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The Japanese are taking over again the market and this time its Warp Speed for the Internet.

Americans may have invented the internet but the Japanese are running away with the technology according to a Foreign Service Post I have read. Broadband Services in Japan is 8 to 30 times faster than in the US and most of all offer cheaper rates. Imagine that. Broadband speed acceleration in Japan, South Korea, other parts of Asia and much of Europe is pushing its technology to the next level to innovations that are likely to remain closed for some years in the United States. (monopoly and politics I guess)

The speed allows the Japanese to watch broadcast quality, full screen high definition television programs over the internet while mocking the low quality images the American firms offer. With its ultra high speed applications being rolled out, for teleconferencing on medical fields which allows urban doctors to diagnose disease from a distance or telecommuting in distances, by 2010 Japan can meet its goal for most professional people to work at home.

Why ? Japan has made it possible to manage and have a good relationship with the government in terms of regulations while the US is pumping it out at Capitol Hill. The facts are the copper wires in Japan are newer and has shorter loops. Competition among phone companies have been awarded a tax break and most launched a nationwide build out campaign of new wires making the lower capacity wires obsolete. Nippon Telegraph and Telecommunication (NTT) now offers speeds of fiber optic 17 times as fast from a cable company in the US and the ratio are about 8.8 million homes have this fiber optic lines installed that is roughly 9 times the number comparable in US homes.

Japan also has tested a telepathology system and will be implemented next spring. This allows pathologists to use remote controlled microscopes using high definition conferencing to examine tissue samples from hospital patients in rural areas without access to major hospitals. They only need a clinic with the right microscope and a phone line with fiber optic connection. (Wow !! What a development)

Google’s vice president Vinton G. Serf, has said that sometimes regulatory commission has to have a strong federal regulatory framework to ensure a competitive framework happens in a constructive way. There are many laws pending at Capitol Hill and legislators need to speed up some of it in order to catch up.

Here are facts provided by ITU and WTI Database in 2006:

Broadband Subscribers in Industrialized Nations:

(per 100 inhabitants)

South Korea - 24.9

Canada - 17.6

Switzerland - 17.0

Sweden - 15.1

Norway - 15.0

Israel - 14.3

Japan - 14.1

Finland - 12.8

US - 11.4

France - 11.2

Britain - 10.3

Monthly Rates in Japan for fiber optic connections are often lower than that for slower connections in the US; Price and download speed in megabits per second.

Japan

Fiber Optic - $ 36.58/100 mbps by NTT

Fiber Optic - $ 39.22/100 mbps by Yahoo

Cable - $98.20/30 mbps by J-Com

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Washington DC

Fiber Optic - $39.9/ 5 mbps by Verizon

DSL - $29.99/ 3 mbps by Verizon

Cable - $52.95/8 mbps by Comcast

Cable - $41.99/ 5 mbps by Cox

In Japan the the regulatory wars are far from over. Speed is always a valuable asset for companies offering communication services. The US has to be more watchful of this or they might lose the market share.

While we have stayed for 15 years in Japan, a lot of things learned from there besides the culture, tradition and language, the part that we barely missed is Japanese Gardening. Although we went to so many temples and shrines, we mostly ignored the scenic beauties of Japanese Gardens. It is only now that our appreciation has sent us to the Home Depot and Lowes Stores to buy some needed stones and other gardening goods. We are restructuring our lawn to make it lovelier and have that Japanese touch of elegance. What made us do this is when we visited a long time friend in New Jersey, we saw their garden so elegant that me and my wife were so amazed and could only say that we want this too. As soon as we came back I contacted one of the landscaping companies in our area, who also is a family friend and talked some modifications for our garden. We are now in the planning stages and hopefully we could modify the structuring according to some photos we have gathered.

So it will take a while for planning this project but we do hope by next summer we could enjoy a cool Japanese Garden. Though its late already to start the modifications right now we bought some things already like some stones and seeds for the start of spring next year.

We have been following this Rand Fishkin and his SEOMOZ blog. More lies and more self publicity. His attacks on web directories especially Aviva has brought a popular debate on the internet and somewhat a war between SEO’s and Web Directory Owners. His latest publications of lies, deceit, self promotion ala Howard Stern and published at Smackdown Blog of Michael Vandemar had me puking. This Circus Clown Rand Fishkin is so great at making up excuses after excuses and would not stop. Just a simple “I am very sorry to Aviva Web Directory Owner” or an “I apologize to the Directory Industry” for creating this whole mess would be ok. But no he wants to create MORE popularity for himself and plays it like Howard Stern to go BIGTIME. A smart move that only a manipulative Street Mart Vendor in Asia can do this.

Here are his latest….by Rand Fishkin

So many points to try to address in this post, but I’ll do my best.

1) You are totally correct that I wrote a post marketing our list of directories addition to the premium content, but I’m not sure what’s wrong with that. I wasn’t attacking directories to make people sign up for membership - I was doing it because all our testing and link building over the past few years has been showing me that there really is a very, very tiny amount of value in general directory link building.

Give it a try! Go to a list like StrongestDirectories.com and buy links at all of those low-mid range general directories that market in people’s signatures at Digitalpoint and V7N. Make it for a moderately competitive market like “hvac training school” or similar. Let me know if buying all those directory links gets you any ranking - my experience has been that it just doesn’t provide good ranks, but if your experience is different and you want to champion the value of those general directories, I’d love to see some examples and would be happy to blog about the value if you can show it.

2) Is rankings a fair way to value links for rankings? In my opinion it is. We disagree on that, and that’s OK - John Scott, who’s a very smart SEO, and many other folks disagree as well. There are plenty of people on both sides of this issue, but my experience puts me heavily on the “good rankings = generally high value from links.” Poor rankings for many unique terms in a title tag and on a page can also often spell a penalty or dampening of some type. For directories, this has always set off red flags to me that Google doesn’t trust them because they’re linking out to some shady sites.

3) Is it inaccurate to say that directory owners got upset with us? I’m pretty sure they did… Was there a lot of comment from non-directory owners in those threads? If so, I do apologize for my generalization - I just saw a bunch of links to directories in the signatures of the criticizing members.

4) Honestly there’s not a lot of “spin” going on. These are just topics that were on my mind. In fact, believe it or not, I had no idea that Jane was making a follow-up post on the subject. She’s had her own criticism aimed at some of her private projects on sites like Digg, so I think it was an issue close to her heart. In either case, I can say honestly that there’s no intention to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes - they were just subjects that were interesting to us (independently).

5) RealEstateWebmasters from 3.5 years ago - yeah, that was a total wrong-headed move. I think it was actually the start of my decision to go white hat. I hated the idea that I was hiding something and overall, I think it made me a better SEO. I do still apologize to anyone who was part of that (I think we got 3-4 links out of that and I tried to personally address all of those folks). After a couple months and some apologies, REWebmasters let me back in, which was very nice of them.

6) SOCEngine - you’re totally right on this. I think it provides no value - it’s a general directory with almost no value. I’ll ask the crew to shut it down - it has been barely operating the last couple years. We’ll just keep it in existence but kill the submissions so anyone who is listed now will continue to be listed.

As you’ll note, I haven’t promoted it at all in 3 years. It’s certainly not an income source for us in any meaningful way.

7) The personal attack seems very, very harsh here. I think the message is “don’t trust Rand or SEOmoz - they’re trying to pull a fast one on the SEO world.” I work really, really hard to try to do just the opposite, so obviously, I’m heartbroken to see this kind of post. I guess we can always work harder, though, and I’ll try to do that when I return from vacation.

In the meantime, please do consider responding to my email.

Best,
Rand

Sure Rand whatever Floats your Boat. But attacking web directories and not looking at your face if there are dirt in it and could look at others dirt is a prime example of HYPOCRISY at its BEST.

Continuously adding resourceful contents to our Web Directory is always a Top Priority. We have added a good amount of resourceful websites during the past months and are doing it on a day to day basis. Our editors are doing a very fine job in adding those and I must say that they are very well committed. New Categories have been added like Gas and Energy, Physics and some more in other Top Categories. Our long term plan is to add more resourceful topics on categories but not undervaluing it by immediately adding new categories without any content. Last month we launched a Page Rank Checker and this month we have added a new tool for our webmasters resource, The Google Keyword Position Tool.

RipenApples.com, a trusted friend of Dirsensei Web Directory, whose owner a young php programming genius had set up this tool for our web directory. The tool is a great resource for webmasters looking for or searching their specific keywords in Google. It simultaneously bring results in a 4 column orderly manner. It has choices in a drop down menu of any Google data center available and Google country extensions.  An indeed nice tool that can be used.

We hope to bring more tools to contribute to the webmasters resources on the world wide web and we are very proud of this contribution. Our primary aim is still the same and we hope to deliver the best resources that everyone can use. I would like to thank once again the staff and editors for their unending efforts of contribution and a Special Thanks to Anthony of RipenApples.com for his webmaster tool tailor made just for our directory.

Dirsensei has researched some of the most popular web directories number of categories, listings and its ratio. We have managed to sort the the list from 500 listings and above. We know that theres more but for now we can only gather this information. If anyone has any information on their directories or other directories with results and similar criteria please feel free to add or suggest it at the comment form.

Aviva Web Directory has top the listings of having more than 13,000 links listed across its directory followed by Sleek Directory with 4,000. While on the Ratio of Category/Links Aviva Web Directory has topped again with 8..81 Listings Average per Category and followed by Sleek Directory at 5.43 average and EwebPages at 4.12. As the largest categories in a directory belongs to Dirjournal Web Directory at 11,000 followed by Global Internet Index at 5,000.

These are Regular Listings Only listed in each individual directory Featured Listings are not included.

Alive Directory - www.alivedirectory.com
No. of Categories - Unknown
No. of Links - 3293
Ratio - Unknown

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Ask Directory - http://ask-dir.com/
No. of Categories - Unknown
No. of Links - 777
Ratio - Unknown

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Aviva Web Directory - www.avivadirectory.com
No. of Categories - 1482
No. of Links - 13070
Ratio - 1 : 8.81

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Best Internet Resource - www.bestinternetresource.info
No. of Categories - 1877
No. of Links - 1149
Ratio - 1 : 0.61

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Biz-King Web Directory - www.biz-king.com
No. of Categories - 794
No. of Links - 2767
Ratio - 1 : 3.48

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Dirjournal Web Directory - www.dirjournal.com
No. of Categories - 11,007
No. of Links - 1317
Ratio - 1 : 0.11

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Dirsensei Web Directory - www.dirsensei.com
No. of Categories - 505
No. of Links - 1260
Ratio - 1 : 2.49

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Dirsurfer Web Directory - www.dirsurfer.com
No. of Categories - 319
No. of Links - 920
Ratio - 1 : 2.88

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DirWizard Directory - www.dirwizard.com
No. of Categories - 491
No. of Links - 541
Ratio - 1 : 1.10

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Emillie Web Directory - www.emillie.net
No. of Categories - 519
No. of Links - 500
Ratio - 1 : 0.96

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EwebPages Web Directory - www.ewebpages.org
No. of Categories - 331
No. of Links - 1364
Ratio - 1 : 4.12

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Forplex Business Directory - www.forplex.com
No. of Categories - 332
No. of Links - 650
Ratio - 1 : 1.95

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Global Internet Index - www.gii.in
No. of Categories - 5167
No. of Links - 676
Ratio - 1 : 0.13

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Jeff Brown Web Directory - www.jeffbrowninc.com
No. of Categories - 750
No. of Links - 539
Ratio - 1 : 0.71

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LinkBook Web Directory - www.linkbook.org
No. of Categories - 981
No. of Links - 2047
Ratio - 2.08

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Link Forever Web Directory - www.linkforever.net
No. of Categories - 583
No. of Links - 2969
Ratio - 1 : 5.09

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LinksPub  Web Directory - www.linkspub.com
No. of Categories - 151
No. of Links - 1935
Ratio - 1 : 12.8

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Links Quitters Directory - www.linksquitters.com
No. of Categories - 409
No. of Links - 1395
Ratio - 1 : 3.41

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Romow Web Directory - www.romow.com
No. of Categories - 1009
No. of Links - 1275
Ratio - 1 : 1.26

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SearchBuster Web Directory - www searchbuster.org
No. of Categories - 739
No. of Links - 500
Ratio - 1 : 0.67

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SevenSeek Web Directory - www.sevenseek.com
No. of Categories - 721
No. of Links - 6532
Ratio - 1 : 9.05

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Sleek Web Directory - www.sleekdirectory.com
No. of Categories - 739
No. of Links - 4016
Ratio - 1 : 5.43

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Stiff Upper List - www.stiffupperlist.co.uk
No. of Categories - 225
No. of Links - 699
Ratio - 1 : 3.1

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This Is Our Year - www.thisisouryear.com
No. of Categories - 1935
No. of Links - 11611
Ratio - 1 : 6.00

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Trincas Web Directory - www.trincas.org
No. of Categories - 1192
No. of Links - 515
Ratio - 1 : 0.43

The number seven fifty five is gone which lived a long good noble life of 30 years. It was spawned from the powerful bat of an aging slugger named Hank Aaron on July 20,1976. It was occasionally challenged but was never beaten till a cool evening in August in San Francisco Bay. The record of 755 finally perished at the hands of a relentless, most of the time controversial player from the west named Barry Lamar Bonds. Tuesday night PDT 8:51 PM when Barry swinged a 3-2 pitch from Washington Nationals Mike Backsic driving the ball in right-center field in the fifth inning, giving him his 756 career home runs. There was a sell out crowd at the stadium with mostly documenting the bright moment. Flashes of camera and video shots from the crowd, Bonds hitting the ball immediately dropped his bat and raised both his arms in the air as he watched the ball fly with the crowd exploding in unambiguous ecstasy and the game stopping for some minutes.

Bonds circled the bases accompanied by fireworks over the San Francisco Bay and with pointed hands in the sky as he touched home plate. He hugged his teammates with his family brought in the field to wish him of what has been the beginning of a new record to beat in Major League Baseball. Then a surprise for everyone in a stunning twist of the moment when Hank Aaron showed himself in the big screen to congratulate Barry of the record breaking homerun. The tribute left an indication that with no doubt Aaron has given Bond’s record his support and unqualified endorsement. Only 3 players in the Major League and in the last 86 years has held this feat. Babe Ruth first captured the record and surrendered it posthumously to Hank Aaron in 1974 and now it belongs to Barry Bonds.

We would like to take this opportunity to provide some wonderful websites specially dedicated to the growing number of internet users, The Kids and Teens. In almost all schools worldwide, about 80% of youngsters of age 18 and below are starting to use the web. Due to the growing capacity of young internet users, parents and guardians have to teach and monitor the young generation of safe browsing. At Dirsensei Web Directory we would like to contribute and reach out to the best we can of providing entertainment, resources, games, interactive portal, education and other related information for today’s young generation. It is our privilege to help them learn and grow by experiencing to use the vast resources of the internet while surfing it safely.

We have gathered some very informative resources that can be accessible for todays young generation that we deem safe for use and mostly are government and institution approved. These are very fun and educational since it is a way of discovering things with amazing games, photos, music, guides and indeed best even for families to get involve. We would like to share some links and hopefully we could add more in the future.

The public could share websites for the youngsters by using the comment form and placing the name of the site and the website url. We would be checking the validity and child friendliness and upon approval we would add it. You could also help us by linking to our main site to better promote our purposes or place a comment.

Thanks
KidsCom.com - Entertainment and kids portal from ages 4-12.

EPA Environmental Kids Club - Fun and activities while learning about the environment.

White House for Kids - Tour the White House and learn.

Kid’s Space - A children learning portal.

National Geographic for Kids - Play and learn at the same time about animals.

Crayola - Learn about the wonderful colors with fun and activities.

Professor Garfield - Animated learning for children.

Club Penguin - The newest craze of fun for kids.

Neopets - Community of virtual pet owners.

Tokyo Pop - Social networking with anime and manga.

Kaboose - A family interactive website.

Summer is almost over and we have not yet spent our time vacationing. Plans have been made already and hopefully we could accommodate ourselves. The hectic work schedule had prevented us for our usual summer get away. The children are ok though spending time with friends and in the local community pool and recreation facility in Piney Orchard. There is a tentative schedule that we planned at the end of August but we still have to confirm it at the second quarter of this month. We have viewed some destinations but decided we would spend it if we can with my wife’s friends’ in Chicago and we used a Chicago Travel Guide to view what’s there in store for us. We also tried to see some nice places to stay but most are booked and quite expensive for this time. So I have found out this new site of Travel Accommodation that surely would be of handy now and the future days to come if we decide on going to any destination as it has a lot of useful resources as I can say.

Hopefully our plans should be definitely decided by August 15. If all are well we would be spending our week long vacation at the Windy City with friends and family. The children are already excited about the plans and they might be skipping a few days off from school since that will be the start of classes this year here at Odenton.