Monday, August 3, 2009
Yahoo - Microsoft Deal
Microsoft and Yahoo patched up their differences and made a search deal, with Microsoft's Bing to become the search engine on Yahoo, Yahoo to sell premium search ads, Microsoft's AdCenter to run the ads and Yahoo to get 88% of search revenues from searches on Yahoo
Friday, July 31, 2009
A nice video on globlaization and Information Age
Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod;
Another explanation for Vodpod
It’s a social networking video sharing site and right about now you’re thinking, ‘Why do we need another YouTube?” Well, if YouTube becomes increasingly commercial, as it appears it will be, then user-generated video will need a new home. VodPod is heavily designed around social networking. Users can join multiple groups that cluster videos around various subjects that allows them to post and collect new videos that pertain to that topic. Although you don’t have to join s or even sign up with VodPod to search pod videos. Users can “lurk” within the pods anonymously without being socially networked. Videos added to a pod don’t have to be original VodPod material. They can come from other sharing sites like YouTube using the embed code.
Source
Vodpod.com
Source
Vodpod.com
Vodpod : A new video publishing service
What is Vodpod?
Vodpod is a site where you as a user can bookmark or aggregate all your favorite videos They are not a video hosting site like you tube or google videos. They help
in creating and managing a favorite video list and also allows you to create
certain code snippets for placing them as widgets in any other sites you wish.
They also provide you some UI control over the widgets so you as a user can decide
the look and feel.
Vodpod is a site where you as a user can bookmark or aggregate all your favorite videos They are not a video hosting site like you tube or google videos. They help
in creating and managing a favorite video list and also allows you to create
certain code snippets for placing them as widgets in any other sites you wish.
They also provide you some UI control over the widgets so you as a user can decide
the look and feel.
Twitter: Why Twitter and How it work?
• Everyday, millions of users create, share and discover
ideas on Twitter
• Users also find great value in connecting with
businesses of all kinds on Twitter to:
• Share their experiences, both good and not so good
• Provide feedback on recent events or launches
• Discuss product ideas
• Learn about exclusive deals or offers
• Get customer service
How Twitter Works?
Twitter lets you write and read messages of up to
140 characters, or the very length of this sentence,
including all punctuation and spaces.
• The messages (also known as tweets) are public,
and you decide which accounts you want to receive
messages from
• Twitter works equally well from your desktop or
mobile phone
ideas on Twitter
• Users also find great value in connecting with
businesses of all kinds on Twitter to:
• Share their experiences, both good and not so good
• Provide feedback on recent events or launches
• Discuss product ideas
• Learn about exclusive deals or offers
• Get customer service
How Twitter Works?
Twitter lets you write and read messages of up to
140 characters, or the very length of this sentence,
including all punctuation and spaces.
• The messages (also known as tweets) are public,
and you decide which accounts you want to receive
messages from
• Twitter works equally well from your desktop or
mobile phone
Did you Know?
Facebook.com is a top 10 site that reaches over 91 million
U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a more affluent, teen and
young adult, very slightly female biased following.
Myspace.com is a top 25 site that reaches over 63 million U.S.
monthly people. The site appeals to a slightly female slanted,
teen and young adult audience.
Twitter.com is a top 50 site that reaches over 22 million U.S.
monthly people. The site attracts a young adult, slightly more
female than male audience.
U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a more affluent, teen and
young adult, very slightly female biased following.
Myspace.com is a top 25 site that reaches over 63 million U.S.
monthly people. The site appeals to a slightly female slanted,
teen and young adult audience.
Twitter.com is a top 50 site that reaches over 22 million U.S.
monthly people. The site attracts a young adult, slightly more
female than male audience.
Google Wave
Google wave is the new communication and collabration tool on the web. They have exposed certain API's which can be used to integrate collabration tools like chat into any web sites.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Business Model for Online Content
Read this interesting blog by Paul on his perceptions
http://blog.vagueware.com/2009/2/23/business-models-of-news
http://blog.vagueware.com/2009/2/23/business-models-of-news
Monday, February 2, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Good SEO question
What if there are some cases where iFrame makes sense to use, will the content of that iFrame be indexed by the search engines?
Here is my response, and please correct me, or, open the discussion if anything is not very accurate:
1. If your template has an iFrame and its programming is in your control, first, try to consider an alternative architecture solution. 2. Let’s say you must have an iFrame; then there are a few things to consider:
A, If the HTML of the iFrame contains some navigational links, headlines, and the content worth to be indexed, then you really should include the URLs of the iFrame’s content in your Google Sitemap (talk to your lead, unless you are the lead), and make sure that the iFrame’s linked page’s URLs are under the sitemap path. B, If the HTML loaded by the iFrame is located on another server or a sub-domain of your site, you don’t have to include its URL into the sitemap, INSTEAD, provide an XML Sitemap on the other server (if it makes sense, and there is no alternative linked content on the parent page).C. Most iFrames contain ads or dynamic content controlled by client sided scripting, thus search engines usually don't index their contents to begin with. D. If you have editorial content worth indexing presented in iFrames, for example, custom editorial static decks, or, slides to the gallery, or so, the best way to get it indexed is to provide standard HTML pages as an alternative, but don’t forget to mark all pages loaded in iFrames as no indexable.
JUST IN CASE, for those who are not very familiar with different values of CONTENT attribute, value ROBOTS in the META tag
ROBOTS
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Robot allows us indicate to visiting crawlers if a document may be indexed, or used to harvest more links". It's normally put in the head section of the HTML document: "meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX, FOLLOW" ". What does this mean? You use this method if you have to use "meta" tag to tell robots to index or not to index the content of a page, and/or not scan it for links to follow. html head title iFrame content HTML page/title "meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" " "/head"The content of the robots META tag contains directives separated by commas:
INDEXNOINDEX - Tells the SE spider whether the page may be indexed or notFOLLOWNOFOLLOW - Tells the SE crawler whether it may follow links provided on the page or notALLNONE - ALL = INDEX, FOLLOW (default), NONE = NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW3. Only if that's no option, include iFrame URLs in your sitemaps, but make sure that those pages come with a link to the parent page if not loaded in an iFrame, so that search engine users don't land in a dead end.
Here is my response, and please correct me, or, open the discussion if anything is not very accurate:
1. If your template has an iFrame and its programming is in your control, first, try to consider an alternative architecture solution. 2. Let’s say you must have an iFrame; then there are a few things to consider:
A, If the HTML of the iFrame contains some navigational links, headlines, and the content worth to be indexed, then you really should include the URLs of the iFrame’s content in your Google Sitemap (talk to your lead, unless you are the lead), and make sure that the iFrame’s linked page’s URLs are under the sitemap path. B, If the HTML loaded by the iFrame is located on another server or a sub-domain of your site, you don’t have to include its URL into the sitemap, INSTEAD, provide an XML Sitemap on the other server (if it makes sense, and there is no alternative linked content on the parent page).C. Most iFrames contain ads or dynamic content controlled by client sided scripting, thus search engines usually don't index their contents to begin with. D. If you have editorial content worth indexing presented in iFrames, for example, custom editorial static decks, or, slides to the gallery, or so, the best way to get it indexed is to provide standard HTML pages as an alternative, but don’t forget to mark all pages loaded in iFrames as no indexable.
JUST IN CASE, for those who are not very familiar with different values of CONTENT attribute, value ROBOTS in the META tag
ROBOTS
-----------------------------
Robot allows us indicate to visiting crawlers if a document may be indexed, or used to harvest more links". It's normally put in the head section of the HTML document: "meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX, FOLLOW" ". What does this mean? You use this method if you have to use "meta" tag to tell robots to index or not to index the content of a page, and/or not scan it for links to follow. html head title iFrame content HTML page/title "meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" " "/head"The content of the robots META tag contains directives separated by commas:
INDEXNOINDEX - Tells the SE spider whether the page may be indexed or notFOLLOWNOFOLLOW - Tells the SE crawler whether it may follow links provided on the page or notALLNONE - ALL = INDEX, FOLLOW (default), NONE = NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW3. Only if that's no option, include iFrame URLs in your sitemaps, but make sure that those pages come with a link to the parent page if not loaded in an iFrame, so that search engine users don't land in a dead end.
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