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I recently got a performance evaluation at work... and that got me thinking what does a performance evaluation look like for a believer? Is it similar to the ones we get on our jobs? How are we graded? Jesus tells just how He evaluates us in John 15. Let's talk about it. Performance Evalution: a process used by organizations to give employees feedback on their job performance and formally document that performance. (according to Google) Can we take the challenge and evaluate ourselves this week? Share your scores on whichever platform you're listening on. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/galy-j/message

The big stories of the week from the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org. June 23 — Dictators on Parade — Paul Jacob on what's in a name. June 22 — The Precedentedness of It All — Paul Jacob on what the federal government lacks. June 21 — Google Can't Have That — Paul Jacob on the American habit of censorship. June 20 — Wannabe Dictator — Paul Jacob on the Tyrant Who Must Not Be Named. June 19 — Freedom Festival — Paul Jacob on a celebration for the ages … and for all.

The Musk Twitter trial has a date! Comcast fails to add new subscribers for the first time ever! Valve is shipping more Steam Decks! Meta is going to stop paying for news. Apple earnings are up, but key products are stalling. And we need to have a little chat about the state of Google… Let’s … Continue reading "#SGGQA 261 – Apple Earnings, Comcast Subscribers Stall, More Steam Decks Shipping, Google Can’t Do ANYTHING Right…"

“A Controller Area Network is a robust vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other's applications without a host computer.” If you Google “CAN bus,” that's the answer you'll get from Wikipedia. All clear? We didn't think so either. But CAN bus is also essential to the daily functionality of Tenna and other data-oriented systems. So let's take a closer look.

There wasn't a lot of SEO news over the holiday weekend and the new year, but I wanted to recap what I felt were the most important takeaways from Friday's English Office hours with Google's John Mueller. As always, a synopsis, my opinion, and a link to the question in the video.Full post here: https://opinionatedseo.com/s2e1Some people may rely on the cache pages in search result pages to verify the indexing of the content correctly. The cache pages are handled separately from the index, so you may have a page in the index that you don't have a cache page for.https://youtu.be/MrgtKt4u8nk?t=334Poor translation automated translation of an alternate language, how does this affect the SEO's main language version. This comes down to metrics that Google uses that are sitewide factors vs single page factors. If you have low quality pages, whether that's thin content, badly translated content, or another issue, this can bring down overall site / domain quality rankings and be harmful to your SEO efforts. https://youtu.be/MrgtKt4u8nk?t=412Google crawler ignores all permission requests from your site. This came up in a question that was related to IP based content detection that was causing their site to skew towards a specific geographic area for indexing.https://youtu.be/MrgtKt4u8nk?t=1056If you have pages that are authoritative, have good backlinks, but you don't want them indexed, consider using a rel canonical tag to flow that authority to a different page. The question was asking about using a redirect for just GoogleBot, which is very borderline against Google guidelines. https://youtu.be/MrgtKt4u8nk?t=1190This question is really relevant to work I've been doing recently where we saw over 150k pages removed from the index within about a week as Google picked up a no result message that we had in the source code but was hidden. If you have any text in your source code, whether hidden or not, Google CAN index it and use it. https://youtu.be/MrgtKt4u8nk?t=1424Using the indexing API to get your results indexed faster than letting Google find it via a sitemap. John says that yes, it will crawl the page so it can review the content and the structured data associated with jobs. https://yoast.com/live-indexing-bing-google-yoast-seo/https://youtu.be/MrgtKt4u8nk?t=1988 Discussion about title rewrites that don't make sense: Seems like it is still happening and can definitely be an issue if you are adding new types of content or products and Google hasn't fully aligned that with your domain.https://youtu.be/MrgtKt4u8nk?t=2492This is the big one, my site isn't getting indexed. How long does Google take to pick up on quality changes?https://youtu.be/MrgtKt4u8nk?t=2556 Screaming Frog updated their software to ver 16.5 which closed another log4j vulnerability that showed up, however a new one surfaced again, and they responded to my tweet to see what their timeline is for a fix. They can provide one via an email to their support team. https://twitter.com/WebPhilM/status/1478069870734413825

With his brother narrowly avoiding jail time in India and his company on the line as a result; Kyle Roof's only option was to learn SEO in one day. And so he did.  And, luckily, his brother was released.  After developing his own method for testing Google's algorithm, Kyle soon realized he had created something powerful. So powerful that Google shut his websites down for a few days (you'll have to listen in to find out why….).  On this episode join me (in all my vulnerable glory) as Kyle takes a deep dive into our https://www.ursulainc.co/ (ursulainc.co)  website, talking about what is working, where improvements for SEO ranking on Google are needed, and how those specific areas can be changed. Plus, you will hear more about Kyle's entrepreneurial journey and how he's successfully grown several companies in spite of many setbacks.  I guarantee you will receive gold in this session for your own business! Ursula's Takeaways: Intro (00:00) Shakedown From The Police (8:27) Testing Google's Algorithm (14:36) Charge More For Your Services (23:55) Google Can't Read (27:58) You Want To Be More Specific (35:03) Secondary Terms Can Make Page One (43:32) My Industry Is Boring (50:00) Create Supporting Content (52:37) About Kyle Roof Kyle is responsible for the development and implementation of all SEO techniques used by the SEO agency High Voltage SEO and the SEO tool PageOptimizer Pro. Kyle is also the co-founder of Internet Marketing Gold, a global community of 3000+ SEO professionals who test and prove cutting edge SEO techniques. Kyle's method to test whether single variables are ranking factors in Google's algorithm (based on over 400 experiments on Google Algorithm) was officially granted a patent in January 2020 (US Patent #10,540,263 B1). Connect with Kyle Website: https://pageoptimizer.pro/ (https://pageoptimizer.pro/) Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kyleroofseo (https://www.facebook.com/kyleroofseo) Business Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pageoptimizerprotool (https://www.facebook.com/pageoptimizerprotool) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-roof-411166a4/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-roof-411166a4/) Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylebot1997?lang=en (https://twitter.com/kylebot1997?lang=en) FREE GIFT: Use this promo code "Quantumrevenue" for 15% off PageOptimizer Pro Monthly Agency Plan (for 1-5 sub accounts) About Ursula Mentjes  Ursula Mentjes is an award-winning Entrepreneur and Sales Expert. She will transform the way you think about selling so you can reach your revenue goals with less anxiety and less effort! Ursula specializes in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and other performance modalities to help clients double and triple their sales fast.   Honing her skills at an international technical training company, where she began her career in her early twenties, Ursula increased sales by 90% in just one year. Just 5 years later, when the company's annual revenue was in the tens of millions, Ursula advanced to the position of President at just 27.  Sales guru Brian Tracy endorsed her first book, Selling with Intention, saying, “This powerful, practical book shows you how to connect with customers by fully understanding the sales process from the inside out. It really works!” Ursula is also the author of One Great Goal, Selling with Synchronicity and The Belief Zone, which received the Beverly Hills President's Choice award.  Her Podcast, Double Your Sales NOW, is available on iTunes, iHeartRadio and other outlets.  Ursula also serves as Past Statewide Chairperson of the NAWBO-CA Education Fund and Past President of NAWBO-CA. She is the recipient of the SBA's Women in Business Champion and a recipient of the Willow Tree's Extraordinary Example and Extraordinary Entrepreneur Awards, the NAWBO-IE ANITA Award, chosen as PDP's Extraordinary Speaker, PDP's Business Woman of the Year, the Spirit...

In this episode of the Search News You Can Use Podcast, Marie Haynes discusses: June 7-9 algorithm turbulence Another hint from Google that might explain why you’re struggling to get content indexed More from Google on the nofollow changes Recent manual action removals at MHC How to monitor performance of Recipe Structured Data How-To schema testing appears to be over Can rel=sponsored and rel=ugc be used for ranking purposes? Are all links in guest posts unnatural? Interesting case where two similar sites could not rank at the same time Are old quality issues still seen by Google? Can you still rank some pages of your website while under a manual action? What does, “Indexed though blocked by robots.txt” mean? How much of an impact can recipe structured data have? Does Google use links from Youtube for ranking purposes? SERP volatility for new sites What do you do if suddenly a competitor creates thousands of spammy backlinks pointing to your site? Is there still success in disavowing? Many sites flagged by Google ads also did poorly with recent organic updates Is Etsy giving poor link building advice to merchants? Local SEO: Online appointments as a new attribute Local SEO: Ownership info being pulled from Facebook? Local SEO: How to flag user profiles for abuse This episode corresponds with newsletter episode 137: https://courses.mariehaynes.com/search-news-you-can-use/episode-137 Submit a question for the next Q&A: Mariehaynes.com/qa-with-mhc/ Subscribe to the newsletter: Mariehaynes.com/newsletter
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Kyle answers the questions: Should we be worried about big advertisers like HomeAdvisor and Angie's List? Are HomeAdvisor and Angie's List aggressive in going after ideal keywords?  What can make any business stand out from competitors? Can small e-commerce businesses afford to compete with big brands when it comes to advertising in Google? Can small service businesses afford to compete with HomeAdvisor and Angie's List when it comes to advertising in Google? Episode notes and transcript: https://googleadsstrategy.com/should-local-businesses-worry-about-national-advertisers/

This episode features a conversation between Peter Van Valkenburgh - Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin - and Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack PBC. Peter and Muneeb discuss Coin Center’s mission and recent work, Facebook’s Libra Coin, the case for a true electronic cash, and more. 0:00:50 Peter's bio 0:01:09 Peter: "[Coin Center] was my first big job out of law school." 0:02:58 Muneeb: "You're OG now. When did Blockstack start sponsoring Coin Center?" 0:03:18 Peter: "Coin Center got its start in 2014. We got some really generous runway from a couple of donors who are just individuals who wanted to see a more adult advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. focused on this stuff." 0:04:56 Peter: "Coin Center is supposed to be an independent digital civil lIberties organization that goes and represents the underlying open technologies to Congress or to regulators." 0:06:08 Muneeb: "I simply say [the people at Coin Center]... actually understand this technology and they understand the regulations and the law, which is a rare combination. And they can be the right bridge between this technology and the various regulators or lawmakers." 0:06:29 Peter: "I think that's right. A lot of what we do I often think of as translation." 0:07:13 Peter: "More often than not we're explaining the law to lawyers in this space." 0:08:51 Peter: "There's no company - and all previous financial regulations - almost all - rely on finding a regulated entity and obligating that regulated entity to achieve the policy result that government wants." 0:09:37 Peter: "In the Bitcoin case, who's the issuer of the Bitcoin security?" 0:09:52 Peter: "Who in the Zcash space should be obligated for money laundering compliance?" 0:11:38 Muneeb: "One of my working theories is that Satoshi Nakamoto - whoever that person or group of individuals were - not only understood computer science, distributed systems, applied cryptography, and game theory, they actually knew securities regulation as well and that's why we don't know who is Satoshi Nakamoto." 0:12:42 Peter: "The policy objective that securities law seek to address are correcting the asymmetric information between issuers who are promising things to investors and the investors who've paid money to the investors." 0:13:51 Peter: "There are still the potential for information asymmetries. And I've sort of gotten into this debate with Angela Walch before about whether there's information asymmetries between software developers and the users of a software." 0:15:35 Muneeb: "Speaking of securities regulation I should just make a note here: we have a public filing with the SEC." 0:16:13 Peter: "From my perspective [Blockstack] has taken a really responsible and conservative approach to securities law compliance." 0:17:06 Peter: "I'm not a huge fan of the way we do investor protection in this country because it's very permissioned and it also excludes a lot of investors from participating." 0:18:58 Muneeb: "We actually had you host our Blockstack Summit in Berlin, and you interviewed Edward Snowden there. How was that experience? And has he been more active in the space? Or was that a one off thing?" 0:19:32 Peter: "That experience was awesome - it's still probably one of the craziest things I've ever done." 0:22:36 Peter: "I do think [Edward Snowden] has been quasi-active in the Zcash development community." 0:24:43 Peter: "He's worked on something really cool with the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which is if you have an old cell phone and want to turn it into an alarm system." 0:26:16 Muneeb: "Have you checked out any of the latest stuff that's been built on Blockstack?" 0:26:24 Peter: "I have a real interest in Graphite, which is the Google Docs type app." 0:27:05 Peter: "We've been looking for a long time for some sort of non-Google "Can't Be Evil" alternative to Google Docs." 0:29:29 Peter: "Network effects are a bitch, to put it a somewhat grotesque way. If you're talking about a communication system or a system where people pay each other, the systems that succeeded are not the ones that were best architected." 0:29:55 Peter: "Just look at all the attempts and failures at doing encrypted email." 0:30:16 Peter: "You're just going to default to the one everyone's on, even if it's not great for privacy." 0:32:32 Muneeb: "We're super excited to have [Neal Stephenson] at the 2019 Summit in San Francisco. I think Naval Ravikant is going to have a fireside chat." 0:33:40 Peter: "The Diamond Age describes Zcash." 0:36:01 Muneeb: "Coming back to this idea of decentralized applications - one model I have in my mind was when Linux was starting." 0:38:51 Peter: "Maybe decentralized apps will have their best success early on in those sort of niche enterprise / highly technical persons use-cases." 0:40:16 Peter: "Good luck getting a bunch of lawyers even to this day to group edit a Google Doc, let alone use Graphite." 0:40:24 Muneeb: "I think we knew that Linux won the server wars when even Microsoft started using Linux in their data centers." 0:40:32 Peter: "[Microsoft] has done a total 180, probably because they saw the writing on the wall as far as their consumer software business." 0:40:56 Muneeb: "What do you think of Facebook Libra?" 0:41:05 Peter: "I have a lot of thoughts about Facebook Libra. I should be careful about what I say because I don't want to be unfair." 0:41:30 Peter: "It's a really complicated system they're building that is still nonetheless permissioned. It's a permissioned blockchain." 0:42:29 Peter: "[Libra] is not an open blockchain. It's not a blockchain where anyone can add transactions to the ledger and independently verify the transactions." 0:43:15 Peter: "With Bitcoin, there's a lot of regulations that don't apply because it would be nonsensical to apply them because there isn't a centralized intermediary who you can trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:32 Peter: "With Libra, that's not true at all. There are identified parties who you could trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:56 Peter: "Even if you're an individual, you're not allowed to transact or interact economically with someone on the SDN list, like everyone in Iran." 0:44:42 Peter: "The Libra association is going to be this group of identified persons, which are really just corporations, including Facebook, Visa, and Mastercard. Whose laws are they going to comply with with respect to sanctions?" 0:45:21 Peter: "[Libra's] not censorship resistant cash. It's not really a cryptocurrency. It's just another payment rail. Why build it in such a complicated way?" 0:45:43 Peter: "Another thought is the whole reserve thing. So aside from being permissioned vs permissionless, Lbra is going to be asset-backed." 0:46:36 Peter: "If you are a company that has assets in a reserve, and people are trading - effectively - a pro-rata share of the value of those assets? That sounds like a security to me." 0:47:16 Peter: "And yet, I don't think there's plans to register Libra as a security because, frankly, if you did, it would be very useless as a currency, because it would only be allowed to be traded on securities exchanges." 0:48:09 Peter: "I've never seen such a rapid and aggressive response from members of Congress to a new tech project." 0:49:28 Muneeb: "Do you think the reaction from Washington is linked with some of the antitrust stuff as well?" 0:50:07 Peter: "Maybe they thought, 'This is us proving that we're investing in being less powerful'? Kind of like how they talk about WhatsApp a lot now." 0:51:03 Peter: "People in Congress ... are gonna say, 'This is Facebook, who some of us are already talking about anti-trust issues, and now they want to become the global reserve currency for all payments everywhere?" 0:51:40 Peter: "If any company is going to build a payments tool, they should build cryptocurrencies. I'm just disappointed they didn't basically fork Bitcoin or integrate it." 0:52:13 Muneeb: "That's what they say in the whitepaper, 'We're giving ourselves five years to figure out how to build an open system, but in the meanwhile - because of scalability - the only way to scale to a billion users is to use a closed system." 0:52:54 Peter: "I've heard a lot of people say that Move, the smart contract language [Facebook's] architected, is apparently extremely elegant." 0:53:17 Muneeb: "The motivation for Move is very similar to the smart contract language that we launched yesterday, Clarity." 0:54:38 Peter: "God knows that Solidity has had this particular issue where it's hard to know exactly what you just wrote in a smart contract until you launch it on Mainnet and someone breaks it in the DAO hack example." 0:55:44 Muneeb: "Ethereum is very interesting. They have a large community and kind of started everyone in the industry in a certain direction from a technology perspective. And I believe that most of those things were wrong." 0:57:05 Peter: "Maybe the network effects are just age-based, but it could also be this willingness to push stuff out there maybe before it's fully manicured or even fully compliant with the law." 0:57:51 Peter: "I should disclose that I'm a member of the Zcash Foundation's Board of Directors." 1:00:00 Muneeb: "I swear we're not doing this on purpose, but every decision we make ends up being the exact opposite of Ethereum." 1:04:13 Muneeb: "What's the biggest project you're spending your time on these days?" 1:05:50 Peter: "We were faced around a year and a half ago with, 'What's going to be a big issue in a year or two years? What do we need to start laying the groundwork on from a policy perspective now in order to have good policy outcomes later?'" 1:07:12 Peter: "Bitcoin, I think, ultimately needs to change and be more private and a lot of the privacy coins that we now see were originally proposed as amendments to the Bitcoin protocol." 1:08:38 Peter: "Any of the very public blockchains will ultimately need to find ways to obscure that transaction graph because, otherwise, we're gonna just be giving totalitarian states the best tool for mass surveillance that anyone's ever developed." 1:08:52 Peter: "So, with that in mind, we said 'What are the policy issues here?' And the big ones are anti money laundering law." 1:09:18 Peter: "Bank robbers use getaway cars. Even terrorists use encrypted messaging. This is just a reality, but that doesn't mean we should ban automobiles and encryption." 1:10:06 Peter: "We use the term 'electronic cash' because it's really like cash then. You can send it from one person to another, no one is in between, it's censorship resistant, and it doesn't leave a record." 1:10:23 Peter: "What if we get some sort of overbearing, overzealous response from policy makers that says we can't have these things anymore?" 1:11:51 Peter: "Most people have written about First Amendment issues here: ... if you're writing in computer code... it's still speech." 1:12:44 Peter: "What I don't think is a well enough explored area are the Fourth Amendment issues. The Fourth Amendment in the US says you need a warrant if you're a law enforcement and want to search somebody." 1:13:43 Peter: "Banks have been reporting our entire transaction history to governments whenever they ask, without a warrant, since 1970." 1:14:12 Peter: "The reason why that's constitutional in this context is because people willingingly hand over those records to banks during the regular course of business. ... You lose your reasonable expectation of privacy because your sharing it with a third-party." 1:15:09 Peter: "There's no reason for a developer to have all that private information about the users of their software. There's definitely a reason for a bank to have a bunch of information about the users of the bank." 1:15:48 Peter: "From a constitutional law standpoint... the only reason why it's okay for banks to bulk collect, surveil their users, and report that to government without a warrant, is that they have a reasonable business purpose to collect that information." 1:16:03 Peter: "There's no reasonable business purpose for an open source software developer to collect information about the users of their software - it just doesn't make sense." 1:16:29 Peter: "If it's interesting to your audience, I highly recommend you pick up our report. It's explained much more carefully and you don't need to be a lawyer or to have gone to law school to understand it." 1:17:33 Muneeb: "Where can people find you?" 1:17:37 Peter: "All our work at Coin Center is made public and made available at CoinCenter.org. And we rely on donations from people who are just excited about the technology and want to see good advocacy in DC." 1:18:18 Muneeb: "Blockstack is a supporter and we've been extremely happy with our involvement with Coin Center. They've been super helpful whenever we need them." 1:18:29 Muneeb: "Goodbyes." Peter Van Valkenburgh http://twitter.com/valkenburgh Muneeb Ali http://twitter.com/muneeb Zach Valenti http://twitter.com/zachvalenti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning,  we touched on a whole bunch of topics in the news. We discussed whether we should trust Google.  We talked about Autonomous vehicles and the societal implications and I talked about two-factor authentication and how you can protect yourself from sim-jacking. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: You Need Two-Factor Authentication Even If Google Screwed It Up?   Autonomous Cars — Are they ready for Prime Time? Why Are We Still Trusting Google?    --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 06/12/2019 Can You Trust Google?, Security Summer, Autonomous Cars, Two-Factor Authentication --- Craig Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I heard "Big Papi" took his first steps in the hospital today. So, that's good. It brings back thoughts of everyone that has family and friends in the hospital that aren't celebrities and people that are injured. My thoughts and prayers go out to everybody every day. It's just a reminder of how fragile things can be in this life. This morning I was on with our friends Ken and Matt up at WGAN. And as usual, we spoke about a few different things. We had quite a little conversation about trusting Google, should you trust them? Can you trust them? There was a surprising revelation that came out, in fact, just last week about them, and what they've been doing, during the previous 14 years, a significant security problem. We had a chat about two-factor authentication, and I gave them workaround, a way to make it safe, even if you have to use text messages SMS for two-factor authentication because that's not secure. But there is a reliable way to do it. We talked about a little bit more of course about autonomous cars which are all in the news again, and what's the safety factor there? How far away are we? I took a couple of different angles than I made with Jim Polito on that discussion today, as well. So here we go. Also, don't forget, we've got our security summer, starting up in July, I will start sending out some emails next week, things have been crazy around here. As you can imagine, with all of the companies now getting hacked, and the losing money coming to me, and you know, everyone in the security business, which, of course, is way understaffed. And shout out to those of you who are trying to get into security, I got another email this last week from someone that was starting into a security career, and he's in his 50s. So there's something to be learned there, I want to encourage everybody. Remember the adage, "You can teach an old dog new tricks." It's a terrible saying. But you can learn a lot of this stuff, you really can. And there's a lot of people out there who have been trying to convince you that you can't do that, really all you need is their little bit of anti-virus software, or whatever it is, you know, they're selling that to you. Because that's all, they have. That's all they know. Well, they're not doing you any favors. They are trying to mess with you. You can learn this stuff. That's what the security summer going to be about this year, and I'm going to be teaching this some free classes. You know, I get paid for doing this too. And if you want more in depth, then you're probably going to want to sign up for one of my courses. But I want to get this information to everybody. Because if you know me well enough, you know, I got hacked. That was 30 years ago, about now, a long time ago. And it scared the daylights out of me. And I started to learn about this and trying to figure it out. It's taken me years, decades, to get to the point where I'm at now. And I am excited to share a lot of this with you. Just watch for my security summer. If you want to find out more, email me at Craig Peterson dot com, ask any questions that you might have. And I'll make sure you know, when I'm starting this whole little program up, because I want you to be aware of all of the major points here, right, I'm not trying to turn into security experts, that takes quite a bit of work. However, I do want you to be familiar with all of the problems. All the talk about hacks that have happened, how it happened, what should have been done by those companies give you an idea, but as well as what you can do to protect yourself a few tips on how to protect yourself, it's going to be kind of a busy summer. And if you sign up, and you'll be able to get a notification as to when these little courses are going to happen. And I'm going to leave them up for about a week or so you know because it does get stale. And I do need to revisit them. I don't want want to put them up blankly for the world to see forever. So keep an eye out. Email me at Craig Peterson dot com, and now we'll go to Ken and Matt. I want to encourage you guys, and you can learn this. There are the people that just been messing with you. You know the bottom line. Ken Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at 738 every Wednesday, and this is 738 on a Wednesday, which means you're talking to Craig Peterson. Craig. Welcome to the program, sir. Craig Hey, good morning. It is a Wednesday but is it every Wednesday? Today? Ken That's a good point. And you know what it is a lie in and of itself because I believe we did not talk to you last Wednesday. So it's most Wednesdays. Craig That's true. Yeah, I took a bit of vacation. I'm a motorcycle guy. And I have a motorcycle that is 32 years old. It's a 1987 BMW with 143,000 miles on it now. The only thing I had to do is replace the rear wheel on that bike. It's just been a phenomenal bike. So, I went up to like George in New York, and we rode around with some buddies for a week. And it was just fantastic. Ken Well, good. But that doesn't mean tech news stops. I hopped on your website, Craig Peterson dot com. To see what kind of top stories you had there and you have one topic here. Why are we still trusting Google? Can you answer that? Matt Great question. Well, they did say early in Google's history that they that their whole operating philosophy was Don't be evil, right. Are they evil? Now? Did you notice they took that off of their website? Right? Craig Yeah, exactly. I don't know why we're still trusting some of these different companies out there. They are selling all kinds of information about us. And, you know, that's not necessarily a bad thing when you get right down to it. Because, frankly, do you want to see car commercials all the time? Or would you rather see a car commercial when you are looking to buy a car, right? And, again, goes back, Matt, to what you've said many times, and that is if you're not paying for something, you might want to consider that you're the product and not the customer. And they have been doing all kinds of things. We're selling our data. But the other big problem that came out very recently, within the last couple of weeks is that in fact, Google has been storing our usernames and passwords for people that were using, basically their G Suite services. But it's been out there for 14 years in the clear. They're pretty good about security, although Android itself isn't the best out there. But now their G Suite customers are a little upset because of what's been out there. I was talking just yesterday with an employee who had been working at a company that was collecting personal information. They were collecting home addresses, phone numbers, and they were taking donations and were selling them. It was a great little company doing just all kinds of super things to raise funds for some good charitable organizations. It turns out they were using Google Forms to collect all this personal information about donors. You know, come on, guys, we cannot trust Google, we're using more and more of these online websites, software as a service. Think about Google Sheets, for instance, as well as Google Forms. And we're putting data in there that may end up getting exposed. We should not be doing that. Think twice about it. In our profession, we refer to this as shadow IT or shadow information technology. Historically, we had these big rooms, these big glass rooms with all of the computers in them. And we had true professionals that were running them, and making sure data was being kept safe, and information was not being stolen and leaked out. Now we've got the marketing department going out and creating contracts with companies that have online services, we have the same thing happening with sales and manufacturing and distribution and our purchasing managers are our data is not safe, and it's never been less secure. So be careful what you're putting out there, what you're given to Google what you're given to these other companies because frankly, it's a real problem. Matt Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us, most Wednesdays at this time to talk about the world of technology. And today is one of those days, Craig, while you're talking, I'm looking at a story on CBS This Morning about Uber's secret self-driving test facility for their self-driving autonomous cars. I know you had a story also about whether or not autonomous vehicles are ready for prime time. And I think it does beg the question, how prepared for prime time are these things? I know, it's a conversation I've had several times, and it seems like the older the person I'm talking to the more it freaks them out that there's no driver behind the wheel. I think it freaks everybody out. It just freaks out, you know, people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s a lot more than it does everybody else. But statistics, you know, are being what they are, you know, often they can be safer, then human behind the wheel. So what do you think? I mean, are they close to ready to take over the roads? Craig Well, I really like I mentioned this yesterday. I liked this story that came out in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago. And it said that autonomous vehicles, these self-driving cars are 90% ready and all we have left is 90% to go. In other words, yeah, there's a lot of things that look like we're ready to go and it might be just a few more years, and we'll have autonomous vehicles. In reality, it's probably going to be quite a while yet. And you talk about you know, older guys like Ken and myself who are over 30. And we're looking at some of these things. And we're concerned because we've seen failures before. Do you remember Cadillac v 864? Matt Back then, I wasn't much of a car person. Ken I did have a Mustang in 1960. Matt Do you remember the Corvair? Unsafe at any speed? Craig I do, and you know, Ralph Nader thing, we still have Nader dots on our tires. But that was an example back in the early 80s of Cadillac trying to make cars more efficient, the engines more efficient, and they had a V-8 engine. And what would happen is if you got onto the highway and you started driving, of course, at highway speeds, you're going down the road, you don't need as much horsepower to keep a vehicle going at a pace as you need to get the car starting at that speed. So they said okay, well, we're going to have the system that automatically shut down cylinders. So you'd be a V-8, and you'd be just roaring up and you getting on the highway and you're often running. Then it would cut back to six cylinders, even four cylinders. The concept was wonderful. But what ended up happening is that engine would say, as you're at a stop sign, oh my I need more horsepower, counteract the braking. Of course, They were not thinking about the brakes very well at the time. And then the car would lunge into the intersection so that you could get t-boned. Fast forward not very many years, and we had the Toyota with a sudden acceleration problem. That turned out to be a software error, where much the same thing was happening. A car would jump into the intersection. We're not going to get into all of the details behind it all. But I think with age comes from experience. And we've had some horrible experiences over the years with vehicles and some of this newer technology. So Matt, to answer your question, a lot is going on the autonomous vehicle space. In some cases, the cars are much, much safer, you look at millions of miles driven, compare human drivers to these autonomous vehicles, and the autonomous vehicles almost always win. But we also now have prejudices against the self-driving cars, social warriors are, you know, get on your horses here. Because there are people who when there's an autonomous vehicle on the road, or they think it's a ton of mess, they behave differently. Now they've been tested have been run, I don't know if you've seen any of these pictures with autonomous vehicles, where they took the driver's seat, and they made it quite a bit deeper, think of thicker padding on that seat. And they hid a driver inside the driver's position. You could not see them unless you looked exceptionally close. You could not see that there was a driver in the vehicle. Then the driver just drove around, caught down and of course, the cameras everywhere so they could see what the people's reactions were. People were going out of their way to mess with the car. They pedestrians were jumping in front of it. Vehicles were cutting it off, slamming on their brakes, doing everything they could to make it so that autonomous vehicle would get involved in an accident. I don't know. Maybe they're just trying to see what it would do. Of course, it wasn't an autonomous vehicle. There's a human driver in there. We, as a society, as people, are not ready for these yet. And frankly, I think the Wall Street Journal's right - We're 90% of the way there. And honestly, we have 90% of the way to go. Because there are so many things, we haven't even considered yet. Ken When he joins us, most Wednesdays at 738, to fill us in on tech news. We at the radio station. I don't want to be critical of our radio station. However, they started this two-factor authentication. So every time I get some on my email, they have to send me a text message with a code. I think this is a royal pain in the butt. I want you to tell me they shouldn't do that. Craig Okay, can they not do that. Ken Thanks so much. Thank you for joining us today. Craig I will leave it at that. Yeah, here's what's going to, first of all, there's a big problem with the way they're doing it. That is that there is something called SIMjacking or hijacking of your SIM card. So if they're sending you a text, that is very dangerous. What's been happening is that if you are a target, now they're not doing this in a broad fishing attempt. If you can are a target, and the criminals know they want to go after you, they can now take over your cell phone, and they will get the text. So it doesn't do a whole lot of good from that aspect. We use something called DUO. D-U-O, which is fantastic. For two factor authentication, we use something called Yubi keys, which are very good as well. If your company's requiring you to us a text message for authentication, there is a relatively safe way of doing it. And that is you can use something like Google Voice, assuming your Google account has not been hacked, right. But Google Voice, where there is no SIM card, there is no cell phone that SIM card to hijack. If you use this and it is what I do for places that have to have a text message sent for two-factor authentication. So if they have to send you a text message, it goes to Google Voice. I have my own little phone company, and I use that as well. That way the text message will come in via an app to your phone, you can check the app, and now you're reasonably safe. But yeah, in this day and age, you know two-factor authentication is something that that does make sense. We do have to draw a line, and that one does it make the most sense. I'd like it to authenticate you at most every four hours or once a day, particularly for emails, if you have to do it every time. It gets a little bit old, pretty darn fast. But you know it's the reality of today's world. Matt Craig Peterson, our tech guru, he joins us at this time every Wednesday to find out exactly what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, we only have a couple of minutes left. So lastly, I will ask you whether or not you judge everyone on social media? Are you part of the mob that rules everyone? Craig Oh man. I am not. I don't jump on anybody's back. I just had that happen to me with a significant hacking group. As you know, I run the national webinars for the FBI Infragard program. I'm pretty visible out there in the security world, right. I do lots of radio interviews and TV and stuff. I posted an article on my website and got jumped on by a small mob out there. We've got to be careful remember it's so easy to say something negative online. Our kids are getting bullied every day. Bullying seems to be quite a habit nowadays. I don't know what happened to free speech. We have these militant people out there these fascist like the Antifas. Total fascist don't want to hear what you have to say. And these internet mobs have become a real thing and a very negative thing. From my viewpoint. Anyways. Ken Good news as our tech guru joins us most Wednesdays at 738. Thank you, Mr. Peterson. We will talk to you next Wednesday. Craig Take care. Matt All right. Thanks a lot, Craig. We appreciate it.   --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553  

https://keywebco.com/blogs/news/have-you-heard-of-mix Have you heard of Mix? You may remember StumbleUpon On June 30, 2018, StumbleUpon moved to Mix. And the new platform has a few features that might be of interest to small business owners and entrepreneurs. Similar to StumbleUpon, the social network site that helps users discover unique and interesting things across the web, Mix provides a new way to discover and save people's favorite things on the internet. This is the link to our Mix Profile. I am not overly active on it all the time but I do enjoy using it periodically. Learn more about Mix: Built upon the legacy of StumbleUpon, Mix enables you to curate and share the best of the internet. The platform learns what you love browsing and searching for across the web, to show you even more of what you are interested in. From articles and images to videos and music, you can save anything from anywhere on Mix. As long as it's on the internet, you can add your favorite things to Mix. The social media platform enables you to delve deeper into new topics and explore interests with greater comprehension. Rather than being merely a source for breaking news, Mix is aimed at taking its users deeper into the things that interest and matter to them, helping them learn more about their favorite topic How to Use Mix From a purely mechanical standpoint, it's easy to use Mix. I'll get into the advanced techniques and ways to really take advantage of the platform later, but for now, let's just get you started. First of all, you need to sign up for Mix. Unfortunately, the window for porting over a StumbleUpon account is already closed, as of last June. You'll need to start from scratch. When you go to Mix.com, you'll be asked to sign up for the service. You have three options to sign in: Facebook, Twitter, and Google. All three use the typical authentication: simply sign in using one of those profiles and you'll have your basic information filled out. For obvious reasons, I'd recommend using a business account to sign up, probably a Twitter all things considered. Each option will have specific permissions, so keep that in mind: Facebook: Can see your name and profile picture, which are required. Can see your friends, and can see which friends use Mix if they've allowed their profile to be visible, which is optional. Can see your birthday and email address, also optional. Cannot post, harvest any other information, or otherwise interact with your account. Twitter: Can read your tweets, can see your followers, and can see your email address. Cannot follow, change your profile, post, see DMs, or access your password. Google: Can read your name, email address, and profile picture. Cannot access your account in any other way. Next, you have to pick some starter interests. It will show you some interests with a thumbnail and a brief blurb. Once you've chosen your interest feeds, you're brought to your main page. This gives you three feeds to choose from. For You: A feed of recent content in the categories you choose. You can see a preview of a link and the reason it's in your feed, like “because of your interest in cooking” or “popular in video games”. Following: A feed of content shared by people you follow, who share your interests. You can connect your Facebook or Twitter accounts to share your friends/followers lists to see if any of them are using Mix, or you can follow content curators you like on the platform directly. Popular: A feed of content that is trending at the moment, somewhat regardless of your choice in interests. It will show you specific pieces of content, as well as collections you're not already following. How do I create a Collection? To create a new Collection or add a page to an existing Collection while in the app, tap the Add button. Then choose an existing Collection from the list or make up a new one. It's up to you, so get creative. How do I submit posts to Mix? You can submit posts from any i --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roger-keyserling/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/roger-keyserling/support

Did you know that our host, Joshua Vergara, took a one-day dance choreography course in South Korea this year? That’s a good demonstration of flex. What’s not a good demonstration of flex? Using the word “flex” in branding your folding smartphone. We’ll try to brainstorm something better in our show. Also, we pass or play on a few Black Friday deals and go through news of future flagships and mid-rangers from Motorola, HTC, Samsung and others! All of this with one of favorite techtubers, NothingButTech88 or Jacklyn Dallas! It’s the Pocketnow Weekly! Watch the YouTube video posted at 2:00pm Eastern on November 23rd or check out the high-quality audio version right here or through Apple, Google, our RSS and wherever you get your podcasts. Talk back live while you’re watching the show on Twitter with #PNWeekly and shoot feedback to the hosts at podcast@pocketnow.com! Host Joshua Vergara Guests Jaime Rivera Brandon Miniman Taylor Martin Jacklyn Dallas (NothingButTech88) The show Galaxy S10: Come on. Six of them? iPhone X: Don’t call it a comeback? Moto Z4: Is it a Moto Z3 repeat? HTC U13: Hurting so hard for a mid-ranger in 2019? Siri to Google: Can’t this shortcut be an better? Xiaomi: Who would like to open a store in India?Pass or Play? Apple Store: Gift Cards for old iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, Macs… Metro by T-Mobile: BYO iPhone (or buy an iPhone 6s) with $50 plan, get free AirPods Palm Phone: Buy a Verizon phone, get one for half-off on a two-year contractBranding is Everything Galaxy Flex? LG G Flex? Huawei Mate Flex? • See you next week! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Tech Talk's 24th episode, Michael, Vicquell and Chris talk about: - Airbnb's Plus and SuperHost programs - Chris freaks out, just a fyi - Amazon Alexa is preparing for Halloween a bit early - randomly laughing for no reason (okay, Amazon's saying it's hearing things but we know better) - The notch - What's going on, will it die, will it stay, will it go all the way | lots of Androids taking it on, reports say Apple will make it smaller in 2019 or get rid of it - Pirating apps - Is it still a thing? Seems so, Spotify is saying users of pirated versions get an email saying "abnormal activity", eventually may end in suspension or terminating accounts - Amazon vs Google - Can't they play nice? Google no longer selling Nest devices on Amazon - YouTube and Instagram working on special camera features - YT is developing a green screen effect while IG is working on a knock-off Portrait effect similar to iPhone's - IG may also release voice and video chat Original air date: March 9th, 2018 WATCH us LIVE & FOLLOW on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/moar_cookies/ Tuesdays at 6:30 PM EST for eSports Wrap Thursdays at 6:30 PM EST for Tech Talk DOWNLOAD, LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE for FREE the audio version of this podcast: eSports Wrap iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/esports-wrap/id1296689303 Google Play Music: http://bit.ly/2lv6JGg Tech Talk iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-talk/id1296689293 Google Play Music: http://bit.ly/2gQamBg --------- Thanks for watching! Feel free to FOLLOW us on: Facebook: https://facebook.com/moarcookies Twitter: https://twitter.com/moar_cookies Tech Talk RSS: https://moarcookies.com/category/podcasts/tech-talk/feed/podcast/ eSports Wrap RSS: https://moarcookies.com/category/podcasts/esports-wrap/feed/podcast/ Website: https://moarcookies.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/moarcookies Feel free to support the show: Steamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/moar_cookies Twitch: https://twitch.tv/subs/moar_cookies Want to sponsor the show? Send me a message: https://www.youtube.com/moarcookies/about Podcast Theme Music by HeatleyBros: www.youtube.com/user/HeatleyBros

Are you winning on Google? Can your ideal and likely buyers find you online? On this episode of the Thrivetime Show Clay and Z will go over what you need to know to win the Google game.

[Tweet ""People that aren't using Google+ a lot tend to be very hard on it" @MartinSherv"] Martin Shervington is a consultant, speaker, trainer and coach on all things Google. He’s the community manager for Plus Your Business – you can find him over at PlusYourBusiness.com. Today on Digital Marketing Radio we discuss Google Plus for Business tips, with topics including: Is Google+ a social layer, a social network or both? If a small business owner doesn’t have much time to focus on social media, should Google+ be priority? Is it more important to try to be an influencer from your personal Google Plus profile, or build up the authority of your businesses’ Google+ page? When a business is signing up for a business page, what are some of the most important first things to do? Does Google+ as a social destination work for the majority of businesses? Is it possible for the average user to build up a decent volume of followers on Google+? What are 2 or 3 post types that tens to get most engagement on Google+? Can building up circles on Google+ be better than building your own list? Many people such as Larry Kim from WordStream are very vocal in saying that Google+ is on the way out – what’s your response to that? Software I couldn't live without What software do you currently use in your business that if someone took away from you, it would significantly impact your marketing success? BufferApp [Social media scheduling] Google AdWords [Pay per click marketing] Genesis [WordPress framework] Infusionsoft [CRM tool] Circloscope [Google+ management] NOD3x [Influencer finder] Friends+Me [Google+ post distribution] AgoraPulse [Facebook & Twitter social media management] My number 1 takeaway What's the single most important step from our discussion that our listeners need to take away and implement in their businesses? Google+ is part of the Google ecosystem. It's got a Google search engine attached to it. I think that people should ignore a lot of the press and give things a go.

David Whatley is the Founder and Managing Director at MiShop Local, a specialist local search optimisation and citation building service for Brands, National Chains, Franchises and Agencies. You can find him over at mishoplocal.co.uk. Today on Digital Marketing Radio we discuss the following: What is local search engine optimization? How is local search optimisation different to conventional websearch? What challenges do companies face with local search optimisation? What's the difference between local SEO and local listing optimistion? Is Google good at determining your location if you aren't signed in to your Google account? Is there still a big local SEO opportunity out there? Do businesses still have to submit their details to Google, or will Google glean information that is already out there? What happens if Google has no confidence in relation to the information that is already out there about your business? Is it still important to get listed in small local directory websites? Can a business expect to see a reasonable volume of traffic from a local listing on Google? Can you have a local listing on Google if you don't have a website? How can a business differentiate itself from its local competitors? How important is your brand to local optimisation? Should you ask your customers to write reviews about your business on Google local? Are there other sites that you should ask your customers to review your business on? Why getting a surge of reviews isn't great Software I couldn't live without What software do you currently use in your business that if someone took away from you, it would significantly impact your marketing success? Google Drive [Project management tool] Wrike [Project management tool] What software don't you use, but you've heard good things about, and you've intended to try at some point in the near future? Hubspot [Inbound marketing tool] My number 1 takeaway What's the single most important step from our discussion that our listeners need to take away and implement in their businesses? Be consistent wherever customers look or find your services. If you have multiple locations, ensure that your name, address and phone numbers are being listed as intended.