Back then we travelled up to the Gorbals in Glasgow every Sunday for more breakin with a whole host of Glasgow based crews … Skywalkers B-Boys, Glasgow Breakers etc… Anyways, I came across this video on YouTube and was wondering if anybody had some photos, videos of that time they’d like to share?

I want to start a blog about the scene back then and would really like to hear all your stories, photos or vids … so contact me at me@paulsteven.me

Here’s what I sent :

I’m not 100% sure if anyone within your office follows what the search engine Google. But lately there has been an influx of american .com websites invading our own google.co.uk data centre.

Anyway to cut a long story short, Google have basically placed more emphasis for the .com sites and when do a ‘local search’ within Google, outwith the Google Map Pack of sites, normally located at the top of the page, the organic listings is littered with businesses from Irvine, CA, US.

Why is this important, well try a few examples and you’ll see…

plumber Irvine
painter Irvine
electrician irvine
gas engineers irvine
car mechanic irvine
hairdresser irvine

etc…

Not exactly local listings and not very helpful for local businesses when Google crunches local businesses for a local search query into a ten pack map search.

Just thought you might like to know how Google is treating local businesses in Irvine.

All the best,

Paul

Small businesses are being treated as a joke, if you think getting listed in the ten pack map search at the top of the page is hard, then think again, it is easy to abuse and spam.

The things that gave me the belly laugh was Matt’s comments about why, SEO’s (Search Engine Optimisers) failed to notice – for over a year – that Google had scrapped the use of ‘No Follow’ for page sculpting. TBH, I never noticed, and I’ll bet that 99.9% of those involved within the industry never noticed either.

So, you can bet Matt, had a massive giiggle to himself when he was penning his post as he not only mentioned it once but twice …

At first, we figured that site owners or people running tests would notice, but they didn’t.

In retrospect, we’ve changed other, larger aspects of how we look at links and people didn’t notice that either, so perhaps that shouldn’t have been such a surprise.

You wonder what else Matt has up-his-sleeve, that affords himself a good giggle at a webmaters/SEO’s lack of awareness. It does make you wonder and once again drives home the fact that we are all playing catch-up as to what Google requires for a site to rank well within their search engines. And that, for many, is no laughing matter.

Fathers Day Gifts For Geeky Dad’s

USB Owl

This little feathered friend perches on your laptop and keeps an ever-trusted eye out for anything untoward happening near your screen. Although, it ain’t going to fly down and pick anything up for you, nope, the most he’ll do is flash his eyes and spin his head around. Childish, yes, geek worth, priceless.

Price : £12.99 URL : www.iwantoneofthose.com/usb-owl

Twitter Pillow

OK, right, I know what your thinking, eh, I’m a dude, what do I need a pillow for, well for one, if your like moi, sitting on your ass most of the day in front of a Mac or PC then your back-end is going to feel as flat as the Cheeky Girls’ breast size. You’ll need a soft pillow from time to time and why not be look cool as well as comfy with your Twitter pillow.

Price : $17.99 URL : www.geeky-gadgets.com/twitter-icon-pillow

Banksy Panda T-Shirt

Banksy is sooooo uber-cool, and if your a geek then your going to have make some space alongside your Monty Python and Dr Who collection for this urban master. I could have picked a number of Bansky merchandise to display here but the Panda T-Shirt is just so awesome looking in full Reservoir Dogs pose as well.

Price : £9.99 URL : www.ebay.com/banksy-panda-tshirt

Sat Nag

This would be ideal for any Father who is away on those lonesome tiring journeys and is missing the other half in the car, simply plug in the Sat Nag and it’ll be like she’s right there in the car with you. Guaranteed to get you lost in no time at all.

Price : £5.99 URL : www.play.com/sat-nag

The Iranian state has now declared to its civilians, that if they continue to document what is happening on the streets of Iran in the mass public stages of demonstration, they will face retribution from the feared Revolutionary Guard.

However, there is a dark side to all of this Twitter Civilian Journalism, facing everyone who uses Twitter as a micro-blogging tool. You are being watched! The Secret Service are of-course monitoring feeds, Twitter’s own real time Search is a great way to watch and label those using the site for political motivation no matter how just or unjust, dependant on which side of the wall you belong too.

However, I’m eight hours late to the party and my #1 choice of facebook.com/paulsteven is well gone, in fact my other two choices have been snapped up as well.

To change your Facebook account to a more search friendly url simply go to :  facebook.com/username

* Word of warning, once changed its not reversable, so think hard before you select your choice.

Those that walk into boardrooms or try to impress their friends with throwing the phrase ‘web 2.0′ into the conversation ought to be tarred and then feathered in my book! Why? Cause their plonkers, that’s why. And so is that word, phrase, whatever you want to call it, it scores 10/10 for sheer Forest Gumpness, because you know what’s coming next dontcha … Web 3.0, Web 3.5, Web 4.125 … give me a frickin’ break.

Y’know what, those elbow patched know-it-alls, who brought Web 2.0 into the mainstream have opened up a wankword fest from those dribbly, advertising, marketing execs who staple a pair of braces to their trousers each morning and read newspapers bigger than their backbones. You know we are about to have the dribble-from-the-mouth brigade, salivating about where they can stick – the new – ‘Web 2.0′ word into their next Powerpoint presentation. While the remainder of us online nod in agreement as to where we’d like to shove it …