luni, 23 iulie 2012

Damn Cool Pics

Damn Cool Pics


Babies Dressed As Food

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:10 PM PDT

Ever say "that baby looks so cute I could just eat him up?" Well, here are 30 pictures of babies dressed as food.




























































Via Buzzfeed


Selena Gomez Aging Timeline

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:12 PM PDT

These photos show how the young actress and Justin Bieber's girlfriend has been changing from her childhood days till now.








































Ashton Kutcher On Set As Steve Jobs

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:04 PM PDT

What do you think? Does Ashton Kutcher look like young Steve Jobs? The movie "Jobs" will hit the big screen in 2013.










Funny Demotivational Posters - Part 36

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Check out these new demotivational posters below and tell me what you think about them in the comments. If you love my demotivational poster collection, please link back to it.

There are hundreds of such pictures in our archive of demotivational posters.














































































































Earth Will Eat Itself [Infographic]

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:43 AM PDT

There are just too many people on planet earth now – with not enough food, not enough fuel and not enough shelter to go round. Our resource constrained world needs our support on every level, and what we put in right now, we might just reap the rewards from, in more ways than one. But how can the individual investor play a part? Intelligent Partnership have produced an infographic (below) to help explain just how much help the earth needs .

Click on Image to Enlarge.


Seth's Blog : The school for startups (and an audio)

The school for startups (and an audio)

I love startups. Not only do they bring the promise of rapid growth and real change, but everything is up for grabs. Organizations that start with a clean sheet of paper have the difficult task of paying the bills, but they also have the luxury of ignoring yesterday in order to focus exclusively on tomorrow.

Through the years, I've started a bunch of companies and enjoyed brainstorming with the people who have launched companies big and small, from AOL when they only had a dozen employees to some of the very cool organizations that come through the doors of NY Techstars.

Next month, I'm going to be running a small school--a few days for a few dozen startup founders. You can find details and tickets right here.

If you know someone who might benefit from this, I hope you'll tell them about it.

For those that won't be able to make it, I'll be recording the session and editing it down into something I can share here on the blog for free a few months later.

Coming up: a larger, less expensive session over a weekend this fall (for all sorts of organizations) as well as a no-cost session for non-profit leaders later in the year. Watch this blog for updates. Thanks.



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Google's Unnatural Links Warnings May Not Be Cause for Concern

Google's Unnatural Links Warnings May Not Be Cause for Concern


Google's Unnatural Links Warnings May Not Be Cause for Concern

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 07:46 PM PDT

Posted by RuthBurr

At SEOmoz we do virtually nothing in the way of active link solicitation. We're living what I would call an SEO's dream: we've already put a great deal of effort into building a community of passionate, engaged, thoughtful people who care about the industry (that's you guys!), and we devote a ton of time and resources to creating awesome content and sharing it with you guys. The result? We've got the best kind of links: the kind that build themselves.

Imagine the sinking feeling I got in the pit of my stomach, then, when a Google Webmaster Tools check on Thursday revealed that we'd incurred an unnatural link warning:

Challenge Accepted

When I saw this, I was pretty sure I knew what had happened. A few months ago, just as I was coming to work at SEOmoz, there was a discussion in the Traffic Planet forums about negative SEO and whether pointing a bunch of spammy links at another site (like, say, a competitor's or rival's site) could actually harm them, SEO-wise.  The guys who started the thread claimed they had successfully performed negative SEO on Dan Thies' website, he disagreed that their tactics had been effective, and the debate raged.

Post-Penguin, there's been a lot of concern about links that are beyond one's control doing irreparable damage to one's site. But surely Google will put in place some algorithmic defenses against this sort of underhanded webspam attack! Rand felt so confident in this being the case that he hopped into the forum discussion and challenged the spam community to point black hat links at SEOmoz.org in the name of science:

(Personal anecdote time: This was happening after I had accepted the offer at SEOmoz, but before I'd started working here. I was sitting at my old job getting emails from Mozzers being like "just so you know, this is happening." Never a dull moment!)

Rand also discussed these efforts in a Whiteboard Friday video, Negative SEO: Myths, Realities and Precautions.

Needless to say, the spam community was like:

We did see an increase in the number of spammy and black-hat type links, including links from sites with "black hat" in the name - but we also continued the regular link growth through our usual content sharing and community outreach that we love so much.

Link spam growth

We didn't see any traffic or ranking impact.

Google organic traffic April-July 2012

To be honest, I wasn't too worried about it - until we saw the unnatural link warning.

It turns out that we needn't have worried - the warning came from an update to how Google is surfacing unnatural link warnings in Google Webmaster Tools. Matt Cutts has the scoop, over on Google Plus:

"If you received a message yesterday about unnatural links to your site, don’t panic. In the past, these messages were sent when we took action on a site as a whole. Yesterday, we took another step towards more transparency and began sending messages when we distrust some individual links to a site. While it’s possible for this to indicate potential spammy activity by the site, it can also have innocent reasons. For example, we may take this kind of targeted action to distrust hacked links pointing to an innocent site. The innocent site will get the message as we move towards more transparency, but it’s not necessarily something that you automatically need to worry about.

If we've taken more severe action on your site, you’ll likely notice a drop in search traffic, which you can see in the “Search queries” feature Webmaster Tools for example. As always, if you believe you have been affected by a manual spam action and your site no longer violates the Webmaster Guidelines, go ahead and file a reconsideration request. It’ll take some time for us to process the request, but you will receive a followup message confirming when we’ve processed it."

TL;DR: You may see an unnatural links warning if Google detects unnatural links, but it's more of an FYI - as long as you don't see a concurrent drop in traffic, you should be just fine. Phew!

We'll be continuing to test the effects of spammy links on SEOmoz, and we'll keep you guys updated as we learn more. In the meantime, if you see an unnatural links warning, don't panic. Many sites have attracted lots of black hat links without intent to manipulate Google's rankings. If you're in that group and still receive the warning, you should watch your traffic and rankings, but unlike the past, when these warnings were more directly impactful, it may simply be a "heads up, you've got some spammy links," message.

If you've received the warning or have insights, we'd love your feedback and opinions, too!


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Offering Comfort to Aurora

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Offering Comfort to Aurora 

On Sunday, President Obama traveled to Aurora, Colorado to meet with the survivors of the movie theater shooting and offer solace to families of the victims.

During his visit to University of Colorado Hospital, the President had a chance to meet Stephanie Davies, who saved the life of her friend Allie Young while risking her own:

"As tragic as the circumstances of what we've seen today are, as heartbreaking as it is for the families, it's worth us spending most of our time reflecting on young Americans like Allie and Stephanie, because they represent what's best in us, and they assure us that out of this darkness a brighter day is going to come."

Read Stephanie and Allie's story.

President Obama at University of Colorado Hospital

President Barack Obama hugs Stephanie Davies, who helped keep her friend, Allie Young, left, alive after she was shot during the movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado. The President visited patients and family members affected by the shootings at the University of Colorado Hospital July 22, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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President Obama Welcomes 2012 International AIDS Conference Attendees
The International AIDS Conference comes to the U.S. for the first time since 1990- thanks to bipartisan action by Presidents Obama and George W. Bush and the Congress to lift the ban on people living with HIV entering the United States. Thirty thousand participants are expected to attend.

Wall Street Reform Two-Years Later: Reforming the System and Protecting American Consumers
Two years ago today, President Obama signed into law Wall Street reform that put in place smarter, tougher, commonsense rules of the road and the strongest consumer protections in history.

Weekly Address: Remembering the Victims of the Aurora, Colorado Shooting
President Obama honors the victims of the tragedy in Colorado, the people who knew them and loved them, and those who are still struggling to recover.

Today's Schedule

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11:00 AM: The Vice President delivers remarks at the 34th National Association of Police Organizations convention

2:25 PM: The President departs San Francisco, California en route Reno, Nevada

3:10 PM: The President arrives in Reno, Nevada

3:35 PM: The President delivers remarks at the 113th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars WhiteHouse.gov/live

5:00 PM: The President departs Reno, Nevada en route Oakland, California

5:50 PM: The President arrives Oakland, California

6:20 PM: The President attends a campaign event

8:35 PM: The President delivers remarks at a campaign event

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Seth's Blog : Strategy matters more than ever

Strategy matters more than ever

When everyone is playing the same game, your execution is critical. Your store is like their store, your bread is like their bread, so we care very much about the care and skill you put into your product or service.

Of course, that still matters, but the revolution of the web means that the way you go to market, the structure of your offering, the model of your business--these are sufficient to cause you to lose, regardless of how you play the game. (And able to give you a huge post if you plan right).

Sam Walton was a huge success, largely because he developed a new retail strategy, not because he was better at running a store than anyone else. Local bookstores are in trouble, not because they don't work hard or care a lot, but because they are saddled with expenses that used to be smart (rent for a local storefront) in a world where they are merely ballast.

Running a business with the wrong strategy in the wrong place at the wrong time is possible, but it's an uphill battle. The alternative is to think very hard about your model, your costs and the benefits you offer to the people you'd like to serve.

You could change from a product to a service offering, from free to expensive, from low service to high service, from storefront to web, from large to small, from spam to permission, from acquiring new customers to delighting old ones, from wide open to invitiation only, from dirty to green, from secret to transparent, from troll to benefactor, from custom to mass, or for any of these, vice versa.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.



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