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Nokia deploys Six Apart VOX with their Internet Mobile Phone

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:24:59 +0000

Six Apart have won a contract to have their popular blogging software, 'VOX', shipped with Nokia's smart mobile phones.

This is a huge lead against vertical integrated companies like Microsoft, Sony and Apple. For example, the Sony Walkman, Apple Ipod and Microsoft Zoon all require proprietary software to integrate with the rest of your technology. This is the basis of the vertical model. Restricting the consumer to one brand.

Mena Trott, President of Six Apart said:

"We know we have people using other services so you can integrate with You Tube, Amazon and Flickr and use all those services and have one hub there is not one place to be online, there is a whole bunch of services."

"People are promiscuous online and its not going to change and so you have to embrace it and figure out how to create a product that allows for them to do that and also be loyal to what you're doing."

Six Apart's blogging software on the other hand, will integrate with any blog software out there. This makes Nokia's mobile phone platform independent. Challenging the vertical model and making Nokia a cross platform smart phone.

Microsoft's Zoon is based on the vertical model where several integrated devices are all designed to work together, but only within the Zoon range. Whereas Microsoft state that their Windows software is not based on the vertical model as it will work with many other systems and standards.

This means that the major technology players in the world today could be left behind if they do not take a serious look at the way the technically savvy people are using technology today.

People do not want to be tied down to one service, one product. People like to have the diversity of being able to pick and choose what they do and when.

Yahoo have taken a cross-platform initiative launching Yahoo Go, A generic solution that works for most popular smart mobile phones. The idea being that the Yahoo service will provide you with a hub for your Internet needs on your mobile phone. Very similar to the Nokia / Six Apart relationship, but this doesn't just work on Nokia phones.

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Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:26:13 +0100

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Images and SEO

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:23:46 +0100

High Image content web sites confusing to optimise for the search engines.

As the search engines are keyword driven you might think your Search Engine Optimisation campaign may suffer due to no text. You could be forgiven for thinking that high image web sites are devoid of keywords and therefore wont work in the natural/organic results.

By using aspects of modern markup you can supply the browser and the search engine with relevant information about those images.

You can even take these modern aspects and turn them to everyones advantage by making your web site 100% accessible.

Accessibility for web sites goes beyond the realms of just high contrast colours for high visibility. Accessibility provides everyone with tool tips, hints, alternative text for non-image browsers. So, behind all those images could be information required for accessibility, non-image browsers, the search engines and everyone else.

In reality, not only will your web site contain alternative descriptions for accessibility etc... It will make your web site available to a wider audience. This is not to say, right go and fill your web site with images. This is to say that if you have an image based web site, then your search engine results are not necessarily waving in the wind.

Good news to all those image fanatics.

Novice Webmasters

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:47:29 +0100

The definition of a webmaster is someone who has mastered the web. Therefore it must be a contradiction in terms to have a novice webmaster.

How can you have a novice master at anything for that matter? There are certainly clear steps that can be taken to become a webmaster, but these steps are taken over years, not days or even weeks. There are certain subjects such as DNS, TCP/IP, HTML, SCRIPTING, HOSTING to name but a few that have to be mastered, if not, at least understood. This is not to say that the position of becoming a webmaster is only open to a minority.

This article is not supposed to antagonise people either, but to become a master at anything takes time, commitment and focus. There are no novices in the world of masters.

Do you think they would put a novice golfer into the Golf masters and release a statement on the lines of: -

'Its ok, he�s a novice master.'

I don�t think so.

For all those inspired people that wish to become webmasters, good luck and best wishes. The industry needs more good web masters, but not novice webmasters.

The inspiration for this article comes from all those novice webmasters out there...

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Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:56:56 +0100

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