as you can see, for the last couple of weeks, i have filled the blog with all sorts of news from so many sources. i do not have the exact reason for doing so but i wanted to keep this place look “active” as work and other things kept me occupied for most of the time.
But it all ends today…
i am going to stop posting those news which you can read elsewhere and probably will try to reclaim my “lost” writing habits soon.
Hang on…
Meanwhile check out my new sites :D
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Evanescence Lyrics - BIG fan of them and i grabbed this last week. i will be changing the design soon, hopefully before end of this month i think.
and added some 1000+ pages of free recipes to Yummy Tummy - got the script and db from NP.
Also added a Glitter Text Generator and loads of Glitter Graphics to Thesmilies.com
And will probably add some graphics and website icons to Webmasters Cavern as soon as i get the script customizd.
Apple will pay rival technology firm Creative Technology $100m (£52m) in an out of court settlement which will end litigation over a patent dispute. The two companies traded lawsuits after Creative accused Apple of infringing its patents in its iPod music player.
Creative launched its own digital music players in 2000 but they have been largely eclipsed by Apple’s iPod.
Regulators launched a probe into the dispute, revolving around a navigation menu designed by Creative, in June.
What Google can go with MySpace, Microsoft can retaliate with Facebook: in a hastily reached deal, MSFT will be the exclusive provider of advertising to Facebook. For now, unlike Google-MySpace, the three-year agreement will start with banner advertising but in the future will include text ads using MSFT’s own service, AdCenter. Other terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed. Discussions began late last week and the deal was signed over the weekend, says WSJ…the ads will start appearing this fall.
Microsoft and Yahoo lost in the bid to power search and text advertising on MySpace….in that deal, Google guaranteeing News Corp. a minimum of $900 million in ad revenue over roughly three years…MSFT says the terms are not comparable, but no further details.
It’s an urgent question pitting Web sites against their advertisers. Fortune’s Devin Leonard explains why answering it won’t be easy.
The other day, Yahoo said it had developed another cool technology for Internet advertising: a technique for collecting “traces” of paths its users take, without the need to record any personal data on them.
That way, without invading anyone’s privacy, it hopes to sell targeted ads that are a step beyond the kind where you type a phrase like “fishing rod” into Google or Yahoo and get a bunch of blue links for sites like compactfishinggear.com. Now if Yahoo knows you are in the market for fishing gear, it can send you a jazzy display ad from L.L. Bean.
But there is an irony here: Although the Internet may be the most measurable of advertising media, advertisers and Web sites are actually having huge battles because they can’t agree on what they should be counting. If Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft’s (Charts) MSN want to see continued double-digit spending increases, the two sides are going to have to resolve some fundamental issues.
The 10 most popular operating systems in the world on the web are:
| 1. | Windows XP | 86.80% |
| 2. | Windows 2000 | 6.09% |
| 3. | Windows 98 | 2.68% |
| 4. | Macintosh | 2.32% |
| 5. | Windows ME | 1.09% |
| 6. | Linux | 0.36% |
| 7. | Windows NT | 0.24% |
| 8. | Macintosh Power PC | 0.15% |
Interesting Interview Between Fredrick Marckini and Stephen Arnold, one of the biggie in search, examining Google from a technical perspective.
Some excerpts from this
Many have reported on Google’s data center strategy of clustering tens of thousands of cheap, commodity computers into server farms, but few have fully explained the reason that this hardware strategy produces a competitive advantage for Google. “Stop and think,” says Stephen: “Google has built, operates, and expands a distributed parallel computer system worldwide that works like a giant PC appliance. When it comes to adding more servers, Google plugs them in. The Google OS recognizes the new resources and begins using those cycles and storage almost without human intervention.” When Google loads software, it loads the software on one server and the Google OS takes care of virtually all of the work for deploying the system across the network of Google data centers.
hmm….
Google doesn’t use plain vanilla Linux or pony up big bucks for a specialized operating system such as IBM’s AIX or Sun Microsystems’ Solaris. Google has modified the Linux kernel over a period of years to create a Google Linux. And Google Linux is not for sale. Google could use its OS and distributed computing system to support commercial clients at some point. Right now the Google OS is reserved for Google. The Google OS implements its own file system called GFS.
Google has also created special purpose programming functions and libraries with hundreds of ready-to-run modules. A single Google programmer, according to several people with whom I spoke when researching The Google Legacy said that Google gets more productivity per programmer because of these and other proprietary programming innovations. This means that 4,000 Google programmers may generate as much work as 6,000 programmers working for its competitors.
A related efficiency may be found in its data centers. The Google OS knows when more servers and storage have been plugged into a server farm. Google’s Linux environment recognizes the new resource and automatically allocates work to it. There is almost no human engineer babysitting required. This is a cost and efficiency advantage to Google.
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The links in the supply chain are those contractual relationships that can either turn a profit or cost you a fortune. It can be tempting to dismiss contracts as small print that nobody reads – after all, you know how your business works.
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So you want to buy links in directories to get your sites ranked in SE. You search for directories and lo, a million results come up. Before you decide where to buy a link, there are some questions you need to ask yourself.
Who links to them?
Does the only link to the directory come from the link pages of Viagra sites? If yes you probably need to stay away. With SE emphasizing the quality of links this ha become even more important. Look for the incoming link quality before you buy a link.
Whom do they link to?
Can any spammer just buy a hundred outbound links from the directory? Do they accept automated submissions? Search Engines give a very high value to outbound link quality and appearing in listings along with obvious spam sites won’t do you any good.
Are the category pages crawled?
Does the page you want to get listed on even exist in SE databases? Many poor directories have only homepage crawled by SE. If the page your link appears on does not have a presence, why bother paying for it?
How frequently is the directory crawled?
Does the Google index of the page show six months old data? Or does the site get crawled frequently? The faster SE crawl a site, the more they trust it. And that is where you want to get listed.
What is their ad ratio?
Do they fill their category pages with Adsense ads? Will human visitors find any value in the directory? You may want the link just for PR, but with usage data becoming important, you want to buy a link that is useful to human visitors.
Is it unique?
Is it just a DMOZ clone? Or did the directory editor compile a listing of truly useful sites and you can get a listing alongside them? Needless to say, the more unique the content, the better is the directory.
Is it relevant?
If you sell autos, a link in an auto directory is much more valuable. If you sell to a specific geographical area, buying a link in a regional directory makes much more sense.
What is their PR?
Page rank though highly discounted now, still holds a value. While I would not recommend getting a link based just on PR, do not overlook PR while choosing a directory.
Keeping these points in mind should help you decide which directory to choose
Don’t invest in a technology just because it is being hyped, and don’t ignore a technology just because it is not living up to early expectations. So says Gartner, which today released its annual hype cycle for emerging technologies.
The cycle assesses the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 36 key technologies and trends during the next 10 years.
It puts Web 2.0 at what Gartner calls the ‘peak of inflated expectations’ – although technologies like mobile phone payments and enterprise Instant Messaging have matured from the ‘trough of disillusionment’ to climb the ’slope of enlightenment’. Each technology takes a path from a trigger point – when the product is launched and generates press interest, up to the peak of inflated expectations, down into the trough of disillusionment, after failing to meet these expectations, and then up the slope towards the ‘plateau of productivity’.
This year’s hype cycle highlights three major themes that are experiencing significant activity and which include new or heavily hyped technologies, where organisations may be uncertain as to which will have most impact on their business: Web 2.0, Real World Web and Applications Architecture.