Ok, so during a nice long Memorial Day Weekend visiting family down in LA, the wife and I had to make the obligatory stop by Venice Beach. Since I’m rushed for time this week and catching up with a backlog of work I thought I’d share a few pics…

If you caught me eating some lunch from the Vegan fast food eatery “Good Karma” you might have been able to talk me into chatting about SEO & general Internet Marketing stuff. I do enjoy time away from the Internets but can almost always be sucked into shop talk. Why’s this? Simple — I completely enjoy what I do.

NOTE: This 100% Vegan eatery is located directly across from the Muscle Beach workout area on the boardwalk. The sweet potato fries & chipotle chicken sandwich rocked.

Ok, on with the rest of the pics:

Jim Morrison would be happy to know that Venice Beach, California hasn’t changed all that much over the years…there are still:

Swamis on skates playing guitar.

Amazing & humorous circus-style, tumbling / acrobatics shows on the boardwalk.

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but rather a quick post to express how the vibe of my week and business has been going lately.

This picture I took a good few years ago at one of my favorite locations, that at the time, was down at the end of the block from my casa. Click on it for the larger view without the text on it. Hope you enjoyed the quote as much as I did.

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Well tonight I took about 45min to cruise through JOOST. Overall I have to say I enjoyed it. The programming is quite a bit larger than I expected although some may consider still a tad limited in relation to today’s world of 900+ cable channels.

Now for the interface and quality. The JOOST interface was fairly intuitive although I did have trouble finding where to shut it off when I was done watching and at one point during a viewing of some Hawaii Big Surf program I got a small popup menu opened inadvertently that took me quite a while to get rid of as it didn’t have an easily identifiable ‘x’ in the top right corner.

The quality of video overall, in full screen on my system, was not that great but it also wasn’t horrible. Keep in mind my box, although roughly a year old, is by no means a high end video/gaming box. I’m sure my video card is ’so so.’ I have a gig of ram on this PC & the other regular jazz that comes with a HP box…I’ll dig up the actual video card for any techies that care. Later this week I’ll provide some screen caps of my adventure in the belly of JOOST if their TOS allows it.

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Thought I’d make a quick post before I go on a road trip to LA for a few days.

Here’s an interesting video that provides an interesting narrative, so to speak, on what the web & this 2.0 thing is about.

Enjoy

type-atcha-later,

Sean

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I got a beta account for JOOST today and will be reporting back on how the experience goes over the next few weeks. What is JOOST you’re probably asking yourself?

Here’s the definition directly from the horses mouth:

“Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.”

I find this concept fascinating how the web is meshing with traditional media.

type-atcha-later,

Sean

PS: If you want an invite to JOOST drop me an email - listed on the contact.html page

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This post is for the SEOs, word geeks and other webrepreneurs that find their way here.

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu

” This data set, contributed by Google Inc., contains English word n-grams and their observed frequency counts. The length of the n-grams ranges from unigrams (single words) to five-grams. We expect this data will be useful for statistical language modeling, e.g., for machine translation or speech recognition, as well as for other uses.“

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Apparently Youtube has made the move to bring some of it’s content producers up to the level of partner by way of revenue sharing. The concept of sharing revenue with content producers online in the video realm is not new. Revver has been doing this for some time now.

Now that the 500lb gorilla has jumped into the mix, what other areas online might feel the vibration?

1) Will Google have to start paying it’s other content contributors? (Sam Zell and others think so.)

2) Will Digg need to consider paying it’s top diggers?

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3) What’s going to happen to the “information wants to be free” vibe of the internet?

4) As revenue models become more predominant will the costs eventually be passed onto the end user?

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So, in the news yesterday you may have heard, Microsoft is in talks with Yahoo regarding a potential purchase. What is it, something in the water!? Seems as if there’s a rash of attempted or considered buy-outs going on lately.

Anyways here’s my take on it…

First off, we all know that Google has become the monster on the block. So the other top 2 search competitors are clearly Yahoo and MSN. Would combining forces help them take on The Big G? Well that depends on a few things in my opinion.

If they retain the portal vibe that has done so well for Yahoo and put some more quality focus back on their directory and bring back the chatters via a social network or specialized forums (yes sounds simple but that stuff works) then I think they have a fighting chance.

Yahoo + MS money + “I’m bringing sexy (quality) back” + community = competition worthy of The Big G

If they plan to do anything else…

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I can hear the scraper/spammer’s cheering now.

Although it has potential to be used for evil purposes it sure will be nice to have ready access to this data if you are in certain professions. I remember my father taking me down to the LA courthouse back in the 70s and showing me how to dig around on microfiche for certain data. It’ll be nice to know when my little heathen is ready for those type of lessons we can simple hop on The Google and lookup whatever we need.

type-atcha-later,
Sean

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