Posted on January 29, 2010 by Admin in Social Media
“Ask not what your twitter can do for you, ask what you can do for your twitter.”
-John F. Kennedy
“140 characters ought to be enough for anybody..”
-Bill Gates
“Hey, you! Get off of my twitter.”
-Mick Jagger
“You can stand under my twitter, twitter, twitter.”
-Rihanna
“The answer my friend, is twittering in the wind.”
-Bob Dylan
“My waking thoughts are all of twitter.”
-Napoleon
“Happiness is a warm twitter.”
-John Lennon
“There is nothing either good or bad but twittering makes it so.”
-William Shakespeare
“You should be retweeted and often and by someone who knows how.”
-Clark Gable
“I twitter my painting, and then I paint my twitter.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable consonants planted together in twitterations.”
-Galileo Galilei
“It is true that twitter is precious—so precious that it must be rationed.”
-Vladimir Lenin
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all with only 140 characters?”
-Marcel Marceau
“How tweet it is to be loved by you.”
-James Taylor
“There is no cure for twitter.”
-Dorothy Parker
“I still haven’t found what I’m twittering for.”
-Bono
“To err is human, to twitter is divine.”
-Alexander Pope
“Mankind naturally and generally loved to be twittered.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Men’s natures are alike; it is their twitters that separate them.”
-Confucious
“I think I’m an alright twitterer.”
-Todd Snider
“I type 140 characters a SECOND. But it’s in my own language.”
-Mitch Hedberg
“My intention was not to fascinate the world with my twitter.”
-Mike Tyson
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be Twitter.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating Twitter.”
-Al Gore
“Listen, everyone is entitled to my twitter.”
-Madonna
“I know how hard it is to put food on your twitter.”
-George W. Bush
“The only thing to twitter about is twittering itself.”
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“I’m tired of twittering.”
-Harry Houdini
“You are what you tweet”
-Dr. Victor Hugo Lindlahr
“I tweet, therefore I am”
-Rene Descartes
“Twitter is mankind’s greatest blessing”.
-Mark Twain
“Twitter is reason gone mad.
-Groucho Marx
“Tweer is just another defense against the universe.
-Mel Brooks
Yesterday Jan 27-th 2010, Apple’s CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs officially presented their new gadget – the revolutionary IPad, a tablet computer.
For Apple’s fans it’s incredible, for the other part of the people especially the one using computers more professionally it is non-functional. The IPad is a device between a smartphone and a laptop. As always Apple emphasize on the fashion design which by the way is nothing more that bigger IPhone closer to laptop’s size and functionality. It has touch pad management of photo, video, audio, browsing etc. You can play games on, read a book, when converted around it conveniently adjusts the screen to the right direction. The same old storage capabilities from the IPhone are available: 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB.
So is IPad so revolutionary or is just hype of a new product of the same famous companies trying to sell their product to half of the world?
The critics of IPad say it’s just a bigger IPhone! However the idea behind Apple’s product is their intention to revolutionize the textbook, newspaper and television industries all in one available over a Tablet Computer! Following the success Apple had with IPod changing forever music industry, they seem to be on the right track.
Over the past 10 years since world wide web became popular, there are millions of domains registered and tons of content published online. Everybody is writing for everything, anything you can think about, people do that for pleasure or for profit. Nowadays when most of the analysts say: “it is very hard or impossible to invent anything, which still has not been tried already somewhere over the world” – that’s not truth. At least this is the case with the online service we wish to present you here.
The Internet is still a place where new and innovative ideas may become world wide popular with relatively small investment. With this article we want to stress on a relatively new service over the Internet, born of the online users’ necessity. These services are called “Shortening services”. What they do is very simple but extremely efficient – an innovative way of turning a long URL into a short one.
TinyURL – www.tinyurl.com is the fist shortening service to discover this nice. Unfortunately later this year they faced their biggest fear, Twitter previously using it for their default shortener switched to Bit.Ly
Bit.ly – www.bit.ly is the most famous URL shortening service today, although not the first one offering this kind of service.
Do you have a web site “Under Construction”, you most probably don’t know you can benefit from your under construction page. How? In today’s world everything is a matter of how genuine and creative you are. The more ingenious your web site looks like from the beginning, the more popularity and traffic it can bring. If you have traffic then you have people’s interest, this means you have information, which is power and it turns out you have contacts and business.
Let’s get back now on the main topic, how you benefit from your under construction page on your web site? I gave you a hint in the first paragraph – by being as creative as you can! Where?! On What, some would say!? Come on, you have a web site with under construction page, only 1 single page – yes right there! You have to make that page inventive and the most remarkable you can for the people to remember it. Why not make it so distinctive, that people visiting your web site are so impressed and are sending it to their friends.
Not everybody’s ideas may be fascinating and well presented on a page to attract visitor’s attention. If you can’t be a genius, you can try to inspire and become more creative. We have made a research for nice, creative and definitely distinguishing Under Construction pages. We hope this will help you and awake your sleeping talent.
Posted on December 4, 2009 by admin in Social Media
We all want to be followed, well maybe not all of us but anyway.. The thing with Twitter is the more followers you have the faster your words get spread over the vast population of 90 million tweople (twitter people). And if we want to get renown for what we do or have to say, if we want to sell or market ourselves we all need to find different ways of getting more followers. One of the easiest ways to do that is to register your twitter profile with the directories and websites that will let other tweople find you. The good thing is you can do that for free. That way other people with common interests will be able to find you and follow you.
Here is a priceless list that we made for ourselves but want to share with you, our readers. We want to say THANK YOU! for supporting us and retweeting our posts!
Probably The most famous twitter directory with more than 300 000 unique visitors to this community. Easy to add yourself. This website is owned by the same guys that own digg.com so this a guarantee it is here to stay. Let’s you add 3 tags for your profile.
The good thing about this one is that it gives you the opportunity to go bulk – follow multiple twitters by category. Add your twitter to their database first.
TwitterMass gives you all the tools you need to share, grow and inspire your Twitter Network. If you’re looking to reach existing or new customers we give you the tools to spark conversation and manage your reputation.
Posted on November 10, 2009 by admin in Uncategorized
Getting a website is not enough, being there does not mean that you will be seen. A lot of people imagine that once you get a website and visitors and customers will start pouring in. The disappointment from those high expectations hits them really fast, it only takes a month or two to realize that noone will come and knock on your door just because you have a websites. There are millions of sites on the web today and probably thousands of people own a website in the same nice you are. So you can imagine what it would mean for someone to find you and your website..
It takes dedicated effort, it takes knowledge and still in the bigger part it is testing and analyzing and then testing and refining your strategy and testing and analyzing again. After you have your website built there is a loop of Define → Measure → Analyze → Improve → Control → Define.
What that means is that you first have to Define your goals, your keywords, your niche. Then you have to Measure which keywords get the best traffic, then based on that measure what the competition is like, how many links they have and from what websites, how hard it will be for you to compete with them. Analyze is the process of constant monitoring of where your visitors are coming from, how long they stay on the website which parts of the websites they like and which they don’t, where are they leaving from. Looking for patterns and models, for gaps and flaws as well as for undiscovered opportunities, under-performance and over-performance based on your expectations. It is hard to define the whole process but the truth is that it is different for everyone, once you start doing it you will be able to develop habits of your own. The next part of the cycle is Improve. You have to use everything you found out when you where analyzing in order to improve the performance of your website and you have to apply Control in order to make sure that you will work on all of the key points that you spotted while analyzing your statistics and the plan that you made on what should be improved. Control is crucial, and it involves a lot of focus and dedication. A Rule of thumb is write it down and then follow it. You can’t remember everything. And then back to Define. Once you have the data from the first cycle you will be able to Refine and Define new goals and targets for your website.
Dominating the search engines becomes harder and harder, you have to really have unique product or service in order to be able to get the buzz out of people who can mention you in their social profiles like Facebook or Twitter, or at some community forums, or bookmark you with their favorite social bookmarking services, or link you from their blog or website… The other option you have is to go and do all that yourself, create the initial buzz but still if you don’t know what you are doing it takes some time to master the skills. And the other thing is at the end of the day it will be again all about the quality / uniqueness of what you have to offer. Even if you put huge amount of time and effort in promoting and marketing your services or products, if they are not really worth it you will only have mediocre results. One have to admit even that is better than nothing though..
The two cents in this story – get out there and work, experiment, analyze, test again and again, analyze, improve your performance, analyze again. To be honest it is an infinite loop, but in the process of doing it you will develop a lot of skills that will allow you to lead your niche. Reading about it is not going to get you anywhere. Take some action! Even the longest journey begins with a single step… Persistence is one of the most valuable assets you can develop on your way to online riches. Just do it!
Posted on November 6, 2009 by admin in Uncategorized
CSS stands for ‘Cascading style sheets’ which is a computer style sheet language. It gives web designers the liberty of affixing different styles like color, spacing, font and so on to the HTML documents of a website. The work pattern of CSS is same as a template, styles can be labeled and then applied to many web pages altogether. Numerous benefits are associated with CSS like effortless website maintenance, easy access to alter the style sheets, SEO advantages, etc are associated with it.Use of CSS in your websites can make a website more search engine friendly, so that your website gets higher ranking in search engines. The bots very well understand the cascading style sheets and makes a website score fairer in online rankings.
As far as nature of search spiders are concerned, they are very lethargic. They usually avoid going through lengthy and complex HTML codes for getting the indexes. The search engine spiders prefer HTML coding with CSS as they are precise and clear when compared to any other table based coding. Lots of over work is saved by these external style sheets. Primary reason behind HTML codes getting clear and yield higher search engine rankings are the CSS files which help in designing and deciding the attributes. Overall download time of the website is minimized as combination on CSS and Java script files decreases the web page size. Thus the indexing becomes faster leading your website to higher rank positions.
Application of CSS makes a website light-weight which is preferred by major search engines like Yahoo, MSN and Google. CSS eliminates junk HTML codes and keeps them well organized making them a favorite among the search engine spiders. Bots are not concerned with complicated HTML coding but the website and its content.
CSS works not only for search engines but also for the website visitors, as it gives a well-formatted look to the web pages. Visitors also prefer websites that have standardized format and do not have old fashioned and complex HTML coding.
Have you noticed how often when you open a website for the first time, how much time you need to decide whether or not you are going to continue with your journey on that website. Experts say it takes couple of seconds to the average user to decide whether or not he will read on, stay on the website and dig further more. If your design, color scheme and overall looks of the website cannot attract the attention or are too annoying the visitors will just click the X in the top right corner and carry on with your competitors website..
We are all aiming at better traffic volumes, better positioning in the search engines, better conversion rates. At least we should be if we are serious about our intentions and plans to develop the online side of our business or even turn our website in a full time business venture.
Apart from the design there is the accessibility and usability of our website. Those fancy terms are actually used for how easy it is for the average visitor to deal with our website, to find what he is looking for and finally make that purchase or whatever action you are calling for. The general understanding if you are selling a product or a service is that the users of your website should be able to reach it in 3 clicks. This means 3 clicks away from the homepage is ok, anything further deep down becomes difficult for the average person to cope with.
You should aim at making your website easy for navigation, with links to internal pages visible and well positioned, with easy ways of going back and forth without risking to be lost inside the website. Think of that – if your website is visited by someone that doesn’t use Internet that much, or a child, will he or she be able to find their way. If the answer is Yes then you are on the right track. If it seems to complicated then you have to find a way to simplify the whole navigation and design. Simple is better. There is a very useful marketing method called K.I.S.S. – Keep it Simple and Stupid. Stick to it. Do some tests, ask people to open your website and observe how they interact with it, ask them how they feel and based on the feedback that you receive work making your website better.
It has been 10 days since Yahoo closed GeoCities – the free hosting service that they acquired back in 1999 for $2.87 billion. Rest in Piece GeoCities! After the news for Yahoo pulling the plug to their free service we started seeing a lot of GeoCities customers moving our way and we are Welcoming all of you that are looking for a substitute. Our Free Web Hosting service has a lot to offer.
What would we do without GeoCities we wonder… Where would we have put our brightly colored, constantly flashing backgrounds? Who else had rotating .gifs for links and neon green page hit counters? There is no substitute for your plethora of font colors and sizes, for your broken HTML codes and page badges… Anyway this name will always remain a symbol for the industry, and Internet relic.
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Posted on October 30, 2009 by admin in Social Media
Something big is on the horizon… Something expanding so fast that it’s shadow is starting to cover most of the fields, the virtual fields of the big players in the online market. Twitter is so rapidly expanding that one can hardly imagine what is happening behind the curtains.
The initial idea of Jack Dorsey that resulted in the development of Twitter is available on Flickr. This idea dates back to 2000, when Jack Dorsey signed up to Livejournal. The current wikipedia article on Twitter states that Twitter began as a research project in March 2006 at Odeo, a podcasting company. Now twitter works like microblog, social media, network, news distribution platform… well to be honest it is just Twitter! It works so well for 4 main reasons:
It’s fast.
It’s open.
It’s easy.
It’s two way.
Taking in consideration that recently Twitter signed a deal with Bing and Google to supplement data for live search results based in the tweets, we can predict a bright, extremely bright future for Twitter co. According to Alexa.com, Twitter is the 13th most visited website in the world. The description under it’s name in the Alexa Top Sites rating reads: Social networking and microblogging service utilizing instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.
At the time of this post Twitter has 86,322,844.00 accounts registered. Well it still has a long way till it catches up with Facebook with it’s 300+ million users but considering the fact that twitter only provides you with the ability to micro blog – i.e. update your status. It is far fetched that all of those accounts actually belong to real people. A lot of online marketers register hundreds even thousands of accounts in order to get better exposure and more visitors for their advertisements, still we have to calculate those accounts in the equation.
It will be exiting to see how Twitter will evolve, but one thing is for sure – the new generations will remember this name, and it is something that everyone who wants to do business online has to take into consideration when developing their future plans! You can find us @awpsace
Yesterday Jan 27-th 2010, Apple’s CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs officially presented their new gadget – the revolutionary IPad, a tablet computer.
Use of CSS in your websites can make a website more search engine friendly, so that your website gets higher ranking in search engines. The bots very well understand the cascading style sheets and makes a website score fairer in online rankings.
What would we do without GeoCities we wonder… Where would we have put our brightly colored, constantly flashing backgrounds? Who else had rotating .gifs for links and neon green page hit counters? There is no substitute for your plethora of font colors and sizes, for your broken HTML codes and page badges… Anyway this name will always remain a symbol for the industry, and Internet relic.