WordPress? You mean that crappy blog software that can barely handle even a modest load without erroring out?
Yeah, the one that has just surpassed 50 million installations worldwide and to whose "crappy" platform Microsoft migrated all of its Live Spaces Users
If it is a prototype the only possible way of marketing it is by "accidentally" revealing it. That's the only way you can be excused of not having a finished product while at the same time let it be known that you are on the game.
As the original poster has pointed out, you don't need to buy a four-letter domain and register it with DNS servers just for testing purposes,
Well, you would perhaps if you were on limited resources. Not the case.
Exactly.
By saying that it was "accidentally revealed" they have everyone wanting to know what's all about. Good marketing strategy, if you believe it. I don't, even for a second
Yes, it does look like it's part of a different layout.
Additionally, now the menu items are much harder to read, as opposed to before, when just a quick glance did suffice to locate where "Images", "News", etc, were.
That black top bar kind of reminds me of WordPress when logged in,
and somehow it makes me uneasy...
I guess I just need to get used to it, but it seems out of place, doesn't it?
This could be a maneuver to confuse the IE team, giving them some time to reverse engineer FF4 and then come out with the real one.
Just a crazy thought...
Meta keywords and descriptions are used to replace content, which can be abused. This is used to annotate content, not replace it. It simply let's you say what the content is supposed to represent (a recipe, or a rating, or a person, etc).
meta keywords and meta descriptions are not used to replace any type of content, they are (were) used to define what the content of a page is about.
In that sense, this scheme is exactly the same thing, and if it's open to abuse, it will be abused.
The conclusion is that we shouldn't even try to make websites designed for Search Engines and instead focus on real human visitors.
As someone once told me, we shouldn't be engaging in any SEO at all, because it is Google's job to find and properly index that content, not ours. And they get handsomely rewarded for it.
Agreed,
Google also happily ignores meta keywords and of late even meta descriptions, focusing purely on the available content, so how is this going to be different is beyond me
Google has done the right thing in this case. I'm not delving into other products, strategies, etc., but with Android, they've done the right thing, by making their software with developers in mind, and not rushing to reap benefits as if there was no tomorrow, Google is steadily owning tomorrow's market
And also very importantly, Android is poised for dominance in China, the world's largest mobile market. A HUGE piece of the cake.
Android is definitely poised for World dominance
http://www.racknine.com/blog/software/android-os-poised-for-world-dominance/
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WordPress? You mean that crappy blog software that can barely handle even a modest load without erroring out?
Yeah, the one that has just surpassed 50 million installations worldwide and to whose "crappy" platform Microsoft migrated all of its Live Spaces Users
If it is a prototype the only possible way of marketing it is by "accidentally" revealing it. That's the only way you can be excused of not having a finished product while at the same time let it be known that you are on the game. As the original poster has pointed out, you don't need to buy a four-letter domain and register it with DNS servers just for testing purposes, Well, you would perhaps if you were on limited resources. Not the case.
Exactly. By saying that it was "accidentally revealed" they have everyone wanting to know what's all about. Good marketing strategy, if you believe it. I don't, even for a second
The myth of open source superiority has been proven false time and again.
How about WordPress? OpenSource and vastly superior to other equivalent commercial CMSs
10 years without innovation it's an eternity by computer standards. Who is killing innovation, I wonder
Yes, it does look like it's part of a different layout. Additionally, now the menu items are much harder to read, as opposed to before, when just a quick glance did suffice to locate where "Images", "News", etc, were.
That black top bar kind of reminds me of WordPress when logged in, and somehow it makes me uneasy ...
I guess I just need to get used to it, but it seems out of place, doesn't it?
You should read this, "Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? Ruminations on the Psychology and Aesthetics of Coding" By Charles Petzold http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html
This could be a maneuver to confuse the IE team, giving them some time to reverse engineer FF4 and then come out with the real one. Just a crazy thought ...
Meta keywords and descriptions are used to replace content, which can be abused. This is used to annotate content, not replace it. It simply let's you say what the content is supposed to represent (a recipe, or a rating, or a person, etc).
meta keywords and meta descriptions are not used to replace any type of content, they are (were) used to define what the content of a page is about. In that sense, this scheme is exactly the same thing, and if it's open to abuse, it will be abused. The conclusion is that we shouldn't even try to make websites designed for Search Engines and instead focus on real human visitors. As someone once told me, we shouldn't be engaging in any SEO at all, because it is Google's job to find and properly index that content, not ours. And they get handsomely rewarded for it.
Agreed, Google also happily ignores meta keywords and of late even meta descriptions, focusing purely on the available content, so how is this going to be different is beyond me
I have worked in companies where those "folks who have no idea what their job is" account for more than 75% of the work-force
Google has done the right thing in this case. I'm not delving into other products, strategies, etc., but with Android, they've done the right thing, by making their software with developers in mind, and not rushing to reap benefits as if there was no tomorrow, Google is steadily owning tomorrow's market And also very importantly, Android is poised for dominance in China, the world's largest mobile market. A HUGE piece of the cake. Android is definitely poised for World dominance http://www.racknine.com/blog/software/android-os-poised-for-world-dominance/