Fireworks Light Up for the World’s Tallest Tower ‘Burj Khalifa’
With over 10 minutes of great fireworks display, Burj Dubai which was renamed to Burj Khalifa was inaugurated by H.H Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.
Here is a video from CNN of the Burj Khalifa opening day.
After it opening celebration which was 5 hours ago, I still see until now real time search results in google for the term Burj.
And for TLD for Burj Khalifa as well as from free hosted blogs were all taken just after an hour the tower was renamed.
The Burj Khalifa in numbers
828m - height
57 - number of lifts
169 - number of floors
1,044 - number of apartments
31,400 - tonnes of steel used
330,000 - cubic metres of concrete used
$1.5bn - estimated cost
95 km - the distance it can be seen from
10C - cooler at the top than the bottom
158 - floor where “highest” mosque is planned
76 - floor of “highest” swimming pool
12,000 - number of labourers who toiled
$5 - daily wage of a labourer
$3m - price of a 80th floor one-bedroom apartment in 2008
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Websites for SEO / SEM Job Seekers
Every now and then, someone would ask me if I know any job vacancy for SEO and SEM and I keep telling them to do a Google search for companies offering search engine optimisation in Dubai. This will no longer be my answer if someone ask me again because there is now a search engine that was created to help job seekers find work in Middle East and Africa, the Jomea.com.
You can search for jobs in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan, Nigeria, Libya and other countries in the above-mentioned region.
Later last month, SEODubai.org had added a section SEO Dubai Jobs on its website.
Though Jomea.com is still on its Beta stage, I’m sure it will very helpful to those SEO/SEM job seekers.
Good luck in your job hunting!
Google Now Uses RSS/Atom Feeds to Discover New URLs
Google Webmaster Central has blogged that they are now using RSS/Atom to discover new URLs or webpages. In short Google is now indexing and crawling not only contents found on websites and blogs but contents that are syndicated from them through RSS/Atom feeds. Whereas before, Google relies mainly on the links provided on website and blog contents, now your site can be found by Google through RSS/Atom feeds that are published on online RSS Feed reader, such as Google Reader.
To those who still don’t know what an RSS/Atom is.
RSS (most commonly translated as “Really Simple Syndication” but sometimes “Rich Site Summary“) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a “feed”, “web feed”,or “channel”) includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.
Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an “RSS reader”, “feed reader”, or “aggregator”, which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs.
The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed’s URI or by clicking an RSS icon in a web browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user’s subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.
So in order for Google to discover your webpages through RSS/Atom, it is important that you allow crawling of robots.txt
To find out if Googlebot can crawl your feeds and find your pages as fast as possible, check your Webmaster Tools account. The Test robots.txt tool will show you if your robots.txt file is blocking Googlebot from a file or directory on your site. The toolbox can be find on Crawler Access under Site Configuration.
Join ‘Golden Ticket’ competition and be the first to ride the Dubai Metro
Do you want to part of Dubai Metro’s history? Do you want to be one of the people to ride the Dubai Metro on its first day of operation on 09-09-09? Don’t worry, there is a chance that you could be by participating in the biggest contest in Dubai and win the Golden ticket by registering and answering questions.
Images courtesy of Gulf News
You can join the RTA’s Golden Ticket Competition here.
