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Moebius 2004 USA (aka Mobius 2004 USA) conference upcoming - invitations already sent November 10, 2004 [General] | By Edward J. R. Well, if you are an "influencial webmaster or journalist in area of mobility" then you could be invited by Microsoft to invite-only conference that takes place in December 2004 in Seattle area (and more exactly speaking: in Redmond) - Möbius 2004 USA. Interestingly Microsoft not only covers traveling and lodging costs but each participant gets also gifts from Microsoft worth several thousands dollars... If you haven't been invited by now, then sorry, you are a loser, and it doesn't matter how huge web traffic your website has or how high Google page rank... After the conference we will scrutinize all participants - as we did it in the past - and check out to what extend they really are influencial and to what extend nepotism and subjective handpicking took place. Unfortunately MS employees who are picking people for this Mobius and MVP programs live usually in oblivion as far as real measures of website's popularity are concerned and quite often pick websites that have extremely small webtraffic, tiny numbers of visitors and very low Google page rank. So here are tips for them: to measure Google Page rank one needs to install Google Toolbar or one can click here - anything below 6 is a meaningless website. 6 is mediocre and 7 and more is excellent. Generally: 0 - totally meaningless website, 8,9,10 - incredibly important and relevant websites. Another objective criterium is Alexa web traffic ranking, which can be observed by installing Alexa toolbar or by visiting this page (and changing parameter "url=" in the address to your website of interest (use "www." before domain name). Anywebsite that has Alexa web traffic ranking below 30000 is a popular one. Websites below 10000 are extremely popular and usually known to millions of people. Generally: the smaller the number the bigger the webtraffic given website has. Example of Microsoft' lack of objectivity: in past Microsoft was inviting editors from websites that have web traffic in 3 months smaller than our msmobiles.com has in one day. On the other hand some really big contributors to mobility community, people who really deserve it, like Jason Dunn and Peter Rojas, were also invited, so at least partially Microsoft is right. Anyway: in most cases it is an important publicity gig, that has high return on investment for Microsoft. * * * * * Disclaimer: we from msmobiles.com due to our open criticism of Microsoft's mistakes, and due to the fact that providing reliable and interesting material (nobody else gives you the whole story) to readers has higher priority than being "polite to everybody" in general and to MS employees in particular, ... haven't been invited and several Microsoft employees openly block our participation both in Mobius and MVP initiatives due to personal grudges.... however thanks to the fact that we are getting absolutely nothing from Microsoft we can inform our readers clearly and without half-truths and polite lies - something that most other websites can't affort. Related stories:  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 10 Comments ]
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