Google Developer Day Sydney 2007 - Australia

Virtual sex in Second life

"And sometimes when people are talking across a table, that leads to sex. In real life and in Second Life, too. " This is the conclusion from review "Sex in Second life".

30% of second life economy is related to sex. Haha, why so, in real life, how much economy is relate to sex. In virtual life, avatar does not need to eat, does not need to sleep, so can always have have energy to have sex. Maybe this is one of the primary reason second life is so popular. Unlike World of Warcraft, its great animation and violence attracts people. In second life, its freedom, different lifestyle which you can not achieve attracts people. Well, people will get what you want, sometimes including people's dark side.

Not only individual, many big well-known companies took part in, hopefully 'not in sex'. Playboy will enter 'second life' in early of June, for sure, this would attract some new comers. Just wondering, how many more first-life jobs will be outsourced to second life.

Google Developer Day 2007

I had a few trainings recently, Asp.net, MS SQL, IBM Domino 7.0. Also I attended a few sessions for Macromedia in recent years. I likes MS ones. Well, the most exciting one, is Google developer Day, so many people are eager to go. In Sydney, its initial seminar was fully booked 1 month before the events. I was pleased knowing the room was changed to hold more audience and my late booking was accepted.

Rather calling it Google day, it is better calling it AJAX day. Back in 2005, after knowing Google map & Google suggest, I tried to use 'suggest' for my enterprise staff lookup. It worked great, I was so amazed to see how fast and powerful it can be used, but it took me very long time to configure it.

Since after, enabling AJAX is much simpler, for example PowerWeb is a nice tool allows developer to develop much quickly. Microsoft's Atlas now (AJAX) is also easy to use. Microsoft's samples make life easy, though not all of them are AJAX.

MS and Google, good work.... Great innovation and make developer's life better.

Google AJAX Search API - Access Google search results from JavaScript apps.
Google AJAX Feed API - Download and mashup public feeds in JavaScript.
Google Data APIs - Read and write data to Google services including Google Calendar and Blogger.
Google Gadgets - Write simple mini-apps for the Google homepage and Google Desktop.
Google Maps API - Embed Google Maps in your own web pages.
Google Web Toolkit - Write AJAX apps in the Java language

Today 100 million Chinese are trading Share

China stock accounts has exceeded 99 million weeks ago. It is reported, every day new accounts openned are more than 300,000 people, according to the cumulative rate, today it breaks 100 million mark. Thanks to the benign environment, people are becoming richer.

Stock market skyrocketed, the people involved in the stock market this year are also enthusiastic with a sustained manner. Since January this year alone, the new accounts as high as 20 million, that is, the market is as high as 20% of total people involved in the trend.

How many more people can pull into the bubble, and how high index can it go. Shanghai index now is 4,300, not long ago it was 1,000. Some expert claims reaching 6000 is not a dream in 2008. But in reality, it is very unlikely more capital can be invested into the market.

Actually, 1.3 billion people play with 1,300 shares. Sounds not a surprise why share index can rise that fast.

Comments on 50 ways to promote traffic

1. Write and submit articles to the article directories.

Well, not easy. Top article forum only accept top and unique articles. I had around 6 articles in GoArticles. To be honest, not many people read them at all. Because there are so many good articles there. I don't see a direct impact on my links increase in my Google crawl.

2. Leave comments on other people��s blogs with a backlink to your site.
3. Answer people��s questions on www.answers.yahoo.com.

Cross. Time consuming... I would prefer the second option, because at least you are learning.

4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature.
5. Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com.
6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.CraigsList.com.
7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.
8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100's of free blog directories.
9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.
10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.

11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It��s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.

12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.
13. Use PPC search engine advertising.
14. Add a ��bookmark this site�� link to your webpages.
15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.
16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website.
17. Hold a crazy content and make it go viral.
18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site.
19. Add an RSS feed to your blog.
20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net.
21. Participate in a banner or link exchange program.
22. Create a software program and give it away for free.
23. Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors.
24. Buy a domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic and forward it to your site.
25. Pass out business cards with your domain on them everywhere you go.
26. Start and affiliate program and let your affiliates send you visitors.
27. Start a page on social bookmarking sites such as www.MySpace.com.
28. Submit a viral video to www.YouTube.com
29. Conduct and publish surveys to your website.
30. Find joint venture partners that will send you traffic.
31. Start your own newsletter or ezine.
32. Use a autoresponder or email campaign to keep people coming back to your site.
33. Purchase ads on other sites.
34. Send a free copy of your product to other site owners in exchange for a product review.
35. Sell or place classified ads on www.eBay.com with a link to your site.
36. Post free classified ads on any of the sites that allow them with a link to your site.
37. Exchange reciprocal links with other related websites.
38. Network with other people at seminars or other live events.
39. Purchase advertising in popular newsletters or ezines.
40. Advertise on other product��s ��thank you�� pages.
41. Create a free ebook and list in on the ��free ebook�� sites.
42. Buy and use a memorable domain name.
43. Do something controversial.
44. Create an Amazon profile and submit reviews for books and other products that you have read.
45. Start a lens on www.Squidoo.com.
46. Use a traffic exchange (low quality traffic, but can sometimes be worthwhile).
47. Get referrals form similar but non-competing sites.
48. Create and sell a product with resell or giveaway rights and include a link to your site in it o others pass it around for you.
49. Email your list. If you don��t have one, get one.
50. Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow.
51. Print your Blog URL on your T-Shirt, might be better than 50th.

Vertical Slideshow

Science picture, it looks like AJAX enabled. There is no page refreshing.

Code is named "js/image-slideshow-vertical.js" which can be found in www.dhtmlgoodies.com.

There are a number of ways of displaying picture on web as slide. Some of them are really advanced.

In reality, AJAX is still the weapon dominating the market. Flex looks good, just like mission few are really using it.

China has cash $1.2 trillion

China has cash $1.2 trillion, it can buy Microsoft at $300 billion, Exxon at $470 billion, GE at $380 billion.

Then what is the most valuable company to buy. Technology or resource, I would reckon resource. If I am the person to make the decision, I will buy BHP.