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Photos of 9/11 plotter on Web ?

2009-09-10T06:20:00.000-07:00

Earlier today the images of alleged al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay have appeared on the internet. Mr Mohammed had earlier admitted planning the 9/11 attacks, the US military says.

Mr Mohammed appears with a long beard and wearing a white robe in the photos, taken in July by the Red Cross at the US detention centre in Cuba. Red Cross said it took the most recent photos in July and sent them to Mr Mohammed's family and were not intended for public release. But according to Jarret Brachman, former research director at the Combating Terrorism Center of the West Point US Military Academy the images have appeared in recent days on extremist websites.

President Barack Obama, who has said he wants to close the Guantanamo detention centre by January, kept Mr Mohammed's trial is currently on hold as it is yet to be decided on how to continue military prosecutions for some detainees.

The Size of our World

2009-09-08T07:17:00.000-07:00

The Size Of Our World

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Google UK on Fire Today

2009-08-27T07:34:00.000-07:00

Reports were coming in from a professional journalist on Twitter, Jon Swaine which says that Google UK Headquarters in London are currently on Fire.

You can watch clear picture of fire on the roof of Google UK’s office on Buckingham Palace Road below.

Update:
The Telegraph writes that the building was evacuated now and thankfully no one got hurt. A big Sigh of Relief. it is also told that the outcome fire was the result of a tree catching flames during a rooftop terrace BBQ above one of the three floors Google occupies in the building.

Why Google Doesn’t Index the @ Symbol?

2009-05-28T05:54:00.000-07:00

I wonder how many of you might be knowing this fact that Google doesn’t Index the "@" Symbol. Given the rise of Twitter So why doesn’t Google index this symbol to make it easier for us to find all references?

Now According to Matt Cutts, the reason for not indexing the @ symbol was intentional. Why because, if Google did index the "@" sign then the email addresses would come through and it would just make all the spammers to gather even more email addresses for their Spam campaigns. However, Matt also indicated that this may change in the future. You can find Matt explaining the same in this video.

200 years - changes in the world

2009-05-28T05:36:00.000-07:00

This is a fantastic video explaining with some beautiful comparisions on how the world changed over the past 200years. The video explains us how the life and health of people used to be during 1809 in all countries of the world and how it is now.

Some conclusions from the video:
1) During 1809 all the countries in the world have a life expectancy which is under 40 years and avg income per person was less than 3000 dollar per year.
2) In the last 200years Developed countries were performing aggressively well in the health sector.
3) After 100years there was good growth seen in health and life expectancy in the developed countries.
4) During the 1st and 2nd World war the difference between the richest and poor was increasing.
5) Right now with the world economy in recession the developing countries are going to catch up the developed countries in the next 3years.

Google Sergey takes on Microsft's Bing name

2009-05-28T05:25:00.000-07:00

Ever since rumors are coming on Microsoft new Search Engine name as Bing (which is yet to go live for users) there were lot of discussions going on the internet arena regarding its name and its search technology.

Recently during a Q & A session at Google I/O keynote today, Google co-founder Sergey Brin shares some of his thoughts on the name Bing, which is supposed to be the name of the Microsoft new search engine. He says that at this point of time he is not having much information about it to give his views or opinion, but Google is pretty happy with the name it chose, which drew laughs.

Watch out for more in this video

Funny or Stupid Profiles ?

2009-05-19T01:55:00.000-07:00

Just now one of my colleague has shown me a funny post here.

While i was reading this post i just remembered another profile where a guy filled up the profile similar to this one. Mind you, you want stop from smiling if your check both the images and read both of these posts :).

This is one of the funny profile created by a person who mistook cuisines for something else. I guess he was under the impression that cuisines means what all he likes. So he went on fill the profile in this manner :))

This is ofcourse another funny yet stupid profile ;). Keep smiling :)

Twitter New York Times Account hacked !

2009-05-14T06:20:00.000-07:00

Seems like the hackers are enjoying the hacking game on Twitter. Now its the turn of the famous New York Times Twitter account which is being hacked. Ugh another nasty trauma. Heading on to this news further, The Moment, brings this news for us, which brings news from their fashion blog.

In a post from Valleywag, its mentioned that "Earlier tonight I received an email from Gawker's eagle-eyed publisher Nick Denton with an iPhone screengrab that contained an ad for naked webcam action on the Times' Twitter feed." A couple of hours later the NYTimes confirms that their account being hacked and apologized for the public for what has happened.

It was a big sigh of relieft for them as nothing much big damage has been done and issue seems to have been quickly resolved. So guys everyone needs to be careful about their passwords and their is a need to keep our passwords strong and computers clean and safe

Is the RESPECT for DMOZ Dying among the people ?

2009-05-14T00:34:00.000-07:00

Dmoz.org is considered to be one of the popular Open Directory projects among all the directories. It is also considered to be the answer to Yahoo's more closed directory. This happened to be the case till now. But now it seems like slowly the popularity for DMOZ is dying among the people. This comes of from the webmasters who are looking for inclusion into it.

First if we can have a close look into the compete data, the traffic stats for Dmoz has declined significantly in terms of visits, page views, unique visitors. From the compete data we can analyse that dmoz which has 1,798,727 unique visitors in April 2008, has 1,358,926 Unique visitors in June 2008 and 1,274,898 unique visitors in April 2009. This is clearly an indication of huge dip in the unique visitors(-0.13%) and visits(-1.85%) over the past one year.
Unique visitors

Decline in Unique visitors and Visits

On its official blog of DMOZ editor glippitt has published that it is looking for some respect from its users and says that Dmoz still shines and is still a valuable search tool for its users. He even explains in the blog post on "what DMOZ does do well, and the when and how of using various search vehicles to help users find what they're looking for".

Contrary to his post there some harsh reactions for this post where people hardly praises DMOZ for its effort in bringing users quality search experience and some people went on to comment in this fashion.

"If DMOZ wants respect, its needs to reciprocate the same to its users."

"Well DMOZ is quite like a black box. I think you should work more on the communication, add more interaction."

"Who's to say that DMOZ editors are more reliable and able to provide links that are balanced? "

These are some of the snippets from the commennted posts. But the outrage seems to be huge as most of the comments seems to be against it. Well we can conclude that people were unhappy and looks for certain things like these from their side

1) The site should work more on the communication, add more interaction when someone submits a site for acceptation.
2) Editorial review of the submitted sites isn't upto the mark.
3) Editors needs to be more reliable and should be able to provide links that are balanced

So what really makes you think that dmoz is a mere waste of time. Share in your comments here

How to Display the code as HTML in scroll box in blogger

2009-05-13T07:09:00.000-07:00

Now when i am trying to display the code in my blogger post today i was facing some problems in showing the HTML code in the front end. Note that in the blogger posts the HTML code which you write in the back end posts will not be displayed as the same in your front end posts. So in order to over come this you need to follow certain HTML coding standards.

If you try to type the HTML as it is (example <, >), the web browser will interpret that as an instruction to display what follows in a new line and will not display the HTML code as it is. So in order to display the above characters you need to replace them. Check the image below

So in order to show the code in the front end copy and paste the HTML code which you want to show in the front end into a notepad file and click EDIT in the menu bar and select "Replace with" and "Find what:" options to replace the symbols with the appropriate codes. (see screen shot below:)

How to add a Tweetthis button to your blogger template

2009-05-13T06:15:00.000-07:00

Twitter has grown very popular these days and every one is looking out for to add a retweet button to their blog and track their retweeted posts on twitter within their blog posts. Adding a Tweetthis button to your blogger posts template is as simple as adding the social bookmarking button.

Caution: Don't forget to take the backup of your blogger template before making any changes to it. Sometimes changes all changes doesn't work fine for every blogger template.

Login into your blogger account and Navigate to the "Layout" section. Under that choose the "Edit HTML Page" option and check the Expand widgets option
Now look for this code

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

Imp Note: Dont forget to check the Expand widgets option or else you cant find the code

Note: This code will help you in placing the widgets to the top left side of the blogger posts.

Now copy and paste this code immediately below the above code
Code 1:
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"> </script>

The above code will give you a bigger "tweetthis" button

Now for a smaller "tweetthis" button you can use this code
Code 2:
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_style = 'compact';
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>

If you want to place the widget to the top right side, then you need to modify the codes above like this for smaller and bigger buttons:
CODE 1:
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"> </script>
</div>

CODE 2:
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_style = 'compact';
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>
</div>

The above codes doesn't make my blog look much better for me and i am feeling a bit unhappy. Now this is the code which i used in my blog for a better "tweetthis" button. This code will give us "tweetthis" button which comes as embedded in the posts compared to the earlier above buttons which doesn't come like that and comes above the posts.

Now Look for this code in your blogger

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

underneath that you need to place this following code


<span style='float: right; margin: 0 0 5px 5px;'><script type='text/javascript'>
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>
<script src='http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js' type='text/javascript'> </script></span>



Now for those who are interested in adding the "tweetthis" button below left side of the post you can use this code.

Check for this code first in your blog
<data:post.body/>

Now underneath that code you need to add this following code

<span style="float: right; margin: 0 0 5px 5px;"><script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"> </script></span>

How to Add Social Bookmarking Widget Buttons to your blogger template

2009-05-13T05:40:00.000-07:00

Guys i was busy today in making some changes to my blogger template in order to make it even more Web 2.0 :). As part of those changes here are the changes which i made to my blogger which I'm sharing as posts that might be of some help to my fellow blogger's.

1) Added Social Bookmarking Buttons to my blogger template
2) Added a Tweetthis button
3) Replaced the Addthis Social Bookmarking button with a sharethis button code
4) How to Display the code as HTML in scroll box in blogger

I'm going to share each of my experiences on how i have made all those above changes as separate posts.

1) Adding Social Bookmarking Buttons below the posts

Adding Social Bookmarking buttons below the blogger posts is a very simple process. Just follow these simple steps

Login into your blogger account and Navigate to the "Layout" section. Under that choose the "Edit HTML Page" option and check the Expand widgets option
Now look for this code

<p><data:post.body/></p>

Imp Note: Dont forget to check the Expand widgets option or else you will not find the above code

Now copy and paste the below code immediately below that


<span class='post-author' style='font-size: 95%;'><br/>
Add Post To: |<a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Digg</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://twitthis.com/twit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Twitthis</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Technorati</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>del.icio.us</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Stumbleupon</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://sphinn.com/evb/button.php=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Sphinn</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Reddit</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=" + data:post.url + "&Title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>BlinkList</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=" + data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Furl</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Spurl</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=" + data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Yahoo</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Simpy</a>|
<br/></span>

Thats it. You are Done !. Now you can start seeing the Social Bookmarking Buttons appearing below every post in your bloggers post
Caution: Don't forget to take the backup of your blogger template before making any changes to it. Sometimes changes all changes doesn't work fine for every blogger template.

Also If you are interested in using the images as buttons then you can use this code


<span class='post-author' style='font-size: 95%;'><br/>
Add Post To: |
<a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" data:post.url "&title=" data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Digg' border='0' src=' '/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" data:post.url "&title=" data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Stumbleupon' border='0' hspace='12' src=' '/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves?add=" data:post.url "&title=" data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' border='0' hspace='12' src=' '/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" data:post.url "&title=" data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src=' '/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" data:post.url "&title=" data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Reddit' border='0' hspace='12' src=' '/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://twitthis.com/twit?url=" data:post.url "&title=" data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Twitthis' border='0' hspace='12' src=' '/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=" data:post.title "&u=" data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Yahoo' border='0' hspace='12' src=' '/></a>
<br/></span>

Use this code, and in between the single quotes place of source(src) of the images (bold part in the code above), paste the direct url link of the images of Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Delicious, Reditt and Tweetthis buttons respectively. If you want to add more buttons like sphinn, Simply, furl, etc here, you can add them too. If you have any queries regarding this post as your comments i will look into them

Trending Twitter Porn Names Scam - Beware !

2009-05-12T05:50:00.000-07:00

Seems like today there is some scam going out on one of popular social networking site - Twitter. One of the most twittered issues on twitter for today is with the topic "twitter porn names" which is also one of the Top trending topics seen today. Check the image below

The hash tag meme asks the users to type in their "twitter porn name" which comes like a combination of your first pet combined with the street you grew up on or yours mothers maiden name. All these are some smart tricks played by the hackers to get access of your online accounts, bank details and your personal details. So beware of these kind of games which may entice you to reveal your personal information. Do pass on this information to others and help them not to fall as prey to these dwellers.

By the time if you have already made a post revealing your security information just delete that post and dont forget to change your existing passwords and security questions.

Play safe and Stay safe !!!

Wofram Alpha to Go Live for Everyone on May 18

2009-05-11T07:23:00.000-07:00

Finally the date is set for the access of Wolfram alpha to everyone. Yes, its been officially mentioned on the blog that "We plan to launch late next week, with the official date now set for May 18.".

When it is opened access and set for testing for a short time, within minutes many people discovering that and started exploring it. You can see the traffic graph below.

Seems like everyone is keen on trying on this new computational search engine which has gained lot of buzz on the web as this is expected as a rival to google. Now even i'm looking forward for May 18 to try and experiment some of my queries :).

Yahoo Testing adding Favicons into their Search results

2009-05-11T06:02:00.000-07:00

Seems like yahoo is trying to mix up certain things into their search results. Recently they have announced that they are going to test adding Favicon's into their search, an experiment which is intended to improve the search experience for users.

Yahoo mentions that there are many favicons which are already popular on the web now. So For example, when a user searched for "Expedia" or some other search which matched a popular domain, then that same favicon will be coming up next to the URL in the ad(check the image below). Yahoo is expecting that use of favicons in the search results will help them to improve the user click through and there by quality score experience.

However this is just an experiment which is intended to rolled out only to few selected advertisers. If you are interested in trying out this new feature sign up for this experiment but remember that if you are bidding on your own domain name and you have a favicon icon file on your site, you may not be eligible to participate.

Note: A favicon is a 16x16 pixel squared icon related with a particular website or webpage

What makes a Good Browser ?

2009-05-08T07:27:00.000-07:00

I was just going through this video which featured on the New York times today which takes on the question - What makes a Good Browser?. This video also takes you into a fundamental question like what the the heck is a browser to begin with? and provides some warm and fuzzy answers for them.

Google India SearchMasters 2009 Conference at Bangalore

2009-05-08T02:08:00.000-07:00

For all those who can't make over to the Google India SearchMasters 2009 conference which as held on February 28, 2009 in Bangalore here are some good videos which you can watch out for.

Enjoy the knowledge feast folks ;)

Welcome Note - Vivaik Bharadwaaj - Google India SearchMasters '09

Google India SearchMasters 2009 - Event Roundup

Webmaster Central and Best Practices - Adam Lasnik - Google India SearchMasters '09

Q & A with Adam Lasnik - Google India SearchMasters '09

Google Webmaster Help Forum - Koti Ivaturi - Google India

Google Custom Search - Rajat Mukherjee - Google India

Building Mobile Friendly Websites - Ankit Gupta - Google India

Google Analytics and Website Optimizer - Deepak Kumar -

Google Trends Gadget - Embed into your website

2009-05-07T05:20:00.000-07:00

If you are one of those Google Trends lover and interested in following the trends from Google, here is a cool gadget for you which you can embed into your website/blog.

This is a cool gadget which helps you to track your favorite trends automatically from your website/blog.

In order to follow the trends for the topic of your choice all you need to do is just replace the code underlined below which comes as default with the one which you wish to follow.

Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Danny Gokey, Kris Allen - these are the default trending topics which i replaced with SEO, SEM and PPC. check the images below
Original Google trends code

Replaced Google trends code

Google's print mistake

2009-05-07T03:30:00.001-07:00

Well Google needs to focus itself on Search/Online marketing rather than Print. Why? because seems like they forgot their print fonts here ;)

Credit to Search Cow boys

URL shortening Services Analysis - Hitwise US

2009-05-07T02:00:00.000-07:00

With the increasing popularity for Twitter, the websites which provide the URL shortening service have also become a hot topic in the recent past. URL shortening services comes handy when not to exceed the 140 character limit on Twitter.

Let us take an insight into various URLs shortening services usage as published in a report from Hitwise. Until now, Tinyurl(66.39%) has dominated the category which was the default URLs shortening service for Twitter. Next comes bit.ly(12.09%) which is now being replaced on Twitter as the default URLs shortening service for it. This switch is certainly going to have its strong impact until the next report comes in the next month from Hitwise.

Number 2 and 3 positions are occupied by bit.ly and ow.ly which experienced a strong growth of 200% during April month while Tinyurl also has seen a growth of 6% during this period.

With the new Twitter and bit.ly partnership it may be a bit hard to expect its impact on Tinyurl due to the significant usage of desktop applications and plug-ins within the browsers which eliminates the usage of this bit.ly service. However it looks bizarre for now to expect how these services are going to fluctuate from their current numbers until the next report comes in.

Google Office Inside Photos

2009-05-07T00:07:00.000-07:00

Google - This is the name which comes out from the mouth of everyone when asked what is yours favorite company to work for. Google has won the "Best Employer" many times over the years and its a dream to work in this Search Giant for everyone. Don't Agree with this?. You got to check these inside photos of Google office before saying so ;).

Decompression (stress) capsule that is impermeable to sound and light:

Moving around inside Google office: A slide connecting different floors allows quick access. There are also poles available which are similar to the ones used in fire stations.

Food Section. Employees can eat all they love to eat from variety choices of food and drink.

Google Work Station: Each employee has at least two large screens. There are about 4-6 'Zooglers' per office .

Google INOVATION Rooms: Large boards are available just about everywere because ideas don’t always come when seated in the office says one of Googles managers.

LEISURE Time at Google. Video games, Pool tables, etc. are available in many areas.

Communication Rooms: For every floor, there are private cabin areas where employees can attend to personal affairs.

Technical Support at Google: Problem with your computer ? Nothing to worry. Bring it to this area where drinks are available while it is being fixed.

Health Cabins inside Google: Professional masseurs (eusses) available.

REST rooms at Google: These rooms provides massage chairs that you control while you view relaxing aquariums.

Ambiance at Google: There are many books in this library even some about programming !!

Now aren't you impressed with this lovely work culture inside Google?

Twitter chucks Tinyurl for Bit.ly

2009-05-06T23:49:00.000-07:00

Seems like there are some changes coming up on twitter too. Earlier twitter went with Tinyurl - a default URLs shortening service for it. But now bit.ly has replaced its place as the default URLs shortening service. Twitter haven't given any reason behind this change so far.
Tinyurl :

However unofficial reviews on web behind this change suggests that Betaworks, the startup behind Twitter related companies such as Summize is also behind this bit.ly, and this move from Twitter promps that it is making the way for itself for the acquisition of this URL shortening service provider.
Bitly:

Bit.ly has come a competing service among the URL shortening services which has raised $2million from several angel investors

Check your retweets(RT) posts on twitter with backtweets

2009-05-06T06:52:00.000-07:00

Ever wondered to know who is tweeting your website/blog on twitter?. If you are keen on finding out who are re-tweeting your website posts on twitter here is a cool website which solves that problem. backtweets is a good website to track all your retweets(RT's) on twitter.

Just enter the website/blog which you are looking to track into the search box provided on backtweets and hit enter. thats it. you are done !. Now all those who have tweeted your website articles in the recent past all appears before you along with his twitter id and how many days ago that retweet has been done.

Travel industry sees decline in paid search UK

2009-05-01T05:46:00.000-07:00

The global recession turmoil is still having its impact on the world market effecting the various sectors. Traffic to the UK travel websites through paid search has seen a decline from 25.4% in March 2008 to 21.7% in March 2009 according to a report published from HitWise.

In particular, websites in the Agencies category which relies mostly on the paid search traffic experienced a steep decline of 12.3% over the past 12 months. However other sectors like Travel (-4,7%), Destinations & accomodation (-2,7%) and Transport (-1,5%) looks a bit better with some minimal effects.

Finally Wolfram Alpha in Action: Screenshots

2009-05-01T02:07:00.000-07:00

For all the Search Engines lovers who are interested in knowing about this Google killer (some people dubbed it so) Wolfram Alpha, here comes some information on that. Wolfram Alpha is a new "computational knowledge engine" based on the work of Stephen Wolfram. This new search engine claims that it is different from standard search engines that we are all familiar with today.

Here are some of the screenshots captured and posted on the readwriteweb

Homepage

Query #1: internet users in Europe

Query #2: weather oakland

Query #3: oakland

Query #4: uncle's uncle's brother's son

Query #5: water 550C 3 atm

Query #6: integrate x^3 sin^2 x dx

Query #7: bob

Example of a copy and paste dialog:

Embedding Search Results:

A video which shows the public demo at the Berkman Center can be seen below.

If you are interested in knowing whats behind the scenes of Wolfram Alpha datacenter check out this video:

Analytics and AdSense, Together - Rolled out for everyone

2009-05-01T01:46:00.000-07:00

Finally good news has come up for the Analytics and Adsense users of Google. After a couple on months Integration of Analytics and Adsense accounts is rolled out for everyone. Earlier this feature was made available to only selected users by Google. Now this feature is made available for everyone. To integrate your Adsense account to Analytics account just login to your Adsense account and Click on the link which says "Integrate your AdSense account with Google Analytics" on the Reports > Overview tab. Follow the on screen instructions then. Thats it. You are done !.
Linking Adsense to Analytics :

If you are also interested in understanding about how to read the reports check out this video too.
How to Read the Reports :

Under the new "AdSense Revenue" tab You can compare how much of your AdSense revenue is coming from new visitors Vs existing ones, and also can view the revenue based on user language.

Google is Giving Away 2,50,000 Google Profile Business Cards

2009-05-01T01:31:00.000-07:00

Google teams up with iPrint.com to offer free Google profile Business Cards to the first 10,000 people. Each person can avail a set of 25 cards that shows the Google.com home page with their Google Profile URL underneath it in green. Google said that the cards will arrive in 10-12 days. You need to create an account on iPrint.com to place the order, or login to an existing account with them if you have already have one.

If you are logged in to your account you can see that offer available on the top of your profile. Alternatively you can also access it here http://www.google.com/profiles/me/bizcards

Note: The offer is currently available only to the continental US users.

So if you are in the US what are you looking for go and grab one Google Business Card for you ;)

What If Everything Was Made by Microsoft

2009-04-30T07:11:00.000-07:00

I was just surfing the web when i came across these humorous pictures on the web. These pictures are created by various artists at cracked displaying their skills in the competition. The pics are so funny and indicates a great display of skills from the contestants. Have a look into these and judge yourself the best ones :).

by AceJustice

by Daedalus

by gm_zero

by Heart87

by Orchard

by R.Matey

by Rubbin Hood

by tayser

by Tupper

The Future Pizza Box Has Arrived

2009-04-30T06:59:00.000-07:00

If you are one of those Green Planet lovers i would like to share with you this Pizza serving video which has got something to teach us on the Pizza box and Green Planet. Just check out this video of Future pizza box ;)

Twitter Admin Hacked ?

2009-04-30T06:35:00.000-07:00

There is lot of buzz on the twitter and web today regarding the admin panel hack of Twitter account. According to a post on the French blog by Korben the actual url of the admin panel of twitter https://admin.twitter.com/admin/ (You cannot login through this url as it requires a password) is hacked by a crafty hacker who has managed to get into the twitter admin panel.

The person who has managed to take the screen shots is clever enough to mask his profile pic, but a search for their latest update shows it is in fact Jason Goldman, who is Director of Product Management at Twitter.
Hacked Twitter Admin Panel screenshots:

Google launches - Google for Advertisers website

2009-04-29T07:32:00.000-07:00

For all those who are looking to accelerate their business through various Google advertising solutions, Google has come up with an all new website called Google for advertisers which aims to help the advertisers by bringing all the marketing solutions of google and how best one can use with various tools provided by them. Users can discover the right combination of various tools which best match their requirements from this new website.

The Google for Advertisers website gives you:
1) A neat description of each of googles platforms along with the tools supporting them.
2) How to reach your audience across different locations and languages.
3) ways to explore marketing examples which describes how google tools can solve a particular goal.

For more information visit Google for Advertisers

View PowerPoint and TIFF in Gmail as Inline

2009-04-28T04:50:00.000-07:00

Seems Google is not going to sit quite. Just few months ago Google introduced faster viewing of online PDF's in browsers. Now they have come up with another new features added into the Gmail which supports viewing of TIFF and Microsoft Powerpoint formats too. Earlier there is a "view as Slideshow" option for all the Ppts but now, with the inclusion of these cool features users no longer have to save the files into their computer nor they have to buy and install any software to do so. Just they can directly view them in the browser itself.

Also, users are relieved from the hassles of installing a Flash plugin on their browser. Some additional features like:
1) zoom in and out
2) Select text to copy and paste
3) Print the presentation to a PDF doc

are also included in the roll out of these new features.

Oracle to acquire Sun Microsystems - $7.4 billion deal

2009-04-20T06:50:00.000-07:00

Sun Microsystems Inc. and and Oracle Corporation today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Oracle will be acquiring Sun for $9.50/share in cash. The deal is estimated a value at approx $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.

In a statement issued Oracle President Safra Catz said that
"We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle’s earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle’s non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year. This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined,".

This deal is going to bring substantial long-term advantages to Oracle which owns two important Sun software assets: Java and Solaris. The Sun Solaris OS has been the leading platform for oracle data base and with the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize their Oracle database for some of the unique, high-end features of Solaris.

The Board of Directors of Sun Microsystems has unanimously approved the transaction which is expected to close by this summer.

For more information visit the Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Yahoo Shutting Down Jumpcut In June

2009-04-17T06:50:00.000-07:00

After announcing in December that that no new videos could be uploaded, but that they will be keeping the Jumpcut site up and running for the foreseeable future. Yahoo has finally decided in shutting down of their video service Jumpcut. From an email sent out to its users Yahoo says that the future of their video service ends in June.

Yahoo's letter to its users
" Dear Jumpcut user,

After careful consideration, we will be officially closing the Jumpcut.com site on June 15, 2009. This was a difficult decision to make, but it’s part of the ongoing prioritization efforts at Yahoo!

Very soon, we’ll be releasing a software utility that will allow you to download the movies you created on Jumpcut to your computer. We’ll send instructions to this email address when the download utility is available.

Once you download your movies, you may choose to upload them to another site such as Flickr, which now allows video uploads. You can find out more here: http://www.flickr.com/explore/video/

Thanks for your understanding and thanks for being a part of Jumpcut.

The Jumpcut Team"
Jumpcut is one of the popular video editing tools bought by Yahoo in 2006. Its sad to see it die :(

Successful Business Networking Factors or Tips

2009-04-17T03:50:00.000-07:00

Networking is has become crucial for anyone these days who are into the online marketing division. You need to build such a useful network where you may find people who are going to help you and you can help them in turn. So whom all you need to choose for your successful networking.

Your Rivals - As always its important to know your competitors well. You need to keep an eye on their Advertising strategies, marketing tactics, press releases, news letters, etc. Sometimes the ideas which we get by watching our competitor's strategies fetch us more results then our normal ideas. So its a good practice to know what your competitors are also doing along with what tactics you are employing.

Friend connections - Even connecting with some novice friends on social networking services can help in your business some good if you're on mutual friendly terms. You can get yours customers yours way sometimes through them if they are into the business which you are in right now. Synonymously if a project comes to you which you may think your friend can execute well, you can bring in their expertise or can hand over to him. So its a good practice to make connections with those professionals who are in and around your area.

Local media - Its worth making connections with the members of the media who cover the news of your niche. The media can be of any form here. It may be newspapers, television, radio, blogs, etc. You can get your story listed in the news by explaining them why you are the best fit for a reporter’s beat.

These are the three important factors which i reckon for a successful business networking. However you are welcome in drop in any suggestions if you have here.

Upcoming Change to Google.com search referral url

2009-04-15T06:02:00.000-07:00

Google has announced that it is bringing up some change in its Google search url's which you may see soon this week. However they said that this is not going to have any affect on the Google Analytics results.

So soon we are going to see a new referral URL format for the visitors who are going to come from the Google Search results pages. Until now we could see that search on Google for the term "flowers" would be looking something like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flowers&btnG=Google+Search

But, due to this new change you are going to see a string something like this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fmypage.htm&ei=0SjdSa-1N5O8M_qW8dQN&rct=j&q=flowers&usg=AFQjCNHJXSUh7Vw7oubPaO3tZOzz-F-u_w&sig2=X8uCFh6IoPtnwmvGMULQfw

The notable difference among these two url structures is that instead of "/search?" the URL contains a "/url?".

This new change will occur only in a small percentage of searches initially. But, it is expected that we can see the old and new forms of the URLs as this change gradually rolls out.

Note: If you are using UTM-based tracking with Urchin Software, you need to stay tuned for a software update that Google will be making available soon. However, if you are using IP-Useragent based tracking with Urchin you are not going to be affected since this form of tracking can effectively process both current and new referral strings.

What if i'm hacked or penalized? - Matt cutts answers

2009-04-13T07:14:00.000-07:00

If your worried that yours or your client site is being penalized by Google and you sent an reconsideration request. But never heard back from Google team. Here is a nice video post from Matt cutts which explains what you need to do primarily from your side before submitting a reconsideration request.

TwitZap - Standard Automatic Twitter refreshing Interface

2009-04-13T06:23:00.000-07:00

I have come across a Cool Twitter interface TwitZap - which offers nice features which just might drive your attention into it. If you are not interested in switching to standard advanced Desktop clients like Tweetdeck, then Twitzap may be worth a solid choice.

Twitzap, web based Twitter client focuses mainly on 3 major features.
1) Unlike Twitter, Twitzap Automatically updates/refreshes the page in real time. You can also pause the tweets by just turning on the knob which is on the left-side. This is a good improvement from standard Twitter page which needs to be manually refreshed all the time for latest updates.
2) Twitzap claims that they help you Tweet very fast(under 800ms) even though Twitter is slow or down.
3) Unlike on Twitter where you need to click on the username in the menu on the right side to look for all the mentions on that username, Twitzap helps you to do that for any term you want. You can add any channel into your list.
4) It also provides a shorten url's button to make short-urls of any lengthy url post which we can't find in standard Twitter interface.
5) clicking on Retweet button of any post copy pastes the entire message for Retweeting which is another cool feature can't be found on normal Twitter interface.

Twitter employee hands over personal details of @Skype registrant to Skype – Privacy issue?

2009-04-08T02:50:00.000-07:00

On twitter anyone can grab any famous person name or brand and there is not much policing going on regarding this. But issues were raised when Twitter has handed over the personal details of a brand registrant to his original brand company without alerting the original registrant or performing any kind of standard due diligence. This move has raised huge issues for the site.

Not so long after the launch of Twitter Stephanie Robesky of Atomico, the venture fund established by the former founders of Skype, registered @Skype while still at the company. She says in her blog post that she forgot about the move and came to know of the incident only when a Skype employee who has been handed over her contact details contacted her, who in in-turn got those name, email address and contact details from a Twitter employee. In an open letter to twitter she mentioned that
"This is a violation of my privacy and, quite honestly, probably a big violation of your privacy policies. It is unprofessional of your team to hand out users information regardless of circumstances and this is something that we never would have done at Skype – even if Obama himself couldn’t log in to an account that he says wasn’t even his!."

A response from a Twitter employee to Robesky accuses her of violating Twitter’s terms of service, despite clearly having revealed her personal information.
"From: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
Sent: 07 April 2009 16:31
To: Stephanie Robesky
Subject: Re: Skype name account
Hi Stephanie,
I was informed by a representative of Skype that you had set-up
the account on their behalf but you were no longer an employee
and they did not have access to the account. In such situations we
do release the account to them.
Just curious why you didn’t turn over the keys to your employer before
you left the company? In which case, you’re violating our Terms of
Service by squatting on the user name.
Cheers,
XXXXXXXX "

The serious question now in this case is that whether twitter has the right to release the user information in special cases and how that determines that a company gets precedence over a Twitter name, as opposed to an individual.

I feel in case of such incidents the user has to be informed regarding the use of brand names and a notice can be issued to them to hand over the account details to its original brand company. Another solution can be they can delete the previous account and ask the original brand company to create another fresh account with their brand name. Both these can be good solutions for such privacy issues where in the privacy of the users can be maintained.

Popular and Better Desktop Client for Twitter - Nambu?

2009-04-07T06:33:00.000-07:00

Most of the people who use Twitter uses Tweetdeck and Twhirl as their popular Desktop clients as they are most popular desktop clients for Twitter these days. Among these Tweetdeck being the popular among most of the users. But this weekend there comes another desktop client for twitter called Nambu a new Mac OSX Twitter client creating some buzz on the internet. Lets have a peak into this.

Nambu features:
1) Nambu consumes low memory when compared to the new version of Tweetdeck.
2) Nambu allows the users to create groups and seperate separate columns for specific searches just similar feature to Twwetdeck.
3) Nambu also supports more than one twitter account and the default url shortening service is tr.im which was developed by the Nambu team itself.
4) You can also translate any tweet into English with a simple keywboard short cut.
5) New users can be added into the group with rigt click menu.
6) It Automatically organizes your conversations into threads which is one of the interesting feature with nambu. It also does this for conversations that you don't participate in, but you have to be subscribed to both sides of the conversation.
7) Nambu also offers an iphone application.

There can be some bugs in this application but, Nambu is still in its beta stage. The new version seems to be consuming more memory than the earlier. We can expect some breaks now and then. But, the development teams seems to be working hard on it and issuing updates regularly which makes the process move fleetly.

But if you are a Mac User then definitely Nambu is worth a look.

Google rolls out local search results for better results

2009-04-07T05:54:00.000-07:00

In order to make the search as easy as possible Google has announced a worldwide rollout of local search results on a map, which will come along even when you don't type in a location name. When you search in Google for generic terms like "restaurents" or "doctors" they will guess the location where you are based on the IP address and show the results near to you. Click the image below

They are also providing the "Change Location" option which will help the users to specify their likely location.

You can also search for specific stores or street addresses near you. For example like [cornelia st cafe] in New York.

Or [111 8th ave] in New York.

With the roll out of these new cool feature Google makes the search a bit easier for its users.

Note: The results are displayed w.r.t to the IP and Location. Here the results images are accordint to the US location.

Twitter and Facebook Continues to Grow

2009-04-07T05:04:00.000-07:00

Twitter:
Twitter was growing at a staggering 1,382% on an annual basis according to the data published from Neilson Online. According to the latest trends report from compete we can see that it is growing at 77% on YOY basis. Check the image below

According to the stats from Quantcast Twitter has a reach over 6.1 million people in US and that's include just on its website not any third party applications like Twhirl or Tweetdeck. The site attracts a young adult and more educated group audience.

Facebook:
Facebook also shown an increase of 23.4 percent month-over-month in its traffic to more than 91 million US visitors. This indicated that it has an 195.1% annual growth. Check the image below

The stats from quantcast for facebook also indicates it has wide reach over 79 million U.S. monthly people. The site has attracted a more affluent, teen and young adults with very slightly female biased following.

So whats this sudden surge in traffic to both these networking services - Twitter and Facebook. Is it because of the number of people who are using the social networking has increased or an increase in the number of internet users. Both the networkng services are coming up with new integrations and new changes into them these days and seems they are in the verge of conquering the social networking market space. The increase in the number of users for Twitter and Facebook seems to be an interesting topic for now but, how long and how far they go.. This question certainly keeps ticking in my mind. All we can do now is just Wait and Watch ! :)

FireFox Addon: Add Data to Google Analytics Data

2009-04-03T05:13:00.000-07:00

GA Notes is a cool Firefox extension which allows users to add data to the Google Analytics so that it appears in a table format on the top of each report. Any Ga user who has this Firefox extension in his browser can add, edit and delete notes. The beauty of this tool is that you can search the results and also export the notes as XML/CSV format.

The Developer of this cool plugin Justin Cutroni says that GA Notes Runs on the Google App Engine. No data will be stored on the user machine or on their servers but stored only on Google Servers. The Firefox extension which provides the flexibility of entering and displaying the data does a encryption of data prior to all the processing and data storage on Google App Engine.

If you want to make some suggestions or ideas you can head over to to drop them

Skype iPhone Application crosses one million downloads in 2 days

2009-04-03T04:32:00.000-07:00

Skype for iphone application which allows the users to make VoIP calls to friends and family all over the world. The Skype iphone application which was announced earlier this week hit the stores last Tuesday and since it has been downloaded a staggering one million times onto the popular iphone devices. This accounts to 6 downloads per second approx. Now thats a incredible statistics display for anyone.

In his blog post Peter Parkes skype blogger announces this milestone and says that "This is a phenomenal performance, and we’re confident that it’s one of the fastest-downloaded iPhone apps ever. We’ll be back next week with an update, but for now, Skype on"

Google Chrome market share continues to rise

2009-04-03T00:02:00.000-07:00

Within few months of the launch of the Browser chrome by Google seems it is likely ready to capture the Browser market share. I got a sneak peak into the matt cutts post related to his Google Chrome stats for the month of March 2009. The stats suggests that Chrome is 7% of his visitors. Here is the image of the

Matt cutts browser market trends for March 2009:

After reviewing his post i just logged into my Analytics and checked his my browser trends. I can observe that Chrome seems to be rising in my list too. Here is screenshot of My Browser market share

According to the stats released by NetApplications for May, 2008 to March, 2009 Chrome increased its market share from 0% to 1.23% in between the months of Aug, 2008 to March 2009. The interesting stat to note that is in the last 1month Chrome market share went up from 1.15% to 1.23%.
Net Applications showing browser market shares

From Statcounter stats - indicate that Chrome market share increased by 1.75%.
Marketshare of Chrome from Statcounter:

Now clicky another web analytics service provider stats indicate that Google Chrome market share showed an increase of 2.86 %. In the last 60days Chrome market share went up from 2.097% to 2.491%.
Chrome market share from clicky:

Check username Availability at Multiple Search Engines

2009-04-02T06:48:00.000-07:00

If you are interested in finding the availability of name on different Networks here is cool tool which helps you to check the Username availability on Multiple Networks with a single click. Namechk is the tool which helps you to choose the best username available for you on dozens of social networking and bookmarking websites. Just type in the name which you prefer to use as your username and click the chk button thats it. You can know the availability of the username on different networks. This is Cool isn't it !.

You can also suggest your favorite site to be included in this list by clicking the link.
.

Google announces - Ad Manager Certified Consultants Program

2009-03-18T07:00:00.000-07:00

we are all aware of Google Ad manager which serves as an ad serving tool was rolled out last year to take advantage of the Ad management process. Now for those who are interested in Google certification on this Google has announced a Google Ad Manager consultant partnership program, with companies which are interested in providing advanced ad serving support and professional services.

Thought you be a newbie or an experienced IT or sales personnel these certified partners will help you take full advantage of their experience using Google Ad Manager which will allow you to spend more time focusing on what you need to do best, bringing great content, while their partners can help you manage the rest.

Google Ad Serving Certified Consultants can assist you with services such as:
1) Ad Trafficking
2) Consultation
3) Training
4) Advanced Support

As of now four companies which include Acceleration, EpikOne, Outsourced Ad Ops and Vanguardistas are listed as certified partners under this program.

If you are new and interested in setting up an Ad Manager on your blog or site you can go through this tutorial

Twitter opens up third party apps

2009-03-18T06:38:00.000-07:00

For those who are interested in making third-party applications for twitter. Here comes a good news!. A unique protocol called "OAuth authentication protocol" (which is now available in public beta) can be used by developers to develop third-party applications for Twitter that can access users account information without requiring them to log in.

With the use of this unique protocol users no long require to give their login details to third-party apps to use them which means that your login and password informations are less likely to be misused.

Twitter attracted more than 7m unique US users last month, representing year-on-year growth of 1,382%.

SEO 101 - Tw33t.me Twitter Tool Launch

2009-03-17T07:08:00.000-07:00

David Brown and Brian Mark discuss the launch of David’s pet project Tw33t.me which is a "social media business card" site where users can register their profiles pertaining to social media and then keep a greeting video for people who are going to view their profile.

You can use your Twitter username and password and build your very own TweetMe page with Video, picture, content, links...

David describes this project as, If Twitter is the answer to "What are you doing right now?" Then tw33t.me is the answer to "Why should you follow me?"..Hmm thats interesting. isn't it?

TagCrowd - Visualizing word frequencies

2009-03-17T06:22:00.000-07:00

Tagcrowd. Now what is this all about?. Alright to know what its all going to offer for Web 2.0's, SEO's and bloggers, etc..just head on

You might have heard of or come across "Text clouds" which are mainly used for navigation and visualization on Web 2.0 sites that utilize user-generated meta-data tags as a categorization scheme. Flickr may be a good example for you here. Check the image below or

click the url

Now What is Tagcrowd and how it is different in comparison with others:
TagCrowd is a simple web application for picturing word frequencies in any user supplied text. It was created by a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University called Daniel Steinbock.

What "Tagcrowd" does is it looks at a text cloud by not only as an informative, beautiful image that communicates in a single glance but also as an whole new perspective on text. TagCrowd is taking tag clouds far beyond their original function:
1) by summarizing the topics for speeches and written works
2) as a blog or web analysis tool for SEO's
3) for data mining a text corpus
4) as resumes in a single glance
5) as visual poetry
and many more as the list continues to grow

Bulk follow and unfollow twitter users using Twitin(Buzzom)

2009-03-17T02:19:00.000-07:00

For all those who are interested in increasing their followers on Twitter in a large number here is an cool twitter application Twitin which can be used to follow or unfollow twitter users in bulk.

As per Twitter API use limitation it has kept a limitation on the number of follows and unfollows. You can bulk flush/unfollow 50 twitter users at a time, Grow/follow upto 25 at one go and Reciprocate/follow your followers back upto 50.

You can use the Flush, Grow and Reciprocate buttons on the top to start working with the application. When clicked on any of those buttons you will be asked to enter your twitter password to enter. Just enter it to start using the application and increase your followers.

In addition to the above you can also get the

Twit Count :
ReTwit Count :
Influence Score :
Retweet Score :
Tweet Efficiency Score :
InRev Twit Score :

All these metrics helps you to track your twitter efficiency even better.

Google Analytics Launches Skills Qualification Program

2009-03-05T03:50:00.000-08:00

If you have just started working on your Google Analytics and just worried of how to use it in a better way and looking for some skills and expertise in using it more efficiently. Well, there's nothing to worry about this now as Google has got some good news for you. It is offering a free online course in web analytics techniques and Google Analytics implementation, administration, and analysis tools for everyone who is interested. Yes its absolutely Free ! Training program guys.

Google Analytics IQ Certification

In addition to this Google is launching a skills qualification program. The program is called as Google Analytics IQ or Google Analytics Individual Qualification. When you get this Certification it will help you to use Google brand to brand yourself to the clients or raise your reputation to your boss if you are in-house professional.

Google says this test costs 50$ and you must get a score of at least 75% to pass it and receive the certification.

More Details can be found at ConversionUniversity.com.
For FAQ's visit FAQ's
For Google Analytics IQ Test

Google Enters into Twitter (Google+Twitter)

2009-02-27T05:59:00.000-08:00

Google has started a Twitter Account. It may seem to be insane, as it has taken quite a long time for Google to open its account on Twitter which is at twitter.com/Google.

Google + Twitter = Twoogling?

Now there is a buzz around on Twitter is Google+Twitter=Twoogling now. Haha may be its right to say so :). Now you be wondering what might be the first message from Google. Well its a binary message [Check the screen shot above].

“I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”

Which may be Roughly translated to : I’m F E E L I N G L U C K Y. Ahh thats a google sign.

Now the interesting things to note here is, Google's entrance into Twitter is warm welcomed by its rivals Yahoo and Live Search. Which in turn is greeted with a thanks. Now how often you find such gestures among your rivals ;).

Yahoo Welcomes Google

Live Search Welcomes Google

Google Thanks Yahoo and Live

Desktop Reporting for Google Analytics

2009-02-24T05:29:00.000-08:00

Desktop Reporting brings Google Analytics to the desktop which isn't released yet but looks very cool for GA users. Desktop Reporting helps you in tracking your visitors, campaigns, viewing your AdWords ROI metrics, referrals, etc. If you are anxious in knowing when this feature will be available to everyone click over to Desktop Reporting and sign up with your name and email to get latest updates and information on this product

Happy Valentines Day - Application Profile

2009-02-13T04:49:00.000-08:00

Applications are invited for the following post. The package and
Incentives are mentioned below.

Designation : Junior girl friend (trainee)

Experience : Must have ditched at least 2 guys
(Fresher with excellent credentials will be considered)

other requirement : Should have the Potential to do street bargaining and fight if required.

Age : 18-26 (if the individual is too good looking but not in the age group can also apply, special consideration will undertaken for them) Height, weight, complexions no bar, but is subjective.

Perks and incentives:
Total gross (Monthly):

· 2 gifts worth not exceeding Rs. 1000/-(no precious metals, stones)
· Bike rides each duration 1 hour
· trips to National Highways
· 5 Trips to Hanuman Mandir / Isckon Temple
· Kulfis / Chocobars at a regular gap of 3 days
· Daily Provision of Samosa/Bread Pakoda/Bhel worth Rs. 10 /-
· 2 movies (Family movies only) per month (on weekends)
· Visits to Shopping Malls and BARISTA every Weekend (On your own expense)

A Pair of Jeans or T-shirts according to demand will be gifted, subject to finance availability
and to the size available with the shopkeeper.

Net Deductions (Monthly): Affair Fund and un-professional taxes will be informed on joining

The probation period is 6 months, after which confirmation (with Promotion to fulltime Girlfriend)

Plz NOTE:

1. Only females.
2. Girls who left in the last 2 months need not apply.
3. Ex-girlfriends will be eligible only if they agree to the above-mentioned conditions.

There is more:

For girls who are not eligible, can take advantage of the referral. Program by referring their friend, colleagues etc.

Candle light or Tube light dinner will be given on every referral, even if candidate is not selected.

Search,,,,,, , never ends!!
Interested candidates can send their resume with

Subject:
Name/fresher- exp/age.
Photo must be in attachment. To the email address via mail

Note: Applications without photo will be rejected :)

MSN Keyword Forecast tool from Microsoft Adcenter Labs

2009-02-12T02:10:00.000-08:00

If you are on the web for a while then you might have been familiar with Search Engine Optimization/SEO process. Many people use the same old seo keyword tools which are free like Google's AdWords Keyword Tool, Wordtracker, etc which are mostly popular and familiar. Now if you are interested in trying out for some alternatives in this regard you can use Microsoft’s MSN Keyword Tool.

Just enter keywords separated by semi-colons, such as: seo; sem; ppc. You get a graphical chart of keywords monthly history trend and impression count with prediction for the keywords. The demographics are also shown by both age and gender in the below graph. There is also a option provided to view the results in 3 different ways like Fancy view, Image view, Data view which is a different try and sounds good when compared with other tools. It provides the option to view the results in different formats for us.

Fancy view:

Image view:

Data View:

Twitter - Technical Error in my account Today

2009-02-11T02:29:00.001-08:00

I got an unusual problem today when trying to log into my Twitter account with my user-id. Don't know what exactly happened with my account. Just waiting Twitter to resolve this issue and bring back my account. However, did anyone of you face such technical issues with twitter earlier??

Nine-year-old writes iPhone app - hit by 4,000 downloads

2009-02-11T01:46:00.000-08:00

Nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore is completely different from most of the children of his age. This young prodigy who had ample command over six programming languages according to a BBC Report developed an finger painting program, known as called Doodle Kids, which racked up 4000 downloads from Apple's iTunes store in less than 2 weeks.

His latest application, Doodle Kids which received a three-and-a-half star rating on the App Store allows users to draw pictures by using their fingers and clear the screen by shaking the iPhone. Its really Just cool !!. Isn't it.

Lim, who first started using a PC when he was two-years-old, has since completed more than 20 programming projects as quoted in the BBC website.

"I wrote the program for my younger sisters, who like to draw," said Lim. "But I am happy that people like it."

Lim, who always enjoys reading books on programming, is in a process of creating another iPhone application called "Invader Wars". Lets wish him Good Luck !.

If you have iTunes installed and interested in trying out his application you can find it here

Read this ...Just for laugh Gags

2009-02-07T05:14:00.000-08:00

While surfing web i have come across this funny interview column which brings a utter laughter on yours face. While this is just for fun. Serious pals, just ignore this:

Job Interview - Honest HR Question-Answers If we were to Honestly reply to all the HR Questions they would go something like this.

1. Why did you apply for this job?
I have applied for many jobs along with this and you called me now.

2. Why do you want to work for this company?
I have to work for some company who ever gives me a job, I don`t have any specific company in mind.

3. Why should I hire you?
You have to hire some one, you may give me a try.

4.What would you do if we hire you?
Well, it depends on my mindset but I will try to work on whatever is allotted to me.

5.What is your biggest strength?
Basically, daring to join any company who pays me well, without thinking of the fate of company.

6.What is your biggest weakness?
Girls

7.What was your worst mistake, and how did you learn from it?
Joining my earlier company and learn that I need to jump to get more money, so I am here today!

8. What accomplishments in your last position are you most proud of?
Had I accomplished any in my last position, why do I need to change my job? I could demand more and stay there.

9.Describe a challenge you faced and how you overcame it?
Biggest challenge is answering the question "why are you looking for a change" and I started blabbering irrelevantly to overcome that.

10.Why did you leave/ are you leaving your last job?
For the same reason why you left your earlier job... more money

11.What do you want from this job?
If no work is given but keep giving good hikes

12.What are your career goals and how do you plan to achieve them?
Make more money and for that keep jumping companies for every 2 yrs

13.Did you hear of our company and what do you know of us?
Yeah, I know that you will ask this, I`ve gone through your website

14.What is the salary expected and how do u justify that?
Well, no one will change job for the same salary, hence, give me 20% extra than what I am getting and that is unpublished industry standard (I know you will bargain on what ever I ask, hence, I have already hiked my current salary by 30%).

Google Website Optimizer Channel Launched on YouTube

2009-02-07T04:06:00.000-08:00

Google has launched the Google Website Optimizer channel on Youtube where you can find useful videos like Always Be Testing webinar series with Bryan Eisenberg as well as some simple instructional videos like Setting up an A/B Experiment in 5 minutes.

If you are keen to keep up with all updates of the new videos you can subscribe to the Website Optimizer Channel or add an iGoogle gadget to your homepage.

Find your Valentine on Twitter

2009-02-07T01:12:00.000-08:00

Feb 14 has been a special day for everyone, as the Valentines Day is celebrated across the world on this day every year. As the day is approaching Twitter, famous Social Networking platform has come up with an Twitter app called Be my Valentwine which helps it users to find their Valentines on Twitter.

This Service helps the Twitter fans to use it to calculate the compatibility between two persons who use twitter. It also helps to pick their favorite ones from the latest 100 people they have started following. In addition to these, the services enables you to send a anonymous tweet to anyone on Twitter who you want to be your Valentwine. This is Cool ;). isn't it.

Some alternatives to Google to search the Web

2009-02-07T00:04:00.000-08:00

If you searching the with Google and obsessed for not finding the right information you are searching for there. What you gotta do next. Well relax ! nothing to worry, there are some alternatives too which helps you in finding the right information on web apart from the mighty Google.

Mahalo.com a human search engine helps you by providing reviews and comments on Web sites thereby bringing up more relevant results. Mahalo means which means "thank you" in Hawaiian employs human editors to review websites and write search engine results pages that include text listings, as well as other media, such as photos and video into its directory. Mahalo's aims at improving its search quality by eliminating search spam from low-quality websites, such as those that have excessive advertising, distribute malware, or engage in phishing scams. For More information visit Mahalo

Pipl.com. If you are using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to search for people it may work in some cases and in some cases it won't. Here pipl.com, The most comprehensive people search on the web helps you in finding yours lost relative, an old flame, a classmate or a business contact. Pipl's query-engine helps to find deeper web pages that cannot be found with regular search engines. If you are not convinced yet you may give it a try to know it better.

snooth.com a search engine and community site for wine lovers helps to find deeper content by using topic specific search engines which are known as vertical-interest sites.

SeamlessWeb is the fastest, easiest, and smartest way to order food online. It includes menus and restaurant reviews and help to Order food online from thousands of restaurants on your own personal account.

Search engine ad revenues in China reaches $743 mln in 2008

2009-02-06T06:12:00.000-08:00

Data Center of the China Internet (DCCI) on Feb 5 announced that advertising revenue through Search engines generated a high total of RMB 5.08 billion ($743.01 million) in China in 2008 which is up 86.2% YOY. The knock-on effect on the advertising market and the increase in search volumes is mainly boosted by the hosting of large events like Beijing Olympics.

However the predictions for 2009 by DCCI is forecasted at RMB 8.49 billion ($1.24 billion) an increase of 67% while the figure for 2011 is at RMB 24.82 billion ($3.63 billion).

Google Analytics details on your iPhone

2009-02-06T05:02:00.000-08:00

Google Analytics on your iphone. Now you might be wondering Google might have launched this application. Hold on for a min Guys, its not Google. AnalyticsApp.com has launched an this application which helps to track yours Google Analytics details on yours iphone. The Analytics App is available on the iPhone AppStore for $5.99. But i am hopeful that Google may come up with Analytics App free which is it probably know for, launch of free products. This application gives access to yours Analytics data anytime. And now if you are looking buy this application click this link App Store.

Whether you are in a meeting or sitting on a throne this app gives you a quick and easy access to yours google analytics data at your fingertips. This is Cool isn't ?.

Some of its cool Features include:
1) Quick overview of its data
2) Detailed reports for more deeper analysis
3) Multiple login and Multiple accounts support
4) Custom Reporting and Goals

In addition to these it has 29 Overview reports like Overview Reports, Visitors Reports, Traffic Reports, Content Reports, Event Tracking Reports, Custom Reports, etc

Explore the Internet World with Google Bus India

2009-02-04T01:20:00.000-08:00

Google which is primarily popular in the Internet arena for its Search and also other Products like Orkut, Gmail, Maps, Youtube, Blogger, etc had come up with an Internet Bus Project which is an attempt to educate people about what the Internet is, through a custom-made Internet-enabled bus, which will travel across several towns and cities in India and explaining them how Internet may be beneficial to their lives.

Google Internet Bus in India

The bus which started its journey from Chennai on 03 Feb is expected to travel across different places in Tamilnadu before reaching to Tiruvannamalai on 13 Mar.

If you are looking to follow the latest Updates on the Google Internet Bus you can visit at google internet bus

Find more Google bus pics on Picasa

If you are excited to watch the bus in videos visit Youtube

If you are into Orkut you can visit the Orkut community

You can also visit Blogger for more information on Google Bus

How do use Google

2009-02-03T06:17:00.000-08:00

How do you use google normally in yours daily life. Well i use it for finding information, shopping, spell checking, currency conversion, as calculator, getting word meanings, web search and infact many more

Thanks Bits and Pieces
Now how you use Google in yours daily routine ?. share your thoughts here

Google Explained better by its rivals Yahoo and Live

2009-02-03T06:02:00.000-08:00

Try searching for the keyword "Google" on all the top 3 search engines. You will find some interesting results displayed which indicates that Google is explained better bby Yahoo and Live(Microsoft) when compared to Google itself.

Here are those interesting screen shots results when typed "Google"
Google on Yahoo Search:

Google on Live Search:

Google on Google Search:

From the above results we can see that Google term is explained in more general from its rivals Microsoft and Yahoo when compared to Google itself. Now that's quite a bizarre :), yours rivals explaining you better than yourself ;)

Thanks Labnol

Australian Web Analytics Survey 2008 - A Research

2009-02-02T05:30:00.000-08:00

I was going through the third annual research pdf released by Bienalto to access the intake of Web Analytics by Australian business sector. The survey reveals some interesting challenges that the web analytics industry is faced with and the growth of analytics sector along with with the maturity of the industry in the adoption of analytics into the industry.

Here are some interesting stats from the post published:
1) Number of organizations investing into the analytics tools by more than $10,000 has increased from 36% in 2007 to 44% in 2008.
2) Organisations who trust the data they receive from web analytics tools are increasing.
3) Google Analytics is used by 62.5% of organizations which is up from 52.9% in 2007.
4) Apart from Search Engine Optimisation, Web analytics has been identified as the most important web initiative for 2009
5) Marketing departments are getting more involved with web analytics and in growing proportions taking full responsibility for it.

For a detailed report on the Australian Web Analytics Survey visit Bienalto

Submit Your Google Spam Suggestions to Matt Cutts

2009-01-08T06:21:00.000-08:00

Matt Cutts, Google’s Software Engineer and head of Web Spam is looking for some opinions/feedbacks on what you are looking for Google webspam team to fight in 2009. Matt usually does this annually on his blog. So if you have something to suggest regarding the spam just click the link and post your comments in matt's blog.

Matt's Web spam chart

Sitemaps Affect on Website Crawlers

2009-01-06T03:57:00.000-08:00

You created a Sitemap and submitted it to the search engines. Did you ever started thinking if this really helps the site out and what’s the effect when you submit a Sitemap on the site. Why we need to use sitemaps, Using sitemaps on your websites really going to affect on the Rankings of your website. Many of us are unaware what are the Advantages of using the Sitemaps on our websites.

I was going through this Excellent post written by chenry where he discussed some interesting points pertaining to Sitemaps with good display of stats. To find out the uses of Sitemap chenry he wrote a PHP script and installed in on his client website to track every time a bot accessed the Sitemap, every time the Sitemap was submitted, and every page it crawled on the website. The script was designed to store this information in a MySQL database along with a timestamp, IP address, and the user agent. He also modified the Sitemap generator to insert a timestamp every time the sitemap was submitted to the search engines.

The Primary aim of his experiment was to find out if submitting a Sitemap to Google and Yahoo would show any effect on the time it took Google to crawl and index the page. To his surprise the results were quite amazing!!. When a Sitemap was submitted the average time it took for the bot to visit the new post was 14 minutes for Google and 245 minutes for Yahoo. When no Sitemap was submitted and the bot had to crawl to the post, it took 1375 minutes for Google and 1773 for Yahoo. The averages were calculated on 12 different posts, 6 with Sitemaps being submitted, and 6 with the Sitemaps not being submitted.

Crawltime with no-Sitemap

Crawltime with Sitemap

For further reading visit chenry

Steve Jobs: Harmone Imbalance Effecting my Weight Loss

2009-01-05T06:54:00.000-08:00

Industry concerns about Steve Jobs' health have not gone away after the Apple CEO appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annual developers' conference, fighting what insiders at the time were calling a "bug". Apple Inc. founder and CEO said Monday, that a hormonal imbalance is to blamed for the weight loss that has prompted worries about his health. Jobs said he will be undergoing a small treatment and will remain in charge of Apple.

Investors seemed to be happy to have some clarity on his health and Apple's shares rose to $94.17 in Monday morning trading. So today "Hormone Imbalance" will likely be a very popular Google search term :).

Here is a the complete letter which Steve wrote to the Apple Community.

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

" Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve "

China targets Google in crackdown on pornography

2009-01-05T06:31:00.000-08:00

China which has the world's largest population of Web users with more than 250 million targets top online portals and major search engines such as Google by launching a major crack down today. Though the government's Internet police Department struggle to block Web sites based out of China internal websites were blocked.

The government announcement said that Google and Baidu, which are China's most popularly used search engines, had failed to take "efficient" measures after receiving notices from the country's Internet watchdog that they were providing links to pornographic material. It also stated that popular Web portals Sina and Sohu, as well as a number of video sharing sites and online bulletin boards, that it said contain problematic photos, blogs and postings.

A statement, which was posted on the news and information Web site managed by the State Council, said that violators will be severely punished, but did not give details or say how long the campaign will last.

A Google spokeswoman in China, Cui Jin, defended the site's operations, saying it is a search engine and does not generate any pornographic content. The company obeys Chinese law, she said.

The central government has earlier blocked access to many Web sites it considers subversive or too political, which includes The New York Times' Web site on Dec. 19. But it was finally unblocked a couple of days later and remained open on Monday.

On the Net:
China information Web site managed by the State Council Information Office: http://china.com.cn

How to Open an account for Small Business in Twitter

2009-01-02T06:12:00.000-08:00

Twitter is one of the most popular micro blogging platform for online promotion of your business. A key discussion point for businesses has been that While creating a social networking account for a small business, is it a better idea to have the user name be the business name or the person who will be posting?.

Let us look into a small example. Dell a popular brand has an entire page for its Twitter accounts. Here the company uses its brand name along with some carefully managed staff accounts for its promotion. Politicians are also no exception in this case, with @BarackObama using Twitter Service to connect himself with his voters in the recent Presidential elections.

So Before creating an account you need to recognize yourself that there is no specific rule. It depends on the service. For blogs, multiple users accounts can be set up. Social Media is used to create Awareness and Popularity for your Brands.

Here are a few questions you need to ask yourself:

1) What exactly you are looking for on Twitter? Looking for new customers? Finding new ones?
2) Is your business suited to blogging/microblogging?

Twitter may not be suited for every small business but the important thing to look out for is try to make yourself interesting by placing yourself in the place of your customer and think about what exactly they want to talk to you about.

Marissa Mayer To Leave Google?

2009-01-02T03:53:00.000-08:00

Gawker reports that Marissa Mayer Google’s 19th employee, the glamor nerd will be saying goodbye to the company in 2009. She just got engaged to Zack Bogue, a property manager and lawyer.

Mayer, who now works as vice president of search products and user experience, joined Google from Stanford's computer science department in 1999 as one of the company's first female engineer. Mayer has been been awarded with the Centennial Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award. She also works as a part-time introductory computer programming teacher at Stanford.

Gawker reports that "Top Googlers, overheard at a holiday party, chattered about Marissa's departure as a matter of if, not when". Google which has lost many of its major executives in the past, if now loses Marissa, will this be going to be a biggest loss to it?. Well these all seems to be just rumor's for now as Google has not commented on the Gawker story yet.

Microsoft to lay off 15,000 Workers on January 15th, 2009

2009-01-02T03:33:00.000-08:00

Last week there were reports/rumors that Microsoft is laying off some of its staff. But now there are more reports coming up which indicates that recession is going to hit one of the most successful technology companies of all time. Microsoft, The Software giant is getting ready to lay off 17% of their workforce by January 15th, 2009.

Its unlikely that Microsoft which has a strong work force of 90,000 employees across the world will be laying off a lot of people in different departments and regions that are doing considerably well. Rumors indicate that most of the layoffs will be seen in the MSN and Microsoft EMEA divisions while leaving most of the people working in the Xbox 360 departments to be pretty safe.

Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope

2009-01-01T07:01:00.000-08:00

Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the “declared” set of friends and followers.

Google Updates its PageRank on New Year’s Evening

2008-12-31T06:53:00.000-08:00

According to a confirmation message from Google Software Engineer Matt Cutts on twitter(Check the image below) it is now confirmed that Google has updated its PageRank values that are displayed on the Google Toolbar.

From this update CNN.com climbs to Google PageRank 10 and joins the elite club

Send Money Through Twitter With Twitpay

2008-12-18T06:39:00.000-08:00

Twitter a popular social networking site which helps in connecting with friends, family and stay connected with popular people around the world like Bill Gates and other popular divas like Britney Spears is soon opening its doors to transfer money over the web.

Twitpay a start-up company allows people to send small payments through Twitter. All you need to avail this service is an account in Twitter. You need to include the recipients’ username in the message along with amount which you are willing to transfer. For example, posting the update “@krishnat twitpay $8 for dinner” would deliver the cash to that Twitterer’s Twitpay account. The company tarcks the public stream of messages for the term “twitpay” and helps in the exchange of money. You replenish your Twitpay account using a site like PayPal. Once if recipients accumulates more than $10 in their accounts, the balance can be cashed out in the form of an Amazon gift card. All transfers exceeding a $1 sum, Twitpay will make a flat cut of five cents.

Michael D. Ivey chief executive and co-founder of Twitpay says “Ideally we want to enable social giving on Twitter,” he said. “But beyond that, we could enable charitable giving, such as to the Red Cross. We’re very excited to be able to help people do good over Twitter.” and that their service makes it easier for people to donate money during a disaster like Earthquake or an Hurricane.

Twitpay has no official ties to Twitter, and it allows people to post messages up to 140 characters in length. The service seems to be still in a trial phase, but Mr. Ivey said the company was actively working to obtain funding and is in discussions with several groups.

Most Popular Searches on Google, Ask, and Yahoo in 2008

2008-12-02T07:19:00.000-08:00

Are you keen to know what are the most popular searches on the most popular search engines Google, Yahoo and Ask. Search engines has revealed the stats for 2008. To start with Google
A) Google hasn't revealed most popular searches yet. But, Some of the season's top searches on Google Product Search are
1. nintendo wii
2. wii fit
3. ipod touch
4. xbox 360
5. nintendo ds
6. ipod nano
7. uggs
8. nikon d90
9. zune
10. digital picture frame

Some of the top searches in the Cold Weather apparel category:
1. pea coat
2. north face jacket
3. sweater dress
4. sweater boots
5. leather jacket
6. christmas sweater
7. ugly christmas sweater
8. houndstooth coat
9. burton jacket
10. dog sweater

B) Top 10 Searches for 2008 in Yahoo
1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. Barack Obama
4. Miley Cyrus
5. RuneScape
6. Jessica Alba
7. Naruto
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Angelina Jolie
10. American Idol

C) Ask Top 2008 Searches
1. Dictionary
2. MySpace
3. Google
4. YouTube
5. Facebook
6. Coupons
7. Cars
8. Craigslist
9. Online degrees
10. Credit score

Seems like there is lost of difference in the searches made in all the search engines. Quite contrary results in general from all. Are you Surprised !!!. Hmm infact I'm

Google fixes Spam in its Algorithm

2008-12-02T06:58:00.000-08:00

I have accidentally come across in a Google Groups thread which has a response from Matt Cutts of Google explaining their was a bug in Google's algorithm for detecting content spam due to an IFrame. There was a discussion regarding censorship asked by a member in the Google Webmaster forum and it goes like this

DId google censor atlasshrugs.com content? I get no hits of articles
on this site.
for which Matt replies in this way

"Hi, we looked into this, and the blog in question was ranking lower in
our search results because of an algorithmic error that has now been
fixed; the site's drop in our search results had nothing to do with
the views expressed on the site. Essentially, our search algorithm saw
a large area on the blog that was due to an IFRAME included from
another site and that looked spammy to our automatic classifier. I
believe that this bug has been fixed now. We also added additional
safety checks to the relevant system that would escalate to an
engineer if this site had the same issue in the future.

The site should be ranking higher in Google within 24 hours according
to the people that I talked to. Thanks for mentioning the site on this
discussion group to give us feedback--I appreciate it.
Matt Cutts
Google Software Engineer "

SRobert, we adjusted the algorithm in question to make more robust, so
the change also benefits any other sites there were affected.
Matt

Its very rare we often find Matt replying to someone in the forum and this has caught my attention. From the above explanation you could see that Matt saying that Google had an "algorithmic error" because of an "IFRAME" included from another site which looked as spam to its "automatic classifier".

More information can be found in the Google Groups

PeekYou - Peoples Search Engine

2008-11-28T06:55:00.000-08:00

"Peek You" explained as a contradiction of People and Seek is a peoples search engine claims to have indexed over 160 million people, mostly in the regions of US and Canada. Peekyou helps in finding the social-networking pages, photos, websites, etc. However one needs to register and create a profile of their own or of their friends or relatives to ensure that they may also be easily found online.

My comments:
Though the company claims to have indexed over 160 million people when i searched for barack obama, George bush, there are many duplicates(58 matches, 1274 matches) coming up in the results. Results were quite unimpressive.

check out for Wink and Spock in this regard which are designed to help you find people.

Keyboardr - Experience A Lightning Fast Search with Keyboard Shortcuts

2008-11-28T06:11:00.000-08:00

keyboardr a meta-search home page makes your internet experience faster. keyboardr is a mashup of Google (blog and image search), Wikipedia and YouTube working at the speed of knots. Once you start typing words into it and come up with the results which you like you can use the arrow keys to move to the result and hit enter to open it. If you are really interested in the keyboard navigation feature the keyboradr is something which you shouldn't miss trying out for. Impressive feature of keyboardr is its speed of displaying the results.

click the above image to enlarge

keyboardr (formerly choser.com)really has some big plans for its future and looking to integrate more web services in the coming days. Apart from the usual websearch services like google, it is planning to support flickr, delicious, friendfeed, twitter, google docs and numerous other features.

Google Launches Google Analytics Help Forums

2008-11-27T06:54:00.000-08:00

Are you frustrated that you are not getting much help related to the usage of Google analytics. Now you no need to get obsessed with that. Google may have finally heard your sighs of frustration and boredom, as they've finally announced to launch the new Google Analytics Help Forum which comes as a thanksgiving news for Google Analytics enthusiasts.

A place where you can shoot in your questions and get replies from the Google Analytics experts. Now are you worried that only noobs will be helping you out? Fret not; just relax; answers are voted on by the community, with only the "Best Answers" gaining the visibility. To make things even better to you, as your typing your question a list of "Related Questions" will pop up. Sounds Good right :)

If you're not interested in a change, and happy with the old Help Center it's still there. You can still search your content there, but it is closed for new posts. This allows the Analytics team to give their complete dedication to the all new forum.

Cheers Google !!

Amazon To Shut Down Alexa Web Search

2008-11-27T05:54:00.000-08:00

Alexa the web search company from Amazon is shutting down its operations. The service is already closed to new customers, and existing users have until January 26, 2009 to move on to something else.

In an email to the developers it says the reason behind closing the Alexa web search is due to its low search. On the Alexa Web Search site itself Amazon mentioned that the service has been "deprecated", which is a fancy word for shut down.

The email:

Dear Alexa Developer,

The Alexa Web Search service will no longer be available to new customers as of November 26, 2008. Use of the service is low, so we are shifting our priorities to other areas where we can provide better service to AWS customers.

The Alexa Web Search service will continue to be operational for 60 days until January 26, 2009. The ProgrammableWeb website offers a list of web services that provide web search.

We apologize for the inconvenience to you.

Thank you,

The Alexa Web Services Team

Boost your site traffic with Publicity Wheel

2008-10-29T05:37:00.000-07:00

If you are looking to boost in traffic and exposure for your website at absolutely no cost you need to check out for this cool website Publicity Wheel. It is a new startup that adds a new spin on promoting your website. Mark who built edutagger, a K-12 social bookmarking site for educators and Fame Experiment also built the Publicity Wheel.

The concept is so simple, just sign up and provide some simple details about your website and upload the banners (125 x 125 pixels, 200 x 200 pixels and 468 x 60 pixels) and then your banner may well be seen on other members websites thereby resulting in more exposure of yours website. Each time they spin, a new site is selected which features on the banner image or text link that users places on their websites. Each time if someone clicks on the image you will be gaining a certain publicity points which in turn increases yours chance of winning when they spin the wheel.

This looks like a great idea of promoting new websites to increase their traffic and exposure in the internet world. However the amount of traffic that one receives is going to depend on where the user places the banner ad on their site and how many users are going to sign up for Publicity Wheel. But this is certainly something to look out for newbies.

Microsoft continues to grow despite poor Economic crisis

2008-10-24T05:59:00.000-07:00

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software maker, which cashed in on new releases of computer server software such as Windows Server 2008 operating system and database software SQL Server 2008 reported a 2 per cent rise in quarterly profit. The results that exceeded analysts' expectations, with profits up 2 percent to $4.37 billion.

Microsoft posted a net profit of $4.37-billion (U.S.), or 48 cents per diluted share, in its fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30, against a profit of $4.29-billion, or 45 cents, in the year-ago period. Microsoft's chief financial officer Chris Liddell said - 'In a challenging economic environment, the first-quarter results exhibit the strength and diversity of our business model,'. Revenue rose 9 per cent to $15.06-billion.

Bloomberg financial news reports that the software giant plans to save $500 million by slowing down on its hiring, travel and marketing processes. Microsoft which has many clients with long term contracts can endure any economic slowdown longer than its rivals.

Integrate Analytics with Adsense and Check your Earnings

2008-10-23T08:20:00.000-07:00

Through an AdSense Publisher Google finally officially announced in its blog that it is rolling out the functionality to its publishers where one can check out for an invitation link at the top of their 'Overview' and 'Advanced Reports' pages when its been enabled into their accounts. Google says though this new feature is not yet available to all its publishers it may roll out this feature to everyone in the coming days.

In the meantime Google has released a video demo on this to know more about the features which you can have access to:
Click the Link

Validation - MAMA says How often you do this

2008-10-23T07:31:00.000-07:00

In the recent webmaster chat Google says that only 5% of the websites are according to the W3C validation standards. Stunned !!. Yes, this might be true guys. Interested to know further read on...
Enter MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) a web page search engine which crawls Web pages and returns results elaborating the page structures, including what HTML, CSS and script is used on it, as well as whether the HTML validates.

What Information you get from MAMA:
MAMA intention is to help the opera web browser users with an unique tool which gives live examples of markup and other Web page structural components. MAMA also concludes that it can provide information on discrete issues such as "what is the 18th most popular element?" or "how popular can a Flash be?". For key findings from MAMA visit the link "MAMA key findings".

Now coming to our topic - Do people get everything validated on their website?. MAMA markup validation report says out of the every URL which it has in its data base it was able to validate 3,509,180 URLs in 3,011,661 domains, and only 4.13% of the URL set passed validation (with 4.33% of the domains having at least 1 URL that passed validation).

Some key information in MAMA report include:
1. XHTML Doctype pass validation at much higher rates (13.4%) than HTML flavors (6.6%).
2. A majority of pages specify a document's encoding, and do so via the META markup syntax (89.9%).
3. Doctype flavors pass validation at much eminent rate (17.5%) than Transitional (8.4%) or Frameset (7.2%)
4. More URLs are using Doctype statements. In MAMA's URL set, the number has passed the 50% threshold (51.0%).
5. Most popular detected encodings are iso-8859-1 (43.1%) and utf-8 (26.9%).
6. characters are used that aren't allowed by the detected character set (8.6%) is the most frequent fatal validation error found.
7. The most frequent validation errors encountered both deal with attributes:
* There is no attribute X (64.2%)
* Required attribute X not specified (57.4%)

Chat Live with Google team

2008-10-21T06:03:00.000-07:00

If you some doubts regarding the Google tools you can contact the Google team and make your uncertainties clear. Tomorrow i.e., 22nd of October, at 9:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco) Google is organizing an "Tricks and Treats" event where in you can chat online to Googlers ranging from Matt Cutts in Mountain View to John Mueller in Zurich to Kaspar Szymanski in Dublin and many more folks.

Register for a Live Conversation here

What all you need to join this event are:
1. An hour of free time
2. A computer with audio capabilities that is connected to the Internet and has these additional specifications

Some more information Regarding the Event
Date and time:

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:00 pm
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:00 pm
GMT Daylight Time (GMT +01:00, London)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:00 pm
Central Asia Standard Time (GMT +06:00, Almaty)

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Description:
We welcome you to join Google's third Webmaster Central chat. We'll be debunking some tricky ghoulish myths and treating you to an extensive question and answer period... using the new Google Moderator tool! (http://moderator.appspot.com).

All attendees must register prior to the event, but registration is free, quick, and absolutely NOT scary.

Google Lifts ban on Paid search for UK gambling sites

2008-10-20T06:14:00.000-07:00

Google has finally decided for the first time anywhere in the world to allow gambling advertisements in its search results in Britain from Oct 17, 2008 since a self-imposed moratorium in 2004. According to industry experts estimate, Google could generate more than £100m in revenues from rule changes.

Google has been reviewing its gambling advertising policy "to ensure it is as consistent as possible with local business practices", said James Cashmore, industry leader, entertainment and media, at the company. "We hope this change will enhance the search experience for users and help advertisers connect with interested consumers."

According to a statement from Google’s industry head, James Cashmore: ‘Gambling ads will automatically be classified as non-family safe which means they will not show on any search where the user has applied the safe search filter.’

Casinos, lottery's and bookmakers which make collectively the third largest advertisers in online display ads only behind mobile phone operators and automotive manufacturers are going to take immediate advantage of this.

Timing couldn't be much better than this. "Google is certainly going to hit the jackpot now." :)

Audio/Video on your Website

2008-10-17T07:41:00.000-07:00

On the internet, it's all about finding information fast. Audios and videos have their place in the business. Some say Audio works Brilliant ! and some prefer Video. HOWEVER, if they are used appropriately they can be handy. Billions of Videos and Audios are watched every month and the number tends to grow rapidly, so apparently videos and audios are a great way of transferring information, without having to read lots of text all the time.

Important factor to note here is the loading time. Many times visitors drop off a web page if it takes entirely too long to load and they move to the next in line. So make the audio simple and interesting and of minimum time. Discourage the use of bad background music.

Nevertheless If we compare Audio Vs Video, some people love to or very much prefer to find information Visual rather than playing an Audio because they can scan something visual which they can't scan through audio. But still, a combination of Audio and Video can be something which can't be ignored wholly. Good pictures and sounds if you can add in a video the more engaged the visitor will feel.

Audio Acrobat can be helpful to stream the audios which allows the reader to start/stop/pause manually. It allows the users to have an on screen player (a customizable appearance) and you can have it auto start when the page loads.

However crucial points to keep in mind:

1. Don't force it on the user - let them launch it.
2. Keep an eye on your bandwidth!.
3. Offer some of your audio as downloads, too.
4. Don't replace the printable documentation.

Live chat on your website

2008-10-17T07:00:00.000-07:00

To maximize your's web site lead generation you need many different options including e-mail, phone, fax, live chat, etc... because your customers have changing communication needs over time and varying degrees of comfort with the different channels. Live Chat may not be a primary way of reaching the new and existing customers but it certainly does provide the customer one more option to connect with you. Installing a Live chat application on your website can help you in a great way especially in handling yours customer queries. Visitors may respond very positive on this service. Chatting with the visitors/customers on yours website not only helps increase the service of your website but also the direct communication with them, wherein you can solve their personal questions regrading your products and services. There are many of Livechat applications available like meebo, coffeecup, triolive, google talk badge, chatango, jabber, userplane, boldchat, livechat, liveperson, etc. Some are these comes free & some are paid. Here i am compiling a list of Live chat Applications which may be of some help to you.

boldchat
meebo
chatango
jabber
userplane
google talk badge
live-chat
triolive
whoson
liveperson

Finally in order to have a successful Live Chat program make sure you have a well trained Chat team, have your chat icons highly visible in your site, and make the steps to chat as easy as possible.

The Top 20 Popular Websites in US and UK

2008-10-17T05:49:00.000-07:00

Hitwise released the list of Top 20 most popular websites based on US and UK Internet usage for the month of September, 2008.

Top 20 Websites in US:

Top 20 Websites in UK

The stats suggests that:
1) Google search dominates both the US and UK search markets.
2) Yahoo's combined share of services seems to be of higher than that of Google in the US Market where as the combined share of services of Google ranks higher than that of Yahoo in the UK market. An interesting point to watch out for.
3) In terms of popularity of mail services Yahoo! Mail comes first followed by Windows Live Mail, Gmail and AOL in US where as Windows Live Mail comes first followed by Yahoo! Mail and Gmail in UK

Important Keyword Factors to consider in SEO

2008-10-16T08:09:00.000-07:00

Advertising your business or product or service or something which is different on Websites has become popular these days and people of all ages are relying mostly on web for faster modes of communicating. With the growing number of websites on the internet everyone wants to rank on top of the search engines for better business. Attaining top results on SERP's isn't easy given that there are number of websites competing for that position. But it isn't tough too if you follow some simple SEO strategies to optimize yours website. As most of us are aware that Google tops the search engines and everyone wants to gain top positions in Google. To attain a top position in Google SERP's here i am going to figure out some Important Factors which you need to consider:

1) Use the targeting Keywords in the Title tags of the HTML page header(Caution: dont spam yours title by placing all the keywords. Ensure that title should not be 150-170 characters long)
2) Use the keywords in the body context.( use 2-3 keywords in a paragraph of 150-250 words)
3) Place the keywords into the H1 and H2 tags.(use no more than 2-3 of yours targeting keywords in the header)
4) Use the keyword name in the Domain name and in the URL's.
5) Use keywords in the Anchor Text of Inbound Link.
6) Use yours keywords in the Navigation menus.
7) Use keywords in the footer page during the optimization process.
8) Use keywords in the internal navigation of the pages.
9) Keywords in the Alt-text of the images.
10) Save your folder names with keywords

Note: In all the above mentioned factors try to ensure yourself that you don't spam by the excessive usage of keywords

Underscores or Hyphens or Spaces - Which one is better?

2008-10-15T06:51:00.000-07:00

There has been long discussions going among different Search Specialists regarding which one is better to use in the URL optimization process either Underscores are better or the Hyphens or Spaces?. To find out this i have run a simple experiment

On Google SERPS
1) xml sitemaps generator
2) xml-sitemaps-generator
3) xml_sitemaps_generator

I could find out that there is no significant differences in either using spaces or hyphens or underscores in the urls for the above three results. Interesting point to note here is that underscore parsing seems to be showing only few results on Google SERP's in 3 case, probable reason behind this might be people not using any underscores in their URLS (according to my opinion)

On Live
4) xml sitemaps generator
5) xml-sitemaps-generator
6) xml_sitemaps_generator

Similar search on live showed that even here it doesn't show any major differences in using either space or hyphen or underscore. An interesting point to note here is that if we could compare the results of 3 and 6 from Google and Live, we could observe that Google performing better than Live in showing the results as in Google we can find a result with an underscore where is in Live we cant observe any such.

You can run a similar experiment on Yahoo! and find the results

Which URLS to include in yours sitemap

2008-10-15T06:09:00.000-07:00

I have been checking out for some information regarding which Urls we need to include in our sitemaps. Is it good to include dynamic URLS into your sitemap or only the URLS which you find important on yours website?. While i was surfing the web i could get this information which i gonna share here, might be helpful for you too

1) Sean Suchter from Yahoo! suggets - Put all the important pages in your sitemap, rather than every page on your site as Yahoo! considers sitemaps when figuring out which pages are valuable on a site, and if they believe this to be a trusted signal from a publisher, will use it more (the other engines seemed to agree).

2) Nathan Myhrvold from Microsoft suggests that URL structures in sitemaps are very important. Use the shortest, most authoritative, canonical version of the URL you want in the search engines' index in your sitemap file and they'll use that to help automatically filter duplicates and figure out which version to display.

3) Vanessa Fox ex Google employee suggests to put up a comprehensive list of URLs in the Sitemap. Here is what she suggests regarding her statement

" There are several ways people approach what to put in Sitemaps:

-Put the important pages in the Sitemap. This method is a good one is if it’s problematic to put all pages in the Sitemap. The point of the Sitemap is to let search engine know more about your site, particularly about the pages of your site, and this approach tells the search engines about the pages you care about most. That should give search engines a signal that all other things being equal, you’re telling them that these pages are the ones you care about. (Of course, all signals normally aren’t equal, so instead this will be one signal balanced among many, but the same idea holds.) So, that’s a solid approach.

-Put the non-indexed pages in the Sitemap. The idea behind this method is that search engines already know about the rest of your site, so you’re just making sure they know about these as well. This may seem the opposite of the first approach. After all, if from the first approach search engines should get a signal that the pages in the Sitemap are most important, then wouldn’t the search engines use that same signal for this set of URLs? When really they might be the least important (hence the non-indexing). It may seem that way, but actually that’s not the case. Since search engines use the Sitemap as one of many signals, what you’re really saying with URLs in a Sitemap, is hey, search engine! pay attention to these pages! It generally won’t cause the search engine to then forsake all other signals that caused indexing of the other pages. It will just focus some extra attention on these. A Sitemap comes into play the most in the crawling process. So, if some pages aren’t indexed, it makes sense to make sure the search engines know about them so they can crawl them.

-Put a comprehensive list of URLs in the Sitemap. This is my preferred approach when it’s technically practical. Why not tell search engines what the definitive list of pages on your site is? Why limit it to really important ones? One benefit to this is that there’s at least one place other than crawling that Sitemaps can be helpful, and that’s canonicalization. If a search engine has detected that several URLs display the same page, the version of the URL that’s in the Sitemap is a signal as to which is the canonical version.

In reality, any of these approaches are good ones. Sitemaps enable the site owner to have a voice in the long list of signals that search engines use to crawl and index pages. Since they’re a signal and not a directive, they don’t correlate to just one option. The signal tells the search engines that you care about their crawlers taking a look at these pages, and many times, they then do.

I imagine that each search engine uses the Sitemap signals slightly differently, since after all, each search engine has different crawling and indexing algorithms. However, I do think that it would be useful for the search engines to come together and let us know how exactly they use them and how they differ in using them. In particular, it would be very helpful if, as part of sitemaps.org, they got together and made sure they weren’t using Sitemaps for opposing purposes. You don’t want to have a shared standard that is used so differently that if a site owner compiles a Sitemap in a particular way, it helps with one search engine and hurts with another.

When I worked on the sitemaps.org collaboration, it was all about figuring out what the standard should be and coming together to support it. Now that all the major engines do, I think the next step is sorting out more details about how they’re used (particularly since the search engines should now have lots of data about how they can best be used) and give site owners best practices."

Importance of XML Sitemaps for yours website

2008-10-15T05:29:00.000-07:00

Everyone of us know that Sitemaps are supported by all the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN(Live). Let us look into some general information regarding the sitemaps before we can move ahead with its Advantages. A Sitemap in its simplest form can be called as a list of urls or pages on yours website. Submitting a Sitemap to the search engines (especially google) helps them to know about all the webpages on your website which search engines cannot discover through normal crawling process. Sitemaps are of 2 types
1) The first one is a HTML page listing the pages of your site by section
2) XML Sitemaps often used by everyone

Sitemaps are Advantageous if
1) Primary Advantage being to notify to google that your site is update
2) If your site has dynamic content
3) site has pages which aren't properly indexed by google during its normal crawl process
4) Site has few links in it
5) site has a large number of content pages which are not linked to each other in a proper manner

List of terms you must know for SEO

2008-10-14T07:41:00.000-07:00

mod_rewrite,
web crawlers
HTML,
301 Redirects,
Google search advanced commands
404 error
Google Analytics,
Google Webmaster tools,
Yahoo Site Explorer,
RSS reader
URL Redirection

Microsofts U Rank

2008-10-14T06:51:00.000-07:00

Microsoft is test running in its search labs an interesting search engine U Rank which will help its souls to edit, organize and share the search information with others. This may be of some interest for the geeks.

U Rank is useful for:
a) Creating perfect search results: i.e., to add videos and images for the existing context.
b) Short-cuts: To Move your favorite sites up; and then put an ! in front of the query so that you can go straight to the top result.
c) Lists: Keep lists while you’re researching (“hotels for my next trip”, “DSLRs for me”)
d) Annotate results: Write notes to summarize important information under each URL.
e) Collaboration: Sharing the URLs with friends (“related projects”, “our reading list”)
f) Make Recommendations: Tell your friends what you like (“best books,” “favorite restaurants”)

Some snippets from the research done on the results can be found in these screen captures: click the images to enlarge

As quoted in its website "We believe that finding something on the web is only the first step for many tasks. To better support people as they are exploring a topic, comparing information, keeping track of what they're learning, and collaborating with others, U Rank has general support for organizing, annotating, remembering, and sharing search results." The basic idea behind this project seems to be helping its people to use search technologies in a better way which helps them to edit the results and effectively share them with others.

Cheap and Free tools for your Business Analysis

2008-10-14T05:40:00.000-07:00

There may be people who may not be able to spend large bucks for their business and some may able to spend large amounts of money to do some analysis on their websites to know the pro's n con's related to their websites. For the people who cant afford money there are some tools which are available for free of cost and some tools available at a min amount which can be used for their benefit. Here i have compiled a list of Tools which you can use on your sites to do some research activity into it.

Competitive Research Tools

1) Compete
compete is an online competitive research tool, which combines the Site and Search Analytics in one site which helps you to quickly identify rival search marketing strategies. Compete provides the results in 3 ways: according to the Visitors Trending, their Engagement with the site and the Growth of the Visitors towards the site which becomes handy for everyone.

2) Spyfu
Spyfu is another free tool which can be used to find the Top organic keywords, Top Organic competitors, Top Ad Competitors, for a normal seo site. If you are working on PPC it can provide you some handy information on Daily Ad Budget, Total Clicks/Day, Avg Cost/Click, Avg Clicks/Day, Avg Ad Competitors, Avg Ad Percentile, Avg Ad Position which may help in getting useful information regarding yours competitors.

3) SEODigger
SEODigger is another tool which shows the sites rankings for the keywords. Seodigger works by building a reverse index of Google. It helps in finding the keywords a competitor has targeted and whats the position the site is holding for those respective keywords. One needs to Upgrade for a premium account to avail all the advanced features of it!

Keyword Tools

1) Wordze
Wordze is a great tool which can be used to find the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly search trends of keywords. You can also find out how a particular keyword is performing on any given day, week, or month. For about $38.98/month or $7.95/day you can use it to avail all its features.

2) KeywordDiscovery
KeywordDiscovery gives you the volume of search terms. It gives you a free and paid version. This tool gives you the search phrases people use to find products and services, as well as the search terms that drive traffic to your competitors.

3) Word Tracker
Wordtracker is also an extreamly useful keyword tool which comes in paid and free versions. While free version has some limitations a paid version can be very handy and worth a try. At $59USD/month or $329USD/yr this tools has its advantages when compared with other tools

4) Google Keywords Tool
Google keywords tool which is completely free gives you new keyword ideas for yours website. You can type a keyword or use yours own site to generate new keyword ideas.

5) Google Traffic Estimator Tool
Google Traffic Estimator tool can be used to get traffic details for new keywords. Without adding the keywords details to yours Adwords account you can get the keyword costs details for the keywords which is helpful for Adwords Account holders