Just a little tip about some of the Trufina issues some of you have been facing. Naymz allows you to collect more Reputation Points by validating your identity using a service called "TRUFINA".
My experience is that the Trufina questions were highly inaccurate which I discovered today can occur for several different reasons.
To remedy this situation, all you need to do is request the following form- or download it here (unofficial location):
I want to personally thank you for a successful first day of TZX Beta. There were a couple of bugs, especially with foreign currency issues. These are all known issues and we will give ourselves several more days to investigate and address these items.
As you may know, a big reason for beta is to test for bandwidth and data speed bottlenecks. Kelley was able to show me some charts and graphs that reveal we were able to handle hundreds of simultaneous users. So, keep cranking away on the application and do your best to break it.
Update:
Charles Heflin's Social Networking Blueprint:
I know you are probably wondering when we will give you access to Charles Heflins social media course.
I have to leave town on Friday, but we will be working hard to reprogram our database to seamlessly integrate with Charles' Social Networking Blueprint members area.
I will complete as many initial set-up tasks tomorrow as possible- (alright, I mean this morning after I get some shut eye). I will keep you posted on our progress.
In the meantime here are some things that you can do, and these action items are not just busy-work. I am extremely excited about what I am about to share with you, because it is something that I have been personally preparing for, for a long time.
One of my business associates, Elliot Gluskin of Gluskin-Townley.com, brought to my attention a more refined type of social network concept that I discuss in the videos below. Coincidentally, I had "specked out" on paper a similar concept (along with CEO Troy Janisch) at my old SEO firm, Iconinteractive. Troy and I understood the need for a new type of reputation currency that would increase the value of the author of an article or even a wikipedia entry.
Remember, the internet is still young in my opinion. I believe Web 2.0 and social media will actually require a more stable ingredient to glue it together and make it more meaningful within the "real" world. This "ingredient " may already exist and what I am about to show you could become a currency as valuable as cash in many ways.
This currency is called "reputation score".
This new network is probably only the first in a "new trend" of online social networks.
Ironically, the methods used to build a network of this kind could theoretically increase the value of such a network by a multiple of hundreds during a liquidity event- as compared to a "social free-for-all" network like myspaces etc.
We will be working with "reputation score' as a Theme zoom community, and we will be setting up a system that will help all of you in our collective network benefit from the SEO value of the advanced methods we teach . . . while at the same time making sure that you personally benefit from our "collective reputation and authority".
As you have probably guessed, as a community we are really growing in that authority and reputation. Proving that with inbound links and bookmarks is not enough. I want your personal reputations and endorsements to be enhanced as you begin to work with clients using the more advanced Theme Zoom applications.
Watch the video's below to find out how you can recieve a personal endorsement from me.
If you are not a paying members of theme zoom I will need to see an adequate profile as well as get to know you through your websites and any associates of mine who know you.
At the very latest we should be plugged into Charles Heflin's database (course) by Wednesday of next week.
Theme Zoom members, I look forward to endorsing you.
- Russell Wright
608-432-1387 (Don't call me unless it is important)
The New York Times released an
article yesterday exposing Google’s “Search within Search” function that has been
bugging me for the last several weeks. To read the NYT article go here.
In this short video I give you a
quick tour of the issues and hand with a live demo of Google’s “Search within
Search” function.
My “modest proposal” is that Google has the courtesy to remove the pay per
click advertisements from the second tier search function. To me this seems
reasonable enough.
In my opinion, this is the most controversial change Google has made since the “auto-link”
function that I blogged about in 2006- where ISBN numbers on any bookstore
website could become hyperlinked and redirected the visitor to Amazon.com at
the wave of a toolbar wand.
