Google made a stunning revelation this morning: the existence of a secret self-driving car project. Even more amazing: it has been in testing for months, on actual roads across California, and things seem to be running smoothly. Fans of Total Recall, Minority Report, and Knight Rider are hyperventilating at the prospects. And while the technology is likely still a long way from being widely implemented (The New York Times piece on it suggests eight years), there is one big question: why?
Google’s answer seems to be a “betterment of society” one. “We’ve always been optimistic about technology’s ability to advance society, which is why we have pushed so hard to improve the capabilities of self-driving cars beyond where they are today,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, who spearheaded the project (and also runs Stanford’s AI Labs, and co-invented Street View), writes today.
That’s great. But Google is still a public company in the business of making money for its shareholders. So one can’t help but wonder what, if any, money-making prospects there are here?
“The Google researchers said the company did not yet have a clear plan to create a business from the experiments,” according to the NYT. Further, they quote Thrun as saying that this project is an example of Google’s “willingness to gamble on technology that may not pay off for years.”
We know Google has a history of idealism — co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in particular — but this project cannot come cheap. And the fact is that Google remains basically a one-trick-pony when it comes to making money. They are so reliant on search advertising revenues, that if something suddenly happened to the market, they’d be totally screwed. Android may prove to be their second trick, but it’s not there yet.
But there may be more to these automated cars than just an awesomely cool concept. At our TechCrunch Disrupt event a couple weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech about “an augmented version of humanity.” He noted that the future is about getting computers to do the things we’re not good at. One of those things is driving cars, Schmidt slyly said at the time. “Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense,” he noted. “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.”
If your car can drive itself, a lot of commuters would be freed up to do other things in the car — such as surf the web. One of Google’s stated goals for this project is to “free up people’s time”. That matched with Schmidt’s vision of mobile devices being with us all the time every day, likely will translate into more usage of Google.
That may sound silly and not worth all the R&D an undertaking as huge as this will require, but don’t underestimate Google. This is a company who cares deeply about shaving fractions of a second off of each search query so that you can do more of them in your waking hours. Imagine if you suddenly had an hour or more a day in your car to do whatever you wanted because you no longer had to focus on driving? Yeah. Cha-ching.
Or imagine if your on-board maps where showing you Google ads. Or you were watching Google TV in your car since you didn’t have to drive. Or you were listening to Google Music with Google ads. It’s all the same. This automated driving technology would free you up to use more Google products — which in turn make them more money. Make no mistake, Google will enter your car in a big way. And automated driving would up their return in a big way.
And, of course, none of this speaks to what, if anything, Google would actually charge for such technology implementation. You would have to believe that if and when it’s available, this automated driving tech would be built-in to cars. Would car manufacturers pay Google for it and pass off some of the costs to customers? Or would this all be subsidized by the above ideas?
It’s way too early to get into that, I’m sure. And in 8 years, there will be things out there that we can’t even imagine right now. But it’s interesting to think about. The Google Car.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have little doubt Google is being sincere in their broader hopes for such a technology. Here’s their key blurb on that:
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half. We’re also confident that self-driving cars will transform car sharing, significantly reducing car usage, as well as help create the new “highway trains of tomorrow.” These highway trains should cut energy consumption while also increasing the number of people that can be transported on our major roads. In terms of time efficiency, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that people spend on average 52 minutes each working day commuting. Imagine being able to spend that time more productively.
That first part is awesome. If we could halve the number of traffic deaths each year, it would be world-changing. And if energy consumption could be cut, it could re-shape economies and save our future. But again, don’t gloss over the last part. Freeing up those 52 minutes a day to be productive — that’s a lot of potential money for Google.
And that’s great too. If Google can spend the time and money working on such amazing technology they should be rewarded for it. There’s no rule that says you shouldn’t be able to make money by changing the world. And Google can’t be praised enough for trying.
More:
- Google Has A Secret Fleet Of Automated Toyota Priuses; 140,000 Miles Logged So Far.
- Google’s Self-Driving Car Spotted On The Highway Almost A Year Ago
[images: Dreamworks and TriStar Entertainment]
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: The Jingle Player iPad app [iTunes link]
Quick Pitch: Find pre-licensed, musical content from up-and-coming bands on-the-go with a music discovery app specifically aimed toward business-to-business clients.
Genius Idea: Jingle Punks really tackles two arenas: 1) It provides filmmakers, TV networks, media companies and ad companies with an easy way to find music. Basically, it’s class='blippr-nobr'>Pandoraclass="blippr-nobr">Pandora for businesses, allowing one to simply type in a band, film title, etc. for a list of recommended jams available for license and easy download; 2) It provides bands with an answer to that all-important question: “How do I make money on my music if I’m not Lady Gaga?”
Jingle Punks launched about two years ago, the brainchild of musician Jared Gutstadt and developer Dan Demole. The two drunkenly conceptualized the idea at a Black Keys concert in Brooklyn (in case you doubt the rock ‘n’ roll-ability of the pair). Basically, the two wanted to provide companies with new and dynamic music and bands with a way to get their songs out there.
Before last week, the service was limited to the web, where it lived as a tool called The Jingle Player. It basically let registered users (it’s only open to businesses at the moment, but Demole and Gutstadt plan to expand to consumers in later iterations in which music will be available for purchase via PayPal or credit card) discover and download music for project use by searching based on factors like band name, film title, mood, etc. The player also lets users tweak choices by narrowing according to genre and drilling into keywords.
Now, the duo have brought the experience into the class='blippr-nobr'>App Storeclass="blippr-nobr">App Store with a portable version of the player. The interface of the app is pretty easy to navigate and the functionality is basically the same as the in-browser iteration — although it does lack some of the specialization of the former.
You can search for a band — say, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — and check out related songs. You can then make a playlist based on your project — perhaps for your breakout film, Zombified Subway Ride to Hell — and add relevant songs to said list by simply clicking lists.
If you want to send this playlist to your team members for approval — or so they can get started scoring your flick — simply click “Wrap list,” which lets you bundle all your songs in either MP3 or WAV format for later download, or “Share list,” which allows you to share jams in webpage form. Gutstadt made us a vid explaining the process if you require further explication.
Yes, there are a ton of music discovery apps on the market, but according to the dudes over at Jingle Punks, this is the first-ever mobile music supervision application for the iPad, making businesses privy to the 20,000 song library wherever they happen to be. We can see this app being extremely useful to folks who are always traveling to meetings, etc., and can’t be tied down to a PC. It could also be pretty useful during business meetings/brainstorming sessions.
Furthermore, the whole service is also a boon to musicians. Like we hinted at in the intro, making money in the music industry right now is a bit more complicated than it was in the past — album sales and constant touring don’t cut it anymore. Getting a song in a commercial, a TV show or a film can be a great source of income — and exposure.
As Gutstadt tells us, “In the past, the way people used to pitch music for media placements is that they would mail CDs off to as many music supes or producers they could. Once CDs were on someone’s desk, there were still obstacles to prevent an artist from actually getting listened to. In theory, we have removed the giant pile of CDs on peoples’ desks and aggregated them into a user-friendly database organized in a dynamic way.”
There’s a lot more to say on the subject of how artists can use tools such as these to make money/get exposure, but that’s a post for another day — so keep an eye for that. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a most detailed view of the app, take a look at the video below.
Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark
BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S. $1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today./> /> Image Courtesy of class='blippr-nobr'>Flickrclass="blippr-nobr">Flickr, pfly
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robert shumake detroit Google made a stunning revelation this morning: the existence of a secret self-driving car project. Even more amazing: it has been in testing for months, on actual roads across California, and things seem to be running smoothly. Fans of Total Recall, Minority Report, and Knight Rider are hyperventilating at the prospects. And while the technology is likely still a long way from being widely implemented (The New York Times piece on it suggests eight years), there is one big question: why?
Google’s answer seems to be a “betterment of society” one. “We’ve always been optimistic about technology’s ability to advance society, which is why we have pushed so hard to improve the capabilities of self-driving cars beyond where they are today,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, who spearheaded the project (and also runs Stanford’s AI Labs, and co-invented Street View), writes today.
That’s great. But Google is still a public company in the business of making money for its shareholders. So one can’t help but wonder what, if any, money-making prospects there are here?
“The Google researchers said the company did not yet have a clear plan to create a business from the experiments,” according to the NYT. Further, they quote Thrun as saying that this project is an example of Google’s “willingness to gamble on technology that may not pay off for years.”
We know Google has a history of idealism — co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in particular — but this project cannot come cheap. And the fact is that Google remains basically a one-trick-pony when it comes to making money. They are so reliant on search advertising revenues, that if something suddenly happened to the market, they’d be totally screwed. Android may prove to be their second trick, but it’s not there yet.
But there may be more to these automated cars than just an awesomely cool concept. At our TechCrunch Disrupt event a couple weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech about “an augmented version of humanity.” He noted that the future is about getting computers to do the things we’re not good at. One of those things is driving cars, Schmidt slyly said at the time. “Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense,” he noted. “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.”
If your car can drive itself, a lot of commuters would be freed up to do other things in the car — such as surf the web. One of Google’s stated goals for this project is to “free up people’s time”. That matched with Schmidt’s vision of mobile devices being with us all the time every day, likely will translate into more usage of Google.
That may sound silly and not worth all the R&D an undertaking as huge as this will require, but don’t underestimate Google. This is a company who cares deeply about shaving fractions of a second off of each search query so that you can do more of them in your waking hours. Imagine if you suddenly had an hour or more a day in your car to do whatever you wanted because you no longer had to focus on driving? Yeah. Cha-ching.
Or imagine if your on-board maps where showing you Google ads. Or you were watching Google TV in your car since you didn’t have to drive. Or you were listening to Google Music with Google ads. It’s all the same. This automated driving technology would free you up to use more Google products — which in turn make them more money. Make no mistake, Google will enter your car in a big way. And automated driving would up their return in a big way.
And, of course, none of this speaks to what, if anything, Google would actually charge for such technology implementation. You would have to believe that if and when it’s available, this automated driving tech would be built-in to cars. Would car manufacturers pay Google for it and pass off some of the costs to customers? Or would this all be subsidized by the above ideas?
It’s way too early to get into that, I’m sure. And in 8 years, there will be things out there that we can’t even imagine right now. But it’s interesting to think about. The Google Car.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have little doubt Google is being sincere in their broader hopes for such a technology. Here’s their key blurb on that:
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half. We’re also confident that self-driving cars will transform car sharing, significantly reducing car usage, as well as help create the new “highway trains of tomorrow.” These highway trains should cut energy consumption while also increasing the number of people that can be transported on our major roads. In terms of time efficiency, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that people spend on average 52 minutes each working day commuting. Imagine being able to spend that time more productively.
That first part is awesome. If we could halve the number of traffic deaths each year, it would be world-changing. And if energy consumption could be cut, it could re-shape economies and save our future. But again, don’t gloss over the last part. Freeing up those 52 minutes a day to be productive — that’s a lot of potential money for Google.
And that’s great too. If Google can spend the time and money working on such amazing technology they should be rewarded for it. There’s no rule that says you shouldn’t be able to make money by changing the world. And Google can’t be praised enough for trying.
More:
- Google Has A Secret Fleet Of Automated Toyota Priuses; 140,000 Miles Logged So Far.
- Google’s Self-Driving Car Spotted On The Highway Almost A Year Ago
[images: Dreamworks and TriStar Entertainment]
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: The Jingle Player iPad app [iTunes link]
Quick Pitch: Find pre-licensed, musical content from up-and-coming bands on-the-go with a music discovery app specifically aimed toward business-to-business clients.
Genius Idea: Jingle Punks really tackles two arenas: 1) It provides filmmakers, TV networks, media companies and ad companies with an easy way to find music. Basically, it’s class='blippr-nobr'>Pandoraclass="blippr-nobr">Pandora for businesses, allowing one to simply type in a band, film title, etc. for a list of recommended jams available for license and easy download; 2) It provides bands with an answer to that all-important question: “How do I make money on my music if I’m not Lady Gaga?”
Jingle Punks launched about two years ago, the brainchild of musician Jared Gutstadt and developer Dan Demole. The two drunkenly conceptualized the idea at a Black Keys concert in Brooklyn (in case you doubt the rock ‘n’ roll-ability of the pair). Basically, the two wanted to provide companies with new and dynamic music and bands with a way to get their songs out there.
Before last week, the service was limited to the web, where it lived as a tool called The Jingle Player. It basically let registered users (it’s only open to businesses at the moment, but Demole and Gutstadt plan to expand to consumers in later iterations in which music will be available for purchase via PayPal or credit card) discover and download music for project use by searching based on factors like band name, film title, mood, etc. The player also lets users tweak choices by narrowing according to genre and drilling into keywords.
Now, the duo have brought the experience into the class='blippr-nobr'>App Storeclass="blippr-nobr">App Store with a portable version of the player. The interface of the app is pretty easy to navigate and the functionality is basically the same as the in-browser iteration — although it does lack some of the specialization of the former.
You can search for a band — say, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — and check out related songs. You can then make a playlist based on your project — perhaps for your breakout film, Zombified Subway Ride to Hell — and add relevant songs to said list by simply clicking lists.
If you want to send this playlist to your team members for approval — or so they can get started scoring your flick — simply click “Wrap list,” which lets you bundle all your songs in either MP3 or WAV format for later download, or “Share list,” which allows you to share jams in webpage form. Gutstadt made us a vid explaining the process if you require further explication.
Yes, there are a ton of music discovery apps on the market, but according to the dudes over at Jingle Punks, this is the first-ever mobile music supervision application for the iPad, making businesses privy to the 20,000 song library wherever they happen to be. We can see this app being extremely useful to folks who are always traveling to meetings, etc., and can’t be tied down to a PC. It could also be pretty useful during business meetings/brainstorming sessions.
Furthermore, the whole service is also a boon to musicians. Like we hinted at in the intro, making money in the music industry right now is a bit more complicated than it was in the past — album sales and constant touring don’t cut it anymore. Getting a song in a commercial, a TV show or a film can be a great source of income — and exposure.
As Gutstadt tells us, “In the past, the way people used to pitch music for media placements is that they would mail CDs off to as many music supes or producers they could. Once CDs were on someone’s desk, there were still obstacles to prevent an artist from actually getting listened to. In theory, we have removed the giant pile of CDs on peoples’ desks and aggregated them into a user-friendly database organized in a dynamic way.”
There’s a lot more to say on the subject of how artists can use tools such as these to make money/get exposure, but that’s a post for another day — so keep an eye for that. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a most detailed view of the app, take a look at the video below.
Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark
BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S. $1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today./> /> Image Courtesy of class='blippr-nobr'>Flickrclass="blippr-nobr">Flickr, pfly
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robert shumake hall of shame Google made a stunning revelation this morning: the existence of a secret self-driving car project. Even more amazing: it has been in testing for months, on actual roads across California, and things seem to be running smoothly. Fans of Total Recall, Minority Report, and Knight Rider are hyperventilating at the prospects. And while the technology is likely still a long way from being widely implemented (The New York Times piece on it suggests eight years), there is one big question: why?
Google’s answer seems to be a “betterment of society” one. “We’ve always been optimistic about technology’s ability to advance society, which is why we have pushed so hard to improve the capabilities of self-driving cars beyond where they are today,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, who spearheaded the project (and also runs Stanford’s AI Labs, and co-invented Street View), writes today.
That’s great. But Google is still a public company in the business of making money for its shareholders. So one can’t help but wonder what, if any, money-making prospects there are here?
“The Google researchers said the company did not yet have a clear plan to create a business from the experiments,” according to the NYT. Further, they quote Thrun as saying that this project is an example of Google’s “willingness to gamble on technology that may not pay off for years.”
We know Google has a history of idealism — co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in particular — but this project cannot come cheap. And the fact is that Google remains basically a one-trick-pony when it comes to making money. They are so reliant on search advertising revenues, that if something suddenly happened to the market, they’d be totally screwed. Android may prove to be their second trick, but it’s not there yet.
But there may be more to these automated cars than just an awesomely cool concept. At our TechCrunch Disrupt event a couple weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech about “an augmented version of humanity.” He noted that the future is about getting computers to do the things we’re not good at. One of those things is driving cars, Schmidt slyly said at the time. “Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense,” he noted. “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.”
If your car can drive itself, a lot of commuters would be freed up to do other things in the car — such as surf the web. One of Google’s stated goals for this project is to “free up people’s time”. That matched with Schmidt’s vision of mobile devices being with us all the time every day, likely will translate into more usage of Google.
That may sound silly and not worth all the R&D an undertaking as huge as this will require, but don’t underestimate Google. This is a company who cares deeply about shaving fractions of a second off of each search query so that you can do more of them in your waking hours. Imagine if you suddenly had an hour or more a day in your car to do whatever you wanted because you no longer had to focus on driving? Yeah. Cha-ching.
Or imagine if your on-board maps where showing you Google ads. Or you were watching Google TV in your car since you didn’t have to drive. Or you were listening to Google Music with Google ads. It’s all the same. This automated driving technology would free you up to use more Google products — which in turn make them more money. Make no mistake, Google will enter your car in a big way. And automated driving would up their return in a big way.
And, of course, none of this speaks to what, if anything, Google would actually charge for such technology implementation. You would have to believe that if and when it’s available, this automated driving tech would be built-in to cars. Would car manufacturers pay Google for it and pass off some of the costs to customers? Or would this all be subsidized by the above ideas?
It’s way too early to get into that, I’m sure. And in 8 years, there will be things out there that we can’t even imagine right now. But it’s interesting to think about. The Google Car.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have little doubt Google is being sincere in their broader hopes for such a technology. Here’s their key blurb on that:
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half. We’re also confident that self-driving cars will transform car sharing, significantly reducing car usage, as well as help create the new “highway trains of tomorrow.” These highway trains should cut energy consumption while also increasing the number of people that can be transported on our major roads. In terms of time efficiency, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that people spend on average 52 minutes each working day commuting. Imagine being able to spend that time more productively.
That first part is awesome. If we could halve the number of traffic deaths each year, it would be world-changing. And if energy consumption could be cut, it could re-shape economies and save our future. But again, don’t gloss over the last part. Freeing up those 52 minutes a day to be productive — that’s a lot of potential money for Google.
And that’s great too. If Google can spend the time and money working on such amazing technology they should be rewarded for it. There’s no rule that says you shouldn’t be able to make money by changing the world. And Google can’t be praised enough for trying.
More:
- Google Has A Secret Fleet Of Automated Toyota Priuses; 140,000 Miles Logged So Far.
- Google’s Self-Driving Car Spotted On The Highway Almost A Year Ago
[images: Dreamworks and TriStar Entertainment]
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: The Jingle Player iPad app [iTunes link]
Quick Pitch: Find pre-licensed, musical content from up-and-coming bands on-the-go with a music discovery app specifically aimed toward business-to-business clients.
Genius Idea: Jingle Punks really tackles two arenas: 1) It provides filmmakers, TV networks, media companies and ad companies with an easy way to find music. Basically, it’s class='blippr-nobr'>Pandoraclass="blippr-nobr">Pandora for businesses, allowing one to simply type in a band, film title, etc. for a list of recommended jams available for license and easy download; 2) It provides bands with an answer to that all-important question: “How do I make money on my music if I’m not Lady Gaga?”
Jingle Punks launched about two years ago, the brainchild of musician Jared Gutstadt and developer Dan Demole. The two drunkenly conceptualized the idea at a Black Keys concert in Brooklyn (in case you doubt the rock ‘n’ roll-ability of the pair). Basically, the two wanted to provide companies with new and dynamic music and bands with a way to get their songs out there.
Before last week, the service was limited to the web, where it lived as a tool called The Jingle Player. It basically let registered users (it’s only open to businesses at the moment, but Demole and Gutstadt plan to expand to consumers in later iterations in which music will be available for purchase via PayPal or credit card) discover and download music for project use by searching based on factors like band name, film title, mood, etc. The player also lets users tweak choices by narrowing according to genre and drilling into keywords.
Now, the duo have brought the experience into the class='blippr-nobr'>App Storeclass="blippr-nobr">App Store with a portable version of the player. The interface of the app is pretty easy to navigate and the functionality is basically the same as the in-browser iteration — although it does lack some of the specialization of the former.
You can search for a band — say, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — and check out related songs. You can then make a playlist based on your project — perhaps for your breakout film, Zombified Subway Ride to Hell — and add relevant songs to said list by simply clicking lists.
If you want to send this playlist to your team members for approval — or so they can get started scoring your flick — simply click “Wrap list,” which lets you bundle all your songs in either MP3 or WAV format for later download, or “Share list,” which allows you to share jams in webpage form. Gutstadt made us a vid explaining the process if you require further explication.
Yes, there are a ton of music discovery apps on the market, but according to the dudes over at Jingle Punks, this is the first-ever mobile music supervision application for the iPad, making businesses privy to the 20,000 song library wherever they happen to be. We can see this app being extremely useful to folks who are always traveling to meetings, etc., and can’t be tied down to a PC. It could also be pretty useful during business meetings/brainstorming sessions.
Furthermore, the whole service is also a boon to musicians. Like we hinted at in the intro, making money in the music industry right now is a bit more complicated than it was in the past — album sales and constant touring don’t cut it anymore. Getting a song in a commercial, a TV show or a film can be a great source of income — and exposure.
As Gutstadt tells us, “In the past, the way people used to pitch music for media placements is that they would mail CDs off to as many music supes or producers they could. Once CDs were on someone’s desk, there were still obstacles to prevent an artist from actually getting listened to. In theory, we have removed the giant pile of CDs on peoples’ desks and aggregated them into a user-friendly database organized in a dynamic way.”
There’s a lot more to say on the subject of how artists can use tools such as these to make money/get exposure, but that’s a post for another day — so keep an eye for that. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a most detailed view of the app, take a look at the video below.
Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark
BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S. $1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today./> /> Image Courtesy of class='blippr-nobr'>Flickrclass="blippr-nobr">Flickr, pfly
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This iteration has enhanced the web user interface of openSUSE Build Service with features that were previously only in the osc command line client. It now allows submitting of packages to other projects, showing a history of changes ...
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This iteration has enhanced the web user interface of openSUSE Build Service with features that were previously only in the osc command line client. It now allows submitting of packages to other projects, showing a history of changes ...
robert shumake twitter What is Squidoo and how can it help you make money on the Internet? If you have been on the Internet for any period of time during the last few years you probably know about blogging. Squidoo can be likened to your own personal blog with a dose of something extra. Using Squidoo is very easy and quick to use. It is a social site that you can use for free to get your message out to the world without having to know anything about building websites. You can use the lenses that you build to socialize and send your message to the Internet. You can also use Squidoo lenses to help you make money and get visitors to your website.
Squidoo could be described as being a My Space for people past their teen years. Adults are using Squidoo as their own personal portal on the web. Some folks use this site for personal and informational uses. Others use this site as an extension of their business presence. One benefit for Internet marketing users is that Google sends its search spiders to Squidoo frequently. If you are just getting started with a website Squidoo can help send visitors that you ordinarily wouldn't get. You can put in a quick few paragraphs about your site and use a hyperlink (link) back to your website. Theoretically, you don't need a website. Just use Squidoo.
Obviously, Squidoo has a profit motive in mind for offering people a free Web presence. Each little Web space(lens) that you get from Squidoo will feature advertisements that may be of interest to people looking at your particular Squidoo topic. These small sites are called Lenses. A squid has a large pair of eyes. So let's just assume that is why Squidoo uses the term Lenses to describe these web spaces. You look through a lens. No matter, it's free and free is terrific these days.
So how could you use a Squidoo lens in your Internet marketing efforts? If you are at all familiar with article marketing then you know that people use this strategy to make money. You promote an affiliate product like an e-book or physical product like automobile tires. You write a small article of interest and insert specific keywords that perspective buyers might search for on the Internet search engines. By using specific keywords in you're article, you might attract the interest of a consumer looking for such a product. The prospect visits your site or lens to get more information. Squidoo allows you to use a link that will send a customer to a sales page of the product or service that you are promoting. If someone buys you get a commission. So using Squidoo can help you sell products and make money on the Internet with little outlay.
The trend of the various e-zines that allow people to write articles for free is to ban direct links to affiliate sales pages. They have you send the article reader to a website. At present, Squidoo has no ban on linking to affiliate sales pages. Using a Squidoo lens and placing links to affiliate sites is a great free way to make some money for a person just starting out.
Not only does Squidoo give you a free place to advertise your business, but they also give you the option of sharing in some of the revenue. If you get enough visits to your particular lens, and people click on the ads you can share in the revenue. Squidoo offers people to opt in to this revenue-sharing arrangement. For getting a start to making money on the Internet a Squidoo lens is awesome. Some people are developing hundreds of lenses on various topics for free.
We have just covered just a little about the way that you can use Squidoo and combine it in your Internet money making strategy. You can find a lot more information by searching on Squidoo itself. Some of the lens-masters give tutorials to newbies on how to build moneymaking lenses. So do yourself a favor and check out how to build a lens on Squidoo.
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Images From Cronenberg's TALKING CURE � Brody Versus Argento � JCVD Has Heart Attack On Set � TROLL HUNTER Coming To America � MORPHINE Doc Gets A Trailer � Pegg / Frost Alien Comedy PAUL Trailer. Film News ...
This iteration has enhanced the web user interface of openSUSE Build Service with features that were previously only in the osc command line client. It now allows submitting of packages to other projects, showing a history of changes ...
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Images From Cronenberg's TALKING CURE � Brody Versus Argento � JCVD Has Heart Attack On Set � TROLL HUNTER Coming To America � MORPHINE Doc Gets A Trailer � Pegg / Frost Alien Comedy PAUL Trailer. Film News ...
This iteration has enhanced the web user interface of openSUSE Build Service with features that were previously only in the osc command line client. It now allows submitting of packages to other projects, showing a history of changes ...
