Worpress Website - Site and Blog in One

"As a small business owner and a Web site marketer, I'm always trying to find ways to get things done without having to hire someone to do it for me. I'm also very impatient, and I like instant results. Sometimes this causes conflict, so whenever I can complete a task myself, everyone stays happy.

If you're at all like me, you might want to consider a Web site that will give you control over your content without the need to pay a designer to change a price, update a special, or swap some words around.

Clients who want to manage their own content are becoming more common as the Internet becomes less of a mystery. Every day, users gain knowledge – but many small business owners don’t have the time to devote to learning code and Web development applications. Building a Web site can be less of a mystery with a user-friendly software that allows the site owner to edit his or her own content."

Part 1- http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3626246
Part 2- http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3626346


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Get Ready for PHP 5 !

"The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5."

Full Story:
http://php.net/


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130 Social Bookmarking Sites for Search Engine Marketers

It seems as though one of the “hottest topics” nowadays in the Search Engine Marketing industry is social bookmarking. All the search engine marketers are talking about it now, and if you’re a search engine marketer–or just a marketer in general–or want to get more hits on your website, then you need to pay attention to social bookmarking, too.

First, you need to create some link bait. If you’re not familiar with the term “link bait”, then you might want to read that article I wrote a while back–talks about how you can use link bait to “catch better rankings”.

Full Story:
www.billhartzer.com/pages/131-social-bookmarking-sites-for-search-engine-marketers/

Technorati Tags: social bookmarking, link bait, catch better rankings

Firefox on the Rise

"Mozilla's web browser, Firefox, is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 per cent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor."

Full Story
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39167861,00.htm


Technorati Tags: firefox, Mozilla, europe

Google Launches Custom Search Business Edition

Google has announced a beefed-up version of Google Custom Search, a site search product aimed at small and medium sized businesses. The new service is hosted by Google, and offers all of the same functionality of the free Google Custom Search product, with a few key differences:

Full Story
http://searchengineland.com/070717-000101.php


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Mobile Search

"Mobile search is a battle to define perhaps the most important new interface with the consumer," says John du Pre Gauntt, eMarketer Senior Analyst and the author of the new report, Mobile Search: Clash of the Titans. "Whoever cracks the consumer and commercial code for delivering and monetizing relevant answers for people on the go will secure a license to print money, at least for a time."

Full Story
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1005083&src=article1_home


Technorati Tags: mobile search, new interface, Market relevance of mobile search

Burglars Google for safe cracking Help, get $12K

"The two burglars had door keys, pass codes and combinations for the safes at a Colorado Springs indoor amusement center.

"But when it came to actually opening a combination lock, they did what most of us do when we're stumped — they called Google to the rescue."

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Nielsen scraps Web page view rankings

"NEW YORK - A leading online measurement service will scrap rankings based on the longtime industry yardstick of page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites.

"The move by Nielsen/NetRatings, expected to be announced Tuesday, comes as online video and new technologies increasingly make page views less meaningful."

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Technorati Tags: Nielsen/NetRatings, online measurement service, new technology, length of visit, page views

Google's $625m Postini buy

"Google has agreed to buy web-based security provider Postini for $625m,
expanding its package of online applications to compete with
Microsoft's Office."

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TV Consumes Half of All Leisure Time

"On an average day, nearly everyone in the US ages 15 and older engages in some sort of leisure activity, like watching TV, using a PC, socializing or exercising, according to the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics' "American Time Use Survey."

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Wikipedia remains King for online news

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.

In May, Wikipedia had 46.8 million unique visitors, up 72 percent from June 2006, NetRatings said. Wikipedia also has finished on top of the news and information category every month this year -- ranking ahead of Landmark Communications' Weather Channel site by an increasing margin -- topping out with a disparity of about 10 million visitors in May.

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Google Takes Partial Ownership Of Maxthon Browser

"Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million. We are also hearing that this investment is part of a “much larger strategic deal” between the two companies.

"Maxthon has had over 80 million downloads of its browser, and over half of its users are in China. Maxthon-originated searches may account for up to 25% of total Baidu traffic, according to one source."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/10/google-takes-partial-ownership-of-maxthon-browser/

Technorati Tags: Google, Maxthon Browser, China market

America Warms Up Its Mitt

Small Companies Still Dont Support Working from Home

"SMEs are lagging behind larger companies when it comes to embracing flexible working practices such as working from home. Only 43 per cent of SMEs have the technology in place to support homeworking, compared to 76 per cent of large companies, research reveals."

http://management.silicon.com/smedirector/0,39024679,39167728,00.htm


Technorati Tags: flexible work practices, homeworking, small companies, large companies

MyBrand and StatsPro: Free FeedBurner Services

"In light of Google's acquisition of FeedBurner, Google has made the two fee-based FeedBurner services free: MyBrand and Stats PRO."

http://searchengineland.com/070703-110000.php


Technorati Tags: google, feedburner, mybrand, statspro

Google Gadget Ventures

"Google Gadget Ventures is a new pilot program that will pay developers either $5,000 or $100,000 to create Google Gadgets that prove popular with users."

http://searchengineland.com/070627-210000.php

Technorati Tags: google gadget ventures, pilot program, development of gadgets