PDB Combos, or "Pseudo-Databases Combos"
Pseudo-databases are different from fake databases. Fake databases are real databases with fake / false data. I will be calling "pseudo-databases" to files with real data, but they will have only the look or resemblance of a database.
However, in an underlying layer, computers will be managing / operating / re-arranging, real databases.
At the bottom, I have written something about a loosely-related-to-this-stuff "SECRET".
An open and free project has been started. It can be copied, replicated, partially or totally mirrored in other websites, modified, re-indexed, re-arranged, renamed, filtered, shortened, enlarged, manipulated, et cetera, "echoed" anytime, everywhere, by anyone; id est, anyone can build his/her own "PDB Combo".
Absolutely NO copyright.
It has to do with the building of several or many REAL databases by "brewing" a combo of pseudo-databases composed of several items,
(1) being one of them, an adaptation of the idea and concept coined by computer scientists Eric Freeman and David Gelernter (1955- ) —the last one, a non-fatal victim of Ted Kaczynski (1940- ), a.k.a. "the Unabomber"—, who like to think about the future of important sections of the web as Lifestreams. They launched their project-proposal at Yale University (New Haven, CT 06520), in the mid-1990s: ... a chronological-ordered stream of documents that funcions as a diary of your electronic life...
http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html#origin
http://old.sigchi.org/bulletin/1996.1/fertig.html
SIGCHI (in the above line) stands for Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction.
(2) another element can be the inclusion of YOUR OWN Webtiger's mark —WTM— (not an obligation, of course, but highly recommendable) in all of your websites (or almost all of your websites), webpages, blogs, texts, documents, writings, posts, messages, Facebook wall, videos, images, photographs, links software, et cetera... even in your tweets.
beta3625169410
My personal Webtiger's mark (WTM) is beta3625169410 (a string of characters formed by the name of the second letter of the Greek alphabet, and seven numbers squared, in inverted order).
A Webtiger's mark is a string of unique characters.
—You can find many of my writings and some images/pictures, by typing in the search box of Google this: beta3625169410; then, you would be able to follow the links.
I invite you to create a unique mark, your personal Webtiger's mark, so the public/readers will be identifying more easily your websites, webpages, blogs, texts, documents, writings, posts, messages, Facebook walls, videos, images, photographs, links software, et cetera... even your tweets... except, of course, those files, albums... you want to keep confidential, semihidden, or revealed only to a few.
My personal mark would be the "smell" of my urine if I were a tiger which marks territories by urinating on trees.
Tigers are known for marking their respective territories by urinating on trees.
(Please click on the below image in order to enlarge it.)
You can copy these paragraphs (with slight [or major] modifications for the convenience of you and for the benefit of your readers, friends, acquaintances, customers, et cetera) and the above image, which shows a urinating Web tiger, and paste them in some or all of your websites.
Or you can create another image...
... and, what will your Webtiger's mark be?
Let us say that you know a Peter R. Sands; well, the WTM of Peter could be peterrsands19881110%#. He was born on the Tenth day of November, 1988, et cetera. This WTM would be similar in its uniqueness to the "smell" of a tiger's "urine" in the cyber jungle.
There are many ways to create a WTM.
So, the idea goes on like this: if you type Peter's WTM in the search box of Google, peterrsands19881110%#, and his documents, videos, et cetera, should appear in the first links shown to you by the search engine.
If in the future, Webtigers' marks (WTM's) do not perform as expected/are not useful, they can be discarded, thrown into the electronic waste basket or tossed into the sea...
Of course the above phrases have been typed in order to "prove" that a WTM can be useful to quickly find websites, webpages, images, works, et cetera, created by the owner of such WTM.
(3) PLUS a juxtaposition of COLUMNS and ROWS filled with answers to some of the seven questions asked by Latin rhetorician Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Calahorra, Spain, c. 30-?, c. 100) in his famous hexameter: Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando?, namely, Who, what, where, by what means, why, how (in what way), when?
In Latin Rethoric, these questions are called circumstances, and their respective answers are considered fundamental in information-gathering, journalism, history, criminal investigation, et cetera; they constitute a formula for knowing the complete story of a subject.
Now, one of the main reasons for calling those grid-like renderings of COLUMNS and ROWS, pseudo-databases and not databases, is that they, in fact, will be shown as the results or renderings or "visual aspects" of REAL databases, but without the "paraphernalia" or heavy weight in terms of megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, of REAL databases, which can be manipulated, re-arranged, re-indexed, et cetera, in multiple ways, by using database software, Base (OpenOffice), Microsoft Access, or Calc* (the spreadsheet software by OpenOffice), Excel,* or even SQL.
*Strictly speaking, these programs do not constitute database management software, but they can be used as such. Also, they are more user-friendly.
A chronologically indexed database would answer to the "WHEN" part of the hexameter, and that procedure can be paired or equaled with the idea or scientists Freeman and Gelertner, "a time-oriented stream of documents..."
The keyword in Freeman and Gelernter's idea is the chronological order ("WHEN") but in fact, your REAL databases can be indexed in a number of ways, exempli gratia, according to the data of each and all of the columns in each database. So, in the end you can have a set of results, as many as the number of columns each one of your databases has.
As far as I can tell, I have found that one of the most user-friendly and best programs to manage small or short databases, is Excel, though it is not exactly a database manager.
However, Excel is limited by the maximum number of rows a listing can contain: 65,536.
Databases can be alphabetically indexed according to the data entered in each of several COLUMNS, by subordinating the columns of your choice.
But, if you apply exclusively the idea of scientists Freeman and Gelernter, of a time-oriented stream of documents, you can easily avoid the use of databases, Excel, et cetera, and just keep adding new data (by typing, copying and pasting, et cetera) to your lifestream, to your ROWS and COLUMNS. —That's the great advantage of Freeman&Gelernter's idea.
Obviously, that idea and its application has its pros and cons.
(4) PLUS a collection of the first 50 words only, of each website, not all of them, a different work than the actions of Googlebots, which download entire webpages of websites, to index the word these webpages contain...
This will be that way (first 50 words only), as a measure to not overcharge REAL databases, which should be lighter.
An example of the rendering of a REAL database query, shown in the form of a pseudo-database, would look like this:
Chronol. Personage
WHEN WHO WHAT WHERE BRANCH URL
19860128 Challenger exploded atm. over N. Atlantic aeronautics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
19860128 McAuliffe died atm. over N. Atlantic aeronautics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
19860128 Scobee died atm. over N. Atlantic aeronautics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
16870705 Newton gravity London physics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_gravitation
16751111 Leibniz calculus Paris? math http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz#Calculus
16661000* Newton calculus London math http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Mathematics
When you do not know the exact date of a deed, you can type/use two zeroes for the day, and also two zeroes for the month, if you only know the year. Also, if you do not know the year, you can write something like this 11780000? (circa 1178). For years before Christ (B.C.) or before common era (BCE), you should write a minus (-) sign before the number, v.g., -4296.
The point or "node" is that companies such as:
yahoo.com, bing.com, ask.com, cuil.com.co, www.hotbot.com, google.com, kosmix.com, hakia.com, lexxe.com, answers.com/bb, wolframalpha.com, deeppeep.org, clusty.com, http://blindsearch.fejus.com, duckduckgo.com, yauba, hunch.com, oneriot, scoopler, powerset, et cetera,
keep their databases concealed. Yes, it is their right, they have invested a lot of money to create software, gather information, download it, index it, keep it stored, et cetera, but we, the general public, can do something about that.
Is this a proposal for a Google killer? Absolutely not, instead, we could play the role of "remoras that swim along with sharks", taking advantage of search engines.
(5) PLUS a virtual Web phantom.
(6) PLUS a virtual chip that will connect some or all of your websites among each other, and also to ... ?
I have forgotten the last part of this idea. Hope to recall it at a later time... ññ
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While scientists do not create a software or a metasoftware which automatically indexes data and info, and send them from the millions of websites to a general repository, we should continue using the services of the major search engines.
It seems that such parasoftware or panacean (cure-all) software or "accelerator" is still faraway, so meanwhile, perhaps it would be necessary to apply a revolutionary method, like the one that was applied, in other field, by Norweigan explorer Roald Amundsen, who took along with his team —besides a food invented by North American indians, called Pemmican (fat and protein)— a strange kind of food: a living, running food: 27 of the 45 remaining sled dogs, which he and his team killed for food, December, 1911, in a place they called The Butchers' Shop, at 85º 36', close to the South Pole.
If we aim to create "enzymes" specific for certain "substrates", maybe we will be speaking of a thematic indexation of the web, represented in the fifth column headed by the word "BRANCH" in the above, six-column example, while Freeman and Gelernter focuse on a chronogical-ordered stream, the "WHEN" (first) column.
Sure, there already is an Open Directory Project at http://www.dmoz.org/ but its possibilities of editing and adding articles are restricted.
Now, please let me share the promised "SECRET" with you:
It has to do with YouTube.
Nowadays, YouTube is growing by several terabytes a day.
Videos are so heavy, that the YouTube bandwidth usage is of many petabytes per month.
Starting in 2010 and continuing to the present, Alexa ranked YouTube as the third most visited website on the internet, behind Google and Facebook.
On March 21, 2013, the number of unique users visiting YouTube every month reached one billion; more than 33 millions per day.
It is estimated that 108,000 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every day.
Some industry commentators speculate that YouTube is losing several million dollars a day.
That being said...
It does not matter, YouTube can be used as a great, "very liquid" and faster vehicle for the expansion and divulgation of your ideas, promotions, business, et cetera, which can be known fastly and easily by others, as the Googlebots or "spiders" give preference to crawling and indexing their sibling websites, id est, YouTube, blogger/blogspot...
So, here are the good news: you can upload a fifteen-to-thirty-second video —it can be a real video, showing for example, a fish swimming in a fish bowl, complemented/accompanied by a fragment of a Bach or Mozart sonata (less than 15 seconds long, and repeat that part if necessary, so you will not violate © Copyright),
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or a pseudo-video made up of grey, blue, violet or whatever color squares drawn in Paint with a few phrases or sentences typed on them, and assembled as a "video" by using the program called Windows Movie Maker or a similar one.
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or a real video recorded by yourself, which can be recorded with your webcam or your cellular phone camera, for example, let us say, at 10:00 p.m., in the most complete darkness of your office/living room/studio/bedroom, you can light an incense stick, point your lit LED (light-emitting diode) lamp/lintern towards the ascending smoke, and let the camera record that, then you can edit, mix, add your favorite classical or por music as the soundtrack, et cetera.
Now, once you have composed/arranged your video or "video", HERE comes the MOST IMPORTANT part:
You will have to type the info, promotional phrases, announcements, et cetera, about your business/idea/project inside the "Description" of the video, below the Heading, you will become a WORDCASTER, your words, your message, shall have to be revealed, spread in the DESCRIPTION section of the video or "video" you will be uploading (which is not so important, in this case).
Please hark onto me, do not hesitate, go dare and do things quick, dirty and fast; do not wait for the perfect product/market/time, ignore the naysayers...
Start with a catchy phrase, so readers will want to open the text by clicking on the line which reads "Show More", and keep scrolling down the text by using their mouse... and reading...
In the Description section, maybe you will not be able to spell out some complete URL's, such as www.anywebsite.com but you can type them as, triple w DOT anywebsite DOT c o m OR w w w DOT anywebsite DOT c o m et cetera.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION...
<a href="http://somethingormore.blogspot.com.w3snoop.com/"><img src="http://www.w3snoop.com/pr/somethingormore.blogspot.com" width="99" height="30" alt=""/></a>
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