Podcasts about Ventrilo

Discord es una aplicación de comunicación que se ha vuelto muy popular entre los jugadores en los últimos años. Esta aplicación se destaca por su calidad de sonido superior, la menor utilización de CPU y características únicas, como canales de voz y la posibilidad de conectar aplicaciones externas. Además, permite una organización eficiente y una comunicación clara entre los miembros de un equipo, incluso para aquellos distribuidos en diferentes partes del mundo. Discord es una plataforma muy versátil y se puede utilizar para crear una comunidad de pago mediante la creación de un "servidor premium". En cuanto a la comparación con otras aplicaciones similares, Discord compite con Slack en cuanto a la combinación de canales de texto y audio, pero aún está por detrás en términos de integraciones con aplicaciones externas. En comparación con aplicaciones de comunicación por voz como Ventrilo, TeamSpeak y Skype, Discord ofrece una mayor calidad de sonido, una menor utilización de CPU, la posibilidad de conectar aplicaciones externas y la opción de crear canales separados para diferentes equipos o proyectos. Por defecto, el límite de usuarios por canal en Discord es de 5000 personas, pero se puede ampliar este límite y llegar a canales con más de 10,000 personas. Plan de Asesoria Personal Telegram Tecnolitas Déjame un mensaje de voz

Discord. The popular chat app was once the humble home of gamers who were tired of paying for Ventrilo and Teamspeak servers. Now, it's so much more. The crypto people have come and it doesn't look like they're going anywhere.From the Bored Ape Yacht Club to the next alt-coin with no backing, any project related to the blockchain probably has a space on Discord. But Discord was never built to be a place where people gathered together to manifest complex financial schemes and, because of that, it's rife with scammers, grifters, and hackers. On this episode of Cyber, Motherboard Senior Staff Writer Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai walks us through the perils of using Discord as a financial chat app.Stories discussed in this episode:Discord Is the World's Most Important Financial Messenger, and a Hotbed for ScammersWe're recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Discord. The popular chat app was once the humble home of gamers who were tired of paying for Ventrilo and Teamspeak servers. Now, it's so much more. The crypto people have come and it doesn't look like they're going anywhere.From the Bored Ape Yacht Club to the next alt-coin with no backing, any project related to the blockchain probably has a space on Discord. But Discord was never built to be a place where people gathered together to manifest complex financial schemes and, because of that, it's rife with scammers, grifters, and hackers. On this episode of Cyber, Motherboard Senior Staff Writer Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai walks us through the perils of using Discord as a financial chat app.Stories discussed in this episode:Discord Is the World's Most Important Financial Messenger, and a Hotbed for ScammersWe're recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I dag er Discord standarden for gamere når vi treng å kommunisere når vi spiller. Før Discord derimot var det nesten ville vesten tilstander på slike apps. Programmer som Ventrilo, Teamspeak, Mumble, og Skype var brukt til mer eller mindre suksess. Vi tar en liten titt tilbake på denne tiden og utfordringene som hørte med.

Under pandemins tid av fysisk distans har appar, sociala medier och spel haft en snabb spridning i samhället. Allt görs med en tanke bakom, för att vi ska använda dem, köpa dem. En del är bra för oss, en del mindre bra. Hur går tankarna bakom dessa uppfinningar? I det första avsnittet av Fakultet, säsong 3, sätter vi fokus på vad det är som gör att vi vill ha ännu fler maskiner som underlättar för oss i vår vardag. Och hur man gör för att ta fram dessa älskade maskiner? Hör Mattias Arvola, biträdande professor vid Linköpings universitet och interaktionsdesigner. Möt också app- och spelutvecklarna Henrik Walldén och Mikko Tähtinen, tinderdejtarna Anna-Karin Lodin, Annie, O´Neill, Eulaia och Mia och var med när alaTheViking, ErvMC och adamlovemachine spelar Valheim. Fakultet från LiU – ett digitalt alternativ till Almedalsveckan, i dina lurar. -- Signatur: Funkysuspense av Bensound  Musik: Rethink Ambient och Part A, LiUs profilmusik Seduction, Dave Andres Orch, av sbhonmrb på Freesound Meadows ur Valheim Soundtrack Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA, Basshunter Howling Abyss – Theme, från The Music of League of Legends: Season 3 Hink & Spann i Nynäshamn (Visbygubben), 50 HERTZ Ovningskora, Slagsmålsklubben Ljudklipp: Freesound I samarbete med studenter vid programmet Kommunikation Samhälle Medieproduktion, vid Linköpings universitet. Annelie Norberg, programledare, produktion, klipp och mix Mattias Edborg, slutmix   Besök Mattias Arvolas medarbetarsida https://liu.se/medarbetare/matar63 Fler forskare vid LiU medverkar i Almedalsveckan tillsammans med East Sweden. https://eastsweden.se/almedalen -- Fler podcast från Linköpings universitet hittar du på https://liu.se/podcast

That's Dope brings its best hosts together for a super decade-end episode! Godswill, Joshua, Sam, and Justin reunite to share their opinions on the 2010s with best movies, music, and shows. And they share their own evolutions that happened through the decade for a feel-good vibe. Listen to the four hosts as they jam and share your own best-of lists with them! Episode 4 (2) with ALL THE HOSTS The Sega Dreamcast of podcasts (5) That’s Dope! podcast recap (7) Games as an online meeting point (11) Shows, games & movies of the decade (14) Changes in tech - Zune, Ventrilo, (21) Disney and remakes (32) Kanye - artist of the decade (39) kendrick, gambino, frank ocean (45) Hedonistic treadmill (52) Top 3 movies of the decade (56) Get out & race relations, identity (1:03) Immigrant culture (?) (1:15) Pivotal moments of the decade (1:24) Josh’s fighting (1:35) Special Guest: Justin Varghese.

Pour ce 4ème épisode, je vous présente Monsieur Banane ma marionnette avec laquelle je vais vous présenter mon show de ventriloquie. Un épisode tout sans bouger les lèvres !

Not For Human Consumption: Your drunken weekly update on all the things! Movies, games, life, and everything in between! This is our one year of podcasting celebration featuring prop beer and prop marsupials, Non-Host Jason gets us WorfHas2Dicks.com (and WorfHasTwoDicks.com) for our podcast anniversary, Matt gives some stats on the past year and we learn how the show has changed him, Killing yourself gives you a real-life K/D ratio of 1.0, Dylan buys some furry art, Matthew Broderick is an asshole, Allan buys MaddoxIsACuck.com, A heated debate in the NFHC Facebook Group involving Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, and Seth Rogan. Red Dead Redemption 2 and feeding feminists to alligators, Discovering Ball Refill supplements, Matt rages on nose trimmings, Snorting The Rhino, The first installment of "Avenging Allan Foster" featuring the review of Iron Man (2008). The drinking contest between us and Roast Mortem Podcast is THIS FRIDAY in our Discord and you can tune into the livestream of it for FREE! "Hey, Look at This!" featuring moose cram, a horny old man, Dr. Dabs, a Star Trek song, More CoD chat trolling, a classic Ventrilo troll, and "poop is coming out of your asshole". "What Makes Dave Mad This Week?" featuring a church choir covering Outkast and Dr. Mumbi on vaccines. Shout outs and huge thank you's to all of our Patreon Non-Hosts, and lastly some hilarious voicemails. We close out this week's show with the track "Floating Through The Infinite" by Ghostwalk.  Visit us at www.NFHCPodcast.com for everything Not For Human Consumption. Support the show by subscribing to our Patreon! Leave us a voicemail anytime at 480-788-7330 Check out the NFHC Store! http://www.nfhcpodcast.com/store/ This episode of NFHC is brought to you by Crazy Cactus Beard Balm! https://crazycactusbeardbalm.com/ Ghostwalk http://www.ghostwalkofficial.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ghostwalkofficial/

Not For Human Consumption: Your drunken weekly update on all the things! Movies, games, life, and everything in between! Dylan joins us via satellite this week, Our Wrestlemania viewing is finally scheduled and NFHC Bonus Episode 4 is ready to go, A careful vasectomy preserves testicular beauty, Political campaign ads and being bullied into voting, Brown crotch, Allan on The Rich Dickman Show and clips showing how mad they are about TheRichDickmanShow.com, Another NFHC Twitch marathon of Black Ops 4, Dylan calls into The Dickheads Podcast, Always a bridesmaid and not the bride, Matt drinks the sick away, Dylan reviews "Falling Down" while Dave reviews "Falling Asleep" and a quick TNG progress report. "Hey, Look at This!" featuring tongue flailing, Gangnam Slipknot, Ricky Berwick on Alex Jones, Karate with boobs, more Ventrilo trolling, and another installment of African Drug Lord on Call of Duty. "What Makes Dave Mad This Week?" featuring a beauty pageant contestant, a child doing ASMR, and eating cockroaches. And of course, we play some top-tier voicemails. We close out this week's episode with the track "Dark All Day" by Gunship. Visit us at www.NFHCPodcast.com for everything Not For Human Consumption. Support the show by subscribing to our Patreon! Leave us a voicemail anytime at 480-788-7330 Check out the NFHC Store! http://www.nfhcpodcast.com/store/ This episode of NFHC is brought to you by Crazy Cactus Beard Balm! https://crazycactusbeardbalm.com/ Gunshiphttps://www.gunshipmusic.com/ The Rich Dickman Show https://richdickmanshow.wordpress.com/ The Dickheads Podcast http://www.stuffpop.com/the-dickhead-podcast

I had a buyer recently tell me: “I don't trust SEO traffic. You can't change it. I only trust paid acquisition channels.” Times certainly have changed since just a few years ago. A lot of buyers look at natural SEO traffic as untrustworthy ever since the major index updates of Panda, penguin, and hummingbird. Others see SEO as a much more difficult (and possibly more expensive) avenue towards traffic. And some buyers think that the relevance of SEO will be discounted with new voice-enabled searches and paid advertising pushing natural search rankings down Google's SERPs. In this conversation with Corey Northcutt, we discuss the future of SEO, whether there is a good opportunity for buyers to exploit SEO opportunities, and what he would look out for on the SEO front before buying any online business. Episode Highlights Can we trust SEO long-term? Where is it going, and can you build a business on SEO traffic? What key SEO factors should you look at before buying an online business Google's primary goal, and why it is good for business owners Why SEO traffic will always beat paid traffic Why the major Google updates (Panda, Penguin, etc) were a good thing (and still are a good thing) Will paid ads continue to push organic rankings out of SERPs? Are voice-based search devices going to destroy SEO? Click through rates for top rankings in organic listings vs. paid listings Transcription Joe: Hey Mark, how are you doing today? Mark: Doing great. Joe: I understand you recorded a podcast with Corey Northcutt and it was all about SEO. Mark: That's right so Corey and I know each other through Young Entrepreneurs Council which is a great collection of entrepreneurs, some of the best resources that you can find online for anybody that is an entrepreneur out there and is looking for good networking opportunities. You do have to meet certain thresholds in order to join and Corey obviously hits those. I've used his services for another business of mine and was really really impressed with what he had to offer. Brad who works with us is actually the one who first recommended him to me. This guy has been working in the online world and SEO capacity forever. I mean he's a dinosaur in the SEO world, knows a ton about SEO. And one of the questions I posed for him and I really wanted to drill down on this podcast was whether or not there is value at all in SEO anymore from a buy in standpoint; in other words can it be trusted? I had a buyer tell me just a few weeks ago we were talking on the phone about one of the businesses I was representing and he wanted to know where our customers are coming from on the websites and I said well he's got good rankings and then he also does paid. And he came back and he told me and said I don't really care about the organic rankings because I can't control that at all. In fact all I care about is a paid acquisition channel. I think we hear that more and more from people that they trust that paid acquisition channel more than the organic channel. But I think it's almost an overreaction and there's a lot of opportunity being lost because everyone focuses just on the paid and just use the organic just has a sort of bonus to everything else. The couple of the topics that we addressed in this podcast is whether or not the future of SEO is going to be strong. You know we have more and more devices being added for voice-based search. We have the paid creep that's been happening on organic rankings where organic listings are being pushed down the page. And so this is really kind of a step back to look at your online business and say should I be focusing on SEO, what's the opportunity here with SEO as well. Joe: Okay so I'm not going to say whether I think you know you should be focused on it or not. What I can say is that a business with multiple traffics of multiple channels of revenue is worth a lot more money and from my experience a long time ago SEO was a long term game. I survived the Penguin updates, Panda update … actually I sold before the Penguin Update but it didn't matter because I didn't know anything about link building anyway. All I did was good quality content over a long period of time and I was rewarded. It's a lot more complicated than that I think. So I'm really excited to see what Corey has to say. Let's go ahead listen. Mark: Well one second, I'm going to give away a bit of a teaser on this and that is something that you said; I think what you said is perfect because it is the sense that a lot- Joe: Did you say that what I said was perfect just now? Mark: Dude, don't let it get to your head. Yeah it was actually perfect because a lot of people think that SEO is more complex. They think it's complicated. They think that it's a nut that's very difficult to crack. And a lot of us, especially those who have been around through the panda, penguin, hummingbird, you know all these sort of updates; animal updates that happened look at a SEO and like my goodness you can't trust this. Look what happened back then it got completely destroyed. One of the big takeaways from this and Corey gets into this is that SEO now is more predictable than it's ever been. Google's gotten better at what they're doing so they don't need to shake things up as much anymore. Now is a little bit harder to rank; sure because Google has done a better job of putting good information in front of people. But rankings are more stable now than they've ever been before. And so you need big takeaway is that while it's somewhat complex there's a huge opportunity because people like you and I have kind of looked at SEO as that thing as a bonus out there. Joe: From a buyer's point of view what you just said might be very valuable. You know it takes … it's harder to rank now and so if we're listening to business and there's good organic rankings, that in itself could have more value to a buyer. Because most everybody else just cheats to get to the top and you can't actually do that anymore but if you're at the top on page one that's really strong strong value. And I think hopefully in the long run for any business will add more diverse revenue channels which brings its a valuable. Mark: All right can we listen to Corey now? Joe: Absolutely, let's go. Mark: All right Corey, thank you for joining me on this quick episode here on SEO. Corey: Absolutely, thanks for having me. Mark: So yeah I know you've listened to a couple of the episodes before so you know that we like to have our guests introduce themselves. So why don't we provide everyone listening here with a background on yourself. Corey: Yeah I'd love to. So I've been doing SEO for going on 17 years. I've been … I guess running business of different shapes and forms for about as long. I came from web hosting and doing different IT brands and now I run an SEO agency called Northcutt. Mark: That's awesome. Yeah and I've actually … just full disclosure I have user services in the past but with a lot of the guests that we have here on the Quiet Light Podcast, the people that we've use in one cast in another their services so we trust the services, we trust you as far as your … the quality work that you do. And I also know Brad who works with Quiet Light Brokerage; he has used your services quite a bit in the past as well which is how I was referred to you. It was actually through Brad. So that that's pretty cool. Now you have a past in we posting as well is that right? Corey: That's true. Yeah I started at a provider called Ubiquity that was eventually acquired by LeaseWeb but not before I actually exited the company and sold it back to my business partners. Mark: That's pretty cool, so my background is actually web hosting as well. My first job out of college was with a company called Alabanza Corporation and they were the first ones to create the people know like web hosting manager or cPanel. They were the first ones to actually come out with a cPanel and cPanel's a competition to Alabanza. And I remember when we developed that the CEO talking about competition told me he's like I'm not worried about competition, it take … took us years to be able to create our I think he called it the account management [inaudible 00:07:01.2] stupid like that. And of course the temple was already out there so it didn't take them years to replicate what we were doing and it done quite well; so cautionary tale there. But the first business I sold under Quiet Light Brokerage was a web hosting company, so very familiar with the space. So you sold that, how many businesses have you bought and sold over the years? Corey: So I like to call myself a three time founder in all my bios. It's tough to say though because I have partners and in that I've had a lot of failed ventures too. A lot of projects that I've spun up or that maybe sold for cheap so it's been all over the map. I did web hosting. We spun off a data center services brand from that. We had Ventrilo provider called DarkStar Communications which was the largest provider of Ventrilo for quite a while. Most people I think don't even know what that is anymore. Mark: Yeah I've never heard of it. Corey: It was a big bank for a while. And it wasn't even my world but it was kids play World of Warcraft, they would need voice chat for that and it sounds insane today we've got Zoom and Skype and all these tools that are free but they would pay for it. So you'd have 50 or 100 people on one voice server and you needed tools to manage it. So a lot of different businesses; I kind of created a framework for how I like to build and market them but all in completely different spaces. Mark: You know I like to segment Internet entrepreneurs as to those that were started before the panda, penguin days and those that have come into it after because the world is so much different. You know people like you and I that have been in the online world for I'm going on 20 years here since I've built my first website. And you know back then and actually back when I started Quiet Light Brokerage, when I decided to start Quiet Light Brokerage what did I do? I went out and I built a website from scratch and then I custom coded an affiliate program in there and that was kind of how I launched everything was me going out coding, designing, launching, doing the SEO; everything top to bottom. And today I mean if you want to start a new site you can still do that but boy it's so much different today you don't … you really wouldn't want to take that approach as much. It's gotten a lot more complex. Corey: It's true. Mark: Yeah. And you seem to come from that sort of past entrepreneur pay and this is a good idea let me see if I can just build this out real quick. Corey: Yeah and yet it's changed so much. Yeah and I have … on one hand I love how quickly you can spend things up like you've got Shopify, you see people with stores in 10 minutes; it's completely insane. On the other hand I feel like a lot of people don't go as deep with their businesses now. You've got projects I can start a company and it might make 500 dollars a month and that's fine and it … I'll do 10 of those this week. The mindset has changed. Mark: Yeah I know definitely it's changed quite a bit. So I wanted to have you on to talk about SEO and I'll tell you kind of the question that spurred this on for me and I think it would be a good start for our discussion here. I was talking to a buyer the other day about one of my clients and he's Amazon and Magento mixed so he's got his own websites but you know a good portion of his business comes through Amazon. But we're looking at the websites because they're doing really well. Amazon is struggling but the websites are good; really really well. And we're looking at the host and this buyer was asking where does the client … where did the clients come from, are they coming from organic rankings or they're coming from paid service or good mature search campaign out there. So I told him well it's a mix you know there's really good SEO on the site, there's room to improve that as well but they also have a paid campaign that they will get. And this buyer almost seemed to dismiss the SEO side and said well I can't control the SEO world at all, I'm interested in the paid acquisition. And I see this more and more and I think this is kind of the people waking up from the hangover of the panda, penguin which is almost quick as far of be coming up on seven years or something like that; is that right? Seven years is that pretty close? Corey: Well- Mark: [crosstalk 00:11:06.9] try to also work. It's been a while since this happened and I think people have really adjusted their mindset to not trusting SEO at all. So my question to you and to ask in behalf of everyone that out there looking to buy an online business, can you trust SEO and can you build or grow a business on the back of SEO and have it be sustainable? Corey: Oh my God Yes. So there is one question that has been around since I feel like SEO began which is where this is going, it … can I trust it long term, and I think Google's actually been very transparent about what they want to accomplish. As much as we've had different updates like Panda, and Penguin, Hummingbird, chip things up to there's been quite a few but Google's always been forthcoming. And I feel like most of the media out there sensationalizes what's happening and it does a disservice to business owners. Because … and what does Google really care about? They want to reward an experience that is naturally relevant, popular, and enjoyable; that's it. And they've been working towards this goal for all of this time and I don't think it goes away. There is never going to be a point to where a better experience is paid advertising for what they deliver. If they ever reach that point I think all bets are off. I think somebody disrupts them; being or somebody else overtakes them. There's no way people want that. It is a better experience when it's not simply rented. So that doesn't go away it's just they keep it iterating towards getting better at what they set out to do. Like we talk about that pre-panda, pre-penguin world, I think it did a lot of good. I look back at how I did SEO back then and you know it was a little gray. It was hard to … like that was the conversation we were having with people. It's like I think we should be as white hat as possible. At that time I feel like that that was a source of a lot of that grand fish can spam. At the time he was not getting very much respect from professional SEO's and he was saying no, completely white hat, don't mess with anything, no schemes, no link real pyramid tetrahedron. Yeah like I'm sure you've seen all the different diagrams and wacky ideas that people were coming up with back then and that panda made him correct that just overnight everything shifted and it was like well yeah they finally got better and they really are rewarding people that aren't going against Google like do you want to work with them. Mark: Let me play devil's advocate a little bit here and argue against SEO. Now this is not my personal position. I actually agree with you. I think there's a ton of opportunity in SEO and I actually think the world is a … the SEO world is a lot more stable today than it was back in the pre updates of pre-panda, penguin, hummingbird updates mainly because the results are better and Google is still having a better experience and before it was very easy to came, the search engines. You were doing grey hat, I was doing grey hat, everybody was doing grey hat back then. But anyways let me play devil's advocate. Two changes that people look at and they see it as encroaching on the organic SEO. One would be the number of paid listings that show up above the fold on Google and where organic rankings start to be pushed down. And two voice enabled search. Let's start with the first one here the placement of organic rankings. I have another business that I own and I absolutely absolutely hate bidding on my brand keyword. Because it's my brand keyword, I show up number one, I show up number two, I show up number three, but if I don't bid on it I I've got four other people bidding on my brand and they're above me. So from that standpoint has SEO become less valuable for business owners or is that a trend that you think is going to continue where paid listings push out the organic rankings? Corey: I don't and in fact I … you know I saw the same trends. And by the way if somebody just for the benefit of listeners, if somebody is pushing you out that way on your branded searches if they mention you by name you can file a trademark request with Google and get them shut down. It … they're still able to use your brand name as a keyword but it can water down their messaging if somebody is getting too aggressive with that. So I don't see it going too much further and yeah that was a big story each time Google has experimented with expanding the ad block but there's data on quick relates that's out there. Rand Fishkin actually threw his new startup SparkToro all those Jumpshot's analysis on this and it's incredible how many people still click on organic overpaid. The overwhelming majority still click on organic across the board even in the most extreme like biased examples I've seen. I actually just sent out our quarterly here a few weeks ago that looked at this AAReps had their own click through rate data of tons of searches that they've scraped and in their example they said the maximum went up to 46% with click on ads. Up to is the operative word there I think that's the most extreme example. It's 46% where you know it's a branded, your brand is number one; obviously, that's what they wanted. We're going to click that sure but the Jumpshot data said 3% was their average. So somewhere between 3% and 46% are clicking on paid ads. It's still the minority and I don't see that ever changing. Mark: 3% to 46% is pretty broad. Corey: It is pretty broad. The average is three. Mark: Okay. Corey: But yeah. Mark: That's amazing. Yeah and in the example I have we have a lot of brand confusion in our space and my main competitor has been very very good at causing brand confusion. So it's a personal annoyance for me right now, my personal mission to get them out of that number one spot even though I'm losing money on it. Corey: Not this. Mark: Yeah. So that's interesting. I would have tend to agree that there's only so much real estate that they're going to give to the ad spot, to those ad blocks because it's … they have been focused from day one on that user experience. So they want users especially brand searches to be able to find the brand that they're looking for. What about voice enabled search? I know for myself and if I want to find out some quick data or whatever I've got a Google Pixel Phone I just give a little squeeze and Google's system comes up and I just ask it the question and more and more it's becoming intelligent in giving the response. More and more it's taking those responses of course from other websites and so they aren't getting any of the traffic to that. This wouldn't be so much a concern for e-commerce sites but for content sites I mean is this something to be looking out for and maybe something that's going to encroach on their opportunities in the future? Corey: Yeah there is definitely demographics that are going to be hit by this. You and I talked about famous quotations here a week ago in how that is an industry that got hit pretty hard by Panda. I think the nuance is any short simple information is going to have a hard time. Like just the example from last month, Google actually started returning no results searches and people asked for the time of day. And there was a website that was timeanddate.com it ranked number one for all of these and I'm sure they were raking in a lot of AdSense doing it, not probably great ads for those people but still it was working for them in the moment. So there are really nuanced types of businesses that I think buyers should probably be a little wary of. If it doesn't give deep information it can't be [inaudible 00:19:11.5] by a simple answer from Google. But if it does go deeper I think it goes outside the scope of what Google can accomplish with voice search because it's going to be complex. There's going to be value in multiple results then so that's [inaudible 00:19:26.1]. Mark: Okay well you know I think that's a fair answer. I think when you ask Google a question, if it's a quick answer like time and date that makes sense. But if you're asking how to replace a sprinkler head, Google might give you a short response but you're not looking for a three step process for that. You're probably looking for pictures or video or more in depth you know of your in-depth guide. And so getting that response is actually a good thing, getting that being that featured response at Google will probably be a good thing because more people are going to click through to your page right? Corey: Yup and there's also still value being lost right now from what they call no click searches. Where maybe you appear within the knowledge card, like the top of the results; people see your brand, they see that it's from you; they don't click through and see your analytics. But at some point who cares, if they still saw your brand you still helped them, and they still see then you may have accomplished what you set out to you anyway. It's just not going to be attributed as well. Mark: Right; of course. I get it the top of funnels sort of just brand awareness and awareness to your brand, what's better to vouch for you than Google right? Corey: Right. Mark: If Google's going to feature you on their search result page that's a pretty good thing and if people don't know what I'm talking about here do you have an example that you know off the top your head where a knowledge card will show up. Corey: Recipes are a big one now. I don't know any exactly at the top of my head but- Mark: Well didn't … wasn't there that one for a while which was why are fire engines red; do you remember seeing that? Corey: I think that so, it sounds familiar. Mark: Yeah if people haven't looked at this, do a search for why are fire engines red and take a look at what the response is. They may have updated it since I last did it but it was just somebody had the game of the knowledge card and it was kind of a crazy response. Corey: Yeah, but it's still not that hard to do. Mark: So I … okay so if I already had, you can't leave with that not go into it. Corey: Well we know what their data sources are so yeah you can … what Google is not good at is understanding what you're telling it, and that's what they're working on back checking right? Being able to actually understand is this good and not are these words here and phrase didn't maybe kind of mean something. And that's what I think they'll improve that maybe next. I think it'll take a while because they're still behind what a lot of the articles give them credit for now if you like but we do know which way they're going. There's an analogy. I love Aj Kohn as an SEO blogger; his company is called The Blind Five Year Old because that's how he perceives Google still. Kind of hyperactively bouncing out of your sight not really knowing what it's doing but they are still moving in a direction that makes sense. And with the knowledge cards there's different sources of data where I mean you can literally just put it in and hope that Google crawls it. So you can update Wikidata at wikidata.org put in some bunk information and sure they might index it. They might see that it's not that hard to fool it. Mark: That's funny. All right well I got some pressing question to get to here. Even though this is fascinating and would be fun to explore all the idiosyncrasies of the world of Google but let's talk about, let's put ourselves in a position of a buyer looking to acquire a business and I want to have more opportunities for SEO and how to uncover some of those and where some of the mistakes are. But before we do that let's talk about due diligence side of things. So he's looking to buy a business, it receives a good amount of traffic from natural organic rankings. What are some of the things that people should be looking out for when doing due diligence? For example private blog networks, are these still something to look out for or are there other things that you may want to caution people on inspecting before they do an acquisition? Corey: Right so without a doubt I would never buy any website without looking at its backlink portfolio. There are basically two arms of SEO right, you've got what happens on the website and off of it. I'm not so concerned about what's happening on the website. I know just based on my background I can probably make it a lot better. But I know that it's not a danger zone, the links are. So first are they trending upwards that's a good sign; bad links tend to get moderated. It makes sense, if somebody spams a whole bunch of forums or blogs they use a piece of software, it's going to get turned away and their Google patents that talk about this as a signal. Like if somebody blasts 100,000 links and all of a sudden they disappear I immediately know something's wrong. And even if something's not wrong if they had a good reason for that to happen, I still haven't really seen one, but if they did it … that pattern looks really bad. So that's the first thing, okay I guess I start to dig into it and I start to look for schemes like you mentioned; are there link wheels, are there … you mentioned that you and I are pre-Panda people a little bit here. I've … I know the schemes because I've used the schemes. I've tried the schemes and I know what all of them look like. There's any of maybe a dozen which might go beyond our time right now but- Mark: So with some of these schemes how would somebody identify these? Obviously link patterns so seeing declining back wings would be an example of things being moderated away from low quality sites or even high quality sites where it's been spammed to a public place. But for like a Link Wheel or a PBN, are there tools that you would recommend somebody use for this or is it really just something where you need to hire somebody like you to be able to help identify these schemes? Corey: Sure. Well I won't go so far as to say someone has to hire me but I do have a lot of skepticism in the tools only because we see them throw a lot of false positives. They do good things too but I've got a team that's used every backlink auto link tool I think at this point and they're flawed certainly. Especially when you pair them with the activity of disavowing links which is usually the natural next step. When you find bad links people tend to use the disavow form in Google Search Console and that's irreversible so it's really really dangerous. We've very frequently been approached by people that ran an automated link audit, got a lot of terrible advice, disavowed a lot of good links, their rankings went away, and they need help and all we can say is well now you've just got to rebuild like you shouldn't have done this. That was a bad idea. So I think it's just about recognizing the schemes and the most overarching witness test in my mind is does this double as good marketing. Sometimes it's just a completely automated site like you see a lot of these like statistics websites, and he ways websites, those big automated plays. I would usually say if a site links to every site on the internet which you can usually see, like is it linking to every domain alphabetically; you see that a lot on the backlink tools. I don't worry about those. I don't think you should disavow those because that's not a scheme. That's not a pattern that you want out and will and that's a flaw in every auditing tool I've used. So I wouldn't worry about those. I also wouldn't worry about anything that is editorially relevant. Like is it editorial, a guest post, a press release, a mention of any kind really that happened from a human but if it didn't and you can usually tell by this kind of thumbing through the side a little bit that usually means that your link is appearing besides other schemes. And if a link is really easy to get that by definition kind of makes it a bad link which is counterintuitive right? You've got all these SEO services that are offering fast easy links for everybody. That's flawed because if it's really for anybody that means that you're link appears besides porn sites you know fill affiliates like all sorts of really kind of sketchy looking stuff. It shouldn't be easy for everybody and that's really the way to tell it I think. Mark: So something that we see with Quiet Light Brokerage in our backlink profile is we'll get a piece published informs or entrepreneur or in [inaudible 00:27:36.5 a good piece and obviously we love those backlinks. But then sure enough there is these really low quality sites that will take that article that blog post and they'll republish it and you know it's just a complete spammy site. You can tell that there's never a human that has touched that site other than initially [inaudible 00:27:55.7]. Are those backlinks, if somebody is doing a backlink analysis on the site and they see some good high quality backlinks but then they see a whole bunch of copycats stuff is that anything to worry about in your opinion? Corey: It depends a little bit on the site. If they're purely just scraping forbes, I'd say well today link back because if they do it reminds me a little bit of press indication which is perfectly natural and it's a signal that I think any grown up brand is going to have. Like you've got basically every publicly traded companies running out regular press releases so if I put on my … like if I'm Google Ad that actually looks okay. But if it's a really low quality site you might see them also doing other shady stuff so you might have to look at their backlink portfolio and kind of pick apart what they're doing. Mark: Okay fair enough that is good advice. And if anybody is listening to this and you're completely lost as far as what Corey is talking about here I'm sure you could reach out to him and get a little bit more insight into some of these things. The world of SEO is kind of this big old rabbit hole, you can understand on a very basic level or you can get into [inaudible 00:29:02.3] sort of the more nuanced stuff. In which case you're talking about link wheels and different types of shapes as far as linking patterns which I've thrown most of that out the window years ago when I started seeing a lot of the updates come through. So and I want to talk about that you know we talked a lot about backlinks and backlink profiles, it's been my perception and please correct me you are the expert in this not me, it's my perception that backlinks haven't been so much devalued as might have been surpassed or might have … might be having other ranking indicators kind of come up alongside backlinks as being important. And one of the ones I've seen has been topic coverage, topical coverage on a page. So an example of that would be we have a blog post on I want the Seller's Discretionary Earnings well we also want to cover not only what a Seller's Discretionary Earnings but what does it mean for an Accrual Basis versus Cash Basis Accounting and you know what is Net Income, what is Gross Revenue because these are related topics to the one thing so having all that content now is a good signal to Google. In my correct or incorrect or off based when I say that the backlinks while still important are playing alongside some of these other newer ranking factors? Corey: Yeah I mean you'd be correct in saying On Page matters more and in more nuanced ways. It's tough to weigh like do links matter less because links are infinite really. On page is still finite so I think in that math equation links can never matter less because you can always do more with links. You can't always do more with your site so that makes that equation interesting. But yeah since the Hilltop Algorithm which I believe was written by Krishna Bharat, he published a paper that it's actually really old but it was pre-Panda by a lot and it broke down I think what they've been building upon for a really long time which for the first time defined what they call topical experts. And if you really dig into the paper it appears to be talking about domains as experts and they played but there's a little bit you know you had authorship of Google+ I think was one sort of riff on that idea of trying to figure out who really knows about a topic. And around that time SEO's like crazy with the concept of relevance. People are saying well you only want links from relevant sites. I think that's bunk because well do I not want to link from CNN they don't … they're not an SEO website, obviously I do, obviously that's still a good link. But there's more value if I get somebody from within my space on average. So it's just one more metric, it's a little bump I feel like in their favor if they're relevant or if you're relevant. They're looking at the themes throughout your site definitely. So to your point yeah that exact same idea, the more you cover a topic the more I think your ratio of expertise is strengthened there. And for the same reason Mike & Mitch E-commerce Shop should absolutely be able to outrank Amazon. They're generic, they don't have that focus and we see that a lot. Mark: That seems to be a recurring theme of this podcast here; how to be Amazon at their own game. And I've talked to so many e-commerce business owners who get frustrated by … when they put their own listings up on Amazon and all of a sudden Amazon's outranking their niche store. But I think your point of if you have good topical coverage on your site, if you're doing … if you're making sure the on page is right you should be able to outrank Amazon because it is a specialized site. And that actually said was a really nice link into the final section I want to cover and that is opportunities for pretty much any buyer when you're looking to acquire an online business opportunities in SEO. I see huge opportunities with most of the stuff I look at and working on the on page SEO, what are a few areas in your opinion that people should look at when they're looking to grow the SEO presence of either an e-commerce shop or a SAS business or a content business but really kind of looking at that a SEO portion, what are a few areas that are common pieces of low hanging fruit that you see? Corey: Sure. Well since Panda there are a lot more diamonds in the rough I feel like that just have broken on page SEO and the poster case study going all the way back was Danny Webb right? Everyone was talking about Danny Web which was one of the biggest tech forms, they lost easily all their rankings when Panda first hit and they managed to recover by removing what people later called thin content. Which were just pages that might have fifty words on the page, it was all the different individual profiles that people had, there were millions of them. Most of them were a bad search engine experience. So when I see a site that has a lot of pages that don't offer value to Google but don't carry the no index tag, the media tag, and the source code [inaudible 00:33:56.5] but code in the source that says keep us out of Google's index. I know well hey I can do that and overnight strengthen the stuff I want to keep and cut out the stuff that's just never going to be of any value and that's going to help a lot. I also look for sites that don't have a keyword strategy, sites that for whatever reason have never had any links but still enjoyed some organic success. There's a lot of ways to play this. In total there's I think a couple hundred ranking factors. I basically just look for a couple that have been 100% neglected because I feel like that's where people leave the most money on the table basically where I can see a quick one. Mark: Yeah, I think again coming back to round out this discussion, I think since the updates and after the updates everybody was scared of organic traffic and understandably so. I mean it was very difficult for a lot of people because they owned a business overnight an update happened and the rankings are gone, revenue is gone. A lot of businesses were built on this kind of shaky SEO and Google's done a good job of cleaning that up. But people now see the benefit of relying on paid acquisitions. As a result though I think there's a huge opportunity for buyers to take a look at pretty much any property that is not on Amazon. So any web-based property content sites etcetera etcetera and be able to really grow that business through good SEO practices. As you said looking at keyword strategies are, is there any keyword strategy there, or do they have good topical coverage, are they doing the basics to be able to rank well, and because no one is really doing that or very few people are really doing that on page SEO anymore it's kind of amazing how quickly it's fallen out of favor. Yeah so let me ask you if anybody wants to talk to you what's the best way to reach you? Corey: Sure. Well they can pop on our website which is just northcutt.com drop me an email it's just corey@northcutt.comor follow me on Twitter corey_northcutt to be my first name, any of those work. Mark: All right good. We'll all link to those in the podcast page the show notes so everyone can take a look at that. And you know again we don't get kickbacks from guests or anything like that but we do refer people that we've used in the past successfully and the services of yours is definitely a service that I've gotten good value out of. I know you did some work for me, I think it was back in October your group did some work for me and those pages are doing quite well now so thank you for that. I never gave you an update on that; they're doing pretty well. Corey: Yeah, sure. Mark: Yeah so thanks so much for coming on. I think this is an interesting topic and maybe one that we need to explore again in the future. Corey: Oh I'd like that. Mark: All right, thanks Corey. Corey: Thanks Mark.

This week we re-live our most fond moments with Ventrilo as we say good-bye to Conman's vent server 2005 - 2018, RIP.

In the world of VOIP (Voice Over IP) communication, apps abound which provide you with many functions and features for good voice communication. Some of these are straight forward, used for simplicity like Skype. Others, such as Ventrilo, TeamSpeak and TeamTalk offer a more flexible approach, with servers and channels that people use to attain higher depths in voice quality. TeamTalk, which is available for Android and other platforms such as Linux, Windows, And Mac OS, has just made an appearance in the iOS App store which now allows people of a huge variety of platforms and devices. Let's dive into how customizable and easy to use the iOS app is, which was designed from the start with accessibility and convenience in mind. ESight enables people with legal blindness to actually see. Want to try eSight? Get in touch with their team by calling : 1 855 837 4448 You can fill out the Try eSight form here.

In the world of VOIP (Voice Over IP) communication, apps abound which provide you with many functions and features for good voice communication. Some of these are straight forward, used for simplicity like Skype. Others, such as Ventrilo, TeamSpeak and TeamTalk offer a more flexible approach, with servers and channels that people use to attain higher depths in voice quality. TeamTalk, which is available for Android and other platforms such as Linux, Windows, And Mac OS, has just made an appearance in the iOS App store which now allows people of a huge variety of platforms and devices. Let's dive into how customizable and easy to use the iOS app is, which was designed from the start with accessibility and convenience in mind. ESight enables people with legal blindness to actually see. Want to try eSight? Get in touch with their team by calling : 1 855 837 4448 You can fill out the Try eSight form here.

[embedplusvideo height="343" width="560" editlink="http://bit.ly/TFSfzW" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/KtvDG5V4VZA?fs=1&vq=hd720" vars="ytid=KtvDG5V4VZA&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep8678" /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast... - We're three weeks from 200! -: Let's Get Ready to Muuuuuuuuuummmmble! - Yes, I totally snuck Heroes into the show. o.O - We got GAME NEWS OVERLOAD! -: And we have Abovan and Bonroku (Bon-row-koo-koo) here to talk to us about AIE in Final Fantasy - All that and more coming up right now...   AIE NEWS AIE: Podcast 200 Before we dive into game news, we want to remind everyone that The AIE Podcast Episode 200 Spectacular Spectacular will be coming up in three weeks. It'll be a pretty big shindig, with several star-studded guests!  AIE Final Fantasy member Rounca Pardylle [rounce-uh parr-dill] has donated two Everquest Landmark Closed beta keys and a copy of Final Fantasy XIV to give away, and we'll also be saying a fond farewell to Ghomus after more than three years at the helm of this show. We'd love to read or play messages from you as well. You can send emails and MP3 files to podcast@aie-guild.org.   AIE: General It's been in the works for a while, but Stigg finally announced testing has begun on AIE's Mumble server. We're taking a look at Mumble to see if people prefer it over Ventrilo, so please give it a try and let Stigg know what you think. The really cool thing is, the Mumble server tied to UMAMI, so you can sign in using your personal UMAMI username and password. No more having to deal with Vent password changes. The server is at mumble.aie-guild.org on port 64738 - which is the default, so you don't need to worry about remembering that. If you need any help signing in, instructions are in the forums.   AIE: Nomads Even the amazing AIE Nomads are not immune to the Summer doldrums. Lotwook has announced they'll be taking a break from wandering into any major games over the summer, but they're going to keep Minor League Game Night going strong, so make sure to vote and join in on the fun. On a side note, Lotwook asks for any Nomads travelling to Nerdtacular next month to please post pics from the event in the Nomads forums.   AIE: Imperium Ludi We've got are a few updates from the up-and-coming games riding the Imperium Ludi bus: The Elder Scrolls gang has announced that the guild bank is nearly full. Gorgesh has cleared some space, but there are crafting mats coming out of the seams, so if you're into crafting, get in there and put them to use. In Wildstar, Khlaw is warning everyone that the guild has almost reached the guild cap, so they'd like all you cupcakes to please remove any alts you don't actively play, and ask that you keep to just your main and maybe one alt in the guild until the game gets over that new game smell and membership settles down. And for you Heroes out there,AcuZod has posted a Google Spreadsheet for everyone that has been lucky enough to get into the Alpha so far to share their battle tags. The link is in the Imperium Ludi section of the forums. He has also set up a chat room on the Vent server to help people get together and play. Look for “The Storm Shelter.” AIE: WOW For you AIE members running around that special place we call Azeroth, EverStudious is looking to put together agroup to knock out old content,complete achievements, and pick up mounts and pets. If you'd like to run some old school content, give him a shout, or feel free to arrange your own runs on the Team Recruitment section of the WoW forums.   also in case you missed it the guardian cub is off the market   Also, the quiraji guardling is out! if you missed him last summer go grab him,   AIE: EVE Lots of news from the spreadsheets in space gang. First, Lanctharus posted a military update covering changes in [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], which is very important, especially for those of you that [REDACTED] la...

[embedplusvideo height="343" width="560" editlink="http://bit.ly/143PQld" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/h4LCnm_uGKc?fs=1&hd=1" vars="ytid=h4LCnm_uGKc&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep4202" /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Final Fantasy Anyone? Hellscream is about to get what's coming to him. Free Spaceships! EVE is about to jettison some players And we talk to Pelell and Max about AIE in  SWTOR All that and more coming up right now...   AIE NEWS AIE's own Pelell and Abovan will be having an informational meeting about Final Fantasy, including Q&A and open discussion, in Ventrilo at 10:00pm EST on Thursday night. Yes, Thursday, like right after the great, wonderful, entertaining, and insightful AIE podcast!   Missed the meeting?  The Q&A will continue on the Final Fantasy section of the Imperium Ludi , on the AIE forums!   Speaking of Final Fantasy, the Final Fantasy open Beta starts this weekend!  The 16th for previous beta testers, 17th for everyone else, running through the 19th.  The Early Access starts on the 24th for pre-orders, with the official launch on the 27th.   So our illustrious Acuzod has taken it upon himself to organize an event in a game which many AIE people play, but there is no ‘official presence' there. Do you play League of Legends? Of course you do! Zod is looking to get something spooled up so a bunch of folks of all skill levels can participate.   The officers of AIE World of Warcraft would like to remind everyone that if you or a friend are returning to the game after being removed for inactivity, all they have to do is jump into their local AIE LFO channel to ask for readmittance! We would also like to point out that we would love to help everyone but it sometimes takes us a bit to be able to stop what we are doing to help!   Zarhym from Blizzard itself wanted to let us know, in case you have been hiding under an internet ROCK, that there is a new trailer out for the World of Warcraft patch 5.4 patch, Seige of Orgrimmar! If you are looking for a reason to take down Garrosh (beyond what he's been up to all expansion), then look no further! If you are out exploring the galaxy in the AIE fleet in Star Trek Online, you should be logging in this week! Takemikazuch has posted in the forums that ships are being given away, for FREE by Perfect World! Log in early, log in often, as there have been some neat things given away! These are items which would normally cost Zen, but not for this time period.   An update from the Spreadships in Spaaaace folks. They're starting to actually implement a rule that has been on the books from the start! They're going to start to purge folks who are inactive or just haven't logged in. The cutoff is 3 months, and logging just to update your skill queues is enough to keep you as ‘active'. Read the post that Hoots made in the forums for more details. Also, due to all the crazy war activities, there is a post regarding making some money in AIEU's new digs! GAME NEWS   Recent AIE SWTOR happenings! ~Pel and Max Greetings!   Before we get to SWTOR news, I would like to preface our segment with something that has been on my mind and some of the other Officers as well. In SWTOR, as a guild, we have taken a hands-off approach in terms of maintaining our numbers. Meaning we haven't been actively recruiting outside of our already established community. This, in part, has led to a drop off in active players within SWTOR, and I expect this to be the case in some of the other AIE games. We want to change this.   We had been operating on the thought that since AIE:WoW has this previously established player base, that it seems only natural that any other AIE branded game would also have something similar. But there are a couple truths. 1st~ Once the shiny wears off, people migrate back to their game of choice. And 2nd~ A pool of existing members is still a pool of roughly the same numbers,

Recorded on March 11, 2013 with Brian Fife, James Fingal and Thomas Westberg. Online games purportedly exist to bring us together and create memorable communal experiences. Few mainstream games actively cultivate positive interactions among their players. Players, particuarly when they are fired up and competitive, can get pretty rough. Tom reminds Brian and Jim that they are all elitist jerks, and Brian discusses his internal conflict when players use certain types of language while they trash talk. It is good to take a stand and to shift social norms, but it is not clear how to find an effective way to engage players in this context. Referenced items: World of Tanks, Halo, Skype, Ventrilo, Teamspeak, League of Legends, PA Report - Riot Games, World of Warcraft, Journey, Little Big Planet 2, Left For Dead, Valve Anti Cheating, EvE online, 4Chan, Stack Exchange, Call of Duty, Modern Warfare, Not in the Kitchen Anymore (NSFW), Fat, Ugly or Slutty (NSFW), Tropes Against Women in Video Games, Barrens Chat, Counterstrike, Street Fighter Two, Farmville, Simcity, Copenhagen Game Collective Johann Sebastian Joust, Dark Room Sex Game, Guitar Hero, Rock Band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cz8meAAxvw   And now, it's time for spreeeadsheeeets in spaaaace. THIS is the AIE Podcast... AIE NEWS Book of Heroes is going to have some changes going on! It sounds like while some of the guilds are struggling, a few of them are doing rather well. Nothing has been set in stone yet, but sn effort is going to be made to get folks of like mights together in guilds. Don't worry, we're intending to make the changes fun for all!  Watch the forums for more developments in the minor league section! Thinking of getting into EVE? The fine folks who are our guests will be going into some more things going on in that world, but this article has some great info and might help kick start your SpreadShips career all the faster! Take a read! Without getting TOO behind the scenes as to the mails that officer's get, we HAVE gotten quite a few lately that are asking about realm and faction transfers. So we'd of course love to have more fine folks in AIE, but we strongly encourage people who aren't QUITE sure yet, to roll a character, apply, and then fall over onto some wolves to get level 10. Poke around a while, say hello to some folks, and decide if AIE is for you. The Nerdtacular Kickstarter is now LIVE. Great bunch of options for everyone at a variety of levels. Hope to see lots of you there! Room rates are available as well, all the details are on the official Nerdtacular site! Update: FUNDED already, geez! As we've mentioned in past shows, the Craft Faire is getting geared up to be huge, as usual. Because there are just too many posts to list, the link in the show notes will point to the WoW Profession forum section, so take a look! Opening wow guild invites! It's official as of five minutes ago! there is a forum post up and running. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/49375-big-change-to-the-invitation-policy/ And with that, let's welcome this week's guest Hoots and Louis. GAME NEWS Louis Hall and Drewson/Hoots 1. What AIEU is up to in-game 1.a We've moved!  Off to Delve for glory and riches. 1.b Recruitment still open (don't be scared off by TEST and/or null-sec) 1.b.1 We do apps every other Monday.  Due to the background check required of an individual applicant for an EVE corp, it takes a little longer than getting into AIE WoW.  Sorry 2. Newbro / Member support 2.a Mentor program 2.b Lend/Lease Program 3. New Pilot Experience (Hoots' segment) What's it like, living in nullsec? Contrast with highsec and lowsec. Safe.  Mostly.  Sort of.  Not really. Fleets, strat ops, structure shoots, roams, roving packs of Goons, reds, and neuts. TEST and AIE newbie support. TEST_Free AIE forums, corp chat, Ventrilo, Mumble, etc. My new character, and second account.  Planetary Interaction here I come. 3.a) TheMittani.com and writing for an EVE site. 3.b) Top Secret Project??? 4. Samiael's story of this loss mail: https://kb.pleaseignore.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=755298 1,742,665,623.00 isk loss. So during this years Secret Santa event I made some suggestions for gifts I would like, ranging from many fit noobships to shiny T3s and culminating in a “blap” (Louis: blap means a dreadnaught capable of one-shotting, we can that alphaing, battleships and battlecruisers) fit Phoenix if I got a super rich santa. (Louis: A dreadnaught is the class of ship between a battleship, something every pilot will eventually fly, and a titan, something on the crazy fly).  I was fortunate enough to get Alexander Hammond  (Louis: a very rich member of TEST) and he provided me with a phoenix and a plex (Louis: A plex is an in-game item that can be redeemed for 30 days of game time.  Because it's in-game it can be sold on the market for ISK, right now around 550 million) to outfit it however I chose, and for the express purpose of whelping in some ridiculous fashion. I was originally going to try to work with Citadel Cruise launchers (Louis:  Missile launchers that fire battleship sized missiles) with web...

With everything going on, Kat and Devin throw together a quick little podcast to keep you company in the cold black of night.Zello - http://zello.com/Lan Messenger - http://sourceforge.net/projects/lanmessengerv3/Ventrilo - http://www.ventrilo.com/Mumble - http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Teamspeak - http://www.teamspeak.com/Go to meeting - https://www.gotomeeting.comHosts:Devin Hunter - http://goo.gl/btHDLKathryn MarvinMusic Credits:Opening: "BrainsickMetal" by Protricity - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00569/Closing: “Aurora (Meet Me In The Stars)” by Anamanaguchi - http://www.anamanaguchi.com/Download: http://archive.org/download/NeatStuffPodcast-Episode28/Neat-EP28.mp3

This week we go all out to bring you cutting edge news, mostly revolving around dull memes and newspapers that write things we don't really understand. We also talk rubbish about Lord of the Rings without Golem, Monarch Battles™, Minecraft without Lego,and warm fuzzy feelings. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

This week we try out a new format, to make the podcast a little faster paced. To that extent, episodes from here on out will be shorter than usual, but hopefully punchier. The content however, remains as useless and mundane as ever. For example... a footballer's wife brushed her hair out of her face somewhere, the sun exploded (although had no real effect on the planet at all), a little obligatory SOPA ranting, stupid patents (cue BUSINESS SHARKS), and finally Mel Gibson and his interchangeable alter-ego, Bruce Willis. Oh and CJ screws up the plugs at the end of the episode again. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

Post-series depression, North Korea and the legendary Great Leader lineage, using humans as shields, animals mourning instead of hibernating, extraditing people for the hell of it, some more SOPA ranting. No mention of PETA. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

More complaining about moving house, and some stuff about piracy and stealing films and not stealing films and not stealing games and things that aren't piracy. The most-downloaded films on Bitorrent, Agent Nick Fury is Samuel L Jackson, Gerard Butler is not in Thor, Zyzzyx road, moral slash scientific slash philosophical discussion, Pope, and The Think Stuff Calendar. Also to anyone who cares, Jonathan Ross wasn't sacked by the BBC, he was taken off the air, made to publicly apologise and then stifled into nothingess for while until he left optionally. There's a big difference, honestly. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

Our first live show in a while - we talk about eating curry for Christmas dinner, astronauts celebrating Christmas in space, decorating your own shoes, telling children about Santa visiting them in the night, sabre-toothed 8 legged horses, patron saint of broadcasters (thanks, St. Nick), the Grinch trying to poison everyone at Christmas, eating lead, lego. That's right. Lego. Extra music in this week's episode is by Jonathon Coulton, at jonathoncoulton.com Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

Apologies for the initial poor audio quality in this episode, it returns to normal after about 15 minutes. We talk about the military in films, CSI as science fiction, the inflation of comic books, the Geneva convention in video games, Siri's views on abortion, fan-boys of every breed, and finally, Mythbusters. Oh, and pervy clerics. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

Unsere erste kleine Jubiläumsfolge. Schneller als anfangs gedacht, haben wir die Zehn vollgemacht und sie steht nun frisch für euch bereit als Download. Wir haben bei dieser Aufnahme zum ersten Mal auf Skype verzichtet und unsere Gesprächsrunde über Ventrilo abgehalten. Da das Ganze technisches Neuland für uns ist, würde es uns sehr interessieren ob ihr einen Qualitätsunterschied feststellen konntet, oder ob euch die Qualität gar nicht so wichtig ist und die vorherigen Folgen schon ok waren. Außerdem sind wir natürlich für jegliche Tipps und Ratschläge was das Thema Aufnahme und Tonqualität angeht dankbar. Konna würde sich übrigens auch sehr über Tipps gegen Erkältungen freuen und sprity interessiert sich besonders für eure Art des Nachrichtenkonsums. Jetzt aber viel Spaß mit den...

Unsere erste kleine Jubiläumsfolge. Schneller als anfangs gedacht, haben wir die Zehn vollgemacht und sie steht nun frisch für euch bereit als Download. Wir haben bei dieser Aufnahme zum ersten Mal auf Skype verzichtet und unsere Gesprächsrunde über Ventrilo abgehalten. Da das Ganze technisches Neuland für uns ist, würde es uns sehr interessieren ob ihr einen Qualitätsunterschied feststellen konntet, oder ob euch die Qualität gar nicht so wichtig ist und die vorherigen Folgen schon ok waren. Außerdem sind wir natürlich für jegliche Tipps und Ratschläge was das Thema Aufnahme und Tonqualität angeht dankbar. Konna würde sich übrigens auch sehr über Tipps gegen Erkältungen freuen und sprity interessiert sich besonders für eure Art des Nachrichtenkonsums. Jetzt aber viel Spaß mit den...

BACK AFTER 4 YEARS!!! Today it's a special VENTRILO episode of The Gamesite's podcast where we talk about a couple of free games out on Steam that you should get, why I think SSX might be a big hit when it comes out next February, and why my friend should NOT trade his Wii for a 360.

Welcome to a yet longer episode of Think Stuff Podcast. We talk about Skyrim, lightbulbs, exploiting those with little concept of the value of a lollipop. The ultimate test of any actor, Bruce Willis and a pick-up truck, and Patsy Kensit not being Seth Efrican. Thanks for listening, apologies for listening. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

Welcome to our longest episode thus far. Space technology! Writing things down in supermarkets! Old people! Snakes in cash machines! Drunken people and expensive sandwiches! Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

Join us on a roller coaster of fun this week as we cause accidental offence to most of Asia, and women. Sorry. Also we detail our Halloween give away of 2 games on Steam! Email us at email@thinkstuffpodcast.com with your best Halloween photo or story to be in with a chance to win. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

During this week's show we consider the beard Olympics, new birds that are angry, and the art of curb crawling. We also tie up the stale news regarding the german greek wooden horse from last week, and wonder why on earth anyone would want a wooden horse anyway. The political leanings of animals, the desire to mummify oneself and the lameness of Lady Gaga. Information overload. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

This week our live stream failed partway through. But we handled it professionally, and CJ carried on talking, entirely oblivious. Thank god for small mercies /sarcasm. The world's terrorists and their love of ice cream Occupy the world. Tom Morello in a fist fight with Ghandi. What more could you possibly want? Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

We discuss how all products are built by robots in underground sweatshops, and how religion is the new way to troll people right onto Judge Judy. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

This week we are plagued by technical difficulties (which is also an excellent song by Racer X, I'd check that out rather than listen to this episode). We talk about Google, Facebook, court, and other such calamities! The video which we reference in regards to the wall street protests can be found at http://tinyurl.com/maceupyourface Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

CJ and myself are both very tired and hungover in this episode, having just arrived back in the UK after the Think Stuff annual convention in Las Vegas. Thanks to the many thousands of fans who came to party hard with us. Conversely, apologies to the listeners of this episode. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

A man in Greece lit himself on fire because he heard this episode wouldn't be released. Don't worry, man in Greece- here it is! Good luck on the burns ward. Glowing cats that might as well replace traffic lights. Angry Birds that are angry! Nothing about Apple. Spongebob. End. Find Tim's website at www.twschofield.com if you like reading dull things. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

Star Trek, amazing televisions, awful televisions, electricity! What more could you want? How about putting them all in a podcast? Ok! The "You Mad, Bro?" YouTube video to which we refer can be found at http://tinyurl.com/bromancemadness Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

This week we talk about why we think we shouldn't discuss Libya, and then proceed to discuss Libya. We also talk about Putin as a religion, internet piracy as a bypass of the criminal justice system and old women with the best internet on the planet. Our website: www.thinkstuffpodcast.com Email us at: email@thinkstuffpodcast.com

Aprillian, Glanthur and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Actually no Ashayo this week. But he'll be back next week. Write us at ctrlaltwow@gmail.com Contest for WoW Mini's Contest for emails What We've Been Doing: Aprillian Quad boxed in Nagrand, it was quite the experience.  Epril, Elyte, Auruk and Aprillian.  Finished the Crone quest and then hearthed to Dalaran and did some maintainance and prof training.  Epril got her JC up over 325 and headed back to Nagrand where she ran into that chick with the many hides quest.  Aprillian needed training, hadn't been to a Warlock Trainer in ages, spent over 50 g and finally figured out how to socket her boots. Sometimes you have to take the time to read.  Elyte made some glyph, turned out she had some open spaces Went to do the mana cell daily with Aprillian, fell off of the Landing, had to run around to get back to the town and find a Spirit Healer Took Auruk and the twins back to Nagrand.  Did the War on Warmual quest, freeing those guys out of the cage.  Auruk had done the quests but he managed to ding 66, so that was cool.  I have to remember to take him back to train.  There was some tricky stuff, for instance Elyte needed Obsidian beads so she needed to do the looting but Epril needed the powder. New transfers off of ER.  I transfered the Death Knight that wasn't one of the twins, started a DK gnome, her blade goes through the ground.  Then I panicked because Thejasper was my high level DE'er and now I didn't have any.  So I decided to get out Veyle, my level 40 rogue enchanter BS and Tiiaa my mage enchanter skinner.  Veyle has Enchanting maxed at 300 because she needs to get to 50.  I brought my level 39 Mage along, she was 3 bubbles from 40.  I want her to get portals.  I took the 3 out to the Badlands where Tiiaa got those two gathering quests Glanthur Transferred from Earthen Ring on my Alliance alts (Glanthur and Arlaerus) to Wyrmrest Accord, a RPPvE realm.  I was so new I actually got a realm first for 450 in cooking achievement.  There were only 20-something 80s on the whole server the first day, so I joined a great guild called Lost Chapter (a raid guild) and we ran Obsidian Sanctum.  Since we were the first, we got another Realm First, and I'm now officially Obsidian Slayer Glanthur.  So cool! Also been leveling Arlaerus, since the guild needs more healers.  It's tough though finding good plate spell-casting gear. Great Ventrillo client for Mac is Ventrilo (also has a PC and Linux client). The Bladed Edge Now... this week's been busy in real life, so Ol' Blade doesn't have a lot of news to report... my little project is coming along... hit a few snags here and there... but I hope by next week to be back in Northrend hammering my way up to 80... Got things to do, you know... gotta level my Engineering skill, too! That said, if you need any tinkering or sudden miraculous inventions to be made... Ol' Blade's not half-bad... but I *did* come across someone who totally bests me in the 'miraculous invention' department... McGoyver... Ya... seriously... he's in Howling Fjord... admittedly, it's a bit of a lunch-bag let-down that he's a Gnome... but regardless... he's on the beach at Volgarde... he's even got a tag under his name... very apt for one of the best inventors of miraculous stuff... Moving on. From the 'Dirty Little Tricks' Department: For the Hunters... a two in one... 'cause... if you're like me on Wolftusk... not the *best* Hunter in the world... but not so clueless as to be called a 'Huntard' (those are the ones that let their pet Growl the aggro off the Tank... you know who you are...) The rest of us get tarred with a nasty brush every time one of you jokers goofs up in a dungeon... so hopefully this two-shot of macros will help that from happening a little less often... Two-shot... see what I did there?  I made a punny! Step one: /Focus Target Manually select your target (player, pet, or even a mob) you want as a focus, and hit the macro.  They now have a shiny glow around their character picture, showing them as your focus... and yes, your focus can also be an enemy mob; you may be on CC (crowd control) duty and assigned to chain trap a particular mob. This macro does its part by making the mob your focus... making it easier to keep track of your enemy. Now... step 2... /Target Focus /Assist Target /Cast Auto Shot (or whatever... some folks like to have an instant-cast shot like Arcane Shot in here... it's personal preference, really... some prefer a slower-acting shot like Serpent Sting to allow the tank to generate a little Threat before the damage starts...) Assuming that you used the macro we just mentioned to choose the Tank as your Focus, this macro will allow you to /assist your focus (the tank) and let fly with one of your attacks. If you *remove* the third line and don't have an attack launched at the tank's target as soon as you hit this macro, then you select the tank's target as your own (that's what /assist does) and you wait... this might be a wise thing to do depending on the situation... it lets the tank generate the threat they need to keep the mobs from focussing on you! But then... there's something to be said about waiting a few seconds while the tank does their thing... Whatever you do... don't use Aimed Shot... if you do, I'll track you down and call you a Huntard myself... From Ol' Blade's Easter Egg Basket: As everyone knows by now, Ol' Blade's been doing some exploring... and some of the more out-of-the-reach places have hidden things to find if you look hard enough... For example... when flying between Elwynn Forest and Burning Steppes, if you look down, you can see some campsites along the banks of a small river or stream that eventually feeds the waterfall in Northshire... you can't get to this place from Elwynn FZorest, but there's a path that leads right up the mountains to it from the Burning Steppes... I recommend being high enough level to not drawn aggro from the level 50+ monsters in this zone... From up here, there's some pretty spectacular views of Elwynn Forest... and another little curiosity... near the banks of the stream, there's a school of fish you can fish from... but you don't catch fish... you catch peaceblooms... Also... if you swim south from Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands (or technically north from Stormwind Harbor) you will come to a spot on the coastline called 'Newman's Landing'. Now... I know what you're thinking... who goes THERE? Apparently not many people... it *does* seem to be a pun of the phrase "No Man's Land" after all... Not a friendly place... there's skeletons all over the place... it looks like the last time I pvp'd against the Alliance... there's even a signpost with a skull balanced on an axe embedded in the post. From what I hear, this place used to be completely abandoned... maybe a long-forgotten pirate treasure-burial site?  Who knows? High Admiral "Shelly" Jorrik might. He's the goblin that - with a few guards - has recently come to the area... maybe to dig for pirate gold? As always, an awesome podcast guys! Blade Emails Email #1 From Patrick Bye bye to Earthin Ring for me Hello guys For the past few weeks, when I have tried to sign onto the Earthin Ring, 95% of the time I am stuck in a queue. Unfortunately I encountered the last straw a few days ago and that was it, I took the free character move and moved Bruurk, my lvl 35 hunter and my other alt, to the Garrosh server.  Unfortunately this does mean I have left AIG which did disappoint me quit a bit, but the fact that there is no more queue time now means I can play for bloody change !! So sorry Ashayo, as it was you who added me to AIE guild. LOL, So Aprillian you no longer have to worry about my alt lurking in the AH to intercept your cross faction auctions.  By the way, in listening to the last few pod casts, I think I figured out the name of your alliance toon that you use in your AH laundering scams.  Not to worry you secret is safe since I am no long on Earthin Ring !!!! Well that is all for now !! Go Arsenal FC !! Patrick Email #2 from Brenry - Boulderfist Name: Brenry - Boulderfist | Date: January 17, 2009 When he comments on his dread about Pinnacle gauntlet… there is a way to EASY mode it. Here's how ! Party waits in room before gauntlet. Someone aggros boss so he'll fly up starting event. That person runs back. He and all the mobs will despawn. Then the party runs all the way down the hall to the room at the other end. This will avoid ALL frost issues on ground. Just aoe the mob waves that spawn on top of you. Right before the 5th or 6th (i forget which) wave when the boss lands, everyone leave room so they avoid cleave of boss and tank picks it up. Enjoy free epics XD Email #3 from Dreamweaver I have just finished listening to Ctrlaltwow and was quite shocked to hear my e-mail on the show as looking back it was quite long, and was even more shocked to found out i won. Email #3a from Dreamweaver Dreamweaver back again, after listening to the podcast and being suprised that i won the roll (see other e-mail) i would like to say sorry for missing out Glanthur from the very start, BUT i did say something about all three of you in the Itunes review i did before i wrote the e-mail to Ctrlaltwow Also a little update from my fuzzball druid, after quite some time working on all the rep with the home cities i finaly got the Title reward of Ambassador :D i was so pleased with myself i was runing round all over the place showing off my title, and about 30 mins later i got a wisper from a friend asking to tank malygos 10 man, so ofc i went, i have been before so i knew what to do in phase one and two but i hadnt been able to down him as of then. untill i got into this group... the damage that all of these people were doing was amazing so getting malygos to 50% in quite a short time came the next phase, this is where mobs come flying down on hover disc's (think back to the future) so the ones that were on the ground i picked up while they were nuked down, then the ones in the air were taken down aswell. in this phase when one of the mobs die they drop the hover disc's and melee can jump onto them and dps down the ones flying in the air, once they are all dead the platform that you are on just crumbles away and all 10 of us just fall into space to our deaths...... but just when i think OOOOHHHH NNOOEEESSSS while falling 10 drakes from the dragonflight come sweeping up and we land on the backs of them, the drakes have abilitys all of there own so we use the drakes spells to kill malygos. 1% left on him and the second he dies KABOOM  **Dreamweaver has earned Champion of the Frozen Wastes** So now i am shown as 'Dreamweaver Champion of the Frozen Wastes' I didnt even know i would get the title so was a bit shocked and getting it only an hour after getting the title of Ambassador. My druid has a funny a in its name so will link his armory page http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Draenor&n=Dre%C3%A1mweaver

SANS Security, Ventrilo, Email from Scott Lewis, Shell/Bash, Command Line Editing, find, Home Entertainment, Speaker Setup, Philips Pronto, Systm, reCAPTCHA, Google Street Maps, iPhone 3rd-Party Development, ZFS In Leopard, movabletype, Substitute teacher gets new trial, Other People's Porn, The Slurpr WiFi aggregator, US high-speed Internet is slow, StarCraft II

SANS Security, Ventrilo, Email from Scott Lewis, Shell/Bash, Command Line Editing, find, Home Entertainment, Speaker Setup, Philips Pronto, Systm, reCAPTCHA, Google Street Maps, iPhone 3rd-Party Development, ZFS In Leopard, movabletype, Substitute teacher gets new trial, Other People's Porn, The Slurpr WiFi aggregator, US high-speed Internet is slow, StarCraft II

What the hell is an Instance? TCG: The sset review rolls on. THis week Prests are the focus. Fist pick: When to draft your hero. MMO: The big Ragefire Chasam instance guide. All you needed to know and more! GO to Wowrealms.com for more detailed notes and screen shots! Phenomones Tip of the week : Ventrilo!!!!!

Ventrilo, Travis and his new Sprint phone, Email from Karsten (Germany) on Audio Watermarking, Email from Jordi (England) on Gmail, PGP, AOL Charging for E-mail, Apple's Non-Event, Mac OS X security, Virus naming, CME (Common Malware Enumeration), MITRE, Stores storing PINs, Gmail Javascript Flaw, Google Calendar Screenshots