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		<title>400 million Google mass user. Really?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his Geoweb 2008 keynote speech, Michael Jones mentioned that among the 1 billion online, there are &#8220;400 million Google Earth users&#8221;, and that this &#8220;constituency&#8221; is bigger than the number of Americans.
Time for a reality check. That number for &#8220;Google Earth users&#8221; can&#8217;t be unique users. Downloads, sure, but not users. Just think about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5SYg2bRyD0">In his Geoweb 2008 keynote speech</a>, Michael Jones mentioned that among the 1 billion online, there are &#8220;400 million Google Earth users&#8221;, and that this &#8220;constituency&#8221; is bigger than the number of Americans.</p>
<p>Time for a reality check. That number for &#8220;Google Earth users&#8221; can&#8217;t be unique users. Downloads, sure, but not users. Just think about it: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm">Let&#8217;s even allow 1.4 billion online people in 2008</a>; less than a quarter of them have access to broadband, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=729907">according to Gartner</a>. And among broadband users, businesses are over-represented &mdash; businesses where a program like Google Earth is less likely to be downloaded. To get to the total of 400 million users, every computer on the planet connected to broadband would have to have Google Earth installed, plus a whole lot of people sucking Earth through a 56kbps straw.</p>
<p>Whence the discrepancy? I&#8217;ve done my part, downloading Google Earth at least a few dozen times between different versions and successive machines from all sorts of different IP addresses. And likely so have you. This is not to take anything away from the fantastic uptake of Google Earth, not least in the zeitgeist of the world&#8217;s technology elites; but just as websites no longer advertise the number of &#8220;hits&#8221; on their site, isn&#8217;t it time for a more conservative number on Google Earth users? Surely Google Earth can concoct a unique hash number for each install so that Google can acquire data for unique visitors per month, just like top websites do? Why not then release that if advertising the popularity of Google Earth is important?</p>
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		<title>Co-operate on diagrams</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that you can co-operate with others, while you
manufacture a customized on-line diagram? Google mass exceeds offers a
Tutorial, which exactly describes, as too in the Google diagrams they
does this as soon as you and its colleagues your diagram manufactured,
can you it in KML export and Google Earth.My uses to regard it in the
local [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know that you can co-operate with others, while you<br />
manufacture a customized on-line diagram? Google mass exceeds offers a<br />
Tutorial, which exactly describes, as too in the Google diagrams they<br />
does this as soon as you and its colleagues your diagram manufactured,<br />
can you it in KML export and Google Earth.My uses to regard it in the<br />
local mountain bicycle association this characteristic sentence, in<br />
order to provide a list trailwork of the projects. Our joint diagram<br />
the position of the necessities trailwork and possible new traces<br />
show, we hope to establish. I hope, this with everyone to divide<br />
including the forest service soon.</p>
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		<title>IP-HONE, a petizione Tim e Vodafone</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A meno che in questi ultimi 30 giorni, avete fatto una capatina sulla Luna e siete completamente asciutti di notizie riguardanti la Terra, è uscito l&#8217;iPhone 3G e finalmente è disponibile anche in Italia.

Come era già stato pronosticato, gli operatori telefonici che si sono aggiudicati questo gioiellino, made Apple, sono Tim e Vodafone, che come [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A meno che in questi ultimi 30 giorni, avete fatto una capatina sulla Luna e siete completamente asciutti di notizie riguardanti la Terra, è uscito l&#8217;iPhone 3G e finalmente è disponibile anche in Italia.</p>
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<p>Come era già stato pronosticato, gli operatori telefonici che si sono aggiudicati questo gioiellino, made Apple, sono Tim e Vodafone, che come c&#8217;era da aspettarsi (sigh!), si sono distinti in tutta Europa, per i loro prezzi improponibili; a questo proposito nasce <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.iphoneaffossato.com/">iphoneaffossato.com</a>, un sito internet che raccoglie firme per una petizione contro i due operatori telefonici.</p>
<p>I risultati si fanno sentire, infatti l&#8217;AntiTrust ha avviato un inchiesta contro Tim e Vodafone, accusa <strong>possibile abuto di posizione dominante.</strong></p>
<p>In questo momento le firme raccolte sono 9722, personalmente ho partecipato all&#8217;iniziativa, che trovo seria e utile per noi tutti. Nel sito troverete la <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.iphoneaffossato.com/">petizione</a>, una <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.iphoneaffossato.com/lettera-a-steve-jobs/">lettere indirizzata a Steve Jobs</a> e le più di 9000 firme, con altrettanti inferociti commenti.</p>
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		<title>Connections: Flight route KML, Avi to Microsoft, future position</title>
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Flight path KML: Brian Mayer found Google Earth&#8217;s flight simulator&#8217;s learning curve steep, &#8220;so I decided to create a set of runway outlines and flight paths to serve as guides for getting from Point A to Point B.&#8221; The result is a KML package of 239 runways in 94 cities with 24 flight paths between [...]]]></description>
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<li><strong>Flight path KML:</strong> Brian Mayer found Google Earth&#8217;s flight simulator&#8217;s learning curve steep, &#8220;so I decided to create a set of runway outlines and flight paths to serve as guides for getting from Point A to Point B.&#8221; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://brianmayer.com/2008/07/24/gearth-flightsim-package-release/">The result is a KML package of 239 runways in 94 cities with 24 flight paths between them</a>. I took it for a spin, and sure enough, I managed to land without crashing for the first time ever. </li>
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<li><strong>Avi Bar-Zeev to Microsoft:</strong> Keyhole co-founder Avi Bar-Zeev <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.realityprime.com/news/the-bigger-move">writes on his blog</a> that he has just joined Microsoft. Avi left Keyhole in 2001 &mdash; Keyhole was acquired by Google in 2004 and its Earth product became Google Earth in 2005. What will he be working on?<br />
<blockquote>As to what I’ll be working on, keep in mind, my new supervisor actually found me and recruited me via this blog. That might help you make some guesses as to what we’re interested in.</p></blockquote>
<p>And on his blog, he&#8217;s been <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.realityprime.com/articles/wsj-opinion-the-3d-internet-changes-everything">writing perceptive posts</a> about the 3D internet lately:-)</li>
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<li><strong>Thinking about future location:</strong> I ended up watching Peter Batty&#8217;s entire presentation at GeoWeb on &#8220;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://geothought.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-presentation-on-future-location-and.html">Future Location and Social Networking</a>&#8220;. I hadn&#8217;t planned to, but I was surprised to find a lot more deep thinking than I imagined was possible about this market segment. Peter&#8217;s put a lot of his thoughts into action with <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.whereyougonnabe.com/">whereyougonnabe</a>, a FaceBook application that competes with Dopplr. At the end of the video, there are some cool Google Earth visualizations.</li>
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<li><strong>Improvements in Google Maps ads:</strong> Valery Hronusov forwarded this, in case not all Google Maps developers had seen it. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2008/07/improvements-to-ads-in-maps-api.html">The Google Maps API now has much improved handling of Google ads</a>, so you might want to go revisit your code.</li>
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<li><strong>EarthBrowser presentation:</strong> Matt Giger of EarthBrowser <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blog.earthbrowser.com/2008/07/earthbrowser-presentation-at-google.html">presents a Google Tech talk about his virtual globe</a>, in which he also makes the case for a better representation of time in KML. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blog.earthbrowser.com/2008/07/whats-in-earthbrowser-pipeline.html">In a separate post</a>, he looks forward to Flash 10, as it would give him the ability to add 3D terrain to EarthBrowser.</li>
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		<title>Connections: Microsoft gives trueSpace, to novel diagram use, British
Colombia releases geo DATA freely</title>
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Microsoft frees trueSpace 3D authoring tool: Microsoft&#8217;s Chris Pendleton over on his blog announces that trueSpace 7.6 &#8212; the $595 3D authoring tool by the recently acquired Caligari &#8212; is now free for all to download (Windows only), putting it smack in the same competitive space as Google SketchUp, with a similar ability to create [...]]]></description>
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<li><strong>Microsoft frees trueSpace 3D authoring tool:</strong> Microsoft&#8217;s <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/07/23/announcing-truespace-for-virtual-earth-3d-development.aspx">Chris Pendleton over on his blog announces</a> that trueSpace 7.6 &mdash; the $595 3D authoring tool by the recently acquired Caligari &mdash; is now <i>free</i> for all to download (Windows only), putting it smack in the same competitive space as Google SketchUp, with a similar ability to create 3D models and then position them on a virtual globe, in this case Virtual Earth. Chris&#8217;s post is detailed, and he implies that trueSpace is a much more advanced tool than SketchUp. (I haven&#8217;t had a chance to compare.)</p>
<p>Not sure where this leaves Dassault Systemes 3DVIA, which <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://maps.live.com/Help/en-us/VE3DVIADownload.htm">Microsoft integrated into Virtual Earth</a> as a kind of browser-based 3D authoring competitor to SketchUp. Ironically, it turns out that while Google&#8217;s been working on a browser-based version of its stand-alone virtual globe, Microsoft&#8217;s been working on acquiring a standalone replacement for its browser-based 3D authoring tool:-)</li>
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<li><strong>Novel map use:</strong> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.clydeford.com/">Clyde Ford</a> writes:<br />
<blockquote>Thought you might be interested in my <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.clydeford.com/onscene.aspx">new geo-mashup</a> that integrates VE and GE, switching between the two for the best satellite imagery. I&#8217;m a long-time software developer, but also a thriller writer, who wanted to design a site that allows readers to fly-to places in my book and once there to enjoy multimedia experiences. Hang out on the site long enough and you&#8217;ll hear Morgan Freeman&#8217;s voice talking about <i>Precious Cargo</i>, my latest book.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s Windows only for now. For a book that name-checks a lot of locations (as a nautical novel is wont to do), this is certainly an interesting way of making places come alive. </li>
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<li><strong>British Columbia geodata in Google Earth:</strong> <i>The Map Room</i> finally <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2008/07/bc_geodata_avai.php">made me look</a>. Here is a belated <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://aardvark.gov.bc.ca/apps/gga/detailHome.do?action=showGoogleEarthPage">link to guided tours of some lovely geospatial data of British Columbia in Google Earth</a>.</li>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in April 2006, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/04/short_but_sweet_1.html">Ogle Earth flagged GeoDec</a>, a research project by grad students at the University of Southern California that allowed you to project live video streams onto a 3D landscape. The research had support from both Google and Microsoft, and came with an <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://infolab.usc.edu/projects/geodec/GeoDecLo.wmv">eye-popping video</a> of what the future held.</p>
<p><img alt="logoNew.jpg" src="http://selmasread.info/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2c7eb_logoNew.jpg" width="236" height="92">The future is now. GeoDec&#8217;s demo site is gone, but out of its ashes comes <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sentinelave.com/">Sentinel AVE</a>, a company, and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sentinelave.com/ave.html">Augmented Virtual Earth</a> (AVE), their product. USC&#8217;s researchers have turned their project into a business. And good for them.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sentinelave.com/AVEVideoEarth.html">As told by this impressive video demo</a>, AVE is a fully fledged virtual globe with 3D DEMs, textured urban buildings, accurate sun positioning and support for KML as well as buildings taken from Google&#8217;s 3D Warehouse. But the single most impressive feature is the seemingly scalable ability to &#8220;fuse&#8221; any number of streaming videos to the landscape, so that surveillance cameras can collectively paint a a whole region in live 3D video. </p>
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<p>That&#8217;s a first. Yes, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://secondlife.com/">Second Life</a> has the ability to show a video in-world onto a screen, but an avatar can only see one at any one time. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.skylineglobe.com/SkylineGlobe/corporate/services/SkylineGlobePro.aspx">SkylineGlobe</a> also lets you add 2D video clips in their globe, but you can&#8217;t distort the projection so that it fits around a 3D object, like AVE does. Sentinel AVE seems to have cracked the scalability issue, something which their video says involves a patent pending method. According to them, AVE runs on current laptops (though I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s Windows only).</p>
<p>If you visit <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sentinelave.com/company.html">Sentinel AVE&#8217;s about page</a> there is no doubt that much of their original backing is (US) military in nature. But the video&#8217;s virtual visit of the Googleplex and the seamless integration with Google&#8217;s 3D Warehouse hints at some collaboration with Google&#8217;s geo team.</p>
<p>If you want to buy Augmented Virtual Earth, you need to send them an email. If you have to ask how much it costs, though, you probably can&#8217;t afford it, and that&#8217;s probably because you&#8217;re not the military, a city or big company wanting 3D video surveillance of a region. Still, today&#8217;s cool new technologies are tomorrow&#8217;s Google acquisitions, right?:-) </p>
<p>Five years from now, we may all be pointing our webcams out the window, contributing to a global live 3D video mosaic open to all. Then Google Earth (or a live video version of Microsoft&#8217;s <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://labs.live.com/photosynth/">Photosynth</a> in Virtual Earth) would do to surveillance what it did to remote sensing intelligence gathering &mdash; bring it to the masses, replacing big brother with millions of little brothers. (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://edudiserto.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/sentinel-ave-virtual-earth-google-earth-second-life-streaming-videos-public-camera-shots/">Via Diserto</a>)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quello che vi sto per scrivere mi frulla per la testa da parecchio tempo e periodicamente riprende vigore. Stavolta per&#242; lo scrivo su Dynamick per sentire le vostre impressioni.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quello che vi sto per scrivere mi frulla per la testa da parecchio tempo e periodicamente riprende vigore. Stavolta per&ograve; lo scrivo su Dynamick per sentire le vostre impressioni.</p>
<p><img height="315" width="560" alt="incrementare guadagni con le landing pages"></p>
<p>La mia idea &egrave; di creare un <b>blog</b> fatto esclusivamente da <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_page">landing pages</a> ovvero ogni articolo del sito si dovr&agrave; presentare come se fosse l&#8217;<b>home page</b> del sito. Il motivo di questo sforzo &egrave; di <b>aumentare la credibilit&agrave;</b> della pagina e con la piena fiducia dell&#8217;utente, indurlo a compiere un&#8217;azione che nella maggioranza dei casi &egrave; il <b>click su AdSense</b>.</p>
<p>Sviluppo di seguito <b>due concetti</b> per arrivare alla mia tesi finale:</p>
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<h3>Cosa sono le landing pages</h3>
<p>Usato nel gergo del <b>marketing</b>, la <b>landing page</b> &egrave; una pagina <b>specializzata </b>a cui il visitatore accede dopo che ha cliccato un link che solitamente si trova su un sito esterno e spesso &egrave; a pagamento (un banner o un collegamento sponsorizzato). La pagina &egrave; estremamente <b>focalizzata </b>su un particolare prodotto o servizio con lo scopo di <b>indurre l&#8217;utente</b> ad acquistarlo o a compiere specifiche azioni che comporteranno una vendita.</p>
<h3>Ogni pagina &egrave; un&#8217;homepage</h3>
<p>Il pensiero comune &egrave; che l&#8217;utente per arrivare ad una specifica pagina del nostro sito compia questo <b>percorso</b>:</p>
<ol>
<li>Arrivi alla nostra <b>homepage</b></li>
<li>Navighi all&#8217;interno del <b>menu</b></li>
<li><b>Individui </b>un articolo di suo gradimento</li>
<li><b>Legga </b>l&#8217;articolo</li>
</ol>
<p>Probabilmente ci sono utenti che compiono un tale percorso, ma nella gran parte dei casi<b> il percorso &egrave; diverso</b>.</p>
<p>Dobbiamo rivoltare il punto di vista e centrarlo non pi&ugrave; sul sito ma sull&#8217;utente. E&#8217; proprio questa la novit&agrave; e la rivoluzione del <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dynamick.it/web-20-una-definizione-in-10-punti-534.html">Web 2.0</a>. Non &egrave; il sito che, tramite la sua <b>gerarchica organizzazione</b> dei contenuti, fornisce gli spunti all&#8217;utente, ma &egrave; l&#8217;utente stesso ad aver in testa un obiettivo ben preciso che esterna ricercando tramite i <b>motori di ricerca</b> la pagina che pi&ugrave; lo soddisfa.</p>
<p>A dimostrazione di questo concetto, dovete sapere che su Dynamick:</p>
<ul>
<li>l&#8217;<b>89%</b> degli utenti arrivano dai motori di ricerca,</li>
<li>il <b>5%</b> da siti esterni</li>
<li>e solo il <b>6%</b> da accesso diretto.</li>
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<h3>L&#8217;obiettivo da raggiungere</h3>
<p>L&#8217;obiettivo di ogni buon blogger &egrave; <b>massimizzare </b>i propri guadagni, ovvero i <b>click </b>effettuati sui banner o collegamenti sponsorizzati. Per ottenere questo risultato fondamentalmente ci sono <b>2 strade</b>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Aumentare il <b>numero dei visitatori</b></li>
<li>Aumentare <b>la percentuale di conversioni</b> (click, iscrizioni, acquisti)</li>
</ul>
<p>Per aumentare il numero di visitatori le <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dynamick.it/scambio-link-ricevere-traffico-targettizzato-1100.html">tecniche </a>e i <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dynamick.it/ottimizzare-link-popularity-blog-1103.html">suggerimenti</a> sono <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dynamick.it/consigli-aumentare-traffico-blog-1080.html">tantissimi</a>. Dall&#8217;<b>ottimizzazione</b> del codice HTML al <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1918663&amp;r=PI">link baiting</a>, dal <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blog.html.it/archivi/contenuti_e_web_writing/">miglioramento dei contenuti</a> ai <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_sociale">social network.</a>&nbsp; Questo &egrave; un argomento di cui abbiamo gi&agrave; trattato e che tratteremo in altri articoli.</p>
<p>Per ora soffermiamoci sul secondo punto: <b>aumentare la percentuale di conversioni</b>. Questo si ottiene quando un utente pensa di aver raggiunto la pagina che cercava e quindi conclude la sua ricerca nel nostro sito.</p>
<h3>Creare un blog di landing pages</h3>
<p>Fondendo i concetti, l&#8217;idea &egrave;<b> creare un blog fatto di landing pages</b>. In questo modo l&#8217;utente che arriva dai motori di ricerca approder&agrave; su una pagina <b>fatta su misura</b> per le sue esigenze.</p>
<p>Eccovi un <b>esempio </b>di come potrebbe essere una landing page per un ipotetico articolo sull&#8217;<b>iPhone</b>:</p>
<p>&nbsp;<img height="978" width="480" alt="Landing pages - esempio"></p>
<p>Chiarisco per punti le idee seguite per sviluppare la bozza qui sopra:</p>
<ol>
<li>Nell&#8217;<b>header</b> compare solo il titolo dell&#8217;articolo. Non &egrave; presente nessun elemento che possa <b>disturbare </b>il lettore. E&#8217; stato rimosso anche il menu di navigazione.</li>
<li>Nell&#8217;angolo in alto a destra &egrave; stata posizionata un&#8217;<b>immagine </b>attinente al testo dell&#8217;articolo per indicare all&#8217;utente che &egrave; nella pagina giusta. Quest&#8217;immagine potrebbe essere catturata in automatico attraverso le <b>API di Google Image</b> o <b>Flickr </b>e magari potrebbe comparire all&#8217;utente la domanda &#8220;Questa immagine &egrave; attinente all&#8217;articolo?&#8221;.</li>
<li>Sotto al titolo, nella<b> zona pi&ugrave; osservata</b> della pagina &egrave; stato piazzato un <b>banner </b>adsense</li>
<li>Il testo &egrave; formato da <b>paragrafi corti</b>, suddiviso da <b>capitoli </b>che facilitano la lettura</li>
<li><b>Link utili</b>: raccolta di articoli correlati ricavati automaticamente utilizzando i feed di <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://del.icio.us">Del.icio.us</a></li>
<li>Raccolta di <b>immagini </b>provenienti direttamente da <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.flick.com">Flickr</a>. Sono miniature per <b>non distrarre </b>l&#8217;attenzione dell&#8217;utente e arricchiscono la pagina <b>contestualizzandola </b>maggiormente.</li>
<li><b>Leggi anche</b>: sono gli articoli correlati per mantenere l&#8217;utente all&#8217;interno del <b>nostro sito</b></li>
<li>Se esistono, sarebbe interessante mostrare le <b>ultime aste</b> di <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ebay.it">eBay </a>che contengono il nostro iPhone</li>
<li>Sezione <b>commenti</b>: sempre aperti, in modo da creare discussioni e <b>aumentare il contenuto</b> della pagina</li>
<li>Il <b>footer </b>contiene il logo del sito, le evenutali sezioni, il menu di navigazione, ovvero tutto ci&ograve; che solitamente risiede nell&#8217;header.</li>
</ol>
<h3>&nbsp;Conclusioni</h3>
<p>Forse ho scoperto l&#8217;acqua calda, forse queste <b>idee </b>potranno <b>stimolare </b>le meningi di qualcuno di voi. Sarebbe utile poter <b>condividere le vostre impressioni</b> nella sezione dei commenti per raffinare queste idee e magari produrre un prototipo da testare. Allora, cosa ne pensate?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companion Googler and government inspection departments geek
extraordinaire Treber MERLIN have a leader too geoday-went to photos
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extraordinaire Treber MERLIN have a leader too geoday-went to photos<br />
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describes, like one very irresistible geo more mashups.Whether caused<br />
or not you for this leader, it is out to examine representation of the<br />
Treber follows. It uses cleverly Google of diagrams, photos and<br />
government inspection department data, in order to describe details of<br />
one multiday journey on of north California lost coastal trace (one my<br />
favourite of places).</p>
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