phones than desktop computers for a long time. Beyond that, they serve different results based solely on the handset you are using to search. The differences are often subtle, or focused on the order of Universal Results that are included in the mobile result-set, but Google is algorithmically trying to prioritize content that will work well on the phone that submitted the query, and give less priority to content that might not work on the phone. If you want to compare for yourself, MobileMoxie has a mobile search simulator tool that allows you see the results of one search query across three different phones at a time (cool!)
Now Google has launched a new smartphone crawler, and this will likely push the differences between desktop search and mobile search more into the mind of the average SEO. (Think: “Does Google consider this a smartphone or a feature phone or something else? I don’t know!”)
So let’s see if we can demystify the impact of this new smartphone crawler using some data. This is the beginning of a three-part blog post series, all focused on the new Google smartphone bot. This first post will focus on how it works and what sites will be effected. The next post will focus on how you can optimize your mobile content for the new smartphone bot best by creating effective mobile redirects. The final post will discuss common mis-indexing problems that mobile websites have and review how to protect your mobile content from search engine indexing problems.
Mongoose Metrics published a study that broke down how the top sites in the US are handling their mobile traffic. They divided the QuantCast Top Million sites (most US traffic’ d sites) into 3 categories based on how they were publishing mobile pages: Server-side redirection, JavaScript redirection and what they call ‘cloaking’ or selective serving of HTML assets. The study went deeper, and looked at results for iPhone, Android and RIM requests, but we can just look at the summary for all smartphones, which show the following stats:
For SEO, these results are each unique and relevant; here is why:
Server-Side Redirection
This is a mobile site-architecture strategy that uses two (or more) urls; one for the desktop or primary content, and one for the mobile content; designations can be added for tablets, WAP and other devices as well. The mobile content can be on a mobile subdomain, a mobile subdirectory or a totally different domain, and those decisions can all impact the content’s ability to rank. The mobile urls can be static and optimized urls or they can be temporary dynamic urls, which are usually stuffed with the exact paramaters of the mobile page request.
Until Google’s new smartphone crawler, this mobile SEO strategy relied on the rankings of the desktop pages which automatically redirect to mobile content when requested by a mobile phone OR building independent SEO value for the mobile pages so that they would rank on their own merit. This strategy sometimes also includes joining the mobile pages with their desktop counterparts by using the canonical tag to help share SEO value. What is most relevant for SEO is that that both versions of the page are left crawlable by search engines. This might be important if you target lots of WAP phone searches, which are still sometimes using a separate ‘mobile-only’ Google index and are not affected by the new smartphone crawler. This could also be important if there is a future algorithm shift that puts a stronger emphasis on mobile file size (which could still happen because it is so important for a good mobile user experience).
SUMMARY:
RESEARCH RESULTS FOR SERVER-SIDE REDIRECTION: 52.52% of the QuantCast Top Million Websites in the US may see an immediate user experience benefit from the new smartphone crawler. Once these sites have been crawled by the new smartphone crawler, they will be serving mobile content to mobile users from search results automatically, without their server having to process each of the redirect requests.
JavaScript Redirection
This mobile site-architecture strategy also involves a primary and a mobile url for each page and an on-page JavaScript redirect is included from the desktop page to its mobile counterpart. The strategy actually relies on the FAILURE of the search engines to crawl and execute JavaScript in order to work properly. Frequently this strategy relies 100% on the desktop page to rank well in smartphone search results, and the mobile pages are blocked from search engine indexing in the robots.txt file, to prevent the risk of duplication or confusion in the index. In some cases, this JavaScript is detecting specific phones, and redirecting to landing pages that are just built for those specific phones, which can get very involved, but is great for user experience. Unless the new smartphone crawler begins to execute JavaScript redirects (unlikely), sites that rely on this method will not benefit from Google’s new smartphone crawler.
SUMMARY:
RESEARCH RESULTS FOR JAVASCRIPT REDIRECTION: 2.15% of the top million websites are not going to benefit at all from the new smartphone crawler, but may have already had good results in mobile search rankings without indexing mobile-specific pages.
Cloaking or Dynamic Serving
This mobile site architecture strategy relies exclusively on one url that can display a page with different characteristics, depending on the device that requests the page. What content is served is determined by the server and something that is usually described as a ‘mobilization engine’ or a ‘transcoder.’ These are essentially databases of rules and content at various sizes or stages of degradation that can be sent, depending on the capabilities of the phone requesting the page. With this system, a desktop computer will get the full version of the site, but a mobile phone might be served a similar HTML skin, with smaller components switched in, to replace place of the larger elements that are served to the desktop computer, all on the same url.
A similar but less sophisticated version of this type of mobile publishing can be accomplished using mobile-specific style sheets and media queries to re-render or re-organize the content on the page based on the screen size of the device that it is requesting it (Responsive Design). This strategy uses only one url which might be appealing if you are trying to keep things simple for maintenance or SEO reasons. In both cases, bots will be served content based on the device or browser that they are emulating, so the smartphone crawler would likely (hopefully!) be served a smartphone-friendly version of the page unless the JavaScript is purposely made un-crawlable.
SUMMARY:
RESEARCH RESULT FOR DYNAMIC SERVING/CLOAKING: 45.33% of the QuantCast Top Million websites might be at a disadvantage in terms of bandwidth, user-experience and load-time. All of the dynamic processing is still required by their server to render the page each time there is a mobile page request. They will not likely benefit from Google’s new smartphone crawler, and might now be at a disadvantage, (in terms of the load time of the dynamically generated pages) where they probably had a slight advantage previously.
Mobile SEO is an ever-changing field. The search engines don’t all agree, and still don’t seem 100% sure how to best rank and evaluate mobile search results. Your best option is always to know how things work, keep a close eye on how your sites are ranking and do your own mobile testing wherever you can. Until the smartphone crawler many people were unaware that mobile search results were treated differently from phone to phone. Now you know that testing on your own phone might not be enough; you may have to address the new Google smartphone crawler with some well-planned mobile strategy. Hopefully you can use this analysis to help determine how your site will manage with mobile serving, and still please the new smartphone crawler.
Stay tuned for the next post in this three-post series about the new Google smartphone crawler. It will cover how you can optimize your mobile content for the new smartphone bot best by creating effective mobile redirects, then the final post in the series will review common mis-indexing problems on mobile and discuss how to update your mobile server settings to prevent search engine indexing problems.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
E.T. not home? Scientists say Earth may be a 'one-off fluke' and the Milky Way's billions of planets may all be lifeless
Nasa has said there are 'billions' of planets in our own Milky Way galaxy - but a new study suggests that the idea that they are teeming with alien lifeforms may just be wishful thinking.
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AP Exclusive: NM gov.'s grandfather was US citizen
Ever since taking office last year as the nation's first Hispanic female governor, New Mexico's Susana Martinez found her family tree scrutinized over whether her Mexican-born paternal grandfather was an illegal immigrant.
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No Surprise On 'American Idol': Elise Testone Exits
Perpetual cellar-dweller joined in bottom three by Hollie Cavanagh and Skylar Laine.
By Adam Graham
Elise Testone on "American Idol"
Photo: Fox
Another one bit the dust, but this one wasn't hard to see coming.
After two weeks of shocking elimination episodes, "American Idol" took a break from the surprises Thursday (April 26), sending perpetual bottom-dweller Elise Testone home.
Testone, the 28-year-old from Charleston, South Carolina, had faced elimination so many times that "Idol" mentor Jimmy Iovine joked she had a "vacation home" in the bottom three.
Testone came up on the short end of the reported 58 million votes cast following Wednesday's performance episode, where she took on Queen's "I Want It All" and a very wordy rendition of Jimi Hendrix's "Bold as Love." Following the Hendrix song, Randy Jackson told her it "wasn't the right song for this time in the competition," and on Thursday's show, Iovine called Testone "a great singer who makes bad choices." He called "Bold as Love" a "double down on bad decisions."
Testone, the oldest of this season's finalists, sang Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" during her exit. It was one of her signature songs of the season.
Testone was joined in the bottom three Thursday by Hollie Cavanagh and Skylar Laine. Laine was sent back to safety immediately, leaving Testone and Cavanagh to await their fate.
According to host Ryan Seacrest, the 58 million votes cast were 10 million more than the number of votes cast at this point in the season last year.
Queen Extravaganza, an official Queen tribute band, opened the show with a performance of "Somebody to Love." The episode also saw performances from season 10 "Idol" contestant Stefano Langone — who now goes simply by Stefano — who did his debut single "I'm on a Roll," and Katy Perry, who in a taped performance did a military-themed "Part of Me."
What did you think of "Idol" on Thursday? Let us know in the comments!
Get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' "American Idol" page, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.
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The 'Vitamin See' diet: Good food and supplements can stave off age-related eye condition afflicting Judi Dench
It afflicts 10 per cent of those aged over 66 and almost a third of those over 75. When the macula, a spot located in the centre of the retina, deteriorates, the most central field of sight is affected.
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Yahoo! Media Chief: "Video on the Internet has Come of Age"
Video on the Internet has come of age and there is a big movement to premium content, says Mickie Rosen, SVP, Media Network, Yahoo! in this interview with Beet.TVWe spoke with her at the Yahoo! Digital New Front yesterday in Manhattan where the company unveiled a slate of Web video shows.Andy Plesser
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Pictures of the Day: Rashad Evans and famous people
As Rashad Evans trained for this Saturday's title bout with Jon Jones, something about his camp attracted famous people.
Here, Evans is with Victoria Azarenka, the No. 1 ranked tennis player in the world and the winner of the 2012 Australian Open. As shown on "Primetime," he also was in the stands for one of her matches.
Before Evans' UFC 133 bout with Tito Ortiz, he picked up striking tips from another boxing legend. What advice do you thin Bernard Hopkins had for Evans?
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Foreign Policy 2012 - The Two Sides Square Off
? It's game on, game time, kick-off time -- just pick your favorite hackneyed sports phrase -- for the general election foreign policy debate. We've had dueling open letters, volleying press quotes, and last weekend Americans for Informed Democracy organized...
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Angels, Albert Pujols struggle again in 3-2 loss to Rays
Pujols' hitless streak stretches to five games as the Angels fall to 6-12 on the season.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The struggles of Albert Pujols continued Wednesday night, the Angels first baseman extending his hitless streak to five games in a 3-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in Tropicana Field.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The struggles of Albert Pujols continued Wednesday night, the Angels first baseman extending his hitless streak to five games in a 3-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in Tropicana Field.
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