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Eleven Ways Facebook Page Timelines Change Your Content Strategy

Cyberjunky — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:24:10 +0000

The new Facebook page timeline layout changes the way your organization needs to think about content. Previously, a Facebook Page content strategy was primarily focused on two things:

Custom Tabs – The the content strategy for custom tabs (landing tabs) focused on engaging visitors with a clear call to action in mind. For example, custom tabs to encourage users to join and or share a fundraising campaign. Custom welcome tabs were also used as a way to convert Facebook fans.
The News Feed – The the content strategy for the newsfeed focused on engaging Facebook fans in the hopes that greater awareness would be spread through virality. For example, you’d post a photo and a fan would like it, which automatically posts an update on their newsfeed for their friends to see.

The Newsfeed hasn’t changed, and so to some degree your content strategy is still about what’s happening “now”. But Facebook Pages now make it about the past present and future as well!

Here are a 11 things to consider in your new Facebook content strategy:

1. Your Second Website - The timeline allows visitors to your page to interact with a story that has a beginning, a middle, and it now. Facebook users can flip through the pages in your story in a variety of ways (as shown below).

Now don’t get me wrong – the NewsFeed is and will be where all the action is. But Facebook users will soon start seeing your Facebook Page in the same way they see your website. They’ll visit to see what’s new, what’s important, and what their friends care about.

2. Tell A Story In Your Cover Image – Think of your cover image as taking the place of the default landing tab (more on that below). The purpose of your cover image is to create a powerful first impression that will convert.

Beth Kanter has put together an amazing collection of orgs that are using cover images effectively.

Rotate Your Cover Image: You can keep fans interested by frequently rotating your cover image, communicating freshness, spontaneity and dynamism around your brand.

3. Soft Sell – Facebook says that your cover image should not be used for calls to action like â€œDonate nowâ€ or â€œSign our email listâ€. You also can’t include any contact information like URLs, or reference any features on your Facebook page such as the like button.

4. Simplify Your Profile Picture – The new profile picture (AKA avatar) is now 180 pixels square. This means that you can no longer include a call to action (as some organizations did previously).

Because this image will be as small as 30 pixels square, it’s best to use only your logo. You don’t need to include the name of your organization in your main avatar because the name of your Facebook page travels with your avatar everywhere on Facebook.

5. Complete Your About Section – The about section has more prominence just below the cover image. This will include your address and contact information if you have a Facebook Place, or just a brief description if you have a Facebook Page (as shown below).

6. Create Milestones -Up until now, anything posted on the Facebook page was automatically tagged with the date it was posted. Milestones allow you to select any date in the past.

Picture for Milestones can be up to 843 pixels by 403 pixels.

7. Direct Attention with Highlights and Pins – Up until now Facebook admins had little control over how posts were displayed on their Page. and visitors to that page would see updates in either reverse chronological order or in an order determined by Facebook’s Edgerank.

Pages now allow you to control feature specific posts on your page through Highlighting or Pinning. Highlighting turns any page story – which normally occupies a single column – into a full-width story (as shown below). This is perfect for large horizontal photos (dimensions for highlighted photos are 846px by 403px.

Pinning allows you to give any Page story more attention by moving any page story to the top of your Facebook Page. When you pin something on your page it remains at the top of your timeline for seven days, or until you unpin it, so it’s a good idea to think about what you want to feature at the top of your page each week (shown below).

8. Focus on Photos – Again, Facebook Pages are now much more about your visual story told over time, rather than what’s happening now. As much as possible, it’s best to focus on telling that story through images photos and other visual content. Think Pinterest.

9. No Default Tabs – You’ve probably heard by now that Facebook pages will no longer have the ability to set a default tab for nonfans. Default tabs in the past were primarily used as a way to increase fan conversion rates on a page. Now you’ll have to do that with your cover image, highlights, and other ways to make that first impression.

10. No Hard Sell Messaging – Facebook Pages also have a messaging feature which allows visitors to send you a private message. It may be really tempting to sell them on why they should donate or volunteer, but it’s better to use these opportunities to nurture a relationship on their terms. Keep in mind, they are messaging you – not the other way around. Also, you are limited to two messages for every one they receive.

11. Not About You – At first glance you might assume that the story you’re supposed to tell your organization’s story. But this is not an interesting story, nor is it the real story. The story you must tell has to be bigger than you. It has to be about the cause. It has to be about your community.Similar Posts:

Everything Your Employees Need to Know About Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

Cyberjunky — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:25:27 +0000

Who wants a chic social media consultant once you will train your workers in Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn best practices yourself?

This Mindflash infographic breaks down the categories of social media users you’ll notice in your company — the digital native, savvy technologist, reluctant user, digital newby and digital contrarian — and the way to approach coaching every of them.

This guide additionally highlights a crucial fact: seventy six of firms don’t have a clearly outlined social media policy. whether or not or not you have got a definite policy, certify you’re alert to the means everybody in your company represents your complete.

What does one assume its most vital for firms to show their workers concerning social media? Share your best practices within the comments.

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Live Broadcast of the iPad 3 Event March 2012

Cyberjunky — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:21:57 +0000

Apple raised the curtains on its latest star products — a new iPad and a new Apple TV — in San Francisco on Wednesday morning after months of heavy speculation.

CEO Tim Cook and marketing chief Phil Schiller unveiled the products on stage at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where Mashable editors Lance Ulanoff and Chris Taylor are blogging and photographing everything they hear and see.

The new 9.7-inch iPad has 2048 x 1536-pixel retina display, 5-megapixel camera (with the same optics sensor from the iPhone 4S) and 1080p video recording. It is available March 16 in black and white, powered by A5X chip (with quad-core graphics) and supports 4G LTE networks. It’s 9.4 millimeters thick and 1.4 pounds.

Wi-Fi only iPads cost $499 for 16 GB, $599 32 GB and $699 for 64 GB, while 4G versions cost $629 for 16 GB, $729 32 GB and $829 for 64 GB. Pre-orders start today, and the devices will be in stores March 16 in these 10 countries: U.S., UK, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Singapore and Austria.

Apple is working on two LTE versions of the iPad with AT&T and Verizon in the U.S., as well as Rogers, Telus and Bell in Canada. Both LTE U.S. models will be 3G ready, too.

The new Apple TV supports full 1080p HD and will remain $99.

Cook opened the event with post-PC sales figures, saying 172 million iPods, iPhones and iPads were sold in Q4 of 2011. That accounts for 76% of revenues that quarter. Then, he announced iOS 5.1 is available today as well as Siri in Japan. Apple also sold 15.4 million iPads in Q4 in 2011. To put that into context, HP shipped 15.1 PCs in the same quarter.

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How To Hire a Great Developer [FLOW CHART]

Cyberjunky — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:07:15 +0000

Thomas Edison once said that “genius” is eighteen inspiration and ninety nine perspiration. within the world of technology startups, that ninety nine involves a heck of plenty of coding and wireframing. If you’ve got an inspiration for a startup, that’s nice — however odds are that an inspiration is all you have got. (Well, perhaps you have got passion and a few savings, too.) however you’ll would like over that to bring your plan to life — you’ll would like a developer who will remodel your vision into a chic app or web site.

If you’re simply foraying into the land of entrepreneurship, you’ll marvel where the to even begin yearning for such an individual. And though you are doing notice a developer, how can you recognize the extent of his talent and whether or not he’s an honest match for you?

From trolling your network to attending meetups, there are myriad ways that to satisfy skilled developers. after you notice one you prefer, you must have a casual meeting — you’ll be spending plenty of your time with the person, thus it’s smart to induce to understand him on a a lot of personal level. Plus, you’ll confirm whether or not he’s equally excited regarding your vision. If you’re not jibing, let him go — there are different dev fish within the ocean, and it’s not worthwhile to force the partnership. after you notice a temperament match, move into the formal interview. If all goes well there, you’ll confidently extend a proposal.

Throughout the search, there’s many area for missteps, and you may not grasp the proper inquiries to raise. however there are some professional tips you’ll use to create the dev hunt a lot of economical and successful. the oldsters at General Assembly have created this easy-to-follow flow chart as a part of the curriculum for its “Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship” program. If you’re serious regarding your startup plan, this chart will assist you navigate your dev search and notice somebody who’ll flip your napkin sketches into a reality. And if you have got any personal expertise hiring a dev, tell us regarding it within the comments below.

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Why Is Twitter’s Logo Named After Larry Bird?

Cyberjunky — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:43:59 +0000

You know that blue Twitter bird that’s continually taking drugs these days? Well, the miscroscopic guy’s got a reputation. It’s Larry. Larry the Bird. As in, Larry Bird, the Hall of Fame basketball player.

This tidbit most recently came to lightweight earlier in the week, because of a tweet from Ryan Sarver, a platform and API manager at Twitter. He posted a photograph of Twitter’s inventive director, Doug Bowman, explaining how the company’s emblem has developed over the years. Sarver’s tweet mentioned the “evolution of the Larry the Bird emblem.”

The association really makes quite a little of sense, if you are doing to a small degree web stalking and connect the dots.

Twitter’s co-founder is Biz Stone. A 2009 interview from The Boston Globe tells us that Stone graduated from Wellesley highschool, simply outside Boston. And Wikipedia tells us Stone was born in 1974.

This means Stone possible was a wide-eyed, prepubescent youth at an equivalent time Larry Bird was leading the Boston Celtics to 2 NBA championships, winning 3 consecutive league MVP titles from 1984 to 1986.

The Beantown hoops backstory has gained a good quantity of media coverage since Sarver’s tweet earlier in the week. however Peter Stringer, the Celtics’ director of interactive media, was tuned in to the association back in August, when he had this Twitter exchange with Stone:

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How To Use Facebook Timeline For Brand Pages: New Feature Details

Cyberjunky — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:27:09 +0000

What will the launch of Facebook Timeline for Pages mean for your brand? Unprecedented management, a chance to spice up engagement, however additionally countless initial work. a bunch of latest options became accessible this morning when Facebook gave all Pages round the globe the choice to upgrade to the Timeline redesign. Here’s how they work, and the way to use them to profit your business.

Activating Timeline
First, visit the Timeline for Pages preview manager and choose to feature Timeline to your Pages. You’ll then enter a curation amount where solely your Page’s admins will see Timeline, whereas everybody else as well as your fans can see the previous style. Walk yourself through the options detailed below, and when you’re prepared, click the “Publish Now” button atop your Page to start out showing off Timeline to everybody. you’ll upgrade anytime till March thirtieth, 2012, at that Timeline can automatically become publicly visible for all of your Pages.

Cover
The Timeline cowl displays an enormous 851 x 315 pixel banner across the highest of your Page. Facebook’s Product Director of Ads Gokul Rajaram tells me its “goal is to symbolize what a company is all regarding. For a restaurant it may be a well-liked menu item, a band might show album cowl art, and a business might show an image of their customers using their product.”

Covers might not show calls to action or references to Facebook options like “Like this Page”, purchase or pricing information like “40% off” or “Download at our website”, or contact info like internet address. Rajaram says “brands are terribly positive [about the restrictions] as a result of they don’t wish to be seen as overly promotional — it’s a turnoff. choose a visually gorgeous, high-resolution image which will delight or intrigue guests and create them wish to scroll all the way down to your updates.

About Section
Below the duvet is your Page’s customary profile image, name, and 2 stats: your total Likes and also the variety of “people talking regarding this”. The regarding section shows an outline for brands or an address and phone information for native businesses. Users will click through the regarding link to unfold a map and examine alternative basic information. take care to fill out a brief, punchy description of your brand’s identity.

Page Apps
The redesign of how Page apps are displayed may be the first disadvantage of Timeline for Pages. Apps are relocated from the left navigation facetbar to the proper side of the regarding section. whereas they seem with thumbnail photos rather than as text links, they’re overshadowed by the huge cowl higher than. There are four app tiles higher than the fold, and also the initial is permanently occupied by Photos. the remainder will embody Likes, Videos, Events, Map and a Page’s custom apps.

Previously, Pages might set a default landing tab that each one non-fans would initial see rather than the wall once they visited a Page. this can be not allowed. Instead, users continually see the most Timeline read and ought to actively click through to custom apps. this implies custom apps for your contests, promotions, games, media, coupons, and signup widgets might receive abundant less engagement from users who notice their thanks to your Page.

Pages additionally typically used “Like-gates” on their default landing app, requiring users to love a Page in exchange for the flexibility to use the app. whereas Like-gates are still permitted, they’re not nearly as powerful since they won’t be the primary issue users see once they visit a page.

To edit that apps you show, click the drop-down icon to the proper of the tiles, click the ‘+’ button to import your custom apps, and then hover over them and click on the pencil to swap them around. i like to recommend putting the native or custom apps most important to your business higher than the fold, thus coupons for ecommerce brands, contests for client packaged sensible corporations, events for promoters, etc. solely show the Likes panel if you have got lots of them and wish to look pressure new guests into Liking your Page.

Messages

By default, Page Timelines permit users to send direct, non-public messages to your Page. This creates a replacement client service channel where you’ll address users’ considerations while not having to debate problems publicly on your Page’s wall / Timeline. Pages cannot proactively send messages, you’ll solely answer users that have already contacted you.

Since asynchronous client service through messages is far cheaper than fielding live voice calls, Page messages might produce extra ROI if you convince users to message rather than calling. If you discover users complaining publicly on your wall, kindly raise them to message you instead and say you’ll resolve their issues there. You’ll ought to consistently monitor and answer messages though, or you’ll risk being perceived as ignoring your fans.

Highlights Feed

When users visit your Page, they’ll see a mixture of stories revealed by your Page itself, by their friends, and stories from alternative users that have received lots of Likes, comments, and shares. this can be abundant completely different than the dedicated Page-only and alternative users-only feeds from before Timeline. Users will like better to visit those dedicated feeds, though. A Timeline navigation bar on the left lets users jump to completely different years in a very brand’s history.

Since random user posts that aren’t essentially positive might seem on Timeline, the Highlights feed presents branding risks. Thankfully, you’ll disable the flexibility for random users to post on to your Page, and stop their Timeline from displaying mentions of your Page. However, posts to or mentioning your Page by a visitor’s friends are continually visible. If you see negative posts, hover over them and choose to cover them, or delete them if they’re particularly inflammatory or blatant trolling.

Pinned Posts

You can choose to pin one amongst your best new or previous posts to the highest left spot of the Timeline feed for seven days at a time. Pinning is used to direct users to a crucial promotional app, sing their own praises a special photo, or show a timely standing update. The feature provides you vital management what guests to a Page see initial. take care to a minimum of keep a link to your web site pinned in the least times, and rotate it with links to your apps and no matter else you would like to drive the foremost traffic to or impressions of.

Beyond pinning posts, you’ll choose to focus on necessary posts throughout their Timeline to create them seem the total width of the Page. Ideally before you publish Timeline, or a minimum of at some purpose you ought to crawl through your entire Timeline and Highlight all of your best photos and links that are still relevant, and conceal or delete posts that appear dumb or embarrassing on reflection, have broken links, or were timely when revealed however not create sense. you ought to additionally Highlight user posts that particularly positive, whereas hiding negative ones.

Friend Activity

In the high right of a Page’s Timeline’s feed, guests see the count and faces of friends who Like your Page, followed by one update from a follower mentioning the Page that Facebook’s algorithms deem particularly partaking. you have got very little management over this section. Keep it from amplifying negative mentions of your Page by hiding or deleting those posts when initial revealed.

Composer

In addition to ancient standing, photo, video, and question updates, you’ll choose to publish special Milestone stories, like your founding date, and alternative massive accomplishments like acquisitions or hitting a notable variety of shoppers. These updates are probably favored by the EdgeRank news feed visibility algorithm, and should receive additional impressions within the news feed and additional prominence on Timeline than customary posts. Milestones seem full-width on your Page with a special flag icon on high. Don’t be afraid to use them whenever somewhat applicable. Users additionally see the quality composer, sans Milestones, and might use it to publish feedback publicly to your Page.

Admin Panel

Rather than sending admins to a separate interface, the new Admin Panel drops down and seems overlaid over Timeline when clicked. It displays notifications of recent activity like posts to your Timeline by fans, a listing of your most up-to-date Page Message conversations, new Likes, and a snapshot of your Insights knowledge as well as the quantity of your own posts, total reach, and also the variety of “people talking regarding this”. every section is drilled into for a additional detailed look. A “Manage” button on the Admin Panel reveals the “Edit Page” choice where {you will|you’ll|you’ll be able to} configure all of your Page’s settings as well as whether or not fans will post to your Timeline and who can see those posts.

Activity Log

Here you’ll see each post your Page has ever revealed, furthermore as all those by users mentioning them. you’ll highlight posts to expand them to the total width of you Page, permit them to seem if Facebook deems them relevant, or hide them from read. Posts written directly on your Page’s Timeline may be deleted. Activity Log makes it simple for you to curate your Timeline and make certain you’re putting your best foot forward.

In summary, here’s a checklist of the foremost necessary things to try to to together with your Timeline

Choose a fine looking cowl
Provide a punchy description
Feature your most vital apps
Pin the post you would like to drive the foremost traffic to
Highlight nice historical posts by you and your fans
Hide or delete embarrassing, out of date, or negative posts by you and your fans

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Email Overload? unroll.me Lets You Unsubscribe to All Mailing Lists at Once

Cyberjunky — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:27:51 +0000

Yesterday i used to be subscribed to 271 newsletters. Today, once putting concerning ten minutes of effort, I’m subscribed to simply the seventeen of them I realize helpful — and that they arrive at my inbox packaged in an exceedingly single email.

Hallelujah.
Unroll.me, that started as an easy hack for unsubscribing to emails, is that the startup behind this improvement, and it’s launching a redesigned product on Monday. For the primary time, users will compile the newsletters they are doing wish to receive into a one-email-per-day digest.

Here’s how it works: once you grant Unroll.me access to your inbox (only gmail, MSN, Yahoo and AOL are compatible for now), it searches for the newsletters you receive on a daily basis. A 2003 law that needs newsletters to incorporate bound language makes this easier for the startup to identify them.

Through the Unroll.me dashboard, you’ll then opt out of every newsletter it detects with one click (for sites like LinkedIn or Facebook, Unroll.me directs you to the acceptable settings page). you’ll conjointly add any of them to a daily digest newsletter with one click. That’s it.

Eventually the location hopes to form cash by building an index of newsletters. It may facilitate newsletters acquire new subscribers by suggesting them to users who subscribe to similar ones, and it’d charge them for the service. Unroll.me is currently giving newsletter recommendations to users, however none of them are sponsored.

Despite the dearth of income, the service is absolve to use — however there’s a catch. once unsubscribing from four lists through Unroll.me, you wish to tweet, post or email friends concerning the service before you’ll continue purging your inbox.

Considering the advantages of the service, however, a social plug may be a little worth to pay.

Unroll.me remains in non-public beta, however the primary 5000 NetSparsh users who sign in at this link will skip the road.

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Digging into WordPress [ebook]

Cyberjunky — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:19:29 +0000

CheckOut Digging into WordPress by by Chris Coyier & Jeff Starr only on NetSparsh.com

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Oscar 2012 Predictions According to Twitter [Infographic]

Cyberjunky — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:10:59 +0000

Do you would like some last minute facilitate along with your Oscar pool? The 84th Academy Awards won’t begin saying the winners of its major awards till tonight — but, Webtrends style Lab analyzed 476,000 tweets to assemble detailed Oscar winner predications.

Every year specific films generate hype; but, that hype has usually be tough to quantify. The infographic below may be a precise thanks to quantify Oscar buzz among Twitter users.

Will Twitter hype offer us correct Oscar predictions? does one assume Twitter buzz can translate into victory for The Artist, Meryl Streep, George Clooney and Martin Scorsese?

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22 Ways to Create Compelling Content [Infographic]

Cyberjunky — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:55:57 +0000

The folks at Copyblogger have always been a source of inspiration and on my reading list for many, many years. Today the team released their first infographic… aptly describing 22 ways to create compelling content!

This infographic demonstrates how to repurpose existing content in a different media format, get more bang from your archives, and reach new and different audiences in the process. The graphic is based on 21 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue by Copyblogger guest writer Danny Iny. We’ve re-imagined the way to present these content-creation tips, while adding a meta-fabulous #22 (you’ll see why).

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Japanese company to build an elevator that can take you to space by 2050

Cyberjunky — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:55:31 +0000

In the year 2050, individuals may step into an elevator and expect to succeed in larger heights than even the highest floors of the tallest skyscrapers on Earth. Japanese company Obayashi Corporation recently announced its plans to create an elevator which will travel thirty six,000 kilometers on top of the bottom. That goes beyond the one hundred kilometer boundary thought of because the starting of outer area, and covers 1 / 4 of the space from the planet to the Moon.

Last year, NASA revealed its plans to comprehend an area elevator style that may shuttle provides to the astronauts within the International area Station. Obayashi’s version, however, are going to be designed to hold up to thirty individuals to a terminal station in area where there are laboratories and living areas for guests. area elevators have stopped being a mere plot device for sci-fi novels due to carbon nanotubes, that are twenty times stronger than steel.

Can’t look ahead to 2050 thus you’ll take a visit to area in an elevator? begin brushing up on your patience and building resistance to motion illness — the elevator can travel at a speed of a hundred twenty five mph, and can take seven and a [*fr1] days to succeed in outer area.

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Google Testing Driverless Cars on Nevada Roadways

Cyberjunky — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:40:51 +0000

The roads in Nevada are prepared for driverless robot cars. Earlier this month, Nevada’s Legislative Commission approved testing of autonomous vehicles on the state’s roadways. The cars are identifiable by a red registration number plate.

In fact, any company will take a look at its driverless system in Nevada; Google simply happened to be the primary to leap on the chance. Google’s system will be put in on any create of auto. the corporate has been engaged on their driverless automotive system for a short time and received a patent late last year.

“Self-driving cars have the potential to considerably increase driving safety,” a Google spokesperson told Mashable. “We applaud Nevada for building a thoughtful framework to enable safe, ongoing testing of the technology and to anticipate the wants and best interests of Nevada voters who might own vehicles with self-driving capabilities at some point.”

Even though the cars are driverless, they can’t be tested while not 2 operators within. Once the vehicles are shown to be safely operated with only 1 driver, the cars can receive inexperienced license plates.

Tom Jacobs, chief public info officer at the Nevada DMV, said this driverless system is “like cruise management on steroids.” Jacobs said he did a radio interview recently during which he was asked if different drivers can ever feel the necessity to flip-off these cars. His response: no would like.

“It had no unhealthy habits,” he said of the system.

Jacobs said he rode in one in every of the driverless cars. When the road isn’t mapped ahead, the automotive might provide management to the motive force when a feminine voice says, “please drive.” If the motive force doesn’t take management, the automotive merely pulls over. there’s additionally a show in front of the passenger seat that shows precisely what the automotive is seeing outside. This feature is for testing functions solely. Jacobs said the ride was thus swish, he couldn’t tell when the motive force or automotive was operating the vehicle besides hearing the automated feminine voice.

“There can never be any crashes,” Jacobs said.

In the future, it’s attainable automakers can supply this method already put in in vehicles. Drivers while not the system built-in is also able to have their cars retrofitted. Jacobs envisioned a world where at some point you’ll press a button on your cellular phone, have a automotive pull up to your house, place your dog in it and send it to the veterinarian.

Jacobs said Google is additionally testing its driverless cars “quasi-legally” in California, since there’s no written rule specifically permitting or forbidding driverless cars. However, Jacobs clearly includes a stake in making certain Nevada may be a hub of testing this budding technology.

Regarding the California testing, Google says, “We have received many opinions from outside counsels who are specialists in transportation law. All indicated that the testing in California is 100 percent legal because the safety driver is up to speed of the automotive in any respect times and is chargeable for the operation of the vehicle. The testing involves having 2 individuals within the automotive in any respect times.”

“Nevada is that the initial state to embrace what’s surely the long run of vehicles,” Department of motorized vehicles Director Bruce Breslow said during a statement posted on the state’s DMV web site on Feb. 15. “These laws establish needs corporations should meet to check their vehicles on Nevada’s public roadways likewise as needs for residents to legally operate them within the future.”

There are many different states that have pending legislation that might enable driverless cars on public roadways.

Would a driverless automotive create your life easier? what proportion would you obtain one? Tell us within the comments.

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iPhone 5 Concept Looks Insanely Great [PICS]

Cyberjunky — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:37:25 +0000

The iPhone five won’t be arriving any time soon, however that hasn’t stopped artists and style corporations from making their own mock-ups.

After analyzing the assorted iPhone five rumors, Italian designer Federico Ciccarese came up with these beautiful renders.

Ciccarese’s vision of the iPhone five predicts a rather curved back. The body of the phone, in fact, appearance like Apple’s Magic Mouse. The show is flat and “retina” in nature and also the phone tapers off at the highest and bottom.
The headphone jack has moved to the facet to accommodate the new style and also the back appearance to be blasted aluminum, like what’s used on the MacBook professional, MacBook Air and iMac.

This isn’t the primary time Ciccarese has mocked up his own version of future Apple merchandise. additionally to previously making an attempt to style the fifth-generation iPhone (what would become the iPhone 4S), Ciccarese has additionally taken on ideas like the iScreen, his vision of the rumored integrated tv from Apple.

We love the means the mockup details the glowing Apple on the rear of the phone. It’s the type of style bit that we expect Jony Ive and company may even appreciate.

What does one think about these mockups? What would you prefer to visualize within the iPhone 5? allow us to grasp.

Graphics and concept courtesy Federico Ciccarese/CiccareseDesign

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Google to Launch Paid TV Service

Cyberjunky — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:01:43 +0000

Google is trying to urge into the paid TV business.

The company filed an application last week to produce video service to residents of Kansas town, Mo., in keeping with The Wall Street Journal. If approved, the service might launch as soon as a month from currently, in keeping with the article, that cites a “media government currently concerned in negotiations to license channels to the service.” Offerings within the video package would come with live TV furthermore as on-demand and on-line access to TV channels, in keeping with the report, that was based mostly on an earlier article by The the big apple Post.

The supply told the WSJ that Google plans to seem beyond the Kansas town market and into alternative areas where Verizon’s Fiber Optic Services (FIOS). Controlling the pipes to TV subscribers would supply Google a brand new revenue stream.

Reps from Google couldn’t be reached for comment.

The Kansas town application coincides with another request to place a satellite antenna farm close to the company’s knowledge center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. That addition might enable Google to receive movies and television shows that might be bundled with a brand new web service in Kansas town that guarantees to be up to a hundred times faster than the common web affiliation.

Google selected Kansas town for its ultra-fast service last March. Kansas town, Mo., and Kansas town, Kan., beat out concerning one,000 alternative municipalities for that honor. That fiber-optic-based web service is anticipated to travel live there this summer.

This isn’t the primary time that Google’s bold plans for TV service are exposed. The Wall Street Journal conjointly reported in November that Google was in talks with Disney, Time Warner and Discovery Communications concerning providing content for its fiber-optic based mostly video service in those cities.

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Google’s HUD glasses expected to go on sale this year

Cyberjunky — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:46:55 +0000

Web giant’s much-rumored high-tech glasses that operate very similar to an Android-based smartphone are accessible at intervals months.

More rumblings concerning Google’s Heads-Up show Glasses materializing someday within the close to future were heard these days. per The big apple Times, the general public are able to get these high-tech glasses by the top of the year and that they can value somewhere between $250 and $600.
Rumors that the HUD Google Glasses were within the works are brewing for the past few months. once accounts that Google was closing the prototype in December, tech news web site 9to5Google reported that a tipster truly saw the glasses.
The prototype apparently resembles Oakley’s Thump glasses however functions far more sort of a smartphone than reading spectacles. per 9to5Google, the glasses are Android-based and have the aptitude to faucet into Google’s cloud-based location services and detail users’ surroundings. This data can then seems as an augmented reality laptop show.
The navigation system is employed by head-tilting to scroll and click on on options like atiny low built-in camera with a flash and I/O for voice input and output. The glasses will reportedly return equipped with CPU/RAM/storage hardware.

The big apple Times reports that the HUD glasses will have a 3G or 4G knowledge association and motion and GPS sensors. they’ll conjointly use Google’s software merchandise, like Google Latitude, Google Goggles, and Google Maps.
“Everyone I spoke with who was at home with the project repeatedly said that Google wasn’t considering potential business models with the new glasses,” wrote The big apple Times reporter Nick Bilton. “Instead, they said, Google sees the project as an experiment that anyone are able to be part of.”
Google didn’t come back request for discuss this text.

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Why are Brands Shutting Their Facebook Stores?

Cyberjunky — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:52:23 +0000

Eager to monetize the big followings that they had engineered on Facebook, several giant brands came upon search on the social network for the primary time last year.

Now several of these Facebook stores are closing.

A Bloomberg report this weekend acknowledged that Gap, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom and GameStop have all opened and closed outlets on Facebook at intervals the past year — undermining expectations that the social network can become a significant revenue driver for retailers over future decade.

“We simply didn’t get the come on investment we would have liked from the Facebook market, thus we have a tendency to shut it down pretty quickly,” Ashley Sheetz, VP of selling and strategy at GameStop, told Bloomberg. “For us, it’s been some way we have a tendency to communicate with customers on deals, not an area to sell.”

GameStop opened a store on Facebook in April 2011, and closed it six months later.

“There was lots of anticipation that Facebook would change into a replacement destination, a store, an area where individuals would search,” Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst at Forrester analysis, added. “But it had been like attempting to sell stuff to individuals whereas they’re hanging out with their friends at the bar.”

The End of F-commerce?

Still, none of this proves that social networks don’t have potential as sales channels. it should be that retailers merely haven’t harnessed the ability of those platforms within the right manner.

In most cases, retailers have entered the f-commerce market by importing their on-line catalogs and creating them obtainable for purchase during a Facebook app. The expertise is almost the image of searching on their websites, with 2 major differences: 1) Shoppers will complete their entire browsing and checkout expertise while not leaving facebook.com; and 2) the Facebook apps tend to figure additional slowly.

In different words, shoppers have very little to no incentive to buy via these Facebook apps.

Others merely haven’t dealt in enough volume — giving, say, only 1 item for purchase every month, or discounting one or 2 things for a brief amount.

Although these efforts have generated a good quantity of PR buzz, most of those corporations are losing cash on these efforts as a result of development prices are thus high, says Maureen Mullen, director of analysis and advisory services at luxury analysis and consulting firm L2.

Or the matter could also be Facebook’s competition. If spending time on Facebook is like spending time together with your friends at a bar, Pinterest is additional like heading to a craft truthful, Forbes‘s Jeff Bercovici points out — you’re there to browse and to buy, and makes are finding the platform value investing in.

Facebook, at present, isn’t engineered for that sort of searching expertise. however it may actually build Pinterest-like tools to form it that manner.

At the terribly least, Facebook has become a crucial traffic driver to retailers’ websites. as an example, 1.9% of traffic to Burberry’s web site in September 2010 came from Facebook; a year later, 29.1% of web site traffic was from the social network.

“[Burberry is] using the platform to drive traffic at a fraction of the price of what it might got to pay on Google and different search engines. additionally a big portion of that traffic and ensuing sales is probably going incremental,” she added.

Mullen additionally acknowledged that 1/2 searchpers are logged in to Facebook whereas they shop on third-party ecommerce sites, that lets retailers “capture the large quantity of user knowledge Facebook has,” she says. Brands like Smashbox and MAC also are incorporating friend recommendations at intervals their ecommerce pages.

In different words, it’s ahead of time to lament the demise of F-commerce. What we have a tendency to do apprehend is that replicating retailers’ ecommerce sites isn’t the thanks to go regarding generating revenue via Facebook, a minimum of for currently.

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Social Media Lifecycle [Infographic]

Cyberjunky — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:35:11 +0000

The purpose of any piece of data you use in your business is to help you make better decisions. These decisions can be very simple, such as replying to someone’s tweet about your brand or to a comment a customer posts on your Facebook page. Or they can be very complex, such as launching a new product. Whatever the case, data is supposed to help you make those decisions faster while getting better results.

When implemented correctly, social media campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks enable brands of all sizes to track sentiment, spot trends, filter and analyze data, collaborate with fans, and improve ROI. These tools empower companies to start and maintain conversations, deliver first-class customer service, and drive sales — immediately, at the click of a button.

If you really want to get results from social media, it begins with creating a process. The process is based on setting a goal, and then aligning the resources and activities that you think will help you accomplish that goal. It’s very important to have a specific business goal in mind – not just increasing your number of Twitter followers or Facebook fans – and determine how to achieve that goal by integrating social media.

uberVU has an interesting guide for marketers called 4 Pillars of Social Media Success. Monitoring, analytics, engagement, reporting, and collaboration are part of a feedback loop uberVU calls the Social Media Lifecycle. To accomplish your business objectives by using social media, you need to go through this loop over and over again. Included in the white paper is an examination of how some brands use this social media feedback loop to reach their goals and how they measure progress. It explores why more companies aren’t reporting great results from their initiatives, and the reasons that contribute to lack of success.

uberVU created the infographic below from the data they collected for the white paper, which is a must-read for CMOs, marketers, social media specialists, and anyone who wants to learn how to use social media to achieve business goals and track key performance indicators.

Key takeaways:

How to use the Social Media Lifecycle: The key steps that get you from monitoring to decision, action, and results
Best practices for monitoring, analytics, engagement, reporting, and collaboration, modeled after the most successful brands in social media
What Social Media ROI is, how to think about it, and ways to measure it

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Top Ten Ways to Increase Sales in 2012 [Infographic]

Cyberjunky — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:32:03 +0000

It’s always great to see an infographic that simply spurs some ideas… and this one does just that. There are so many strategies to increase sales out there but marketers are the ones stuck with the decision of which way to turn. Rarely do we have the convenience of doing it all. I always encourage clients to adopt a technology that’s on the rise – in this case both mobile and marketing automation are tactics that I’d deploy because of their marketing effectiveness and cost effectiveness.

Customers are always the core of any business. However, in 2012, customers will require more personalize attention than ever before. Luckily, businesses can easily accomplish this by embracing analytics and new technologies that will help them build unprecedented relationships with their customers. Here are Truaxis’ top ways to increase sales in the new year while giving your customers exactly what they need, when they need it. 10 Ways to Increase Sales in 2012

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The Content Marketing Explosion [Infographic]

Cyberjunky — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:27 +0000

Marketing and sales departments have always been doing content marketing… it was much easier to sell your wares when you had customer testimonials, whitepapers, case studies, emails and other documentation to help educate the buyer. Now that content is searchable and shareable via the web, though, we had to come up with some kind of name for it… Content Marketing. Because buyers are empowered to find the information themselves, content marketing is key because your content needs to be found in the searches and within the networks of those who are looking.

Businesses of all sizes are beginning to realize how integral a solid content strategy should be to their marketing plans. Even major corporations like Coca-Cola are betting everything on an integrated content strategy.

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3 Tools to Create Custom Facebook Timeline Cover

Cyberjunky — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:12:41 +0000

As currently Facebook timeline is enabled for everybody, there are several options i prefer however the foremost vital is that the new “Cover Photo” banner at the highest of your profile. attributable to this new feature folks are coming up with artistic timeline covers. Most of the folks don’t acumen to use photo editing tools, however there are several tools that you’ll be able to use to form Facebook cowl banner. As there are several tools, I even have selected solely three best tools to form your own Facebook timeline banner at no cost.

1. Pic Scatter

Using Pic Scatter you can generate beautiful covers, montage of images, for the new Facebook timeline.

2. Timeline Cover Banner

Using this tool you can create a cover image from scratch or upload your own photo. You can even create cover backgrounds using their online gallery of different beautiful images.

3. CoverCanvas

There are three important options to create the custom Facebook cover. You can create the cover by using the text in your name, by using photo combinations or by using photo combination and your name.

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Watch 2012 Super Bowl Commercials Now With Facebook + USA Today’s Ad Meter

Cyberjunky — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:12:08 +0000

Want to look at the massive budget Super Bowl commercials, however can’t wait until Sunday or don’t care regarding football? Facebook and USA nowadays have simply launched Ad Meter, a Facebook app where you’ll be able to watch several of the TV spots straight away. Then from kickoff till Tuesday night you’ll be able to vote for your favorites. historically an offline poll done live with handheld meters, USA nowadays has finally brought Ad Meter on-line therefore you’ll be able to decide ads each in real-time and post-game.

Facebook tapped Involver to create the app, and has secured early previews of roughly twenty commercials. the remainder of the ads can become out there through the app at game time. On Tuesday night at 6pm EST the results of the voting are announced.

Several net corporations have plopped down the massive usd this year in a trial to court the mainstream. Arrested Development’s Gob plugs Hulu, and Teleflora.com touts the lovin you may get if you utilize it to send a Valentine’s Day gift. Etrade, Careerbuilder.com,

Investing in Super Bowl ads makes additional and additional sense for internet services because the general public becomes additional net savvy. they ought to tread cautiously, though, considering past ads from Salesforce, Groupon are voted most disliked and caused PR crises. Let’s hope nobody offers our business a foul wrap this point around. Oh wait, GoDaddy’s ads stuffed with body-painted models and angels within the cloud are simply as sexist as ever.

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Facebook : can it capitalize on its opportunities?

Cyberjunky — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:06:39 +0000

Facebook has tremendous potential to become a cash-generating machine, but can it capitalize on its opportunities?

A Lego model of the Facebook logo sits on the desk of a programmer inside the company’s office in Palo Alto, Calif., in June 2009.

That’s the question plenty on Wall Street are asking themselves each day once Facebook filed its S-1 IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The social network boasts an impressively large–and engaged–user base. nonetheless the corporate hasn’t absolutely puzzled out the way to create cash off of them.

Investors are clamoring to urge a hold of Facebook stock, with several hoping to urge in before the corporate figures things out and therefore the stock takes wing.

“I assume Wall Street’s reaction are quite positive,” said Timothy Loughran, a finance professor at Notre Dame. “Lots of investors wish to have Facebook.”

The asset that Wall Street is primarily staring at is that the user base. over 1/2 the 845 million monthly users really log in to the social network on a each day. The result has been spectacular growth in its prime and bottom lines. In 2011, the corporate saw revenue double to $3.7 billion, whereas its profit grew sixty five p.c to $1 billion. Over the past 2 years, its revenue rose nearly fivefold, whereas its profit over quadrupled.
“The numbers show clearly that not solely is social media not a passing fad, however there is some real cash to be created here,” said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Gartner.

Facebook already overvalued?

Facebook’s current financials and fundamentals look solid, however there are questions about its future, said Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at international Equities.

The monetary figures do not look thus rosy to everybody. Loughran noted that its revenue figure equates to roughly $4.39 per active user, that he said was surprisingly low. Assuming that revenue-per-user figure remains constant, if Facebook gets to $3 billion users, it’ll solely be ready to generate $13.2 billion–an spectacular quantity, however not one that justifies a $100 billion valuation.
“That strikes me as slightly expensive only if Facebook already incorporates a sizeable share of the earth’s population as active users,” Loughran said.

Chowdhry said that the corporate ought to be valued nearer to $50 billion to $60 billion, which investors would not see a lot of come if they bought in on top of that level.

It’s concerning the platform, Still, others are additional optimistic that the corporate are ready to generate additional revenue per user down the road. One analyst, who did not wish to be named as a result of his firm hadn’t cleared him to speak concerning the corporate, said plenty of the potential comes from Facebook’s position as an app platform.

Farmville and Words With Friends maker Zynga is Facebook’s single biggest contributor of revenue, chipping in twelve p.c of the overall in 2012, in line with the filing. however the potential lies in numerous apps, services, and business models running on prime of Facebook–things that transcend social gaming.

In this instance, Facebook will not be within the lead, however can facilitate foster the event of those new apps, the analyst said. He believes the “opportunities are immense.”

Facebook noted in its filing that it does not nonetheless run show ads in its mobile app–a drawback as a result of an increasing quantity of individuals register on Facebook through a smartphone app. however that would additionally gift a chance down the road because the company faucets into another attainable revenue stream. For all of his considerations, Chowdhry acknowledged that Facebook’s ability to innovate on new services and business models has already been spectacular.

Challenges to monetization : Facebook can ought to tread gently if it needs to get additional revenue from customers, which can partially embody additional ads. there is the danger that the increased variety of ads can muddle up the location and switch users off on usage. How Facebook navigates that issue whereas boosting its revenue growth are one thing Wall Street can want answered.
“Facebook has to be terribly careful,” Gartenberg said. “An sad user isn’t an engaged user.”

That’s a haul that MySpace encountered, because it begun to post additional ads and lose management of the planning of its website, resulting in Facebook usurping it because the leading social network. Chowdhry warned that identical factor might happen to Facebook if it pushes ads to aggressively.

There’s already an alternate social network in place: Google+. whereas Facebook is by so much the world’s largest social network, Google+ has created huge strides since its launch in June. Facebook, meanwhile, can have to be compelled to work out the way to run ads on its mobile app if it needs to form any cash in that area–which is essential as individuals pay longer on their cellphones than ever before. however given the tiny screen property, it’s unclear how it will deliver ads while not irking individuals.

Facebook depends client knowledge and preferences, that is a smaller amount helpful to advertisers than the search-based knowledge that Google offers. By its nature, an enquiry suggests immediate user interest, that is additional valuable to an advertiser. As a result, Facebook cannot get identical reasonably advertising greenbacks Google commands. that would modification if it goes into the search business itself. The ultimate gauge of Facebook’s worth will not occur for an additional few months, when its stock gets its initial public providing. Until then, analysts can privately think about the numbers because the company goes on a road show to drum up investor interest.

It may well be an extended few months.

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Facebook IPO: The Numbers Behind the World’s Most Valuable Social Network

Cyberjunky — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:18:02 +0000

The world is anticipating Facebook to file for an initial public providing on, and most indicators purpose to $10 billion in stock and a valuation at over $100 billion.

Just how did our very little standing updates and vacation photos become what is going to doubtless be the most important tech IPO in history (and a valuation that rivals a number of the world’s biggest multinational banks and telecoms)?

Our number-crunching friends at Statista have pulled down a swell of stats on the company’s mind-boggling ascendance in recent years. Most of the numbers indicate that Facebook is made to last. Its ad revenue so much surpasses its social network contemporaries, its user base is projected to grow in 2012, and its revenue per employee and per user is on a gradual upward climb.

But pause a flash to contemplate the ratio of income to price. because the graphic below points out, if we have a tendency to were to project, say, Apple’s valuation on an equivalent scale, the electronics maker would be value a minimum of $2.2 trillion — a ridiculous range, to mention the smallest amount. will a perspective like that indicate a dangerous gulf between perceived and actual value? And are crazy-big IPOs like this another sign of Dot Com Bubble 2.0?

Scope the stats yourself and allow us to apprehend where you land within the comments section.

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Protect The ‘Fundamental Integrity’ of the Internet : Obama

Cyberjunky — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:18:37 +0000

President Barack Obama involved the protection of intellectual property rights during a Google+ hangout Monday evening, however said such protection should be done “in the simplest way that’s in line with net freedom.”

Obama was replying to an issue submitted over YouTube regarding his stance on the Stop on-line Piracy Act (SOPA), that currently lies dormant within the House of Representatives. SOPA (and its sister bill within the Senate, shield IP Act, or PIPA) was the target of a coordinated net blackout protest in mid-January. Days when the web protest, each SOPA and PIPA were shelved indefinitely.

Obama cited yankee intellectual property as a very important export, whereas conjointly saying America must use caution to shield the “fundamental integrity of the web as an open and clear system.”

The Google+ hangout was the fruits of a digitally-intensive week for the White House that was targeted around Jan. 24?s State of the Union address. White House officers, as well as vice chairman Joseph Biden, were taking queries live over Twitter throughout the week.

According to Steve Grove, head of community partnerships for Google+, over 135,000 individuals submitted inquiries to the hangout. Google and YouTube selected the queries primarily based on the quantity of votes every question received by alternative users throughout the past few days. Grove conjointly said that neither President Obama nor Macon Phillips, the White House’s director of latest media, knew the chosen queries prior to.

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Pinterest.com : New Top Traffic Driver for Retailers

Cyberjunky — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:17:11 +0000

Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking website that lets users collect and share things they like on the online, is driving increasingly important amounts of traffic to retailers’ websites.

The service permits users to form on-line bulletin boards, or “pinboards,” for common classes like home decor, food and wedding inspiration. Members will use Pinterest’s “Pin It” bookmarklet tool and iPhone app to avoid wasting things they see on-line and offline, and explore and repin the pictures their friends collect via their personal newsfeeds. the web site is very common among ladies, who account for fifty eight of Pinterest’s traffic, consistent with Experian Hitwise.

The site’s popularity is quickly growing. Pinterest’s traffic increased quite fourfold between September 2011 and December 2011, bringing in seven.51 million distinctive guests in December alone, knowledge from Compete indicates. the quantity of traffic Pinterest sent elsewhere has risen accordingly, turning into a high 5 referrer for many attire retailers, consistent with internal knowledge from Monetate, that provided the infographic below.

Although Pinterest is turning into a big supply of traffic for retailers, search still dominates, and also the website has nevertheless to prove itself as a possible sales channel. At present, scant knowledge is on the market concerning the social network’s conversion rates.

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Bollywood Jan 2012 Top Song : Bipasha Bipasha

Cyberjunky — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:33:14 +0000

Song Lyrics of Bipasha from the movie Jodi Breakers (2012)

Song Details:-
Song Name: Bipasha
Film/Album: Jodi Breakers
Singer(s): Shadab Faridi
Music Director: Salim – Sulaiman
Lyricist: Irshad Kamil
Length: 4:40
Music Label: T-Series

Bipasha Lyrics

Come on yeah come on, just like that

Parvaan shama jalaayein, jal jaaye na, Bipasha
Baithe hain jaal bichaaye, phas jaaye na, Bipasha

Oh everybody everybody aaja nach le zara sa
Kar le kar le tu kar le tu thoda tamasha
Jaanu main jaanu main toh jaanu tu hai mujhse judda sa
Nahin main nahin tujhe nahin doongi, jhootha dilaasa

Never gonna get her baby
Never gonna get her baby, Bipasha Bipasha
Aaja main sikha doon pyaar ki bhasha, Bipasha Bipasha
Rab ne hai fursat mein tarasha, Bipasha Bipasha
Aaja main sikha doon pyaar ki bhasha
I’m not so easy, I’m not so easy
You can never ever get Bipasha

Aaja saanson se meri jal jaayega
Aaja mere husn mein doob jaayega
Aaja na zor koi chal paayega
Aaja baahon mein aake pachtaayega
Samjha le nadan dil ko
Kar door aab yeh mushkil ko hoo
Jisne bhi mujhpe dil haara
Keh laayega woh bechara haan

I’m not so easy, I’m not so easy
You can never ever get bipasha

Bips you got the eyes, you got the lips
Come’on shake shake shake your hips
You got the moves, you got the grooves

Ho ab khud pe nahin hai kaaboo
Jaadu hai tu Bipasha
Tu humnashi Bipasha
Tu humnawabi Bipasha
Tu gulfiza

Ja ja na ishq-vishq kar paayega
Ja ja mere saath mein na jee paayega
Ja ja be-maut muft mar jaayega
Ja ja choote hi shama jal jaayega
Samjha le nadan dil ko
Kar door aab yeh mushkil ko hoo
Jisne bhi mujhpe dil haara
Keh laayega woh bechara haan

Never gonna get her baby
Never gonna get her baby, Bipasha Bipasha
Aaja main sikha doon pyaar ki bhasha, Bipasha Bipasha
Rab ne hai fursat mein tarasha, Bipasha Bipasha
Aaja aaja main sikha doon pyaar ki bhasha
I’m not so easy, I’m not so easy
You can never ever get Bipasha

Bips you got the eyes, you got the lips
Come-on shake shake shake your hips
You got the moves, you got the grooves

Ho ab khud pe nahin kaboo

Jaadu hai tu Bipasha

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Privacy vs. digital age: Where’s the balance?

Cyberjunky — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:37:14 +0000

Summary: The digital age is launching an assault on privacy as we’ve known it. As social sites collect more and more data how will attitudes toward privacy change. And what can be done from a self-regulation, legal and end-user stand point to put more control back into the hands of consumers.

What has become of privacy?

There was a time when simply drawing the window shades ensured a non-public sanctuary.

But the digital age is a smaller amount shade and a lot of obtrusive lightweight, and it’s shining brightly on personal knowledge.

“There has never been yet again in history where privacy was beneath the sort of assault it’s nowadays,” said Rainey Reitman, activism director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). “Consumers have increasingly digital lives and that they are developing an unfathomably giant knowledge path daily.”

There is an ideal storm, Reitman says, involving digital lives, low-cost storage that permits firms to avoid wasting everything, and also the revenues that incent those firms to gather the maximum amount knowledge as potential.

The long-term consequences on privacy are an unknown, however net users are feeling some fatigue and queries are flying because the law chases knowledge sharing technologies operated by a number of the richest juggernauts ever.

In addition, technologists are busy coming up with tools supposed to relinquish end-users management over their lives on-line.

How deep is that the glut of non-public and “private” data online?

Each week users post three.5 billion items of content on Facebook, consistent with social media firm HubSpot. Google runs concerning 900,000 servers to handle the load of its services, consistent with freelance estimates. Twitter claims a hundred million active users. And Nielsen estimates that social media sites and blogs reach eightieth of all active U.S. net users.

It’s not simply the amount of individual items of information, however the aggregation of that knowledge that starts to essentially raise the hackles of privacy advocates.

That point was strengthened over the past week with news of Google’s new privacy policy, that permits the corporate to combination user data across services, and Facebook’s no-opt out deployment of its Timeline, that mixes a users past with the current.

But its not simply Google and Facebook mixing knowledge to seek out trends and build selections, it’s knowledge collected by any technology and employed by vehicles, high-tech home sensors, insurance suppliers, employers, retail sites and political parties.

Lately, however, it’s social sites, fed with user-created content, dominating the privacy news. Those sites have a thirst for data that aids ad sales and stimulates alternative business opportunities around knowledge that defines someone and their actions.

Today, those sites are staunchly defending that position. for instance, Facebook spent $1.4 million in 2011 on lobbying, an almost three hundredth increase over 2010. And Google spent $9.7 million, nearly a ninetieth increase over the previous year. Earlier this month, Google, that declined comment for this text, committed “tens of millions” of bucks to a privacy ad blitz around its Google+ social web site.

At identical time, privacy teams like client Watchdog, Electronic Privacy data Center, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, way forward for Privacy Forum, and also the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and government bodies like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. Congress, and also the European Commission are calling for checks and balances.

In the past 9 months, each Google and Facebook are subjected to FTC fines and sanctions that stretch over twenty years.

“These firms grew up quick and that they failed to investigate knowledge am fond of it was gold,” said Jules Polonetsky, director and co-chair of the longer term of Privacy Forum. “The FTC desires them to comprehend they need gold here and that they have to be compelled to use caution.”

Self-regulation, legal and end-user efforts have helped carve out some limits and restrictions on how knowledge is employed.

Bills are operating their means through Washington, like the business Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011, that needs protections of non-public data on-line.

This week, the ecu Commission proposed new on-line privacy rules that offer users among alternative protections the correct to raise for the deletion of data concerning them on sites like Facebook and Google. The proposal, that if passed into law would go into impact in 2014, would have world implications.

“Companies can have to be compelled to play by the ecu rules,” said John Simpson, director of privacy comes for the cluster client Watchdog. “And if they are doing that in Europe, it’ll be more durable for them to not do it in alternative places like the U.S.”

Outside of the legal machine, technologists are managing the fact that knowledge is out of the bag and it won’t return in. The challenge now’s a way to shut the bag and stop any leakage.

“The 1st step is to seek out knowledge that’s not being shared during this means currently as a result of it’s too sensitive, and than discover ways that to share it safely with sub-sets of the planet, not the complete world, and use that to prove there’s a secure knowledge sharing market,” says Eve Maler, an analyst with Forrester.

Before joining Forrester, Maler spearheaded and continues to figure on an ongoing effort referred to as User Managed Access (UMA), technology designed to place the user on top of things of their personal knowledge, deciding who gets what and what they will do with it.

It’s a piece in progress, and it builds on alternative rising technologies, notably OAuth two.0, an authentication/authorization framework for securing access to knowledge.

“UMA is concerning licensed sharing of your stuff regardless of where it’s and with people regardless of where they’re,” says Maler.

There are alternative efforts underway to assist users management their data and relationships on-line like personal knowledge stores, and Vendor Relationship Management, a project at the Berkman Center for net and Society at Harvard. Simpson is functioning with the planet Wide net Consortium on a “do not track” normal.

Giving that sense of management back to users would possibly simply be a wave that might catch on.

This week within the wake of Google’s new privacy policy, an off-the-cuff Washington Post survey of nearly fourteen,000 readers showed nearly sixty six were reaching to cancel their accounts within the wake of Google’s privacy changes.

Whether they will really cut the wire is another story.

“I assume the challenge is for the business to assist users feel on top of things of what’s occurring,” says Polonetsky. “Today the reaction is that this [data collection/aggregation] isn’t one thing being in deep trouble them, it’s one thing being done to them.”

If a shift in mindset comes concerning, it might be the beginning of great progress that advantages each the Facebooks and also the Googles of the planet yet because the users of these sites and alternative technology that watches, records, and archives digital life.

“These are actually historical moments,” said client Watchdog’s Simpson. “We are attempting to mapped out culturally what the acceptable bounds are to relinquish individuals the sort of non-public privacy that they need had traditionally however is currently deeply threatened by technological amendment.”

EFF’s Reitman says we tend to shouldn’t lose sight of the technological marvels developing before our eyes, nor the implications. “It has been a marvel to society, and in some respects a death knell for individual privacy.”

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Angry Birds on Facebook Launching Your Way on Valentine’s Day

Cyberjunky — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:50:53 +0000

What can be additional romantic than taking part in Angry Birds on Facebook along with your sweetheart or with a social network of relative strangers? The highly anticipated Facebook version of Angry Birds can officially be landing in a very browser close to you on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day.
Rovio, the studio behind the sport, has place out a trailer (above) and dropped several very little hints that the Angry Birds on Facebook won’t be precisely like its mobile counterparts. Rovio CEO Mikael Hed said the sport can have utterly new aspects and a additional collaborative feel. It’ll conjointly focus additional heavily on the hapless pigs.

From the trailer on top of it’s just like the same gameplay that created Angry Birds a viral (and financial) sensation are still the focus: Flinging birds across a screen to knock out pigs and build high scores. This being Facebook, expect social posts and friend challenges to play a job, though Rovio up to now has stayed mum on what those “collaborative” options are going to be.

It may appear to be a nasty plan to launch a game on Valentine’s Day, however given Angry Birds‘ success, Rovio will just about do what it needs. the sport — and its spin-offs — are downloaded quite five hundred million times, prompting Rovio CMO Peter Vesterbacka to mention the corporate was price quite $1.2 billion.

Angry Birds games are developed for nearly each major mobile platform or device however this is often the primary time the sport are going to be coming back to a browser on the social network. It’s a move designed to urge the sport into additional hands and additional news feeds, however at some purpose can we tend to simply be Angry Bird-ed out?

Is the Facebook launch a cause for celebration or simply additional of the same? allow us to apprehend within the comments below

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Top 10 Most Popular Kolaveri Di Versions

Cyberjunky — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:11:33 +0000

Check out the Top 10 Versions of ‘Kolaveri Di’ Song

We finally admit defeat to our curious nature and provides Kolaveri Di a strive. What did you expect? am fond of it or hate it, Kolaveri Di is here to remain for a awfully, terribly durable and can spawn thousands of imitations just like the high ten preferred Kolaveri Di versions listed below. This totally unknown songs shot to fame in late 2011 and quickly became one in every of the highest ten preferred and viral YouTube videos of 2011. Why it got therefore famous continues to be a mystery. we tend to admit that the music and beat is kind of catchy however that’s as so much as our understanding goes. Even with subtitles enabled, it absolutely was pretty onerous to work out what the singer was saying and you’ll be able to not imagine our astonishment {when we tend to|once we|after we} identified that the song was really in English! Enough of the compliments; we currently take a glance at the highest ten preferred Kolaveri Di versions found on YouTube. These covers and remixes are quite smart and that we daresay that the pupil has surpassed the master in some cases!

10. Child Version (Son of Sonu Nigam)

In the Child version of Kolaveri Di, the son of a very popular and famous playback singer Sonu Nigam tries at his cutest best to sing this song and gives a pretty decent performance. The Child version of Kolaveri Di ranks 10^th in the Top 10 Most Popular Kolaveri Di versions list.

9. Tom and Jerry version

Not needing much explanation, the song being played in the video is the original song but the video has been synchronized with a popular Tom and Jerry cartoon episode and is quite hilarious! 3 cheers for the guy who has made this video. This Tom and Jerry version is full of funny and crazy antics and is a must watch!

8. Girl version

Ignoring the fact that the accent was more wayward than the actual Kolaver Di song and only concentrating on the cute girl, the effort put in this remake is applusable. The overall contribution of the group is amazing and looks quite professional. This version is known as the Girl Version and is place 8^th in the Top 10 Most Popular Kolaveri Di versions list.

7. Slap song

This version is somewhat political and has to do something with an authority figure being slapped (quite hard!). There is nothing else in the video except that slap. Amazing how it has racked up more than a million and half views!

6. Exam version

You can probably relate to the story which is being told in this song once you have grown used to the way this singer pronounces certain words (no offense meant). The Exam version tells the sorry tale of students who are burdened with the constant examination system of our education department and how stress can have a negative effect on us.

5. Punjabi version

No remake or remix is complete now days without an Indian bhangra or Punjabi remix! You wont probably understand a single word of this song but the catchy beat and tempo will probably make your 2-3 minutes worth it.

4. Girls in the car

This Girls in the car version is not a remake but a sort of part 2 or answer to Kolaveri Di type of song. The girls are giving the answers to all the questions asked by the singer in the original songs. People have liked it a lot. Hope you like it too!

3. Baby version

What was actually a TV commercial for the French bottled water company was beautifully transformed in the Baby version of Kolaveri Di, complete with song converted into Alvin and the Chipmunks style song! The uploader even called it a zero cost production!

2. Rap version

The Rap version is the most unique version and stands out from the thousands of remakes and remixes made of this song. It easily goes head to with the original one! With original lyrics, crisp guitar chords and outstanding production quality, wee almost placed it at number 1 in the list! It is ranked (sigh!) at number 2 in the Top 10 Most Popular Kolaveri Di versions list.

1. Original version

Here is the granddaddy of them all; the original version! This is the song which instantly became viral when someone uploaded the song without even bothering to tell the singer. The guys rushed to make an official video when they saw how crazy the world was going over the song. So sit back and give it a final listen in 2012!

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Apple’s universal remote patent idea goes beyond TV

Cyberjunky — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:52:53 +0000

Another patent application has surfaced showing Apple’s interest in changing the method individuals entertain themselves in their living rooms.
It may not be the much-anticipated Apple TV set, however it will offer a touch or 2 a couple of management system for such a tool.

Chronicled by Apple Insider this morning, the patent filing details plans for a universal remote management system that uses a touchscreen to let users management multiple devices around their house. that has the TV, stereo, and even the MP3 player on a user’s laptop.

The patent application, that Apple filed for in September of last year and revealed this morning, makes the argument that remote controls became overly sophisticated, which configuring and using those remotes is even additional cumbersome (emphasis mine):

Manufacturers have created so-called universal remote controls, which can be trained to mimic several remote controls, and can then control each appliance for which they have been trained. While universal remote controls attempt to address the problem of multiple remote controls, these devices are even more complex to operate, further confusing the user. Additionally, a universal remote control may not be able to duplicate every command sequence designed into a remote control designed for the appliance, and for future appliances.

Apple’s answer is to scan for alternative devices and automatically add them to the system, displaying relevant menus and controls on the screen and letting users hop back and forth between devices. The system can even continuously scan for devices in vary, graying out or removing ones that are not any longer there to stay things tidy.

Of course touchscreen universal remotes are nothing new. Logitech and alternative corporations are providing such devices for years. So far, Apple’s solely foray into the area has been a foreign management app that controls its Apple TV set high box, and provides access to iTunes libraries that have home sharing enabled on a similar Wi-Fi network.

Third-party corporations like L5 Technology have conjointly come back up with infrared add-ons that may plug into iOS devices and use an app to regulate IR appliances.

This is, however, the newest patent application from Apple to require aim at remote controls for gadgets. One that cropped up in early 2008 detailed a Nintendo Wii-like remote that may track remote movements in a very 3D area, doubtless to be used with its Apple TV set high box.
In 2005 the corporate has conjointly explored customizable remote control-like devices as hardware add-ons to its computers and alternative moveable devices in a very separate patent application. A report within the big apple Times last October instructed Apple would forgo remote management hardware entirely if it ever created a TV set, selecting to use its Siri voice assistant instead.

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Google now posting emergency alerts via Google Maps

Cyberjunky — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:36:10 +0000

Google’s new Public Alerts page now offers information on emergencies around the world.

People probing for data on a natural disaster or alternative emergency anywhere within the world will currently keep abreast of the newest details courtesy of Google Maps.

The new Public Alerts page, that Google is launching nowadays, aims to stay you informed of emergency alerts for floods, tornadoes, winter storms, and alternative dangers which will be headed your manner.

The idea is tell you what is happening, when and where the disaster could hit, how severe it’ll be, and what resources are around to assist you, in keeping with a Google blog post.

You can seek for a particular item by going on to Google Maps and typing the name and site of the potential disaster. for instance, typing “winter storm alaska” displays “Winter Storm Warning in Northern Alaska” at the highest of the search results with a “more info” link that you just will click on to look at the total details.

You can conjointly go on to the general public Alerts page to look at of a listing of current emergency warnings throughout the globe. every warning is displayed on the map as a hotspot, that you’ll hover over or click on to look at additional data.

Either way, clicking on a specific emergency reveals all the main points as compiled by the Google Crisis Response team from varied government resources. you will find the newest news on the disaster or crisis beside recommendations on what you ought to do to shield yourself.

Since this is often Google’s 1st try at providing this kind of emergency data, the corporate is asking users to reply with any suggestions by clicking on the “Provide feedback” link at the lowest of the general public Alerts page.

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Apple’s Unbelievable All-Time Record iPhone, iPad and Mac Sales

Cyberjunky — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:15:13 +0000

Apple‘s blowout 1st quarter was notable for several reasons, not least of that was the company’s record revenues of $46.3 billion.

But the quarter was exceptional for many different reasons also. Apple, that is thought for keeping its affairs near the vest, released a raft of data on Tuesday. Here are a number of the highlights:

Apple sold thirty seven million iPhones within the quarter, a 128% hop over the comparable quarter in 2010.
iPad sales hit fifteen.4 million, an increase of 111%.
Mac sales were five.2 million, a rise of twenty sixth.
Apple sold fifteen.4 million iPods, variety that is down twenty first because the iPhone cannibalizes sales of additional limited-function devices.
Apple currently has $97.6 billion in money available.
Revenues from iTunes hit $1.7 billion. quite one hundred forty million apps and items of content were downloaded on Dec. 25.
There are one.5 million iPads getting used by academic establishments.
iCloud has eighty five million users. There are currently 550,000 apps out there. Developers of such apps have earned quite $4 billion, $700 million in Q1.
Apple Stores created $6.1 billion in revenues for the quarter. the typical revenue per store was $17.1 million vs. $12 million last year. There are regarding twenty two,000 guests per store per week.
Apple’s revenues for the quarter were on top of the company’s revenues for its entire fiscal 2009.

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IBM’s Forecast of Five Innovations that will Alter the tech landscape

Cyberjunky — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:07:35 +0000

IBM’s Forecast of Five Innovations that will Alter the tech landscape

Every year IBM predicts the future of technology via the IBM 5 in 5 initiative–our forecast of five innovations that will help transform aspects of modern life, making the planet smarter, within the next five years. We assess not just the availability of a new technology but also the likelihood of its large-scale adoption.

This year’s predictions:

·    People power will come to life
·    You will never need a password again
·    Mind reading is no longer science fiction
·   The digital divide will cease to exist
·   Junk mail will become priority mail

Join the Twitter converation at #ibm5in5Click here to vote on the coolest prediction.

Making this kind of prediction is difficult. (In fact, to me, sadly, the one about eliminating the digital divide seems impossible.) So, every year, IBM researchers stick out their necks. Which is risky. “A lot of people wait for things to happen. It’s rare than an organization says: this is a big change, and it’s coming,” says IBM Fellow Bernard Meyerson.

Why do they do it? In addition to the PR value, we complete this exercise annually because it makes IBMers think hard about what’s possible and to strive to make it so. Simply put, the process of choosing the predictions and defending them is good for us.

Meyerson, who plays a role in the annual exercise, says the most useful thing about the process is that it requires IBMers to think holistically about innovation. They can’t consider science and technology in a vacuum. They also have to think deeply about social trends, market conditions the willingness of people to pay for cutting-edge technologies. That’s the kind of thinking that can transform inventions into high-impact innovations.

We’ve been issuing the Next 5 in 5 predictions for the past six years. So, how are we doing? Mindful of the difficulty, and considering the fact that for most of the predictions less than five years have passed, we’ve done pretty well.

Two of the first year’s predictions, for instance, have pretty much come true:

We will be able to access healthcare remotely from just about anywhere in the world. Today, through telemedicine, patients can connect with physicians or specialists from just about anywhere via inexpensive computers and broadband networks. Doctors can view x-rays and other diagnostic imagery from thousands of miles away.

Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance. Nanotechnology is now used in countless fields and industries, including agriculture, biotechnology and sensor networks, enabling us to understand and interact with the natural environment like never before.

Predictions from other years have panned out as well. A couple of examples:

You will have a crystal ball for your health. Thanks to advances in genetic research and high-performance computing it is now possible to affordably decipher an individual’s entire genome. This makes it possible for physicians to alert people to medical conditions they might fall prey to, and it clears the pathway, eventually, to truly personal medicine.

You will talk to the Web…and the Web will talk back. Today, speech recognition and mobile communications technologies make it possible for people to talk to the Internet using their computers or mobile phones, be understood, and listen to automated voices that are responsive to their needs.

The Next 5 in 5 initiative got its start in an IBM Innovation Jam in 2006. The seed goal was to get the entire company thinking about grand challenges. “If you give people a grand challenge you push them to really innovate,” says Meyerson. “That’s when extraordinary things can happen.”

IBM has played a significant role in each of these breakthroughs. So, it’s working.

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Video Manager Revamped by YouTube

Cyberjunky — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:21:26 +0000

YouTube revamped its Video Manager on Friday in an update that coincides with the homepage makeover from earlier this month.

Like the new YouTube homepage style, the Video Manager is currently cleaner and fewer cluttered. It additionally higher fits into the larger Google ecosystem.

At the YouTube Blog, the team runs through a number of the most important changes. These include:

Status icons to spot a clips privacy setting, monetization choices and post schedules.
Badges to quickly establish a clip as HD, shut captioned or inventive Commons licensed
An easier thanks to upload new clips directly from the sidebar.

The new look goes an extended method towards creating the video management method inside YouTube less chaotic. It additionally aligns with the company’s increasingly obvious goal of making the same style language across all Google properties.

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5 Small Biz Mobile Marketing Strategies for the Holidays Season

Cyberjunky — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:58:24 +0000

This year’s record-breaking Cyber Monday and Black Friday sales are an honest indication that a successful vacation looking season is well underway. We’re seeing massive retailers pull out all the stops when it involves holiday-centric mobile promoting campaigns.

In fact, approximately fifty two of smartphone users can use their devices to analysis merchandise, redeem coupons and use apps to help in their vacation gift purchase.

It’s not too late for Main Street to hop on the mobile promoting sleigh either — you don’t would like a giant budget to execute a good mobile campaign. Though you’ll have already launched your print and web site advertising campaigns, contemplate the subsequent 5 last-minute mobile promoting ways — and acquire a jumpstart on 2012.

1. Create a Specialized Mobile Holiday App

One study shows that forty third of mobile shoppers have downloaded a retail app. even though you already supply an app for your business, contemplate making an app particularly for the vacation season — it’ll do even additional to draw in last-minute shoppers.

With variety of low-cost, DIY tools on the market on the market, tiny businesses will simply produce and update universal apps which will be prepared for distribution constant day. additionally to vacation specials and store hours, your app ought to embody a feedback type and a few style of coupon designed to spice up sales throughout the post-holiday slump. Your feedback type ought to raise customers what quite mobile outreach they’d be most receptive to and collect their mobile numbers for your 2012 campaigns.

2. Build your Mobile Database

If even the best app is beyond your reach at once, collecting client mobile numbers are going to be essential for your 2012 campaigns. the rise in store traffic throughout the vacations can translate to a bigger database. Hand customers their closing paper coupon at the point-of-sale to redeem in-store post-holiday, in exchange for his or her mobile range. you’ll be able to conjointly add a type field to your web site prompting customers to enter their mobile numbers in exchange for a coupon or special supply.

Building your mobile database can enable you to require advantage of text or SMS promoting campaigns next year, a low-cost mobile promoting channel that’s accessible to 100% of portable users.

3. Get in on Location-Based Deal Services

Though spending is on the increase this year, customers are still probing for ways in which to stretch their bucks, and they’re doing it via their mobile devices. Fifty-three p.c of american citizens are willing to supply their location in exchange for additional relevant content and higher info, together with mobile deals.

Do your bottom line a favor and sign in for mobile deal and location-based platforms to form positive you’re discovered. From Shopkick to Groupon, Foursquare to Yelp, analysis your choices and sign in to usher in new — and presumably repeat — customers. as an example, contemplate giving a limited-time vacation special on Foursquare that, once unlocked via checkin, rewards customers.

4. Engage Customers with a Holiday-Themed QR Code

QR code promoting could be a good way to make whole awareness and make the most of a replacement technology, particularly since ninety million individuals within the U.S. own smartphones — up 100% from 3 months ago, in line with a survey simply released by comScore.

It’s surprisingly simple to customise QR codes, creating yours stand out from the gang. Do it yourself or visit an internet site like QRlicious, that guarantees a QR code turnaround time of twenty four hours.

If executed properly, QR codes will remodel static print campaigns into interactive, trackable advertisements. EShave, that offers upscale shaving merchandise and accessories, placed QR code posters in many phone kiosks. The QR code results in a mobile website that lets users produce their own shaving sets, and was conjointly designed to drive foot traffic to their Rockefeller Center store in the big apple.

At the terribly least, your vacation QR code ought to link to a landing page that encourages vacation shoppers to redeem exclusive discounts.

5. Provide an Integrated Holiday Marketing Campaign

Integrating all or a number of the on top of ways can bolster your vacation promoting campaigns, however check that to conjointly promote your mobile presence in-store. as an example, throughout the shop show a QR code that links to your app or a special promotion. show in your store window to draw in prospective customers even when you’re closed. Incorporate your QR code and/or app link into your vacation email blasts and promote them on your web site and via social media. corporations like fashionable Postcard supply fast turnaround and can conjointly print your QR code onto junk. Let customers understand that deal websites you belong to with store signage and thru your usual communication channels.

Mobile promoting isn’t any longer the exclusive domain of huge brands. Today’s competitive campaigns and also the low value of entry for several mobile promoting ways have created it cheap for SMBs to implement multiple ways. throughout the vacations you’ll be able to check out many choices and later decide which of them to use for your 2012 mobile promoting set up.

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Internet Sensation : Why This Kolaveri Di…

Cyberjunky — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:24:24 +0000

Why This Kolaveri Di…

Internet phenomenon Why This Kolaveri Di… already has over 5,842,596 YouTube hits. The song was uploaded on the video-sharing website by the makers less than two weeks ago, and ‘soup’ people are already wondering what to expect next from the track that is part of the OST of Rajinikanth’s Aishwarya’s directorial debut— a Tamil film called 3.

And the man, who planned the song’s meticulous rise to superstardom, Shridhar Subramaniam, president of Sony Music India, India and Middle East, has no intention to disappoint fans. “We are launching the album (OST of 3) on December 12 and also working on a few variations and club mixes to make the song more accessible for the party season,” he says.

Composed by Anirudh Ravichander and written-sung by south-star Dhanush, who also features in the film and is married to the director, there are now plans to get a female version of this song.

Riding high on its success, the music company has even readied a CD of other popular songs from the south. “Suddenly, everyone has realised Tamil music is good, so we’re taking Kolaveri… and some massively popular tracks, including Ringa Ringa… (track that inspired Dhinka Chika… from Ready) and putting them together in an album titled, Simply South.” The CD will be out in stores by December second week for a price of Rs 199.

Here’s how to go viral
Whether Kolaveri Di… deserves its attention or not, there’s one question everyone seems to be asking — how did the song go viral this fast? Subramaniam tries to reveal the formula:

1 Make it unique: The content should bring a smile to your face.
2 Cannot appear flawless: The ‘-u’ bit in the video was a quirk and the video has to have a homemade quality to it.
3 Be active on social network: Get influencers, friends, who have lots of followers on Twitter/FB. Hash-tag it yourself.
4 Get mentioned in mainstream media from radio, and TV to print.
5 Create variants: Take that interesting factor forward. Don’t let it die or fade out.

Click here to tell us why is Kolaveri THE song of the moment

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Web Designing and Creating eBook Collection

Cyberjunky — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:05:45 +0000

Web Designing and Creating eBook Collection | PDF | English | 2.14 GB
Great collection of ebooks for all you need regarding webdesign.Books on AJAX, ASP.NET, Sybex, HTML, XML, CSS 2.0 7 many more

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HTML5 and JavaScript Projects

Cyberjunky — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:28:25 +0000

HTML5 and JavaScript Projects By Jeanine Meyer
Publisher: Apr..ess 2011 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 1430240326 | EPUB | 16 MB

HTML5 and JavaScript Projects shows you how to build on your basic knowledge of HTML5 and JavaScript to create substantial HTML5 applications. Through the many interesting projects you can build in this book, you’ll build your HTML5 skills for your future projects, and extend the core skills you may have learned with its companion book, The Essential Guide to HTML5.
HTML5 and JavaScript Projects covers the most important areas of HTML5 that you’ll want to know how to program, including: video, and audio, databases, localStorage, and geolocation. The projects have been carefully selected to help you build your HTML5 and JavaScript programming skills. You’ll build games and applications, such as video jigsaws, recipe archives, paper dolls, and many more captivating examples.
Each project starts out with an introduction to the basic HTML5 and JavaScript concepts covered and then includes specific, appealing examples explained step-by-step. You’ll also discover line-by-line explanations for every single line of code—we’ll make sure that you can fully understand what each line of code does, so that you can easily take that understanding and apply it to your own HTML5 projects.
HTML5 and JavaScript Projects:
Shows how to produce applications combining Canvas drawings, photos, and videos
Explains how to incorporate Google Maps and geolocation into your projects
Reveals how to build applications requiring persistent data, storing the information locally or on a database on the server
What you’ll learn
How to create line drawings using mathematical operations for defining coordinate positions
How to incorporate Google Maps and geolocation to determine the location of the user
How to use locations as triggers for playing videos using JavaScript
How to combine the canvas with geolocation maps using HTML5 and JavaScript
Use HTML5 Audio for event sounds and background music
How to manipulate, store and retrieve complex information using localStorage
How to build applications involving JavaScript and the HTML5 APIs
Who this book is for
HTML5 and JavaScript Projects is for the developer who wants and needs to move to the next level of Web development, including more sophisticated programming and the design and construction of sets of applications. This book targets people who want to go beyond the basics of HTML5 and, for example, incorporate maps using the Google Maps API into their work or build projects that require persistent data on the client computer (localStorage). The book will be helpful for people working in teams, where considerable effort is required to create, access and manage information.

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Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max (ePUB + PDF)

Cyberjunky — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:57:32 +0000

Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max (ePUB + PDF)

Apress | 2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 143023668X | ePUB + PDF | 52MB
Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max walks you through the awesome features and apps standard on the Mac and the new OS X 10.7 Lion to help you become a true power user. You’ll discover keyboard shortcuts and gestures to help save time–whether you’re on a iMac, Mac mini, Macbook Pro, Air, or other Mac computer.

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Beginning with the core of OS X – the Finder – Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max outlines many of the new features and powerful revisions that make Lion the best version of OS X yet. The authors, all bloggers at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (tuaw.com), spent countless hours with Lion to show you how to fully leverage your Mac and the new OS X. And, have some fun, too!
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Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence

Cyberjunky — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:43:10 +0000

Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence: Reporting, Analysis, and Measurement from the Desktop
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | 2007 | ISBN: 0071494243 | Pages: 444 | PDF | 55,45 MB

This authoritative volume is a practical guide to the powerful new collaborative Business Intelligence tools available in Office 2007. Using real-world examples and clear explanations, Microsoft Office 2007 BusinessIntelligence: Reporting, Analysis, and Measurement from the Desktop shows you how to use Excel, Excel Services, SharePoint, and PerformancePoint with a wide range of stand-alone and external data in today’s networked office. You will learn how to analyze data and generate reports, scorecards, and dashboards with the Office tools you’re already using to help you in your everyday work.
• Create Excel PivotTables and PivotCharts and apply Conditional Formatting
• Convert Excel spreadsheets into Excel Tables with Conditional Formatting and Charting
• Connect external data to Excel using Office Data Connections and SharePoint
• Create SharePoint dashboards that display data from multiple sources
• Add Key Performance Indicators and Excel Services reports to your dashboards
• Harness advanced SQL Server 2005 data analysis tools with the Excel Data Mining Add-In and Visio Cluster Diagrams
• Generate integrated PerformancePoint Scorecards
• Create Visio PivotDiagrams and Windows Mobile spreadsheets

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Steve Jobs Biography – Facts, Birthday, Life Story

Cyberjunky — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:40:18 +0000

Synopsis

Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. Smart but directionless, Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computers with Stephen Wozniak in the Jobs’ family garage. Apple’s revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.

Synopsis
Early Life
Apple Computers
Departure from Apple
Reinventing Apple
Pancreatic Cancer
Recent Innovations
Personal Life
Final Years

QUOTES

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

– Steve Jobs

Early Life

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah “John” Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His father, Abdulfattah Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor and his mother, Joanne Simpson, worked as a speech therapist. Shortly after Steve was placed for adoption, his biological parents married and had another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information on his biological parents.

As an infant, Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. The family lived in Mountain View within California’s Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby which instilled confidence, tenacity, and mechanical prowess in young Jobs.

While Jobs has always been an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. In elementary school he was a prankster whose fourth grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school—a proposal his parents declined.

After he did enroll in high school, Jobs spent his free time at Hewlett-Packard. It was there that he befriended computer club guru Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was a brilliant computer engineer, and the two developed great respect for one another.

Apple Computers

After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking direction, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes. Jobs later recounted how one course in calligraphy developed his love of typography.

In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left Atari to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling the continent and experimenting with psychedelic drugs. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator.

Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making the machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive, and accessible to everyday consumers. The two conceived a series of user-friendly personal computers that they initially marketed for $666.66 each. Their first model, the Apple I, earned them $774,000. Three years after the release of their second model, the Apple II, sales increased 700 percent to $139 million dollars. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publically traded company with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Scully of Pepsi-Cola to help fill the role of Apple’s President.

Departure from Apple

However, the next several products from Apple suffered significant design flaws resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment. IBM suddenly surpassed Apple sales, and Apple had to compete with an IBM/PC dominated business world. In 1984 Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. But despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM’s PCs, the Macintosh was still not IBM compatible. Scully believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and executives began to phase him out.

In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar’s potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money into the company. Pixar Studios went on to produce wildly popular animation films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Pixar’s films have netted $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney’s largest shareholder.

Reinventing Apple

Despite Pixar’s success, NeXT, Inc. floundered in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America. Apple eventually bought the company in 1997 for $429 million. That same year, Jobs returned to his post as Apple’s CEO.

Much like Steve Jobs instigated Apple’s success in the 1970s, he is credited with revitalizing the company in the 1990s. With a new management team, altered stock options, and a self-imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track. His ingenious products such as the iMac, effective branding campaigns, and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again.

Pancreatic Cancer

In 2003, Jobs discovered he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. Instead of immediately opting for surgery, Jobs chose to alter his pescovegetarian diet while weighing Eastern treatment options. For nine months Jobs postponed surgery, making Apple’s board of directors nervous. Executives feared that shareholders would pull their stocks if word got out that their CEO was ill. But in the end, Job’s confidentiality took precedence over shareholder disclosure. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. True to form, in subsequent years Jobs disclosed little about his health.

Recent Innovations

Apple introduced such revolutionary products as the Macbook Air, iPod, and iPhone, all of which have dictated the evolution of modern technology. Almost immediately after Apple releases a new product, competitors scramble to produce comparable technologies. In 2007, Apple’s quarterly reports were the company’s most impressive statistics to date. Stocks were worth a record-breaking $199.99 a share, and the company boasted a staggering $1.58 billion dollar profit, an $18 billion dollar surplus in the bank, and zero debt.

In 2008, iTunes became the second biggest music retailer in America-second only to Wal-Mart. Half of Apple’s current revenue comes from iTunes and iPod sales, with 200 million iPods sold and six billion songs downloaded. For these reasons, Apple has been rated No. 1 in America’s Most Admired Companies, and No. 1 amongst Fortune 500 companies for returns to shareholders.

Personal Life

Early in 2009, reports circulated about Jobs’ weight loss, some predicting his health issues had returned, which included a liver transplant. Jobs had responded to these concerns by stating he was dealing with a hormone imbalance. After nearly a year out of the spotlight, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote address at an invite-only Apple event September 9, 2009.

In respect to his personal life, Steve Jobs remained a private man who rarely discloses information about his family. What is known is Jobs fathered a daughter with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan when he was 23. Jobs denied paternity of his daughter Lisa in court documents, claiming he was sterile. Jobs did not initiate a relationship with his daughter until she was 7 but, when she was a teenager, she came to live with her father.

In the early 1990s, Jobs met Laurene Powell at Stanford business school, where Powell was an MBA student. They married on March 18, 1991, and lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children.

Final Years

On October 5, 2011, Apple Inc. announced that co-founder Steve Jobs had died. He was 56 years old at the time of his death.

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Reserve Bank of India warns of another global financial crisis

Cyberjunky — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:34:10 +0000

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has warned of another financial crisis brewing, as global liquidity becomes a concern amidst central banks pegging their lending rates at near zero levels, leaving scope for another asset bubble to take down the global financial system.

“There is, thus, incontrovertible evidence that there is yet again a huge under-pricing of risks in the financial system and, therefore, it is not a question of if, but when, the generic asset bubble caused by manifold increases in balance sheets of central banks will burst,” said RBI, executive director, VK Sharma in his address in Singapore on ‘Identifying Systemic Risks in the Global Markets – Lessons Learnt from the Crisis’. He spoke about what has been done by Asian central bankers in detecting and mitigating risks of future crises similar to the one in 2008-09.

One of the major worries this time around, which did not exist back then, is global liquidity, Sharma said. Balance sheets of major banks have grown by almost three times from pre-2007 levels, while near-zero policy rates have added $4 trillion in incremental central bank liquidity. Sharma mentioned that the US has been keeping excess reserves of about $1.5 trillion with theFederal Reserve rather than lending it to small businesses and households.

“Alongside, non-financial corporations in the US are reportedly sitting on cash and liquid assets worth $2 trillion which they do not know what to do with it. In this background of huge deluge of global liquidity, there are unmistakable signs of asset bubble inflating again in almost a replay of the last global financial crisis.” Sharma said.

“In India, we have had remarkable financial stability, not fortuitously, but thanks to pre-emptively and pro-actively delivered prudential measures like increase in risk weights for exposures to commercial real estate, capital market, venture capital funds and systemically important non-deposit accepting NBFCs.

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iPhone 4S: Should You Choose AT&T, Verizon or Sprint?

Cyberjunky — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:41:11 +0000

The iPhone 4S is available for pre-order in just a few hours, and for the first time it will be available on the U.S.’s three largest wireless networks: Verizon, AT&T and Sprint. Pre-orders for the new iPhone begin at 12:01 AM PT on Friday (that’s later tonight, but technically extremely early tomorrow morning) — so if you stay up late, you can be one of the first.

That leaves an important question for the millions of you eager to upgrade to the iPhone 4S: Which carrier should you choose?

The short answer is that it depends on your priorities. Some networks win on price, while others win on network speed or 3G coverage. To help you make an informed decision, we’ve done a quick analysis of the three major carriers.

Here are some factors to consider when choosing between AT&T, Verizon and Sprint:

Price

Owning an iPhone isn’t cheap. You have to buy the minutes, the data plan and the texting plan, and that bill can easily top $ 100 per month.

If you’re a price-conscious consumer looking for the best overall deal, then you’re going to want to choose Sprint. While Sprint’s voice plans are slightly more expensive ($ 69.99 for 450 minutes and $ 99.99 for unlimited) than Verizon or AT&T’s plans ($ 59.99 for 450 minutes and $ 89.99 for unlimited), its data plan is much cheaper.

For unlimited data, Sprint costs just $ 10 per month. AT&T costs a whopping $ 55 for 5GB of data, and Verizon charges $ 50. One other thing to note though: Sprint tacks on an extra $ 29.99 for a mobile hotspot, while AT&T and Verizon include it with plans 4GB and above.

If you were to get a 900-minute plan with unlimited texting and 2GB of data per month, you’d save approximately $ 120-240 on a two-year contract with Sprint.

Unlimited Data

In an attempt to differentiate itself from the competition, Sprint is offering unlimited data for an astoundingly cheap $ 10 a month. Verizon and AT&T do not offer unlimited data plans anymore. However, if you had an unlimited data plan on AT&T before they killed it, you’re grandfathered in. That’s how I still have an unlimited data plan on my AT&T iPhone.

Speed

AT&T is the only GSM carrier of the three, which means two things: Its 3G network is faster and supports simultaneous talking and web surfing.

Last year, PCWorld tested the three networks for their speeds. AT&T trumped Verizon and Sprint with an average download speed of 1410 kbps. Verizon achieved 877 kbps on average, while Sprint clocked in at 795 kbps.

Of course, networks have improved since then, but AT&T’s GSM network is still faster, hands-down. It will get the closest to the iPhone 4S’s theoretical max download speed of 14.4 mbps (14,400 kbps).

Talking & Web Surfing

In the area of talking while surfing the web, AT&T is also the winner. Sprint and Verizon’s CDMA networks simply don’t support this functionality. So if you love checking restaurant reviews or reading Mashable articles while chatting with your friends, then AT&T is your only choice.

Network Reliability

AT&T’s network is notorious for its dropped calls and dead zones. iPhone users simply went to town on AT&T’s infrastructure. It’s part of the reason why AT&T wants to acquire T-Mobile.

But in a 2010 nationwide reliability test by PCWorld, AT&T and Sprint were tops with 94% reliability (Verizon scored a 92%).

Of course, that was 2010 and all three have been making infrastructure improvements. AT&T has activated several towers in the San Francisco Bay Area (one of its weakest areas) in the last few months, though any Bay Area native will tell you that AT&T still has a long way to go.

In the end, network reliability depends on your location. But Verizon has the biggest advantage here: It has the largest 3G network of the three. You’re more likely to get a 3G signal in the countryside with Verizon than you are with AT&T.

The Bottom Line

If you’re buying an iPhone 4S, which network should you pick? That really depends on your priorities:

If you care about speed the most, AT&T is your best choice.

If you care about simultaneous talking and web surfing, AT&T is your best choice as well

If you’re very price-conscious, Sprint is the way to go.

If you care about unlimited data, Sprint is the only one that offers a new plan.

If your concern is network reliability, you need to test the different networks in the areas you visit most.

If you travel a lot and want constant 3G access, Verizon is your best bet.

In a few years, we’ll have to revisit this issue as 4G networks become more mainstream. But for right now, iPhone users have more choices than ever.

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Memories Of Steve Jobs: Interviews & Inspiration

Cyberjunky — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:06:47 +0000

Here’s how a typical press interview with Steve Jobs used to go in the early 2000s. You wouldn’t be immediately ushered into his presence; you would be passed from PR person to PR person, corridor to corridor, waiting at each step, until you reached the inner sanctum.

You would often pass a fellow journalist on his way out, looking white as a sheet and shaking his head like he’d gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson. You would mentally prepare your questions about the latest Apple product, knowing that Steve would bat them away like flies and say what he wanted to say.

And then there you were, with the man himself: black turtleneck, jeans, white trainers, spiky salt-and-pepper stubble, and those no-nonsense eyes that could look straight into your soul. You’d sputter out a question while he sipped from a bottle of Odwalla. Perhaps he would deign to answer politely, or perhaps he would interrupt: “that’s a stupid question. That’s not what we should be talking about.”

If you could survive twenty minutes of this without cracking, his demeanor would soften. If you were lucky, then just for a moment the mask would slip, and Steve would break into a broad smile. It was a grin that acknowledged the silliness of this interview game — and that you both loved playing your roles in it.

Always Passionate

As a technology writer for Time magazine in the 1990s and 2000s, I went through this routine a dozen times. It’s easy to forget, but back then an Apple product launch was not a huge deal. The company was seen as struggling, a distant second to Microsoft, even years after Jobs had retaken the helm. I had to fight for a single page on the launch of the iPod in 2001, for instance, at a time when the headlines were all about war and terror.

But Jobs was always compelling. He was the news. His enormous passion for a product was unrivaled in any industry, before or since. As long as I could convey him on the page, Steve as he really was, Apple stories were an easy sell for my editors.

The Urgency of the Future

The more stories I did, the friendlier Steve got. He started calling me at home with story ideas and off-the-record information. He asked me to interview him on a video that would be broadcast at a Warner Music conference; this was when he was still trying to persuade the record labels to let him sell songs within iTunes.

I figured this meant we should start with a few softball questions about music in general, but Steve interrupted and got straight to the pitch: 99-cent MP3s would save the music industry. Of course, he was absolutely right, and of course, he got his way.

Here was a man who knew precisely what the future looked like, and had no patience for anyone or anything who got in the way. Not a second was to be wasted. The vision was too important. This is what he meant in that famous Stanford commencement speech: “your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

Making Airplanes In the Sun

But there was a whimsical side to him, too. Once Steve tried to pitch me a story on the architecture of Pixar’s headquarters. It wasn’t new; he was just eager to show it off, and hounded me until I agreed to take a tour with him. We must have sat down in every room in the building, Steve grinning like a proud parent the whole time. I patiently explained why it probably wasn’t going to be in the magazine (this was before modern Web journalism and its infinite capacity for stories).

It didn’t faze him one bit. In his mind, it was a worthy story, and that was all that mattered. For Steve Jobs, every day was like Christmas morning, and nothing could shake that feeling.

My most enduring memory of him speaks to that fact too. It was a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto, and I was having lunch with a friend in an Italian restaurant. Suddenly, Steve came in and ordered takeout. He was wearing a T-shirt and cut-off jeans, just another happy suburban dad.

He took his food and left, and as he walked down that beautiful leafy street, he stretched out his arms like an airplane — like he was flying into the sunshine.

For all the times I’ve seen him at the height of his powers on stage, and for all the sweat-inducing interviews, that is how I will remember Steve Jobs — completely confident and carefree, being just who he wanted to be, flying straight into the future.

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Google Improves iOS App for Google+

Cyberjunky — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:50:25 +0000

Google is on a roll, not sitting idly by while Facebook has its moment in the media spotlight. After opening its Google+ social network to the public — gaining an additional 10 million users in its first two days — now the search giant follows Tuesday’s Android update of Google+ with a similar refresh to its iOS version, now available free on the App Store [iTunes link].

What’s new? Like its Android cousin, the iOS version of the Google+ mobile app now supports Hangouts, letting groups communicate with each other using front-facing cameras on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch. In addition to Hangouts, the app offers better control of its various notifications, and a renamed Messenger (formerly Huddle) that now lets users attach photos to chat threads.

Other niceties include the ability to +1 in comments, improved +mention support, a map view in Profile for places you’ve lived, and various reliability improvements. Macstories.net’s Federico Viticci had a chance to try out the new features in Hangouts — take a look at his experience here.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Internal Links, Keyword Density & Other Techniques

Cyberjunky — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:53:25 +0000

SEO is a quite tricky, but helpful art of fully optimizing a Web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines. Online companies and organizations that practice this unique form of Web site optimization can vary; as there are some who have a more specialized approach, while others take a broader and more general approach.

Optimizing a web site for search engines usually may require verifying many unique facets, more so that SEO practitioners consider themselves involved in a much wider field of Web site optimization, as those elements are somehow interrelated to each other.

Why Search Engines Easily Locate An Optimized Web Site

It’s a fact these days, that most search engines continue to constantly work towards fine-tuning their technology to crawl the Worldwide Web more comprehensively and locate and retrieve more relevant results to users. However, as with almost all aspects of technology, there will always be a limit to how search engines can operate.

Whereas the right moves can attract you hundreds, or even thousands of visitors, along with wider attention, while the wrong moves can hide or bury your site deep in the search results where visibility is minimal. In addition to making content available to search engines, SEO can also help boost rankings so that content that has been found will be placed where searchers will be able to easily see it. The online environment is becoming increasingly competitive, and those firms who perform SEO will have a more distinct advantage in getting targeted traffic and buying customers.

Creating Better Incoming Links

As most SEO industry veterans would say it, a link is a link is a link. However, without the simplest form, your Web sit will not fare well in most search engines. It’s advisable that the more links you have, the better that chances you’ll get of being crawled by the search engine spiders.

It is also vital to ensure that you have the proper anchor text for your incoming links. According to experts, perhaps the best method of gaining good-quality links from other Web sites, is to link to those sites, and let them be aware that your site is there and hope for a reciprocal link from them.

Proper Keyword Density Matters

Analyzing the right keyword density for your Web site’s articles is truly helpful in making your Web site become more efficient, and visible as well. While you do not wish to go overboard and use the keyword every 5th word, ensuring that it comes up quite often will help you rank much higher in most search engines. It’s advised that you should place your keywords not more then 5% of the total per page, as putting more than that would amount to spamming.

Having The Right Web site Titles Helps

In ensuring that you attain the proper Web site titles for your pages is crucial, as the keywords you place in your title are helpful in ensuring that your topic is understood by search engines like Google for instance. One of the important aspects for ranking, is if the title is on-topic with the search results. Using appropriate, good titles and topics on your Web site helps to generate more online traffic than in attaining a higher placement on the listing.

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Keyword Tools and Trackers – How to Find the Right One For You

Cyberjunky — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:53:23 +0000

Keyword relevancy is probably one of the most important aspects of any successful ad campaign. In order for your ad to rank high in the search engines, your ad should be keyword rich both in the title and in the body of the ad. Without the right keywords in the title, your ad will most likely be mis-categorized. That in itself would severely limit the exposure you are trying to get in the first place. The title is the first thing people read so it needs to briefly describe exactly what you are selling.

The first couple of words in the title should be relevant enough to tell the reader what information they should expect to receive from your ad or article. Let’s say you are creating an ad for fertilizer for roses. Your ad title should reflect that, and may look something similar to this: “The Best Fertilizer For Red Roses.” This confirms right away to the person doing a search for fertilizer for roses that they have found exactly what they are searching for. You have included the keyword roses and the keyword fertilizer and in the process let them know they have found the best fertilizer at the same time.

The same theory applies to the body of the add. The body of the ad should be even more keyword rich for both the sake of the person doing the search, and for the search engines to rank your ad and categorize it. You want it to rank high and try to get it on the first page of the search results in Google for example. People generally don’t search much past the first page when trying to find whatever it is they are looking for. I seldom look past that first page of search results and very rarely even look at the third page.

Using a reliable keyword tool or tracker can make the difference of you creating a successful ad campaign or one that is just mediocre. Having the ability to find relevant keywords and being able to track the keywords people are searching for, can make a huge difference in the money you create make from your ads. You need to know what the people are searching for and what words they are typing in the search engines. Using the example I described above again. If you were to just use a title like “How To Grow Beautiful Roses”, doesn’t tell a thing about the main thing you are selling, and that is fertilizer for roses.

Keyword relevance and tracking is what I would call the most important thing you should concentrate on when creating any ad or article. The title should be between 3 and 5 words that are keyword rich and tell exactly what is inside the ad body. The same goes for the body it should have relevant keywords throughout so the search engines pick up on these and rank your ad high enough that people will find it when they do a search. I always use a keyword tool before starting any ad campaign so that I can know that I am getting the right words and phrases the people are searching for in front of the reader.

If you can give them exactly what they are looking for, your chances of selling to them increase significantly. At that point it is up to you to build a relationship with them, and get them to know and trust you enough to come back and buy again. Remember that your keywords attract the buyer and knowing what they are looking for can only be accomplished through proper keywords tools and trackers. If you are not yet ready to spend money on a good keyword tool, there are some free ones out there to get you going, but if you want to excel then dig into your pockets and put out a few dollars. The return for your investment will more than pay for itself.

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Choosing the Correct Keywords to Be Successful with Article Marketing

Cyberjunky — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:53:21 +0000

When you’re making any recipe, you need to make sure that you put the ingredients in, in the order specified. If you skipped over an ingredient then the recipe would not turn out as well as what it should. As an example, if you are baking cookies and decided not to use flour in the recipe, you would be unhappy with how they turn out. This is also true when you are using the correct ingredients that are called out in the recipe. If you were to put all of the ingredients into those cookies but then decided to use butter instead of sugar the cookies would turn out horrible and certainly nobody would eat them. This is also true when we are writing articles. If we don’t start out with the proper ingredients, the key words, then they will be ruined and you can’t get anybody to read them.

Going down through the list of ingredients that go into a successful article we first see the proper keywords. If anybody is going to be able to find your article then it has to be positioned on the search engines in such a way that people can find it. For this reason it is more complex than writing an article that is themed well in order for you to be successful with your article marketing efforts. You need to start out with good keyword research and then create your articles using those keywords so that they will be listed well in search engines. But how do you find the proper type of keywords for your articles?

Let’s use as an example an article that we will write about gardening. It might be tempting to use keywords such as vegetable gardening or flower gardening as our main keywords but if you check Google using those keywords you will soon find out that you are competing against far too many other websites. Yes, you might be listed for these keywords, but you’ll be on page 300 where nobody will see you. What is necessary to do is to find longer keyword phrases that will be able to pull in traffic that is interested in what you have to offer. These keywords will have to be searched for but not be too competitive in the search engines. Many people call these types of keyword phrases long tail.

In order to find long tailed keyword phrases it is necessary to research using one of the popular SEO research tools that are available on the Internet. Some of the most popular of these tools are overture and also a service known as Wordtracker. My personal favorite is Wordtracker, they offer a free service but you get much more if you purchase the paid service. When you use these tools, you will discover long tailed keyword phrases that are actually being searched for by people in the search engines. By using the example we had earlier of gardening, you might be able to find such keyword phrases as “planting a vegetable garden” or “Rose Garden tips”. Because these phrases have a lot less competition, it will be easier for you to rank highly in Google and the other search engines.

If you want to write good articles then you need to use great keywords. You can’t skip over the step of researching your keywords. By doing this research in advance and then writing your articles surrounding those particular keyword phrases, they will be found in the search engines and people will land on your article pages. In this way you will be able to get the traffic to your website that is comprised of people that actually want your product or service. Just make sure that you use all of the ingredients and use them in their proper order and people will enjoy the articles that you bake up.

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Guidelines for Good Title Tag

Cyberjunky — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:53:18 +0000

What is a Title Tag?

A title tag is a piece of HTML code that describes a specific web pages content through a keyword query that a person types into a search engine. Title Tags are a very important guide for all search engines in determining what is in the content of a specific web page. Creating a relevant title tag is one of the most important variables in achieving high search engine positioning.

View your Title Tag
You can view the title tag in the source code of a web page or at the top of your browser window. If you are interested in viewing the title tag through the source code simply click on view from the menu at the top of your browser and then click on source, open the window for full view. You will find the title tag in the head section of the source code along with your Meta description tag and Meta keyword Tag.

Guidelines for Good Title Tag

Selecting the best keyword(s) to focus on.

The contribution of the TITLE tag to your SERP (the higher, the better). The second is the click-through ratio (out of 500 views, how many clicks your web site is getting).

Brand your company’s name in the Title tag

Include keyword phrases in your title tag

Order keyword phrases effectively within the title tag

Make the title tag appealing to the eye

Try to keep title tags as unique as possible

Do not leave your title tag blank!

Do not use ‘Untitled’ or default text in your title tag.

Search engines compare text in the title tag against actual textual content on your page to rate relevancy. If the two are not related this will decrease your ranking. Also it is annoying to a person who visits your page when the title tag they saw going into your page does not relate to the content on the page. This will ensure that this person leaves your site and maybe never comes back.

Do not stuff your title tag with repeating keyword phrases.

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