- If you work from home, this robot can cruise to your front door and show you who's ringing your bell
- This robot can be your eyes and ears at another location (while you stay put)
Remote Workers: Check Out Your New Virtual Colleague!
July 1st, 2010 — Getting Things Done
Here's a cool robot that can cruise around your home or office with a 5 mega-pixel HD camera with zoom due out this Fall from AnyBots.
Not bad for $15,000.
Applications/Features?
7 Easy Steps On How To Set Up A Blog Using WordPress
June 29th, 2010 — Blogging
My non-profit friend Emily asked me for advice on setting up a blog.
I recommended she use WordPress (it's what I use in this blog) for the following reasons:
- Cost -- WordPress is mostly free (you will have to spend $10 to $20 on hosting stuff (explained below)
- Flexibility -- WordPress is open-source and has many different developers supporting it with widgets and plug-ins.
- Google Loves It -- Wordpress appears to be indexed by Google faster than other blog platforms (including, ironically, the Blogger platform which is owned by Google). This quick indexing is important in terms of Google sending you free traffic.
7 Easy Steps On How To Set Up A Blog Using WordPress
Here's a 51-minute video tutorial by blog pro Chris Abraham explaining how to set up WordPress. In it, he explains everything you… Continue reading5 Search Marketing Tips From SMX
June 28th, 2010 — Increasing Web Traffic
My Search Marketing Expert friend Dan Rosenbaum was kind enough to let me share a summary of the SMX conference he attended recently.
Here are 5 Search Marketing Tips he learned from the conference:
1. Don't bother creating separate site to appeal to Bing and Google.
Back in the Bad Old Days, it was considered a good idea to code your website in such a way that it would appeal to the half-dozen or so search engines -- each of which wanted to see something different.
Now that Google gets the majority of searches, people don't do that so much anymore. But with the rise of Bing, there was some concern that Bing might be focusing on different signals than Google.
Rand Fishkin, of SEOMoz, showed some experimental data that… Continue reading
How To Select The Best Domain Name To Attract Search Engines
June 27th, 2010 — Increasing Web Traffic
Did you know that one domain name could easily get you 5-times as much search engine traffic as another similar-sounding domain name!?
Picking the best domain name for your business is an important decision...especially given that search engines will examine your domain name to determine how much traffic to send it.
To pick the best domain name for a search engine, you're gonna have to consider:
- What words or phrases are your prospective customers typing into search engines?
- Should a search engine know about your location?
- How many domain names should you own to maximize your traffic from a search engine?
- What's the importance of "Micro-Sites" or "Campaign-Sites"?
- And more!
Visionary Ray Kurzweil’s Data Points & Insights
June 22nd, 2010 — Leadership
I read a great interview with Ray Kurzweil in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Kurzweil is a visionary (reading machines for the blind, text to speech technology, music synthesizers, a bunch of artificial intelligence stuff) and he had a few nuggets of valuable insights/data points in the interview.
I encourage you to read the entire article, but here were my favorites:
..."technologies will be another billion times more powerful per dollar in 25 years and 100,000 times smaller in size."
"We'll reach a tipping point in about 15 years where we will be adding more than a year each year to your remaining life expectancy."
"There has been 18 percent annual growth in every form of information technology for the past half century as measured in constant dollars, despite the… Continue reading