Posts Tagged ‘Talks’
Diddy Biggie Blog #1: Diddy Talks About NOTORIOUS Movie
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Sean "Diddy" Combs gives his thoughts on the new movie "NOTORIOUS"!
Mazda Design Chief Franz Von Holzhausen Talks on Design, Style
Thursday, February 4th, 2010AutoblogGreen writers recently got the chance to hear the Chief of Mazda’s US design team, Franz von Holzhausen, give an insight into the style and design culture at Mazda. Though the name sounds like a European stylist, Holzhausen was born in Simsbury, Connecticut and is now based in California.
He reveals that specific models and concepts at Mazda are taken from nature with designs that are more likely flowing and organic than the blocky shapes seen in most production cars today. But in his designs, Mazda’s persistent “Zoom, Zoom” philosophy, as permanently, will take up again to play a huge role in the designs of future automobiles. More RWD and AWD models will be coming in the lineup, and there will also be a departure from its current range, plus greater highlights on interiors, too.
For the past 2 years, Franz has been the US Chief of Design for Mazda and is working out of their Irvine, CA design center, one of three design centers Mazda that has, the others being in Europe and in Japan.
An Autoblog writer describes this designer as young, informal and tall. Accordingly, he also resembles a southern California surfer. But when he speaks, according to the writer, he really speaks of design.
For the past few years, the Mazda corporate theme has been “Zoom, Zoom”. And since then, the company is delivering the motto with attractive exterior design, feature interior design, and brilliant engine performance as well as handling. And because of this, Mazda is growing in worth and in sales in the market, which is a excellent thing for a firm in the Ford family of nameplates.
Franz talked about the show cars that were recently showed at different auto shows. Like what he revealed on Mazda designs, each car he discussed was as organic rather than geometric or on steroids as some “muscular” production vehicles look today. The cars’ designs are flowing and integrated but not really ergonomic. Each car will be a front engine, rear or all wheel drive vehicle, a departure from the front wheel drive of most existing Mazda vehicles.
These designs will likely be a early point for future Mazda cars that have to comply with the new US Energy bill (with targets of 35mpg proposed for cars and trucks by 2020) when it gets passed. The industry still has to wait as to how green the cars would be.
About Mazda
Mazda’s vision is to make new value, excitement and delight to their customers through the best automotive harvest and air force. Their mission is to actively communicate with passion, pride and speed with their customers to deliver insightful automotive harvest and air force that exceed their expectations. Aside from making sure that each Mazda OEM part is feature based, the company principles integrity, customer focus, creativity, efficiency and nimble events and respects highly motivated people and team spirit. It positively spurs environmental matters, safety and society.
Google’s Matt Cutts Talks About Pagerank
Saturday, January 9th, 2010PageRank is that magic number between 1 and 10 that Google assigns to every website. It is a number that is computed using the link structure of the World Wide Web and it measures the relative importance of all pages. It is an vital number that partially allows Google to return the best results to a user’s query.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) gurus spend much of their time trying to improve a site’s PageRank because the larger this number the larger the traffic driven to the site via organic search results. Even though the algorithm for computing a page’s PageRank was in print by Google’s founders in 1995, the algorithm has since been modified to scale up to the web’s enormous size as possible and also to dodge being exploited by SEO experts. These unremitting changes to the algorithm are not in print and SEO engineers evenly find themselves trying to know how the algorithm works by monitoring Google’s behavior.
It is usually believed that the larger a page’s PageRank the higher it will appear on Google’s homepage and the more traffic it will receive. As a result, many webmasters lose a lot of sleep over improving their site’s PageRank. Since the value of PageRank depends on the number and feature of incoming links, webmasters evenly pay a premium to have a high PageRank site link to theirs. In addition, webmasters can monetize their site by selling links to others; if they manage to get their PageRank to a value larger than 5 then they can sell these links at a high cost. All these have produced an entire economy around Google’s magic number.
Matt Cutts is a Google engineer who maintains his own blog evenly talking about Google’s competition, marketing strategy and technology. Occasionally, Matt talks about the calculation and significance of PageRank. Needless to say, many SEO gurus study his blog trying to read between the lines and figure out how PageRank is computed and used. Recently, Matt wrote to answer some frequently questioned questions about PageRank. In this posting, he reveals that PageRank is not an integer between 1 and 10 but instead a floating point number in the same range allowing Google a high degree of precision. In addition, he tells us that the number really exported and shown on Google’s toolbar is in fact only an integer value. In addition, he points out that Google continuously calculates this number and only exports it to the toolbar once every a few months. People evenly notice that PageRank numbers are varying on the toolbar every 3 months and mistakenly assume that those are the only times that the numbers are really computed.
Irrevocably, I want to point out that Matt specifically says that PageRank is considered by Google when a user performs a search. Matt says, “By the time you see newer PageRanks in the toolbar, those principles have by now been incorporated in how we score/rank our search results.” Some people have questioned as to whether Google still uses PageRank in their search engine algorithm. They claim that it only exists to sidetrack SEO experts with malicious intent. Matt’s condemn claims that Google still uses PageRank in ranking search results reinforcing the belief that it is still relevant; the actual importance of PageRank, but, is hard to establish and as Google has said in the past, the results presented to users are the product of a very complex algorithm with many parameters including PageRank.
My advice to webmasters is to have a link strategy and try to gain a healthy PageRank value. I would not recommend that people obsess over PageRank and instead focus on content. Excellent content will force other websites to link to yours helping you improve its PageRank. Be very careful of SEO companies that promise you many riches if you are willing to pay them a hefty sum of cash to improve your site’s PageRank. Increasing this one number by itself is not likely to have such a large effect. Original, fresh and keyword content is still the best way to achieving success online.