This is a test, we are clocking the speed of content indexing, this is nothing but a test. The regularly scheduled series, “ROI in social media” will continue in a moment. For now I want to test the speed at which new content on this blog gets indexed in Google.
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A few days ago Yamli lunched a new tool for personal Google page (iGoogle), which allows users to use voice translation technology of Yamli directly from their own home pages on Google.
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business blog boost
Twenty months after staring the Europe a la Carte travel blog to promote my European travel website, Europe a la Carte, the blog now brings in over 80% of the traffic to the site. My site has virtually become the blog.
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Setting up PHP and MySQL on Windows XP and Windows Vista allows you to test your dynamic websites prior to uploading to your web server. WebAssist’s Mark Fletcher demonstrates how to set up and configure PHP and MySQL on your local Windows machine through WebAssist’s popular solution recipe videos. Simply click here (opens new window) [...]

Is this a recent phenomena, or has the Apple iPhone led to a strong belief in this statement that the Internet is truly going mobile? And what was that craze for ‘WAP bashing’ some nine to ten years ago all about? Perhaps, it is a bit of both!

All we know about twitter and Laconica which is providing open source script and that will help you to make your own twitter micro-blogging platforms.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) allows you to get information sent directly to you, eliminating the need for you to that information individually. Using a reader will allow all the RSS feeds to come to one spot for you to read at your leisure. While reading news and blogs has been a traditional use for RSS [...]

Every parent wishes they could have two eyes watching over their children 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Unfortunately, most parents struggle enough with work and other busy activities that they fail to even get to know what their children learned in school. A parent’s watchful eyes are especially needed when a child [...]

A friend of mine asked me a couple of days ago where could he get some decent templates, as he was trying to put together a couple of sites and he does not have the required skills to design them by himself. And also not the money to hire a paid designer either.

Hello my readers, if you are a regular user of Mixx, you should read about this new feature in their newsletter.

4east4west’s Weblog published a good article about Google expanding Arabic services

Firefox is a huge part of what I do as a web designer (aka Pixel Pimp) and a Social Media Skank. Along the way I’ve gone through my fair share of crappy addons while keeping the ones I found most helpful.

I was chatting with a blogger yesterday about search engine traffic. They asked me how much traffic I got to my blogs from Search Engines each day and when I told them that it was between 6000-8000 unique visitors a day (to Digital Photography School) their reaction was:
‘Can you tell me how to get that [...]

Only Vodafone was providing Data Card to Connect Wireless to the internet where ever you are using your Laptop, now you can connect it simply through a USB connection, but what I know is the service in the Middle East sucks.

It took me so long to get a $6 domain and free hosting for my blog. I thought that the cost of web hosting is so expensive. Well, definitely yes sometimes it cost more than we expect. As for my personal blog, I cant afford to buy one. Lately, I heard from a friend that [...]

Bingo, that’s it exactly. BoA does not support Firefox, at least not officially and at least not today. That’s not to say Firefox doesn’t work on the BoA Web site — it does, by and large, I am told — but it is not listed as one of the three “supported browsers” on the bank’s [...]

there is a very good article at LinuxBlogOnline about how 2008 was a turning point for the Chinese internet.