New Google AdWords interface

Announced today some hours ago, Google  has updated their AdWords interface. Just checked it out and it seems that the search engine try to standardize its product interfaces goes on well. Still a bit awkward Google Analytics-like chart but the design is all right and nice. It’s a nice update from the old-google-like interface style to a new flashy user experience. While in Google Analytics they successfully implemented flash charts to glitter your eyes, AdWords Beta comes with an image based chart. No bubbles at dates, only a straightforward vertical line to show you what you campaign has reached at a time. Interesting to see the same concept in a rather CSS-like design. It seems though that the Ajax sidebar yet needs some correction as it strangely stretches while scrolling up and down. Usability 5*, Accessibility 5*  User Experience 4* Design 4*. FULL ARTICLE +

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Toshiba is a SCAM company!

Dear Toshiba,

I called Toshiba America at this number +18006313811 at 14:30-14:40 GMT+1 (daylight saving) and I spoke to the sales department. The saleswomen introduced herself and I introduced myself as Barnabas Nagy. I don’t remember her name but because there should be a monitoring system you could hear it back. The following conversation happened between us:
-Hi, I would like to ask some technical details about a camcorder
-Toshiba does not sell camcorders
(I was astonished because Toshiba DOES sell Camileo and so on camcorders)
-Toshiba DOES sell camcorders.
-We don’t sell camcorders. Toshiba does not sell camcorders.
-It’s a European model so you might not know but Toshiba DOES sell camcorders.
-Than phone Europe, Toshiba America does not sell camcorders. (Here I became very angry but I did speak still normally to the saleswoman)
-Ok, the problem is that you in America think that you are the center of the world…. (she interrupted me)
-We don’t think that we are the center of the world. bla. bla. bla…
-Can I please finish my sentence as a Toshiba customer?
-Yes.
-You in America think that you are the center of the world (she again interrupted me)
-You did not phone the right department, call europe, we don’t sell camcorders.
-I just wanted to finish my sentence as a Toshiba customer.
-If you don’t hang up the phone I will hang it up.
-So I just wanted to say that you in America (she hang up the phone)

This is unbelievable and miserable servis. I have Toshiba Satellite laptop and I wanted to buy Toshiba Camcorder next to my laptop but this feminist women does not even let me finish my sentence.

What I wanted to say just as  a correction is that if she says that Toshiba does not sell camcorders than she is wrong and she should be educated and listen to the customer, if she said in Toshiba America does not sell camcorders than, of course, she is right. But she did not say it 2 or 3 times only that Toshiba does not sell camcorders - that is wrong.

This feminist aggressive, uneducated, misled, stupid, women should leave te company ASAP.

The other thing is: I want to purchase Toshiba Camileo camcorder model. I was hesitating between Camileo HD and Camileo Pro HD, I phoned, USA, UK, Czech Republic, Hungary they have different informations, also there are different information on the toshiba official sites. This is miserable.

I phoned more than 10 hours, and spent at least 4USD for VOIP.

Toshiba is miserable, I will never buy again Toshiba. Toshiba is scam, fraud, phony, lie.

Barnabas Nagy
barnabasnagy.net

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YouTube turns to green for St Patrick’s day

St Patrick’s day is everything Irsih and everything green and YouTube to it’s common habit changed it’s logo to reflect that idea. I don’t like this catholic stupidism, but I understand now why the logo turned to green (See YouTube logo turns to green - fool me once).

Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy’s Day or simply Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Montserrat. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide by the those of Irish descent and increasingly by non-Irish people (usually in New Zealand, Australia, and North America). Celebrations are generally themed around all things Irish and, by association, the colour green. Both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food and/or green foods, imbibing Irish drink (such as Irish stout, Irish Whiskey or Irish Cream) and attending parades. - Wikipedia

That’s the common culture, the common devil. Just check YouTube.com and you’ll see.

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YouTube logo turns to green - fool me once

I thought it’s just because of the video content I was watching: “Bush’s ten top moments”… Shame on you… But then the second video did not fool me so no shame on me please. This YouTube logo is really green and I don’t know why. Is someone out there who knows why?

Anyways, shame on YouTube because it’s really fool to have a green logo and a red favicon. Webmaster at youtube.com? Hope they change it because it really bugs me. It’s awful to see.

I wanted to check if there is a “green day” today or something but I rather gave up remembering the band Green Day. So I just googled “earth day”, which query gave me the date 22 April but no 17 March.

So dear and clever designers prompt me what on earth is going on on the earth because I don’t get it.

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Very bad if you can’t delete your account

You finally decided not to use the service you signed up any longer because, because… there are lots of reasons. And you finally want to delete your account but you can’t. You get angry and hot while navigating through the menu - and those who who have long and strong nerve the FAQ section - finally you find nothing. So you log out. FULL ARTICLE +

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Spellcheck and review your post before publishing

A snip of output from yesterday brainstorm - literally. I discovered something weeks ago, and yesterday as I came back to blog it prompted me in my mind taskbar Because I run several blogs I have several inputs (comments), and some people alert me that I make spelling or grammatical mistake here or there. I thank them for nudging me but I still had in mind that my English is good. Well, it is good, but not good enough. Forgive me this wrong, I’m really not a native English speaker, born in Hungary, live in the Czech Rep. and I really learnt English. I did not get it by breastfeeding, really, really.

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What are the WordPress subscriber benefits

Sorry for my late posting again, I had to move once again, ISP change etc. Days lasted I went through all my emails, packed out, packed in, cable out, cable in, horrible. Anyway, I’m back and that’s a good news. And you folks are awesome. You still read my articles and I realised some more subscribers to my not finished blog that gives me a push to write. Still, I was really wondering… Why on earth is good to be a subscriber, not to the RSS feed but to a WP blog.

So this is what I did, I signed up myself under barnabasnagy as a guest-subscriber and tried to look around what can I get there. Actually, I’ve set up 2 subscriber accounts already weeks ago and the only thing I found there is nude wordpress. FULL ARTICLE +

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How to Use LinkedIn: invite with interaction

Social Networking is a seriously growing media on the web that catches the attention of both civil and business users and makes a totally new approach to how we interact with friends and colleagues. Previously, I wrote about my recent rediscovery of 2 sites: twitter and linkedin. I found both useful and I would like to tell you how I started to interact for my business needs on LinkedIn. FULL ARTICLE +

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My Twitter trial - the “I like social media” tool

Twitter the microblogging site got my attention recently because I digged and mixxed more and more stories about how good it is for finding new friends and as a business tool. It was not my first time on posting tweets, no, but simply I did not get what on earth is good in twitter.

I’m not the kind of man to tell the world what time I go to poop. Don’t get me wrong, there are people really updating their twitter site with such nonsenses. From this you can see that the public usues twitter as social uniform to tell the world “what are they doing”. As I said I’m not that kind of a guy and I find irritating making “friends” digital. I think life is real and people trend replacing that real with virtually real AKA Virtual Reality (VR).

Not agreed. Social Media or Social Networking is a good tool for businesses to harness, even for organizations, and of course for social interactions as well. But first of all not as a replacement of the reality and getting into the “social trance”.

So I did not send an “I go to poop” tweet as a test but “I liked your post about…” That’s the way I learnt to do it and it worked and still works. I’m not saying that you can’t add any private non-business related post - I also added recently “I eat orange” for my wife’s sake - but if you are business oriented you should focus on that part of the twitter myth that makes sense.

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LinkedIn rechecked: a good Business Social Media site

I found my profile again on LinkedIn work well to be expanded for a broader Business Venture tool. After my Twitter trial I got some invitations so therefore I got caught on LinkedIn and on my for-months-not-updated profile to update…

So overall, I liked what I saw, I found some new tools they implemented on the site like WordPress blog badge, Poll, Twitter Buzz etc - great tools. I joined some groups as well for the expectatinon to extend my business realtions.

Next to this I was keen on finding this little LinkedIn badge that I saw on several sites but have not found among the LinkedIn tool library. Bad on them! They should harness a bit more the Open Source internet. So after a short search I googled on this:  http://wp.gdragon.info/plugins/gd-linkedin-badge/ - and now you can will see on my site that tiny shiny icon on the right.

Are you Linked In? Let’s connect, here is my profile: link

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A Future for JPG Magazine

I got an email some days ago titled: “A Future for JPG Magazine” and was wondering what it contains. You know I wrote about the marketing tactic of JPG Mag saying they are closing. Such cheaters! And now of course the good team of photographers saved the entire magazine and we can all enjoy JPG mag. I really wonder how much minus JPG was was for 8020 Media… I think they would not bag for food. The marketing and surviving technique worked out, but I’m not sure it is the right way to do it. FULL ARTICLE +

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Ebay seller cheated me and now it cannot be solved

Back to June 2008 I bought on ebay a wonderful Chinese, noname 16GB pendrive because that was what I was longing for. You know, backup and so on. So I got the product quite late, though I got it. There was a little defect that the metal cover was not fitting onto the drive and it would whirl around… So I contacted the seller and he offered me replacement. I went into it, he got the pendrive quite late, but at last he got it. Then he said he sent it, and I still wait for it…. Yes, since august. I contacted ebay several times, but I was too late, I was over the 60 day protected period. So what they offered is to contact the seller. Well, sure, I contacted him thousand times on email what is going on, where’s my pendrive. No answer. Silence. So with this I did not become more clever but I got his phone number. And guess what? The phone number does not work, it speaks me some Chinese blah blah and then it says to me in English that this number is not … I don’t know the word. Anyway, this makes me angry. I lost by this some $ 30 and it’s not fun with my budget.

And yeah, I get know from ebay that the seller cancelled his account in the meantime so they can’t do much. Great.

So here is the guilty one, if someone knows about him, catch him:

E-mail:      wellcomeshop@gmail.com
User ID:     wellcome08
Name:        Man Fai Hui
City:        Lai Chi Kok
State:       Kowloon
Country:     HK
Phone:       (9)3325930

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Delete 10 friends to eat Burger King Whopper

For sure you’ve heard about the big action of Burger King that tried to get some more clients and sell their whoppers. But what the hack is this? At the financial crisis you can eat only if you delete some friends? Is that normal?

This is like guerilla marketing like the one that happened in hungary last year. MTV hungary to launch their service put guitars into the neck of historic statues around the country making an indignation. I don’t know what is it good for but I don’t think that’s a good marketing strategy or advertisement. There are other ways than such a low profile ad.

I hate Burger King! And I think facebook does as well.

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Can someone make me understand this article?

I have been watching people use various networks for years and for the average user their contributions and participations have multiple motivation factors. For the power user, the marketer, the brand, or the promoter it seems clear to me that their goal, even though they don’t actually know it or define it as such, is to get to the broadcast position.

Clay Shirky talks about the broadcast position in his book “Here Comes Everybody”. In his breakdown of the power law distribution and the impact it has on communication Shirky talks about how conversations shift. FULL ARTICLE +

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Carol Bartz to replace Jerry Yang Yahoo! CEO

I just read this on wired and I wanted to promptly makes some not about the possible transformation. Jerry Yang’s Yahoo! did not make me and I think other to be enjoy any flavour of the search eangine. There was the Microsoft issue to give over the company, the Google deal and so on.

Well, enough for me Yahoo is enough bitter all the time I hear or meet it. Not only their design makes me mad but their stupid emoticons, wide-mouth-smile messenger, their widget, email account with tons of ads. It’s just makes me crazy. Why on earth would anyone use any of Yahoo’s services while there are many and much better services to be found elsewhere, like at Google (Gmail, Google search, Gtalk etc.)

If it is true what the rumours say that Carol Bartz will replace the current CEO I think it will drive Yahoo! to total bankcrupcy. Yang kept the yahoo-smile profile while being a man, so what can we expect from a woman?! A woman would be sitting on Yahoo throne, that’s the horror.

Ok, I’ll write something else, or I rather go to retirement…

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Marketing trends for 2009 from CES

I wanted so much to write about my marketing and advertising ideas and now I heard some from Greg Douglas. So here I’m to say aspirational and boundle marketing is key factor in this year and the years to come.

How about buying an 8mbs internet service and getting 300 minutes for free for inland phone calls if you buy a phone from the ISP? Sound great, we have such. Shortly after I heard the company selling the same 8mbs service for half price and with an additional printer. I’m bad we didn’t wait a bit longer that would have been a better choice. We needed internet connection ASAP so we FULL ARTICLE +

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How to obtain a better blog?

I’m wondering around my projects and finally has no idea which is better. I don’t know where to start and how. It’s craze but it is still like this. Gas stopped from Russia - bad news. I want to blog and earn - good news. How to combine the 2 I don’t have an idea but it obviosly does not fit. We need gas to heat otherwise my blogging fingers will freeze!

Ok here are some recent projects I work on:

http://mediawared.info

http://newst.info

tell me what is better.

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MTV plays me Britney Spears!

My apologies Mr MTV CEO I went to mtvmusic.com and it played me successfully Britney Spears - Circus Music Video. But, at that music video you did restricted me on Current! You probably give some content to everyone and some to the only race “American”. It was not funny, but Briney played well fullscreen.

The other thing I wanted to share with you guys, if there is one who reads me… that this despite the really good quality of the video Britney made me mad. Is that something like music? But really I’m musician - so called - check out lookingdoor.net What Britney does only is really Circus not more, have you heard of that “song” (they call it song) in what I don’t find and musical whatever melody or.. ok, I know sex sell well and that’s it. Right? Right? Pls be kind and answer me. Halo? Hey there!

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MTV’s big socially free movement for music videos - hack inside

I was really pleased reading on Current that MTV puts every videos online. Yep, so I voted it up and got to play the music in the comment section. Hey, but none!!! Restricted to US users!!! Losers. We are here in EU and just because we live somewhere else than obama we are the sick youtubers and illegal downloaders. I’d stop the world for a second and take some minute finding to figure out who is the CEO chair in MTV, I could actually google it out within a sec but I don’t care. But I would tell him some words, I’m a polite guy so just like a polite guy.

So I assume that I’m not the only hack who finds this hack in the whole story and still sticks you youtube and joost rather than FULL ARTICLE +

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JPG Magazine is said to be closed till today

I  have a trial today with this post. I have a blog called MediaWared, it’s kinda  “media” stuff would-be project. But somehow it does not want to function. Sure I did not posted there for a long time, I’m off… that’s it. I partnered up with Daniel Demian a 14 ! year old succesful blogger from Romania, he is a tech guy! So he will work with me. How  young he is it’s almost not seen in his works and in his professionalism. Anyway, so I posted about the same story on that blog, I liked it on mixx, digg, reddit etc etc. I hate it really. Social Cardigan or how they say it makes me mad. People go meet online rather than in real. Craze. I tell you it’s madness. Human madness. So The thing is that JPG Magazine sent me an email FULL ARTICLE +

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