Vote for My Friend ZK As The Top Internet Marketer of 2009

Hey guys a quick post.  invesp Consulting has complied their Top 100 list of Internet Marketers for 2009. My Blog Buddy and Internet marketer ZK is in the list, I would appreciate if you can spend a few seconds of your time to vote for ZK (It takes less than 5 seconds to vote ). Your vote will help him move a few notches up against the biggies in the business

ZK of Web Traffic ROI is listed at the very bottom, so its easier for you to find it.  Voting will take place until midnight 12/13/2009.

Head over to Invesp, scroll to the bottom and cast your vote now!

Its a Meme from TechCrunch

It was a big mistake by Microsoft, They photoshopped a black man out of a picture for their Polish website and replaced it with a white guy. (See Picture No. 3 and then No. 4 in the following gallery to understand what I am saying).   Later on Microsoft apologize for being racial.

Now it has become a meme from TechCrunch, if you are a Photoshop guy you can chopped any head or all three heads in the image post it on your blog, Tell techCrucnh about it and you can win a BING t-shirt. Cool

Hey mike here is my entry:

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The All New Google is Coming Soon

With the Introduction of Microsoft’s “Bing”, increasing popularity of Twitter, rising and shining of “Facebook” forced google to tweak its giant search engine to make it more compatible and killing to any sort of threat and competition from arch rivals.

Google is coming out with the next generation of its Search engine. The project is called “google Caffeine”. It will change the way how google rank sites and how your pages appear in Search results. Right now google is collecting your feedback on new avatar of Google Search engine.

Here’s how to give feedback:

Do a search at http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ and look on the search results page for a link at the bottom of the page that says “Dissatisfied? Help us improve.” Click on that link, type your feedback in the text box and then include the wordcaffeine somewhere in the text box.

For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we’re opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.

How it will affect your blog:

Do a search with the specific keyword for which you appears on page #1 in google search at http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ and see if you still at #1 page. Definitely it will affect your blog ranking and SERP for some of your posts. I wish you will be manage to please the “New Google” too as earlier.

Google Introduces Operating System Chrome

This will certainly take Operating System war to the next level. Big Daddy Google announced yesterday that they are going g to introduce their new browser based operating system Chrome by 2010. I am big fan of Google; whatever it brings in it’s always been very simple, speedy and secure. Let’s see what revolution Google can make to operating system.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.  We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Which Operating system will rule the planet in future?

1. Microsoft’s Windows
2. Apple’s Mac
3. Linux’s Ubuntu
4. Google’s Chrome

Appeal to These Guys

This is an open letter to all these three giants of India telecommunication scene. Mr. Anil Ambani of Reliance Communication, Mr. Ratan Tata of Tata Indicom and Mr. Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel Limited.

I request you guys to take The Internet broadband in India to the next level now and make sure it comes within the reach of one and all. Stop sucking our blood for giving a broadband speed of mare 1 Mbps.

I am not graduated from Howard ( Read Harvard University) so I can’t understand your cleverly designed tariff plan. I know as per the definition of any TRAI any connection which is above 256 Kbps speed is called a Broadband connection in India (did I heard someone saying shame shame shame !!!).

Oh come on now, you know what the average internet connection speed is in all other fast growing countries. Please stop charging our bill on Time bases or usages bases, give us some freedom to play around the amazing World Wide Web.

Please do something about it and Gimme hope JoAnna before the morning come.

What’s Your Business’s most Valuable Asset?

If you ask me for my business, I will say e-mail and RSS Subscribers base. For a blog like this nothing could be more valuable then having a huge rss subscriber base. You can always count on your RSS readers. It does not matter if they do not visit your blog and read it only through e-mail of through RSS reader’s software/client but I always value a RSS reader. The bigger your RSS Subscriber list is the more worthy your blog would be. As they say money is in the list.

It used to be that a business’s value was measured by its “tangible assets”, now “intangible assets” are usually even more valuable. Tangible assets are like real estate, your car, the cash in your bank, investments, your equipment, etc.  They are considered things that you can sell if need be and turn into hard cash. But now, the most valuable asset that any practice, or business for that matter, has is their contact database.

For example, just yesterday I read that Facebook was valued at $10 billion.  And the value comes from Facebook’s subscriber database and all their Joint Venture Relationships.  You know all those fun and weird applications that are on facebook.  Well those are all created by joint venture partners of Facebook.  And Facebook profits whenever someone uses those. The point that I really want to to over-stress is this:

[1] Asset Is Your Client Database.

[2] Asset Is Your Business Partner Database.

This is something that cannot be emphasized enough.  Usually the first thing we do when we work with our coaching client is evaluate how they are communicating and strengthening their relationship with their client list.  And the second thing that is so valuable to assess is how your business contacts and colleagues can work together to get more success.

Here are a few ways that you can stay in touch with your client database to help keep your practice at top of mind:

• Email newsletter
• Direct mail newsletter
• Birthday cards
• Christmas cards
• Phone calls
• Email updates

Learn from mistakes

Better to learn from our own mistakes but the best thing is to learn from others mistakes. Today I’m giving you a chance to learn about how you can avoid 10 most deadly common mistakes that can ruin your business practice. You must know which the common mistakes that people do which devalue their business assets so that you should not repeat them.

Get your FREE Reports at HERE

A Tribute To Rajeev Motwani

Last week Silicon Valley lost its most cherished Gem, This blog do not suppose to report Silicon Valley news but this is something shocking and heart breaking. So I think I must give tribute from me and my readers to the great soul Rajeev Motwani.

Rajeev Motwani passed away on 5^th June in his pool in the backyard in his Atherton home. He was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science.

He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including Google and PayPal, and a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001.

Rajeev Motwani was well-known for his mentoring of Google co-founders Larry Paige and Sergey Brin.

Remembering his mentor Rajeev Motwani Sergey Brin wrote on his blog named TOO

Of all the faculty at Stanford, it is with Rajeev that I have stayed the closest and I will miss him dearly. Yet his legacy and personality live on in the students, projects, and companies he has touched. Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it.

• He was an early advisor and supporter of Google and Paypal.
• He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001.
• He was one of the co-authors with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd of an influential early paper on the PageRank algorithm, the basis for Google’s search techniques.
• He also co-authored another seminal search paper What Can You Do With A Web In Your Pocket with those same authors.
• He was one of the youngest professors at Stanford University.

A very supportive and kind person at heart Rajeev was a luminary in many academic disciplines.

Please post a comment if you wish to tribute legendary Rajeev’s extraordinary life and legacy.

I have been Released

Couple of days back I posted about me being blacklisted by Akismet because someone had shown the “Spam Bin” way to my comments.

Some of you guys suggested for contacting Akismet Team to pull me out from blacklist. Thanks Mike, Harsh Agrawal, Sherry , Brad Callen, Mr. I, Wilson Pon and Nihar for showing your concern. I wrote to Akismet Team and requested them to pull me out from their spam commentators list.

Today morning I received this refreshing and soothing mail informing me that they have fixed the problem.

Sorry for the problem.  I believe it is fixed now. Please note that your comments may not be published on some blogs if the owners of those blogs have indicated they believe them to be spam.

Kind Regards,

Alex,  Akismet

As some of you doubted I was also not expecting that Akismet team will come up with the solution so soon. I immediately checked up to see whether my comments are appearing on blogs or not, and happy to see that finally I am out of that dumping bin.

I said earlier that I hate Akismet, now I’m taking my words back, Akismet Rocks .  Let me have my say on your blog now.

Google Maps Typography by Rhett Dashwood

This earth is Amazing, Google Maps too.

Rhett Dashwood, Melbourne based Creative Director in his spare time while searching Google Maps discover land formations or building resembling to English Alphabets letters.

These finding are limited to state of Victoria, Australia. have you seen any such strange stuff on Google Map in your area?

Head over to his website to see some more interesting findings of Rhett DashWood.

Your Privacy Is On Stake Now

With Google entering your street with Google Map Street View raises concern over public privacy. Google’s Street View Car is moving in streets with 360-degree camera on its roof. It’s been couple of year google doing it but I raise this issue today as there is one very serious incident that has occurred in a Buckinghamshire village where mob thwarts Google Street View car.

TimesOnline Reports:

A spate of burglaries in a Buckinghamshire village had already put residents on the alert for any suspicious vehicles. So when the Google Street View car trundled towards Broughton with a 360-degree camera on its roof, villagers sprang into action. Forming a human chain to stop it, they harangued the driver about the “invasion of privacy”, adding that the images that Google planned to put online could be used by burglars. As police made their way to the stand-off, the Google car yielded to the villagers. For now, Broughton remains off the internet search engine’s mapping service.

This is all very sad. If you ask me I think there is no harm if google record your street view with its 360 Degree Camera and load it on Maps for the whole world to view it.

Do you think your privacy is really on stake with google starting services like Earth, Maps, and Street View? Do you really think it’s a threat to a national security or to a small village for that matter?

Now see what this guy has to say;

“This is an affluent area. We’ve already had three burglaries locally in the past six weeks. If our houses are plastered all over Google it’s an invitation for more criminals to strike.”

It’s an interesting debate; I would like to see your take on this. Please comment below.

Create Polls and Send it to Twitter Followers With PollDaddy Twitter Polls

PollDaddy is one among couple of companies acquired by Automattic last year. But as they say Social media site twitter is becoming so huge day by day that you bound to integrate your stuff with twitter in one or the other way. So PollDaddy has come up this idea of creating polls which can directly posted to your twitter followers.

All you have to do is to draft a Poll Question, fill in your Twitter account credentials and you are done, your poll will be right away among your twitter followers. As PollDaddy Twitter Poll uses your Twitter User ID and Password so you don’t need to create separate account with PollDaddy.com.

You can view your poll results on PollDaddy Answer and if you wish to place this poll on your website or blog as a widget then there is HTML code available for simply copy and paste.

I have created this poll HERE , cast your opinion.

Now Gmail in Hindi and Other Indian Languages

Last month when Ma.tt was here in Delhi to attend WordCamp India, he gladly conversed this in his keynote speech that he is very pleased to see lots of Indian blogging on WordPress.com in Hindi. You can also find millions of blog on Google’s blogger in Hindi and other Indian languages. After spreading Hindi on its various tools google has come up with this facility where you can actually compose your e-mails in Hindi and other Indian languages.

I think it will help millions of Indian Gmail users to communicate in their very own Indian languages.

When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you should now see an icon with an Indian character, as the screenshot below shows. This feature is enabled by default for Gmail users in India. If you do not see this function enabled by default, you will need to go the “Settings” page and enable this option in the “Language” section. When you click the Indian languages icon, you can type words the way they sound in English and Gmail will automatically convert the word to its Indian local language equivalent.

So go and speak in your own Lingo.

Optimize Your Blog’s Loading Speed With Yslow

How long dose it takes to load your blog completely? Well if you look at the Status Bar at the bottom of your browser you will notice that while loading your blog fetch several Java script from external links included in your blog’s widgets and images. Some time these external links slow down the loading speed of your blog.

If you are facing this problem then there is one Firefox Add-on which can really help you analyze your blog’s slow loading problem?

YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you:

• Performance report card
• HTTP/HTML summary
• List of components in the page
• Tools including JSLint

This Firefox Add-on needs another Firefox plugin Firebug to run; Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

I’m sure these two Firefox Add-Ons will help you speed up your blog’s page loading time.

Here are glimpse analysis of my blog with Firefox’s Yslow Plugin.

TinEye – Search Engine for Duplicate Images

So if you want to know who else is using your images, this is the best way to find out, even if the image name has been changed or it has been modified for any reason.

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.

It just like you search for the “SIMILER TEXT” on google. TinEye dose it same for the images, When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or ‘fingerprint’ for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in their index to retrieve matches. TinEye can even find a partial fingerprint match.

So basically it has been drafted to find out exact frame or picture (duplicate picture with what so ever name it has been placed on the net). TinEye does not typically find similar images (i.e. a different image with the same subject matter); it finds exact matches including those that have been cropped, edited or resized.

HostedFTP – Best File Sharing Service for Your Business

Now tell me, how you share your files over internet, How you handle it especially when your business grows and need a really professional tool for this job? Well before deciding a FTP file sharing service to start with, you must assure and test the service on three vital aspect of a FTP file sharing service:

Security

Reliability

Trouble-free 

I remember when I used to do voiceover job for my overseas clients; and when they usually asked me – Mr. Bakshi how you will send final MP3 recordings? I rally don’t know at that time how to answer this matter in a more professional way, “I will courier it to you SIR” that’s stupid me. But now I have this wonderful file sharing solution HostedFTP.com supporting me to share files with my clients in a more professional and smart way.

This Canada based company provides the best File Sharing Service and stand firm on all three tests mentioned above. Basically while choosing a FTP file sharing service you must ensure that it encrypt whenever files are uploaded or downloaded. HostedFTP not only secure your files with encryption but also provide you built-in e-mail security and password Protection. Your files are securely backed up to offsite hosting location, ensuring their availability and integrity. You can assure reliability as the Single Wrench system over HostedFTP designed and capable enough to handle your large files. The thing which I like great about their system is that it’s really provide a super fast speed over its competitive (are there any?)

Uploading files is as easy as dragging and dropping them right from your desktop.

Easy to use interface wizard provide step by step instructions with previews for most file types you browse through their system plus there is this email notifications system in place which notify you when your shared files are downloaded, so I guess this is what you expect in a FTP hosting service, and these are the features which is why I call HostedFTP the best in the business.

 HostedFTP.com walks on Amazon Web Service cloud which makes all the difference. According to Daniel Frank, President of HostedFTP.com

“Our infrastructure is now 100% hosted with Amazon Web Services. As a file sharing solution we need to deliver on our promise to customers in terms of security and reliability. Once customers learn our infrastructure is hosted in its entirety by Amazon.com, which has a proven track record, we can focus on why HostedFTP.com is the right file sharing solution for their business. In addition to this, the pay as you go nature of AWS allows us to pass along cost savings to our customers. We have peace of mind knowing the infrastructure that we have in place today will meet the needs of our business as it grows”    

Why to choose HostedFTP

Well for me the best thing is that they charge monthly on the average storage you use that means there is no quotas or limits on your account. It grows as your business grows. You can start with their Personal Edition which can be upgraded to Group and Enterprise Editions. With no setup fees and a cancel anytime policy, HostedFTP.com is a risk-free and cost effective file sharing solution.

Upload Guest Posts via HostedFTP

You can see FTP uploading system in action on this site. I have placed one widget on right most sidebar of this blog, so if you wish to write guest post on this just click on that upload button and send it across to me. BINGO!!!

Sign Up for the Best File Sharing Solution

Head over to this Page, sign up for HostedFTP.com and see for yourself why HostedFTP.com is the right file sharing solution for your business.

 

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