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Wordpress 2.5 now has a media manager built it - look at me use it now!
Wordpress 2.5 now has a media manager built it - look at me use it now!
I just wrote a test post about the new Worpress 2.5 that is coming out, because I wanted to test the reaction time of Google. According to this post it can be indexed in less than 5 minutes.
The verdict? 2 minutes! Well, maybe less. I posted the article, then my 4 year old son came in to show me his new ball and then I checked - so it was 2 minutes on my end, it may have been faster at Google’s end.
Version 2.5 is out… should I try it? Or should I wait for the others to try it first, then jump in when the water is fine?
Unpopular music is free! If it is popular then you have to pay at Amie Street . This is a neat business model. I had a similar idea once (that I never did anything with), so of course I like the idea. From their site:
Music Nirvana— TechCrunch
Our community sets the price of songs from FREE to 98¢.
Get free music when you recommend your favorite songs.
iPod® Compatible, DRM-free MP3s
So go there. Get free stuff that no one else wants. Enjoy life! You can even get the music of Ashley Alexandra Dupre who is now famous for her $4300 per hour services on the former Governor of New York, Elliot “the Idiot” Spitzer. Enjoy her two singles for only 98 cents for each three minute song, which is like saying you could have her for only $19.60 per hour! What a savings!
Matt Cutts (who controls your world, you just don’t know it) has a video telling you how it is not nice to fool Google, that he will find you, use Wordpress (like me!) . He says “make good content”, “think about what a user will type”
Ahh, just watch it yourself.
Coincidence? I think not. TMZ is reporting that Joe “Girls Gone Wild” Francis is free and back in the action. No doubt there will be many people celebrating with him, sans top. In related news, one in four teens have an STD. Is there a relationship between “Going Wild” and getting chlamydia? At least be careful with anyone you meet - use a thingie!
The Google mail team has announced another neat trick of the Gmail system:
Append a plus (”+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.
For me, the real value in being able to manipulate your email address is that it makes it really easy to filter on those variants. For example you could use hikingfan+bank@gmail.com when you sign up for online banking and then set up a filter to automatically star, archive or label emails addressed to hikingfan+bank. You can also use this when you register for a service and think they might share your information. For example, I added “+donation” when I gave money to a political organization once, and now when I see emails from other groups to that address, I know how they got it. Solution: filtered to auto-delete.
I really like this trick. I get too many emails per day, much of it is friendly spam sent with good intention but really a waste of my time. So with this “+” feature, I can tell my Mom to send me email to myemail+mom@gmail.com and she can send all the fake virus warnings and urban legends to there. Auto filter and done. I also hate how some companies are a little aggressive with their email reports, and have a complicated time waster of a mess to unsubscribe from them. I mean, do I really need two emails a week from Southwest Airlines reminding me that I don’t have time to go on vacation, and that Hawaii can be mine for only $99? No! Why depress me? But I kinda want to get those emails because I keep dreaming that one day I will jet off to parts unknown. Now I just make it myemail+vacation@gmail.com and auto filter it away. Save the dream for later.
PS - These tricks work with Google Apps mail users as well.
Tim Berry has some things to say about the future, or at least things to say about Gene Marks‘ version of the future. Marks wrote an article called “Tech Trends to Ignore” on Businessweek.com. In a further effort to waste bandwidth and time, I will give my own perspective.
So, as near as I can tell, Marks’ opinions are closely lined up with his financial interests. It must be nice having a pulpit in a magazine to promote yourself. Berry on the other hand reveals himself in his bio:
I’m president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International. …. I’m the principal author of Business Plan Pro. As a consultant I worked with Apple Computer steadily for 14 years of repeat business — consultant, not an employee — doing (among other things) 14 years of annual plans for Apple Latin America, Apple Pacific, and Apple Japan. Apple Latin America grew from $2 million to $37 million annual sales while I was doing its annual business plans, and Apple Japan grew from $187 million to $1.5 billion in annual sales while I was doing its planning (not that my planning was responsible, but at least it didn’t screw it up).
Hmm, maybe that is why Berry likes Apple? 14 years of consulting checks?
I have written a counterpoint to an academic’s view of entrepreneurship here, and I have discovered another perspective on starting a business, at Escape from Cubicle Nation.
I love what she says:
If you think it is easy to make huge piles of money your first year in business, you may want to test your assumptions
Yeah. You are going to be rich in mere months!!! Yes! Because if it is that easy, everyone is doing it. If it is that unique that no one is doing it, then it will be a real challenge to try and get them to buy. Sigh…..
The truth is that success is not easy, but it is usually worth it, if not in financial terms at least in personal satisfaction. How do you succeed? BY not being smart enough to quit when the going gets tough. MediaBistro was a site basically about parties, that evolved into much more. It only took 9 years of losing money before profiting for 4, to cash out for $23 Million! Woo Hoo! That is a clear case of persistence. Not bad, making $1.76 million per year.
Guy Kawasaki has launched his new project at www.Alltop.com
My preferred part is at http://smallbusiness.alltop.com/