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No Open Directory Project Tag

The NOODP tag will work for both excluding the ODP title and the ODP description from displaying in the Google results.

By adding <meta NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”> or <meta NAME=”googlebot” CONTENT=”NOODP”> you can tell Google not to use the ODP title and description in the results.

Recently there has been some concern at various forums about the use of Open Directory Project (DMOZ.org) web page descriptions by some search engines as the default description used in the search engine result page listings. Simply put, if your web page is listed in ODP, the search engine may choose to use the description of that listing in its results, since they were approved by a human and are most likely accurate.

The problem is that many people have ODP listings that are outdated, and therefore do not match up nicely with the new page content. ODP is notoriously slow in responding to requests by webmasters to modify listings, so the idea came about to create a new snippet of code that would direct search engine spiders to not use the ODP description when indexing a page.

NOODP tag

Tags: NOODP tag, ODP title, ODP description, Open Directory Project

Survival Tips for Entrepreneurs During the Next 24 months

Thoughts about Web 2.0, social networking, podcasting, revenue models, Google and more.

Have a revenue model, right now. Not something you’ll figure out when you get some traffic. Oh, and it cannot be 100% based on AdSense or being an Amazon Affiliate. It is fine to be ad-supported, pay-per-something, platform licensing, or anything that is predictable and based on existing economic models. Revenue matters, and if you aren’t thinking about it, then what you have is a hobby not a business.

Fit your business into an existing food chain. Back in dot-com times everybody spoke of a new economy. Well, surprise, there isn’t one. Advertisers pay for clicks, eyeballs, branding, etc. Consumers pay for goods and services (which naturally includes porn). Companies pay for services rendered, technology, etc. I’m obviously simplifying the model, but that’s because it is simple. If you do not have a food chain to be a part of, odds are not good you will make money.

Tags: Web 2.0, social networking, podcasting, revenue models

ToorCon Hacker Convention

ToorCon is just around the corner again this year. In its 8th running year, it is still San Diego’s exclusive hacker convention, bringing together Southern California’s hacker community year after year to attend the high quality presentations and participate in the annual festivities.

This year we are still aiming to provide the same highly technical lectures you’ve come to know and love, but also set the theme as “Bits & Bites” which will highlight the low level skills of the trade and focus on Reverse Engineering, Protocol Analysis, Cryptography, Hardware Hacks, and other nifty bit-twiddling and byte munging techniques.

Once again, we will be offering an intensive full-day Deep Knowledge Seminar on Friday the 29th that we are also accepting submissions for.

This year’s event will be held at the San Diego Convention Center. The reception and conference will take place on September 29th-October 1st in meeting rooms 24-26 at the San Diego Convention Center’s (front) upper level.

Tags: hacker, hacker community, Reverse Engineering, Protocol Analysis, Cryptography, Hardware Hacks

DIY Hummer Electric Vehicle

Start with these electric vehicle resources:

BOOKS
Build Your Own Electric Vehicle by Bob Brant, 310 pages with illustrations. Textbook covers every subject, $13; published 1994.

Convert It by Michael Brown with Shari Prange, third edition, 128 pages with illustrations. Conversion process explained step by step; $25; published 1993.

The New Electric Vehicles by Michael M. Hackleman, 272 pages with 465 photos. Conversions, solar cars, boats, planes; $75; published 1996.

COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS
www.kta-ev.com
www.evworld.com
www.evparts.com/about
www.metricmind.com
www.electroauto.com
www.go-ev.com
www.ev-america.com
www.austinev.org/evtradinpost

Ballpark EV conversion for a Hummer around $15,000?

Tags: Electric Vehicle, solar cars

Don’t Crawl On Me

Here’s some tips to control Googlebot’s indexing.

1. At a site or directory level, use .htaccess to add password protection.
2. At a site or directory level, use the robots.txt file.
3. At a page level, use the noindex tag.
4. At a link level, use a nofollow attribute.
5. If the content has already been crawled, use the Google url removal tool.

Tags: Googlebot

Who Needs an Electric Hummer?

Alex Tew selling dollar pixels on his advertising page milliondollarhomepage, Kyle MacDonald trading one red paperclip for a house and Karyn Bosnak asking visitors to help her out with her credit card debt on her cyberbegging site, were all successful at attaining their money raising objectives.

On the other hand, Dallas, TX resident Ed Mayhall on his Ed Needs a Hummer page, has raised only about $200 towards his goal of $120,000 (huh?). His last update was April 2005 where be complains, I guess people are not as rich as they were back in the day. Looking at his page, it’s not hard to see why the donations have been paltry. Who are you Ed, where’s your picture and how will you use that Hummer to better the world?

Convert a Hummer to electric is about a “green” company (just up the road in LA) named Left Coast Electric, that is focused on providing alternatives to using gasoline and foreign oil in transportation and industrial applications. They convert current gasoline-powered cars to pure electric. I think an electric Hummer would attract attention and help get the word out about alternative energy solutions. Advertising space could be sold on an electric Hummer to environmenally responsible companies. There might be enough money generated from the ads to finance the conversion!

Tags: Hummer, electric Hummer