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		<title>Remove unwanted eBay strings from A2P [Auction2post] posts with Automated Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Free rules file with this post! Do you use Auction2Post [A2P]? If you don&#8217;t its a wordpress plugin which automatically implants listings from ebay as wordpress posts, including affiliate links through the ebay partner network from which you earn a commission. Its quite useful. Read my post about it here. Anyhow if you don&#8217;t use the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2011/08/remove-unwanted-ebay-strings-from-a2p-auction2post-posts-with-automated-editor/">Remove unwanted eBay strings from A2P [Auction2post] posts with Automated Editor</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p><hr /><a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Visit Woody Haydays Blog</a><hr />]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: right;">Free rules file with this post!</h3>
<p>Do you use <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/10/auction-2-post/">Auction2Post</a> [A2P]? If you don&#8217;t its a wordpress plugin which automatically implants listings from ebay as wordpress posts, including affiliate links through the ebay partner network from which you earn a commission. Its quite useful. Read my post about it <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/10/auction-2-post/">here</a>. Anyhow if you don&#8217;t use the plugin you can pretty much skip this post, unless you use a similar thing which is generating all kinds of nasty strings you don&#8217;t want in your posts <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>This post will show you how to sanitise your auction2post posts for annoying (and contract breaking) ebay auction strings, it even has 125 rules already in a file for import!</p>
<h3>The problem</h3>
<p>Auction2Post is great in lots of respects, its well written and does a prescribed job. Where it caused irritation for me is arguably after its done its job, after the wordpress plugin had created its posts. You see you can create posts via templates, which is great, it allows enough customisation for most, however I wanted a bit of text processing as often you are left with irritating auction footers and garbage text which make the user hit back or close at a displeasing rate (some of these ebay strings might actually make your Auction 2 posts sites break ebay partner network terms of service, its really worth sanitising your posts as I describe below!)</p>
<div style="border: 1px solid #09C; background-color: #b5d1ea; padding: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align: center;">
<strong>For Example:</strong></p>
<p>My EBAY User ID: yah00002009</p>
<p>welcome to Our ebay Store shop</p>
<p>IF YOU ARE NEW TO EBAY OR DO NOT HAVE A PAY PAL ACCOUNT PLEASE CONTACT ME SO WE CAN HELP MAKE ARRANGEMENTS WITH YOU</p>
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<h3>The Solution</h3>
<p>This problem with Auction 2 Post and wordpress is one of the reasons <a href="http://www.automatededitor.com"  target="_blank">Automated Editor</a> was born, to give a bit more freedom in text processing, wordpress filters are great but I don&#8217;t think filtering hundreds of ebay phrases like that is effective.</p>
<p><span id="more-718"></span></p>
<p>If you want to cleanse your Auction2post posts of dirty ebay auction footers and the like here is how I currently do it:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install Automated Editor plugin on the blog in question. (Get it <a href="http://www.automatededitor.com/launch-offer-save-over-50-percent/" target="_blank">here</a> and install like a normal plugin.)</li>
<li>Go to the plugin (Auto Editor on its plugin menu) and read the disclaimer (big red box) and THEN accept it.</li>
<li>Download the rules file I have created (Get it at the bottom of this post) and unzip it somewhere.
<div style="border: 1px solid #09C; background-color: #b5d1ea; padding: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-726" title="ebay-string-replace-rules-file" src="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ebay-string-replace-rules-file.png" alt="" width="96" height="116" /></div>
</li>
<li>Go to &#8220;Import/Export&#8221; on the Automated Editor plugin menu.
<div style="border: 1px solid #09C; background-color: #b5d1ea; padding: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-727" title="using-automated-editor-sidebar" src="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/using-automated-editor-sidebar.png" alt="" width="156" height="163" /></div>
</li>
<li>Choose the aforementioned rules file and hit import.
<div style="border: 1px solid #09C; background-color: #b5d1ea; padding: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align: center;"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-728" title="automated-editor-and-auction-2-post-importexport" src="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/automated-editor-and-auction-2-post-importexport.png" alt="" width="498" height="132" srcset="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/automated-editor-and-auction-2-post-importexport.png 498w, https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/automated-editor-and-auction-2-post-importexport-450x119.png 450w" sizes="(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px" /></div>
</li>
<li>You should now have 125 or so rules in your rules list <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></li>
<li>Now go to Schedules on the plugin menu and then click Add New.</li>
<li>Scroll down and hit Select All (under the long list of rule checkboxes ebay1, ebay2 etc.)
<div style="border: 1px solid #09C; background-color: #b5d1ea; padding: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-723" title="automated-editor-plugin-ebay-replace-select-all" src="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/automated-editor-plugin-ebay-replace-select-all.png" alt="" width="355" height="144" /></div>
</li>
<li>Scroll down again and select Most Recent Post from the Target dropdown.</li>
<li>Make sure run option is on &#8220;After a post is published&#8221;.
<div style="border: 1px solid #09C; background-color: #b5d1ea; padding: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-724" title="automated-editor-schedule-for-ebay-phrase-replace" src="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/automated-editor-schedule-for-ebay-phrase-replace.png" alt="" width="344" height="220" /></div>
</li>
<li>Save it.</li>
<li>Turn on schedules.
<div style="border: 1px solid #09C; background-color: #b5d1ea; padding: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/automated-editor-automation-turned-on.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-722" title="automated-editor-automation-turned-on-sm" src="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/automated-editor-automation-turned-on-sm.png" border="0" alt="" width="600" height="190" srcset="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/automated-editor-automation-turned-on-sm.png 600w, https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/automated-editor-automation-turned-on-sm-450x142.png 450w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></div>
</li>
<li>Post a test post, either via A2P or manually, it should remove any of the 125 annoying (common) ebay auction strings it finds! Sorted.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Notes on this method:</h4>
<ul>
<li>You will need the <a href="http://www.automatededitor.com/compare-versions/" target="_blank">Full version</a> (Ultra Pro) of Automated Editor, the free version is limited to 3 rules and this rules file alone has 125 ebay-string removing rules. It&#8217;s cheap though <a href="http://www.automatededitor.com/launch-offer-save-over-50-percent/" target="_blank">here</a>.</li>
<li>If you already have Auction2Post auction posts in the system you will have to setup a different schedule to operate on those, I usually set this up before I set any automation (it&#8217;s quite easy, just do the same thing and switch out &#8220;Most Recent post&#8221; for &#8220;all posts&#8221;, run it once then disable the schedule &#8211; you don&#8217;t want it operating on them all every time!)</li>
<li>Currently this removes 125 strings I have found previously, mostly from uk auctions, I am considering writing a simplified version of this whole setup, an &#8220;Auction2Post Post Cleaner&#8221; which you can just activate and leave, perhaps with cloud rules, so watch this space. Good thing about the above setup though is you can continually improve your own rules file by adding your own strings.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Rules File</h3>
<div>The link below offers a RAR&#8217;d version of my Automated Editor rules file which contains 125 x ebay string removal rules, yours for free <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> Please however do use carefully, as with all automated-editor situations if you don&#8217;t understand what you are doing then don&#8217;t use it, this is for the people that understand the above problem and have the full version of the plugin.</div>
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<br /><a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/downloads/Woodylabs_AE_Rules_Export_125.rar">Download Rules File</a><br />[Right click-Save as]</div><p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2011/08/remove-unwanted-ebay-strings-from-a2p-auction2post-posts-with-automated-editor/">Remove unwanted eBay strings from A2P [Auction2post] posts with Automated Editor</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Automated Editor Released!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Woody]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A nice small chunk of a project, Automated Editor is a wordpress plugin which allows you to automate some of the post editing process. Written to be lightweight and flexible it can do a lot with a little input. The plugin replaces a previous script/small app I had previously commissioned to offer automatic string replacement/removal [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2011/08/automated-editor-released/">Automated Editor Released!</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p><hr /><a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Visit Woody Haydays Blog</a><hr />]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" src="http://www.automatededitor.com/i/automated-editor-box-109-t.png" alt="Automated Editor wordpress plugin" border="0" align="left" style="margin:9px;"/><br />
A nice small chunk of a project, <a href="http://www.automatededitor.com" target="_blank">Automated Editor</a> is a wordpress plugin which allows you to automate some of the post editing process. <a href="http://www.automatededitor.com/compare-versions/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="http://www.automatededitor.com/i/download-automated-editor-word-press-plugin.png" alt="Automated Editor wordpress plugin" border="0" align="right" style="margin:5px;"/></a>Written to be lightweight and flexible it can do a lot with a little input. The plugin replaces a previous script/small app I had previously commissioned to offer automatic string replacement/removal from posts at point of publishing. With this public release version though it has had all the bells and whistles added to it, and will do some other useful tasks such as the following:</p>
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<ul>
<li>Replace one string with another (String replace) e.g. Replace ‘X’ with ‘Y’</li>
<li>Remove instances of a string (String remove) e.g. Remove all instances of ‘X’</li>
<li>Replace strings which match a regex rule with another string (Regex replace) e.g. Replace any numbers (^[0-9]{3}$) with ‘y’</li>
<li>Remove strings which match a regex rule (Regex replace) e.g. Remove any numbers (^[0-9]{3}$)</li>
<li>Prepend a string onto the front of a post (Prepend) e.g. Add ‘X’ to the top of a post</li>
<li>Append a string onto the back of a post (Append) e.g. Add ‘X’ to the bottom of a post</li>
<li>Add a post into a category (Add category) e.g. Add category ‘X’ to the post if its not already added.</li>
<li>Add a tag onto a post (Add tag) e.g. Add tag ‘X’ to the post if its not already added.</li>
<li>Change a posts date</li>
<li>Change a posts status</li>
</ul>
<p>(Taken from <a href="http://www.automatededitor.com/anatomy/#rules" target="_blank">here</a>.)</div>
<p>If you want to read more about the plugin you can check out this post on, <a href="http://www.automatededitor.com/what-is-the-point-in-the-automated-editor-plugin/" target="_blank">What is the point in Automated Editor</a> or go right ahead and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/automated-editor/" target="_blank">get it from wordpress.org</a> or buy the professional version at <a href="http://www.automatededitor.com/compare-versions/" target="_blank">AutomatedEditor.com</a>.</p>
<p>Watch this space for a few posts on how I use the plugin, (it works fantastically well when rigged up with <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/10/auction-2-post/" target="_blank">Auction2Post</a>.)</p><p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2011/08/automated-editor-released/">Automated Editor Released!</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Ebay Partner Network Changes RSS Urls (again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>If you are part of the wave of Ebay Partner Network (EPN) affiliates that stuck up middle-man eshops fed by their RSS feeds you may have missed this. In the 5 years or so I have been an ebay affiliate they have only done this a few times, but for the hundreds of custom scripts [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2011/06/ebay-partner-network-changes-rss-urls-again/">Ebay Partner Network Changes RSS Urls (again)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p><hr /><a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Visit Woody Haydays Blog</a><hr />]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are part of the wave of Ebay Partner Network (EPN) affiliates that stuck up middle-man eshops fed by their RSS feeds you may have missed <a href="http://www.ebaypartnernetworkblog.com/en/2011/03/new-rss-feed-generator-available-soon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a>. In the 5 years or so I have been an ebay affiliate they have only done this a few times, but for the hundreds of custom scripts using the urls it can be no small task to reconfigure them. Anyway after putting it off till the last week I thought this week I should remedy the old RSS urls before they stop supporting them: </p>
<div style="border: 1px solid #09C; background-color: #b5d1ea; padding: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center">The existing RSS Feed Generator will no longer be available in the ePN portal after April 17th. <em>However, your existing RSS feed URL’s will continue to be supported until June 30th.</em> We do recommend that you switch to the new RSS Feed Generator to be sure you’re getting more relevant results in your RSS feed.</div>
<p>So if your in the same boat and you have hundreds (thousands?) of RSS urls hard-coded into files across multiple servers I would recommend you get working, perhaps the following will be of use. I should mention at this point that <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/10/auction-2-post/" target="_blank">Auction 2 Post</a> users (and Bans, Wordbay etc.) will not suffer any fallout as they use the shopping api (which is sensible now, but back in 2006 wasn&#8217;t an accessible option.)</p>
<p>I have written a quick transformation script (js) which will take an old epn RSS url (http://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?&#8230;) and transform it into a new one (http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?&#8230;), if you only have a few urls to change over then it might be enough for you:</p>
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<a href="http://woodylabs.com/scripts/ebay-epn-rss-url-converter.php" target="_blank">Ebay Partner Network (EPN) RSS Url Converter/Transformer</a>
</div>
<div align="center"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/epn-rss-url-change-2011.png" alt="" title="epn-rss-url-change-2011" width="600" height="346" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-633" srcset="https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/epn-rss-url-change-2011.png 600w, https://blog.woodylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/epn-rss-url-change-2011-450x259.png 450w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>
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<p>If you have a LOT of these urls in files (like I do) then you might want to use something a little more automated. In my case I wrote a complete FTP spider which flies for each and every file hunting for old ebay RSS urls, transforming them and updating the pages. This was fine in my case because mine were pretty standardly laid out, similar use etc. I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it if you use the extremity of the RSS parameters.</p>
<p>Anyhow as the FTP crawler was pretty huge of a code puke, I might release that separately at some point (it has other good uses ;)), here is the csharp for transforming old RSS urls into new ones though (Note: it doesnt deal with all the parameters, only the most common/ones I use regularly, it may need tailoring.)</p>
<pre class="brush: csharp; title: ; notranslate">static string transformEPNRSSUrl(string inputUrl)
{
    string transformed = &quot;http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?&quot;;

    //split url by ?
    string&#x5B;] splitUrl = inputUrl.Split(new char&#x5B;] { '?' });

    //split second by &amp;
    string&#x5B;] splitParams = splitUrl&#x5B;1].Split(new char&#x5B;] { '&amp;' });

    //new params
    string newParams = &quot;&quot;;

    //transform params
    foreach (string s in splitParams)
    {
        string retID = &quot;&quot;;
        string retVal = &quot;&quot;;
        string&#x5B;] sV = s.Split(new char&#x5B;] { '=' });

        //mostly :p
        retVal = sV&#x5B;1];

        //see if tis required
        if (sV&#x5B;0] == &quot;sacat&quot;) { retID = &quot;categoryId1&quot;; }
        if (sV&#x5B;0] == &quot;satitle&quot;) { retID = &quot;keyword&quot;; }
        if (sV&#x5B;0] == &quot;afepn&quot;) { retID = &quot;campaignid&quot;; }
        if (sV&#x5B;0] == &quot;customid&quot;) { retID = &quot;customid&quot;; }
        if (sV&#x5B;0] == &quot;saprclo&quot;) { retID = &quot;minPrice&quot;; }
        if (sV&#x5B;0] == &quot;saprchi&quot;) { retID = &quot;maxPrice&quot;; }
	
        if (retID != &quot;&quot;)
        {
            if (newParams != &quot;&quot;) { newParams += &quot;&amp;&quot;; } //for all but first
            newParams += retID + &quot;=&quot; + retVal;
        }

        //last few additions 24/06/2011
        if (sV&#x5B;0] == &quot;fts&quot; &amp;&amp; sV&#x5B;1] == &quot;2&quot;) { newParams += &quot;descriptionSearch=true&quot;; }
        if (sV&#x5B;0] == &quot;sascs&quot; &amp;&amp; sV&#x5B;1] == &quot;2&quot;) { newParams += &quot;listingType1=AuctionWithBIN&amp;listingType2=FixedPrice&quot;; }

    }

    transformed += newParams;
    //following is some defaults for me, check these yourself, use:
    //http://woodylabs.com/scripts/ebay-epn-rss-url-converter.php
    transformed += &quot;&amp;sortOrder=EndTimeSoonest&amp;programid=15&amp;toolid=10039&amp;listingType1=All&amp;lgeo=1&amp;feedType=rss&quot;;

    return transformed;
}</pre>
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<p>Use both the transformer script page and the csharp code at your own peril, it worked for me over hundreds of urls, mostly without a hitch, but thats not saying it will for you. Check your urls, after all each is probably worth £ to you. Visit the RSS urls and use the <a href="https://publisher.ebaypartnernetwork.com/PublisherUserManualPage?page_id=ToolValidator" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ebay tool validator</a> to check the RSS feed has worked!</p>
<p>Just a quick mention of the positives of ebay deciding to rip out the old system (its not all a pain in the arse!): </p>
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<li>It reminded me how widespread my old ebay affiliate sites are, it was a good excuse to take stock and write FTPCrawler</li>
<li>The whole system is much cleaner, parameter wise</li>
<li>The introduction of multiple selection parameters is useful</li>
<li>The new RSS generator is nice (as much as anyone uses the thing</li>
</ul><p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2011/06/ebay-partner-network-changes-rss-urls-again/">Ebay Partner Network Changes RSS Urls (again)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Unpublished May and June 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Hey blog, it&#8217;s been a while eh? Hows things? May was a month of brick lane curries, a new art exhibition (silent city), mini golf and a bunch of other blurry stuff. June was a good month (on the whole apart from hackers and google caffeine?!?), did incalculable amounts of coding, new site rollouts, tennis, [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey blog, it&#8217;s been a while eh? Hows things?</p>
<p>May was a month of brick lane curries, a new art exhibition (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.silentcity.org.uk" target="_blank">silent city</a>), mini golf and a bunch of other blurry stuff.</p>
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<p>June was a good month (on the whole apart from hackers and google caffeine?!?), did incalculable amounts of coding, new site rollouts, tennis, monopoly, booked new york flights and some other stuff. Wrote a lot, drank a lot of wine, updated a bunch of <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/10/auction-2-post/">auction2post</a> sites because eBay updated their api (for the better) &#8211; standard summer month.</p>
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<p>I started 4 draft posts across these two months but none seemed to stick, it&#8217;s not like the months were dry, posts boning csharp just didn&#8217;t fit, I was going to post csharp iis and multisql management code, a nice project I wrote to datamine from ebays new api and I was thinking of digging out my seo hub php based hub and rewriting it as a multi threaded windows app, but yeah sometimes stuff just doesn&#8217;t seem to hold enough value.</p>
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<p>As ever though projects continue to crop up and evolve. I am working on a stupidly simple file system snapshotter after an incident with a second hacker, I will probably post about ripping data from the Nike app on the iPhone, if it isn&#8217;t up already somewhere else. Also I will make a quick program to save the top 20 wallpapers from reddit to a folder so windows 7 can automatically show me new epics (theres even an rss!) if know one else saves me the effort. <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Unless that is, all this stuff gets superseded. Mostly it&#8217;s just me biding my time and making broader plans <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></span></p>
<p>Look out for possible random posts on business intelligence, the stock market and brain architecture too, as they seem to keep cropping up.</p>
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		<title>Ebay Partner Network Experiments &#8211; Splitting Campaigns for EPC?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 09:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Back to it I thought I would write a quick post about something which seems to be helping my ebay partner network revenues &#8211; that is campaign splitting. I am totally unsure of how ebay partner network campaign splitting will work for you &#8211; I am only just starting to test it my self &#8211; [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back to it I thought I would write a quick post about something which seems to be helping my ebay partner network revenues &#8211; that is campaign splitting. I am totally unsure of how ebay partner network campaign splitting will work for you &#8211; I am only just starting to test it my self &#8211; but from the first week it appears to be helping my largest site overall.</p>
<p>If you are an EPN (Ebay Partner Network) affiliate you will be familiar with their latest scheme which has been in play since Nov 09 or similar &#8211; the idea of a quality based click through deal whereby the higher the quality of traffic you send through to them the higher they pay you per click. The hybrid system encapsulating the benefits of PPC while associating to a finer level with quality seems to be working well on the whole but does change the game slightly.</p>
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<p>The set-up before the move to EPC was clear &#8211; a campaign and its sub id&#8217;s (channels, custom id&#8217;s) were there to allow the publisher a clearer view on what was working &#8211; a means to allow them to refine their sites and provide a better quality through to ebay which returned more sales and which ultimately benefited both parties. This would mean traditionally a campaign per website and sub-id&#8217;s (channels) for each sub category, sub page, sub item or whatever would sufficiently track transactions and allow for later refinement, later. However with the adoption of EPC the campaign gained a new association in the relationship. <span id="more-255"></span></p>
<p>As it stands EPC is calculated per campaign (as I understand it) which means if we lazily coast on with the bigger sites all pummelling single campaigns our EPC is far from efficient. Say a site is getting 3000 clicks through to ebay a day, its set up as a single campaign with about 20 sections underneath it all using custom id&#8217;s so as you can track transactions later. Overall the campaign gets a measly 0.01 &#8211; 0.04 EPC per day  depending on the moon or whatever. This 0.01-0.04 EPC is paid out for all 3000 clicks. Great. But if a single sub page is responsible for 1000 of those click through&#8217;s and is producing a 0.00 or a 0.01p EPC (performing badly) then potentially it pulls down the epc value of the other 2000 clicks.</p>
<p>In efforts to pull one of my larger sites from the low EPC it currently resides at I have now split it from being a single campaign with custom id&#8217;s to being nearly 20 campaigns titled &#8220;site &#8211; subcampaign x&#8221; &#8211; effectively making campaigns of the major customid&#8217;s. This does make the nice epn reports messier to look at but its all for the sake of refinement. If everything is averaged before calculating epc this should not really affect all that much, however based on the first week or so it seems to offer two clear advantages. Firstly its making me more money. The split up site is averaging a higher EPC overall and higher returns. Spreading it across multiple campaigns seems to distinguish the better from the worse allowing a higher overall average epc value per click. Secondly in terms of finding the poor performers from the group it couldn&#8217;t be simpler. No more digging around in transaction logs that really were built to allow refinement under the old system &#8211; you can see the epc&#8217; of each area of a big site strait from the management reports &#8211; it allows you to identify the 1p-epc area&#8217;s of your site and axe them or improve them.</p>
<p>I am sure ebay will dilligently continue to improve their toolset for the epn, especially as I am sure they don&#8217;t want millions of campaigns created like this (lol), but in the meantime splitting your larger breadwinning campaigns may be a worthy pursuit &#8211; I shall repost in a month or so with some progress.</p>
<p>Probably not worth doing on your <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/10/auction-2-post/">Auction 2 post</a> sites this one! haha!</p><p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2010/05/ebay-partner-network-experiments-splitting-campaigns-for-epc/">Ebay Partner Network Experiments – Splitting Campaigns for EPC?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Far from being a google promoter, I do like this. Google Apps Script opens up google spreadsheets to scripting &#8211; Just like Macro&#8217;s etc in Excel, but with Javascript. This effectively opens up a world of online data processing and analysis that would have not been easily possible within a browser before hand, especially suiting [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2010/03/javascript-in-spreadsheets-google-apps-script-does-that/">Javascript in Spreadsheets? – Google Apps Script Does that</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p><hr /><a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Visit Woody Haydays Blog</a><hr />]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Far from being a google promoter, I do like <a href="http://www.google.com/google-d-s/scripts/scripts.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>. Google Apps Script opens up google spreadsheets to scripting &#8211; Just like Macro&#8217;s etc in Excel, but with Javascript. This effectively opens up a world of online data processing and analysis that would have not been easily possible within a browser before hand, especially suiting web-devs its nice to see an amount of custom programmability going into semi-democratised tools. </p>
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<p>I can see applications ranging from replacing my SEO QUAKE&#8217;s list parameter check to many many web marketing, analytics, data crawling and recording processes, all of which you could do in ms.excel, yet more accessible here. This isn&#8217;t a big deal, but landed on my lap this morning so here&#8217;s the share <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p><p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2010/03/javascript-in-spreadsheets-google-apps-script-does-that/">Javascript in Spreadsheets? – Google Apps Script Does that</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is a victim of its own success, but its no victim. It is huge. Millions upon millions of people use wordpress to power their blogs (like this one for example) to make money and to have their voice present on the internet. It has become a first stop for a huge host of people [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is a victim of its own success, but its no victim. It is huge. Millions upon millions of people use wordpress to power their blogs (like this one for example) to make money and to have their voice present on the internet. It has become a first stop for a huge host of people making their way online and is often one that leaves such a positive impression that it never leaves that same user. Its free, its slick, its efficient, its easy&#8230;literally I have nothing but good things to say about wordpress and the people that support it. I could spend hours applauding the democratisation of tools that is wordpress and discuss how its helped the internet blossom and why its so key to understanding the web today but that&#8217;s not what this post is about. If you haven&#8217;t already got a wordpress blog then I would suggest you get one, either for free at wordpress.com or from wordpress.org (the latter if you have your own hosting) &#8211; and once you have one you might soon realise the huge benefit of having 2, 3, 4 or more wordpress blogs. These are real benefits.</p>
<p>The question then comes after  you have 30 wordpress blogs on the go, various niche market&#8217;s blogged too or personal sites about cats or what have you, what then? Updates then. WordPress do update fairly regularly, they aren&#8217;t the slow moving behemoths some other companies are because they are open source, and that&#8217;s a good thing. Anyway maintaining 30 copies of wordpress is actually a lot easier than it sounds, an update is usually nothing more than 10 minutes uploading the new wordpress files over the old ones via FTP. But say you had a little project where you wanted to create a few more wordpress blogs. For the sake of this post lets say you wanted 90 blogs. 90 WordPress blogs installed on an average web host (I suggest 1and1) is not a big deal. It can be as big a deal as you make of it but in your pursuits and interests online its potentially likely to crop up.</p>
<p>You can run 90 wordpress blogs (or 1000 etc.) from 1 instance of wordpress. That is 1 wordpress folder on your host serving to 90 blogs at blogsite1.co.uk, blogsite2.com etc. thats nothing new &#8211; I am sure the quicker off the mark or longer in the tooth of wordpress users have been doing it for a while, but somehow I missed this up until I got past the 30 blog mark and so I thought its about time I looked at the option of hundreds of wordpress-blogs running from 1 folder, a project has come up. The reason this works by the way is the wonderful way (take not web developers) that wordpress splits its config files and its database. The only file in the wordpress files you upload to your blog that contains any site specific data is the config file, which pulls everything from the database.</p>
<p>On the preface there are both good and bad things about doing this with word press, here are the pro&#8217;s and con&#8217;s as I see them pre-project.</p>
<p><strong>Pros</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Single central wordpress folder  &#8211; 1 wordpress folder to update periodically</li>
<li>File size &#8211; rather than using up 4mb per wordpress install, this method uses 4mb per x number of wordpress installs, although space isn&#8217;t an issue really in current web hosting</li>
<li>Plugins and themes only need to be copied once &#8211; they can effectively be shared</li>
<li>Easier to backup &#8211; backing up files of wordpress blogs is pretty pointless apart from wp-content (uploaded images, themes, etc) &#8211; putting all your blogs in one basket means backing up the whole lot is a breeze, 1 folder not 90!</li>
<li>WordPress database is seperate &#8211; you could potentially run all the blogs from 1 database too &#8211; (capacity dependant) &#8211; as wordpress allows table prefix&#8217;s</li>
<li>Adding a blog can be automated <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> &#8211; replicating the first wp database from an install can mean tons less setup work</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cons</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Permalink structure may have to be the same? *not 100% on this one and havent tested but there may be issues with permalink setups across multiple blogs as htaccess is shared*</li>
<li>Other .htaccess differences &#8211; because you will effectively only have 1 .htaccess file for all domains pointing to this folder, this puts all that custom .htaccess code out of the window</li>
<li>Flip side of themes being easy to install is that editing one theme will lead to all blogs using that theme to notice the change, fine if your blogs are stable in design but multiple versions of the same theme will be required if you want to tweak these on a blog specific level, which could make for a messy confusing setup if not through through</li>
<li>If you are running a network of blogs and want to stay under the radar or just want the sites to be as different as possible &#8211; by nature of single resource they will leave footprints unless you are aware and make sure you do things like rename folders for themes non-sequentially etc ( or maybe don&#8217;t be paranoid :p )</li>
<li>Centralising the files for all domains/sites/blogs does mean this folder on this box does then become a single point of failure, loose/break this and the whole of your blog network/project is down. Probably not such an issue with stable hosts these days</li>
<li>As previous point if you do update, change a file or accidentally delete anything it does effect every site &#8211; its a risk but not a big one just be careful!</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Limitations</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Unsure about .htaccess but presume custom rewriting becomes a pain as all sites share a file</li>
<li>There will be a limit as to how many blogs you can run off a single install. It&#8217;s probably thousands though &#8211; if you had 30,000 sites for example &#8211; the file which points the install to the right database tables would become bloated</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>How to run tens, hundreds or thousands of wordpress blogs from 1 instance &#8211; install wordpress once for hundreds of blogs &#8211; without MU.</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Install wordpress into a folder on you hosting (download latest from wordpress.org and then upload via FTP/copy across network)</li>
<li>Get your database details together, you will need Database Name, Database Username, Database Password and the Database host for each of the databases you are going to host wordpress tables in</li>
<li>Install a single blog using the normal method &#8211; point a domain at the folder, go to that domain and follow the wordpress wizard, entering your database connection details and this blogs title.
<ol>
<li>Go through this newly installed blog and commit any changes that you will want duplicated throughout the new installs &#8211; delete the &#8220;hello world&#8221; post/default wp links for example.</li>
<li>Imagine this like creating a ghost image for a network of pc&#8217;s &#8211; you want to make a bare bones default wordpress setup so you can replicate this onwards without having to redo it.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Happy with  your ghost blog setup? go to your phpmyadmin (assuming you have it) and export all the tables for this blog into SQL.</li>
<li>Open that SQL into your favourite text editor, in this case I am using Dreamweaver because I like its find+replace.</li>
<li>You will need to do several find + replaces here, but by doing this you can literally clone a wordpress installation &#8211; (works as at 2.9.1 anyway) &#8211; this is great for mass distribution (This is quicker than installing and can be automated)</li>
<li>For example if your site was &#8220;harrysblog1.co.uk&#8221; with a title of  &#8220;Harrys Blog 1&#8221; then do a find and replace for &#8220;harrysblog1.co.uk&#8221;, switching out the new domain to be added, same with title&#8217;s, users, post&#8217;s etc. This way you could clone a wordpress site and switch out words&#8230;you can change the table prefix this way too.</li>
<li>Run this newly modified SQL on whatever mysql database you want to run the blog from (could be same one if you mass replaced the table prefix&#8217;s)</li>
<li>Alter your wp-config.php file very simply:
<ol>
<li>Open it up and put a bit of logic which basically says &#8220;what domain am I loading from, ah this one &#8211; use this DB and this table prefix&#8221; &#8211; This logic can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be &#8211; I kept mine short and sweet with literally:</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
<div style="border:1px solid #09C; background-color:#b5d1ea;padding:4px;margin:10px;">$thisDom = $_SERVER[&#8216;HTTP_HOST&#8217;];</p>
<p>if ($thisDom == &#8220;www.specificDomainWhatever.co.uk&#8221; || $thisDom == &#8220;specificDomainWhatever.co.uk&#8221;){ $useDB = 1; $table_prefix = &#8220;specificDomainWhatever_&#8221;; }</p>
<p>if ($useDB == 1){</p>
<p>define(&#8216;DB_NAME&#8217;, &#8216;xxx&#8217;);</p>
<p>/** MySQL database username */<br />
define(&#8216;DB_USER&#8217;, &#8216;xxx&#8217;);</p>
<p>/** MySQL database password */<br />
define(&#8216;DB_PASSWORD&#8217;, &#8216;xxx&#8217;);</p>
<p>/** MySQL hostname */<br />
define(&#8216;DB_HOST&#8217;, &#8216;xxx&#8217;);</p>
<p>/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */<br />
define(&#8216;DB_CHARSET&#8217;, &#8216;utf8&#8217;);</p>
<p>/** The Database Collate type. Don&#8217;t change this if in doubt. */<br />
define(&#8216;DB_COLLATE&#8217;, &#8221;);</p>
<p>}</p></div>
<p>*note this is just how I did it, there are other ways &#8211; the code works but was just to test the theory &#8211; when upscaled to a network of xxx or x,xxx sites this is automated quite easily</p>
<p>*note2 I am having to cut this post short but if anyone has any questions or wants to know more/help on replicating wordpress or multi blog &#8211; 1 wordpress instance installs let me know in the comments</p>
<p><strong>References</strong></p>
<p>Striderweb &#8211; <a rel="nofollow" href="http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2006/10/hello-again-world/">this post</a> pretty much explains the theory, a bit like this post &#8211; but I actually happened across it after writing the post &#8211; well worth reading if your going to do this &#8211; Stephen Rider has made a great plugin that will do everything you want it to do as above, I winged it and just modified the wp-config which simply worked in my case so personally I didn&#8217;t use it, but no doubt its probably worth a try if  you want a more deep solution.</p>
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<p>Hi Jo</p>
<p>I have just found out that I will be away to thailand in the beginning of march and as my 6 months of tenancy is up in feb (08th) I was wondering how it worked with regards to rolling contracts?</p>
<p>I would like to move out just before</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Those of you that make good money out of eBay probably noticed the downtime last month. For me it had an affect on my epn earnings for around 5 days. The problem (in my case at least) seemed to be with RSS feeds called from php (curl.) But it could simply have been a server [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/12/ebay-partner-network-xmas-bonus-epn-look-after-their-affiliates/">Ebay Partner Network Xmas Bonus? – EPN Look after their affiliates</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p><hr /><a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Visit Woody Haydays Blog</a><hr />]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those of you that make good money out of eBay probably noticed the downtime last month. For me it had an affect on my epn earnings for around 5 days. The problem (in my case at least) seemed to be with RSS feeds called from php (curl.) But it could simply have been a server capacity issue as while my earnings/epc/clicks were down they were probably only 75% down, which would indicate intermittent service. Its worth noting that before this I had had upwards of 2 years of service as an eBay affiliate without a single obvious days downtime with regards to their rss feeds. This certainly softened the blow of the 5 days loss, but it does make you consider caching and things like the <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/10/auction-2-post/">auction 2 post plugin</a> more as I had become so reliant on the wonderful ebay affiliate uptime that I had almost no backup plan. A lot of my sites were actually showing comical messages I had left in the php because it was that infrequent that this sort of loss of service would occur (only a few sites and it just said something like &#8220;oh knowz we cant find anything&#8221; &#8211; yeah I know, I don&#8217;t even remember writing it.) Either way all was resolved within a working week and everything is  long since back up to capacity again.</p>
<p>Ebay Partner Network responded with a blog post about this yesterday. You wouldn&#8217;t blame them if they coldly denied to pay all affiliates for earnings that they effectively didn&#8217;t make during the tempremental service, however they look to be providing us with a token possitive sum gesture. This helps epn stand out amongst networks and shows that they acknowledge the shared benefits affiliate promotion offers, certainly it cements epn in the uk as being a solid entrance to affiliate marketing.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>&#8220;We have finalized calculations for a makegood that will use the earnings on the days before and the days after the outage, along with a factor to account for Christmas seasonality, to calculate a makegood to make up for the decrease in affiliate earnings caused by this outage.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>This makegood will be added to each account and will be paid out along with the December payment&#8221;</em></p>
<p>(Taken from the Ebay Partner Network Blog <a href=" http://www.ebaypartnernetworkblog.com/en/news/november-21st-site-outage-makegood/" rel="nofollow">post</a> re the November 21st Site outage Makegood &#8211; posted 07th Dec 09.)</p><p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/12/ebay-partner-network-xmas-bonus-epn-look-after-their-affiliates/">Ebay Partner Network Xmas Bonus? – EPN Look after their affiliates</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Its been a while since I posted my review of Auction 2 Post and I thought I would do a post with my results so far etc. Broadly speaking a2p has been a fairly successful venture, between 5-10 sites, all of which more than pay their way have brought more than 100% ROI on the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/12/auction-2-post-recap/">Auction 2 Post Recap</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p><hr /><a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Visit Woody Haydays Blog</a><hr />]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its been a while since I posted my review of <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/10/auction-2-post/">Auction 2 Post</a> and I thought I would do a post with my results so far etc. Broadly speaking a2p has been a fairly successful venture, between 5-10 sites, all of which more than pay their way have brought more than 100% ROI on the original purchase, and probably a fairly decent hourly rate for the person putting them up. I would say that if you have a decent way of promoting the sites you create (a good backbone of links, or at least a good source of links) then you will have no issue in making a small fortune out of auction 2 post. </p>
<p>You might have to scale it up a lot though, if you don&#8217;t choose good niche&#8217;s and good domains/designs. From the few I have put up the great domains/good sites do best, but then I did most promotion for them so perhaps that is biased. All in all I will keep A2P in my developers arsenal, for $69 or whatever for a lifetime licence &#8211; you cant go wrong with it. If you don&#8217;t make your money back and a lot more then you shouldn&#8217;t be trying to make money online.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I read a fair bit of technology news and discussion online, its a kind of hobby of mine &#8211; around this I make sweeping statements about what I think things will end up like. While a fairly pointless thing to do its interesting to note what you think things will be like in the future [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read a fair bit of technology news and discussion online, its a kind of hobby of mine &#8211; around this I make sweeping statements about what I think things will end up like. While a fairly pointless thing to do its interesting to note what you think things will be like in the future at one point, even if in 2015 I find this post (how will I find it?) and laugh at its outlandish predictions about technology and society. So here goes, my thoughts on what technology will be like for humans in 2015.</p>
<p>The reason this post really sparked was this post on pico projectors and <a href="http://www.microprojector5.co.uk/2009/11/microprojectors-in-2015-pico-implementations-in-2015/">what pico projectors might be like in 2015</a>. I think pico projector&#8217;s (tiny projectors that will fit in your hand but produce a projection pretty much the quality of your old tv, anywhere @ 50 inchs) will get huge. I don&#8217;t doubt for one minute that MVIS stock will be the first sign of this in the coming months (the microvision showWX is going to be the worlds first mainstream big selling pico &#8211; prediction) and this will be only the start for developing display technology. Over the next 5 years visually representative technology will blossom. We will see embedded pico-projector&#8217;s slot into city planning, home design, products such as laptops (netbooks), mobile phones, games systems, camera&#8217;s. Within lcd little growth will happen but we will likely see some sort of &#8220;ultra hd&#8221; &#8211; probably double current full hd (1080p), while embedded pico&#8217;s will feature a whole host of new resolutions, by 2015 we will definitely see full hd pico&#8217;s. This development of display technology will usher in a new age of advertisements, coupled with Augmented Reality and revolution amongst the Operating Systems.</p>
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<p>Which brings me nicely to Augmented Reality. AR. Currently there is much buzz around Augmented reality, which I believe really is the sudden sci-fi geek realisation that technically the technology to fully provide AR is out, its been out for more than a year. Smart phones with knowledge of where they are and decent digital cameras have been around longer than the iPhone. It seems once this dawned on people everyone made a mad rush to make something AR, regardless of what it is. As a result magazines, advertisers and marketing companies largely came first (presumably they had the quickest fluid funds to pay for AR.) This marrs the technology a bit if you ask me but perhaps as AR becomes more meaning based this will change. My jury is out on AR but I think it won&#8217;t be as big a deal as everyone is making out it will be.</p>
<p>Business will change, or rather some business&#8217;s will change the way they use technology. You always get early adopters but I believe a good proportion of companies that operate around creative, co-operative ideology will gear up more technologically as the younger generation come into professionalism. We will see different technological assistance of work in the workplace. Board meetings will not only be worldwide (like now via Cisco tele-conferencing) but they will be assisted by interactive technology, touch and display will play large parts in this technology, beyond the Microsoft surface table and towards the science fiction of minority report. Data will be housed, represented and communicated differently. A few years ago usb sticks and solid state drives didn&#8217;t offer an easy solution to copying files, network speeds were a 100th of what they largely are today, there was no cloud. As data management and storage develop as too will the way we use it. We will probably have identifiers rather than storage in 2015. e.g. rather than copying a file to a usb stick you will simply instruct your interface to relate that data to a physical object, a soundwave (a word/phrase perhaps?) or a time of day or place, provided you can prove who you are you could then recieve it. You could carry a 200gb file with you in your wallet or on your fingernail, as the likelihood is that 200gb file will be stored centrally in what people now call the &#8220;cloud&#8221; (but will probably be a server in london or a main city) and you will simply use a relation to prompt whatever interface into providing you with this file.</p>
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<p>There will be hurdles in achieving universal centralised data but by 2015 there will be a huge proportion less of personal computing power stored in the home. The google OS is perhaps a sign of a branching of operating systems, but I don&#8217;t see google dominating the operating system market. Microsoft have become a lot stronger over the last 18 months but the real truth of it is that neither of these developers seem to be truely embracing all of the technology developments happening. Perhaps this lag in uptake is natural, Microsoft does show some promising signs but is held back by business concerns, google seems to throw itself into the ideas without checking they are in the right direction, linux, well linux is linux. By 2015 I predict there will be at least another major world provider of what we currently refer to as operating systems. The whole concept needs re-exploring from the ground up, even starting again beyond the google os. Touch for example, AR and improved options for display are all completely ignored by all of the aforementioned operating systems, Microsoft is the only developer that even references these things but is yet to truly develop a commercial option.</p>
<p>Search will change too. The last few years has seen a huge uptake worldwide in searching for things which in turn has pushed marketing, sales and online business into a whole new age. It&#8217;s also cemented new business models such as affiliate marketing, search based advertising and more grey area web production. The long tail has well and truly become a reality, many successful business people spend their days driving traffic from long tail search into successful sales. This will continue but it wont settle in a single routine for long. Affiliate marketing will take to interactive media more as this becomes more integral in everyday life, search will some how adapt to a new more astute audience that is used to getting good search results fast and who quickly picks up trends and becomes integral members of up and coming online phenomena such as reddit, twitter etc. Beyond real-time, search will need to integrate much more with outside sources, new operating systems and the work out the best way to catalogue and express the ever expanding online data and how it is created and used.</p>
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<p>HTML 5 is on its way too, this will be a major improvement but it wont be the last the web sees pre 2015. By 2015 I believe that the &#8220;internet&#8221; as we know it, a vast linked store of webpages will be a very different beast. Microsoft (XBOX), Apple (iPhone), Sony (Ps3) &#8211; these are all well known, global brands and they are all investing / operating in the new world of applications. Pioneered by Apple and the iphone the idea of segmented approved tools that are properly ordered was a (very apple) genius idea. Bringing a (standard) apple simplicity to what was previously a confusing and avoided world of software for a lot of people. Microsoft, Sky, Sony and other huge technology developers did not miss this success. In the coming years slowly these companies will target specific software/hardware at every possible market audience. By 2015 every member of your family will be buying something digital. Expanding on the segmented digitally providable media of the iphone app, television programs, games, music, films and books will all be available at the click of a button, tap of a screen or utterance of a command (and payment systems such as xbox subscriptions and ps3 accounts will remove the actual money part of the transaction further accelerating digital sales.) This new availability of media will be supported by webpages, but the web-pages are much more likely to be totally interactive, 3d integration is already in browsers but we will see more of this as well as individualised experiences. Imagine every web-page you accessed could (based on rules of privacy) know your name, interests etc &#8211; the web could be a much more interactive environment. By 2015 though I think the web could be on its way to new pastures, gone with the current ideal of &#8220;pages&#8221; accessed by address. An OS with search integrally built in could remove the requirement for a browser, content could be constructed on the fly and applications/services/movies/experiences could replace pages as we know them, with the situation that web pages changing from a square, box of a screen to a multi surface vivid world that we live in, there is no doubt in my mind that the OS and the web &#8220;page&#8221; as we know it will adapt to a new medium.</p>
<p>We are living in a time which is the true beginning of technology adoption, 2015 might bring a few or all of my predictions into reality, it could just as likely bring thousands more. Social adoption will drive these things forward and in return the technology will hopefully create a more co-operative, fair and equal world society.</p><p>The post <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com/2009/12/2015-what-will-technology-be-in-2015/">2015 – What will technology be in 2015?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://blog.woodylabs.com">Woody Hayday | Blog</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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