http://free.naplesplus.us

Linking back to sunbiz.

2009-05-05T10:21:00.001-07:00

I'm experimenting on http://free.naplesplus.us/ - Not only hCard but now I have figured out how to link back to the source. Example: http://free.naplesplus.us/…recreation links back to: http://sunbiz.org/…icidet.exe as the source. I also pick and choose which businesses to map. I think this will be very helpful to the businesses listed.

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naplesplus feeds were going to too many places.

2009-03-30T13:06:00.001-07:00

Wow. I'm starting to see that my naplesplus feeds were going to TOO many places. They were auto-delicious'd, auto-fave'd, and on websites I had long ago forgotten that I had joined. So I am going to step back a moment and regain a sense of control.

Google does not like the autoposting stuff, and I can't blame them - what a mess it is. So, if an entry is good, they'll take it. If not, they probably won't. Either way, I don't want to lose what I've gained so far. If I find that new postings end up in never-never-land, well, then I'll just have to try to put things BACK as they were as of yesterday. But I trust Google will do the right thing (I hope). I'll know within a couple of days. I just want Google to keep liking me :-)

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Events now showing ONLY Collier County FL. What

2009-03-23T22:31:00.001-07:00

NOTE: You can see the results of my hard work here: http://free.naplesplus.us/…ily-events

(notice how the events STOP right at the border of North Naples + Bonita Springs.)

March 24, 2009: Wow to me! I figured out how to show ONLY Collier County events on the calendar. You think that'd be easy, right? It's not! GEOCODING street addresses is SUCH at its infancy right now.

When I put together the events feeds (which come from a dozen different, convoluted places and ways and methods that I'm afraid to get into right now), I often will get stuff from Estero, Ft Myers, Bonita Springs, etc as well. While it'd be okay if there were a map that had those things on it, I'm really trying to focus hard on Collier County FL as much as possible, rather than trying to be everything for everybody.

So, after getting the latitude and longitude of the various events (again, you don't wanna know what a house of cards it is that it works at ALL), THEN I had to selectly CUT OUT areas that don't belong.

THANKFULLY, due to two wonderful facts, I could do what I ended up doing:

Fact #1: Collier County is so far south, I don't have to worry about anything south of collier accidentally showing up.

Fact #2: The SHAPE of collier county! Ever look at it? There's two beautiful rectangles that I can work with.

So, I ended up:

a) cutting out anything north + east of the northeasternest corner of collier county b) then cutting out anything north and east of the inside corner of the first rectangle (working from east to west c) then cutting out anything north and east of the other inside corner of the next rectangle.

Long story short, what's left behind is ONLY Collier County!

Without the wonderful shape of C.C., this would not have worked. But it does! The hardest part really, was finding out what the longitude and latitude was of those exact points where Lee + Collier connect.

Had to use a federal government mapping thing called TIGER. Wonderful thing.

Hope it helps you find things to do 'round here every day!

(p.s. - I would have kept bonita, estero, cape coral, etc, but there are just TOO MANY THINGS going on in our county to show everything in swfla.)

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Take care when registering your business with the state of Florida!

2009-02-26T13:20:00.000-08:00

Florida is a great state to run a business in. The process is very easy to register a fictitious name, an LLC, to incorporate, whatever you wish.

But be careful: Florida has something called the "Sunshine Law" and just about every dealing with the State *is* public record and easily found on the Internet.

So when you register your business, PLEASE make sure that you use a business address and not your home address, if you want to retain your sense of privacy.

In the world of 2009 and beyond, as it has been the case for the past few years but now increasingly so, a sense of privacy is a difficult thing to maintain, and it takes an awful lot of careful work.

This is especially true if you have concerns about ex-boyfriends / ex-girlfriends / ex-husbands and ex-wives!

Most information is increasingly public, your name, address, social security number even. And for most people that information being found is not a problem, because its unlikely that anybody is looking for you for unscrupulous or dangerous reasons.

But if you have even the least bit of concern about such things, take care when you register a business, especially if you incorporate, but even if you are simply registering a fictitious name so that you can get a business bank account and a Tax-ID number.

Florida is a state that is VERY MUCH an ONLINE STATE. It is a great thing for those of us who hunger for information but it is a tricky thing for those who wish to protect their privacy.

Best of luck to you and I encourage you to start your own business if you have any kind of skill that you can bring out to the world! Start it part time while you still have a day job. Don't be afraid to advertise and market to your heart's content. You have to get OUT THERE when you run a business and be as visible as possible in order to attract new clients.

But if you wish to start a business and ALSO retain your personal sense of privacy, you have a road ahead of you that must be tread with care.

Kenneth Udut
Webmaster of http://free.naplesplus.us - naples florida news / jobs / for sale / business directory / events / videos (Collier County Florida)
Owner of NeighborHelp Referrals' Affordable Trapping 239-465-9291 - animal control, rat removal, rat proofing, removal of rats, bees, birds, armadillos, opossums, raccoons in the Collier County, Lee County, Sarasota and Charlotte areas.

Naples Police Department has new blog

2009-01-23T06:17:00.001-08:00

http://naplespolice.wordpress.com/ is the new Naples FL Police Department's blog. You can also follow them on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/…lesPolice/ Naples Police Blog updates will be fed to http://free.naplesplus.us/…hp/37/news

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2009-01-23T04:30:00.001-08:00

potential duplication testing. farglossingness.

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Since Jan 1st,2009, 600 new Naples FL businesses

2009-01-22T12:44:00.001-08:00

Over 600 NEW BUSINESSES registered in Collier County, Florida since January 1st, 2009! See http://free.naplesplus.us/…-directory Can you believe it? and it's only January 22nd! Lots of hope for the new economy, new business ventures are starting every day. It's simply fantastic. To those already in business, keep it up - and to the new businesses, push hard and let's get your business moving along. There's a lot of work ahead of us all and it is up to us, the businesses in Naples, Collier County and all of SWFLA to make our local economy one that is envied across the nation. -Kenneth Udut, webmaster of http://free.naplesplus.us/ (Naples business, news, jobs, and more) and owner of NeighborHelp Referrals' Affordable Trapping 239-465-9291 (rats, raccoons, armadillos, opossums, bees)

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2009-01-09T20:32:00.001-08:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/search.php - Search through Naples FL and Collier County's biggest, textiest website.

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2009-01-03T13:27:00.001-08:00

New Naples FL resource: http://free.naplesplus.us/…-providers 115-entries.

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2008-12-31T13:01:00.001-08:00

Added a Twitter Feed for Collier County FL on main page of http://free.naplesplus.us/ -- it shows the public twitters of people who tweet within a 35 mile radius of Picayune Strand State Forest -- which, as best as I could figure out, is the center of Collier County, and 35 miles out from that point captures everything without also grabbing Bonita Springs or Hendry County (I'm trying to keep it local without excluding ANYBODY twittering in Collier). It'll take some more testing, but I think it works great and it's pretty neat! I think it'll turn some of our local twitterers into local celebs! -Ken

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2008-12-30T17:38:00.001-08:00

naplesplus is back up again! *whew*

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2008-12-30T16:58:00.001-08:00

naplesplus is down for a few hours (Dec 30, 7:46pm). It should return soon.

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2008-12-28T20:45:00.001-08:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/…er-28-2008

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2008-12-28T15:05:00.001-08:00

I updated the menus of http://free.naplesplus.us/ to allow you to quickly post news+views about various Naples spots.

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Red Hat Society, Naples, FL USA (Collier County)

2008-10-20T09:15:00.001-07:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/…-naples-fl

Red Hat Society, Naples, FL

This page is a starting point to help collect information about the Red Hat Societies in Naples FL and the surrounding areas. Lots of women want to join it, but have a hard time finding information. Hopefully my little contribution along with others adding information to the page will help women find their local Red Hat Society group, go out, and have fun in the purple dresses and the red hats! I'll bet there are a lot of closet Red Hats around that will be taking over Southwest Florida before you know it!

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Talking with Author Milo Wolff, WSM

2008-10-18T06:52:00.001-07:00

Milo Wolff has published on the Spherical Standing Wave Structure of Matter (WSM), a concept that returns the Universe to an understandable concept: that all matter is made up of waves and that particles at the smallest quantum level are not particles at all, but are spherical standing waves. It is also a holistic theory, that space isn't empty space at all, that all matter/energy is interconnected (something that we intuitively know and he shows it to be true) and explains some of the apparent paradoxes in modern quantum physics are not paradoxes at all - they are explainable as WAVES.

He has published: Schroedinger's Universe and the Origin of the Natural Laws and Exploring the Physics of the Unknown Universe: An Adventurers Guide.

I think he's onto something very big, for if it can be proven to fully explain physics at least as well as the current Standard Model but ALSO explain gravity, weak force, strong force and the electromagnetic force (which it does -- they are simply properties of different waves and NOT mysterious forces at all), it will cause a great upheaval in physics, not so much proving a lot of scientists wrong, but rather proving that they just didn't dig deeply enough.

Kenneth Udut

http://free.naplesplus.us/…e-universe

Naples, FL USA - Collier County FL.

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Created Naples Utterli group

2008-10-15T10:49:00.001-07:00

http://www.utterli.com/Naples is where you can find the Naples utterli group. (Naples, FL, Collier County, Lee County, Charlotte County, Hendry County and surrounding areas). It's hard to find places online with local interest, so when I can't find 'em, I create 'em. Surprising things often follow!

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Happy Halloween!

2008-10-15T10:47:00.001-07:00

Ah, how the moon is tonight...

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Goodland FL (Collier County - near Marco Island)

2008-10-14T11:21:00.001-07:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/…-county-fl

Goodland, FL is doing just fine! A nice writeup on Goodland, FL - a fishing village in the Old Florida style! Repost from the Marco Eagle.

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Keep it clean. Keep it all clean. Let not a wind

2008-10-14T10:54:00.001-07:00

Cleanliness of a neighborhood is a sign of economic stability and prosperity and pride.

Keep the hedges trimmed. Put fresh mulch by the flowers. Bathrooms should smell nice and fresh. Sidewalks should be free of mold (especially black mold) and stains. Streets shouldn't have oil drips on it.

This holds true for homes and it also holds true for businesses, as it also holds true for the entire community.

Collier County FL is a very clean community. From Vanderbilt Beach to Golden Gate Estates, 95% of Collier County is very clean and fresh. Every area has its exceptions, but they only serve to prove the rule! Even in its ugliest parts, Naples FL is more beautiful than many other places in the USA.

There's something that happens to a community when a little bit of overlooked unkeptness rapidly grows to overtake the community. It's called the "Broken Window Syndrome". I mention a little bit about it here: http://free.naplesplus.us/…ken-window and http://free.naplesplus.us/…-explained

The gist of it is this:

Perhaps in a foreclosed (abandoned!) home, a window is broken.

Nobody pays any attention to the broken window.

Yet people drive by, walk by, every day. Kids play around there.

And the grass grows taller and the window stays broken. Bored kids break in through the broken window to see what they can see. Perhaps a homeless person crawls in to make a home. But that's not the main problem.

Before you know it another window is broken elsewhere. Nobody notices.

Then another.

Then a fence is broken. A sidewalk is cracked. Nobody pays it any mind.

Before you know it, there is graffitti. Property values plummet. Places are no longer selling, so they go for rent. But nobody is renting houses. So house is split up into rooms. One house has rooms for rent. Then another, then another.

Within a very short time (just a few years at most), the character of the neighborhood has changed.

All starting from a broken window that nobody paid any attention to.

Kenneth Udut

NeighborHelp Referrals' Affordable Trapping 239-465-9291

http://free.naplesplus.us/ - Collier County Electronic Village

P.S.

The first time I heard about Broken Window Syndrome was when I was looking into something called "self-organizing systems" ( it's related to chaos theory and complexity theory - I'm a science nut).

The short version of it is how a very small, seemingly insignificant thing is more powerful than it appears at first.

A rumor starts and spreads like wildfire until it culminates in someone getting fired from a job.

A few words spoken by a VP candidate ends up becoming fodder for Saturday Night Live and is all over the Internet and the news and spawns article after article.

A fear about a Depression spirals out of control and ends up CAUSING the very thing it feared!

This can also apply to good things. The whole "Pay-it-Forward" movement is based on that idea, as is the simple effect of making yourself say, "Good morning" to everybody in the office (whether you like them or not) - Good Will, while slower to move than Ill Will, is very powerful stuff.

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Don't worry about the coyotes, Naples Florida.

2008-10-14T10:51:00.001-07:00

There have been a lot of hysteria over coyotes in SWFLA (especially in Collier and Lee Counties) and as one who runs an animal trapping company: DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE COYOTES.

We've gone to coyote jobs before, and to be honest, we don't like doing it. They take FOREVER to catch, nobody ever wants to pay for it - even the Florida Fish & Wildlife doesn't come out when someone calls about coyotes. THEY'RE A FACT OF LIFE living around here, just like the occasional bears, or the alligators in the water.

If you want to avoid having to call an animal trapping company:

1) Keep cat food OFF of your lanai! This is probably #1. All wild animals seem to LOVE dry cat food. Do not feed feral cats. If you feed your cats outside, BRING THE BOWLS IN at night.

2) Trim overhanging trees that touch the roof of your house. THIS WILL HELP KEEP PALM RATS OUT OF YOUR ATTIC. It's a simple thing, and fewer people would have to call us for rat problems if they simply did that. They'd probably also save on insect pest control if they did that.

3) KEEP YOUR GARBAGE SECURE. This will help with bear and raccoon problems. Put your garbage in the garage or, if like us, you don't have a garage, build a shed to hold the garbage and recycling bins.

4) If you hear about coyotes in your neighborhood, BRING your cats in at night. Coyotes LOVE rabbits - it is their favorite treat. But if they can't find a rabbit, they also like cats, as they are similar looking.

Coyote encounters are very RARE and there's no need to panic. These are simple things you can do to help reduce the need to call a trapper.

Kenneth Udut, NeighborHelp Referrals' Affordable Trapping 239-465-9291 simplify3@gmail.com Webmaster of: http://free.naplesplus.us/ - Collier County FL News/Jobs/Info/Business Directory

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Just added 26 new Naples businesses to directory

2008-10-13T19:19:00.001-07:00

Just finished adding 26 newly registered businesses to:

http://free.naplesplus.us/…-musicians

Hope they don't mind :-)

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Wilson Plaza new store openings (Naples, FL)

2008-10-13T10:06:00.001-07:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/….php/34487

has more updates on stores open @ Wilson Plaza in Golden Gate Estates (Naples, FL - Collier County FL)

It's news that's VERY local in nature, but otherwise very difficult to get, so I took it upon myself to help these folks out. Image Tan (Tanning Salon) has been extremely successful in its one month since opening, and having a handy-dandy Tax Collector's office, scary as it sounds, is a good thing! (the people in there are VERY nice and will get your hunting/fishing license, help you pay your traffic tickets, get you your driver's license validated and all that kind of stuff). The Pak & ship place (hill's pak and mail plus) now does postal service (USPS) - international shipping, and has a drop box for post office stuff so that you don't have to leave it in your mailbox @ home with the flag up. Farmer Jack's now offers sub sandwiches... all kinds of stuff happening :)

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TechnoPark of Naples FL registered for patent.

2008-10-13T09:14:00.001-07:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/…opark-corp

TechnoPark Corp registered a patent with the USPTO. It gives clients a better estimate of the amount of time a programmer will need to complete a project. Looks very promising!

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Golden Gate Estates, Naples, Collier County, Fl

2008-10-13T07:20:00.001-07:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/…te-estates

is where you can find out things happening in Golden Gate Estates (zip codes 34117 and 34120) and add your own stuff too! Golden Gate Estates is the largest subdivided (suburb) in the WORLD, yet we barely get any press, probably because the properties are all large and therefore not a lot of people live out here in the woods with us. It's a part of Naples, FL that most people don't know about. (we have bears for example, which is something you don't think of with SWFLA) - that's because we're a stone's throw from the Everglades! Also, Ave Maria University (Ave Maria, FL), the controversial conservative Roman Catholic University is right in our area, right next to us and to the left of Immokalee, FL.

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darned phone line is down :-(

2008-10-13T06:29:00.001-07:00

I did all the tricks in the book to get it going myself but nothing worked :-( Now I have to call embarq tech support. Ah well, it's been scratchy all week anyhow (and no, I'm not switching to broadband phone service -- it may be cheaper but I'm not ready to depend on my computer for my phone :-) ) Or do you think I should get broadband phone service? -Ken

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October 13, 1582 did not exist. Missing time?

2008-10-13T04:08:00.001-07:00

1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

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utterli works GREAT with YACS!

2008-10-13T03:51:00.001-07:00

utterli works great with yacs metaweblog api interface. http://yetanothercommunitysystem.com/ -- my implementation in in English at http://free.naplesplus.us/ --- very few applications that support metaweblog api (Windows Live Writer is one example) are able to do it completely - they skip out on the step where "BlogID" is empty, then offer a list of available blogs. You do it completely and I thank you! -Ken Udut, webmaster of http://free.naplesplus.us/

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whoops - long urls DO work on utterli!

2008-10-13T03:28:00.001-07:00

I spoke too soon! They *do* work on most sites. One of the spots I crossposted to using metaweblog api didn't SEEM to work, but it did work in its own weird way. (I needed to wait a short moment for the full url to expand) Sorry for the boring testing! It's fasctinating to me how all of the different services can interpret the same posting in slightly different ways. utterli's implimentations for the various x-posting sites is excellent.

Hopefully I'll be able to get some of those interesting science articles out there, and help some of the local area businesses (Collier County FL - Naples FL) get more exposure online. I think the Internet is vastly underutilized for the purposes of LOCAL connectivity, like the old BBS's were like years and years ago.

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Darn, looks like short urls only for utterli!

2008-10-13T03:14:00.001-07:00

Ah well. Short urls only for utterli. Actually that's better 'cause it'll get me to pay attention to the length of any link. Maybe I'll use one of those short url services. (that's the trouble with blogs -- they hvae LONG LONG urls)!

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Decision-Making makes the brain tired!

2008-10-13T02:55:00.001-07:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/…rain-tired - interesting article! It explains everything :-)

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Recovery from stock market crash in sight?

2008-10-13T02:42:00.001-07:00

Hopefully we will recover from the stock market downturn. A lot of panicking was happening last week. Is it another Great Depression? Well, if you have a job, keep it. And visit Naples FL and be a tourist - we like tourists. -Ken http://free.naplesplus.us/

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[Furl] Take a look...

2008-10-10T19:58:00.001-07:00

Greetings,

I thought you might be interested in this url from Furl.net:

Naples Calendars - a whole bunch of calendars for Collier County Florida in one place!
http://free.naplesplus.us/sections/view.php/200/calendars-and-naples-events

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See Youtube videos from Naples, FL (Collier County, The Everglades, Ave Maria, Marco Island, Immokalee)!

2008-10-10T14:23:00.001-07:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/sections/view.php/149/naples-videos

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Untitled

2008-10-10T12:55:00.001-07:00

http://free.naplesplus.us/sections/view.php/186/naples-websites

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Wild Oats is moving - but everything 1/2 price!

2008-08-14T16:48:00.001-07:00

Local Wild Oats is moving up the street. Picked up countertop water filter for $20! Works!

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cat tipping over a vase in a nanosecond

2008-08-14T06:54:00.001-07:00

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Rat & Bee Removal Naples FL 239-465-9291

2008-08-13T17:46:00.001-07:00

NeighborHelp Referrals' Affordable Trapping 239-465-9291 : Rat Removal & Bee Removal|Collier County

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fore!!! - this is how fast a nanosecond is.

2008-08-13T14:05:00.001-07:00

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The goat is yelling at me.

2008-08-13T13:58:00.001-07:00

Fred, the goat, is yelling at me. Baah, Baah - feed me. I just fed him a 1/2 hour ago. Never get a male goat.

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naymz link

2008-01-04T08:06:00.000-08:00

New spot for http://free.naplesplus.us

2007-06-22T15:25:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody!

This is my new spot for information about the amazing, nothing-like-it Collier County community web server - http://free.naplesplus.us -- yes, that's its name.

Once I get over 250 users, I'll have to run a contest to "Name this Site" since I have 0 creativity.

I just like to compile lots and lots of data and stick it somewhere where other people can utilize it.

http://free.naplesplus.us

thousands of collier county news, naples news, immokalee news, marco island news, ave maria news. Business listings that are so up to date, some of them haven't even opened up shop yet! (like ones for Ave Maria University!)

You won't believe it, if you are a business person.

There's 6000+ listed at:

http://free.naplesplus.us/sections/view.php/51
http://free.naplesplus.us/sections/view.php/51

More to come - watch this spot. [yes, that one. The dot at the end of the sentence. do not move your eyes away.