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Traffic / Link operator dead?
« on: March 15, 2017, 10:47:29 AM »
I missed this, until Eric Ward told me.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-recommends-no-longer-using-link-operator/183532/

I am guessing this will be good news for ahrefs and Majestic?

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http://interestingengineering.com/video/glory-hole-spillway-lake-berryessa-overflows/


This could only go in Water Cooler.

Great sound track too .imho.

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Hardware & Technology / Steaming a selection of programs -how to?
« on: February 23, 2017, 09:01:59 AM »
OK.  We have a quite severe level of alzheimer's in the family now.
What we find is that he is struggling to turn on and off the TV, and gets very cross if something he does not like comes on.  (like sport)

As he is unable to change channel, or understand anything of how it works, its down to us to turn it on and off when "country file" comes on etc.

I am fairly sure I can get the TV to turn on and then off again when certain programs are on on terrestrial TV, but what I would like to be able to do is set up a playlist of vids from iplayer, (a playlist) that just plays when its turned on.

I assumed it would be easy enough to find, but I am looking in the wrong places!


I know how ingenious the team is here, working with RSS etc, so I am hoping there is someone who has tried this for other reasons!  (Like sitting down for a box set.... ) 

Any nuggets for brainstorming this would be appreciated.  I am sure its a service that would go down well in Care homes.

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I have used it for a facebook comparison.  5 sites, easy report, works for straightforward analysis: 
www.mondovo.com

this caught my eye for $5 per month:

Features of Mondovolytics (Real-time Analytics)

Mondovolytics is a comprehensive web analytics tool that allows you to track your visitors in real-time. You'll know who's visiting your site right now (you can even identify them by any user credentials you have stored), what pages they're visiting and where they came from. Apart from this, there's a lot of other useful stats you can get.

    Get live stats when browsing your site itself (we detect your login session and show you stats on your site).
    Generate heatmaps based on visitors' clicks.
    No SPAM Traffic: You don't have to waste time with referral spam filters, we've taken care of filtering out most spam.
    More accurate bounce rates, only visitors spending less than 30 seconds are counted as bounces.
    Track page visits history by user, this is very useful for personalizing your marketing.

might try it on my next site.

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Water Cooler / When will I be able to buy a self drive car?
« on: January 04, 2017, 04:26:51 PM »
Everyone round me rolls their eyes when i mention this, and say 10 years.  I think it will be sooner than that, but still have not quite got a feel for when.

What do you folks think?
I found this on the Nissan site: 
Quote
In 2017, the Nissan Qashqai with ProPilot will become our first vehicle in Europe equipped with autonomous technology. The first model with ProPilot will come to Japan this year. The new Qashqai can drive autonomously and safely in a single lane in heavy traffic conditions on the highway.

In three years: 
http://uk.businessinsider.com/report-10-million-self-driving-cars-will-be-on-the-road-by-2020-2015-5-6

I think these clarify the question to:

When will I be able to buy a Fully autonomous car?



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Water Cooler / Is this the Ferdinand moment?
« on: December 19, 2016, 10:23:00 PM »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/19/russias-ambassador-turkey-shot-assassination-attempt1/


Th inde says:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ambassador-shooting-turkey-nato-security-services-andrey-karlov-a7485296.html

Quote
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who leads the right-wing nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, said the killing was “a false flag operation by the West”.

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Web Development / Website accounts
« on: December 12, 2016, 05:14:13 PM »
Just getting together the finances side of my new venture, and thought I might throw out the old book and see if there is anything better available.  

Currently, as my suit  site is bespoke, all the back end is hand written, from pulling in the bank statements, to managing returns and refunds.  Its hugely complex now, and I really don't want to go through that build process again.

We were looking at Magento, but Rich who does my programming, is quite keen to build the shopping cart from scratch, as it means he can easily mange cross subdomain logins, and we are only selling a handful of products and a subscription.

But then I get to the bit about refunds, full or partial, invoices, reminder emails for the subscriptions etc, and then the reports of orders, money paid , reconciliation with the bank, units sold etc etc, and cannot help but think this must have been done so many times it should be like falling off a log.

With Quickbooks
so I have started looking at
  • Secure Trading for taking the cash.
  • Quickbooks online for feeding the data to via api.
  • Managing all credits (have to feed that data back to the site for refunds ) on Quickbooks
  • And then pulling in the bank details automatically to reconcile it all
With Sage
But then after talking to sage, who basically told me it could not be done online and I had to download software and run it on the PC,  I bought something through Sagepay, so I know there is some online options there.


Has anyone got a simple, integrated system like this working, or is it an unattainable dream, without doing it as a bespoke build?







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Water Cooler / another Amazon Breakthrough
« on: December 05, 2016, 04:04:34 PM »
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/05/no-waiting-at-the-register-new-amazon-go-store-bills-everything-to-your-amazon-account.html

If you dont follow the video to the end, then the last part is about the fact this is about people too, not just avoiding the queue at the check our. A lot of $15 per hour jobs go at the checkout, giving Amazon a competitive advantage and then:


"People matter too... wow..."


You know, I watched the Italian PM get beaten today, and the people are starting to gently stir... I do hope this changes direction, but I dont think it will.

how about this for a theory probably mooted many times before...  what we are watching is the start of WW3.  It will not be state to state, or country v country, it will be people v corporates and state.

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Maybe this should be in threadwatch.

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/topic-clusters

A number of bit jump out at me, including this one:
Quote
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced in May that that 20% of queries on its mobile app and on Android devices are voice searches.
  WOW!

The content idea is pretty old hat imho.


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Hardware & Technology / Flow Chart software
« on: September 15, 2016, 01:40:40 PM »
Just found it:
https://www.lucidchart.com

awesome.  I have been wanting something like this for ages.  Free version does everything I need.

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Water Cooler / Anyone know about wechat?
« on: September 15, 2016, 01:09:21 PM »

http://nyti.ms/2ays4c9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat

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WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, sharing of photographs and videos, and location sharing.[18][19] It can exchange contacts with people nearby via Bluetooth, as well as providing various features for contacting people at random if desired (if these are open to it), next to integration with social networking services such as those run by Facebook and Tencent QQ.[20] Photographs may also be embellished with filters and captions, and a machine translation service is available.

In China, users who have provided bank account information may use the app to pay bills, order goods and services, send money to other users, and pay in stores. Vetted third parties, known as "official accounts", offer these services by developing lightweight "apps within the app".[21]

EEEK! 

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Water Cooler / Finding an old item listed on ebay.
« on: September 14, 2016, 03:03:24 PM »
I am looking for an archive of ebay for something I bought on 09 Dec, 2014

Archive.org does not have it, any ideas?  I want the text, as I want to put it back on, and it was sold technically, and I cannot remember the details like Boyesen Power Reeds, etc.
 

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Water Cooler / Internet use with old age in the UK
« on: September 07, 2016, 08:47:49 AM »
This of interest to me from a number of angles. Its updated monthly:
http://www.ageuk.org.uk/Documents/EN-GB/Factsheets/Later_Life_UK_factsheet.pdf?dtrk=true

for this and a bit more go to page 27 if interested.

Quote
Internet use among older age groups has increased substantially over the last five years, but many
are still non-users.
4.2 million people aged 65+ have never used the internet.
Around a quarter (26%) of people aged 65 to 74 and around three-fifths (61%) of people aged 75+
do not regularly use the internet.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes information each year setting out the numbers
and proportions of people who use the internet.

In 2016, in the UK, 5.3 million adults have never used the internet while a further 0.9 million
have used it, but not in
the last 3 months.

Among people aged 65+, 4.2 million have never used the internet and a further 0.51 million
who have used it, but not in the last 3 months.

Most of these non-users are aged 75+. There are 2.8 million people aged 75+ who have
never usedthe internet and a further 0.24 million who have used but not in the last 3
months.

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Hardware & Technology / Appears to be an archive scraper
« on: August 26, 2016, 08:57:19 AM »
I seem to remember a thread before with someone asking for this.  I Am pretty sure Jasons kit does this too when you buy a domain from  him :
<Jason to chip in>


But this looks neat.  $27 per month :
https://waybackrebuilder.com/


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Hardware & Technology / Blogger Outreach and other link building tools
« on: August 23, 2016, 01:27:47 PM »
Just playing with a few new toys for finding blogs that link to competitors, and others that might place articles for me in the right sites.

had a mate try Buzzstream and he doesnt find it very useful.
I am currently looking at Pitchbox and Inkybee.

Any other alternatives that I have missed or something about Buzzfeed?


added to look at:
http://citationlabs.com/tools/
https://ontolo.com/
http://reverseinternet.com/user/login
 linkresearchtools.com . 

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