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If someone asks to borrow your cell phone, or you leave it unattended, beware!

Unless you actually watch them use it, they may be secretly grabbing every piece of your information on the device, even deleted messages. If you leave your phone sitting on your desk, or in the center console of your car while the valet parks it, then you and everyone in your contacts list may be at risk, to say nothing of confidential e-mails, spread sheets, or other information. And of course, if you do not want your spouse to see who you are chatting with on your phone, you might want to use extra caution.

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Noel :: Aug.31.2008 :: Technology :: No Comments »

So you want to get free advertising, traffic and back links from the multitude of social networks out there but you don’t know which to use and what to do. Hopefully today you’ll learn a few useful tips to boost your profile and maximize the buzz of social networks. Where To Start?

Digg is hard to use unless you’ve been around a while. It’s top users really flex their collective muscle when it comes to dominating the front page. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t add your articles - Not at all - Adding your articles to Digg, making tons off friends and testing the water is well worth it. Chances are you WON’T make the front page, but if you do……traffic jackpot.

Propeller is fast to use, which means you can get in and out with much fuss, so I highly recommend adding your link there.

Stumble Upon is nowhere near as good as it was and you have to stumble a ton of site to get and credibility. You should add your profile and your blog/site, but don’t expect the promise you may hear.

Reddit is pretty good and low effort so definitely give it a try.

Delicious is a little bit of a pain - The tool bar you have to download is annoying and the whole submission process could be handled better, but if your site gets buzz from delicious then it will all be worth the fuss.

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Noel :: Aug.25.2008 :: Web Development :: No Comments »

Welcome to Beijing, sometimes translated as Beijing Welcomes You is a theme song for the 2008 Summer Olympics in China. The song was written by Hong Kong lyricist Lam Jik and features 100 all star Chinese artists, actors and singers, including Hollywood movie star Jackie Chan. Other Chinese artists appearing in the Welcome to Beijing Video include Karen Mok, Richie Ren, Stefanie Sun, Nicholas Tse, Emil Chou, Joey Yung, Jolin Tsai, Hangeng, Wang Lee Hom, Kenji Wu, JJ Lin, Chris Li, Huang Da Wei, Huang Xiao Ming, Chen Kun, Lin Ci Ling, Vivian Hsu, Ah Du, Fan Wei Qi, Anson Hu, and more.

The lyrics of Welcome to Beijing encourage unity and invite everyone to come and visit China, experience its rich history and hospitable people and enjoy the stay with friends. The song has catchy, unobtrusive melody that touches one’s heart and is sure to make you hum it for the rest of the day.
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Noel :: Aug.25.2008 :: Latest Buzz :: No Comments »

Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1, the next incremental update of the open-source web browser.

They are “getting ready to take JavaScript performance into the next tier” with a radically innovative optimization tactic called tracing that has already produced performance improvements ranging between 20 and 40 times faster in some cases. They believe that this is just the beginning of what can be accomplished with tracing, and they expect to be able to achieve even better speed as the work continues.
Bringing more power to client-side scripting will move the web forward and create new opportunities for web developers. Eich says that Mozilla wants to “get people thinking about JavaScript as a more general-purpose language” and show them that “it really is a platform for writing full applications.”

For more info read here.

Noel :: Aug.23.2008 :: Web Development :: No Comments »

Unique content is King. Search engines love new, unique and updated content. If you produce new content at a rate of just one reasonably sized page per day and tied in with the other advice throughout the site, I can almost guarantee you will get good listings. Remember though, write for the visitors but cater for the search engines. If your field of expertise fits into a niche in the market, all the better for you but you must get unique content all you will fall behind.

Page Structure. Search engine bots can sometimes get confused with poorly coded html, javascript and other web languages. If the bot has to wait too long or cannot decipher the web language then it will just abandon your site and move on to the next, even if it manages to get through the code it usually leads to poor search engine indexing of your website. You should also keep to widely used file extensions like .htm, .html, .php, .asp for your pages.
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Noel :: Aug.17.2008 :: SEO :: No Comments »

There is no doubting the success of Google’s Adsense program. Even Yahoo! and Kanoodle have joined in on the game, offering to join publishers with advertisers. Given the right circumstances, its a win / win situation for both.

There have been many sites that promote Top Paying Keywords and how if you add these keywords you can instantly improve your Adsense revenue. However, if you really want to see a dramatic increase in pay per clicks, you need to ensure 2 very important areas are addressed. They seem very obvious, but many site owners miss the opportunity to attract higher paying ads simply because they ignore these two areas.
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Noel :: Aug.17.2008 :: SEO :: No Comments »

First, a definition. Meta Search - A search tool that queries several search engines and/or web directories simultaneously and returning the results in a single merged list without the duplicate links.
Confused? Let me give you an example. Let’s say there is a meta search engine you have recently found that searchs two engines, say Google and Yahoo. It searches both of these search engines and then returns the combined results to you, without any duplicates (results that appear on both engines). Sounds neat , huh? Well, there are pros and cons with meta searching that the user should be aware of in order to make his searching as productive as possible.
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Noel :: Aug.17.2008 :: SEO :: 1 Comment »

If it was easy, everybody would be doing it. Getting a company’s name and products, or services, onto the first page of a genuine Google search isn’t a trivial piece of work. In fact, there are four distinct skills that a search engine optimiser needs to possess. Most people possess one or maybe two of these skills, very rarely do people posses all four. In truth, to get to all four, people who are good at two of these need to actively develop the other skills. Now, if you are running your own business, do you really have the time to do this? Is this the best use of your time?
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Noel :: Aug.17.2008 :: SEO :: No Comments »

Do you have to sacrifice all of the creative and artistic elements of your web site to rank in the search engines? Later in this article I’ll show you a real case scenario and the design and SEO approach used.

Thanks to the birth of professional search engine marketers the top ranks are saturated with the pages of companies that can pay for such insight. That said, it’s certainly possible to employ high ranking tactics in your own website. Actually, the most basic tactics can move you up from an 800 position to a 300. However, it’s the top of the scale where efforts seem almost inversely exponential or logarithmic, you put a ton in to see a tiny change in rank.
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Noel :: Aug.17.2008 :: Web Development :: No Comments »

The web pages actually at the top of Google have only one thing clearly in common: good writing. Don’t let the usual SEO sacred cows and bugbears, such as PageRank, frames, and JavaScript, distract you from the importance of good content.

I was recently struck by the fact that the top-ranking web pages on Google are consistently much better written than the vast majority of what one reads on the web. Yet traditional SEO wisdom has little to say about good writing. Does Google, the world’s wealthiest media company, really only display web pages that meet arcane technical criteria? Does Google, like so many website owners, really get so caught up in the process of the algorithm that it misses the whole point?

Apparently not.
Most Common On-the-Page Website Content Success Factors
Whatever the technical mechanism, Google is doing a pretty good job of identifying websites with good content and rewarding them with high rankings.

I looked at Google’s top five pages for the five most searched-on keywords, as identified by WordTracker on June 27, 2005. Typically, the top five pages receive an overwhelming majority of the traffic delivered by Google.
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Noel :: Aug.17.2008 :: Web Development :: 1 Comment »