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Global Economy View on Google Earth Map

European Debt Crisis is hot topic on many newspapers. Personally I did not pay attention to such report because I'm not professional and not interested with it. But I'm wondering how is the economy going from different areas on the earth and just did some searches. I found some interesting pictures from google earth to show up the current global economy. I would like to share with you all. Note: the below contents are mostly from third party matirals not my personal writing.

This picture is taken by NASA sun-synchronous orbit statellite at 10:00 PM over the world.

Google earth global economy map

We can pay attention to the following points:

  • 1. Brightness objectively represents the level of economy and population density degrees. Brightness should rely more on economy development.
  • 2. US is the brightest on the map, eastern Europe and Japan are also strong.
  • 3. The brightness of China shows the eastern district is far more developed than the western. Featured brightness regions are most from the ChangJiang River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Taiwan east coast. Tibet Qinghai areas are all dark.
  • 4. India is actually brighter than China and also shows the uninhabited area in India is less than China!
  • 5. In particular to the Korean Peninsula, on this map you can see only a latitude line —- The 38 degrees north latitude line. Area from north and south are in sharp contrast

google earth america economy map

The U.S. economy is mainly distributed in four groups of cities:

  • The northeast Atlantic coast city group (central city New York)
  • The middle and the north side of the Great Lakes cities group (central city Chicago)
  • The western Pacific coast city group (central city Los Angeles)
  • Southern Gulf of Mexico coastal cities of the group (central city Houston).

Level of development: Atlantic coast > Great Lakes > Pacific coast > Gulf of Mexico coast

Google earth european economy map

Europe's economy is mainly concentrated in two urban agglomerations:

  • Northern Atlantic coastal urban agglomerations: located near the junction of both sides of the English Channel, Britain, France, and Germany. The major cities including London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne.
  • Southern Mediterranean coastal city: mainly distributed along with the coast of Apennine Peninsula and southern France. Major cities, including Rome, Milan, Marseille.
  • Russia's economy is mainly concentrated in Moscow, St. Petersburg

From the brightness we see the northern city group is more developed than the southern.

google earth china economy map

The China economy are mainly destributed to three groups: Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province. There are 6 developed places in Western region — Chongqing, Chengdu, Xian, Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan, Wuhan, Zhengzhou. Three major cities in Eastern China has similiar brightness from Japan, south Korea and Taiwan.

google earth india economy map

From the figure we see that India has average brightness over the country but does not have a real city group. Featured cities: New Delhi(north on map), Mumbai(on the west coast, the brightest one), Kolkata and Chennai.

google earth south and outheast asia economy map

Southeast Asia's economy is mainly concentrated in the Straits of Malacca coast, North Thailand gulf and Java island. The brightest place is from Singapore-Kuala Lumpur City Group. Bangkok, Jakarta are also good. The brightness of Australia is mainly concentrated in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on the East Coast

google earth brazil economy map

Brazil economy is destributed along the Atlantic coast cities. St. Paul, Rio de Janeiro are main cities. Buenos Aires of Argentina is also performing well.

google earth africa economy map

Almost all dark in Africa. Only several bright spots. No citie groups. Two brightest spots are located in Lagos (the capital of Nigeria), Johannesburg (South Africa's economic capital).

SEO 3.0, what has changed there?

seo 3.0

SEO 3.0 is a new concept for Search Engine Optimization. Recently it's mentioned on more and more SEO and Marketing related articles. The search engines are more and more smartly developed to meet people's requirements, SEO development is also more and more nomative. However, can it be sorted like the web technologies so clearly?

What's SEO 3.0?

Have you ever heard about the name? To learn what SEO 3.0 is, let's look how people define SEO 1.0 and SEO 2.0.

SEO 1.0 -It's earliest level of SEO where quality articles are recognized the core idea from search engine. However, that's not the all from early days. Because search engine is not that smart as today, we can always increase the website keywords density to get better ranking. Actually, SEO is not so emphasized like today and there's no much official documents about how to.

SEO 2.0 times is mostly talking about website weight value. How it's judged? The number of backlinks. For very a long time, the number of backlinks is the website optimization standard. That's how come tons of spam on the internet. Creating backlinks is the main work for SEOer. With the search engine development, more factors being considered for website weight coefficient such as domain registration date and backlink quality etc.

So how about SEO 3.0? When this concept come out on internet, it's all about user experience on website. That means SEO is never judged by the old standards. When SEO comes into 3.0 standards, SEOer will work for "Searcher Experience Optimization".

What's the standards of Searcher Experience Optimization?

Since it has provided us the concept of SEO 3.0 so what would be the standards? Unfortunately, there's not an official standard yet. We can only say, the SEO 3.0 concept is a great idea for future web development but there would be a long time to set any rule for it.

For example, flash website is not friendly to most search engines because their spiders can't crawl. What if a quality flash website and liked by everyone? Can we see it's not user friendly because it's not ranked high on search engine? Definitely not. Also, since the SEO 3.0 is about user experience, how does it decide if the website is user friendly or not? By link structures and number of original articles writing? What if the article is completely unrelated to the topic but still ranked on top?

So we see, there's not a standard yet to define user experience for SEO 3.0 but it will be well-established gradually in future development. It's the tendency of search engine and the entire industry development.

What should we do?

No matter if we're doing seo jobs or other types web promotion. Just treat ourselves as the original website visitor and think what they actually need and why they should stay on our website. Regardless or any new SEO rule, what we need do is to provide the real info for our visitors and never over optimize.

So in summary, the industry is not fully ready to welcome SEO 3.0 no matter from search engine algorithm or the overall people's thinking mode. However, SEO 3.0 is absolutely marked out for industry future development.


Famous Websites Early Times

Trying to catch up with the latest technologies on your website and doing lots of art design to show up? Creating a website is more and more easy today because of the fast tech development, more and more person and groups are replying on internet heavily. A professional websit and beautify design will attract visitors' eye-balls and increase potential business opportunities.

What're the leading websites today? I'm sure everybody be able to speak out lots of names like google, facebook, youtube, twitter etc. However, are you aware of such websites' old times and how does it look like exactly? I'm curious of them for some time and just did an research on internet. Luckily I got the screenshots for most of them and I'm glad to post here if you're looking for similar articles.

The idea I want to share with this article is simply to tell this: Don't be scared by the task of website creating if you're new and we don't actually need to make everything perfect because it'll be a long term's development. The newest technology today might be pretty old after we take a nice sleep. Just improve it in our daily experience and treat it as a common work in daily life. Ok, let's see some famous websites' old time's screenshots and look how they're doing now.

early time's google

Google, almost the name of today's internet and the highest traffic website in the world. Google search is always the first action when something we're not sure. However, their old time's website design is not so nice as the current one. simply home page and simple search result page. No more options to select such as date range, search recommendations etc.

early time's facebook

Facebook, the biggest and most successful social network site today. The current user registration is over 500 millions globally. However, if you take a look over their old website design above, do you still want to join with? I think no.

early time's youtube

Youtube, the above sceenshot looks strange right? If we see such website today, the first impression would be sexual meterial stuff. However, this is exactly the old design of youtube website.

early time's microsoft

Microsoft, that's serving almost every family on the earth, their website is being learned and visited by all programmers over the world. Can you imagine the above screenshot is their old website design?

early time's hotmail

Hotmail, one of the most popular free email service provider. Today it's integrated with many MS services like MSN and partnership website logins etc. However, the hotmail website original design is just as simple as above pic. No more functions prepared but only email.

early time's twitter

Twitter, the most successful micro blog system and almost introduced into every online business today. Do you feel good with the color above? That's how twitter is designed in the old times.

early time's wikipedia

Wikipedia, the most powerful wiki knowledge base and terms explanation website. If you look above pic you can't imagine it's for wikipedia right? But that's the exact look of it and the interface only changed several years' ago.

early time's yahoo

Yahoo, the most successful search engine and portal website before google apeared. It's still playing an important role on internet business regardless of any change with it. However, if we take a look at the old yahoo screenshot, we can only describle with one word "ugly".


SOPA and PIPA Blackout

SOPA and PIPA Blackout

SOPA and PIPA are hot names recently because of it might lead serious internet problems and being opposed by many popular internet groups like Google, Facebook, Wikipedia etc since January 18th. These websites are either blocking their home pages or edit logos to protest such law. If you would like to join this campaign on your website but not sure how, the sopablackout.org website even provided the detailed technical steps on their home page.

What's SOPA and PIPA?

SOPA (short for Stop Online Piracy Act) is coming out to deal with online privacy. The law proposes to expand the legal authority of US law enforcement and copyright holders. While it's original intension is good, however if this law is passed, some internet giants like Google, Youtube and Facebook etc are heavily affected. The actually bad is it will devastate the online economy and the overall internet freedom.

PIPA (shot for Protect IP Act) is similar to SOPA. To understand it in short words, it's to shutdown websites that have pirated materials no matter how does such material got uploaded. The copyright holder can seize the domain in extreme circumstances.

Learn more about SOPA and PIPA announcement.

What's our opinion?

There's no problemto protect copyrighted stuff and quite important for every oneline business. I have to admit the SOPA law has good intensions at the very beginning, however it will simply override the current DMCA rules which would give a "safe harbor" provision to reported websites. If it's passed, it will shutdown millions of online jobs and put most business offline to avoid lawsuits in the USA. Because  of this, the law is being opposed by most online groups like google actions. Except all critisism, this law is being supported by leading giants in Music and Movie companies.

Few screenshots about SOPA protesting

Wikipedia oppose SOPA action:

wikipedia oppose sopa action

WordPress.org oppose SOPA action:

wordpress.org oppose sopa action

PHP.net oppose SOPA action:

php.net oppose sopa action


Serious Security Leak Events of 2011

2011 security leak events

2012 is coming! However the year 2011 is not passed safely because there're several major events occured to internet security. While the security stuff was most concerned by some huge groups, it's now being considered by more and more people. In this article I would like to post some security leaks that brought people huge effects.

Sonny -One of their paid service PSN(PlayStation Network) was hacked in April, this led over 77 million clients' private info leak to internet. This includes user names, addresses, credit card numbers etc. However, the Sonny group only responded after 3 weeks later and the repari work continued over 5 weeks. The hack caused $170 millions loss for Sonny. (This event is mentioned from our previous post "Top 7 Tech fails of 2011")

The Second event happend in South Korea where "surf in real name" is deployed by their government. In later July, many of their popular websites were attacked. This attack caused users' private data leak for over 35 million people. Very after this security attack, the Korea government decided to give up the "real name" policy gradually.

The last name is for China. Just last week, several of famous Chinese websites are being attacked and caused over 50 million's users' data leak to internet. Some of the popular website names in this event:

CSDN.net -This website is announced to be the largest programmer center in China and over 90% programmers have registered on it. On 12-21-2011, one of it's database backup uploaded to public internet for downloading. This database backup included over 6 million's user registration. The bad thing is all data is in clear text but not encrypted!

Renren.com -It's called the Chinese "Facebook" and by far the most popular social network website in Civial China. Almost the same time of CSDN attack issue, this website leaked over 10 million's user data.

Dangdang.com -One of the most popular online shopping websites in China. On 12-28-2011, their 12 million user database was hacked and being sold on blackmarket.

Other popular websites such as xiaonet.com, duowan.com etc were all attacked and caused user info leak.

hacker

From the current report, it seems such event is still processed and no stop! Anyone there who like to register or purchase something online will have to think twice about the potential security risk. Decrease of online sales is expected in that area.

What should the websites' owners do?

As reading above, the website management team have to be responsible for such security leak. The user data leak will direct to potential privacy illegally used and cause legal obligation to victims. It's unimaginable what kind of problems it will bring to people. For website owners, they must try their best to protect such infomation and sign the compensation agreement to users in case problem occurs.

How do deal with such problem from end user?

Since the internet is made by people then everything is possible. We should keep our private data securely. Unless it's a MUST we should not post our real info to the public web. Also, make a strong and complex password for your website logins and always change it often. In a word, think twice before you connect to internet and open your eyes while sleep(just kiding).

HTML5 Introduction and Tutorials

html5 introduction and tutorials

Recently, HTML5 is discussed hotly on various web forums and blogs. Every web developer is trying to be html5 professional and seeking for online tutorials. Indeed, being the next generation of word wide web standard, html5 is becoming more and more popular. In this article posting I will introduce some useful learning resources and good html5 website samples

What's HTML5 and what's good of it?

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML4 as of 1997). Till present, html5 is still under development. HTML5 will be the new standard for HTML, XHTML, and the HTML DOM.

Some of the most interesting new features in HTML5:

  • The canvas element for drawing
  • The video and audio elements for media playback
  • Better support for local offline storage
  • New content specific elements, like article, footer, header, nav, section
  • New form controls, like calendar, date, time, email, url, search

Nice tutorials for HTML learning:
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html

What would be the weak points of html5? Because the HTML5 is still in development progress, it's not yet widely supported by client end browsers (Internet Explorer for example). People have to install some plugins or extensions to show up the html5 website properly.

Some nice websites with html5 code behind:

html5 website example

official site: http://nilecode.com

html5 website example

official site: http://www.metesdtn.it

Who's the leader for html5 project developing? Apple of course! Their popular products iPhone and iPad are mainly html5 based system. I'm sure many of you have experienced with it's great performance.

css3

While we're talking about html5, CSS3 can never be ignored because it's also the new generation of CSS working for html5. Like HTML5, CSS3 isn’t supported by all browsers yet, but it is gaining popularity. CSS3 lets you add effects to the page without using Javascript or other plugins. If we need to take all the html5 advantages, it's quite necessary to know about CSS3.

CSS3 tutorials:

Does html5 need support from hosting server?

No, html5 is working the same as older version. As long as you have html5 website designed you just need upload it to hosting space and it will be working. As explained in the first piece, the main problem is browser end support because it's still under development project.