Getting Cold!

I like to remark to my compatriots back in the USA that it's "getting cold" over here in Taiwan - you know - like below 70 F ! Still, I think they fail to understand that without any heaters, when you're riding around on a motor scooter, it's friggin cold man!

Anyways, I suppose it has been a fair bit of time since I last wrote here in my blog, and I apologize to my faithful readers that it has taken this long to get an update. Well, to make a long story short, of course I've been busy at my day job righting the wrongs and fighting the good fight. When I'm not working and I still have time to spend on the computer, I upload a few pictures to my own personal Fotozon Page.

A few days ago, I had some pizza with our neighbors from S. Africa and they told me they were involved with Facebook. Well, I've been following the facebook story for some time now, especially when my hometown company, Microsoft, dropped a quarter billion USD$$ on them a month ago. I was meaning to create an application for facebook to add the Taiwan POD to their pages, and I'm proud to say it's already done! If you're on face book, you can use this link to sign up for my application!

It was actually really easy to get started, but the biggest hurdle was figuring out how to update the user's profiles automatically every day. I believe this part is finshed now, and I hope if you are on facebook, you can add my app. Much to my surprise, there are already 19 users . Apparently this new medium of distrubution has its merits. All I need to do now is create a 75 pixel logo and I will submit the Taiwan Picture of the Day application to the Facebook directory.

Thank you all who have supported this application and project through the months and I hope it will take off big time now. After this is done, I will start looking into the "open social" project over at Google just so we are covering all our bases.

We Cracked a Million!

No, I'm not a millionaire, not even close! . . . In fact it's probably even pathetic to point this out, however here goes... We cracked a million in our FotoZon.com Alexa Ranking! Now this Alexa rating tool is fairly accurate for the top web sites, but it is becoming less and less important for the rest of us because fewer people are using the "Alexa Toolbar" than ever these days. I suspect the only reason our site is even doing ok there is because of a few heavy FotoZon users that happened to install the toolbar.

Google Page Rank has become the new de-facto king of rating, however it has recently taken a very long time to update their ranking according to this Google Page Rank History. Now, it doesn't really mean diddly squat to the normal web surfer, and even I only like to look at it once and a while just for fun.

I won't have much to report this weekend because of the double birthdays of my oldest son, and also my wife on Saturday and Sunday. All for now - the Typhoon is coming!

*** Update on 10/27/2007 - Google finally updated their Tool Bar Page Rank and I'm happy to report that the main Fotozon.com pages went from zero up to 3 or 4 .