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iPhone maps confuse Australian motorists 11th December 2012 10:01 AM

Whoops, dealing another blow to the embarrassing Apple mapping sage

“Mildura Police are urging motorists to be careful when relying on the mapping system on the Apple i-phones operating on the iOS 6 system after a number of motorists were directed off the beaten track in recent weeks.

Local Police have been called to assist distressed motorists who have become stranded within the Murray-Sunset National Park after following directions on their Apple i-phone.”

Australian Police Tell iPhone Users Not To Rely On Apple Maps

Apparently there are some vacancies in the Apple mapping team

Remorse over death of nurse, caused by a hoax. 10th December 2012 4:43 PM

Obviously it's tragic that the nurse took her life, but I doubt it was all because of the prank call. It may have been the straw that broke the camels back, but no doubt there there was a lot more going on behind the scenes.

It's the irony of the UK media who are in the usual hysteria mode, witch hunting the presenters, who may well have a legal case to answer. But the UK media can hardly grab the moral high ground when it comes to destroying peoples lives, albeit in the name of a prank, poor journalism or old fashioned sensationalism to sell a few more papers.

How many suicides from innocent people can directly be attributed to the media, who knows, but I'll bet there will be a few

US and UK agree on future banking strategy 10th December 2012 10:20 AM

“US and British regulators have agreed a common approach to limiting the damage for customers and taxpayers that is caused when a giant bank gets into difficulties....One important consequence would be that in the next banking crisis, the Bank of England would not - in theory - have to call on the Treasury to put quite so much money into a Royal Bank of Scotland or an HBOS that was facing collapse, because the creditors of those banks would be forced to become shareholders.”

BBC News - The cost of making big banks safe

Interesting turn of events. So does this mean banks would potentially be allowed to fail in the future? I suspect nothing really will change and when the sticky stuff hits the fan, the good old tax payer will be paying out again

Link bots! 10th December 2012 9:11 AM

Originally Posted by JackD

“How is a website crawled if 75% - 80% are pictures and rest the data is about the company and managerial profiles?”

Not heard of Google Images?

Google can crawl images without any problems. Make sure you update any alt tags to give a non spammy reference.

The moral of this story....Social media can really work. 10th December 2012 8:56 AM

Originally Posted by Party Stuff 4u

“That is real fuel for the brain on a cold Friday afternoon!

Just thinking about whether we could all like each other's facebook pages to get our likes up?”

There is a long running thread about FB business pages and giving each other a like. Maybe stick yours on the end

The Facebook for Business Thread!

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Laid back shop keeper... 7th December 2012 12:15 PM

Credit to Business Hours - Pixdaus

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which article is unique ? 7th December 2012 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by rachaelcollins01

“...which is updated first is taken by Google as original and other can be penalized.”

So your saying whoever updates or edits a page first gets some kind of flag and Google takes this as the original?

Can you show me the official policy to back that up?

SEO example of Pinterest 7th December 2012 11:37 AM

I confess to being sceptical about pinterest, but after a quick google search for for some Friday humour inspiration, I did this search. Look what came as the number 1 result...

So like it or loathe it, call it social networking or call it time wasting, it certainly has some SEO potential.

which article is unique ? 7th December 2012 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by pentawebexperts

“50 % 0f the experts say that posting same article on different article directories is called syndication while the remaining say that it is called duplication of the contents. So if anyone has any authenticated source please share it to me from where i would get rid of this confusing situation.”

Best expert to listen to is Google.

Must confess I'm not one for articles, so not savvy on syndication, but this is from the horses mouth:

“There are some steps you can take to proactively address duplicate content issues...

Syndicate carefully: If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which may or may not be the version you'd prefer. However, it is helpful to ensure that each site on which your content is syndicated includes a link back to your original article. You can also ask those who use your syndicated material to use the noindex meta tag to prevent search engines from indexing their version of the content.
Duplicate content - Webmaster Tools Help”

So the way I read that, Google isn't a big fan of syndicated content. If you have multiple articles, choose a primary one, and make sure the others link back to it, or ensure syndicated content is using a noindex tag.

The moral of this story....Social media can really work. 7th December 2012 9:43 AM

It's food for thought (see what I did there?

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Some good ideas, like the promotion, like and you can win a $10 voucher, that might be an idea worth playing with.

Must admit, I really struggle with my FB and G+ pages, and normally end up just linking a forum post

...must try harder...

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