Uber cool Facebook world’s Map by Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team.

It’s here, Safari browser extension with the release of Safari 5! Here’s how to start using it:

1. Open Safari Preference, then tick Show Develop menu in menu Bar.

2. From Develop menu, tick on Enable Extensions

3. Start to browse around unofficial Safari Extensions and install some. When you’re installing extension, you’ll be warned. However, I installed Adblock for Safari and it works great!

4. You can find and manage your installed extensions through Preferences > Extensions

Please also aware that this is still at developer’s experiment access level, so you must prepare for bugs and errors. Apple will open its official Extension Gallery later this summer.

This is the slide for my co-presentation at Bedo a while ago, originally titled Website That Works for You.

Enjoy!

I’ve used CoverItLive twice to liveblogged 2 events back in February. One was a Saresehan (it’s like a small seminar with small audiences) and a live music.

I will highlight the Saresehan event, as it was a success in terms of the Live Blogging introduction to the local music community. Knowing that less Indonesian music community was accustomed with this sort of online live event coverage (back then, people mostly responded like, live blogging? WTF? Is it like a LIVE chat? What’s the different between those two? etc etc).

However soon after the Live Blogging ends, the widget became dull. It’s like a dead widget in the middle of a blog post. Worst thing is to me, covering a live event especially seminar-like events, is like producing an unsearchable keyword rich content. So with that dead widget, there’s no way people could find the event coveragae through search engine search.

Today, CoverItLive through mailing list, announced their new features which include this Search Engine friendly help:

A potential drawback that concerns users of hosted software is that search engines will not credit their site for content in a hosted application (like CoveritLive).

Yes. It’s a drawback and it concerns me as i found most of my music community site (60%-70%) traffic come from Search Engines.

But CoverItLive has done a good job regarding this issue, they introduce an embedable Live Blogging result and which is surely readable by search engine.

To use the feature, simply login to your account, go to Completed Live Blogs then click the Save Content Locally. Then the site will produce an embedable content. Simply embed the codes to your web page.

I checked out the result using SEO Browser, and now the page is FULL of TEXT. I love it. Thank you CoverItLive.

PS: By the way, CoverItLive is free.

This is probably the biggest LED screen in the world, located in Comcast Center in Philadelphia. It measures 83.3ft x 25.4ft and cost $22 million to made.

It’s too big for hosting a WordPress or MediaWiki how to tutorials but this huge screen is hugely amazing.

Image and Story via Geeks are Sexy.

Tetris is the original time waster. It competes head to head with Solitaire in my PDA. These kind of games are also useful while wait my Firefox loads. However, i never thought this simple game could mixed nicely with Arm Wrestling (who would? I bet not even the creator!).

Anyhow, Tresling is a machine that controlled a Tetris game within arm wrestling.

From the author’s page:

They said it couldn’t be done. Mixing Tetris and arm wrestling… not possible. But just like Stallone in “Over the Top,” the impossible happened, dreams came true, tears were shed. I give you Tresling: Not just a two-player version of best game on earth, not just a fist-pumping, back ally arm wrestling match to end all matches… but a mash-up so heroic Zeus himself could not imagine it.

Here’s how it works. Old school cool time waster + Old school cool competitive sport = FUN!!

Zemanta suggests that Engadget and Gizmodo has covered this 4 days ago. But i got this from HackedGadgets.

My ISP has yet to block YouTube which must be the stupidest act that an ISP can do. So i would like to take this opportunity to post another cool video uploaded at YouTube.

The video explain what is art from animal perspective. Art?

This guest post was initiated when Aaron Wall asked his readers whether he can write a guest post on his reader’s blog. So i immediately asked him if he wouldn’t mind to write SEO for non tech as at topics like Football, Music or even Pranks. Below is what he wrote for me. Hope this is useful for you too.

Every topic worth writing about has passionate people talking about it – after all, what attracted you to the topic? If you are in the tech field you can write a great post and get hundreds or thousands of links out of it. In some niche fields that might be near impossible. But it is worth remembering that you are only competing against other people writing about the same topics. So if you write a blog about a niche topic the measurement for success might not be 100 links, but 5 links, or maybe even only 1 good reference.

As far as SEO for blogs goes, I think the Blogger’s Guide to SEO (http://www.seobook.com/bloggers) is probably one of the better documents available on the topic. But lets say that your niche is so small that it seems like many of the ideas about communication and link building in that guide are irrelevant. The truth is, that no matter how small your topic is there are going to be other people who care about the topic too.

The key is figuring out where your passions align with their passions. Are you going to write a site about the NFL and break onto the market as the quick leader? Not likely. But if you created a site about the Chicago Bears, and wrote it religiously (like you were Mike Ditka’s son) then eventually people would notice it. The key there is that a team is something people are already passionate about… it is an established brand with fans. There are lots of right wing political blogs and lots of left wing political blogs…those party affiliates are brands. With music band names are brands, and so sites like GreenPlastic.com follow the latest Radiohead news, syndicate videos, and share lyrics and guitar tabs online, etc.

If you want to create your own brand the two options are to follow on someone else’s brand (which is easier), or to create something that people are passionate about and want to share. That passion can be creating great topical content built up over months and years, content that strokes the ego and identity of targets (award programs and interviews work great), or content ideas where your topic overlaps with other topics.

For example I created free SEO tools http://tools.seobook.com/ and made many of them open source. Not only does that content tie in with SEO, but it also ties in to people who like free and open source software. Don’t just think about your topic… think about how it
relates to other topics and other people. Taking that one step further, if you are going to run a prank why not do one about viagra or credit cards http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/?

I have no techie nor design background whatsoever. I am more like evangelist dude who is into interesting things. Lately, thanks to blogging and massive RSS reading, i can finally free from my mediocre design and techie friends who are lack of discipline, big headed and their always come late attitude. I am now more aware of technology and design because in fact i am now can do almost everything in the web by myself.

Lately, i start to learn how to mess things up in Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Not the newer versions because it will blow my computer’s memory. Beside spend a lot of times in my Google Reader, i also browse the web massively. I visit everything, from religion to adult sites, art to financial sites.

One of those cool sites is the official site of author and illustrator BobStaake.com. Recently  he (thanks to YouTube) gives the world an inside look on how he goes on creating his one-of-a-kind illustrations. While my b.s. so-called mediocre designer and techie friends are always talking about new design tools, the latest plugins, upgrading computers or wondering how the latest adobe photoshop version can save their life, Bob Staake make his unique creation using Adobe Photoshop 3.0., a mouse, all in one layer.

Check it out, this is amazing:

[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3TguoCboDU[/youtube]

You can see his more of his works using Adobe 3.0. at PixFlix. Surely, you don’t have to have all the tools in the world to finish your work.

I’m sticking with my O2 PDA phone for my main communicator tool, but i was wondering that i’ll buy iPhone if i should change it.

However Greenpeace found that iPhone has dangerous chemical elements, i’m glad i decided to delay buying new phone, at least until they become a green phone.

[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBF_AkaXRG4[/youtube]

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