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Monday, May 28, 2007
Getting Started with Technorati
"What is Technorati?Technorati is an almost in real time search engine focused primarily on blogs, but really it picks up anything with an RSS feed that has been "claimed" in Technorati. How do I claim my blog in Technorati?It's a very simple process; in fact, I've claimed two blogs now with nary a fuss. Just go to the Technorati Claim Your Blog page and follow the directions. " - More ... [About.com - Wendy Boswell ]
"The question of what becomes of journalism in the age of mass media, in which anyone with an Internet connection can be their own publisher and reach a potential audience of billions with a single click was the subject of a conversation at a cybersalon" ... “The world is not binary,” Dan Gillmor said. “It’s nuanced and complicated, and we are failing to deal with that in this conversation. No one is arguing that traditional media reaches absolute perfection or arguing that new media is perfect….We are engaged in finding our way in a difficult period of de-evolution of the old journalism business model and the rise of a new one.” ... More
101 Articles That Will Make You "A Complete Blogger"
"Once you are into blogging it may eventually take you a good time to understand the roadsteps to glory,say a year.That is only if you stumble upon right information at the right time.It took me 6months to realize that social media marketing can do wonders and another two months to realize that a Linkbait [or Link Bait]is much rewarding and time worthy than link exchange.After seeing quite a few seasons come and go in my blogging journey i have learned to distinguish between quality and pure crap.So i've decided to do the hardwork for you by listing some articles which on aggregate have enough information to make you a complete blogger." More ... Blogger Whale - [Via BL Ochman ]
How to Improve Your Cheapo Webcam's Picture Quality
Adjusting your light source, turning down the monitor brightness, softening your desk lamp light, wearing a white shirt and even setting up a background you can make a huge difference in how you come across on your webcam. Check out the image above for a before and after shot, and head over to Strobist for the details on how to get yourself looking that good on the cam. — [Via Gina Trapani - LifeHacker] How to Improve Your Cheapo Webcam's Picture Quality [Strobist]
If you are looking for a way to connect to your favorite instant messaging network without having to install any kind of software on your computer you have certainly come to the right place. We all know that instant messaging represents the most popular form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. This type of communication is generally possible through the use of appropriate client software that needs to be installed on computers connected over a network such as the Internet. However, the necessity to boost cross-platform communication has recently generated a major need for instant messaging applications that could be used by anybody, independently of the operating system they were adopting and - More ...
In the current world wide whirlpool, if you want to acquire some knowledge over something you want, forget about universities and academics, they are already far enough behind you I believe, you have to gather your needed knowledge from other resources, for instance, books, ebooks, people involved in the technology within societies, associations and clubs. You have to check out events, exhibitions and participate in seminars and watch webinars online, read more on publications including magazines and newsletters, and meet with specialists and consultants in the field, you even have to go for consumers and market research firms etc. Consider this, try it and see the difference between the knowledge you have acquired in this way and the one you could possibly receive from a given universities. The current age, is based on self-training and now it is a time for sharing thoughts with others to get smarter and smarter. What do you think?
Business Telecommuting - What You Need To Know If You Want To Work At Home Online
Business telecommuting is fast catching on as an effective way for companies to see a boost in productivity, and employees to escape the drudgery of life spent in a cubicle. In this guide to telecommuting jobs, I take you through what you need to know to work at home online. There are certainly plentiful opportunities in the world of online, independent publishing, but working as a freelancer or trying to make money from your blog have their downsides. Freelancing can be a precarious profession at the best of times, and while blogs can bring in some serious money, it seldom happens overnight. So how can you keep your job, or find another salaried position in your ... More ...
A great presentation requires ideas and techniques that have nothing to do with technology -- and they're well known. Go to Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen and Seth Godin for everything you need to know about how to deliver a great presentation. In addition to all that, here are three laptop tricksMike Elgan uses that are less well known, but will help you deliver better presentations. More ...
Hugg is a new project by TreeHugger —a source for user-generated green news. What does this mean? It's simple—how many times have you found an article, a video or a website that you’ve wanted to share with all your green friends? Well, Hugg lets you to share this stuff with everyone. Plus, it lets other users rate shared stories by Hugging them. All posts start out in the queue. Each time a story is Hugged, it climbs the ranks. If a story gets enough Huggs, it jumps up to the front page where it can be seen by everyone who visits. Step by step instructions on how to add your news is found on the Submit page. Hugg is a place to post and harvest the latest on green architecture, transportation, fashion, alternative energy, politics, products and technology. It's green media, by you, for you!
LineBuzz is an in-line comments tool for bloggers. They just launched in beta today. With LineBuzz, you can offer a way for readers to view comments on particular pieces of text within your blog entry. As a reader, you can highlight the text you’d like to comment on, and click “Comment inline” which is installed on the blogger’s sidebar. All inline comments are shown in this sidebar as well. Mousing over the commented text will indicate how many comments have been left regarding this text, and you can click this to have a window pop up that shows the comments. Readers can reply directly to comments from this window as well. Mashable has more on this ... [Via Mashable.com] Also read Darren's post on Problogger: LineBuzz - Inline Comments
Email Marketers: Relevant Content, Deliverability Most Important
Nearly nine of 10 email marketers (87%) say relevant content within the email message is “very important,” followed by eight of 10 (81%) who rated email deliverability as very important, according to a study by eROI, which surveyed email marketers on their perceptions of and experiences with email.
The study sought the marketers’ opinions on what they deem is important when creating an email, how they design emails, and how they test deliverability and rendering. More ... [Chart, Marketingcharts.com]
"Building a high-quality, robust and responsive mailing list is hard work. It takes more than just slapping a few hundred or thousand email addresses into your database and then blasting out offers. If that was all you had to do, everybody would have one. Truth is, acquiring addresses is just part of the process. You must also recognize that you have a relationship with the person behind each of your addresses. When you manage that relationship well, that address will become a more valuable part of your list, strengthening it in the process." More ... [By Stefan Pollard - EmailLabs]
Anyone interested in Email Marketing should read this great article by Stefan Pollard to learn more on call to action (CTA).
"Many email marketers believe that is the ultimate call to action: It’s clear, concise, universally understood and specific in telling the email reader what to do. Just what you want, right? Alas, it’s wrong. " Read More ... [Via Tamara Gielen - b2bemailmarketing.com]
Successful telework requires more than a laptop and a fast Internet connection. Experienced IT professionals—who work from home at least part time—explain the lessons they learned the hard way. Whether you telecommute personally or you work with telecommuters, you should be aware of the pitfalls—and the solutions—so you can deal with them before they become problems in which a manager does need to get involved. More ...
Seven Things the CIO Should Know About Telecommuting
"Telecommuting provides employees with the flexibility and quiet they need to optimize their productivity. Plus, it offers employers opportunities to save money and recruit workers from a more geographically diverse—and potentially cheaper—talent pool. For IT professionals, telecommuting is certainly the best work/life option. " More ...
To understand the world of credit card fraud, you must first learn an entirely new language. Words like "skimming," "shoulder surfing" and "phishing" may sound less criminal than "stealing," but they are, in fact, ways in which money can be stolen off your credit card.
And though there are no definitive global figures on losses from credit card fraud - most financial institutions are tight-lipped on the subject - an FBI report from 2005 indicated that credit cards represented the majority of the total $315 billion U.S. financial fraud loss for that year, while a recent European study found that more than 22 million adults fell victim to credit card scams in 2006. Figures from the Banque de France, the country's central bank, showed a credit card fraud loss of €236 million, or $319 million, for 2005. More ... By Jennifer Conlin - The International Herald Tribune
Zuula is the best way to find what you are looking for on the Internet. With Zuula, it is quick and convenient to get results from all the top search engines. Search engines often return very different results for the same terms. So checking multiple search engines will give you the best results, and Zuula makes it easy. Currently, Zuula offers Web, Image, News, Blog, and Job searches.Zuula provides the results from your favorite search engine unaltered, so you can check those first and then get results from other search engines simply by clicking on their tabs.
"The One Laptop Per Child project became a reality Thursday in Uruguay, as the 160 children of school number 24 in the humble town of Cardal received their XO computers. The learning tools came directly from the hands of president Tabaré Vazquez. It has become a matter of national pride that Uruguay is the first country to realize the project's goal. The target is that by 2009, every school-age child in Uruguay will have one, and an initial 15 million dollars have already been allocated to the project. From the newspaper articles: 'The happiness of having a PC in their hands, some of them for the first time, had the kids in ecstasy, which didn't wait to turn on their computers, introduce their personal information (required the first time they're turned on), choose the screen colors, and start experimenting with them. What initially made them more enthusiastic was the possibility of taking photographs and filming each others with the included webcams." More ... [Via Slashdot]
"Tired of sifting through your RSS feed subscriptions for a blog post inspiration? Looking for new ways to dish out content that’s unique on the Net? You can try these offline sources (feel free to list more in the comments!)" More ... [By Phillip Kimpo Jr - Performancing.com]
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis". A further 700,000 pages were thought to contain code that could compromise a user's computer, the team report. To address the problem, the researchers say the company has "started an effort to identify all web pages on the internet that could be malicious". More ...
"If you’re like me, then you probably have a serious case of information overload. In today’s web of information, it’s easy to get caught up in the constant news stream. " More ...
Looking for a new search engine? There are literally hundreds of really great niche search engines on the Internet that focus on specific topics: images, jobs, blogs, etc. You can find all sorts of great stuff using these alternative search engines that you might not be able to find on the more well-known search engines; plus, many of these niche search engines have really interesting features that are fun to play with. Here are the top ten niche search engines out there on the Web presented byWendy Boswell,- About.com.
"I have noticed that the most successful bloggers online have all taken similar steps in becoming great bloggers. After lots of research and study, I can also tell you that blogging is much more complex than it seems to be on the surface. However, with a bit of effort, I believe anyone can become a successful blogger." More ... [By Kim Roach - Via Lifehack.org]
New Website Helps Writers and Authors Understand Copyright Law in Plain English
"ResearchCopyright.com, a free online resource providing copyright information, has debuted at http://www.researchcopyright.com/, to help writers and authors understand the complexities and myths of copyright law in plain, simple language. ResearchCopyright.com is the brainchild of Bill Hadley, a professional journalist who specializes in copyright law; he is the author of the book, "Online Copyright Manual for Everyone." Hadley has compiled everything he knows on copyright law into a friendly online newspaper format. Writers and authors can learn about copyright registration, copyright infringement, copyright lawyers, public domain materials, and current copyright laws." More ...
Giving Underperforming Posts a Second Chance with Updates
"Have you ever written a post that you thought would hit the spot with your readers, generate lots of interest and/or stimulate a great conversation and then find it fell flat on it’s face? I have - in fact it happens all the time for a variety of reasons:" More ... By Darren Rowse , from http://problogger.net/
Research, Promote And Monetize Your Online Writing: A Blogger's Guide To Twitter
"Ten ways to leverage the power of Twitter for your blog. Research, promote and monetize your online writing by learning how to best use the power of Twitter. As a blogger there are all kinds of tools that you can use to research, promote and monetize your writing - Twitter is one of them. In this bloggers\' guide to Twitter, I take you through ten ways that this simple but high-powered networking tool can make a difference to your blog. If you haven\'t encountered Twitter yet, it won\'t be long before you do. This easy-to-use micro-blogging service continues to grow in popularity by the day. In my recent beginners guide to Twitter I talked through some of the ways that ... " More ... [Another comprehensive post by Michael Pick
"Titles of blog posts and web pages are very important. Having important keywords in the title is the most important ranking factor for search engine optimization. It is also important to make the title appealing and interesting at the same time, because it is usually the first thing people notice when they see your post or web page in the search results of search engines, feed readers (blogs) and news aggregators. Anybody who tries to attract the Digg.com crowds knows that the title tag can make the difference between having a winner and going unnoticed into oblivion." [Interesting Post] More ...
"As a small-business owner with a Web site, you know that one of the most important things you can do is get your site ranked high on a search-results page at Google, MSN and Yahoo!. But how to achieve that high ranking? You've learned all about keywords, link building and unique page titles. The question is, how do you do it? And should you go it alone or call in the hired guns?" More ... By Naomi Grossman, Forbes.com
Web 2.0 is more than anything else a new way for searchers to actually use the Web in a collaborative, interactive way. The term 2.0 doesn't mean that we are "out with the old and in with the new"; quite the contrary! It's just a new perspective on how we use the Web, and how the Web is used for much, MUCH more than just search. Learn more about Web 2.0 in my article titled An Introduction to Web 2.0.
Thagoo/ - Social bookmarking search engine. It is a meta search engine at its early stage, it searches almost about ten social bookmarking sites such as deli.icio.us, Furl, Blinklist etc.
"The W3C will develop and release a new version of HTML which will be called HTML 5." ... "What does this mean for webmasters? Firstly, It confirms that the approved path for HTML development is towards HTML 5 and not XHTML 2.0. It also confirms that the development process of HTML 5 is still in its early stages, and we are unlikely to see HTML 5 published before 2010 - so HTML 4.01 will remain the best option for the moment." More ...
The amount of spam clogging up email servers has exploded, according to the findings in a new survey. The study of 400 SME's found that in January 2006 only 64 per cent of emails sent to companies were identified as spam. This figure shot up to 85 per cent in last December with the trend set to continue upwards. More ...
Spam volumes soared by 44.29 per cent during the first three months of 2007, according to new figures.Research from security firm SonicWALL suggest that directory harvest attacks comprised the majority of spam email attacks during the first quarter of the year, with levels of good email up from the previous quarter. More ...
"You are reading this post about Twitter. That's what you would answer to Twitter's simple question, "What are you doing?", which is the entire premise of Twitter's existence. Getting people to answer in 140 characters or less, by IM or logging onto Twitter.com, what it is they are doing at that particular moment. Big stuff, right?" To Tweet or not to Tweet? More ...
The web has seen an explosion in the use of widgets over the past year or so. So let's explore what a widget is and its uses. Note that in this post, we're discussing Web-based widgets only, rather than desktop widgets such as those provided by Yahoo Widgets or Microsoft's Vista widgets. A Web widget can be best described as a mini application that can add functionality to your web page, blog, social profile etc. If you find a widget that you like, you simply copy and paste some code and add it to the HTML of your web page. Photo galleries, news, videos, advertising, mp3 players and pregnancy countdown tickers! You name it, there is probably a widget that does it. More ...
Security researchers are warning users to beware of a new spam campaign that is offering up an online prostitute finder. The spammed e-mails don't seem to carry any malware and the Web site that the messages link to don't have any embedded malicious code. However, Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, warns that following the link in this kind of e-mail is just setting up users for major trouble in the future. More ...
by John Mehrmann - "Email was designed to be a tool to expedite and simplify communication. Tools are effective when managed properly. What happens when the tool starts to manage the person? What happens when a tool for communication replaces conversation and personal interaction? What happens when a time saving tool begins to consume our time? Then it is time to get email under control. " More ...
The blogosphere - what does that term mean, exactly? Well, if you've ever visited a blog in your Web search travels, you've entered the blogosphere. Learn more about the blogosphere in Wendy Boswell's article titled What is the Blogosphere?.
At a high level, information is a fascinating concept. Each year we learn more and more profound facts about the seemingly simple patterns of zeros and ones that make up our daily lives. Indeed according to recent discoveries in Physics, we are made of information. Seth Lloyd, professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, popularized and explained this notion in his bestseller Programming the Universe. His theory revolves around information as a physical entity and the universe itself as a quantum computer. More ...
Social Network Marketing to Reach $2.5 Billion in 2011
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/09/07 -- Social network marketing is a powerful concept that will not go away. The underlying idea has had a profound impact on the way people use the Internet, heralding the rise of user-generated content as a buzzword. Social network marketing will have a similar profound impact on advertising, both online and offline. Now is the time for social networks to fulfill the promise of social network marketing by showing that the key concept of marketing "one-to-one-to-many" provides real results, says eMarketer's report "Social Network Marketing: Where to Next?" A study sponsored by MySpace, issued in April 2007, begins to fulfill that need, but more is required. More ...
Many College Professors See Podcasts, Blogs and Social Networking Sites as a Potential Teaching Tool
Thomson Learning, one of the largest academic publishers in higher education, today (7 May) released survey results examining faculty views on social networking sites and new media tools. Faculty members recognize the role new media tools can play in higher education because of their popularity among students, according to a survey released today by Thomson Learning. Survey results revealed that many tech-savvy faculty members recognize the value of blogs and podcasts as communication tools in the classroom. Key findings of the survey include: More ...
Business telecommuting is fast catching on as an effective way for companies to see a boost in productivity, and employees to escape the drudgery of life spent in a cubicle. In this guide to telecommuting jobs, I take you through what you need to know to work at home online. There are certainly plentiful opportunities in the world of online, independent publishing, but working as a freelancer or trying to make money from your blog have their downsides. Freelancing can be a precarious profession at the best of times, and while blogs can bring in some serious money, it seldom happens overnight. So how can you keep your job, or find another salaried position in your ... 
A great presentation requires ideas and techniques that have nothing to do with technology -- and they're well known. Go to 
Hugg
LineBuzz
Nearly nine of 10 email marketers (87%) say relevant content within the email message is “very important,” followed by eight of 10 (81%) who rated email deliverability as very important, according to a study by 
"Building a high-quality, robust and responsive mailing list is hard work. It takes more than just slapping a few hundred or thousand email addresses into your database and then blasting out offers. If that was all you had to do, everybody would have one.
Successful telework requires more than a laptop and a fast Internet connection. Experienced IT professionals—who work from home at least part time—explain the lessons they learned the hard way.
"Telecommuting provides employees with the flexibility and quiet they need to optimize their productivity. Plus, it offers employers opportunities to save money and recruit workers from a more geographically diverse—and potentially cheaper—talent pool. For IT professionals, telecommuting is certainly the best work/life option. " 
To understand the world of credit card fraud, you must first learn an entirely new language. Words like "skimming," "shoulder surfing" and "phishing" may sound less criminal than "stealing," but they are, in fact, ways in which money can be stolen off your credit card.
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"The One Laptop Per Child project became a reality Thursday in Uruguay, as the 160 children of school number 24 in the humble town of Cardal received their XO computers. The learning tools came directly from the hands of president Tabaré Vazquez. It has become a matter of national pride that Uruguay is the first country to realize the project's goal. The target is that by 2009, every school-age child in Uruguay will have one, and an initial 15 million dollars have already been allocated to the project. From the newspaper articles: 'The happiness of having a PC in their hands, some of them for the first time, had the kids in ecstasy, which didn't wait to turn on their computers, introduce their personal information (required the first time they're turned on), choose the screen colors, and start experimenting with them. What initially made them more enthusiastic was the possibility of taking photographs and filming each others with the included webcams." 
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis".
"ResearchCopyright.com, a free online resource providing copyright information, has debuted at 
"The W3C will develop and release a new version of HTML which will be called HTML 5." ... "What does this mean for webmasters? Firstly, It confirms that the approved path for HTML development is towards HTML 5 and not XHTML 2.0. It also confirms that the development process of HTML 5 is still in its early stages, and we are unlikely to see HTML 5 published before 2010 - so HTML 4.01 will remain the best option for the moment." 
Spam volumes soared by 44.29 per cent during the first three months of 2007, according to new figures.Research from security firm SonicWALL suggest that directory harvest attacks comprised the majority of spam email attacks during the first quarter of the year, with levels of good email up from the previous quarter. 
Security researchers are warning users to beware of a new spam campaign that is offering up an online prostitute finder.
At a high level, information is a fascinating concept. Each year we learn more and more profound facts about the seemingly simple patterns of zeros and ones that make up our daily lives. Indeed according to recent discoveries in Physics, we are made of information. 
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/09/07 -- Social network marketing is a powerful concept that will not go away. The underlying idea has had a profound impact on the way people use the Internet, heralding the rise of user-generated content as a buzzword. Social network marketing will have a similar profound impact on advertising, both online and offline.
Thomson Learning, one of the largest academic publishers in higher education, today (7 May) released survey results examining faculty views on social networking sites and new media tools. Faculty members recognize the role new media tools can play in higher education because of their popularity among students, according to a survey released today by Thomson Learning.