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GeekFest 5.0 Takes Place Tomorrow

Allan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:35:31 +0000

GeekFest 5.0 takes place tomorrow, Thursday from around 7:30pm. I haven’t had the chance to attend the previous geekfest and I really hope that I can go this time.

Geekfest 5.0 will have GeekTalks, Beanbag Workshops, Gamefest and Artstuf. Beanbag workshop is a new feature of the event where group of experts or individual of their own field will share ideas and tips. And it happens that SEO Dubai team will be one of the presenter that will help you pump up your personal SEO.

Date: June 24, 2010
Venue: The Shelter, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Twitter: twitter.com/geekfestdubai
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GeekDubai

Tnomeralc Web Design Toys

Allan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:32:33 +0000

Tnomeralc Web Design Toys Are you looking for toys? Do you miss playing toys with your siblings or friends? All of us, during our childhood had experienced playing with toys and even adults are still addicted with toys.

Tnomeralc Web Design Toys importance

A great way to start teaching and educating babies or infants is through toys. I believe that toys improves babies and infant’s visual, motor and independent play skills. Newly born babies are all about discovery. They are learning how to use their hands, feet, eyes and most of their senses. They are fascinated by cause and effect, and are becoming aware of their surroundings.

Toys that are the most popular for young babies at this age include toys for looking, listening, sucking or fingering. Babies love to see bright primary colors like red, blue, or yellow. Toys with high contrasts and simple designs are the best buys. Toys should be light, soft and easy for your baby to handle. Toys that respond to baby’s actions are more popular. LA Toy Store has a great collections for this kinds of web design toys.

As they grew up they can benefit from toys that encourage learning through scientific experimentation. Chemistry sets, microscopes, telescopes, and digital building tools all help to promote strong thinking skills.

For big adults, toys like RC’s, computer games gives them pleasure and relaxation.

Types Tnomeralc Web Design Toys

1 Construction Toys
2 Dolls
3 Action figures
4 Stuffed animals
5 Drawing toys
6 Educational toys
7 Executive Toys
8 Miniaturized items
9 Model building
10 Model collecting
11 Puzzle/Assembly Toys
12 Science and optical
13 Toy Vehicles
14 Physical activity and dexterity toys
15 Whistles & Noisemakers

It is very important that we should check what kind of toys you are going to buy. Remember that not all toys are good for your children and there are also toys now a days that are harmful for kids like those toys that has Lead substance. So be careful on where you are buying them.

To find out more about where you can buy Tnomeralc Toys online, visit LA Toy Store. The web site was designed by Claremont Design

Blogging Day!

Allan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:06:08 +0000

Today is Blogging Day!

There are blogs that I need to update and fix so I decided that today will be a blogging day for me. I have just created another personal blog called Views of Dubai. Most of my post that you will read there are issues and other peoples views of what Dubai is, the good and bad.

I was able to encourage two friends to start blogging and now they have their own, up and running. I’m sure they too can earn from their blogs.

Now what is blog? For those who are haven’t have blogs yet or have not started blogging. Let me tell you what blog is.

WEb log or Blog is a kind of a journal that is maintained by an individual or group which can be made public or private.The point of a blog is, that it is updated daily or couple of times a day.

Before blogging, there were other ways for people to communicate, such as diaries and email lists and more. When the Internet came about, users wanted a way to communicate with people all over the world. Before the Internet, many of us used pen to write to a friend or family. Today, you can use your blog no matter where you are.

In the beginning of blogs, they were mainly online diaries of people. Others could comment on the person’s blog, now there are countless different kinds of blogs. There are corporate blogs, marketing blogs, topic-specific blogs, question blogs, media type blogs.

Good thing about having a blog is it can also be a money making blog so the more updates on you blog, the better.

Real estate software Dubai

Allan — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:57:36 +0000

There was a research done in 2005 that says 60 percent of home buyers are using the internet to get property buying information and that has increased now a days. Why are home buyers turning to the web before talking to their real estate agents? For that reason, any real estate companies using real estate software will provide maximum return on technology investment.

Pinoy Designer had done search engine optimization for various keywords relating to Dubai Property and since most of our clients are real estate companies, I was thinking of creating our own real estate software system which is affordable and easy to use. A complete office management system encompassing all front and back office needs.

A Content Relationship Management or CRM that will handle all the companies customer contact information. Information in the system can be accessed and entered by employees in different departments, such as sales, marketing, listings, customer service, training, professional development, performance management, human resource development, and compensation. The software will be design to improve services provided directly to customers and to use the information in the system for targeted marketing.

But first we will do a review of those Dubai real estate software sold in the web and ask some property brokers what exactly their business needs. Creating this software needs their involvement because this will help them evaluate the investment potential of commercial, residential and mixed-use income properties. You can forecast revenues, expenses, financing, pass-throughs, cash flows, resale, rates of return, tax liabilities, partnership considerations and a good deal more. Then create compelling presentations for clients, partners and lenders.

ICANN adopts new Web site naming rules

Allan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:45:45 +0000

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted Thursday to relax rules for naming Web sites.

At its meeting in Paris, ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that oversees the naming scheme for Web sites, voted to accept a proposal that will allow companies to purchase new top-level domain names ending in whatever they like.

So, for example, instead of being restricted to sites ending in .com or .org., eBay could have a site that ends in .ebay, or New York City could end its Web site with .nyc.

The new naming process will begin in 2009. The first suffixes will likely be given to businesses and other major organizations. Countries are expected to keep their specific suffixes, but as in the example above cities could also get individualized URLs, such as .london or .chicago.

New tool from Google alarms sites

Allan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:18:51 +0000

Retailers and publishers have fought hard to work their way up in the ranking of Google’s search results and refine the search features of their own websites to help users once they arrive. Now, Google is taking a greater role in helping users search within particular sites. And some of the same retailers and publishers are not happy about it.

In March, the company introduced a search-within-search feature that lets users stay on Google to find pages on popular sites like those of TheWashington Post, Wikipedia, The New York Times, Wal-Mart and others. The search box appears when someone enters the name of certain web addresses or company names — say, “Best Buy” — rather than entering a request like “cell phones”.

The results of the search are almost all individual company pages. Google tops those results with a link to the home page of the website in question, adds another search box, and offers users the chance to let Google search for certain things within that site.

The problem, for some in the industry, is that when someone enters a term into that secondary search box, Google will display ads for competing sites, thereby profiting from ads it sells against the brand. The feature also keeps users searching on Google pages and not pages of the destination website.

Analysts generally praise the feature as helping users save steps, but for web publishers and retailers, there are trade-offs. While the service could help increase traffic, some users could be siphoned away as Google uses the prominence of the brands to sell ads, typically to competing companies.

Aggressive

“Google is showing a level of aggressiveness with this that’s just not needed,” said Alan Rimm-Kaufman, a former executive with the electronics retailer Crutchfield who is now an internet consultant. Google’s aggressiveness, Rimm-Kaufman said, ignores a user’s desire to reach a specific destination, and it costs those websites visitors.

Take, for instance, a recent situation, when users of Google searched The Washington Post and were given a secondary search box. Those who typed “jobs” into that second box saw related results for The Post’s employment pages, but the results were bordered by ads for competing employment sites like CareerBuilder orMonster.com.

So even though users began the process by stating their intention to reach The Post, Google’s ads steered at least some of them to competitors. Similar situations arose when users relied on Google to search nytimes.com.

While executives of both The Times and The Post and Newsweek Interactive declined to comment, plenty of others assailed Google over what they saw as a heavy-handed approach.

Google said it had not received many complaints directly from companies, but some search-engine specialists were quick to pounce when the company announced its service. Ann Smarty, a search-engine marketing consultant who originated the SeoSmarty.com blog, speculated that the new feature “could mean bad news” for sites. Other search-marketing specialists echoed her sentiments, and brands began to follow.

“Eventually this could be a huge problem if Google starts throwing this out there to all brands,” said Pinny Gniwisch, vice-president for marketing of Ice.com, an online jeweller. Gniwisch, who is also on the board of Shop.org, an online retail industry group, said Google’s new feature did not appear when users searched for Ice.com, but he said he would object if it did. “This is essentially giving the customer a way to leave a search for your site,” he said.

Donna L Hoffman, co-director of the Sloan Centre for Internet Retailing, at the University of California, Riverside, predicted that internet users “will really like this because it’s probably a better way to search a site than going to the sites themselves”.

“But as consumers appreciate this more, there’ll be more and more outcry from companies,” Hoffman said. Consumers who see advertisements on Google when they search The Post’s or The Times’ content might view the ads as carrying the endorsement of those news publishers.

“Why would I advertise on those other sites when I could just advertise on Google and piggyback on the equity of the other brands?” Hoffman said.

Rimm-Kaufman said the new Google service also diminishes a web publisher’s role in helping users find potentially useful content. “You maywant to editorialise differently when someone searches, and maybe put a premium on certain reporters or content,” he said. “This moves you further out of the loop.”

Retailers, Rimm-Kaufman added, should be even more leery of this feature, and not because they will lose sales to competitors whose ads appear in Google’s refined search results. More sophisticated retail sites have search functions that take into account a customer’s past behaviour to suggest certain items, as well as more accurate data on which items are in stock.

“Some of our retail clients have pretty horrible site search,” he said. “So for them, this will be a benefit. For our larger clients, we’ll probably ask Google to turn this off.”

Amazon

That is the route that Amazon has apparently chosen. The retailer declined to comment for this article, but last week Google’s search-within-search function did not appear when users entered “ amazon.com” into the initial search box.

According to a Google spokeswoman, the company has honoured such requests from “a couple” of businesses. These companies, however, may not be able to reverse their decisions.

“So we ask them to try it out and see if they want it removed,” the spokeswoman said. “We think it could be a really useful feature.”

She added that the feature was currently available for an undisclosed, but relatively small, number of sites, and appeared when Google detected a high probability that a user wanted more refined search results within a specific site. While Google has not received much negative feedback on the service, she said, the company could change it in the future. Some online publishers see little wrong with the new service. James Spanfeller, chief executive of Forbes.com, said, “I think this is interesting, and my hat’s off to Google.”

Spanfeller said he suspected that Google was “seeing a huge amount of searches on their service fromfolks trying to find a piece of content written by a name-brand publisher”.

“Google is probably trying to get additional usage out of their product,” he added, “and monetise those page views.”

Web publishers, Spanfeller said, might not like that Google is selling ads against their brands. Nor, he said, would they like having to buy ads on the new search service to help ensure that users who were headed to their sites through Google actually got there.

But, Spanfeller said, they will not suffer much economic damage, overall, from the new service. “Not to be cavalier about it,” he said, “but sites like The Post and Forbes, which have strong enough brand names, won’t lose more than a very small percentage of people who will go to other sites.”

Pam Horan, president of the Online Publishers Association, an industry trade group, said online executives were growing accustomed to the idea that users often did not find their company’s content through the site’s own search box or its front page. More often than not, she said, users would find links to specific articles or products on blogs, search engines or other sites, and navigate to that page.

“So publishers are building their sites,” Horan said, “to make sure the experience is the same, whether users are coming in through the front door or the side.”

— NewYork TimesNews Service