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Simpsons Heaven in Orlando

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 12:43 PM PDT

Universal Orlando resort opens 'Simpsons' heaven..
















































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Riot Dog of Istanbul

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 12:05 PM PDT

Riot Dog of Athens was the symbol of Greece protests several years ago. In Turkey they have their own riot dog. And it's wearing glasses.

















The Voices Of Disney Characters in Real Life

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 11:57 AM PDT

Aladdin: Scott Weinger


Belle: Paige O'Hara


Sebastian: Samuel E. Wright


Ursula: Pat Carroll


The Beast: Robby Benson


Jasmine: Linda Larkin


Ariel: Jodi Benson


Bambi: Donnie Dunagan


Cruella Deville: Betty Lou Gerson


Mickey Mouse (currently): Bret Iwan


Pocahontas: Irene Bedard


Cinderella: Ilene Woods


Prince Eric: Christopher Daniel Barnes


Alice in Wonderland: Kathryn Beaumont


Winnie the Pooh: Sterling Holloway


King Triton: Kenneth Mars


Mulan: Ming-Na Wen

7 Popular Types of Social Media Fans [Infographic]

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 08:55 AM PDT

What do all of your social media fans and followers have in common? They follow you on your social media sites. Aside from that, your social media fans can range dramatically – from the fans who like, retweet, or repin every one of your updates seconds after you post it to the angry "fans" who follow you only to share their bad customer experience.

However, by understanding the different types of consumers on social media, you can determine the best type of engaging content to post in order to get them to take action and share your content. This infographic features seven of the most common types of fans, and what they mean for your business on social media.

What types of social media fans do you have, and what kind of content do they like the most? Let us know in a comment!

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Here's What's Happening Here at the White House
 
 
 
 
 
 
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This week, the President urged Congress not to let student loan rates double, and to confirm three judges for the federal appeals court in Washington -- and announced new national security team members.

President Obama also held bilateral meetings with the NATO Secretary-General and the President of Chile, kicked off a National Conference on Mental Health, honored the Super Bowl champions, and announced ConnectED, a major new initiative to expand access to high-speed internet in our nation's classrooms.

To get a behind-the-scenes look at these events and more, watch the latest installment of "West Wing Week."

This week, the President urged Congress not to let student loan rates double and to confirm three judges for the federal appeals court in Washington, held bilateral meetings with the NATO Secretary-General and the President of Chile, kicked off a National Conference on Mental Health, honored the Super Bowl champions, and announced a major new initiative called ConnectED, while the Vice President wrapped up a weeklong trip to South America.

 

 
 
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The Employment Situation in May

While more work remains to be done, today’s employment report provides further confirmation that the U.S. economy is continuing to recover from the worst downturn since the Great Depression.

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Hanging Out with High Tech Classrooms

Yesterday, President Obama travelled to Mooresville, NC to announce ConnectEd, an exciting new initiative designed to help bring America's students into the digital age. The goal of the ConnectED initiative is to bring high-speed internet connections to 99% of America's students within five years.

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Good News: Americans Saved Billions Thanks to the Affordable Care Act – And Medical Loss Rebates Are On the Way

According to a new report, Americans buying individual market health insurance saved $1.2 billion in 2011 and $2.1 billion in 2012 because law has begun to hold insurance companies accountable.

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  Today's Schedule

All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)

11:50 AM: The President delivers a statement to reporters on the Affordable Care Act WATCH LIVE

12:25 PM: The President departs San Jose, California

1:35 PM: The President arrives Los Angeles, California

3:00 PM: The President delivers remarks at a DNC Fundraiser

5:05 PM: The President departs Los Angeles, California

5:55 PM: The President arrives Palm Springs, California

8:00 PM: The President participates in a photo opportunity with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China

8:05 PM: The President and President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China will hold a bilateral meeting

11:00 PM: The President will hold a working dinner with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China

 

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How Business Listings Are Made - Whiteboard Friday

How Business Listings Are Made - Whiteboard Friday


How Business Listings Are Made - Whiteboard Friday

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:16 PM PDT

Posted by David Mihm

As a local business owner, it's important for your business to be listed in Google's search results. But how do you fix your business listing if the information is incorrect? 

In this week's edition of Local Whiteboard Friday, David Mihm sheds some light on the complicated process that Google uses to create its business listings.

For reference, here's a still of David's whiteboard diagram.


Video Transcription

"Hey everybody. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday and in particular a local edition of Whiteboard Friday. I'm David Mihm, the Director of Local Search Strategy for SEOMoz, and I'm here to answer one of the most common questions that we get asked which is:  "Hey, how come my business information is showing up incorrectly at Google?"

So they type in the name of their business, and there's either a phone number wrong or their address is wrong or sometimes the marker for where their business is, is in the wrong place. So I want to try to answer how Google generates its business listings.

So the first step that a lot of business owners take, which is a great step to take, is they go directly to Google. Google offers a dashboard for businesses that Google Places as well as Google+, there are kind of two ways into it right now. A business owner goes and he enters his business name, his address, his phone number, some categories, maybe the hours that he operates his business, and he tells that directly to Google. Of course the expectation is, "Oh well, I'm the business owner. I'm telling Google this information. That's how it should show up when Google spits out a search result." But in reality that's not actually how Google assembles a business listing. So I'm going to erase these lines, and I'll try to walk you guys through how this process actually happens.

So for many of you, if you're business owners, you go to one of these places, the Google Places dashboard or the Google+ local dashboard, and you tell Google about your business and you find before you even get there Google knows about your business. It can guess at what your address and phone number are for example.

So you might wonder where Google is finding that information. Actually in the United States there are three companies that aggregate business data for United States businesses. Again, this is the United States only, but in this country those guys are Infogroup, Neustar and Axiom. So Google buys or leases information from at least one of these companies and pulls it into its index. But it doesn't go right into Google's index. It actually goes into a massive server cluster that takes it into consideration as one data source.

So not only is the business owner one of these data sources, but you would have one data provider, maybe Infogroup is another data source. Neustar might be another data source and so and so forth. So imagine this graphic going quite far to the right, even off of the whiteboard just with some of these data aggregation services.

That all gets assembled at a server cluster, somewhere in Mountain View let's just say, that compiles kind of all of this information. These however, aren't even the only places that Google gets data. These guys, these data sources actually also, in addition to sending information to Google, they send data out to a whole bunch of other sites across the web. So Yelp, for example, gets information from one of these sources. Yellowpages.com gets information from one of these sources. Many of you guys have seen my local search ecosystem infographic that kind of details a little bit more about how this process works.

Then Google goes out, and it crawls these sites across the web and again throws that information into this server cluster. So again, imagine this table here going off basically to infinity, kind of off this page.

Additionally, in addition to these data aggregators, in addition to websites, Google looks at government information. So if you're regional, like your county has a place of businesses that are registered in a particular county or maybe your secretary of state, Google is either probably going to crawl that information. In some cases the government publishes this in PDF format or something like that, and that gets pulled into this cluster again as one of these data points in this huge spreadsheet.

Another place that Google might get information believe it or not is Google Street View. Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea recently gave a keynote at Local University in Baltimore, and there's information in Google’s patents that suggest that street view cameras from these cars that they go out and they drive around trying to find driving directions are taking photos of storefronts with business name signage, with the address numbers right there on the storefront, and that information gets pulled into this, what we call the cluster of information.

So there are all these different sources pulling in, and you as the business owner, you are only one of these data sources. So even though you tell Google, "Hey, yes this is my address, this is my phone number, this is where I'm located," if Google is seeing bad information, at any of these other places from these data aggregators, from websites, from government entities, Google pulls data in from everywhere. So if every other source out, there or a lot of other sources out there that Google trusts, especially major data aggregators or government entities, if they have your information wrong, that could lead to misinformation in the search results.

But there’s one final step actually before Google will publish the information, the authoritative information from this cluster. Google actually has human reviewers that are looking at this information. They are calling businesses to verify things like categories, the buildings that certain businesses are located in, and these reviewers will again call a real business offline. So if you get a call and it says, "Hey, Mountain View is calling you, it might actually be Google." So pay special attention if your business receives those kind of calls. They might be trying to validate information that they're finding from across the web.

The other thing to keep in mind is that Google accepts data from other reviewers, from other human reviewers via a website that it operates called Google Map Maker. So if you're having trouble with your information from one of these sources, you might check Google.com/mapmaker. It's like a Wikipedia for locations. Anybody in the world can go in there and update data. So it's really, really important if you're a business owner and you're having trouble with Google publishing bad information about your business, you can't just go into the Google Places dashboard or the Google+ dashboard and fix this information. You really need to go to all of these different sources. So these major data aggregators, they're different in every country. So if you're from somewhere else in the world besides the United States, you need to do some research on who these guys are. You need to update your information at Internet yellow pages sites. You definitely need to update your information with government authorities, and you probably want to check your information at least on this Google Map Maker site, because all of these feed into this central data cluster that then feeds into a Google search result for your business.

So I hope that explains a little bit about this very complicated process that Google has to assemble business listings. If you want more information in the text part of the page on which this Whiteboard is published, I'll reference one of my colleagues at Local University, Mike Blumenthal. Mike has a great sort of text based layout of what I just explained visually, and Mike is actually the inspiration for this idea of the data cluster at Google Local.

So hope you enjoyed that Whiteboard Friday, and again for more information I'll link to Mike Blumenthal's blog down near the comments.

Thanks guys."

Video transcription by Speechpad.com


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Seth's Blog : The weird tail continues

 

The weird tail continues

In We Are All Weird, I argued that many factors are pushing us to get ever less normal, at least when it comes to cultural choices and what we buy, what we do and who we do it with. The bell curve that for so long defined mass is melting, with the outliers gaining in number, credibility and impact.

When you give people a choice, they will take it.

One big reason: the web lets us see what the other weird folks are doing, pushing us to get weirder still.

Recent data on naming released by the Social Security Administration puts this into sharp relief. The top 1000 baby names include go-to standards like Zylin, Zymari, Zyrin, Zyrus and Zytaevius. That's not surprising, because, after all, 1,000 names is a lot of names.

What's surprising is that over the last ten years, the percentage of names that don't fall within the top 1,000 keep rising. That means that more and more people are opting out of the popular naming regime, forging their own path. It used to be weird to name your kid Elvis. Now, Zyrin isn't weird enough, because we're ever more aware of where the edges lie.

Same is true with the shows we watch, the books we read and the foods we eat.

If you're chasing the masses, you're almost certainly heading the wrong direction. The masses are ignoring you. It's the weird who are choosing to pay attention, to seek out what they care about.

     

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