Hoe ziet jouw long tail van search er uit? · Marketingfacts

Why do people sign-up for a community? Here are the main reasons:

• Fame is important
• They are willing to share personal (confidential/sensitive) information
• Have no problem being critical about other people on the net
• Think organisations have to communicate ‘openly’

Both the first and the third statement are interesting towards our project: People want to be famous around the world > Competitions
Have no problem being critical about other people on the net > Musician should face the truth, if a lot of people say a band or singer sucks (commenting) they know what to improve. (kick the singer out of the band ;))

Source/report

Our project is called; ClipBOX. No further information ;) Just our xhtml sample here. Google and other (not impressive) searchengines won’t index it, hopefully (noindex, nofollow). Today I’ve been busy with the drop-down-box using moo.fx, didn’t get the effect running with scriptaculous.. (use firefox or such.. iexplorer and safari not yet fully supported)

This one hasn’t got anything to do with our project. But I came across the Ajaxian website. It mentioned a desktop OS written in javascript, and some other shizzle. The website is called Craythur (Beta 1). There’s a Youtube video showing you how this one works: here It has some nice features like an agenda, my tasks, search, contacts, file dropping an my notes. The my tasks function is very nice. It has a cool progress-bar for each individual task.

Yes, Craythur is an Irish term for whiskey.

p.s > comments are enabled ;)

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.
w00p w00p, commenting is working properly from now on.
go your gang, and drop your comment(s) on the old, and the upcoming posts!

Check how fast, or slow, a site is loading: here. Some of the loading times I got here:
- YouTube.com : ~6.98 seconds
- MySpace.com : ~3.90 seconds
- Blip.tv : ~5.20 seconds
- robinb0s.nl/school : ~ 12.00 seconds (!) (==evidence this blog is cr4p)

Hopefully clipbox.tv will be loads faster!
>> Optimizing Page Load

Hello there, first off all I want to say that some of my fellow minor-students should think better about what they are typing.

Okay, now here it goes for the serious stuff;
Last week we had an assessment, Ray and Renay humiliated us..! Nah, they told us we’re doing quite well, but not good-better-best. We’ve to change (improve) several things in our project-plan. And better overthink our decisions. Which is true. Personally I think there can be more achieved.
Totally Ray and Renay awarded us with nine European Credits (EC’s). Renay told me I didn’t link information(posts) on this blog to the actual product we’re realising. Let me tell him: I did a few times:

• Websites are mainly based on typography
  “complete post“
• moo.fx 2.0
  “That one we can use to show/hide additional information about the music video clip which a visitor s currently watching.“
• iflim is now ajax-ized
  “There are some functionalities we can use in our own project in this, or at least put it in our concept.“

I agree on Renay the other posts aren’t linked to our project..

Also I’ve written a reflection-document, about this first quarter.

Hopefully everybody receives their feedback this week -> “now we wait”

pre-scriptum: this story is based on the original story by robin bos, he had written this post but then there was a browser-reload. *boom* post became history.

Today I’ve been working on the graphical design, and to be more precise: the typography part. First of all there was Google, then there was typography. With various word(combinations) there were a few usefull websites which we are going to use as sources for information about this subject. First of all we got, ofcourse, Wikipedia (NL)(ENG). Not much interesting there if we compare it to the other websites, some mongol may update/ add more information about it on the Dutch version. This one’s in Dutch too, called “Typografie en vormgeving op het net”. (ENG: Typography and design on the net”). If you want to know more about ‘smart using of text on a webpage’, this one’s a must-read. Also I found a website, the URL of it blew away when the window opened, which was claiming the internet consist of ~95% written typed text. The rest is… …the rest.

And last but not least, WebAIM (which is a site for developers who want to think of other people.. people with disabilities! Yes they are not dumb, they only need some extra helping tools (hard or software) to browse the web) has an interesting article about Fonts. A part of the conclusion I made for myselfs is that we have to use “em” or “%”, and not “px”, “pt”, etc.. for the font-sizes. Totally worth reading!

To convert from points (pt) to pixels (px) or ems (em) or percentages (%), this site is usefull. To convert from pixels (px) to ems (em): divide by 16 -> 12px/16=0.75em

get online with your msn account, gtalk, aim or yahoo account through a website interface. no software installations needed, just a plain windows or macosx install will do. very nicely done, be sure to check this one out! it’s an online messaging application, free to use.
it now features; pop-out messages (be sure to have your popup blocker turned off), draggable items, new visual looks, skinning and even chat-logs!