Human Interaction with Signs

“Signs” directed by Patrick Hughes is a touching Australian short film which is planned to be presented in the Schweppes Short Film Festival. The film tells the story of Jason, a socially isolated guy trying to fit in with the world around him. There is no dialog between the two main characters, the communication is done with signs subliming human interaction and relationships. :)

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Top 10 Search Terms for the Year 2008

The year 2008 brought Google’s top search terms very generic, like “Facebook login” “Sarah Palin”, “Obama”.” In compiling the 2008 Year-End Zeitgeist- search team studied the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed in to the Google search box Google and the results are as below.

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1. Sarah Palin

2. Beijing 2008

3. Facebook login

4. Tuenti

5. Heath Ledger

6. Obama

7. Nasza Klasa

8. Wer Kennt Wen

9. Euro 2008

10. Jonas Brothers

“As it happens, studying the aggregation of the billions of search queries that people type into the Google search box gives us a glimpse into the zeitgeist — the spirit of the times. We’ve compiled some of the highlights from Google searches around the globe and hope you enjoy looking back as much as we do”. -Google

Countrywise fastest rising and popular keywords for the year 2008

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Video Content & Optimization

If you produce mostly videos in your regular blog post without adding sufficient text, it will hardly index in search, try to add available article for unique information as recorded in the original video. No doubt it will take time to write great article to the subject but it would greatly benefit you in terms of SEO and user perspective too, if you’ve done both. There is another aspect considering to this approach, each piece of your work should get reasonable view and make content available for those who have difficulties to watch video due to some reason, at least they can access the content from the article.

If you find difficulty to add content try out to watch the video couple of time, even it has no speech, you can get an idea what text you should provide to your readers. If you’re adding a video that has presentation and speech, you can use a speech synthesis systems or even if you concentrate on listening the recorded words and phrases, you can write a good article in your own word closely matching to the spoken words and following the accent of the original recordings.

Each post you write, give them a good title atleast one keywords therein that can grab attention of people and users can find your content using specific keywords, if there is scope, use effective keywords’ into your post title- matching to the content. Also for greater leverage, optimize your categories sections well, don’t push a post into uncategorized default section, each post should be identified with specific keyword of the category. It would be good if you change your permalink of blogs using Custom structure: { /%category%/%postname% } that will help you to optimize your url and allow you to show the category and post name into the URL.
I tried to change the permalink of my this blog but possibly wordpress.com don’t allow this to do, the customization is off because I am still on their free service. :)

There are no courses to take, but much to learn from experience..

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Google will Index Spoken Content

After successful experiment of Google Elections Video Search gadget on iGoogle and indexing the spoken content on YouTube’s Politicians channels, Google lauches “GAudi” dedicated to Google Labs which will index all the words uttered during an audio or video clip, the transcript will be added to a searchable database that can be accessed just the way  you search for text-based websites. GAudi include  “search within video” and “sharing,” features provide robust user interface. Searching for discussions and access the exact word uttered in the audio/video would be much easier now.

Also it would greatly help the people to whom the English is not their first language, they generally read the text well but won’t follow the speech because there are noticeable differences in terms of accent, words and languages are often narrowed to the lexis, semantics or syntax. Capturing the exact moment of the video with the text would empower video presentation because audio/video becoming integral part of our online lives.

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Doritos-Advertising With Aliens

University of Leicester (UK) and Doritos working together on a joint project to create and broadcast the first spot for aliens. It would be quite fun and makes us wonder who might be the target of all GRP’s broadcast while searching in the cosmos for alien consumers located approx 42 light years from the Earth. “The message is being pulsed out over a six-hour period from high-powered radars at the EISCAT (European space station) in the Arctic ” [Read More]

Professor Darren Wright states that “everything is going as planned” and that will be “an historical moment for it is the first time that we will broadcast a message to the space, far beyond our Solar System.” In fact, the target is possibly alien consumers that might be living in a solar system 42 light years from the Earth.

Doritos also launched an interactive contest in the UK, where the winner can get the chance to send their idea into space. Just a crazy idea!

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