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Floating Internet? Google’s Project Loon and Internet for All

September 7, 2013 by Admin Leave a Comment

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There are places in the United States—yes, here in the good old US of A—that still do not have consistent, reliable access to the Internet. How is this possible? Remote locations with rough terrain lack the towers necessary to support cell service, much less Internet.  High speed Internet access is just now conquering cities, but has been remarkably slow to reach the suburbs and what lies beyond. Where profit margins may be low due to low population density, companies are reluctant to invest. Wireless Internet access out in the wilderness, if it exists at all, may disappear entirely on cloudy or stormy days and connection speeds, even at their best, are mightily slow. While this may be lamentable, two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have Internet access at all.

How do we solve this problem of access? Google X Lab proposes a wild solution: Project Loon, Balloon Powered Internet for Everyone!

You may have heard a lot about Panda, but Google’s Loon may be it’s sleeping giant of an idea, creating equality of access

for those near and far. Announced in June, Google’s grandious goal is “a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space,

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igned to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps and bring people back online after disasters.”  No small feat, but then Google is no small company. And Google’s ideas are not small ideas

How will it work? Specially constructed, extra-strength balloons made of polyethylene plastic and powered by solar panels

will float in the stratosphere, providing connectivity over a “ground area about 40km in diameter at speeds comparable to 3G.” Alas, these incredible balloons are not yet traveling the world’s skies, but if you live in New Zealand, you can sign up to be a Project Loon pilot tester.

Google doesn’t say exactly how the balloons’ trajectories are controlled other than mentioning software algorithms that determine where each balloon needs to go. The plan is to release the balloons in a stream that will surround the earth and continually move in a band, providing consistent service.

In this video, Dan Piponi of Project Loon explains how the spacing of balloons and consistent coverage will be achieved:

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Bill Gates has criticized Project Loon as superfluous, especially in light of more pressing world health and poverty issues.  However, Internet access and computer literacy are critical for empowering people to rise from poverty.   A case can be made that those without Internet access and computer literacy cannot fully participate in society or make use of all intellectual tools at their disposal. The Digital Divide is real, with real consequences.  The connection between connectivity and economic mobility has been made time and again: even the Economist called Africa’s lack of cheap, high speed Internet “another kind of poverty.”

Will Google cure malaria with Project Loon? Of course not, nor will Google Panda completely clean up the Internet. But both are big ideas, aimed at solving big problems. Balloon Internet is an idea to watch. Loon may not be the solution to access equality, but it’s a start. Maybe the next iteration–a bird of flight, perhaps?–will change the skyscape of Internet connection forever.

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Manipulating Google’s Freshness Signals

June 13, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

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I’ve been working hard to combat the effects of Google’s Penguin algorithm update for one of my most important sites.  I had a number of sites that I was developing.  Hompepages were up with some unique content, and I had links installed.  Soooooo…I guess the Algo’ assumed I was trying to build link farms.  Oops!  Oh well.  No big deal.

For a few of these penalty-inducing, nascent sites, I redirected.  For the rest, I added the NOFOLLOW attribute to all the links.  I think my rankings will be back to normal soon.

Just submitted a reconsideration request, just to let Big G know that I wasn’t trying to be a spammer.  We’ll see.

Last year’s Panda update resulted in the same site getting deindexed, but it bounced back in short order.  I have faith that Google does not want to punish honorable publishers. 

My other major Internet property should have been hit with the same penalty.  But it wasn’t.  Because it has too much authority.  Authority is the key.  Not enough authority, and these algorithm updates become a major pain.

Manipulating Google’s Freshness Signals

A site that I compete with is manipulating page content to get better rankings.  The site is DailyMarkets.com.  What are they doing?  Simple: they are constantly changing the date next to the byline to the current date.  So an article / blog post that was published 6 months ago has today’s date.  And it will have tomorrow’s date on it tomorrow.  Penguin is clearly bestowing too many points for this kind of “freshness.”  I’m surprised the algorithm is that easy to trick.  We’ll see what happens over the next few weeks.

Shame on you DailyMarkets.com.  Shame!

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Tech TalkBack 2011.03.24 – How Google’s Social Network Could Work

July 17, 2011 by Admin 7 Comments

Here’s how I think Google could return to its roots and create the first truly OPEN social network, using their core strength as an indexer/aggregator. (The full explanation is woven throughout the conversation.) — Tech TalkBack is my live show on the TWiT network. Call in to ask tech questions, comment on tech news, and share in the highs and lows of being a tech enthusiast. Your tips, gadget reviews, and lofty musings are all welcome. Call +1 (724) 265-ERIK during the live stream every Thursday 9:00-11:00 AM Pacific (12:00-2:00 PM Eastern) at live.twit.tv http — Follow & Tweet Me bit.ly — How To Call In live.twit.tv — Where To Watch Live

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What is a catchy domain name to pick for Google’s blogger.com?

May 17, 2011 by Admin Leave a Comment

A compare website hosting question:

I recently registered on blogger.com. I need advice on what website domain name I should come up with.

My blog is not yet set up, but Google says that I can choose a domain name for .00 per year. This is waaaaay cheaper than my last web hosting service (through my internet company) that was .00 a month. What a rip off that was compared to blogger (which is free if you keep the " *dot* blogspot " in the domain title.

My blog will have to do with neurological or mental disabilities and tic disorders (Tourette Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, Parkinson’s Disease, etc., etc., etc.). It is for raising disability awareness and for having information that people can utilize for online resources.

I have a few questions that I will list so it is easier to read for you all:

(1) Can you help me think of a catchy domain name title?

(2) Where do all these other blogs get the associated press pics of information and stories? I was told flickr and so on, but I’m not sure.

(3) Is it legal to use those stories in case some are copyrighted? (referring to the gossip ones)–> not that I wanna have that type of blog though.

(4) And the last question I can think of is how can I get my blogger.com blog noticed (since the net is so saturated these days?) Everyone keeps saying SEO efforts, but I don’t know how to do this with blogger.com or really how SEO works for blogs like that.

Anyways, thanks for the help. Sorry for the long info.

-A


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Chrome: Google’s New Web Browser

February 15, 2011 by Admin Leave a Comment

Google's new web browser: Chrome (beta)Google released the beta version of its new web browser today. It’s called Chrome and you can download it here. Learn more about it here and here.

Certain features look interesting, like dynamic tabs, incognito mode and crash control. The safety features also appear to be quite impressive.

I’m really interested in the safety features, so I conducted a quick test with Chrome. I visited a site that I know contains malware to see if Chrome would stop me from visiting the URL (malware programs are particularly dangerous because they can infect your computer by simply visiting a URL.) Chrome performed well. It prevented me from visiting the URL, and offered a detailed explanation of the threat.

I can also report that Chrome is lightning fast: the application opens in a flash and browsing is effortless. This is based on my quick and dirty test. Who knows: it may slow down over time.

Chrome is only available for Windows XP and Vista. I’m going to take it for a more thorough test drive on my Windows XP machine later. I can’t use it on my other machines since they run older versions of Windows.

If you decide to give it a try, feel free to post your comments here. Thanks!

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