Gladius may look like an innocent little widget, but it will bring back some hefty results: Market Segment, Cost/Click, Clicks/Day, Competing Pages, PPCMV, Est. OMV for your chosen keywords.

The international keyword widget (available in over 20 locales worldwide) is easily embeddable and can be added to your website, blog or social platforms.

If your interest is peaked, you can try out the new tool below right here on Technology Goddess.

Give it a try and grab the code for free!

There is no LSI Controversy.

“Latent Semantic Analysis is an algorithm. An idea. A tool. It has many applications for which it is ideally suited, and some for which it is not. Some of those applications include, but are not limited to (from Wikipedia):

• Compare the documents in the concept space (data clustering, document classification)
• Find similar documents across languages, after analyzing a base set of translated documents (cross language retrieval)
• Find relations between terms (synonymy and polysemy)
• Given a query of terms, translate it into the concept space, and find matching documents (information retrieval)

Obviously if you are a search engine, the information retrieval would be most interesting. If you have a huge amount of research abstracts that you are trying to categorize for research purposes, you’d be most interested in document classification. Cross language retrieval would be right up your alley if you are tracking the history and evolution of Indo-European languages using their dated written histories. If you are trying to discover all of the ways that a particular concept is thought of and referenced, you’d focus on synonymy and polysemy.”

I had to smile when I came across Ferny Ceballos’ blog and the LSI: Passive Agressive Attack or Misunderstanding post, both because of the great personal writing style he always uses, and the graphic image of the bull (doing his business) he used, which of course, I promptly swiped to use on my own blog, too.  (I know you won’t mind, Ferny).

~ Technology Goddess

So, initially I was excited about OnlyWire, (notice I didn’t put a link there, yes… that is a deliberate spurn). When I signed up for Onlywire, I had visions of easy bookmarking as I browsed the web, and seamless updating of my bookmark sites saving more time for chatting.

I value my communities and the people that I connect with as we share with one another across the social sphere. It’s a gift that I take seriously, the wonderful people I have met through social realms on the web are a virtual family I try to give good advice to and learn from mutually.  So, I don’t send spammy crappy stuff to my friends, and I sure get irritated at people who send me spammy crappy stuff! When I tweet about or write about a product, it’s because I found it relevant and am personally using it and laying my rep on the line by giving something a thumbs up.

So, imagine my suprise, and irritation, when I woke up to find my inbox full of people who stopped following me on Twitter (courtesy of Qwitter).

As I scrolled through the inbox I realized I had dozens of defectors! My disbelief grew as long as the list… What happened? What did I say that was so offensive dozens of my valued friends and community gave me the cold hard “defriend” shoulder?

My irritation turned into pure Goddess-PMS-MAD when I opened the Qwitter emails and found this email message in every one:

THANKS A LOT, OnlyWire, for sending out stupid, unrequested spam Twitters and bookmarks to my entire network under the guise of “testing” my profiles when I signed up.

You guys need to realize that if someone is social enough to actually NEED a service like OnlyWire, we are also smart enough and considerate enough of our followers to be relevant and personal.

If I wanted to bookmark or Twitter you I WOULD HAVE. I can understand if you snarked on my list because I had a “free” account, I understand free services have to pay the bills, but I had a paid premium account, and you STILL snarked my entire social list for blatent self promotion.

More suprises came when I went to Qwitter with the intention of updating my email, and found their domain to be redirected to Muggn, along with a snarky little post about how Muggn owns the Qwitter domain and thus decided to redirect it. Oh brother, fighting like little kids. Do you need a time out guys?

And to my followers who value me to be a non-spammy & logical voice in the social sphere, I am sorry…
The only saving social grace in this, is that I will now use OnlyWire…. to bookmark this article. *wink*
Anyone want to Digg it? Bwahahahaha

~Your Technology Goddess

Erika sent me a fascinating article that is related to my work at Theme Zoom. Scientists have created a model to monitor trends in social media such as Twitter and global semantics in combination with scraping and mining data from Google and world financial markets to fortell major pandemic disease, ecological crisis and total global collapse.

Russell Wright (Guest Writer for Technologygoddess.com)

I have to say with a little bit of an evil chuckle, that by adding your Google Friend Connect to your FriendFeed, and having the FriendFeed app enabled in Facebook, you can now feed your Google Friend Connect activity straight into Facebook for all your Facebook friends to see… And since Facebook has made it so damn hard to integrate THEIR Friend Connect app on the average users blog, you will likely have some of your jealous Facebook friends climb out of the walled garden to come and play with you in the real world.  *wink*

Here is a Handy Little 5 minute video i created that walks you through the feed setup:
Below the Video you will find the text tutorial.

1. To get started go to your Google Friend Connect app on your site and click “settings” you will be taken to your profile page.

2. In your Google Friend Connect Profile, Make sure you have selected Orkut and Plaxo

3. Select the “Show Your Activity on this site to other users and friends” box

4. Go to your Plaxo profile page and you should now see your Google Friend Connect stream showing. You will want to click on the “view all” in the right corner of your Pulse Stream to see your Pulse Stream page.

Here is what your Pulse Stream Page looks like:

5. Firefox users, click on the RSS button up in your URL window to go to the Plaxo Pulse Stream Feed page.

6. Enable Your PulseStream “me” on the Pulse Stream Page and copy the URL to your clipboard.

7. Go to your Feedburner Account, and burn the new Feed URL into a feed:

8. Go to the new Feed page and get the New FeedBurner URL for the Plaxo Feed that has your Google Friend Connect Feed in it and log into your FriendFeed account:

9. In FriendFeed you will want to “Import a Site”, treating the new Feedburner feed like a blog:

10. Add your Feedburner URL to the RSS/Blog entry and once you hit save it should import your Plaxo/Google Friend Connect feed right into your FriendFeed, and anywhere else you have friendfeed enabled to stream!  You can also use the feedburner feed to stream into your other lifestreams that you might have in other networks.

I am sure that once you have the hang of this, you will think of creative ways to use your Google Friend Connect and other social feeds across all your networks. Remember that you may not want some feeds to display in some networks, so use your discretion as to what feeds are running where to avoid mixing your business, church, family etc… into one big swimming pool.

Erika~ Technology Goddess
More Google Friend Connect Videos, Articles and Tutorials

Google Friend Connect Beta is Growing
Google Friend Connect Setup, So Easy a Blog Can Do It!
(Has Videos of my setting up Friend Connect on this site).

Social Media Articles

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The sites that are coming online are pretty much relying on organic search results to show they have Friend Connect enabled on the site so that other users can find them without searching through tons of profiles. This is why I am creating this post, so that in the search results when someone types in “Google Friend Connect Sites” or the like, they can find me and decide if I’m someone they would like to befriend.

All in all, I love friend connect so far and am having a lot of fun connecting with the other users coming online with it!

• The fact that you can travel from site to site, and have your friends travel with you is wonderful!
• I am also able to see what other sites my friends have joined, and then go check out those sites to see if they interest me as well.

In the near future, simply having the ability to see what sites your friends are on, and then visit those sites and join is going to provide an almost limitless supply of amazing new websites and places to visit.

Right now all of the newly Friend Connect enabled site owners are trying to connect with each other for the purpose of exploring the community. I have decided that an ongoing list of sites that I discover and find are on Google Friend Connect might be helpful for those of you just coming online with Friend Connect and looking around to see where you can play.

My List of Google Friend Connect Enabled Websites:

Are We Connected?
Darrell Penta (He has an amazing site)
TechESL (Darrell’s Learning, Language and Technology) blog
BILL BOARD for the PEOPLE
BuiltWith
Epeus Epigone (One of my Favorite Blogs!)
Ferny Ceballos’ Personal Blog
Go2web20 Blog
Language Co-Laboratory
Media Futurist (Another One of my Favorite Blogs!)

PreSale Today (concert tickets)
Food Recipes

Levees.Org (Levee information, Important Katrina Initiatives)
Social Media Vision
Mrs Deal Finder

Prime Cuts Bodybuilding DVDs
Just Done
Social Gumbo

My First Earthquake
My Latest Piece
Naples FL News and Info
Recipes
Technology Goddess
Charles Heflin
Visit Dominica
Garazon’s Den

If you have a site that is Google Friend Connect Enabled and would like to be listed, please comment on this post below with your site URL and join my Friend network and I’ll come by your site to check it out. (spammy or creepy sites I will not link to.)

This is only a service I’m going to provide until there is something “Google official” for Friend Connect Powered sites to be found by one another easily.  (Hmmm directory?)

Once there are thousands of sites powered, this will also not be an issue, the neural aspect of the network will start to make finding one another easy! In the meantime, lets connect, have fun and enjoy being some of the pioneers in this new network!

Here are my other Google Friend Connect Articles:

Technology Goddess: Google
Google Friend Connect Beta is Growing
Google Friend Connect Setup, So Easy a Blog Can Do It!
(Has Videos of my setting up Friend Connect on this site).

Erika ~ Technology Goddess - Social Media and Market Intelligence News

The problems have stemmed from Google Blog Search indexing blogs primarily by RSS feeds only, which meant that for blogs that only have a “partial” feed (such as title only or just the introduction and not the whole post), Google Blog Search would ONLY index the partial portion.  Many blogs have the partial feed enabled because they are running the feeds as post titles or summaries through social apps like FriendFeed and profile pages.

The result of Google Blog Search indexing by RSS feeds meant that any links or text that was in the rest of the post was not avalable through blog search, although the full posts were still being indexed by web search.  This caused major discrepencies in search, indexing and ranking results.

Jeremy Hylton of the Google Blog Search Team says that they will now index the FULL content of the blog page, even if the blog publishes only a partial feed. BUT that this means it will also now index the non-post parts of your blog pages too.

How is this currently effecting your blog indexing? Well, because your non-post parts of the pages are also indexing, you may notice that your tags are also now sometimes indexing as pages, because anytime a blog publishes a new post Google Blogsearch is picking up the new page the post is in, including the sidebar details.

This also causes challenges for people who have alerts set up or do searches on themselves, their sites or their brand because you may get an alert or a search result that shows you are on the post, but when you go to the site you cannot find yourself anywhere on the page.

Jeremy says they are aware that indexing the entire page the post is on is not a perfect or long-term fix, but it is better than indexing by the RSS feed only.

“We do expect to fix the problem you are seeing. We’ll use the full page content, but exclude the content that isn’t really part of the post. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to make the change before the end of the year, but we are working on it and are pretty confident that it can be solved,” said Jeremy.

He also adds that once the blog indexing problems are fixed they will post an update at Google.

“We have changed the way we index blog posts to include the full content of the page. We’ve had occasional complaints about the use of the feed content, particularly the problem with partial feeds. The indexing change has improved the results for a lot of queries, both because we have the full content of the page and because we extract links that are missing from the feeds. The downside of this change is that we see more results that match only the blogroll and other parts of the page that are common to all of a blog’s posts,” explains Jeremy Hylton.

Jeremy also adds that that, “The algorithm will be improved to exclude “the content that isn’t really part of the post” to make the results more useful.”

Google almost always does a great job of picking up on major problems like this one and getting a fix out while keeping us informed of what the issue is.

In my case, I wish I had known this two weeks ago, as I had a few “late nights” up scratching my head trying to figure out why the strange indexing and search results were coming back on my blogs. It’s good to know that the strangeness in the blogosphere index will soon start to stabilize!

Erika- Technology Goddess Search Marketing News

More Google News on Technology Goddess

Additional Resources on this Article can Be found at:

Google Operating System
Nine By Blue
Google Blog Search Discussion Forum

This great social app integrates full community capability into any website or blog, and although right now there are not a lot of widgets developed yet with Google Friend Connect, it is OpenSocial and so I am anticipating that once it goes live there will be a multitude of wonderful gadgets developed to optimize your on-site community!

I have already integrated Google Friend Connect on the Technology Goddess blog, and you can now join the community and the conversation!

My Thoughts so far:

• Google Friend Connect was super-easy to install and integrate, easier than building most social widgets. I have created a basic tutorial for you in the Technology Goddess blog showing my own installation of Google Friend Connect.
• Right now the “wall” widget is ready to use so users can comment on your site, a nifty feature of the “wall” is that you can specify whether you want the widget to be for the entire site or a page. This means that you can have different areas of pages of your site, or perhaps a popular article on your blog that can have a unique “comments” wall for your community. Yes, blogs already have “comments” but the fact that you can now create this anywhere for your community is outstanding.
• The “Ratings” widget is similar, you can specify the “ratings” widget to cover an entire site, a page, an article or item. So yes, you can have rating not only for your articles or blog posts, but perhaps for your reviews of other products? I will have this widget integrated shortly with new articles that cover technology apps. so that my community can share in the ratings process.

Erika - Google Friend Connect Setup and Installation Videos on Technology Goddess Blog

More Information on Google Friend Connect and for more Google articles like this one.

Video One: Google Friend Connect Setup and Installation:

Video Two: Google Friend Connect Setup and Installation:

That’s my overview on setting up Google Friend connect on your blog or website. It took me only a few minutes to have a community flourishing on my blog. Very Cool.

More Articles on Google Friend Connect
and Social Media, OpenSocial

Erika- Technology Goddess

Was I in for a suprise! Not only were there MORE people than I expected, but as a “first timer” I was unprepared and ill equipped and fed for the trek. I found out many shoppers were drunk. At first I thought that was strange but as the morning wore on, I understood WHY people drink before Black Friday shopping. I hope they had designated drivers, because the way carts were crashing into my heels, feet, legs and body I feel like the song “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer”, only in my case, the reindeer had a Wal-Mart sign on it.

Just promise not to laugh TOO hard when I spy Starbucks and actually break into a song of joy. It was cold, very cold, and meant to be funny.

ABOVE: Black Friday part 1- I Arrive at Kohls and am SHOCKED!

ABOVE: Black Friday Part 2: Ig et through the line, get into Kohls, and encounter drunken shoppers.

ABOVE: Black Friday Part 4- I think these people are Drunk…. and then I discover WHY people DRINK before shopping on Black Friday.  As long as you have a designated driver, it might help to be tipsy.

ABOVE: Black Friday Part 5: Wal-Mart Adventure

~ Erika  Social Media and Life News form Technology Goddess

Neha Viswanathan, a former regional editor for Southeast Asia and a volunteer at Global Voices, told CNN.com, “Even before I actually heard of it on the news I saw stuff about this on Twitter.

Several people who were trapped inside the hotel were tweeting their locations asking for help, and another was tweeting that terrorists were asking for the hotel rooms of American citizens and holding them hostage on the floor.

CNN.com summed it up; “It was the day social media appeared to come of age and signaled itself as a news-gathering force to be reckoned with.”

Twitter users mobilized immediately tweeting phone numbers for helplines for family members with loved ones caught up in the attacks, and tweeters were key in quickly creating lists of the dead and injured beteween hospitals which were quickly posted online in real time. Twitter users posted at hospitals kept stock of blood supplies and pleaded for volunteers to come down and donate blood as stocks ran low with directions to the hospital.

Twitter user “naomieve” wrote: “Mumbai is not a city under attack as much as it is a social media experiment in action.”

Twitter was not the only social media site that played a critical role in the hours after the attacks began.

Google Maps showed the key locations and buildings being held with links to news stories, eyewitness accounts and links to images, as Flickr provided a streaming feed of haunting images live from the attacks. CNN reporters and other major broadcasters uploaded their Flickr images as well.

One of the major drawbacks, as in any situation where information is being virally spread, it’s likely that some of the posts on Twitter were unsubstantiated rumor or inaccuracies.

One major news website had egg on it’s face after reporting a couple of the inaccurate tweets, one of which was a tweet that circulated saying the Indian Gvt. was asking Twitter users to please stop tweeting live because of security issues.

It was suggested at one point as the Twitter-fury esclated that the terrorists were using Twitter to get information about what the Indian security forces were doing, which led to an avalanche of Twitter users tweeting, “Die DIE DIE if you are reading this!” Some Twitter users and bloggers later complained it was an avalanche of tweets and re-tweets that was hard to sort through.

One thing is clear: Twitter and Social Media have proven that social news sharing, can be faster and more critical in moments of emergency than mainstream media, and that the news is no longer under the global control of mainstream media, but in the hands of the people. At least in the hands of people with Blackberries or text-enabled cell phones.

~ Erika, http://TechnologyGoddess.com Social Media News

Social media Stories like This one…

Who is Kevin Marks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Marks

Kevin Marks is a Developer Advocate for Open Social at Google, bringing
external developers and Google engineers together to make a better web.
Over the last 20 years he’s alternated between giant companies and founding
startups - BBC, The UK MultiMedia Corporation, Apple QuickTime, Technorati
and now Google. The common thread has been working out how people,
computers and media can complement each other, and solving the engineering
and social problems where they meet. He is one of the driving forces behind
microformats.org and advisor to the Open Rights group. He wants you to
remember that URLs are people too.

CNET Credits Kevin Marks for the genesis of podcasting as he was a primary
developer of the program that downloads RSS-enclosure audio files and
transfers them to Apples I-tunes music player so they could be synchronized
onto the I-Pod. Later this became know as podcasting. (This is why
Feedburner has two feed options, one for podcasting and one for direct
feeds).

Here are some of the major topics and controversial questions covered in
this interview:

- How many Open Social applications exist at Google?

- Why is the concept of “data portability” a misnomer?

- How does Social Graph work with the publicly declared connections, XHTML
friends networks, XFN markup and FOAF (friend of a friend)?

- Google did not create a unique crawler for XFN and FOAF. (This has been
heavily debated and Kevin puts this controversy to rest).

- What are Google’s plans for XFN and FOAF as it relates to Search Engine
Optimization? (This has been heavily debated and Kevin puts this
controversy to rest).

- What does it mean (exactly) that Googlebot follows XFN and FOAF? (This
has also been heavily debated and Kevin puts this controversy to rest).

- XFN markup and FOAF were originally designed to display the distributed
networks and social relationships to the general public. How should you
prepare for where this is all going?

- What are the security risks and concerns regarding all of these publicly
revealed social networks.

- What is an “activity stream” and how do you avoid mixing your friends
from Church with your friends at the night club?

- Because Googlebot follows publicly declared connections via FOAF and XFN
it should be easy to determine where the “influencers” are located over
massive global networks. Why has Google rethought their strategy on where
true influencers exist as nodes on networks?

- How will the recent “geek disputes” about this issue effect the
proprietary and Google patented “influence rank” concept? (This is also
called “friend rank” or “social value rank” by the Internet Marketing
pundits).

- It it really possible to use “knowledge of influencers” to predictably
place “interruption advertising” inside major networks?

- Can you expect good conversion using this sort of “influence rank” as a
predictor? (Kevin really exposes the issues that Google has been sorting
through in order to adequately answer this question).

- Why is it unwise to view social networks as a channel for Adsense based
on traditional “search” behaviors?

- What is the best way to use social networks from a branding and
advertising?

- What is a “self targeting” ad network when it comes to social networks?

- One of the biggest challenges Google developers have had is trying to
create a data model that maps the natural discernment processes taking
place in the human brain (Cognitive Neuroscience). What do you need to know
about the weaknesses of machine driven neural and social networks?

- When will Friend Connect be released and why is it taking so long?

- What are the Google Friend Connect developers currently focused on in
the lab?

- I-Google (Google personal desktop) now has Canvas mode. How will this
relate to Friend Connect.

Special Thanks to Kevin Marks, Sara Jew-Lim and the Google Open Social
development team.

Special Thanks to Erika Preuss of TechnologyGoddess.com who landed and
coordinated this interview.

I look forward to seeing all of you at the Theme Zoom Protege Event where
Sue, Jon, Erika and I can expand on exactly what all of Kevin’s information
means to your business over the next two years.

At the Theme Zoom Protege conference we might informally chat about the
following topics between other program events, so take the time to listen
to the interview:

- What does this new information about Open Standard means for your
Krakken Keyword Genetic Code?

- How does this information influence the Silo Feed Machine System as
Erika and I work out with Sue Bell how to handle the technology and final
development aspects of the system. It is ironic that one of the final steps
during our blueprinting of the Silo Feed Machine system was how we should
deal with “podcast enclosures” as separate feeds from your primary data
feeds- ironic in that Kevin invented these (sometimes) annoying-but-useful
things.

- Feeds are the Glue that can hold all of your primary and secondary
networks together if you know what you are doing. How can you use them
(combined with your Krakken Genetic Keyword Code) to improve website
conversion?

- How has this information has been simplified by our Silo Feed Machine
system so that you do not need to be a rocket scientist in order to
implement geeky technologies invented by aliens?

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Russell Wright, Erika Preuss, and the Theme Zoom Staff

Original Article from Theme-Zoom.com (blog)

More Google Insights from Technology Goddess
Podcast from Technology Goddess Radio

Kevin shares insights with me into Google’s OpenSocial  philosophy and future as well as FOAF, the Google Social Graph API, how the Googlebot follows FOAF and XFN markup links and publicly declared connections, what Google Developers are currently focused on in the lab and the future of Google Friend Connect.

I so enjoyed talking with such an innovative and brilliant mind on the forefront of internet social development. Go grab a latte and sit down for this full interview, because you will not want to miss a word of Kevin’s in-depth peek inside Google’s Development environment.

If you post this interview on your blogs please do link back to Technology Goddess.

More Information: Insight Into OpenSocial, the Future of Google Development and the Social Web.

Thank you Again, Kevin!
~Erika  Technology Goddess

For more insight on the new analytics features you can visit the Google Blog which has a complete rundown of every feature with advanced instructions, and watch the videos I’m including here for you below. As a creative-type geometry geek I am really into the Motion Charts, which give us a multi-dimensional view of our data. That, to me, is like analytics candy!

More Great Google Articles here on Technology Goddess

Erika - Technology Goddess Social Media, Search Marketing and Market Research