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After the SES conference, I thought I will give a try to Yahoo! Site Explorer. The tool seems to be very useful (if you are into the alternative world of Search Engine Optimization) and worth a try (much better than whatever Google has for the same purpose according to the experts in the field).

As you can see on the right hand side there is a new badge that indicates the number of links to this blog (nearly 200!). After the (lack of) success of the badge just above (the xbox one) I decided to add this one and make the page even more crowded to see if someone out there fancies adding two or three links to this site so we reach the magical number of 200. The prize? Well, not much, apart from a mention of who did it (you need to tell me) and obviously a link back.

I am waiting, number 200! 

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Apparently the PS3 was going on sale today at 9am GMT. I say apparently because it is now 11:22am and the PS3 is still not on sale. And yes, I am in GMT zone. And yes is not the first time it happened (remember the Wii coming on sale later than 9am?).

What is wrong here? Why you just do not say, come over some time on Thursday 15th of February to see if we decided to put the item on sale. Oh dear!

If you want to give it a try, here is the link to the PS3 page at Amazon UK 

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We played.

We saw.

We enjoyed.

We Wii-hood yesterday.

Yes, as I told you we tried a Wii, we played tennis, bowling, some baseball and golf (I even did a par 4 with a chip-in!). We created two Miis and configured all the widgets it comes with and we can say that the Wii rocks.  

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I for once thought that now that Spain is seen as cool internationally and that we have won Oscars, World Basketball titles, F1 championship titles (twice) and several hundreds of Michelin stars (almost) we will be coming next winning one of these weblog awards (at least a nomination to the most useless one!) but truth is that ain't hapenning.

Anyway, pretty good stuff and ideas out there, to read, laugh, learn and get entertained and in the meantime to vote for. Check it here

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This last weekend I got to see the Gears of War cinematic trailer twice, on the tv and on the cinema. Apart from the fascination the trailer causes (or could cause you) what really got me was the song in the background. It was one of those moments where you wish you could have a way to know what song, title, artist and album was that playing (and yes Amazon I know you have something similar but does not really work), and for once I thought I could never know (it was a familiar song for those of you wondering). Today, when checking the news I saw one (actually three cause blogs tend to be repetitive) that talked about gears of war song. I clicked and I found that the song called Mad World by Tears for fears was rocketed to number one in the itunes chart sales (or number 4 according to the other blog or number 12 by the third one...). Scared? Keep reading.

The scary thing here is that how videogames are so into the culture that they actually help drive sales of associated items (and this one actually does not even happen to be in the game itself, just in the trailer). How much did MS pay for the licence? No idea, but how much is Mercury Records Limit (making). Oh yes, and what has a degree of 10 in scariness is how much is Apple making through itunes for this song, a golden member of the long tail. Yippe!

For your enjoyment a direct link to the itunes chart can be found at the bottom as well as the video (famous by now maybe) of Gears of Wars.

Link to itunes chart  

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Apple seems to be launching some time later today the Apple Nano Red. Not sure if by mistake or not but although you can access the product page you can not buy it yet.

In any case good and well done Apple. I will get one! 

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Image copyright of Atari  

The above is an in game image of Test Drive Unlimited for the X360. I had written a long post about this but accidentally push the wrong button (ops!) so will make it very short this time. A great game, try it and challenge as many other players as you can (blackpanther, I will find you next time!) to win money, cars and houses. Ah yes, and if you try it let me know if the Ferraris really feel that way (I think this is the closer I will get to drive one) since I can say that the Mustang feels exactly the same way (I do not like it).

Game is out 8th September and you can find out more about it here www.testdriveunlimited.com 

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News today announcing that Universal will be giving music downloads, for free in a service called spiral frog. The product will be subsidised by advertising revenues and is expected to hit consumers by this next Xmas.

According to the press is the first serious attempt to prove an alternative biz model to itunes. I wonder if Universal competitors would ever want to play Universal's game or maybe launch their own free download service.

Interesting times ahead. 

UPDATE: We just found the official URL for Spiral Frog. <- Click there 

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As you can see just above, just below, just everywhere there are some nice Google ads on this page. Why do we have ads? Or better say, why do we have so many ads?

For such a question I could answer that those ads are really well targeted, that we know our users, that our advertisers are very happy with us having ads on the page that you are a click away from a very interesting offer just for you or I could say that we are running a business and because this is a business we have to pay our bills, techies, non-techies, corporate animals and others or I could also say nothing and leave it this way or ... 

Continue reading "Why we have ads?" »

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Many websites today are reporting some supposed declarations from Susan Decker, CFO @ Yahoo!, where she claims that Yahoo! does not aim to be no.1 in search. Her declarations look like follows: "We don't think it's reasonable to assume we're going to gain a lot of share from Google," Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker said in an interview. "It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share.".
I am sad, really sad when I read this. Competition is good and even more in such a competitive field such as internet search, so Yahoo! should not give up and should keep innovating with stuff like My Web, Music Search and Yahoo! Answers. We, the users, want the best and if the best is Google now then fine but we want more and that extra bit can only come if there is a fierce competition in every single field of the internet and I can not see a better competitor to Google than Yahoo!. So go Yahoo! go!. If at the end of the day Google keeps better, it will be because Yahoo! (and the others) kept pushing the strings beyond their limits.

Full article here.

This story was posted for the first time here in January 24, 2006. Funny enough seems to be like a prediction ... 

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Today I spent the whole night pretending to know what 'module' means. In case you are going out with friends tomorrow night, read the below definition before arriving to the restaurant:

mod·ule    (mjl)

 Latin modulus, diminutive of modus, measure; see med- in Indo-European roots

1. A standard or unit of measurement.
2. Architecture The dimensions of a structural component, such as the base of a column, used as a unit of measurement or standard for determining the proportions of the rest of the construction.
3. A standardized, often interchangeable component of a system or construction that is designed for easy assembly or flexible use: a sofa consisting of two end modules.
4. Electronics A self-contained assembly of electronic components and circuitry, such as a stage in a computer, that is installed as a unit.
5. Computer Science A portion of a program that carries out a specific function and may be used alone or combined with other modules of the same program.
6. A self-contained unit of a spacecraft that performs a specific task or class of tasks in support of the major function of the craft.
7. A unit of education or instruction with a relatively low student-to-teacher ratio, in which a single topic or a small section of a broad topic is studied for a given period of time.
8. Mathematics A system with scalars coming from a ring.

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We just created a quick news page - politics! Yes, is not sophisticated neither is probably very interesting at least you live in the US and want to get a political view according to users but hey, this is what I can manage to get up and running in 5 minutes.

Give it a try - another thing that needs to be improved with better templates and some filtering. If you do not mind, tell me what news you want to read and I will put it up there.

Before I forget, the news module is courtesy of digg.com .

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A new feature is live today, tag cloud. What is it? I am not certainly sure of its use but since everyone else has it, we have it too. It basically gives you a module that you place on the site that displays the different tags you have; the nice thing though is that the bigger number of entries with one tag the bigger the font size in the cloud is. For instance, you can look at the tag cloud in the right of the page and you will see that all the tags seem to look the same. Give it a few days and they will start changing.

Anyone betting for which one will be bigger and bigger? 

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Certainly we are committing to our commitments. As we said in a previous entry, we just included diggit and flickr photos in the site. Since diggit works quite well (is the nice icon at the bottom of each of the entries) the flickr functionality still needs some work around - it will be coming sometime this week.

We also wanted to participate in the crazyness of tags and created an automated tagging system with each of the posts (you can see it alongside the word tags).

Enjoy! 

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We have been pretty busy lately improving the functionality of the blog. Here you have a list of the things you can find now:

• Ads by Google: They are back, not by popular demand but by pocket demand.
• Gamertag: Something related to gaming, check it here
• Share via reddit: If you like reddit (I recommed it) you can now add your enlahood stories to your reddit profile.
• Share via del.icio.us: Similar to reddit, but in this case deliciously share your stories at enlahood with del.icio.us

If you wish to have something more added or you want any of these removed, please let us know. The list of things comming are :

• Podcasts (via iTunes likely)
• Digg.it
• RSS syndication
• Flickr

Please send us more ideas - more than happy to hack the blog and incorporate them to enlahood.com.

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