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May 20, 2013

Kyiv, Ukraine ‒ The duplicate content checking site PlagSpotter has announced the release of their latest product: SEO copywriting services. This new service will improve a website’s content with PlagSpotter’s inside industry knowledge for SEO content writing. Their copywriting services aim to not only check sites for duplicate content but to provide all of the following: article writing, content writing, website copywriting, and other copywriting services.

Understanding SEO or search engine optimization helps build websites via articles with links and keyword-rich content. While most websites do their own copywriting, seeking the help of professional SEO content writing services may be the best move to improve a website’s Google rankings.

PlagSpotter proposes to improve a website’s SEO ratings with their copywriting services that are provided only by a native-speaker, web content writer. Additionally, all texts written by their web content writers will be run through PlagSpotter’s duplicate content checker and will be protected by PlagSpotter’s “Do Not Copy” badge. This prevents any would-be content thieves from taking a website’s content since the owner will be immediately alerted by PlagSpotter. Read full post

There are numerous stories online that some of the Eurovision 2013 contestants plagiarized the music of others. It’s another evidence that plagiarism exists in various types of media and not only in text content niche.

Check out this YouTube video - http://youtu.be/S94nNhEqlTY – that gives an example of how the Russian contestant’s (Diana Garipova) song is similar to a number of existing songs.

P.S. Diana Garipova has a great voice and is a very talented singer, so this post is not intended to offend her in any way.

Stephen’s built the world’s largest contextual search engine used by Siri?

Go to: Wolframalpha.com and:

Try to enter 3+7=10

Usually you need to go to a human expert to get an answer. The challenge is to build a system to automate this. Ask WA GDP of the Netherlands and it will tell you a specific answer that will be useful so we as humnas will understand.

Now enter Combine colors red and yellow, WA will give you an answer.

Now type Where is the ISS, WA gives you another answer based on the feed and computation.

Any kind of math can be computed on wolframalpha.com as well. The scope is very broad and it is a huge project.

How does it work? Read full post

Rackspace pays me to study the bleeding edge (Geek vests, facebook phones, google glasses).  I started talking to entrepreneurs about new things.

So what is context?

- Wearable computers (beat watch, memoto camera, google glass)

I see a new one every week now. We’ll see new electronic clothing.

-       Big data and data computation

This is coming out as a result of the new inventions (wearable computers, etc.) New databases coming out every day.

-       Sensor data

I have lots of sensors on me right now who are collecting my data (health, surroundings, etc). I saw sensors in the basketballs coming out…this is crazy.

-       Social network data

People tweet a lot and share a lot

-       Location data

The amount of data around the world is getting out more and more often. We capture the data ourselves.  Read full post

The Sharing Economy

I’m not an expert and know very little about what im talking about. Lisa Gansky is the expert.

You cannot avoid the sharing economy. It’s on Forbes, Economist, etc. Airbnb has 40,000 people per day, 30,000 cities, 192 countries. Another big player is a LendingClub where you can borough money. Investors get 8-9%. This will be a billion dollar company. Kickstarter is another player.  ZipCar is another one. Lyft is another one where you can make $45/hr driving your car with a nother person.

SharedEarth.com is the largest community garden on the planet.

Half of the Americans borrowed items from other people. 83% of them said they would share those items if they could do it easy.

Zipcar is cool in San Francisco; whereas before it was cool to own a car. Why is this happening? Read full post

Ten Essential Strategies For Success

I’m passionate about people getting together. The U.S. has serious financial troubles. Economic growth comes from innovation. Anyone with a broadband connection can start a business overnight. I became an advocate for focusing on innovation to make a difference.

Innovation threatens existing business….automobiles threatened horse and wagon businesses, etc.

Startups are taking the copyrighted content, changing it and moving it away threatening existing businesses. Countries in the world that are used to getting money from long distance calling, now want to charge their citizens access to the internet if it goes outside the country’s borders. I am fighting against this and you as citizens cant let this happen.

I’ve seen which companies succeeded and which failed begin a part of the trade union organization. I’m happy to share a few things from my book Ninja Innovation. Read full post

Lesson One: The Luck Equation

A lot of things happen over and over. The Roman philosopher Seneca said:

Peparation+opportunity=luck

Case Studies

PayPal’s Preparation

Company started as the Field Link founded by 2 people with the purpose to provide security to palm pilots…to send money between devices. What was fundamental was that accounts were setup online to transfer money.

Let’s pause for a moment and look at YouTube (started as a video dating site). They launched the site and did not see many results.

So we have two pieces in common with paypal and youtube. They prepared even though things did not work as they expected.

Then the opportunity came. Read full post

What happens in case of a nuclear attack? You should not have a centralized communication system; rather, use a distributed technology infrastructure with various nodes, so if one node is taken out, you can rely on many others.

Two Curve Network

Institutional Production – centralized

Socialstructed Production – much more distributed way of doing things.

Work

Socialstructed work. Why do we need a large organization? When you scale production, you need to hire more people, manage more resources and so you need to coordinate. Organizations are good because they minimize your transaction costs. Read full post

Continuing our coverage of TheNextWeb Conference…..

Most human beings are divided: physical self and virtual self. Those two people are entirely different based on the statistics. 2/3 of your working life is spent on your virtual side. It’s expected by 2015 about 50% of western marriages happened because couples met online.

Trust

Why do you post hundreds of photos of your kids online…making them searchable and open to the public? The reason is trust.

We have rewritten the code on human relationships. We created a new form that did not exist before. The people in your social graph are not the people who will be on your wedding invite list. Social relevancy on a filter sense is very powerful. You can get your social connections sorted out pretty well. Read full post

We are covering some of the most exciting presentations at TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam.

The conference was opened by Prince of Orange, Prince of The Netherlands who took time from his busy schedule to appear on stage and give the reason for his appearance: “We have a knowledge based economy and if we don’t lead, we will not progress. That’s why I am here now. Welcome.”

Andrew Blum Keynote Address

The first speaker in the Red Room is Andrew Blum, the author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, the first book-length look at the physical heart of the Internet itself.

I was writing mostly about buildings, places that you can smell, listen to and experience them. Back in 2009 I was asked more and more to not go to see buildings but to experience them via my screen and then my smaller screen. What was shocking was that the world had no physical reality. Read full post