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Idea tracking and target audiences
October 21st, 2010 by Frank
How many target audiences does your site have? Most sites have several, all of which have to be appealed to in some way without alienating the others. Keeping in touch with all your target audiences can be difficult, and it’s something that needs to be worked into your SEO plan and any search engine optimization [...]
Bridging Skype to Business Telephony with Asterisk PBX
October 14th, 2010 by Frank
With outsourcing being in trend these days, talking to clients sitting in a foreign county regularly has become important. However, making calls overseas frequently is not something which is practically possible from the monetary point of view, right? As a result, Skype has come out with solutions to make our life easier and peaceful. Skype [...]
SharePoint 2010 Multi-lingual User Interface
September 20th, 2010 by Frank
Multi-lingual User Interface—the name says it all! Isn’t it? Yes, SharePoint Server 2010 has introduced the Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI), which is available with every type of site—even the SharePoint Server Central Administration site. The Multi-lingual User Interface should not be considered as a translating tool, instead it is tool that allows users to select [...]
Severed Cables Causes Massive Internet Downtime
July 10th, 2010 by editor
If you have friends or business associates from the Middle East or India, don’t expect an email coming from them anytime soon. The reason being that they are unable to connect to the Internet; it’s not because of some government crackdown or terrorist activity, but rather because of two damaged undersea cables in the Mediterranean. [...]
Web Reviews and Purchase Decisions
September 26th, 2009 by Frank
If you find yourself in the middle of deciding on buying a particular service or product, you can simply open your favorite web browser, and key in a few keywords. Most of the time, we purchase stuff without even reading what others think of them. But with the Internet you won’t have to purchase lemons [...]
Describe the world: Wikimapia review (3/3)
August 30th, 2009 by editor
by mheo soriano GeoTools With Wikimapia, you can also measure distance, land area and even map IP addresses. This is made possible by the Wikimapia’s Geotools feature which is available in the menu situated in the top of the page. These features are available to everyone as it does not require registration. Users can also [...]
Describe the world: Wikimapia review (2/3)
July 24th, 2009 by editor
by mheo soriano Mark the world with Wikimapia WikiMapia has the “Tag a location” feature that enables contributors to append a”tag” to any selected location by highlighting the location with the use of the rectangular highlight, and then setting a language to be used, a title, and determining the type of location using predefined location [...]
Describe the world: Wikimapia review (1/3)
June 22nd, 2009 by editor
by mheo soriano Describe the world with Wikimapia Describe the world, this is the tagline of Wikimapia when it was launched on May 24, 2006. It is a map and satellite imaging resource that integrates the Google Maps with a wiki system which allows users to add information about the selected location anywhere around the [...]
Search Engine Relevance
April 26th, 2009 by Frank
As it seems, the tides are turning for the Google search engine which has been increasingly receiving challenge from Facebook as the search engine of choice for more realistic day to day situations, why? Well, trust plays a key part in the said shift of focus and with millions of problem results given by Google [...]
Microsoft Aims High with their Search Engine
March 26th, 2009 by Frank
Microsoft, hurt much and itching to get a piece of the search engine market pie, a majority of which is held by Google followed by Yahoo, which they have failed to acquire is betting high on their version of the search engine dubbed “Bing” (formerly “Kumo”). The software giant is projecting expenditures of around $80 [...]