Studies of eye-tracking of Google
Google publishes in his blog, a study that has realized using eye tracking, so in case you did not realize, Google knows where we centered the glance.
These visual maps already have seen all know more in one go, and very well, the grace is that it has realized it to the study and published Google.
What they comment in his blog official is that the users follow the order of the results search until they find what they look for.
In addition, it comments that the thumbnail that appears in the videos or the news in universal search does not change east order that follows the users, but who help to arrive better from a glance to where this placed the thumbnail.
Here I leave a video-example you of towards where the eyes go away to him to a user when looking for in Google… seem that it goes to fast chamber, but are the real speed of the video and the eyes…
“0 Yen” campaign of iPhone whose demand is bad in Japan
There are no official statistics which show the demand of iPhone which the July last year starts the Japanese sale. Seems, somehow bitter fight. Software bank Mobile which grasps the sellers’ monopoly right in Japan then judging, that propping up is needed, in fact had decided to designate terminal price as zero.
It continues to August last year reduction, from Friday (March 27th) starts the special campaign (to 5 ends of the month) of period limitation. 2 year contract becomes under conditions, as for 8 gigabyte model of usually 23,040 Yen substance simply. 16 gigabyte model usual 34,560 Yen reaches 11,520 Yen.
Also fixed amount data communication charge of using at will from month amount 5985 Yen is reduced collectively in 4410 Yen.
Monopoly: YouTube the respective company announcement of major media publication possibly
As for the major media company, YouTube always love and hatred there is a relationship which inter winds. As expected, therefore should appeal YouTube with infringement of copyright, or industry strongest web video don’t you think? around it is it should become? YouTube in order that the fact that it is better than war is persuaded, someone uploaded, has been about love to distribute the announcement earnings due to the video of that media which is recorded before YouTube according to, to media enterprise.
So far, the majority of announcements with context gearing type overlay announcement YouTube selling and it was something offering. Presently, but the media partner who can sell the announcement of the respective company treatment with YouTube very little, as for industrial source while being close, it expects that this program is expanded to also the large-sized media partner. Large-sized partner of part such as CBS already, YouTube using the contents ID system with video of the respective company dedicated channel of YouTube, and the video where the user uploads sells the announcement of the respective company treatment concerning those which are selected. However, this group is limited very, (YouTube has not made clear concerning future plan).
Thousands calls the traditional media partner is in addition to the partner program which designates the super user as the target in YouTube. As for the option which places announcement of the respective company treatment in YouTube, the probability which is not offered is strong to the super user by way of partner programming. But, it is applied to also the video which the contents ID system finds. As for the contents screening technology of YouTube copyright equipped audio identifying [hi] video, it is something to which the media company can insist right. 90% of the video which has become the object without being deleted, to profit it is converted.
The fact that announcement of the respective company treatment is sold with YouTube is serious thing for the major media company, when web video announcement is already sold with the respective company management sight, especially so is. It is normal the media company which has mass video to have the generally large-scale announcement business team, to be taken announcement at more profitable fee than YouTube. Concerning the respective company video on YouTube, the possibility where, such you can sell announcement at high fee, assuming, that even if YouTube and the profit are distributed, probably is driveling ones in them.
For YouTube, perhaps, the contents by the media partner, it is no more than 4% of all video on the sight, but announcement earnings all has almost come from here. Enlarging this part of that pie with something gives enormous impact to the profit of YouTube.
Presently YouTube, pulls all levers in order to increase the announcement profit, perhaps, but this becomes the biggest lever.
TinkOmatic profit with the plural sights undertakes the shopping searching and the job searching single-handed
In current economic conditions, everyone searches and profit shopping and profitable job/would like to do the room searching etc. Then, presently TinkOmatic of secret beta, plural lists of items does the plural classified advertising lists and the work which is searched with the plural auction sights, in place of the user. In a manner of speaking, it is the one stop shopping sight of the bargain searching. Therefore as for looking at classified advertising with Craigslist and/or searching the aim article with Ebay, the quantity enormous it becomes very job for the individual. TinkOmatic the very job is made easy, (500 readers it can access this beta with the cord/code” of techcrunch”).
This search (the system which gathers aggregater and plural ones in one place) with service the user, Oodle, Kijiji, Ebay, and Craigslist (appears in another window) can search the thing job room and the like at on. With the RSS feed from of Trulia and Google Base and the like, it can have reporting the future search result. The result from each sight is indicated in another panel which is called TinkBox inside the page. When the TinkBox is clicked, just the sight of specification such as Ebay and Craiglist can be appointed. Squeezing the search area (division) and appoints the All-American to the area of 20 in type of list of items. The result of search is retained, when visiting TinkOmatic next, is refreshed. In addition, it is possible also to make the high-level search filter, vis-a-vis the search of TinkOmatic in the RSS leader and on the sight.
There is the job searching as the function which it is related with current economic conditions. Search such as classified advertising in order to search job is updated, the user in the sight at each time login it does. The service which of course executes the search of plural classified advertising and the auction sight is very convenient. How, it has been similar to Trackle and NotifyMe and Yotify etc without, but the interest object the point which from first it can specify is different from these. As for difficult point there is only a minimum requirement element for interface. Various function such as the notification with the mail should be included. Don’t you think? so, as for this sight you think that it started good.
Pure Digital (Flip Video)
San Francisco Pure Digital Technologies the manufacturer of video & the camera of the Flip Video series, since establishing it is 7 years. According to plural sources, the same company says that being purchased decided. According to rumor, the fact that purchase is considered is Cisco.
As for the Flip camera, the operation of being designed in order to upload animated picture completely is the simple small-sized video camera to Internet. It becomes the large hit commodity, enormous number sells. According to a certain information, the same company in here several years, $200M (200,000,000 dollar) sold above with just this small camera. Recently the review and the like of Flip Mino HD which release is done is read to attach, you try that probably is proper. As for price of the Flip camera between the $230 from the $130, the many copy product has arrived.
As for a certain source, as for the buyer we have assumed that it is Cisco. Cisco recently positively has embarked on acquisition. The M&A patsy of Cisco, Ned Hooper searching the startup of the service which needs wide bandwidth, that it will invest, thinks whether it purchases, it seems. Flip urges the explosion of user formation video, because (as for many of the video which was photographed with this camera as for many it is uploaded) it is the popular item in the online, exactly is in the strategy of Cisco.
Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, Crescendo Ventures, FocusVentures, Morgan Stanley, AllianceBernstein and Steamboat Ventures (the venture capital section of Walt DisneyCompany) has invested on the Pure Digital corporation, to presently $68M (68,000,000 dollar) fund is supplied at least.
The Microsoft regret: The layoff 5,000 and decrease of sale profit
While being visited in decrease of the profit, Microsoft announced that in the future it lays off 5,000 in 18 months. This hits to 5% of all employees. 1,400 people lost job with effective today as the link. On the one hand, it continues also adoption activity, reduction number of people are when it is the schedule which is between 2,000 or 3,000. Layoff and together with plan such as allowance freezing, reduction of the contract employee and the reduction of marketing cost which are the under way, operational cost current fiscal year $1.5B (1,500,000,000 dollar) the possibility that can be reduced.
According to Microsoft the profit of present quarter with $16.6B (16,600,000,000 dollar), becomes 2% growth, but when $900M (900,000,000 dollar) it is less than schedule, is. Receiving this news, stock price depreciated 7%. In addition while the opaque impression of the economic prospect that all enterprises are involved increases, Microsoft took the announcement of the future sale possibility and stopped.
Future market trend was estimate impossible, it became impossible to announce the expectation value of profit possibility and EPS every of quarter in current fiscal year as Microsoft.
It publishes the press release all sentence below (English).
Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $16.63 billion for the second quarter ended Dec. 31 and 2008, a 2% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.94 billion and $4.17 billion and $0.47, declines of 8% and 11% and 6%, respectively and compared with the prior year.
Client revenue declined 8% as a result of PC market weakness and a continued shift to lower priced netbooks. However, strong annuity licensing drove Server & Tools revenue growth of 15%. Entertainment and Devices revenue grew 3% driven by strong holiday demand for Xbox 360 consoles with a record 6 million units sold in the quarter.
During the quarter and Microsoft showcased significant new product innovations by debuting Windows 7, Windows Azure, Office Web applications and Windows Server 2008 R2 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Microsoft also announced general availability of Silverlight 2, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Windows Small Business Server 2008, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 and a new release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
“While we are not immune to the effects of the economy and I am confident in the strength of our product portfolio and soundness of our approach,” said Steve Ballmer and chief executive officer at Microsoft. “We will continue to manage expenses and invest in long-term opportunities to deliver value to customers and shareholders and we will emerge an even stronger industry leader than we are today.”
In light of the further deterioration of global economic conditions, Microsoft announced additional steps to manage costs, including the reduction of headcount-related expenses, vendors and contingent staff, facilities and capital expenditures and marketing. As part of this plan, Microsoft will eliminate up to 5,000 jobs in R&D, marketing, sales, finance, legal, HR, and IT over the next 18 months and including 1,400 jobs today. These initiatives will reduction the company’s annual operating expense run rate by approximately $1.5 billion and reduction fiscal year 2009 capital expenditures by $700 million.
Business Outlook
“Economic activity and IT spend slowed beyond our expectations in the quarter and we acted quickly to reduction our cost structure and mitigate its impact,” said Chris Liddell and chief financial officer at Microsoft. “We are planning for economic uncertainty to continue through the remainder of the fiscal year and almost certainly leading to lower revenue and earnings for the second half relative to the previous year. In this environment and we will focus ON outperforming our competitors and addressing our cost structure.”
Due to the volatility of market conditions going forward and Microsoft is no longer able to offer quantitative revenue and EPS guidance for the balance of this fiscal year. Microsoft offers operating expense guidance of approximately $27.4 billion for the FULL year ending June 30 and 2009. This information supersedes the fiscal year 2009 guidance that Microsoft provided ON Oct. 23 and 2008.
Veoh Video Compass- automatic video search plug in
The new version of Veoh Video of browser plug in Compass release it did Veoh of the popularity video sight. This plug in with Firefox for 3 and IE7, the search keyword which the user inputs and the page which is perused indicates the video which is relation in the base in the form which in the band of browser top does not become the disturbance. As for this with the system which can be made good, it is convenient function. That user having perused the web with something, video is added to the theme which shows interest effectively.
Presently, Video Compass Google and Yahoo in addition most popular corresponds to the search engine, nominates the video which is relation from the search language which the user inputs. This plug in analyzing the text of the web page which the user has perused, has started supporting also the function which finds the video which matches to the contents gradually. Presently, this function operates in the page of Amazon, Best Buy, WalMart, Wikipedia and IMDB.com. With Veoh the sight of the support object it is the plan that in the future it keeps increasing continuously.
Just clicks the sum nail on the bar playback of video can do the user, directly the page which is in the midst of perusing without leaving. The many sight is utilized in the source of video including YouTube and Veoh itself. (The proper big relative importance is placed at Veoh as a source). Video is indicated in Kuroti’s popup. With Veoh the fact that embed announcement is published on Kuroti is planned.
The time the time strange search result is produced, if (the database of Veoh is refined, am improved probably will be) as for I most as for those where it becomes matter of concern, after the new page completely being loaded unless it is, am the point where the bar of Veoh Compass does not appear as another. Therefore (in case of Google search, the search result is completely indicated, the bar which then indicates the video of Veoh is inserted on top. Then all indicator contents several centimeters mean to slip under). Picking the corner of the nest of boxes, as said complaint, perhaps, it is audible, but while many degrees are repeated, it makes nervously.
With Veoh also the top page was done other than this plug in. Navigation is improved, furthermore effort is put into the nomination of the video which is relation. In addition video of part from iPhone has become accessible. (Just to visit the Veoh sight from Mobile Safari it is necessary).
YouTube requests the participation of the user from user education
Last year YouTube, like the mountain introduced, new function such as deep link, access analysis and new API of the revised edition. But correspondence and the like to hi-vision other than those which extremely are easy to understand, even being that the person who does not know is the majority. YouTube, thinks that we would like to change this state.
Then as for this sight, Adopt A Feature (temporary meaning: YouTube probably will be managed more) starting campaign, it seems like audio swap and video of the user production which introduces the function which is not known excessively is collected. YouTube reports the application circumstance each classified by function with [burogu] of the same company, the most excellent work it is introduced in the home page of YouTube not only, is used permanently in each functional help page.
Video under of YouTube, ‘ the subscription which LisaNova made (Subscriptions) is introduction of `function. A little, but the unique work, heart shouts LisaNova YouTube of the dawn man whether simply, answering to the question which is said the place where. In other words the normal person is the prerequisite that you do not know the thing of the pay video which is offered from last month.
New York City Sightseeing
Traveling should be enjoyed and worthwhile that’s why going to famous places down to the secret places that only residents know is a must know. The gothic stone towers of the bridge inspire terror and passion for most of the visitors. Additionally New York City is also renowned to have the finest restaurants throughout the world located in every corner of the city.We all have our plans of having our vacation somewhere here or abroad depending on our purpose and financial capacities. Some want a vacation cruise, others wanted it on a cottage house by the beach and some other people I know want to roam around popular cities to acquaint them with what different places have to offer them. Once you have done all these packages then you will feel that New York City is worth exploring every part of it. Everything is simple just check your basket and enjoy your New York City Attractions and don’t forget to pick the online browser for more information. However the Central Park is also among the most famous places among New York City Attractions. for New York City Sightseeing visit this website.
Charter bus NYC
Today we are still awake until about 4:20 has become a step forward! Looking out the window, we were disappointed: RAIN!
First, we have free time and our plan was to go to Rockefeller Center and then to TOP OF THE ROCK ride.
Before we flew to New York are, I had to have the New York Pass purchase. This one pays and in the major sights free or get a discount.It can be booked for different periods and in addition, also take bus packages. We have decided for the 7-day pass and a 3-day Buspaket. This can be the coaches of the City Sights NY for three days for all tours use. It is double Stocker and you can leave the bus and then climb as you like. Or you can simply remain on the bus and make a city tour . For information, I can recommend the site Charter bus NYC. We have both very worthwhile. Overall, we simply look at how much you actually would like to visit.
At Rockefeller Center arrived while it was dry and the sun came out, but they told us that the visibility was very poor and it is not worth. We then wanted to continue to use the bus and the Uptown and Downtown Tour complete drive to simply an impression of the city to maintain. During the ride it started to rain again. . There are really nice shops and great people. Urban Outfitters, Uniqlo, Atrium, Levi’s, Steve Madden, etc. etc.
After it was finally dry, there was extremely humid. We are only back to the hotel, the shopping away and then again with the bus going to the Uptown Tour. Luckily the bus had a small part covered. The Fashion Must-Have of the day: A rain poncho, which by the tour guide was distributed. In principle, a large plastic bag with holes for head and arms and a hood. Through the rain could not recognize much. Finally back on Times Square and the Hotel … Originally we wanted to take the bus the night tour to the Brooklyn Bridge, to the illuminated skyline to be seen. But when the rain we have the time left. Instead, we much prefer to Toys R Us went.