Warmest Greetings,
:: Friday, August 29, 2003 ::
Congratulations to Cre8asiteforums.com for a successful, creative first year!
New:
I'm enjoying Chris Ridings' new site and newsletter, Chriseo.com. I envy people who have time to keep up with absolutely everything related to search engines and SEO. Since my personal life changed last year and my family grew to include two more people, 3 cats, 2 hermit crabs, a new puppy, Cre8asiteForums and Cre8asite.net, partnership with Site-Report.com - I'm relying on people like Chris to keep me informed.
Great idea for a Blog:
World New York. The link I chose is a personal account of the day the lights went out in NYC and parts of NE USA and Canada.
Thanks to Bill ("bragadocchio") for his unending research into Blogs and his daily Blog pics in Cre8asiteForums.
If you wish to share your thoughts about Cre8asiteForums and help us celebrate our first year, please visit here. We want to make sure we're giving you what you want in a Usability/SEO/Site Building forums.
Cre8asiteForums First Anniversary:
I expressed my feelings to selected friends and well wishers, which moderator Bill placed into his 8/29 Blog entry.
My wish is to express my gratitude to everyone who cares about the forums and helps it thrive via guest participation or link/promotion support. More importantly, the Cre8asiteForums team wishes to be helpful and we sincerely hope you find assistance in places like the Website Hospital, Usability section, SEO sections or Site Planning and Preparation(our newest addition).
Where did they put this person's brain?
In my in-box today...subject line reads "WANT TO LEARN HOW TO SPAM ?" and then it lists all their stupid URLS for sites that do things like "be sure to use massivemailer for all your spamming needs".
I'm so glad I'm an evolved human.
It's Labor Day weekend in the US, meaning if you expect any of us to do any work, forget about it. We're eating, sleeping and deleting stupid weekend spam emails.
Cheers!
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 8/29/2003 12:47:12 PM
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:: Thursday, August 28, 2003 ::
While out running around spreading the news about Cre8asiteForums first year anniversary and blowing up baloons, I found this neat toy created by Chris Ridings for his SearchGuild forums >>>Elsewhere. I swear Chris never stops creating new inventions for the Internet! Good for you!
If you love free stuff >>> Best Freeware is a list you may enjoy.
If you were stuck home, like I was, and missed the big SEO bash in San Jose, CA, Andy Beal wrote a 4 part series on it. Thanks Andy and SearchEngineGuide!
Inside Search Engine Strategies, San Jose - Day One
Day Two
Day Three - Chat with Google co-founder, Sergey Brin
Day Four
Bragadocchio's Blog Pick of the Day >>>The Julie/Julia Project - "Nobody here but us servantless American cooks..."
Sempo has launched. I didn't see a place for free SEO forums to be part of this exclusive venture. Sad.
Developer information (present this to those in charge who think everybody has high-speed connections) >>> August 2003 Bandwidth Report
"This month's Bandwidth Report compares cable and DSL broadband Internet access in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. Overall, broadband grew by 1.1% in July, with 37.8% of wired US users enjoying a high-speed connection. Over 15% of wired Australians have a broadband connection, according to a June 2003 ACNielsen.consult survey. 8.3% of New Zealand workers have DSL, according to the ISCR."
If I find anything else interesting, I'll be sure to let you all know.
Okay. I just did.
What is Jakob Smoking?
"Nielsen's recommendations increasingly strike me as being optimized for a sharply-circumscribed subset of technology users: the army of midlevel clients at the mercy of a corporate IT department. You might well be able to convince me that this cohort represents a plurality of the overall user audience, but you'd never be able to get me to sign off on the notion that ironclad recommendations of right and wrong should be based on such a user profile."
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 8/28/2003 10:39:26 AM
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:: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 ::
Just in time for the holiday season coming up in a few months...
Macromedia MX 2004
The paperback version of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger
Usability stuff:
Alan Cooper writes a new article describing the origin of user personas. They're an interesting tool for usability oriented design for software and websites. Cooper's company is famous for user personas. The article is interesting... The Origin of Personas
For more resources on the subject, I link to several here: (see the User Personas subheading)
More from our continuing 1st year anniversary celebration at Cre8asiteForums:
"Wow, a year already! Congrats to Kim and everyone at cre8asite, past and present! May you have many more..." Jill Whalen, HighRankings.com
"One of my many favorite threads is Ammon's "Quick Kick Start Guide to Search engine optimization" Should be required reading for all new SEO visitors." Neal, of Beanteacher.com - "Absolutely Amazing Aloha Hawaiian Shirts, Bowling Shirts, Plus Size Clothes, Retro & Vintage Clothing Styles, Hawaii Theme Gifts, & Plush Toys!"
The future is now:
5 Technologies That Will Change the World
"Several of the computers at the Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D facility in La Jolla, California, suffer from Type II diabetes. Ho, the head of medical informatics at the facility, expects that other servers will eventually come down with debilitating diseases of their own.
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By creating mathematical models of diseases such as diabetes, obesity, asthma, or arthritis in a computer, researchers can run virtual tests of their new drug candidates -- much in the way that an aeronautical engineer uses a computer simulation to imagine how an airplane design will perform once it's built. Often called "biosimulation," the approach compiles everything that is known about a given disease -- even down to the activity that takes place inside a single cell. And the computer models can be updated as scientists learn more about how the diseases work.
Researchers can anticipate bad reactions before they give a drug to animals or humans, and they can run many more tests on a computer than they could run in the real world. Ideally, biosimulation will help Johnson & Johnson and other pharmaceutical companies focus their efforts on the drug prospects that are most likely to succeed."
Instead of sitting on your butt complaining about what you dislike, create something you can be proud of.
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 8/27/2003 10:41:30 AM
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:: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 ::
This week Cre8asiteForums is celebrating it's first year anniversary!
Cre8asiteForums turn a year old on August 30, 2003.
Fanmail is pouring in. (ha ha)
No really.
It's fun to read what people note as their favorite threads and just hear back from guests in general, so we know how well we're driving the thing.
One guest wrote:
"I am very impressed with the overall good nature of the people in this community and their willingness to help and give completely objective answers to the many people that stop by this forum perhaps only once or twice a month. If someone were to ask me what the best forum board I have ever been apart of was I would have to tell them without hesitation that it was this one. "
I felt the least I could do was link to this guest's website, since that sort of encouragement really helps the Cre8asiteForums team feel that what they're doing is worthwhile to somebody. So, thank you Piviksnetwork.
Another guest took what she learned in the forums and says "I'm #1 in Google for one of my terms! (Also, #2, #3, #3, #4, #5, #7, and #14 for my top 8 keyphrases, which are mostly just rearrangements of a couple of phrases, but are important.)"
There's more user feedback to share with you this week... Please stop by and say hello.
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 8/26/2003 11:16:03 AM
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