An impressive infographic that summarizes the potential of Social Media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Linked In, Digg, Stumble Upon, Yahoo Buzz, Reddit and Delicious.
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Social Media Platforms
An excellent piece of work from Drew McLellan, CMO.
From mere 2D animated intros with flying objects to powering complete desktop applications, Flash has evolved big time. It is taking the world over by becoming an authoritative and comprehensive web development platform. Boosted with Actionscript 3.0 programming, Flash is fast changing the face of web with rich internet applications that promise greater attractive appeal and interactivity.
From Futurewave to Macromedia and now Adobe, Flash has had three owners in its 13 years of existence. Over the years, each latest version of Flash has brought additional new features, animation tools, programming interfaces and ready-to-use components that help designers come up with extravagant internet applications.
Internet-based Web Applications:
The earliest use of Flash was to develop simple animation tools with a plug-in that was compatible with prevailing browsers like IE and Netscape. A timeline was used to control the entry & exit, movement and rotation of vector graphics placed on a single layer, which were later compiled to form a simple movie clip. The scope of interactivity and compelling design was minimal. Continue reading →
Windows 7 v/s Ubuntu 9.10
By: Pankaj Shrivastava
Windows 7:
UI (User Interface) Enhancements:
1) A redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar
2) A new control panel interface
3) Windows Explorer now includes a slideshow feature that changes the desktop background in a designated amount of time
4)Start menu and window management enhancements
5)The user interface for font management has been overhauled
System Requirements:
1) Faster boot speed
2) The DirectX version has been updated to 1
3) Multi-touch support for Tablet PCs and other capable devices
4) Native WWAN support, similar to native WiFi added in Vista
5) Enhanced security features
Ubuntu 9.10:
UI (User Interface) Enhancements:
1) Overall theme refresh
2) Using the most up-to-date GNOME version
3) A redesigned login manager
System Enhancements:
1) Faster boot speed
2) Ext4 will be the default file system
3) Ubuntu One client will be installed by default
Additional Features
1) Empathy Instant Messenger will replace Pidgin
2) Will utilize GRUB 2 as its default boot loader
Our IT Comments:
1) Windows and Mac OS X is trying to be like Linux right now –fast and resource efficient. On the other hand, Linux on the desktop is still polishing its user-interface perhaps to be like Windows or Mac OS X.
2) We found the best O/s capabilities in Linux 9.0, If someone / organization migrates from one version to another version of windows o/s its worthless, better to move with growing technology providing by Linux 9.0 O/s.
TECHNICAL COMPARISON BETWEEN WINDOWS 7 & UBUNTU 9.10:
1) Install Time in Seconds
At first glance, we can see very clearly that Ubuntu installs far faster than either version of Windows. And, while that’s true there is one important mitigation: both Windows Vista and Windows 7 run system benchmarks part-way through the installation to determine the computer’s capabilities. Continue reading →
From the past few years, E-marketing is getting an immense response in Internet world. According to the survey, in U.S. nearly 70% of the people are using Internet for buying products. In addition, one more fact is nearly 65% of the people searching in search engines do not go beyond third page.
Here Search Engine Optimization, popularly referred as SEO, comes in picture. SEO experts are the people who would help optimize webmaster’s sites to rank on search engines using various techniques. Here we are specifying some basic key points that would help SEO to rank sites on search engines.
1. Do rigorous Keyword Research.
2. Prepare Effective Title and Meta Tags.
3. Try to use keywords in Header section, mainly H1 and H2 headers.
4. Try to use text links rather than using graphic (images) to have a link.
5. If possible, try to keep your site static rather than making dynamic.
6. Use keywords in links for more privileges.
7. Have proper internal links that will help users as well the crawler to internally navigate through the site.
8. Have unique content on each page of your site.
9. Create sitemap for your site.
10. Submit your sites to web directories and write articles for your site.
11. Do SBM for the site you are working on.
12. Create blog for your site and place link from your blog to your site.
13. Use 3-way linking with other sites that are in the same niche.
These are some of the basic factors for SEO checklist that we would suggest that will help the webmasters to get their sites on higher ranking. Readers are requested to contribute by adding new factors to this list.