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“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.” – Marquis De Vauvenargues

“Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.” – Marquis De Vauvenargues

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” – Mark Twain

“When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.” – Mark Twain

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.” – Marina Tsvetaeva

“The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.” – John Tillotson

can deception ever be justified ???

Thesaurus: deception

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noun

1. The act or practice of deceiving: cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, double-dealing, duplicity, guile, shiftiness. See honest/dishonest.
2. An indirect, usually cunning means of gaining an end: artifice, device, dodge, feint, gimmick, imposture, jig, maneuver, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile. Informal shenanigan, take-in. See honest/dishonest, means.

be careful of the zombies, automated fraud = direct intent

Zombie debt

Zombie debt is old credit card and other debts that are beyond the statute of limitations, so a debt collector cannot successfully use the courts to collect them. Although these debts no longer have the courts as an avenue of collection, there’s nothing to prevent debt collectors from asking consumers to pay them. In recent years, the debt collection industry has expanded, creating more agencies and lengthier efforts to collect. So from the consumer’s perspective, debts don’t die, they rise to live on and on. Like zombies.

Related Terms:annual percentage rate (apr), application fee, balance-to-limit ratio, chapter 11 bankruptcy, chapter 13 bankruptcy, chapter 7 bankruptcy, charge-off rate, co-signer, collection, cramdown, default, delinquent account, forbearance, late payment fee, penalty rate, piggybacking, roll rate, secured credit cards, setup fee, utilization ratio

web development begins with seo

why is it so hard for web developers

to admit this to their clients???

what good is a website

if people cannot find it

let us show you how simple it can be

good luck

M

obsidian web development begins with SEO and a good skilled content provider

Semantic Connectivity and Co-occurrence

Semantic search is something I’ve been interested in ever since Google first started displaying relevant search suggestions in their SERPs (search engine result pages).  Semantic search is basically using language, meaning and relationships between words to understand the intent of the searcher. On a basic level I believe that Google and other search engines may be looking for words they expect to see on a page aside from the exact keyword phrase match to determine relevancy. For example, if you had a blog about football that you hope to rank on the first page of Google for the search query ‘football’, Google may expect to see words or phrases such as NFL, sports, Indianapolis Colts, soccer, touchdown, etc.

If your website contains the word ‘football’ hundreds of times throughout your website, but does not see other likely keywords related to this keyword, then they may assume you are not as relevant as other websites containing the keyword ‘football’.

An example of this is if you conduct a search on Google for ‘AROD’. Google will bold ‘AROD’ as well as ‘Alex Rodriguez’ in the titles and descriptions of the SERP listings. This proves that Google recognizes that these words have a relationship.

Semantic Search Example AROD

This further supports the theory that keyword consistency and topical relevancy are more important than keyword density. The point is that you want to write original content that reads well, contains your main keywords a few times throughout the content, and also incorporates other phrases one may expect to see relating to those keywords.

This is good news for everyone in and out of the SEO industry. Who wants to write or read keyword stuffed content? We all want more relevant search results.

http://www.obsidianseo.com/2008/08/29/getting-crazy-with-semantic-search/

good web development includes planning for the right level of SEO

Scalability and SEO, an Essential Combination

Are you working with the right SEO? How do you know if your SEO specialist has the capability to deliver the results he/she has been promising you?

I think the answers to these questions can be narrowed down to two very important concepts. First of all a professional SEO must be able to demonstrate a track record of results for their own web properties and those of their current clients. This goes along with being able to offer those clients as references. You’ll know you might be dealing with a poor SEO if he can’t show results for any reason. Some may claim confidentiality of clients’ information, but it’s not likely that all or even most of their clients have requested this. Further, to insure that the SEO your are talking to has actually worked on said project, you must contact available references.

I see some great results from this SEO, but how do I know he/she will be able to deliver the same results for my company? To answer this question you must look for clues of scalability. Can this SEO scale their services? They must understand not only the technical aspects of SEO, but understand enough about systems and business to scale their offerings. A professional SEO must be able to scale up to take on more clients. Sourcing inbound links for your SEO project is one example of the hard work that a good SEO may be able to handle for their own project, or maybe even a few clients, but will soon be overwhelmed if they don’t have solutions to help them scale their business.

Everyone wants a good deal and loves to save money, but SEO is still far from becoming a commodity and you must be careful with regards to what you’re paying for SEO. Some SEO freelancers may not understand their value and won’t charge enough money for their services. This causes them to take on more clients than they can handle just to pay the bills. Even if a good SEO has good intentions and a superior knowledge of SEO, they may end up “churning and burning” clients if they lack the ability to charge adequately and scale their business.

http://www.obsidianseo.com/2009/01/22/scalability-and-seo-an-essential-combination/

obsidian web development ALWAYS begins with SEO

Where to get started with Internet Marketing?

There are limitless ways of effectively marketing B2B and B2C products through the Internet. In my opinion, the first steps for most organizations to take is Pay Per Click ad campaigns through Google Adwords, Organic Search Engine Optimization and a website with Conversion Rates in mind to help turn those visitors into customers.

If the product is new, such as an invention of sorts, that the public is not yet aware of I would suggest Social Media and Viral Marketing campaigns.

The next step for retail would be comparison shopping networks such as Froogle, Yahoo Shopping, NextTag, Amazon and others.

These suggestions just scrape the tip of the iceberg, but most companies experience phenomenal ROI regardless of the path they take as long as…

A) They have a quality product or service
B) They have margins that allow profitability
C) They hire the right Internet Marketing firm

Keep in mind that SEO and other forms of Internet Marketing are NOT a commodity.

When looking for a good firm I would set a few priorities.

1) Look for the best at Organic SEO (get traffic)
2) Find a firm with solid Conversion Rate strategies (turn visitors into customers)
3) Ask for a number of references, not just a few trophy clients

http://www.obsidianseo.com/2008/08/11/where-to-get-started-with-internet-marketing-and-seo/

obsidian web development begins with search engine optimization ( seo )

Is There A Personal CPM For Search?
by David Berkowitz , Tuesday, February 10, 2009

CAN A BOUNTY FOR SEARCH engine users translate to a personal CPM?This question follows MediaPost’s OMMA Social event ( catch the complete coverage) where  a panel discussed the concept of the personal CPM, when brands put a value on consumers who spread marketing messages. In social media, the concept works perfectly, as consumers can become part of the advertising, whether in an ad through networks that target the social graph, or by consumers alerting friends about their brand interactions.

With search, it’s different. Your search activities are not broadcast to all your friends, and if they are, you probably want to switch search engines. Yet there are a number of examples of bounties for searchers that indicate the personal CPM can apply. We’ll look at four today: Live Search Cashback, Yahoo Canada’s Air Miles partnership, the MouseHunt toolbar, and Prodege’s Swagbucks.

Live Search Cashback

The best documented of the four examples, Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback lists discounts from retailers that can be sorted by the size of a cash refund or the overall lowest price. In practice, it’s hardly different from other forms of comparison shopping: shoppers evaluate retailers on a sliding scale of the lowest priced item by the most trusted marketer. This is the only example here where the value of the searcher is dependent on how much he or she spends.

Microsoft also offers rewards for repeat usage of its  SearchPerks Perk Counter toolbar, which treats search like a carnival: more searches lead to more tickets, which can be redeemed for real-world goods of varying value. The program’s registration filled up with one million registrants, and it’s slated to end in April. Toolbars are popular ways to reward searchers, as we’ll see from the next two examples. Meanwhile, expect Microsoft to keep leading the search industry in made-up compound words. A few suggestions: SearchRewards, WindowsBucks, or UseLiveSearchAndInternetExplorerOrYourOperatingSystemWillCrashHaHaHa.

Yahoo Canada Air Miles

Courtesy of one of my favorite blogs, Three Minds at Organic, comes the story of  Y ahoo Canada launching the Air Miles Yahoo Toolbar. Enter 50 queries and you get five Air Miles, up to 30 miles monthly. Is this enough to get people to use the Yahoo Toolbar? You need to run 300 searches just to get those 30 miles. I tried the reward calculator, and it takes 1,175 to 1,450 reward miles to fly round-trip from Montreal to New York, which can be earned over 39 to 48 months. That means up to four years of running 300 queries a month on the toolbar, totaling 14,500 searches. There must be easier ways to travel, like Twitter hitchhiking (or Twitchhiking) around the globe.

MouseHunt

Some things have inexplicable appeal, like Howie Mandel, or the nougat in a 3 Musketeers bar. Add to that list the  Facebook application MouseHunt, which for me has been the most persistently addictive app I’ve tried.

MouseHunt recently launched a toolbar, where hunters (as we app players call ourselves) earn the especially potent mouse bait called Super Brie+, with three searches yielding one piece and the opportunity to earn three pieces daily; search results come from Yahoo. Players can also earn Super Brie+ by donating to MouseHunt, completing offers, or buying it on the game-hosted black market for virtual gold. MouseHunt’s toolbar makes it easy to earn a substantial amount of Super Brie+ monthly. For addicted players, this definitely has the potential to change their search behavior.

Prodege Swagbucks

What do the New York Giants, Snoop Dogg, and Barry Manilow have in common? I’m sure there’s a great punchline in there somewhere (try your own in the comments), but the one link I’m aware of is that all have branded search engines through Prodege’s Swagbucks.com. I’ve talked about Prodge before, and in several presentations I’ve included screenshots of its  Kevin Federline search engine. To be fully transparent, the swag helped sell me; an autographed photo of K-Fed hangs prominently above my desk. Through Prodege, any query on a branded engine gives the searcher a chance to win Swag Bucks that can be redeemed for prizes from autographs to iPhones. For some reason, an iPhone is worth 84times a signed K-Fed photo; it should be the other way around.

So, what’s your pleasure? Cash, miles, virtual cheese, pseudo-celebrity autographs? The challenge for search engines is trying to change behavior; it’s telling that there’s no comparable example from Google. It’s hardly surprising that so many businesses are trying to quantify the value of increased search usage and will reward consumers accordingly. This economy presents the best time to up the ante. The first search engine to reward searchers with contributions to mortgage and credit card payments may be the recession’s best shot at a Google-killer.

http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm#inbox/11f6109319f4ebb1

obsidian devices can create magic

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has integrated Obsidian’s Longbow devices into a next-generation network being developed under the Pentagon-funded “Large Data” Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration (LD-JCTD) program.

The Large Data Program

The Large Data mission is to architect, construct and prove-out a next-generation distributed enterprise data storage concept capable of handling very large data volumes and large (streaming) data files. Department of Defense agencies within the US government recognize the infrastructure challenges associated with the quantity of data that will need to be moved, stored and processed in future systems.

The Large Data network currently comprises five nodes – four in the mainland US and one overseas. Data centers are located at each node, deploying large-scale data processing and storage. During the trials, this infrastructure has been used to archive, transport and manipulate very high resolution imagery. It is a goal of this program to demonstrate the construction of large-scale data center infrastructure with an emphasis on open standards and free open-source software where possible. This maximizes the potential for the widespread adoption of the architecture across many application domains.

The approximately $50M program started in May 2006 and has been extended into four years to perform operational testing and evaluation. At the end of the demonstration phases, transition teams work to migrate the new capabilities into military operational deployments.

Obsidian’s Longbow Technologies

The Large Data architecture’s main data flows are built entirely around the InfiniBand protocol due to performance, scalability, cost and technology road map considerations. NRL initially contracted Obsidian’s engineering team in 2004 to develop a prototype device capable of carrying InfiniBand over global distances. Such capability is critical to the Large Data architecture because without it, InfiniBand would be limited to just meters of range. Subsequently, Obsidian was formed to pursue the development of the prototypes into carrier-grade products in 2005. NRL supplied product specifications to Obsidian to ensure the Longbows met the needs of Large Data-like networks.

Longbow XR devices are used to connect some of the 10 Gigabits per second server and storage network links in the Large Data network, paired with military-grade encryptors. A slower overseas link, at 2.5 Gigabits per second, is handled using a more suitable second source device.

Longbow Campus devices are used in Large Data to transport data over a few kilometers within the physically secured facilities of several of the larger sites involved in the program, using direct fiber optic cable connections.

Additionally, Longbows are employed in an unclassified testbed as delay generators providing system support by emulating the operational network environment.

James Hofmann, the Large Data JCTD Technical Manager working at the Naval Research Laboratory, noted that:

“During the first three years, two important milestones were achieved by the program:

• A limited military utility assessment featuring real military analysts utilizing the large data architecture and reporting significant time savings and increased production and availability of data
• An independent assessment which found the Large Data architecture to be highly cost effective and would improve performance greatly over current solutions in a distributed data storage environment.

“The program is on track to achieve its primary demonstration goals due in no small part to the use of the Obsidian Longbow XR and the Longbow Campus devices.”

On future developments, James Hofmann added:

“Currently, the Large Data JCTD is supporting an intensive year of operational evaluation and “transition” testing within DoD agencies. The operational evaluation will provide a full scope evaluation of transport technologies and an initial concept of operations for military use. NRL is conducting a series of performance tests and initial designs to integrate the technologies into current architectures and influence emerging architectures.

The output and vision that the Large Data JCTD supports is very much aligned with the vision that the Director of National Intelligence has published in its Information Sharing Strategy (http://www.dni.gov/reports/IC_Information_Sharing_Strategy.pdf) where he declares that the DoD and the Intelligence Community are moving from an “agency-centric” to an “enterprise-centric” architecture. This Single Information Environment being advocated by the DNI will require unprecedented information sharing between agencies and a logical outcome of this is a distributed, high performance federated architecture such as what is being demonstrated within the Large Data JCTD.”

“Built upon high-performance open standards-based hardware and free open source software, the Large Data architecture is an exciting first taste of next-generation super-scale data centers,” said Dr. David Southwell, President and Co-CEO of Obsidian Strategics.

“InfiniBand is a key component of NRL’s visionary Large Data work, which has pioneered large-scale global Data Center architecture based on this increasingly popular high-performance technology. I am very pleased that Obsidian has been tapped by the Large Data team for delivering wide-area InfiniBand connectivity for this effort,” said Dr. Southwell, “As world-wide data storage and compute capacity continues geometric growth, I believe that the Large Data-JCTD network will serve as an exemplar for a new class of future high-performance distributed data centers in mainstream commercial and government domains.”

About Obsidian:
Obsidian Strategics Inc. are the developers of Longbow Technology, a family of communications products delivering very fast, lossless transmission over optical networks. Longbows allow an InfiniBand fabric, normally a short-range network used in high-performance computing, to be transparently extended via optical fiber. Different models connect over Campus, Metro, Regional or Global Area Networks to offer unparalleled high-bandwidth, low-latency access to InfiniBand compute and storage resources. Integrated InfiniBand routing, encryption and other functions enhance deployability in commercial environments. Obsidian is available online at http://www.obsidianstrategics.com

About Naval Research Laboratory:
NRL is the corporate research laboratory for the US Navy and Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development. NRL has served the US Navy and the nation for over 80 years and continues to meet the complex technological challenges of today’s world. Dr. Henry Dardy is the Chief Scientist for Advanced Computation at NRL, and leads the JCTD-LD program. NRL is available online at http://www.nrl.navy.mil/. JCTD-LD is available only at http://www.largedata.net.

CONTACT:
David Southwell, CEO
Obsidian Research Corporation
780-964-3283
dsouthwell @ obsidianresearch.com

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obsidian web development comes in many shapes and colors

Obsidian Group Inc. is a management company formed in 1996 to develop, market, and manage hospitality and real estate interests.

Since its incorporation Obsidian Group Inc. has assembled a very impressive management team of hospitality professionals. Obsidian Group Inc. is one of Canada’s leading, fastest growing and most progressive hospitality companies. Obsidian Group Inc. has key experienced management personnel, in operations, human resources, marketing, real estate, construction, accounting, franchising, etc… These are all “In-House” hands on, hard working, dedicated individuals, who have an entrepreneurial background, and share a common vision of success.

http://www.obsidiangroupinc.com/