A few weeks ago I attended my first LA Ruby meet up. Basically it’s a group of Ruby enthusiasts getting together and talking about Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I was rather surprised the community was more of an older mature crowd than. I would have expect various to be young web entrepreneurs or something of that liking. There was a speaker at the meetup from Heroku showing off their product and how awesome their dynamic cloud services work. It’s basically a cloud within a cloud which makes for interesting ultra dynamic services. Along with Heroku we also had another guest speaker who spoke of marketing and pitching your web product to the masses. It’s been a while since I blog and thought id share my wonderful experience with the LA Ruby group earlier this month.
How people are spamming with SEO
July 31st, 2009 Comments
SEO
It seems like lately the talk of almost every site I come across is in regards to SEO. There are various job postings on sites like craigslist, e-lance, and other classifieds websites that will pay for someone very knowledgeable in search engine optimization. Analyzing the information in the content regarding search engine optimization is usually the same just reworded differently. Most teach you the most obvious such as Meta tagging, url naming, etc. Due to the nature of how SEO works with offsite optimization, I have also realized that there are plenty of junk pages floating around the internet specifically key worded, and linked back to large sites (I won’t name any but you know who you are) in order to create link backs and what not to increase their ranking in the search results.
This type of spamming or junk content at times may sometimes appear as top search results on certain keywords, and therefore sometimes alarming or distracting the user into clicking through the link only to be disappointed with the results. You see small companies spamming digg.com, blogger, wordpress, and any other site they can tap into and they throw almost any type of irrelevant content on to those sites, but just enough to make it seem like a valid website. Google then indexes these sites and picks up the keywords used and links to the main company site or a branch of the main site therefore increasing page rank, search result placement, etc of the company’s website.
This is becoming a small epidemic, when using blog search tools or directories you will come across many of these obvious offsite SEO Spam purposed sites and now have to filter through them to find relevant blogs or sites. Unfortunately there is no easy solution to filter through this type of optimization. This method is one of the most proven ways to build page rank and yet requires so much effort and money to be spent on creating spam content. I only wish that the main search engine creators device a new means of calculating rank, result placement, and what not.
Glimpses of Egypt Vimeo Video
July 18th, 2009 Comments
Lately it has been my passion to really try to get out and travel as much as I possibly can. I’ve actually been considering a long backpacking trip in the middle east and end somewhere in Asia be it India or Thailand. Watching this really beautiful video of Egypt and all of its ruins makes me want to leave on my trip as soon as possible. Although there is much left, I’m only at the stage of brainstorming and seeking information I have been moved and motivated on my travel idea.
It seems like lately I’ve found Vimeo to the home of most of my entertainment seeing that the videos found on the site have far better quality than the videos found on Youtube. Aside from that I have found many gorgeous travel videos from a span of various places across the world.
http://www.vimeo.com/5268649Video clips from my weekend at Seattle
July 16th, 2009 Comments
I took a rather short vacation in late May early June to Seattle. It was a long time since I last get to see a few old friends whom I actually met online (that story is for another day). We went out camping to a salt water lake or canal area a few hours outside of Seattle. There I met some new people, had a few drinks, ate tons of new foods to me, and just plain out had a blast. It has been over a year since I really take any time off and get to really travel and explore another country. I still aspire in getting to know the world. Hopefully that will come in time, be it traveling in luxury or vagabonding my way through the world.
Kuroshio Sea Vimeo Video on 5DMK2
July 15th, 2009 Comments
http://www.vimeo.com/5606758
Ever since Canon showed off some of the sample videos recorded on the 5D Mark 2 camera I fell in love. The quality and clarity is amazing. This video was recorded in Japan in Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. This Aquarium has one of the worlds largest tanks, holding whale sharks and various other rare sea species. Seeing that one of my friends is going to be studying Marine Biology and watching this video I begin to understand what she finds so fascinating about sea life.
It’s best if you watch it in HD on full screen mode to really appreciate it:
http://vimeo.com/5606758