CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-06-20 12:29:29 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrk!!!!

2013-06-17 00:28:35 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I really don't understand Typekit pricing.

$99 per year for 1mm pageviews/month
$480 for 2mm pageviews/month

2013-06-13 11:31:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

A great blog post from the community.

Top 10 sights and activities in South America
--> http://beyondtheharbour.travellerspoint.com/17/

#travel #inspiration #SouthAmerica

2013-06-13 11:29:06 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Make sense of this:

My page's html tag  specifies my page is lang="en" 

All the content on the page is English 

There are many links pointing to the page stating that the page is English (using hreflang attribute). 

And yet Google decides to serve up French ads. Way to go geniuses.

2013-06-11 23:34:39 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Dear Internet,

Stop sending me suggestions for  Father's Day. It's not until September.  

Thanks, 
Not In America

2013-06-09 03:11:10 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

In the Netherlands, Canal Jumping Is a Sport

Saw this a few years ago as something contestants in The Amazing Race had to do. +Jesse Wojdylo I think this should be your next sport.

2013-06-09 02:59:18 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The No.1 result for a People and Pages search for the term "New York City" is a belly dancer.

I thought +Google+ was supposed to be good at search and stuff? 

2013-06-09 02:25:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

5 stars for Coburg Cemetery

2013-06-07 03:34:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Right, got a couple of emails today from Google+ asking me to verify my page's website (I have about 14 pages). It's pitched like this: 

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Be found on Google.

Verifying your website will allow Google to show your page right when people are looking for you.

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But what does this mean? Will they start showing this page in Google results (note, they did not say "Be found on Google+") ?

2013-06-07 03:27:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Clicking through on link from Google re: verifying my page - utm campaign is "PlusPages-Newbie-D3-en" 

Nice to know they think of me as a n00b

2013-06-06 10:26:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Today I gave our Travel Quotes page on Tumblr a bit of a redesign and moved it to a new home on our own domain.

Let me know what you think!

And feel free to use it for finding travel quotes. We have hundreds of them on here by now. It's really rather ridiculously comprehensive ;)

2013-06-05 23:51:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This guy just does NOT give up. 

This really, truly warrants the #epicfail  hashtag

2013-06-05 23:31:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Loving this new video from +visitholland! The original cool indeed.

2013-06-05 07:42:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Hot tip: Myki is not compatible with your Medicare card #facepalm

2013-06-04 00:33:56 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Traveller sends touching thank you message home in blog
http://bit.ly/13RzkDQ

2013-06-03 08:42:36 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

It must be hard for countries like Kenya to keep their major websites up and running. 

This one's been like this for quite some time from what I can tell. Search engine caches from several weeks ago show the same.

2013-06-03 07:14:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Check out the new cover photo on Travellerspoint's page.

Decided to make the most of the extra space!

2013-06-03 07:06:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I just love a good novelty mailbox

2013-06-03 01:16:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-30 13:05:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

At what point will Google work out that these are in fact all the same page?

It seems spots no.1-3 could be just a tad more diverse than what you see below.

2013-05-23 00:22:11 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Google Translate whaaaaaat?

2013-05-22 02:42:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Attention to whoever is in charge of the latest changes to Google Analytics: please restore the red/green font colours on percentage changes in the Organic Search report.

So much harder to get a quick overview now. 

2013-05-21 00:56:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Just tried accessing http://www.flickr.com/videos/

Not what I expected.

2013-05-21 00:43:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I've had enough of Google's cluttered search. New default search engine for me is now Yandex http://yandex.com/ 

This design is cleeeeeean and the results so far are excellent.

2013-05-03 00:01:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Clifton Hill Train Station:

Car parking - 90
Bicycle Racks: 11, Lockers: 6, Cage: No

What's wrong with this picture?

Here's what they should do:
* Sacrifice a handful of those car spots
* Add a LARGE bike cage that fits a hundred or more bikes
* Allow people to keep bikes at the station (for a nominal fee)

This would allow people from suburbs on Sth Morang/Hurstbridge line to leave cheap bikes at the station permanently. They can then catch the train to CH, and ride the bike from there to anywhere nearby. All the inner suburban stations should have this. At the very least the hub ones like Clifton Hill should.

Currently if you worked in Brunswick and lived in Eltham, you would have these options:
1. Drive
2. Catch train to Alphington or Clifton Hill, then a bus from there to Brunswick (25 mins plus wait time) and... more »

2013-05-02 06:12:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Now on the blog:

Freelance writer +Tim Richards talks tips on travel writing, packing light, and when not to drink coffee!

2013-04-30 03:50:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This in a link submission checklist I just saw.

"Does your website promote gambling, pornography or Albania?"

Guess they had an Albanian spam problem :) 

2013-04-26 09:55:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is pretty amazing. It starts off with a fairly brutal puppy kidnapping, but stick with it, because it's rather interesting to see how these baboons have learnt to adopt dogs as pets.

2013-04-26 03:08:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I just hit the up-arrow randomly while watching a Youtube video and the spinner turned into a game of snake. Nice little easter-egg that!

2013-04-25 10:38:30 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Just some of the amazing things to be found in Thailand — this week's featured destination!

Read more in our blog: http://blog.travellerspoint.com/339/

Photo: Lub d Bangkok Silom http://bit.ly/17R68i0

2013-04-21 01:25:10 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Just got an email from Google notifying me of a new comment on a community post that was made some time ago. I decided I wanted to click through to the post, but the email doesn't seem to have any links to the actual post.

It has the following links
a) 2 links to the community (pointless since this post is months and months old)

and in the footer 
b) one link to the user profile
c) one link to the user profile of the person who made the post
d) a link to mute the user
e) a link to mute the post
f) a link to change what google sends me.

Seriously, no links to just go look at the post. WHY?!

Final conclusion: click link e to mute the post.  Then click undo to not mute it. 

2013-04-05 00:58:42 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I wonder if someone at AAMI will get in trouble for RT'ing my pissed off comment to their main account..

  #socialmediafail  

2013-04-02 12:29:01 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Inspiring stuff

Source: http://imgur.com/gJ0TpZN

2013-03-30 12:08:10 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Enjoyable Tumblr here... http://deshommesetdeschatons.tumblr.com/

Happy Easter everyone!

2013-03-26 11:47:29 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Exciting launch! Now you can share your current location on your Google+ profile. Like +Chris Hadfield is sharing his location from space.
His profile shows "Currently in the ISS passing over Turkey". Hover over the text to reveal the map. Considering the ISS is moving at ~17,247 miles an hour, you should see a new location every 30 seconds :)

To give the feature a try, just visit your Google+ settings via desktop or Android and turn on “Location Sharing.”
Learn more here: http://support.google.com/plus?p=plus_location

#googleplusupdate

2013-03-21 10:27:28 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

 

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."

 - Robert Byrne

2013-03-21 03:00:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Interesting. Apparently Myki is doing a bit of creative calculations when it comes to their passes. Basically making a 38 day pass only valid for 37 days.

Quite a scandal if true.

2013-03-21 01:05:20 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is just too good :)

"I have always been a big proponent of following your heart and doing exactly what you want to do. It sounds so simple, right? But there are people who spend years—decades, even—trying to find a true sense of purpose for themselves. My advice? Just find the thing you enjoy doing more than anything else, your one true passion, and do it for the rest of your life on nights and weekends when you’re exhausted and cranky and just want to go to bed."

2013-03-20 11:05:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-03-19 04:54:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Ireland is Travellerspoint's Destination of the Week

"breathtaking scenery, historic national monuments, strong Celtic traditions, a rich musical heritage, and increasing modern development"

http://blog.travellerspoint.com/332/

Photo by RJ222 (http://www.travellerspoint.com/users/RJ222/)

For lots of great Ireland content on G+ also see +Discover Ireland

2013-03-15 02:13:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Never fry gnocchi

2013-03-13 11:38:50 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Guessing this is not new, but I haven't seen it before. How do we go about getting our result in this position?!

2013-03-08 01:02:02 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

As some of you will know, there was a recent exodus from Wikitravel in which most of its members left the site and are now supporting a new Wikimedia backed site called Wikivoyage.

It's quite a battle. On the one hand we have Wikitravel with much more brand recognition and certainly far better rankings in Google.

On the other we have Wikivoyage with the backing of Wikipedia (and a buttload of links from there to go with it)

So how will these two fare? I decided to have a look at a snapshot of their Recent Changes to see what's going on. I looked at all the recent changes from the past day. First problem arose here.. Wikivoyage had more than 500 changes in the day, so it was impossible to show them all. To work around this, I took the earliest edit time and tracked changes from them. So I was comparing changes on the sites between 3.19 am and 00:00 on the 7th of... more »

2013-03-07 06:03:11 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Loving the new G+ profiles. Just updated to my new epic profile pic ;)

2013-03-06 06:05:14 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-03-06 05:58:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Vegetables. So versatile.

2013-03-06 03:42:11 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Welcome to the future. 

2013-03-05 09:24:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

We've been putting up some new accommodation pages on Travellerspoint. This is the Lisbon one!

2013-03-04 05:38:43 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Anyone have a tip on how to get access to an unused (but previously used) username on Youtube? 

At some stage somebody registered the username "travellerspoint" making it unavailable to us. We have the trademark for this name. 

I thought maybe we did this at some stage, but when I went to get the password it showed two different email addresses as the options to resend and both of those were greyed out making it impossible to resend to them anyway. This makes me think the usenrame has in fact been banned from Youtube and should therefore be available to us again. 

Would love any advice.

2013-02-28 09:42:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I'm pretty new to this, but on the weekend I went along to a nearby bonsai group's sale. I bought a few seedlings (japanese maple + 2 english elms) and a more advanced japanese black pine pre-bonsai grown from seed. Now, I understand black pines are probably a bit beyond my rookie stage, so am wondering what I should do with it at this point of its life?

Here are some photos of it from different angles. What I like about it is that it seems very healthy to me, has lots of low growth and some interesting roots (maybe not a perfect spread, but at least interesting and nicely offsetting the direction of the trunk). But it of course looks nothing like a bonsai yet. At the moment, that probably doesn't matter..

But should I be pinching it back regularly at this point? Should I pull off overly long needles at all? 

It's the last day of summer here in Melbourne.