Monday, August 10, 2009
Very valuable service for local-only websites
If you own a business website like www.servicecare.net, and you only serve a single country (or a state, even) you may find that you are frequently contacted by a few honest people from countries that you do not serve. But more likely, you will find your inbox stuffed with contacts from dishonest scammers from all over the globe, wanting to use someone else's credit card to buy services from you... or share the wealth from a Nigerian president/queen/emperor who's recently been mauled by vampire bats.
If you, like me, see no reason why anyone from Ghana, to pick a random example, would have any real need to view your website (since you don't ship any product overseas, for example), then why not go to a website that allows you to block an entire country from viewing your website.
In fact, you can block a whole bunch of countries if you like.
If this seems to defy the whole free internet, world-wide-globe idea, ask yourself if you would advertise in Australia for your shoe repair shop in Texas. Would you send mailers to Egypt for your hotdog stand in Newark.
No, you wouldn't.
I would be careful to advise that you might want to avoid blocking other states (if you're in the U.S.), but that's up to you. Frankly, I'm only blocking the countries that keep sending me spam and scam.
For those that didn't see it, go to www.blockacountry.com and consider making a donation, or at least a link (like I did, you see?)
If you, like me, see no reason why anyone from Ghana, to pick a random example, would have any real need to view your website (since you don't ship any product overseas, for example), then why not go to a website that allows you to block an entire country from viewing your website.
In fact, you can block a whole bunch of countries if you like.
If this seems to defy the whole free internet, world-wide-globe idea, ask yourself if you would advertise in Australia for your shoe repair shop in Texas. Would you send mailers to Egypt for your hotdog stand in Newark.
No, you wouldn't.
I would be careful to advise that you might want to avoid blocking other states (if you're in the U.S.), but that's up to you. Frankly, I'm only blocking the countries that keep sending me spam and scam.
For those that didn't see it, go to www.blockacountry.com and consider making a donation, or at least a link (like I did, you see?)
Labels: business, scams, spam, web
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Yahoo! bringing Internet to Samsung television sets
"SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Yahoo! and Samsung on Monday said they will put the California firm's software to work linking the South Korean electronics giant's televisions to the Internet.
New Samsung high-density flat-panel television models to be displayed this week at a premier Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will feature Yahoo! "widgets," mini applications which access Internet services.
Samsung televisions built with an "Internet@TV" content service will let viewers check online news or stock portfolios as well as see videos or pictures on the Web, according to the companies.
"Through this partnership, we can combine the Internet benefits of user choice and personalization with Samsung's leading product innovation and global reach to deliver a new experience to users around the world," said Yahoo!'s Connected TV vice president Patrick Barry."
The rest of the article can be found here.
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My two cents... if I'm watching a TV show, a movie, or The Big Game and someone else wants to check their stocks or play SuperPong on the same screen, I'm going to be unhappy. Go play on the computer, I'm watching TV.
Perhaps, on second thought, it might be cool to be able to look a the meaning of a word I don't know, or get more information on an actor, or public figure. Maybe it would be nice to put a note in my calendar to bring an umbrella on a particularly rainy day. Mainly it would be used for useless trivia about some stupid television minutia I can't remember, but then what's the Internet good for if not for that.
New Samsung high-density flat-panel television models to be displayed this week at a premier Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will feature Yahoo! "widgets," mini applications which access Internet services.
Samsung televisions built with an "Internet@TV" content service will let viewers check online news or stock portfolios as well as see videos or pictures on the Web, according to the companies.
"Through this partnership, we can combine the Internet benefits of user choice and personalization with Samsung's leading product innovation and global reach to deliver a new experience to users around the world," said Yahoo!'s Connected TV vice president Patrick Barry."
The rest of the article can be found here.
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My two cents... if I'm watching a TV show, a movie, or The Big Game and someone else wants to check their stocks or play SuperPong on the same screen, I'm going to be unhappy. Go play on the computer, I'm watching TV.
Perhaps, on second thought, it might be cool to be able to look a the meaning of a word I don't know, or get more information on an actor, or public figure. Maybe it would be nice to put a note in my calendar to bring an umbrella on a particularly rainy day. Mainly it would be used for useless trivia about some stupid television minutia I can't remember, but then what's the Internet good for if not for that.
Labels: Samsung, televisions, web
Saturday, November 22, 2008
How to link to Service Care's Blog(s)
Suppose you read something here you like, or find interesting, or hate, or what have you.
How do you link to it from your blog, website or forum.
There's one way to link to the whole blog, if you think it's all interesting:
You can cut and paste the link below and drop it into your html editor:
The link will look like this: TV and Appliance Repair Blog
Now, I doubt the whole blog is interesting to everybody, and frankly I'm just hoping that one or two things will help someone out there looking for answers about appliances or electronics.
So, if you want to link to a specific blog entry, put your mouse over "LINK to this" in that entry (at the bottom left). Right-click over the "LINK to this", and in the menu that pops up you'll be able to save the link, bookmark it, and more importantly, copy the link.
Once you copy it, you can past it anywhere that allows you to paste this sort of thing, like a link from your blog, your website, etc.
Hopefully this helps, and I'll be sure to update this if I change this process. If someone has ideas for better ways to do this, I'd love to hear about it in comments. Thanks!
How do you link to it from your blog, website or forum.
There's one way to link to the whole blog, if you think it's all interesting:
You can cut and paste the link below and drop it into your html editor:
The link will look like this: TV and Appliance Repair Blog
Now, I doubt the whole blog is interesting to everybody, and frankly I'm just hoping that one or two things will help someone out there looking for answers about appliances or electronics.
So, if you want to link to a specific blog entry, put your mouse over "LINK to this" in that entry (at the bottom left). Right-click over the "LINK to this", and in the menu that pops up you'll be able to save the link, bookmark it, and more importantly, copy the link.
Once you copy it, you can past it anywhere that allows you to paste this sort of thing, like a link from your blog, your website, etc.
Hopefully this helps, and I'll be sure to update this if I change this process. If someone has ideas for better ways to do this, I'd love to hear about it in comments. Thanks!
Labels: blog, forum, html, link, Service Care, web
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