Ok, so it is Friday, the Friday, where we can finally get our hands on the iPhone…. or some of us can, at least…

The most amusing commentary (with terrible religious overtones) I’ve heard so far was someone calling it “Good” Friday since the Jesus phone is coming.

As for me, I will be at the local Cingular/AT&T store at 6pm since I need my number ported from some other wireless carrier which shall not be named. That wireless carrier has quite lamely announced they will be open all day today. The phone that this carrier is trying to tout as an iPhone competitor? The LGV9400. Oooh, checkmate.

Also, getting iPhone should actually save me money since I should be able to get cleverhack email on it, while to do that on my current carrier, I would have to pay $15.00/mo or so for that email synching feature.

Technorati Tags: iPhone, Apple, AT&T, anticipation, I need my number ported, I am gonna be restless all day

Fooky is a new search engine that is trying to poise itself within the search engine market with guns blazing. I have to give them props though, instead of just being yet another indexing service, they are trying to force a little change in Web Marketing, including offering a PDF on what they consider Web Marketing basics and dissing those SEOs who promise top Search Engine Results Page rankings.

Aside from their idea for a Command Phrase, by basically allowing a Web site owner to “own” particular keyword phrases on Fooky.com, the search engine is also only allowing site submissions that fit their criteria. As far as I can tell, this means Web sites that are meta tagged with Title, Keyword and Description tags. While properly formatted Title tags and Description tags are a must these days, Keyword tags are basically a nice to have (and could cause problems on other more popular search engines if you get aggressive about deploying keywords).

I think competition in the Search Engine market is a good thing. While I don’t necessarily agree with some of the more outlandish SEOs, I’m not sure if Fooky has the total answer either, especially with requiring meta tagging. Perhaps the idea behind that is to slow down the submission of spammy sites, who knows?

Good SEO is presenting information to the Search Engines and getting visitors because of that. Great Web marketing is the art of having those visitors to convert to your desired action.

Also, Fooky can’t find the cleverhack description tag, so I do believe they still have some work to do with their indexing.

Host: 68.217.9.240
Http Code: 200 Date: Jun 23 08:18:51 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 65921
Referer: -
Agent: Fooky.com/ScorpionBot/ScoutOut; http://www.fooky.com/scorpionbots

Technorati Tags: fooky.com, search engines, search engine results pages, Web marketing, Online marketing, another search engine, meta tags

It is very rare that I’d link to a YouTube video, but this is one of those rare times. A beautifully produced history and explanation of the Internet and the implications for the future, all done by an anthropology professor at Kansas State University.

Technorati Tags: The Machine is Us/ing Us, the Internet, the history of the Internet, these five minutes are so worth it

Well, kinda. There aren’t official Apple stores in Chile, but there are Apple resellers.

Thanks, Bert!

Update: More information about MacOnline in Chile at ifoAppleStore.

Technorati Tags: Apple, Mac, Apple Store, Chile, Apple Reseller, MacOnline

I sincerely appreciated this article in the NY Times detailing how to outfit a kitchen for about $300. The secret? Go to a restaurant supply store, where kitchen implements are much cheaper than the high end “culinary stores”.

You see, in a past life, I used to sell the high end expensive stuff on the Web.

Technorati Tags: Kitchen tools, Kitchen gadgets, Kitchen equipment, Kitchen implements, the real deal

Has anyone heard of the Macintosh Guild?

Technorati Tags: The Macintosh Guild

There was this article in [usually a subscription] yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about, basically, how a large number of companies have lost traffic because of either a change on their Web site or a change in the search engine agorithim, basically, just about everyone has a story about losing traffic.

Two thoughts I had about the article…

1)Did the Wall Street Journal really need to write an article about how what Topix.net really needs is a redirect to topix.com? Honestly, I don’t understand why it’s such a shocking revelation that changing something on a Web site might cause it to change in search engine results pages. Plus, the change that Topix.net needs to do, while a change, is probably the least impactful since if the use a 301, they should be good to go.

Although their CEO is openly doubtful of that claim since he is fearing the move of over 100K urls in the SERPS.

2)If I was someone from Yahoo or MSN yesterday, I would have lost my breakfast. The article in the Journal only talked about Google and pointed out that a number of sites get about 80% of their search engine traffic from Google.

Technorati Tags: topix.net, topix.com, SEO, search engines, search engine results pages, Google is my master

Nothing like Apple jazzing up the faithful with an iPhone ad on the side of the 5th Avenue store… And, oh, I think that people sitting in the plaza right next to the store is really cool!

Speaking of cubes, does anyone know when the Apple Store (cubed) will be opening in Boston?

Technorati Tags: Apple, iPhone, I can’t freaking hardly wait!

So I heard the rumor about Cingular offering a cheap service plan for iPhone users and while the rumor seems extremely farfetched, it got me thinking.

If I were part of the Cingular/AT&T marketing team, and I was hoping to lure folks from the other carriers, I would offer some sort of rebate or refund of the cancellation fee for those switching from Verizon/Sprint/T-Mobile. I would think this idea would at least make some sense as the people who are least likely to switch are the ones tied to a contract.

Technorati Tags: iPhone, Cingular/AT&T, silly marketing idea

Yet another search engine called OpenISearch, which bills itself as “The Ultimate Search Engine”. It’s not released yet, and the link sends you to a landing page. However, the search engine is already sending out a bot on the World Wide Web.

Host: 216.182.238.75
/2006/08/13/ninth-cleverhack-podcast/
Http Code: 200 Date: Jan 23 18:31:56 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 39974
Referer: -
Agent: OpenISearch/1.x (www.openisearch.com)

Technorati Tags: openisearch, search engine, bots, spiders, crawlers

In case you were wondering, there are no Wiis to be had in SE PA or Wilmington, DE as I found out tonight.

Technorati Tags: Wiiless, Wii

Here’s wishing for happiness and health for everyone in the New Year.

(Although 2006 could’ve ended better…)

Technorati Tags: 2007, This Is The New Year