A Lazy Day

Today was a Lazy day. Well, what do you call a lazy day. A few motnhs ago, I would have called a lazy day a day where I had not "produced" anything (design, or code, or drawing, etc ...). Well, following this definition, today was a very lazy day - have not produced anything.

But in the same time, I feel I have achieved a lot of things :

1) Eventually found a good HTMLArea from Interactivetools, which is opensource, fast, and pure javascript!
Plan

• integrate it to the Jazar Web content manager


• build at last a demo of our tool!


• Let know InteractiveTools that we are now using their tool


• ask them to add us to their newsletter (their site too?).
  

2) Eventualy met guy bondonneau, a webdesigner from London who gave me good advices about how to run a small business in this field - we went to a very good french restaurant in South Kensington:

La Bouchee
56 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3DY
Tel: +44 (0)20 7589 1929
Fax: +44 (0)20 7584 8625
Cuisine(s): French
Avg. Cost Per Head: £36.00

A bit expensive, but real french bistrot, same atmosphere, same quality of food (go fo the steak frite, salade verte).

3) Found our new hosting company and signed up for their reseller pack: www.unitedhosting.co.uk

4) Found a very good article about linking strategy :
ouuups, lost the email - should create a blog just to keep all the articles I want to keep track of! Let's quote an other article from searchenginewatch, entitled "what's right, what's wrong".

to summarize the article:

He (Danny Sullivan, "One of the famous leader of the SEO community") presented a webmaster's wish list that included features like warnings of shifting algorithms and index changes; some type of "express line' for accredited webmasters to report spam to the engines; agency-style commissions for selling paid search listings (Sullivan congratulated those few paid-SEM consulting firms who can survive on service fees alone, but felt it unfair that they must do so); and in general, "a partnership in attitude on both the paid and free sides."

Good try Danny, I just hope that nobody is taking you seriously. Search Engine Optimizers are hackers, nothing more. They don't bring any value to the web, and are just using the old method of reverse engineering to meet their objectives. And I hope that google & Co will not fall into the trap, and keep shrugging off these "indecent proposals" (do they?)

Hacking is an art, and I respect that. But this is a bit like if I hacked microsoft, and then said that Microsoft should then provide me with insights about their new releases ... hackers will always be hackers, and even though hackers see themselves as "testers" (some of the most prolific hackers send ultimatum to Microsoft, 15 days for instance to fix the bug, before sending the attack), this would be a suicide to start feeding them with this kind of info. Same apply to google & others!

5) Well, other bits and pieces (hey, I wrote this article for instance!), but this is mainly what I am most proud of. nothing productive really you see, but a good way to pave our way towards success!