It can take any mix of photo’s, even with people blocking the object in the photo or a blurry cell phone picture. Now your brain knows that your eyes are about two inches apart. But when Photosynth does its magic, it doesn’t know where the cameras were, or which way they were pointing. Fortunately, when there are many cameras, and many features in common, the algorithms behind Photosynth can figure out not only where the features are in 3D, but where all of the cameras would have to have been, and which way they were aimed, consistent with the features they ”saw”.

That is really web3.0, taking all user submitted pictures from Flickr and stitching them together into one big world. Watch the video below, it is truely amazing. And take a look at the live demo at live labs.

]]> http://www.supplementalresults.com/amazing-technology-photosynth-microsoft.html/feed/ http://www.supplementalresults.com/the-benefits-of-pay-per-call-advertising-over-pay-per-click-ppc.html http://www.supplementalresults.com/the-benefits-of-pay-per-call-advertising-over-pay-per-click-ppc.html#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 16:48:25 +0000 admin http://www.supplementalresults.com/the-benefits-of-pay-per-call-advertising-over-pay-per-click-ppc.html The benefits of Pay Per Call advertising over traditional forms

Pay Per Call advertising is generally just what it says: advertising your business and get the customers connected to you by phone and you pay per call.

Let’s take 1800-free411 as an example provider of pay per call services. Actually it is a free directory assistance service in the United States that is rapidly taking directory assistance marketshare. Directory assistance is the phone number you call to get a person or a business’ phone number.

1800-Free411 plays a short add before providing the phone number you requested. As a caller you can either proceed and call the number you were actually looking for, but also choose to be connected for free to the business that just had their ad played.

Now one main difference with traditional advertising is that you catch the customer right before the point of purchase. A customer first has a need and researches that need to find possible companies that can help them. When you advertise on Pay Per Click this would be the moment you catch the customer if they click on your link.

When you advertise on a Pay Per Call based platform like 1800-free411 you don’t catch the customer during their research but at the time they are ready to place an order or talk to your company.

http://www.google.com/adwords/printads/

Or you could try a pay per call solution.

This VisualRoute Server provides a graphical traceroute and ping test from this server to any other network device you choose, useful for pinpointing network connectivity problems and identifying IP address locations.

When a “robots-nocontent” tag is used to mark a section of content on a web page, Yahoo! will not use the terms contained in that section as information for finding the page or for the abstract of that page in search results. Note: Using a “robots-nocontent” tag to mark explicit sections of content is not considered “cloaking” because all the content on the page is available to us (unlike “cloaking” where we may be served content that is different from what users see.)

The “robots-nocontent” tag is a useful tool for webmasters.

• It can improve our focus on the main content of your pages.
• It helps target your pages in search results by making sure the appropriate deep page in your site can surface for the right queries.
• It helps improve the abstracts for your pages in results by identifying unrelated text on the page and thus omitting it from consideration for the search result summaries.

When you successfully target your page content, it can increase the likelihood that the user will find your page, find it relevant, click on your result, and convert.  Read more here

It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a web-bug by a HTML <img> tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a website into a database. One installation of phpOpenTracker can track an arbitrary number of web-sites.

Through the phpOpenTracker API module you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it, like for instance the analysis of your visitors’ clickpaths.

The analysis of clickpaths is essential when you want to measure the usability of your website. phpOpenTracker’s API functions ’shortest_paths’ and ‘top_paths’ help to answer questions like: Is the navigation intuitive enough? Do visitors find the shortest, most direct way from A to B? How are ads perceived? On what document do they leave the website — and where to? The answers to these questions help you to improve the user experience and the way your website is percepted by your customers.

Edit: another nice php stats package that works on multiple domains from one back end is http://www.phpmyvisites.us

http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php