Tuesday, December 15, 2009

And Here Comes Liberty.

The followership is very interesting. For certain dynamics those "Rules," or "leadership ethics" could assist and benefit an enterprises operation system (Including the Air Force). Of the 10 rules,"

I particularly like 6. Do your homework; give your boss all the information needed to make a decision; and 9.If you see a problem, fix it.

I would be concerned that this could catalyst a corruptive bureaucracy. The point is that as long as the operations the followers are following is already efficient, then Colonel Phillip Meilinger's 10 rules system sustains the integrity brilliantly.
Personally I would administer a control mechanism of quality that would have a core respect to bio-ethics, (Some sort of egalitarian visualization) could be fused into following a philosophy that conforms to virtues, and not radicalism. Just to clarify; I simply mean fundemendalistic, unefficient, unconservative, and unethical philosophical tactics when I said radicalism.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Fair Assesment of Online Advertising.

Internet advertisements are totally manipulative, not by design, but because of the insecurity people feel every time they're berated with them. I can't empathize this one piece of advice any more: Exercise DISCIPLINE With the Internet and searches. People, like myself talked about ignoring online advertisements because they waste your energy for continuing to think, let alone act to purchase whatever it is. Advertisers know you're not going to want the product which is the reason they put the "Close Advertisement" link on the advertisement. Not turn the page for next advertisement,..I think they should change the link to "Get on with your life and withdraw from our advertisement which has corrupted you due to manipulating your energy to focus on it without any choice." I was asked by Jessica (Classmate), earlier, which online advertisement I believe is good. I answered her none because I've never once purchased anything from online as a result of an advertisement or a search related advertisement. My online purchase that came the closest to an online advertisement was an email from a concert promoter who randomly sent me an offer to purchase valuable seats to a desired concert was the one purchase i made from a marketable solicitation from an independent 3rd party online source. The value of their marketable solicitation, in that case, I demanded, that's the fairest assessment I can give about online advertisements.

Search Engine War

To paraphraze, we're living after the industrial age, and now are on the brink of the information age. The corporations are only pawns attempting to make more pawns out of regular people. We use search engines all the time when using the internet to find and share information. We are only not playing right into the the hands of these corporate search engines if we use discipline to search. I find that having my search strategy well thought out, and composed before actually attempting my search gets me above satisfactory results. When people aren't as disciplined they sometimes wonder off and use the corporate search engine's "related searches or Preferred links"(Or commisioned links through marketing firms). My point is bing wasn't even created by Microsoft. Related searches that are commissioned by marketing firms are not as intregally satisfactory as a composed and strategized search. If some one went to research the development of Bing (Like I did) it would sicken that him/her, perhaps not as much as it did me, but it would probably sicken that person. I researched how Microsoft's original search engine was MSN Search which didn't even compete with yahoo and microsoft from its inception in 1998 till 2006. During this lackluster time Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars aquiring different grass roots search engines, services to inconspicuously use other search engines through portals. All of this work didn't work and in 2007 WIndows Live Search replaced MSN search by separating its search developments from the Windows Live services family, rebranding the service as Live Search. Live Search was integrated into the Live Search and Ad Platform headed by Satya Nadella, part of Microsoft's Platform and Systems division. As part of this change, Live Search was consolidated with Microsoft adCenter. (I used wikipedia for a reference, which isn't ideal, but it's satisfing my point effectively) There were lots of innovations that were half thought, and put into work for no more than a year before terminating them, while Google was revolutionizing their search with more innovative methods of shopping and interacting then even Yahoo had. Microsoft basically invested thousands of employees time, and pay in trying to reinvent themselves with WIndows Live Search by over all copying Google with it's retail uploading-(Live Product Upload) and several rebrandings such as MSN Q&A, Live Search Books, WIndows Live Expo were all discontinued. Microsoft re branded Windows Live Search, as Bing.The Microsoft-Yahoo Search deal will ultimately require the backing of bing on every single search taken place on Yahoo. It will also feature "Powered by Bing" on their search pages. Bing Shopping is an example of how discombobulated Microsft is with re branding for the purpose of competition. Bing Shopping lets users search from a wide range of online suppliers and marketer's merchandise for all types of products and goods. This service also integrates with Bing cashback offering money back for certain purchases made through the site. This feature is based on the Jellyfish.com acquisition. Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on their "Live Product Upload" service to innovate and revolutionize their footing in that market. They had that investment available for only a year without renovating, or doing any types of tweaks and simply did away with it completely. They wastefully spent so much money on many services that are satirically discontinued and obsolete in a years time. Bings search profits were rising earlier in the year, but by now research shows that (In only 1 year of operation); Even BING is levelling off!. Profits will slip enormously for Microsoft. But I can't say they'll slip like never before, because this corporation still hasn't received a single profited dollar in their Xbox undertaking yet. Purchasing of Jellyfish.com was an added cost to simply keep them afloat within the status-quot. I do like Bing's Travelling service. "Bing Travel searches for airfare and hotel reservations online and predicts the best time to purchase them. This feature is based on the Farecast acquisition." Again another Microsoft acquisition to stay afloat. No real redevelopment after their own failures are surfacing from Microsoft. It's not saying a lot, OR Anything original about their individual integrity.
The internet advertising element is just a convoluted hodge podge. Hulu, a website that provides showings of many telvision series, I like to watch Alfred Hitchcock episodes on it is great because of limited advertising. However the way that put 1 advertisement in the beginning, 1 advertisement in the middle and 1 advertisement at the end I still find a nuisance. I'm fastforwarding through those advertisements anytime I possible can. I've never once in my life viewed an entire one of these thousands of advertisements I've come in situations with. It's poor marketing i feel, because If anything I'm regressing the situation, rather then remembering the marketed product. I also dislike it when I'm reading some online news articles and the link that brings me to an article has a 30 second advertisement. I never watch them.
Pros of the internet definately are just the unmeasured space that internet advertisers cover. I find this is extremely beneficial to Google. I feel exactly the same way that like many, and most people I know we just avoid, and ignore banne advertising. I know that the original TIVO was designed so that a simple and single touch of the button took you perfectly through all the commercials, but tv networks petitioned this extremely beneficial feature for users like us, because their advertisers would boycott networks if they didn't do otherwise. I personally know that the internet is going to change in a matter of months maybe a couple of years. Google Wave is going to revolutionize emails, texting. I currently don't invest nor do I recommend investing in internet advertising. It's a huge profit for the search engines and carriers, but word of mouth to this information-age day is still the best resource and most preffered way of advertising no matter where I travel.