What the hell are Restaurant Row (.com) and Menutopia (.com)? Where did they come from? Obviously Google new about them, since they linked onto their “Reviews for Google Maps”… Quick summary before I head out of the office for the day. Restaurant Row SUUUUUCCCCKSSSSS. It’s a mess. However, Menutopia.com combines the look and feel of SeamlessWeb.com, which I like, with menupages, which has all the menus, with links to SeamlessWeb if they are active for delivery on SeamlessWeb. Hmmm, perhaps Menutopia and SeamlessWeb are related? or just good buddies? Can I say Seamless Web one more time?
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While I’m on my apparent Google kick, let’s throw in one more interesting tidbit from Google. Apparently, Google Maps now allows businesses to be reviewed, plus it’s linked to other companies’ reviews, like newyork.citysearch.com, menutopia.com and restaurantrow.com.
I decided to showcase and check out and write a review of my favorite Sushi restuarant, Isohama, for more more info, click on the link.
Ummm, this is amazing because it eliminates the need for any java or flash searches on your site, eliminates the need for time consuming search boxes based on your MySQL or Database, this is easy, I Did it in two seconds, although, my blog nor my homepage, adamahirsch.com, has enough data to actually warrant one, but trust me, you want it if your site is over 5 pages…
Google Create a Custom Search Engine on the fly, they say:
Got a blogroll or a directory you want to make searchable? Here’s a quick and easy way to create a search engine from the links on your web page.
It’s simple - just copy and paste this code.
- Copy the code below and paste it into your webpage’s HTML.
- A search box will appear on that page instantly!
- When you do a search, you’ll see results from the sites your page links to.
Even better? (see the bottom right)
Want to customize more?
Create a Custom Search Engine and:
- Specify more sites to include
- Customize the style of your results pages
- Make money with AdSense for Search
I’ve said it plenty of times over and over again, but I’ll say it again. The Bush presidency is controlled by the Oil Industry. I mean, someone (in this case President Bush) just can’t take control of an oil company, run it into the ground, then eventually become president and not owe somebody something, and by something, I mean A LOT! How else could a coke sniffing, alcoholic from Connecticut get the appearance that he’s a Born Again Christian from Texas?
Either way, here’s the article that prompted this rant: Oil industry scales back refinery plans, a selection from the story below…
This spring, refiners, hampered by outages, could not keep up with demand and imports were down because of greater fuel demand in Europe and elsewhere. Despite stable ? even sometimes declining ? oil prices, gasoline prices soared to record levels and remain well above $3 a gallon.
Consumer advocates maintain the oil industry likes it that way.
“By creating a situation of extremely tight supply, the oil companies gain control over price at the wholesale level,” said Mark Cooper of the Consumer Federation of America. He argued that a wave of mergers in recent years created a refining industry that “has no interest in creating spare (refining) capacity.”
Despite New York City being up and running for Google Ride Finder and despite the
fact that
Google Maps now has updated Manhattan with Transit Hubs and Information, Google seems to be lacking in the whole get New York City done sooner than later phase. Let’s get New York City up and running for Google Transit! I mean, COME ON! We’re New York City, we’re like a third of everybody that uses Google in the United States. Not everyone knows about Hopstop.com, so, let’s get the ball rolling for all of those tourists out there (make it mobile compatible too for them, it might help).
Google Ride Finder (beta), which I’ve been checking to see when they’d finally add New York City to it, is finally up and 
running. Unfortunately, the NYC Taxi and Limousine Service haven’t updated their technology yet, but either way, I live in Manhattan, there’s always a taxi available. What is up and running is Elite Limousine and Super Shuttle. Possibly can detect traffic through the “Update Vehicles Location” button on the bottom?
When working on my web site, I wanted to insert all the blogs I’m reading into my “Links” Page into a Section called “Current Blogs I’m Reading”… So I decided to do a Google Search for “OPML to HTML Converter” and I came up with a lot of junk, thankfully one of the blogs I read is Lifehacker and they fortunately had a blog entry on this, unfortunately the links didn’t work at first, but I gave it another try and bam…. a in browser, Drop OPML Source to convert to HTML page, SWEET!
Thanks whoever wrote the code for that page! Made my life and web site easier!
First, I only discovered after I downloaded Microsoft Live Writer that it was Beta 2 a week later. Apparently, it doesn’t say anything on the site, but according to the Microsoft Live Writer Blog, it’s the new version. Either way, I’m glad I didn’t have to bother with the old version. Anyway, the purpose of this 
post, is because I got a Comment! Woo! I love Comments! Figured, it was an interesting tip to share:
“Last week I discovered (by accident) that if you right click on a pic in Flickr and select Copy Link Location (NOT Image Location) you can CTRL-V it straight into Live Writer - AND it correctly copies the ?alt? info as well.
When I typed in an ?alt? tag directly into WLW it was not appearing on my Wordpress blog (not Wordpress.com). Now it does.”
Thank you David for Reading and Commenting!
Woman on stoop: Ugh, I hate kids.
Mom of playing children: You have four of them!
Woman on stoop: Oh, I got rid of those. –Broadway, Astoria
Man: Dude, your marketing department — they’re like a bunch of baby birds!
Woman: I know! And I’m sick of throwing up in their mouths.–57th & 5th
Buddhist: Excuse me, sir, are you a New Yorker?
Obvious New Yorker: Go fuck yourself!–Union Square
Bus driver on intercom as it starts to rain: You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray… C’mon, everybody!
Entire bus, singing: You’ll never know, dear, how much I love you — please don’t take my sunshine away.
Chick: I think that was the least-New York moment of my entire life.–M79 bus
Mom to screaming child: Shut the fuck up!
Man: Yeah, keep telling your kid ‘Shut the fuck up’ so he can grow up and steal my car someday.–6 train
Mom: Are you okay in there, sweetie?
Little girl in stall: I can’t button my pants.
Mom: It’s alright. Just come on out.
Little girl in stall: And I pooped on the floor.–Bathroom, AMC Theatres, Times Square
I certainly know anyone I know in New York would love this ad. It has everything from multiple cultures to several languages to different street-scapes. Good times, the best part is that Apple didn’t even do the video. Check the link at http://www.iphonenewyorkcity.com/.
Image from Video…
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