miercuri, 7 decembrie 2011

Damn Cool Pics

Damn Cool Pics

Private Moon

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:50 PM PST

Has you ever saw a moon so close that you could touch it? Russian artist Leonid Tishkov and photographer Boris Bendikov have created a series of artwork titled "Private Moon", where he give life to a man and his moon.

Tishkov says that each image is a poetic tale and has written poetic verses to go with each picture. The idea for this project came from a painting of a moon in a tree by Rene Magritte.

Tishkoy tells the touching story of the moon: ""Private Moon" is a visual poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life. In the upper world, in fact in the attic of his own house, he saw the Moon falling off from the sky. Once she was hiding from the Sun in a dark and damp tunnel. But the passing trains frightened her. Now she came to this man's house. Having wrapped the Moon with warm blankets he treated her with autumn apples, gave her a cup of tea, and when she got well he took her in his boat across the dark river to the high bank overgrown with moon pine-trees. He descended into the lower world dressed in the clothes of his deceased father and then returned from there lighting up his path with his personal Moon. Crossing the borderline between the two worlds across a narrow bridge, immersed in a dream and taking care of this heavenly creature, the man became a mythological being living in a real world as in a fairytale."
































Tis the Seasonal Worker [infographic]

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:42 PM PST



The infographic explores the ins and outs of holiday seasonal employment, mainly from the employer's perspective. While by definition, seasonal employment is temporary, many companies look to foray this short-term employment into something more lasting. After all, if you are already trained and doing a great job, why would they look for someone else to fill a vacancy? Of particular note to job hunters is the section showing qualities statistically important to employers as they consider promoting a seasonal worker to a permanent position.

Click on Image to Enlarge.

Source: columnfivemedia

Bizzle gets some Dunkers

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 10:53 PM PST



Bizzle gets some Dunkers, and a lot of YouTube hits. Because nobody can resist a dog with man arms.


Large $100,000 Bill On The Streets of New York

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 10:14 PM PST

This $100,000 bill recently showed up in New York, along the re-purposed train tracks known as The High Line. The First $100,000 I Ever Made is the work of famed American conceptual artist John Baldessari and is displayed prominently on a 25-foot-by-75-foot billboard.




Source: arrestedmotion

Celebrity Extreme Close-Ups

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 08:48 PM PST

No matter how much you love or hate these celebrities, you never want to see them this close up, believe me.

Some of the images in this gallery will give you a good laugh, others are the stuff nightmares are made of (Iggy Pop). Check out the rest of the gallery at the link below.

Katy Perry


Zooey Deschanel


Adriana Lima


Jennifer Aniston


Taylor Momsen


Katy Perry


Kirstie Alley


Sarah Palin


Jada Pinkett


Robert Pattinson


Victoria Beckham


Tom Cruise


Jennifer Lopez


Rose McGowan


Scarlett Johansson


Meg Ryan


Tilda Swinton


Bradley Cooper


Kristen Stewart


Kate Winslet


Adam Sandler


Mickey Rourke


Gemma Ward


Ann Coulter


Patti Stanger


Kris Humphries


Hilary Duff


Jessica Alba


Donatella Versace


Reese Witherspoon


Leonardo DiCaprio


Mila Kunis


Ralph Fiennes


Angelina Jolie


Pamela Anderson


Paz de la Huerta


Demi Moore


Ashton Kutcher


Emma Watson


Blake Lively


George Clooney


Ryan Gosling


Fergie


Katy Perry


P. Diddy


Pauly D


Selena Gomez


Justin Bieber


Jenny McCarthy


Rhianna


Natalie Portman


Clint Eastwood


Kim Kardashian


Christina Aguilera


Tori Spelling


Avril Lavigne


Snooked


Graham Crackers


Paris Hilton


Jennifer Love Hewitt


Iggy Pop


Goldie Hawn

Source: celebritycloseup

The Weight of Walmart (Infographic)

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 08:13 PM PST



Walmart's the largest grocery store in the U.S., the largest retailer in the world, the leader in global corporate revenue and the largest employer in existence. Still, these facts don't do much to demonstrate the reach of this superpower.

Check out our graphic demonstrating the Weight of Walmart, and if you find the statistics as shocking as we do, please share it with everyone you know:

Click on Image to Enlarge.

Source: frugaldad
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Proving Trust on the Web

Proving Trust on the Web

Proving Trust on the Web

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 04:29 PM PST

Posted by randfish

For those of us who've been deep in the trenches of online marketing for years, the question of who to trust may seem inane. We've all gravitated to sources of one variety or another, and probably built up a few favorites based on past experience. I've shared some of my selected sources in the past and I (consciously and subconsciously) bias toward trusting news and advice from those over others.

But for those new to the field of web analytics, social media marketing, SEO or a myriad of other practices, it's a true challenge. Case in point, a Q+A question from earlier today:

How do you know what is junk information vs what is truly good SEO advice?  Is it just simply trial and error?  It seems to me that if people find truly good SEO information, they aren't going to be sharing it so easily.  It's the whole, "You get what you pay for".

I've observed and heard this perspective dozens of times. Like the assumption that the "best SEO company in my city probably ranks first for cityname+SEO," it makes sense at first blush, but quickly loses any semblance of logic upon deeper analysis.

The reason is fairly straightforward; SEO at its core is about great content combined with earning great references. Sharing openly, honestly and adding value with that content is far more likely to produce returns in the form of links, reputation, references and customers than staying closed and secretive. Participation in a professional ecosystem almost always yields more value than hoarding "secret discoveries," particularly when those same secrets are being shared elsewhere on a gigantic, relatively level playing field (the web).

But let's say you're completely unfamiliar with the field. You need secondary cues - signals that help you sort the wheat from the chaff. On the web, these follow fairly consistent patterns:

When a piece of content (or an entire site) falls into the right-hand column of untrustworthiness, we tend to reject the information provided. When it falls into the left-hand, trusted column, our instincts are to assign credibility and all the positive associations that accompany it.

There's a lot of boxes to tick to earn trust, but also an incredible amount of value to be had in establishing it. Conversion rates rise. Links, citations, references and social shares increase. The propensity for virality improves. The likelihood of earning a subscriber or a follower or a fan (in all senses of those words) improves. Building trust is like adding an extra percentage on top of every activity web marketers engage in.

Thus, when an SEO reaches out for help earning top rankings or a social marketer wants to know how to get more Facebook fans or drive more traffic from Twitter on a site that looks like this:

Cart Before the Horse
(no offense, but they're ticking box after box from the orange column above)

I'm left wondering, why put the cart before the horse?

Users of the web have been trained through experience (online and off) to seek out indications of trustworthiness. When we enter a new field on the web, we'll use these same signals to evaluate possible resources and channels. So why is it that when we put on our marketing hats, we sometimes revert to paying thousands of dollars for a link building campaign, yet shy away from investing in the foundation of our success - the trustworthiness of the site and brand?

A wise man once said: "Let's stop putting lipstick on pigs and trying to rank 'em." I couldn't agree more (and, I suspect, neither could most of our bottom lines).


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A Tale Of Two Studies: Google vs. Bing Click-Through Rate

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:51 AM PST

Posted by Slingshot SEO

Howdy Mozzers! You may remember us from our last study, Mission ImposSERPble (we know, that title was way better), but we're not done yet. After we finished with Google, we started in on Bing. Releasing A Tale of Two Studies in October we shook the foundation of my very desk, by jumping up and down like giddy school girls. But it wasn't all jumping and data. Our findings provided us with a terrible truth.

Did you know that every month, roughly 117 million searches are made for the keyword " google" in Bing? Yeah. Scary.
 
Now for the highlights: Results from the Google study showed that CTR was 18.2% for a No. 1 rank and 10.05% for a No. 2 rank; results from the Bing study showed that CTR was 9.66% for a No. 1 rank and 5.51% for a No. 2 rank.
 
And so that I wouldn't have to write out all the highlights, and because our last infographic was such a success, we made this awesome infographic!
 
Have fun.
 
Bing vs. Google Click-Through Rate by Slingshot SEO

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