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Busby SEO Challenge
The Busby SEO challenge is a competition where SEO:s try to beat each other at the keyword Busby Seo Challenge. The competition finishes in August and the site on top of the search at that moment is the winner. For more info read here: the busby seo challenge.
Los Angeles Class Submarine Pirates
The vision begins on a nuclear submarine in outside Martinque a small island in the Caribbean. The Captain of this mighty vessel is the only female in charge of a ship like this. The submarine is one of nine built, they are called Los Angeles Class. These nine submarines are the biggest underwater vessels ever built outside the Soviet Union. With its internal nuclear reactor and a life containing system that renews the environment almost perfectly it can literary stay under the surface for several human generations. Alana Flockins, the captain, is well aware of the exact size of the honor it is to be the captain of such a vessel, especially since she is the first female captain of one of them. The reason Alana became captain is not that the United States finally realized that it was time for female commanders to get a chance at running these boats. Nor is the reason that she was the most qualified captain for the job. The reason is not even that she had a lot of leverage and high up contacts that could make her get the assignment. The reason is that she stole it.
On the beach in the bay that soon will become world famous stands a man with an, for this climate, unusually warm suit. The suit is gray and the man a bit pale so the suit suits him. On top of his nose rests a pair of dark sunglasses and he is humming a tune. If someone would stand very close they might hear a Hey now or a Uhu being hummed. The reason this man, that we still don’t know the name of, is standing on this beach is that he is in charge of a practice drill that just started to take place just here. In 6 minutes 400 Navy seals will hit the beach in full power and the Bay of Pigs will change owner, again. It will not really change owner of course as this is only the practice round, the real invasion is not until Sunday.
Exactly 7 days after the practice invasion of the Bay of Pigs a man is sitting in a cathedral watching a video tape of the mentioned practice invasion. He doesn’t look very happy. What he does look though is funny due to his massive sideburns and sunglasses. He looks a bit like the King. He is of course not the King though; the King hasn’t been around for a long time. The reason that he isn’t looking happy is that the practice invasion seven days ago was a real failure and today is the day for the real one. Everything had f**ked up totally, the seals hadn’t made it up on the beach, the helicopters never arrived and for some reason there was four guys beating a fat kid to death with round rocks in the background on the tape. The man from the beach with the suit doesn’t look too warm as he is standing next to the man with the sideburns even if his fingers are grabbing for a sweat stained collar. This was a f**k up and he was in charge of it. The sideburned man doesn’t seem to think of it that way at the moment, he is too focused on how to make today’s invasion go smoothly. The first thing, he decides, is that they need a whole lot more herring.
Seven days before the man watching the tape seven days after the practice invasion of the Bay of Pigs Alana Flockins is seated at the helm. She likes to sit here in the early mornings thinking of the sunrise, she can’t see it of course because they are 300 feet below. It might seem obvious that the reason they stay below all the time is that they stole the sub and are wanted for that by the authorities. The truth is that they are wanted for so much more than that. Alana Flockins, the nuclear submarine captain, is not only a mutineer and a nuclear submarine thief. The signs are obvious when you see her, her left eye got poked out years ago in a bar brawl in Boston. She lost her right hand in a horrible accident involving a gold bar and a closing bank vault door. One of her legs happened to be cut off just below the knee and is now replaced with a teak side table one. She wears a black patch to cover her missing eye and finds it very useful to have a small hook, she had made out of sterling silver, where her hand used to sit. On her right shoulder sits a bird she found flying outside the lush green coast of Brazil and not to forget on her head rests a triangular hat. You see, Alana Flockins is a Pirate.
She is sitting at the helm all alone; there is not a single person awake except Alana. Normally, on a ship this big, there are always a number of people awake but on the Armageddon, that’s not the case. There is really no reason for people to work around the clock, maybe in the navy there is but if you are not really expecting full out war, why would you need to be careful when you have nuclear capacity. Alana would never fire a nuclear missile, everyone on the Armageddon knows this and the leaders of the world probably knows too, they on the other hand can’t be sure though. That they can’t be sure is what makes it all possible, if they would be certain she will never launch they could just grab the sub. Well, they could if they have some sort of underwater grapnels a boarding dock so that they can board a ship on the bottom of the ocean. A really tricky nation might try to pinch it while they are doing some of their plundering but so far there has been only very limited plundering done. As a matter of fact the few nations that would have the capacity of doing a grab and run here are actually trying to make sure that no one tries to do just that. The United States for example, that used to own it, fears more than anything that it would end up in the hands of one of their enemies and would rather wipe it of the surface of the earth before that happens. They keep a close watch on all the other ships in the area and if any one of them would make a suspicious move the Tomahawks would start raining of the Caribbean. This keeps people pretty much in the positions they are, for good or bad.
Buying TV
Yesterday I bought a flat screen TV. I spent about two and a half hour in the store, with three different salesmen that (as usual) didn’t knew squat about technique…
It is so frustrating when the salesmen pretend to know the answers when they are just guessing. I would prefer it if they could stand up for the fact that they don’t actually know the answer to my question and got someone that did. Instead of giving me false information when I am on the verge of doing a very large purchase.
Anyway, I ended up buying a Samsung in black. Now I have installed it and I am very happy with both the contrast and the colours, even if the sound could be a bit better. But that could be solved later with the right sound system. Actually, I didn’t really want to have a TV to use for watching films or cable, but because I want it for the computer. If I buy a wireless mouse and a wireless key then I don’t have to use the little laptop screen – instead I could do everything on the TV. So now I have plugged the computer to the TV and I am doing all the surfing that way. I decided to throw away my dvd-player and watch all my movies from the computer as well. Fact of the matter is that I haven’t even installed TV. I will probably stop watching the stupid cable. The only thing that I like about that is the poker. Both celebrity poker and just live poker with pro’s is so interesting. That would be my only reason for watching TV.
Apart from that I find it so annoying with all the commercial breaks – it is so ridiculous to watch a movie that has like eleven breaks in it. The commercials aren’t even well made in my opinion, and I never feel the urge to buy anything they try to sell. Also, I am sick of cables, several screens, and all the little machines around everything. The sparser the technique is the better. So I have hidden the cables carefully, hid the computer and taken down all the stuff that was on the wall earlier. Now I am just going to enjoy the only screen that I have, for both movie watching, poker playing, surfing, mailing and all of that. It feels great!
Pokerloco Review
This is the first in our series of Poker room reviews and it is a review of Pokerloco. Pokerloco is one of the smaller poker rooms in the Ongame network. They have a reputation of having great bonuses so for all you pros and semi-pros it’s a pretty decent place to play.
The playerbase is fairly bad at poker and this can give you a good edge of course. Especially on the lower limits where you can find plenty of fish.
The site and client have that annoying poker green color and it feels a bit old fasion. To me this is something that matters a bit but the cheery avatars make up for it.
How good is it? its a 3 out of 5, try it out here: Online Poker.
MySpace Review
Layout:
Oh my, this is a mess. You need a lot of intuition to handle this baby. Every page is packed with blocks of text, mostly adds, that makes it hard to use. It is just to spammy. When it comes to userpages the base layout is so foul it seems to give even the best web site designer problems, I have seen a lot of MySpace pages and about 5 of them have been decent, not a single one would have been acceptable as a real site. The idea with block of text or links or adds filling every square inch of a site just doesn’t cut it.
Feel:
Even though it looks like shit and the first impression is that every person using myspace must be blind it feels real in a way other sites don’t. Maybe it’s just the massive amount of user but I can think of a few other reasons more.
It is so easy to use, in a way, every housewife, pensionist and schoolkid can get an instant website. If you don’t know anything about css it’ll look like myspace-standard-ugly but it’s still an instant site.
You can see what people like, everyone is parading their favourite artist and best friends around on their sites. Even if you’ve never met this guy you know that he is a Ladytron fan and likes to hang out with Mike with the moustache.
Even important people use it, Sean Combs does it, David Spade too, everyone. Or at least some guy does it in their name, but it still feels important.
Useful?
A few bands have made a break on MySpace but that seems rather impossible now, it as turned out to be mostly bands spamming each other about gigs, new songs or different tools for spamming bands on myspace.
For the standard user it might be fun to be on the friendslist of a band you like or get a comment from a good looking girl but when if we are going to be truthful: It doesn’t mean anything, a MySpace friend just means someone you can spam and all good looking girls on myspace are guys trying to sell you stuff.
Ok you can of course use it to keep in contact with your real friends all over the world but come on, a blog or an instant messenger will do that better.
AceProject.org
Aceproject.org is owned by a number of international organizations such as International IDEA and UN. The primary function of the site is the ACE Encyclopaedia which offers knowledge on elections and similar topics.
Content
The content of the election database is extensive. With huge resources this site has gathered information on elections in almost every country and with really high academic standards. Aceproject is definately a worldclass site when it comes to the material, but that might be expected with such heavy founders.
The layout
The layout is ok, it isn’t very easy to find your way around the site and it doesn’t look that exiting. I get the feeling that the only priority has been gathering the election information. Extra points for the ease with which you can choose language and that it is available in several languages I haven’t even heard of.
Useful?
Very, if you are looking for any kind of electoral information you can find it here. It easily competes with all other encyclopaedias in the election area and the extra weight of the organizations supporting it gives it trust.
Summary:
Go there if you are looking for information on: election
Omega 3 Site review
I didn’t know anything about Omega-3 when I was asked to review this site and now I know just a little more. www.omega-3.se is an info-site about omega-3, health aspects of omega-3 and recipes. The information has a high quality and is available in both English and Swedish.
Layout
A traditional site layout makes it easy for anyone with more then 5 minutes of internet experience to manuever the pages. Reasonable colors (which is a personal demand) makes it easy and relaxing to read. It might need a few pictures or at least diagrams to keep me interested because the standard layout that is so good for readability can easily become rather dull.
Content
The content is sorted in 8 head categories plus news. The categories are; about omega-3, supplements, food, disease, pregnant, children, vegetarian and recipes. The pages aren’t really packed with information but for me, that didn’t know anything about the subject, it is enough. The only category I found a bit bleak was recipes which has only 1 recipe, to it’s advantage I might add that it was a recipe for salmon.
A really nice thing is the list of references, more sites should present their material like that, not only to give credit to the author of the base material but for the readers that want to deepen their knowledge.
Useful?
I believe so, especially if they get more recipes (there is a possibility to send them suggestions). Ok, there isn’t really a lack of recipes on the net but it’s my belief that specialized sites like this have more to offer in that area.
Site: Omega-3 and Health
Add Url Free
Swedish search engine optimizer Jim Westegren has announced that his directory addurl-fee.com soon reaches 50.000 links. This makes it one of the truly big directories on the net.
The site: addurl-free.com
Background:
People working with SEO (search engine optimization) wants links to their sites to get better results in search engines. One way of getting links is to add you site to a directory. There are quite a few directories out there and some of them are liked a lot by the search engines.
The function:
Submitting
It is easy to submit to the directory and it is well edited, your submission gets a fast respons. The usual system on directories this big and with this high pagerank is to validate free submissions last, this is the case here as well but they must be working hard because you generally get the results within a week.
Pagerank
Pagerank isn’t the best way of rating a site but it’s one of the ways to tell how google feels about a site, and that is of course important when it comes to directories like these. Addurl-free.com has a pagerank of 5 and that is a very high rate for a directory. This means that this site is liked by google and that means that the links coming out from it are liked by google.
Detail page
One of the advantages of this site compared to other similar is the detail page. Every site that is approved for a listing in the directory gets its own detail page. This is good when it comes to SEO because links mean more when the come from a page with related info and not to many outbound links.
Summary:
This is a free service and it is good for your site to be listed. There is absolutely no reason for you not to submit you site.
About the owner:
Jim got famous after his accomplishments in the SEO world championships and is working alomst exclusivly with link building today. He is managing swedens biggest forum on SEO and has a number of useful services such as the link building service.
Link Vault review
The site: Link-vault.com
What is it?
Link vault is a text link trade service. You can automaticly trade links with a number of pages sorted in categories. The links are search engine friendly and that means they can give you a boost in the search engine result pages.
How good is it?
I have tested link vault for a few months and the results are nice. I’ve gotten a large number of links for the sites I’ve signed up with. The links are of very different qualities but that is reasonable and a less valuable link will cost you less in vaultage. despite the troubles installing (installed on a lot of different kind of sites and they all took a different approach before getting it to work) I believe this is a good service.
How it works
You sign up, add a site to the program and add a little codesnippet to your site. This can be a bit troublesome and might demand a little markup-skill but it can be done. After a while links start showing up on your site and depending on the number of links you chose to display (you can chose 1-5) on every page, how many pages there are and what your pagerank is, you will start getting points of “vaultage”. Vaultage is a sort of currency that you spend on linkprograms. You add a site to recieve links, with an anchor-text of your choice and soon incoming links will start appearing automaticly. You get links to an equal value of the links you are displaying.
The support
They have a support forum but it leaves a lot wanting. Itis hard to get answers to your questions and you need them because setting it up can be a pain.
Problems we had
Except the work with installing LV there was another problem, for two days link-vault was so laggy we had to remove it from a site. It slowed down the whole site so much it hardly loaded at all.
Travian
Travian is an online game available in several different languages such as English, German and Swedish.
The game is friendly looking with nice litte cartoon figures as soldiers that you can bash each others villages with. The site itself is relatively ok even though it might be a bit slow to load sometimes. The translations on the other hand are sub-standard, lots of errors in the interface makes it look almost silly (The original language is German).
The Game
As a web based game it is about ok. There are much better games out there but it can be fun for a few hours. Compared to the old ArchMage it has a huge number of flaws and here are a few of them:
It is time base, you start building something and it will take 40 minutes then you have to start the next building after that. This makes it impossible to compete if you don’t wish to play _all the time_.
You have to pay for extras. If you don’t pay for extra production or defensiv/offensive bonuses you are at a heavy disadvantage.
The tech tree is extremely boring, developing your litte village doesn’t really take it anywhere.
There is a map. You are placed on a global map which makes playing together with actual friends harder. It would be ok if you could choose starting position with your village but you can’t.
Summary
It is not worth it to play this game more then a couple of hours and it is absolutely not worth it to pay anything for this experience.
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