Feb 04
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Nov 19
At the Microsoft (MSFT) Professional Developers Conference on Tuesday, company CTO Ray Ozzie (pictured) took the stage to chat about his company’s latest effort in cloud computing. Called WindowsAzure, this new Microsoft offering will allow companies to write code on a cloud-based operating system that runs in Microsoft data centers. After a year of testing, Azure is slated to go live in January, with paying customers coming aboard in February.
Microsoft is playing catchup in the cloud realm. Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG) have both been running live cloud-computing offerings for over a year and have gained considerable traction with Internet companies and IT organizations seeking to avoid the limitations of physical servers, hardware maintenance and static bandwidth contracts. The big surprise that Ozzie unveiled, however, wasn’t technological. It was actually a customer: Automattic, the hot software and blog hosting company that is behind the highly popular WordPress platform.
Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg took the stage with Ozzie to talk about why he chose to use Azure for distributed hosting for WordPress and the millions of blogs its customers have online. Automattic is known as a strong advocate of Open Source technology. Mullenweg has built WordPress to run primarily atop Open Source software such as the Linux operating system, the MySQL database and the Apache Web server. Yet there he was onstage with Ozzie plugging Microsoft. Huh?
Well, it sure seems like Microsoft has gotten its mojo back; perhaps the worm has finally turned for the beaten-down Redmond giant. Early indications from the Windows 7 launch are that it’s going to be a smash for Microsoft and CEO Steve Ballmer. Wall Street analysts have been upgrading the stock, and it has hit 52-week highs. Now, it looks like Ozzie and his team of propeller heads have finally gotten the future of Microsoft as an on-demand software and services juggernaut cleaned up and ready for public consumption.
As one of the early leaders at Lotus back when that company was setting the standard for collaboration tools, Ozzie has long enjoyed cult hero status among coders, techies and venture capitalists. And he has been viewed within Microsoft as the cloud maestro, the man who has pushed strongly to move the Redmond behemoth beyond its boxed-software mentality and into a future realm where very little software runs on PCs. Rather, all software will run remotely on the Internet in a data center — in the cloud, so to speak.
Cloud-computing revenues have remained scant compared to earthly revenues from software licenses and sales of servers and data storage gear. Amazon, probably the leader in cloud-computing services, is on track to do only $200 million in cloud service revenues in 2009, according to cloud computing blog Cloudscaling. That’s out of a total expected revenue pool of more than $20 billion during that period.
But the global pool of cloud-computing service revenue is somewhere north of $17 billion between various providers, according to tech tracker IDC. And if cloud computing, like most other IT sectors, consolidates down to a handful of vendors in a short span of time, then Microsoft could be well positioned to get a nice chunk of what IDC says will nearly triple into a $44 billion market within four years. The upshot? Microsoft could end up hitting on all cylinders, with its server and desktop software business lines benefiting from a big IT refresh in the next few years, and its efforts to tap the cloud — and nail down customers like Automattic — yielding both big revenues and a return to the spotlight as a serious growth machine with legs and a stock chart to match.
Alex Salkever is Senior Writer at AOL Daily Finance covering technology and greentech. Follow him on twitter @alexsalkever, read his articles, or email him at alex@dailyfinance.com
Oct 07
- <title><?php wp_title(‘–’,true,‘right’); ?> <?php bloginfo(‘name’);?></title>
I prefer a more informative title display to improve SEO for your blog/website.
- <?php
- function seo_title()
- {
- $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1;
- wp_title(‘«’, true, ‘right’);
- if ($paged > 1)
- {
- echo ‘ Page ’ . $paged . ‘ —’;
- }
- echo ‘ ’;
- bloginfo(‘name’);
- if (is_home() && $paged === 1)
- {
- echo ‘ — ’;
- bloginfo(‘description’);
- }
- }
- ?>
- <title><?php seo_title(); ?></title>
Sep 19
| Rank | Web Hosting Provider | Price | Space | Traffic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | InMotion Hosting Business Web Hosting |
$229.95 | 250 Gb | 2000 Gb | |
| 2 | Techvensys | $75 | Unlimited | Unlimited | |
| 3 | Acenet, Inc. Reliable Web Hosting |
$9.97 | 500 Gb | Unlimited | |
| 4 | Acenet, Inc. Reliable Web Hosting |
$59 | 20 Gb | 1000 Gb | |
| 5 | InMotion Hosting Business Web Hosting |
$8.95 | Unlimited | Unlimited | |
| 6 | Acenet, Inc. Reliable Web Hosting |
$249 | 640 Gb | Unlimited | |
| 7 | FatCow Hosting Affordable Web Hosting |
$3.67 | Unlimited | Unlimited | |
| 8 | Ibiscus Internet Services | $26 | 5 Gb | 100 Gb | |
| 9 | Just Host Unlimited Web Hosting |
$4.95 | Unlimited | Unlimited | |
| 10 | Techvensys | $75 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Web Publishing with Blog Hosting
Blogs have become an immensely popular way for internet users to publish content on the web. Upon first being introduced, they were primarily used as online personal journals. Today, blogs are being used by people of all sorts and companies of all sizes to obtain exposure and generate revenue. A blog is ideal for inexperienced users as most platforms don’t require you to know anything about HTML or other programming technologies. This makes for a user-friendly environment that allows you to easily publish content and establish a presence online.
Before creating your first blog entry, it is a good idea to determine whether you intend to monetize it, or simply use it for personal use. Most importantly, you need to determine what platform you want to use and where to host it. While you can choose a free platform provided by sites such as Blogger.com or WordPress.com, you are likely to get the most of out of a blog hosted by a professional web host. With this type of arrangement, you generally have to pay for the web hosting account but get the blogging script free. Though you can save a few dollars by going with the totally free route, most find that paid blog hosting offers the best value in terms of customization, control and flexibility.
What to Look For
A good blog hosting package is one that allows you to install and setup the application through simple point-and-click procedures. This can usually be done through a control panel such as cPanel and its Fantastico one-click script installer. If you are new to the world of online blogging, having such an easy to use tool is vital because manually installing any software on a web server can be an overwhelming complicated task. In addition, your hosting package should include a database such as MySQL for back-end in support and have whatever programming package the blogging software is written in installed on the server. It should also provide you with an amply supply of disk space and bandwidth as these resources will allow you to store your blog files and enjoy good amount of traffic. In the end, these features will help to ensure that your experience with a blog turns out be as smooth and pain-free as possible.
Finding Your Host
There are many companies that can provide you with a blog hosting service and this factor often makes choosing one a difficult process. When out comparing host, you will see that most offer multiple blogging applications for you to choose from. The best advise is to write down your exact requirements and preferences and then match them with the services provided by a particular host. It is also wise to learn more about the individual platforms to find out what each has to offer. When getting down to the specifics, you will find that it is much easier to choose a blog hosting solution that can deliver the results you’re after.
Sep 12
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Sep 05
I thought that one of the more interesting topics addressed at Search Engine Strategies San Jose a while back was that of SEO and the publishing industry. This is an industry seemingly at war with entities like Google (at least partially), even though there are clearly measures publishers could take, which would make Google and Google News in particular work to their advantage.
Have you had success ranking in Google News? Comment.
Google News is a very useful resource to online news seekers. It seems to get more and more useful as time goes on. For example, they just started incorporating real-time search suggestions into news queries. Publishers should embrace such a tool (Google News) that users themselves embrace, and can ultimately gain them more traffic.
This week, Google has shared some insight into search engine optimization practices for news search. Publishers could learn a lot from the following video.
In addition to the video, Google’s Maile Ohye answered a couple of questions about Google News SEO on the Google News blog. For one, she says that adding a city to the title of the publication will not help publishers target their local audience, because Google extracts geography and location information from the articles themselves.
“Changing your name to include relevant keywords or adding a local address in your footer won’t help you target a specific audience in our News rankings,” she says.
She also says that Google only wants recently added URLs in publishers’ News Sitemaps, because they direct Googlebot to the publishers’ breaking information. “If you include older URLs, no worries (there’s no penalty unless you’re perceived as maliciously spamming — this case would be rare, so again, no worries); we just won’t include those URLs in our next News crawl,” says Ohye.
A few weeks ago, a patent was granted to Google for “systems and method for improving the ranking of news articles.” The patent was originally filed way back in 2003, so there is no question that some of the details have changed, but within it there are a number of factors highlighted, some of which may be ranking factors Google News considers.
In one “implementation consistent with the principles of the invention,” here are some factors that are mentioned:
- a number of articles produced by the news source during a first time period
- an average length of an article produced by the news source
- an amount of important coverage that the news source produces in a second time period
- a breaking news score
- an amount of network traffic to the news source
- a human opinion of the news source
- circulation statistics of the news source
- a size of a staff associated with the news source
- a number of bureaus associated with the news source
- a number of original named entities in a group of articles associated with the news source
- a breadth of coverage by the news source
- a number of different countries from which network traffic to the news source originates
- the writing style used by the news source
A couple months ago, Google posted a Google News publisher FAQ page. That answers questions like:
- Can I suggest my personal website for inclusion in Google News?
- What requirements do I have to meet in order to be included in Google News?
- My website was accepted in Google News a few days ago, but I still can’t find my articles. Is something wrong?
- Why aren’t my images showing up in Google News?
- Why do all my articles have a strange title in Google News, like “Share this” or “By Jane Q. Journalist”?
- What is the “unique number” or “3 digit” rule?
- Should I submit a News sitemap?
- Why can’t I see the option to submit a News sitemap in Webmaster Tools?
- Once I’ve submitted a News sitemap, do I have to resubmit it each time I publish a new article?
- If I submit a News sitemap, will Google News stop crawling my regular section pages?
- How often does Google News crawl my News sitemap? In Webmaster Tools, it appears to be crawled only once per day.
- Why have my articles stopped appearing in Google News, even though they’ve been showing up previously?
The moral of the story is that there are a lot of things you can look at if you are serious about getting traffic from Google News, whether you are already being picked up or not. The best part is that most of it is straight from Google itself.
May 13
Recently I came across a relatively young WordPress plugin that allow WordPress users and designers to use basically any TrueType font you have on your computer on your WordPress blog, replacing post titles, widget titles, links and so on with automatically generated SEO-smart images using your desired font. The plugin is called AnyFont and it has been developed by Ryan Peel
The generated images have a very good level of clarity, way better than the classic SWF replacement and the plugin is really easy to administrate and customize.
AnyFont plugin management
See for yourself how easy it is to set up the output style:
And the output is really good:
As I said, the output is SEO friendly, each image being given an ALT and TITLE attribute that either automatically take content from the original text, or you can set your own values.
The plugin also uses an image-caching system to ease the server load.
Click here to go to the AnyFont plugin download page.
Apr 23
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Mar 23
WordPress is a great blogging platform, one of the reasons being the immense community support. It is this community that develops plugins and hacks for WordPress and makes life easier for everyone. In this post, I have compiled 10 of my favorite WordPress hacks. Some of these posts linked to have multiple hacks available, so make sure to check out the other hacks in the page too.
And while you’re at it, please stumble or float this to let more bloggers and designers know about these hacks.
Split category list
BlogohBlog’s post has, among others, a hack to split category list. This is useful when the list is displayed in a sidebar (and you want to save space).
Also see the hack to show your most commented posts in sidebar.
Author bio
Multi-author blogs will find the author bio hack useful. Once the basic code is in place, you can use CSS to style it up.
Exclude ads on specific posts
Many ad management plugins offer this functionality, but if you have hardcoded ads into your theme, you can use the “Hiding ads in posts” hack (instead of switching to a plugin just for this functionality.
Membership directory
WPDesigner has a useful tutorial on creating a few theme files and using plugins to turn WP into a membership directory.
FLIR plugin
23Systems’ free FLIR plugin replaces headings with custom fonts using FLIR technique.
Breadcrumbs plugin
mTekk has a WordPress plugin for breadcrumb navigation.
FeedBurner feedcount PHP code
Hongkiat has the updated PHP code required to display Feedburner feedcount in text (works for any system using PHP). If you have been frustrated by problems with Feedcount plugin, this is a worthy alternative. Note that it requires PHP 5.
Login form overlay
Pro Blog Design features a tutorial on making a login form overlay using a mod of Lightbox.
Automatic Stats plugin
Automatic Blog Stats is a WordPress plugin that gives you shortcodes to embed anywhere in your post and display stats. Most of the common stats like FeedBurner feedcount, post and comment stats, Alexa, Pagerank, Technorati authority and Google/Yahoo/Delicious backlinks count are available.
Twitter bar, random stats
Paul Stamatiou has code snippets required to pull in Twitter status to, and list random stats on your blog, and.
Of course, this is just the tip of the ice berg - there are lots of other useful hacks. Suggest your favorites in comments.
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