donderdag 17 november 2011
woensdag 7 september 2011
dinsdag 30 augustus 2011
Skype functies
SkypeIn: vrienden zonder Skype of pc (de oudere generatie) kunnen je met hun mobiele telefoon of vaste lijn bereiken op Skype. Deze functie is slechts beschikbaar in 24 landen waaronder Nederland. België heeft een te strikt beleid (BIPT) en laat dit niet toe.
SkypeOut: Telefoneren vanuit Skype op je pc naar iemands mobiele of vaste lijn. Dit gebeurt met een vooraf betaald krediet of een abonnement; per land of met een "Europapakket" of "wereldpakket".
Skype to go in 18 landen: Skype als tussenpersoon, als je niet aan je pc zit en je naar iemand in het buitenland wilt bellen. Dit gebeurt eveneens met een vooraf betaald krediet of een abonnement. Skype belt de contactpersoon van wie je vooraf het vaste of mobiele nummer aan Skype bekend hebt gemaakt, waarna Skype je voor die persoon een "skype to go"-nummer heeft bezorgd.
Skype Mobile slechts in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en in Ierland met bepaalde types mobiele toestellen: het skypeprogramma op je mobiele telefoon.
Versturen van sms'en, bestanden,contactadressen zoals bij alle IM's binnen het Skype-programma gratis, te betalen naar buiten. Voicemail altijd tegen betaling.
chatprogramma al of niet met webcam (= videochat)
Skype is ook mogelijk op een PlayStation Portable (PSP).
SkypeOut: Telefoneren vanuit Skype op je pc naar iemands mobiele of vaste lijn. Dit gebeurt met een vooraf betaald krediet of een abonnement; per land of met een "Europapakket" of "wereldpakket".
Skype to go in 18 landen: Skype als tussenpersoon, als je niet aan je pc zit en je naar iemand in het buitenland wilt bellen. Dit gebeurt eveneens met een vooraf betaald krediet of een abonnement. Skype belt de contactpersoon van wie je vooraf het vaste of mobiele nummer aan Skype bekend hebt gemaakt, waarna Skype je voor die persoon een "skype to go"-nummer heeft bezorgd.
Skype Mobile slechts in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en in Ierland met bepaalde types mobiele toestellen: het skypeprogramma op je mobiele telefoon.
Versturen van sms'en, bestanden,contactadressen zoals bij alle IM's binnen het Skype-programma gratis, te betalen naar buiten. Voicemail altijd tegen betaling.
chatprogramma al of niet met webcam (= videochat)
Skype is ook mogelijk op een PlayStation Portable (PSP).
maandag 29 augustus 2011
Skype
Skype is een voice-over-IP-programma van Skype Global, waarmee men over het internet kan telefoneren.
Skype kent een eigen protocol. Alternatieve protocollen zijn het open SIP en H.323.
De software van Skype is gratis verkrijgbaar voor Windows (Windows 2000 en nieuwer), Pocket PC 2003, Android , Linux, Mac OS X (Panther en nieuwer) en Apple iPhone of iPod touch. In het gebruik is het vergelijkbaar met veel chatprogramma's; er is een zogenaamde buddy list en men kan zijn of haar buddy's zien wanneer men online is. Skype zegt vrij te zijn van spyware en is geschreven door de auteurs van Kazaa: Niklas Zennström en Janus Friis.
De gesprekken vinden plaats via een peer-to-peerprotocol. Dit protocol is zo ontworpen dat het over het algemeen niet gehinderd wordt door firewalls. Gesprekken via Skype gaan met 256 bit-AES-encryptie versleuteld over het internet. Afluisteren (Internettap) is hiermee zo goed als onmogelijk.
In september 2005 werd Skype Global overgenomen door eBay, dat Skype later grotendeels doorverkocht aan de investeringsmaatschappij Silver Lake. In mei 2011 sloot Microsoft een overnameovereenkomst voor circa USD 8,5 miljard. Skype als product blijft bestaan, maar zal mogelijk worden geïntegreerd in Xbox Live, Kinect, Windows Live Messenger en Hotmail
Skype kent een eigen protocol. Alternatieve protocollen zijn het open SIP en H.323.
De software van Skype is gratis verkrijgbaar voor Windows (Windows 2000 en nieuwer), Pocket PC 2003, Android , Linux, Mac OS X (Panther en nieuwer) en Apple iPhone of iPod touch. In het gebruik is het vergelijkbaar met veel chatprogramma's; er is een zogenaamde buddy list en men kan zijn of haar buddy's zien wanneer men online is. Skype zegt vrij te zijn van spyware en is geschreven door de auteurs van Kazaa: Niklas Zennström en Janus Friis.
De gesprekken vinden plaats via een peer-to-peerprotocol. Dit protocol is zo ontworpen dat het over het algemeen niet gehinderd wordt door firewalls. Gesprekken via Skype gaan met 256 bit-AES-encryptie versleuteld over het internet. Afluisteren (Internettap) is hiermee zo goed als onmogelijk.
In september 2005 werd Skype Global overgenomen door eBay, dat Skype later grotendeels doorverkocht aan de investeringsmaatschappij Silver Lake. In mei 2011 sloot Microsoft een overnameovereenkomst voor circa USD 8,5 miljard. Skype als product blijft bestaan, maar zal mogelijk worden geïntegreerd in Xbox Live, Kinect, Windows Live Messenger en Hotmail
Ustream Broadcast
There are several ways you can broadcast on Ustream: The easiest is the browser-based Web Broadcaster that uses Adobe’s Flash Player. For higher quality, use Ustream Producer (free), Ustream Producer Pro ($199), or Adobe’s Flash Media Live Encoder (free). You may also broadcast from your mobile device, but those streams will be slower and lower quality, and not as robust as a wired connection. Regardless of how your Broadcast, it is always best to use a wired ethernet connection for best results.
zaterdag 14 mei 2011
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over, but based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts, violating the site's terms.
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace. Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" Quantcast estimates Facebook has 135.1 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in October 2010. According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over, but based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts, violating the site's terms.
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace. Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" Quantcast estimates Facebook has 135.1 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in October 2010. According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.
vrijdag 13 mei 2011
Instapaper
Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content.
We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them.
Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them.
From a personal perspective, I appreciate great writing, but I’ve become frustrated with the quick-consumption nature of many devoted blog readers. Authors are encouraged to cater to drive-by visitors hurrying through their feed readers by producing lightweight content for quick skimming.
There’s no time to sit and read anything when you’re going through 500 feed items while responding to email, chatting, and watching bad YouTube videos.
As a result, popular blogs are now full of useless “list posts” with no substance or value.
Well-written content is out there, and we do have opportunities every day to read it — just not when we’re in information-skimming, speed-overload mode. But we can all read while waiting in long lines, commuting (although please not while driving), or sitting on the goofy chairs in the shoe area and being supportive while our wives are shopping.
The times we find information aren’t always ideal for consuming it. Instapaper helps you bridge that gap.
We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them.
Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them.
From a personal perspective, I appreciate great writing, but I’ve become frustrated with the quick-consumption nature of many devoted blog readers. Authors are encouraged to cater to drive-by visitors hurrying through their feed readers by producing lightweight content for quick skimming.
There’s no time to sit and read anything when you’re going through 500 feed items while responding to email, chatting, and watching bad YouTube videos.
As a result, popular blogs are now full of useless “list posts” with no substance or value.
Well-written content is out there, and we do have opportunities every day to read it — just not when we’re in information-skimming, speed-overload mode. But we can all read while waiting in long lines, commuting (although please not while driving), or sitting on the goofy chairs in the shoe area and being supportive while our wives are shopping.
The times we find information aren’t always ideal for consuming it. Instapaper helps you bridge that gap.
Google Alerts
Google Alerts is a content monitoring service, offered by the search engine company Google, that automatically notifies users when new content from news, web, blogs, video and/or discussion groups matches a set of search terms selected by the user and stored by the Google Alerts service. Notifications can be sent by email, as a web feed or displayed on the users iGoogle page.
Google Alerts only provides content from Google's own search engine.
Currently there are six types of alerts sent when new content matches the search terms of the alert:
Everything - aggregates News, Web and Blogs
News - sent when matching content makes it into the top ten results of a Google News search
Web - sent when new web pages appear in the top twenty results for a Google Web search
Blogs - sent when matching content appears in the top ten results of a Google Blog Search
Video - sent when matching content appears in the top ten results of a Google video search
Groups - sent when matching content appears in the top fifty results of a Google Groups search
Users determine the frequency of checks for new results. Three options are available: "once a day", "once a week", or "as it happens". These options set the maximum frequency of alerts and do not necessarily control how often they will receive alerts. Alerts are sent only if new content matches the user-selected search terms.
The first option, for example, means they will receive at most one alert email per day. The "as it happens" option can result in many alert emails per day, depending on the search.
Google Alerts are available in plain text as well as HTML. In October 2008 Google also made alerts available as RSS feeds.
Google Alerts only provides content from Google's own search engine.
Currently there are six types of alerts sent when new content matches the search terms of the alert:
Everything - aggregates News, Web and Blogs
News - sent when matching content makes it into the top ten results of a Google News search
Web - sent when new web pages appear in the top twenty results for a Google Web search
Blogs - sent when matching content appears in the top ten results of a Google Blog Search
Video - sent when matching content appears in the top ten results of a Google video search
Groups - sent when matching content appears in the top fifty results of a Google Groups search
Users determine the frequency of checks for new results. Three options are available: "once a day", "once a week", or "as it happens". These options set the maximum frequency of alerts and do not necessarily control how often they will receive alerts. Alerts are sent only if new content matches the user-selected search terms.
The first option, for example, means they will receive at most one alert email per day. The "as it happens" option can result in many alert emails per day, depending on the search.
Google Alerts are available in plain text as well as HTML. In October 2008 Google also made alerts available as RSS feeds.
Google Reader
Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. It was released by Google on October 7, 2005 through Google Labs. Reader was graduated from beta status on September 17, 2007.
Google made major revisions to Reader's user-interface on September 28, 2006. Product manager Nick Baum described the redesign as a movement toward making news aggregation something for the general public to enjoy. Kevin Fox, the designer of the revised Google Reader, noted that the original version was optimal for those who want to read a "river" of news. The new version took into account that most readers segment their reading by feed, group, tag, folder, or into "must read" and "maybe if I get to it" feeds.
Features of Google Reader as of 2010 include:
a front page that lets you see new items at a glance
import and export subscription lists as an OPML file
keyboard shortcuts for main functions
choice between list view or expanded view for item viewing (showing either just the story title or including a description, respectively)
automatic marking of items as read as they are scrolled past (expanded view only)
search in all feeds, across all updates from subscriptions
Google made major revisions to Reader's user-interface on September 28, 2006. Product manager Nick Baum described the redesign as a movement toward making news aggregation something for the general public to enjoy. Kevin Fox, the designer of the revised Google Reader, noted that the original version was optimal for those who want to read a "river" of news. The new version took into account that most readers segment their reading by feed, group, tag, folder, or into "must read" and "maybe if I get to it" feeds.
Features of Google Reader as of 2010 include:
a front page that lets you see new items at a glance
import and export subscription lists as an OPML file
keyboard shortcuts for main functions
choice between list view or expanded view for item viewing (showing either just the story title or including a description, respectively)
automatic marking of items as read as they are scrolled past (expanded view only)
search in all feeds, across all updates from subscriptions
Xanga
Xanga is a website that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, and social networking profiles. It is operated by Xanga.com, Inc., based in New York City.
Xanga's origins can be traced back to 1998, when it began as a site for sharing book and music reviews. As of April 17, 2011, Alexa Internet ranked Xanga as the 2,450th most visited site on the Internet.
All Xanga members receive a "Xanga Site", a web site made up of a weblog, a photoblog, a videoblog, an audioblog, a "Pulse" (mini-blog), and a social networking profile. Members also have the option of joining or making blogrings (groups).
Xanga first added weblogs to all Xanga Sites on November 5, 2000. Comments were added soon after, on December 8, 2000, along with the concept of "eProps", which a user can give to another user's entry as a sign of how much he or she has enjoyed the entry. Two "eProps" is the maximum amount that can be given. (By default, "2 eProps" is selected on the comment page.) Kevin Lu of Edison holds the world record for most props on a post. Comment Tracking followed on January 18, 2001.
A core part of Xanga is the ability to subscribe to other Xangas. Subscriptions allow Xangans to stay up-to-date on other Xangas to whom they are "subscribed", without needing to manually visit each site. Xanga first added an email subscriptions feature on November 30, 2000. In January 2001, this was followed by the ability to subscribe to a site using a web-based reader using RSS (and the ability to display subscriptions on one's site).
Initially, Xanga allowed members to subscribe to each others' sites anonymously. Some users were troubled by anonymous subscriptions, and so during the week of July 15, 2003, support for this feature was discontinued. Since some users had been using anonymous subscriptions to try out subscriptions to other sites, on July 21, 2003, Xanga added a feature that allows members to sample a Trial Subscription to another site. This update also allowed members to hide individual subscriptions from public display.
Subscriptions were originally called "Sites I Read", so some older users sometimes refer to them as "SIR".
Xanga's origins can be traced back to 1998, when it began as a site for sharing book and music reviews. As of April 17, 2011, Alexa Internet ranked Xanga as the 2,450th most visited site on the Internet.
All Xanga members receive a "Xanga Site", a web site made up of a weblog, a photoblog, a videoblog, an audioblog, a "Pulse" (mini-blog), and a social networking profile. Members also have the option of joining or making blogrings (groups).
Xanga first added weblogs to all Xanga Sites on November 5, 2000. Comments were added soon after, on December 8, 2000, along with the concept of "eProps", which a user can give to another user's entry as a sign of how much he or she has enjoyed the entry. Two "eProps" is the maximum amount that can be given. (By default, "2 eProps" is selected on the comment page.) Kevin Lu of Edison holds the world record for most props on a post. Comment Tracking followed on January 18, 2001.
A core part of Xanga is the ability to subscribe to other Xangas. Subscriptions allow Xangans to stay up-to-date on other Xangas to whom they are "subscribed", without needing to manually visit each site. Xanga first added an email subscriptions feature on November 30, 2000. In January 2001, this was followed by the ability to subscribe to a site using a web-based reader using RSS (and the ability to display subscriptions on one's site).
Initially, Xanga allowed members to subscribe to each others' sites anonymously. Some users were troubled by anonymous subscriptions, and so during the week of July 15, 2003, support for this feature was discontinued. Since some users had been using anonymous subscriptions to try out subscriptions to other sites, on July 21, 2003, Xanga added a feature that allows members to sample a Trial Subscription to another site. This update also allowed members to hide individual subscriptions from public display.
Subscriptions were originally called "Sites I Read", so some older users sometimes refer to them as "SIR".
vrijdag 6 mei 2011
LiveJournal
LiveJournal (LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community. LiveJournal's blogging features include those found in similar blogging sites (multiple authors, commenting, calendars, and polls). However, LiveJournal differentiates itself from other blogging sites by its WELL-like features of a self-contained community and some social networking features similar to other social networking sites.
LiveJournal was started on April 15, 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. In January 2005, blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick.
On December 2, 2007, Six Apart announced it was selling LiveJournal to SUP, a Russian media company that had been licensing the LiveJournal brand and software for use in Russia. The new owners unveiled a plan to upgrade the service, engage with the LiveJournal community and launch new products for advertisers. This work would be undertaken by the newly formed American-based company LiveJournal, Inc.
On January 6, 2009, it was announced that LiveJournal had laid off some of their San Francisco-based employees and moved product development and design functions to Russia.
On April 22, 2009, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev opened his own blog on the LiveJournal service.
LiveJournal was started on April 15, 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. In January 2005, blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick.
On December 2, 2007, Six Apart announced it was selling LiveJournal to SUP, a Russian media company that had been licensing the LiveJournal brand and software for use in Russia. The new owners unveiled a plan to upgrade the service, engage with the LiveJournal community and launch new products for advertisers. This work would be undertaken by the newly formed American-based company LiveJournal, Inc.
On January 6, 2009, it was announced that LiveJournal had laid off some of their San Francisco-based employees and moved product development and design functions to Russia.
On April 22, 2009, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev opened his own blog on the LiveJournal service.
donderdag 5 mei 2011
Blogger
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via Custom URLs.
woensdag 4 mei 2011
identi.ca
identi.ca is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. Based on StatusNet, a micro-blogging software package built on the OpenMicroBlogging specification, Identi.ca allows users to send text updates (known as "notices") up to 140 characters long. While similar to Twitter in both concept and operation, Identi.ca provides many features not currently implemented by Twitter, including XMPP support and personal tag clouds. In addition, Identi.ca allows free export and exchange of personal and "friend" data based on the FOAF standard; therefore, notices can be fed into a Twitter account or other service, and also ported in to a private system similar to Yammer.
The service received more than 8,000 registrations and 19,000 updates within the first 24 hours of publicly launching on July 1, 2008, and reached its 1,000,000th notice on November 4, 2008. In January 2009, identi.ca received investment funds from a Montreal-based venture capital group.
On March 30, 2009 Control Yourself (since renamed StatusNet Inc) announced that Identi.ca was to become part of a hosted microblogging service called status.net to be launched in May 2009. Status.net offers individual microblogs under a subdomain to be chosen by the customer. Identi.ca will remain a free service. All notices will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license by default, but paying customers will be free to choose a different license.
The service received more than 8,000 registrations and 19,000 updates within the first 24 hours of publicly launching on July 1, 2008, and reached its 1,000,000th notice on November 4, 2008. In January 2009, identi.ca received investment funds from a Montreal-based venture capital group.
On March 30, 2009 Control Yourself (since renamed StatusNet Inc) announced that Identi.ca was to become part of a hosted microblogging service called status.net to be launched in May 2009. Status.net offers individual microblogs under a subdomain to be chosen by the customer. Identi.ca will remain a free service. All notices will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license by default, but paying customers will be free to choose a different license.
Tumblr
Tumblr, sometimes styled as tumblr., is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use.
donderdag 21 april 2011
Posterous
Posterous is a simple blogging platform started in May 2008, funded by Y Combinator. It supports integrated and automatic posting to other social media tools such as Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook, a built-in Google Analytics package, and custom themes. It is based in San Francisco.
Updating to Posterous is similar to other blogging platforms. Posting can be done by logging in to the website's rich text editor, but it is particularly designed for mobile blogging. Mobile methods include sending an email, with attachments of photos, MP3s, documents, and video (both links and files). Many social media pundits consider Posterous to be the leading free application for lifestreaming. The platform received wide attention when leading social media expert Steve Rubel declared he was moving his blogging activity entirely to Posterous.
Posterous also has its own URL shortening service, which as of March 2010 can post to Twitter.
Posterous allows users to point the DNS listing for a domain name or subdomain they already own to their Posterous account, allowing them to have a site hosted by Posterous that uses their own domain name.
In May 2010, Posterous was recognized as one of the “2010 Hottest Silicon Valley Companies” by Lead411.
Updating to Posterous is similar to other blogging platforms. Posting can be done by logging in to the website's rich text editor, but it is particularly designed for mobile blogging. Mobile methods include sending an email, with attachments of photos, MP3s, documents, and video (both links and files). Many social media pundits consider Posterous to be the leading free application for lifestreaming. The platform received wide attention when leading social media expert Steve Rubel declared he was moving his blogging activity entirely to Posterous.
Posterous also has its own URL shortening service, which as of March 2010 can post to Twitter.
Posterous allows users to point the DNS listing for a domain name or subdomain they already own to their Posterous account, allowing them to have a site hosted by Posterous that uses their own domain name.
In May 2010, Posterous was recognized as one of the “2010 Hottest Silicon Valley Companies” by Lead411.
dinsdag 19 april 2011
Squidoo
Squidoo is a community website that allows users to create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest. Squidoo had 1.5 million hand-built lenses as of October, 2010.
EzineArticles
EzineArticles is a matching services between hundreds of thousands of expert authors and Ezine Publishers looking for supplemental content they can use for next permission-based email newsletter. As of April 2011, it was ranked #102 in traffic among global websites, and #88 in the United States, according to Alexa Internet. The site was founded by Chris Knight and rose to be the #700th most visited website within two years of its launch.
Gmail
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported webmail, POP3, and IMAP service provided by Google. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite. As of November 2010, it had 193.3 million users monthly.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4 MB its competitors such as Hotmail offered at that time. Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Software developers know Gmail for its pioneering use of the Ajax programming technique. Gmail runs on Google GFE/2.0 on Linux.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4 MB its competitors such as Hotmail offered at that time. Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Software developers know Gmail for its pioneering use of the Ajax programming technique. Gmail runs on Google GFE/2.0 on Linux.
Traffic Bug
Traffic-Bug completely automates Social Bookmarking, Directory Submissions, Search Engine Submissions and RSS distribution.
Social Bookmarking. Social bookmarking is an extremely effective technique for getting new sites indexed faster by Google. Not only that but the links from social bookmarking sites can generate a nice increase in your sites rankings as well. To top it all off social bookmarking can be extremely effective at raising your sites natural traffic volumes.
Directory Submission. Directory Submissions is a technique that has been around for quite some time. Directory Submissions is a great way to build a large volume of back links back to your site. A very large portion to SEO is how many back links you have pointing to your site. Traffic-Bug is one of the very few software's if not the only one that completely automates Directory Submissions. There are other software's out there that can do directory submissions but not like Traffic-Bug. With Traffic-Bug you can simply set and forget and it will go on and on building you backlinks and even solving the CAPTCHA for you!
RSS distribution. This is another greatly powerful method to raising your sites rankings and helping get a site indexed as well as slightly improving natural traffic. RSS aggregators take your RSS URL and display them on their sites. Not only will this allow a chance for real visitors to follow your link back to your site but it provides link juice and can help with rankings.
Search Engine Submissions. There are hundreds of search engines on the web and Traffic-Bug ensures that you will be listed on all of them. Currently the software already does 139 Search Engine submissions. Even if some search engines aren't that popular it could still provide you some traffic you might not have received otherwise .
Traffic-Bug has a nice balance of short term and long term. Social Bookmarking and RSS distribution can greatly help a sites ranking in the short term while Search Engine Submission and Directory Submission can begin to help your site in the long term.
Social Bookmarking. Social bookmarking is an extremely effective technique for getting new sites indexed faster by Google. Not only that but the links from social bookmarking sites can generate a nice increase in your sites rankings as well. To top it all off social bookmarking can be extremely effective at raising your sites natural traffic volumes.
Directory Submission. Directory Submissions is a technique that has been around for quite some time. Directory Submissions is a great way to build a large volume of back links back to your site. A very large portion to SEO is how many back links you have pointing to your site. Traffic-Bug is one of the very few software's if not the only one that completely automates Directory Submissions. There are other software's out there that can do directory submissions but not like Traffic-Bug. With Traffic-Bug you can simply set and forget and it will go on and on building you backlinks and even solving the CAPTCHA for you!
RSS distribution. This is another greatly powerful method to raising your sites rankings and helping get a site indexed as well as slightly improving natural traffic. RSS aggregators take your RSS URL and display them on their sites. Not only will this allow a chance for real visitors to follow your link back to your site but it provides link juice and can help with rankings.
Search Engine Submissions. There are hundreds of search engines on the web and Traffic-Bug ensures that you will be listed on all of them. Currently the software already does 139 Search Engine submissions. Even if some search engines aren't that popular it could still provide you some traffic you might not have received otherwise .
Traffic-Bug has a nice balance of short term and long term. Social Bookmarking and RSS distribution can greatly help a sites ranking in the short term while Search Engine Submission and Directory Submission can begin to help your site in the long term.
maandag 18 april 2011
Google Analytics
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. The product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites. Another market share analysis claims that Google Analytics is used at around 49.95% of the top 1,000,000 websites (as currently ranked by Alexa).
GA can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, e-mail marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.
Integrated with AdWords, users can review online campaigns by tracking landing page quality and conversions (goals). Goals might include sales, lead generation, viewing a specific page, or downloading a particular file. These can also be monetized. By using GA, marketers can determine which ads are performing, and which are not, providing the information to optimise or cull campaigns.
GA's approach is to show high level dashboard-type data for the casual user, and more in-depth data further into the report set. Through the use of GA analysis, poor performing pages can be identified using techniques such as funnel visualization, where visitors came from (referrers), how long they stayed and their geographical position. It also provides more advanced features, including custom visitor segmentation.
Users can officially add up to 50 site profiles. Each profile generally corresponds to one website. It is limited to sites which have a traffic of fewer than 5 million pageviews per month (roughly 2 pageviews per second), unless the site is linked to an AdWords campaign.
GA can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, e-mail marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.
Integrated with AdWords, users can review online campaigns by tracking landing page quality and conversions (goals). Goals might include sales, lead generation, viewing a specific page, or downloading a particular file. These can also be monetized. By using GA, marketers can determine which ads are performing, and which are not, providing the information to optimise or cull campaigns.
GA's approach is to show high level dashboard-type data for the casual user, and more in-depth data further into the report set. Through the use of GA analysis, poor performing pages can be identified using techniques such as funnel visualization, where visitors came from (referrers), how long they stayed and their geographical position. It also provides more advanced features, including custom visitor segmentation.
Users can officially add up to 50 site profiles. Each profile generally corresponds to one website. It is limited to sites which have a traffic of fewer than 5 million pageviews per month (roughly 2 pageviews per second), unless the site is linked to an AdWords campaign.
Simplenote
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Evernote
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving available in a paid version or a more restricted, advertising-supported, "free" version. A "note" can be a piece of formattable text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can then be sorted into folders, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, and searched.
In October 2010, the company raised a $20 million USD funding round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures and DoCoMo Capital.
Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (including Android, Mac OS X, iOS, Windows and WebOS), and also offers online synchronization and backup services. Use of the online server is free up to a certain monthly usage limit, with additional monthly use reserved for paying subscribers.
The Evernote web service launched into open beta on June 24, 2008 and has reached 7 million users.
In October 2010, the company raised a $20 million USD funding round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures and DoCoMo Capital.
Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (including Android, Mac OS X, iOS, Windows and WebOS), and also offers online synchronization and backup services. Use of the online server is free up to a certain monthly usage limit, with additional monthly use reserved for paying subscribers.
The Evernote web service launched into open beta on June 24, 2008 and has reached 7 million users.
HostGator
HostGator is one of the world's top 10 largest web hosting companies with more than 5,000,000 hosted domains. We have over 600 employees to provide you superior around the clock support. We are the perfect choice whether you are looking for business, personal, or even Fortune 500 hosting.
Every web hosting plan comes with a 45 day money back guarantee, 99.9% uptime guarantee, and is fully guaranteed by the owner himself. If you ever have a problem with the regular support, just ask that your ticket be assigned to Brent and he will personally take the time to give you the VIP attention that you deserve.
Every web hosting plan comes with a 45 day money back guarantee, 99.9% uptime guarantee, and is fully guaranteed by the owner himself. If you ever have a problem with the regular support, just ask that your ticket be assigned to Brent and he will personally take the time to give you the VIP attention that you deserve.
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eBay
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. Founded in 1995, eBay is one of the notable success stories of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. eBay expanded from its original "set-time" auction format to include "Buy It Now" standard shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); online money transfers (via PayPal) and other services.
Google's Keyword Tool
Find keywords based on your site content. Instead of entering your own keywords, try using the Website Content option. It lets you enter the URL of your business website, or of any site related to your business. The AdWords system will then scan your page and then suggest relevant keywords. (This feature is available only in some languages)
Create new, separate ad groups with similar keywords. We recommend creating several ad groups in each campaign, each with a small, narrowly-focused set of similar keywords. Use the Keyword Tool to discover relevant keywords, then divide them into lists of 5 to 20 similar terms. See examples of ad groups promoting a single product or service and multiple products or services.
Identify negative keywords. The Keyword Tool can show you off-topic keywords that users may be thinking about. Suppose you sell cut flowers and you give the Keyword Tool the keyword 'flowers.' It may suggest the related term 'gardens,' and you may want to add that term to your ad group as a negative keyword. That will keep your ad from showing on searches for 'flower gardens' or similar terms. This helps make sure only interested customers see your ads.
Find synonyms - or not. The Use synonyms box in the Descriptive words or phrases option is always checked by default. (This means it might suggest 'bed and breakfast' as a synonym for the keyword 'hotel.') If you uncheck the box, the tool will suggest only keywords that contain at least one of the terms that you entered.
Specify a language and location. If you're using the Keyword Tool while signed in to your account, you may see an option to tailor results to a particular location and language. If you happen to be targeting Spanish speakers who live in France, make sure you set the Keyword Tool to that language and location.
Start broad and then get specific. Try broad terms like 'flowers' in the Keyword Tool first. Then try specific terms like 'red roses' or 'miniature cactus.'
Create new, separate ad groups with similar keywords. We recommend creating several ad groups in each campaign, each with a small, narrowly-focused set of similar keywords. Use the Keyword Tool to discover relevant keywords, then divide them into lists of 5 to 20 similar terms. See examples of ad groups promoting a single product or service and multiple products or services.
Identify negative keywords. The Keyword Tool can show you off-topic keywords that users may be thinking about. Suppose you sell cut flowers and you give the Keyword Tool the keyword 'flowers.' It may suggest the related term 'gardens,' and you may want to add that term to your ad group as a negative keyword. That will keep your ad from showing on searches for 'flower gardens' or similar terms. This helps make sure only interested customers see your ads.
Find synonyms - or not. The Use synonyms box in the Descriptive words or phrases option is always checked by default. (This means it might suggest 'bed and breakfast' as a synonym for the keyword 'hotel.') If you uncheck the box, the tool will suggest only keywords that contain at least one of the terms that you entered.
Specify a language and location. If you're using the Keyword Tool while signed in to your account, you may see an option to tailor results to a particular location and language. If you happen to be targeting Spanish speakers who live in France, make sure you set the Keyword Tool to that language and location.
Start broad and then get specific. Try broad terms like 'flowers' in the Keyword Tool first. Then try specific terms like 'red roses' or 'miniature cactus.'
Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is the largest online retailer in the United States, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and the site went online in 1995. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver". The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is one of the largest rivers in the world and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with "A" and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and the site went online in 1995. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver". The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is one of the largest rivers in the world and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with "A" and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates. It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for twenty years, until the year 2024. The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and the company's unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Paul Buchheit – is "Don't be evil". In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day. Google's rapid growth since its incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine. The company offers online productivity software, such as its Gmail email service, and social networking tools, including Orkut and, more recently, Google Buzz. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications such as the web browser Google Chrome, the Picasa photo organization and editing software, and the Google Talk instant messaging application. Notably, Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, used on a number of phones such as the Nexus One and Motorola Droid, as well as Google Chrome OS, which is still under heavy development but is best known as the main operating system on the Cr-48. Alexa lists the main U.S.-focused google.com site as the Internet's most visited website, and numerous international Google sites (google.co.in, google.co.uk etc.) are in the top hundred, as are several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube, Blogger, and Orkut. Google is also BrandZ's most powerful brand in the world. The dominant market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship.
Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day. Google's rapid growth since its incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine. The company offers online productivity software, such as its Gmail email service, and social networking tools, including Orkut and, more recently, Google Buzz. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications such as the web browser Google Chrome, the Picasa photo organization and editing software, and the Google Talk instant messaging application. Notably, Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, used on a number of phones such as the Nexus One and Motorola Droid, as well as Google Chrome OS, which is still under heavy development but is best known as the main operating system on the Cr-48. Alexa lists the main U.S.-focused google.com site as the Internet's most visited website, and numerous international Google sites (google.co.in, google.co.uk etc.) are in the top hundred, as are several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube, Blogger, and Orkut. Google is also BrandZ's most powerful brand in the world. The dominant market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship.
iTunes
iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The application is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's iPod and iPhone lines, as well as the iPad.
iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod Games, Audiobooks, Podcasts, movies and movie rentals (not available in all countries), and Ringtones (only available on iPhone and iPod Touch 4th Generation). It is also used to download Apps from the App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
iTunes was introduced by Apple Inc. on January 9, 2001. The latest version, which is currently version 10.2.1, is available as a free download for Mac OS X v10.5/Windows XP or later on Apple's website. In June 2010, Apple released a new privacy policy pertaining to the capture and collection of users' real-time location information. The information had been included in various device-specific EULAs since 2008, but was only recently included in Apple's general privacy policy.
iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod Games, Audiobooks, Podcasts, movies and movie rentals (not available in all countries), and Ringtones (only available on iPhone and iPod Touch 4th Generation). It is also used to download Apps from the App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
iTunes was introduced by Apple Inc. on January 9, 2001. The latest version, which is currently version 10.2.1, is available as a free download for Mac OS X v10.5/Windows XP or later on Apple's website. In June 2010, Apple released a new privacy policy pertaining to the capture and collection of users' real-time location information. The information had been included in various device-specific EULAs since 2008, but was only recently included in Apple's general privacy policy.
Google Maps
Google Maps (formerly Google Local) is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. Google Maps satellite images are not in real time; they are several months or years old.
Google Maps uses a close variant of the Mercator projection, so it cannot show areas around the poles. A related product is Google Earth, a stand-alone program which offers more globe-viewing features, including showing polar areas.
Google Maps uses a close variant of the Mercator projection, so it cannot show areas around the poles. A related product is Google Earth, a stand-alone program which offers more globe-viewing features, including showing polar areas.
Dropbox
Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. that uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. It was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a Y Combinator startup.
There are both free and paid services, each with varying options. In comparison to similar services, Dropbox offers a relatively large number of user clients across a variety of desktop and mobile operating systems. There are a total of 10 clients, including versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (official and unofficial), as well as versions for mobile devices, such as Android, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry, and a web-based client for when no local client is installed. Dropbox uses the Freemium financial model and its free service provides 2 GB of free online storage. Users who refer Dropbox to others can gain up to 8 GB of free storage. The service's major competitors include Box.net, Ubuntu One, SugarSync, Mozy, ZumoDrive and SpiderOak.
There are both free and paid services, each with varying options. In comparison to similar services, Dropbox offers a relatively large number of user clients across a variety of desktop and mobile operating systems. There are a total of 10 clients, including versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (official and unofficial), as well as versions for mobile devices, such as Android, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry, and a web-based client for when no local client is installed. Dropbox uses the Freemium financial model and its free service provides 2 GB of free online storage. Users who refer Dropbox to others can gain up to 8 GB of free storage. The service's major competitors include Box.net, Ubuntu One, SugarSync, Mozy, ZumoDrive and SpiderOak.
Google Docs
Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of Writely and Spreadsheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems. Data storage of any files up to 1GB each in size was introduced on January 13, 2010.
Google Groups
Google Groups is a service from Google Inc. that supports discussion groups, including many Usenet newsgroups, based on common interests. The service was started in 1995 as Deja News, and was transitioned to Google Groups after a February 2001 buyout.
Membership in Google Groups is free of charge and many groups are anonymous. Users can find discussion groups related to their interests and participate in threaded conversations, either through a web interface or by e-mail. They can also start new groups. Google Groups also includes an archive of Usenet newsgroup postings dating back to 1981 and supports reading and posting to Usenet groups. Users can also set up mailing list archives for e-mail lists that are hosted elsewhere.
Membership in Google Groups is free of charge and many groups are anonymous. Users can find discussion groups related to their interests and participate in threaded conversations, either through a web interface or by e-mail. They can also start new groups. Google Groups also includes an archive of Usenet newsgroup postings dating back to 1981 and supports reading and posting to Usenet groups. Users can also set up mailing list archives for e-mail lists that are hosted elsewhere.
Skype
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls and chats over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features which include instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. Skype has 663 million registered users as of 2010. The network is operated by Skype Limited, which has its headquarters in Luxembourg and is minority owned by eBay. Most of the development team of Skype is situated in Tallinn, Estonia.
Unlike other VoIP services, Skype is a peer-to-peer system rather than a client–server system, and makes use of background processing on computers running Skype software; the original name proposed – Sky peer-to-peer – reflects this.
Some network administrators have banned Skype on corporate, government, home, and education networks, citing reasons such as inappropriate usage of resources, excessive bandwidth usage, and security concerns.
Unlike other VoIP services, Skype is a peer-to-peer system rather than a client–server system, and makes use of background processing on computers running Skype software; the original name proposed – Sky peer-to-peer – reflects this.
Some network administrators have banned Skype on corporate, government, home, and education networks, citing reasons such as inappropriate usage of resources, excessive bandwidth usage, and security concerns.
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RSS Subscription Extension
This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe.
The extension comes with 4 feed readers predefined (Google Reader, iGoogle, Bloglines and My Yahoo) but also allows you to add any web-based feed reader of your choice to the list.
The extension comes with 4 feed readers predefined (Google Reader, iGoogle, Bloglines and My Yahoo) but also allows you to add any web-based feed reader of your choice to the list.
Google Global
Google Global, Developed by Redfly LTD (Redfly Marketing) is an extension that allows you to see how Google search results appear in different countries, regions and cities. Google global has default countries set and allows you to add customized locations so you can see how search results appear in the exact location that you require. Excellent for SEO/Marketing companies who work with clients in different regions.
What's New?
* Google Chrome Support!
* New option to remove the icon from the menu bar.
* New Option to enable the AdTest parameter so you play nice with other advertisers.
* Some performance enhancements.
* New Default language change option (Most of you will not need to change this)
* LBL option (This feature is still in beta and does not work when the adtest option is enabled)
* Automatic updates for future releases.
* Some performance enhancements.
What's New?
* Google Chrome Support!
* New option to remove the icon from the menu bar.
* New Option to enable the AdTest parameter so you play nice with other advertisers.
* Some performance enhancements.
* New Default language change option (Most of you will not need to change this)
* LBL option (This feature is still in beta and does not work when the adtest option is enabled)
* Automatic updates for future releases.
* Some performance enhancements.
Ultimate Chrome Flag
This extension displays country or region name, Geo, Google PageRank, Alexa Rank and WOT info for the websites you're visiting.
This extension shows a country or region flag indicating the location of the website you're visiting. And the following information will be shown in the popup:
• Country or region name
• Domain name and IP address
• Geo information
• Google PageRank
• Alexa Rank
• WOT (Web of Trust) information
• Copy domain name and IP address to clipboard
On the popup, click domain name, Geo, Alexa Rank or WOT will go to corresponding site to view detailed information of current site.
This extension shows a country or region flag indicating the location of the website you're visiting. And the following information will be shown in the popup:
• Country or region name
• Domain name and IP address
• Geo information
• Google PageRank
• Alexa Rank
• WOT (Web of Trust) information
• Copy domain name and IP address to clipboard
On the popup, click domain name, Geo, Alexa Rank or WOT will go to corresponding site to view detailed information of current site.
SeoQuake
Displays the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and other SEO parameters of any webpage, highlights nofollow links, text density, check and compare urls.
Full list of SEO parameters:
Google PageRank
Google Index
Yahoo links
Yahoo linkdomain
Bing index
Alexa Rank
Webarchive age
Delicious index
Whois link
Page source
SEMRush rank
Nofollow links
Full list of SEO parameters:
Google PageRank
Google Index
Yahoo links
Yahoo linkdomain
Bing index
Alexa Rank
Webarchive age
Delicious index
Whois link
Page source
SEMRush rank
Nofollow links
SitezMeter
This handy SEO tool shows you the Google PageRank of webpages beside the address box.
The PageRank value is cached locally, so it doesn't have to hit the server every time you switch tab.
Moreover, click the icon in the popup window provides extensive information about web sites traffic - instantly find out how popular a web site is, its rank, and how fast it is growing. Please check out the screen shot for more detail.
The PageRank value is cached locally, so it doesn't have to hit the server every time you switch tab.
Moreover, click the icon in the popup window provides extensive information about web sites traffic - instantly find out how popular a web site is, its rank, and how fast it is growing. Please check out the screen shot for more detail.
Chromed Bird
Chromed Bird is an awesome Twitter client extension for Google Chrome with lots of features.
Some of the most important features are:
* Check trending topics right inside the extension;
* *Experimental* support for real time timeline updates (You need to enable "Use streaming API" on the options page);
* Upload images from inside the extension; (Chrome 8+ and not yet on OS X)
* Change extension's locale from inside the options page;
* Expand the original tweet replies are referring to;
* Follow / Unfollow users by using the inline user actions menu;
* Browse tweets from a specific user directly inside the extension;
* Add and remove timeline tabs "on the fly" using the new right-click context menu;
* Create custom search queries that will update automatically;
* Preview image links by hovering them (Thanks to Takuo Kitame);
* See all your tweets in an unified timeline;
* Follow your timelines (including @mentions, lists, DMs and favorites) and navigate through your tweets;
* Compose, reply, RT, share, favorite and delete tweets;
* Create short URLs within the extension;
* Preview shortened URLs before clicking them;
* Track read / unread tweets;
* Notify user whenever new tweets arrive;
Some of the most important features are:
* Check trending topics right inside the extension;
* *Experimental* support for real time timeline updates (You need to enable "Use streaming API" on the options page);
* Upload images from inside the extension; (Chrome 8+ and not yet on OS X)
* Change extension's locale from inside the options page;
* Expand the original tweet replies are referring to;
* Follow / Unfollow users by using the inline user actions menu;
* Browse tweets from a specific user directly inside the extension;
* Add and remove timeline tabs "on the fly" using the new right-click context menu;
* Create custom search queries that will update automatically;
* Preview image links by hovering them (Thanks to Takuo Kitame);
* See all your tweets in an unified timeline;
* Follow your timelines (including @mentions, lists, DMs and favorites) and navigate through your tweets;
* Compose, reply, RT, share, favorite and delete tweets;
* Create short URLs within the extension;
* Preview shortened URLs before clicking them;
* Track read / unread tweets;
* Notify user whenever new tweets arrive;
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. As of January 2011, Chrome was the third most widely used browser, and passed the 10% worldwide usage share of web browsers, according to Net Applications.
In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code, including its V8 JavaScript engine, as an open source project entitled Chromium. This move enabled third-party developers to study the underlying source code and to help convert the browser to the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. Google also expressed hope that other browsers would adopt V8 to improve web application performance. The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the permissive BSD license, which allows portions to be incorporated into both open source and closed source software programs. Other portions of the source code are subject to a variety of open source licenses. Chromium implements the same feature set as Chrome, but lacks built-in automatic updates and Google branding, and most noticeably has a blue-colored logo in place of the multicolored Google logo.
In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code, including its V8 JavaScript engine, as an open source project entitled Chromium. This move enabled third-party developers to study the underlying source code and to help convert the browser to the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. Google also expressed hope that other browsers would adopt V8 to improve web application performance. The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the permissive BSD license, which allows portions to be incorporated into both open source and closed source software programs. Other portions of the source code are subject to a variety of open source licenses. Chromium implements the same feature set as Chrome, but lacks built-in automatic updates and Google branding, and most noticeably has a blue-colored logo in place of the multicolored Google logo.
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging website, based in San Francisco, California, also having servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Twitter, Inc. was originally incorporated in California, but has been incorporated in the jurisdiction of Delaware since 2007. Since being created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launching that July, the website has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have more than 200 million active users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".
Twitter enables users to send and read text-based posts composed of up to 140 characters, called tweets, which are displayed on the user's profile page. Users can subscribe to other users' tweets – this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers or tweeps ('Twitter' + 'peeps'). By default, tweets are publicly visible, though senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers. Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
Twitter enables users to send and read text-based posts composed of up to 140 characters, called tweets, which are displayed on the user's profile page. Users can subscribe to other users' tweets – this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers or tweeps ('Twitter' + 'peeps'). By default, tweets are publicly visible, though senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers. Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
Ustream
Ustream.tv is a website which consists of a network of diverse channels providing a platform for lifecasting and live video streaming of events online. Established in March 2007, the site has over 2,000,000 registered users who generate 1,500,000+ hours of live streamed content per month with over ten million unique hits per month. It received $11.1 million in Series A funding for new product development from DCM and investors Labrador Ventures and Band of Angels.
During the 2008 United States presidential election, the website was used by nearly all of the major candidates to help their campaigns, by allowing a greater number of voters to ask political questions. Former Senator and 2008 Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel became the first candidate ever to stream an alternate debate on Ustream that allowed Sen. Gravel to respond to all of the questions being asked, as well as comment on the responses from the other candidates throughout a nationally televised debate.
During the 2008 United States presidential election, the website was used by nearly all of the major candidates to help their campaigns, by allowing a greater number of voters to ask political questions. Former Senator and 2008 Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel became the first candidate ever to stream an alternate debate on Ustream that allowed Sen. Gravel to respond to all of the questions being asked, as well as comment on the responses from the other candidates throughout a nationally televised debate.
maandag 28 maart 2011
Jazz muziek
In principe is jazz 'muziek van het moment' – er worden op elk moment nieuwe muzikale keuzes gemaakt die tot aan de vorm en alle op dat moment spelende musici reiken (zie de genoemde jazzstromingen hieronder) waardoor een persoonlijke en intensieve muziekbeleving ontstaat. In klassieke muziek en popmuziek is deze eigenschap nagenoeg afwezig. In de jazzmuziek wordt een thema of kleine compositie of een afspraak alleen gebruikt als basis voor improvisatie. Door deze eigenschap raakt jazz als stijl veel andere stromingen zoals blues, (pop-)world, folk, heavy metal, funk, soul, klassiek en oude muziek en er bestaan heden ten dage dan ook vele mengvormen.
Het gewicht van improvisatie zien we terug in de geschiedenis van de jazz, waarbij beperkende factoren -vastgehouden door de menselijke maat en commercie- worden opgeruimd; het loslaten van dansmuziek waardoor lagere en hogere tempo's en complexere ritmes mogelijk worden, het toestaan van esthetiek, het loslaten van thema's en het streven naar complete vrijheid en het gebruik van andere muziekstromingen.
Het gewicht van improvisatie zien we terug in de geschiedenis van de jazz, waarbij beperkende factoren -vastgehouden door de menselijke maat en commercie- worden opgeruimd; het loslaten van dansmuziek waardoor lagere en hogere tempo's en complexere ritmes mogelijk worden, het toestaan van esthetiek, het loslaten van thema's en het streven naar complete vrijheid en het gebruik van andere muziekstromingen.
zondag 20 maart 2011
zaterdag 19 maart 2011
vrijdag 18 februari 2011
Autorisierte Schimmel Partner
Die Investition in ein Musikinstrument der Spitzenklasse erfordert Vertrauen in das Markenprodukt und die Geschäftspartner vor Ort. Deshalb arbeiten wir nur mit autorisierten Partnern zusammen. Dort stehen Experten mit Rat und Tat zur Verfügung bei der Beratung, bei der Entscheidung für ein Schimmel Instrument, bei dessen Auslieferung und zur späteren fachgerechten Pflege.
Der Kauf vom Fachhändler und die Entscheidung für ein Markenprodukt mit einem guten Namen und einem bewährten Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis sind stets empfehlenswert. Das gilt ganz besonders für akustische Pianoforte-Instrumente. Denken Sie daran, dass gebrauchte Instrumente aus dritter Hand und auch Billiginstrumente mit Phantasienamen oder unbekannter Herkunft Risiken bergen können.
Erfragen Sie, wo das neue Instrument Ihrer möglichen Wahl produziert worden ist, welcher Fabrikant mit seinem Namen hinter dem Produkt steht. Hinter Schimmel Instrumenten steht in jedem Fall ein Unternehmen, das in der Fachwelt einen ausgezeichneten Ruf genießt.
Der Kauf vom Fachhändler und die Entscheidung für ein Markenprodukt mit einem guten Namen und einem bewährten Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis sind stets empfehlenswert. Das gilt ganz besonders für akustische Pianoforte-Instrumente. Denken Sie daran, dass gebrauchte Instrumente aus dritter Hand und auch Billiginstrumente mit Phantasienamen oder unbekannter Herkunft Risiken bergen können.
Erfragen Sie, wo das neue Instrument Ihrer möglichen Wahl produziert worden ist, welcher Fabrikant mit seinem Namen hinter dem Produkt steht. Hinter Schimmel Instrumenten steht in jedem Fall ein Unternehmen, das in der Fachwelt einen ausgezeichneten Ruf genießt.
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