Verizon iPhone woos away Smartphone flaunters

Awaiting Verizon iPhone’s release on 10^th February, a lot of buyers are already lining up. On the first day of pre-orders, taken on 3^rd Feb., huge numbers of Verizon iPhones were already sold. A recent market survey conducted from January 28 to January 31 by uSamp, an online sampling and survey company, reveals that out of 700 Smartphone users, 29% AT&T iPhone users and 24% of Verizon Blackberry and Android users are willing to switch to the Verizon iPhone. Out of the 700 users tested, 54% of Verizon Smartphone users are likely to switch to the iPhone, citing a better interface (60%), Mobile Safari web browser (58%), better media features(51%), more memory(43%), and camera(41%).

Those Verizon Android and Blackberry users not wishing to switch to the iPad state conversion costs(46%), e-mail and messaging (23%), keyboard(34%), customization and widgets (20%), maps and gps(23%), and web browser (19%), BlackBerry messenger (28%), as the reason to stay fixed to their Smartphone. According to Research in motion, about more than half of total Verizon’s BlackBerry users (66%) and about half of its android users (44 %) are likely to make the switch. The survey by uSamp also indicates that about 25% of the At&T iPad users from among the 700 surveyed, are willing to move on to the Verizon iPhone because of dropped calls and low coverage, and 22% cite product features behind the decision to change.

In an independent survey, Mashable.com, surveyed about 5,000 users, out of which 30% indicate joining the bandwagon as soon as possible, and another 23% would switch on arrival of the next version. It also indicated that the bandwidth requirements on Verison’s network might limit user’s experience, though the company is planning to throttle the download speeds for top 5% of its users. Apart from these speculations, the market is still unpredictable. Wait till 10^th Feb. to see how many takers the new iPhone will actually garner. The question is - are you willing to give up your Smartphone for the new arrival?

YouTube to recommend movies based on your sentiments

The hugely popular Google owned video sharing site, YouTube, has now acquired Fflick, a website devoted to movie related reviews, information and news, based on data collected from popular social networking sites and blogs. All movies related tweets posted on twitter are analyzed to see what’s on people’s minds. The site filters all that is discussed about movies, and then analyses what is relevant and how it can be used to market new movies and videos. Launched last year in August, by Kurt Wilms and three other ex Digg employees, the site’s popularity and potential as a survey tool for movies and videos, made YouTube take the plunge in January 2011.

YouTube’s motive is to enhance the revenue generated by its video based services by analyzing people’s sentiments. Fflick recommends movies based on emotions, and helps in finding video content similar to what the users like and watch regularly. All opinions posted on Twitter, Facebook or other networks will help in estimating what is most popular and what people generally prefer watching. That way, recommendations can be made to people on what to watch next, thereby increasing chances of sales. In a YouTube blogpost, Shiva Rajaraman, (Group Product Manager, YouTube) says, “We were impressed by the technical talent, design instincts and entrepreneurial spirit of the Fflick team. As part of YouTube, the Fflick team will help us build features to connect you with the great videos talked about all over the web, and surface the best of those conversations for you to participate in.We look forward to rolling out more features that help you enjoy and discover new videos to watch, so stay tuned!”

YouTube may start a video rental service soon, and the acquiring of Fflick, would help in increasing sales. The sentiment engine provided by Fflick will let users know what their friends and others around the world feel about movies and videos, giving better reviews than movie critics do.

Operation Egypt by ‘Anonymous’

There’s more going on in Egypt than just mass protests and stone pelting. The Egyptian Ministry of Information and President Mubarek’s National Democratic Party has lots more to worry about. After a partial lift on the ban on internet usage on Wednesday, after a five day long blackout, government websites were hacked by the international hackers group called ‘Anonymous’. This hacking spree is being dubbed as Operation Egypt. Recently in the news for hacking various company websites like mastercard.com and PayPal, who denied transfer of funds to WikiLeaks, they are back in full support to protestors in Egypt.

Gathering an army of hackers across the world, the ‘Anonymous’ group took down the government’s websites, though this time the number of participants was lower (about 500) than in December, when they supported WikiLeaks. Judging from their previous hacks of government websites in Tunisia and Yemen, they seem to have a fixation in supporting anti-government protestors in their own unique way. In Yemen, they hacked websites of the Yemeni Ministry of Information, the tax office and the President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s website.

As revealed by an anonymous member, they used a program called Low Orbit Ion cannon, which floods a particular website with fake traffic, bringing it down in the process if it doesn’t have enough capacity. In a Facebook message revealing their involvement in the act, the group says, "Anonymous can not and will not stand idly while people are being denied their basic rights and human liberties. Yet there are still a lot of governments worldwide who fail to even aspire to the standard of freedom that was set the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights…". Well, Egypt’s President is definitely listening!

World’s first android run tablet releasing on 24 Feb, Take a dig

Here’s some great news for all those gizmo freaks out there. If the techno-grapevine is to be believed, the ultra stylish and much talked about Motorola Xoom is to be released on 24 February. Best buy site’s Facebook page has already announced the launch, the pricing hasn’t been revealed though. Rivaling tablet PC bigwigs like PlayBook from Blackberry and Apple’s iPad, this new arrival seems promising. For those wishing to make a style statement, and yet be different from the blackberry boys or the ipad bearers, this might just be the perfect choice.

With both front and rear facing cameras and one of them recording in HD, 1080p HD video playback, a dual core processor running at 1 GHz, adobe flash player and a 10.1 inch, 16:10 widescreen HD display with 1280 x800 resolution, it will be the first tablet to run Google’s Android OS called Honeycomb. It will be available in 3G form in the first quarter of the year and will later be updated to 4G by the second quarter.

This suave 9 inch device boasts of RenderScript technology, a music player having a 3D album view, fluid enhanced 3D interface and the possibility of a video chat using Gtalk. It will operate on Verizon wireless network. It will also support Google Maps 5.0. It can be accessorized with other Motorola accessories like a leather case, a standard dock for charging and display, and speaker HD dock which includes three USB ports, HDMI and built in speakers along with a Bluetooth keyboard.

Dynamic Website SEO – Top suggestions and guidelines

To market the dynamic websites in India, top class search engine marketing strategies are required which are totally different from how the ordinary websites are optimized. You need to optimize the website carefully to get listed. Thus SEO Services in India are seeing rapid growth in the software market.

The techniques used for Dynamic websites are more complex and they require specialized search engine optimization methods. With the advancement of technology it is yet still not so easy to index the dynamic websites in the major search engines unless it is optimized by a group of experts from a reputed firm.

SEO in India is an upcoming industry and all the Indian SEO firms are struggling together to prove their ability. SEO is mainly a combination of both art and science. Search Engine Optimization is mainly done to increase the visibility of the website and their services to the market.

Here are few tips and tricks on how to dynamically optimize your website to get the maximum visibility.  Generally the dynamic websites pages are developed in ASP, Perl etc which are user friendly but do not work when it comes to SEO.  The reason being these dynamically generated pages will only be shown when a user selects variables and generates them.  A search engine does not have the ability to generate anything of its own thus minimizing the visibility of such pages.  The most common search engine ‘Google’ are unable to read the database URL which might be a string (?) or any other database characters (# &! *).

Now the SEO experts are working on as to how to make the dynamic website visible for all the search engines. There are few ways through which the dynamic web pages can be indexed. The first option is to choose the static pages. There are many different ways that converts dynamic URLs to search engine friendly URLs.

The other method is to use paid inclusion of feeds which will increase the visibility and it is guaranteed. The links of the dynamic pages can be listed in the static pages as the search engines can pull up the static websites easily. Since the crawlers cant index the dynamic pages, at least it can display the static page where all the links of the dynamic pages are listed.

XQASP from Exception Digital Enterprise Solution is one of the most convenient and the best tool that converts dynamic pages to search engine friendly pages.  You just need to modify the TM tags before posting it on the web.

There are many SEO companies in India that offers premiere Search Engine Optimsation services that helps in wider amount of visibility in the market. This automatically leads to higher revenue generation for the company making India one of the important  IT hub.

Advantages of Using Social Media Marketing for Your Business

Social media is best understood as a group of new kinds of online media, which share most or the entire following characteristic. It encourages assistance and feedback from everyone who is interested. It shadows the line between media and audience. Most social media services are open to feedback and participation. They encourage voting, comments and the sharing of information. There are rarely any barriers to accessing and making use of content - password-protected content is frowned on.
At this time, there are basically six kinds of social media.

Social Networks
These sites allow people to build personal web pages and then connect with friends to share content and communication. The biggest social networks are Myspace, facebook and bebo.

Blogs
Perhaps the best known form of social media, blogs is online journals, with entries appearing with the most recent first.

Wikis
These websites allow people to add content to or edit the information on them, acting as a communal document or database. The best-known wiki is wikipedia, the online encyclopedia which has over 2 million English language articles.

Podcasts
Audio and video files that are available by subscription, through services like apple itunes.

Forums
Areas for online discussion, often around specific topics and interests. Forums came about before the term "social media" and are a powerful and popular element of online communities.

Content Communities
Communities which organize and share particular kinds of content. The most popular content communities tend to form around photos (flickr), bookmarked links (del.icio.us) and videos (Youtube).

Microblogging
Social networking combined with bite-sized blogging, where small amounts of content ('updates') are distributed online and through the mobile phone network. Twitter is the clear leader in this field.

How does Social Media Marketing will help you to grow your business?

Social media marketing is believed to have revolutionizes the process of marketing in a big way. The strategies are more popular because of their technological base and is based on social networks like LinkedIN, Orkut and Facebook.

This strategy is gaining popularity with every passing day. In fact, social media marketing is one discipline of marketing which has proved its worth to the maximum during the most difficult economic times.
You can reach at the top by using various Facebook marketing methods, on the internet that will produce lot of traffic and will benefit your business in long term. These will help you to extend to more traffic and people, you will be able to get immediate response, Will enhance immediate sales, can build loyal customers and also measure return on investment.

As a result of this - and the direct or indirect control of social media marketers - today, customers are as likely - or more likely - to make business choices based on what they read and see in platforms we call "social" but only if presented by someone they have come to trust. That is why a purposeful and carefully designed social media strategy has become an essential part of any absolute and directed marketing plan but must also be designed using newer "authority building" techniques.