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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
20 Facebook Tips/Tricks
If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more..
This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know.
1. How to Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar
If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.
hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.
A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.
7. How to Create a Photo Collage Using Pictures of Your Facebook Friends
Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.
The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs.
Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.
Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.
A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.
This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know.
1. How to Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar
If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.
2. How to Download Facebook Photo Albums
FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.3. How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook
Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.4. How to Update Facebook without Using Facebook
5. How to Schedule Facebook Messages
Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.
7. How to Create a Photo Collage Using Pictures of Your Facebook Friends
Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.
8. How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete or Block You
X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.9. How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page
A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"10. How to Remove Facebook Advertisements
This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.11. How to Syncs Photos of Facebook Friends with Contacts in Microsoft Outlook
OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs.
13. How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically
Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.14. How to Access Facebook Chat on Desktop
Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.15. How to Create Quiz on Facebook Easily
LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.17. How to Get Facebook Updates on Email
NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.18. How to Update Facebook Status from Firefox
FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.19. How to Get Facebook on Your Desktop
A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.
Source:- http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-facebook-tipstricks-you-might-not-know/
Monday, December 21, 2009
YouTube, Google, Facebook, Sex Top Kids’ Searches
Forget about the recent reports on most-searched terms and Twitter trending topics. As Symantec just released a more controversial top searches report for 2009. And this time while YouTube, Google and Facebook are the most-searched topics among teens, and so is Sex.
The report, top 100 favorite search terms was based on the search tracking done by Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton service. Respondents were children 18 years old and under. The study was part the groups’ assistance to parents in monitoring their children’s online searches.
In both boys and girls category “sex” emerged on top of the list at no. 4 and no. 4 respectively. Among the top searches made by boys are related to social networking sites, shopping sites and porn. While for girls, searches were either music, TV shows, movies and celebrities.
Going into specific age groupings further, the study found out that kids seven and under searched more about video games while older boys did music related searches.
So, if your boys and girls are not frequenting Facebook and YouTube, they are either searching for other sites related to sex and porn. How comforting, NOT!
Source
The report, top 100 favorite search terms was based on the search tracking done by Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton service. Respondents were children 18 years old and under. The study was part the groups’ assistance to parents in monitoring their children’s online searches.
In both boys and girls category “sex” emerged on top of the list at no. 4 and no. 4 respectively. Among the top searches made by boys are related to social networking sites, shopping sites and porn. While for girls, searches were either music, TV shows, movies and celebrities.
Going into specific age groupings further, the study found out that kids seven and under searched more about video games while older boys did music related searches.
So, if your boys and girls are not frequenting Facebook and YouTube, they are either searching for other sites related to sex and porn. How comforting, NOT!
Source
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Browser Size: a tool to see how others view your website
In a newspaper, the most important story is featured on the front page. If it's a really important piece, then it's placed "above the fold," which means you can find it on the top half of the first page — the bottom half is folded behind and isn't readily seen when you first look at the newspaper.
The same concept applies to browsers as well. There's no clear line for "above the fold" on a browser — there are many different sizes of monitors, browsers are not always full screen and other things like toolbars can take up space. Consider a "Donate" button on a non-profit site. If it's far down the page, you may not see it when you first view the page. You can of course scroll downwards, but many people don't scroll and will miss it entirely. For example, on the download page for Google Earth, the install rate increased by 10% when we moved the "Download" button 100 pixels upward. We can attribute that increase to users who wanted to try out Google Earth, but didn't see the button before.
To help you understand how everyone sees your website, we created a tool called Browser Size in our 20% time. Browser Size is based on a sample of data from visitors to google.com. Special code collects data on the height and width of the browser for a sample of users. For a given point in the browser, the tool will tell you what percentage of users can see it. For example, if an important button is in the 80% region it means that 20% of users have to scroll in order to see it. If you're a web designer, you can use Browser Size to redesign your page to minimize scrolling and make sure that the important parts of the page are always prominent to your audience. We hope people will use this tool to make their websites better, in turn making the web better for everyone.
source:-http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/browser-size-tool-to-see-how-others.html
The same concept applies to browsers as well. There's no clear line for "above the fold" on a browser — there are many different sizes of monitors, browsers are not always full screen and other things like toolbars can take up space. Consider a "Donate" button on a non-profit site. If it's far down the page, you may not see it when you first view the page. You can of course scroll downwards, but many people don't scroll and will miss it entirely. For example, on the download page for Google Earth, the install rate increased by 10% when we moved the "Download" button 100 pixels upward. We can attribute that increase to users who wanted to try out Google Earth, but didn't see the button before.
To help you understand how everyone sees your website, we created a tool called Browser Size in our 20% time. Browser Size is based on a sample of data from visitors to google.com. Special code collects data on the height and width of the browser for a sample of users. For a given point in the browser, the tool will tell you what percentage of users can see it. For example, if an important button is in the 80% region it means that 20% of users have to scroll in order to see it. If you're a web designer, you can use Browser Size to redesign your page to minimize scrolling and make sure that the important parts of the page are always prominent to your audience. We hope people will use this tool to make their websites better, in turn making the web better for everyone.
source:-http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/browser-size-tool-to-see-how-others.html
And the Fastest Rising YouTube Search is, “inauguration”
YouTube just released their Year End Top Video Report for 2009 and not surprisingly Susan Boyle’s audition video in Britain’s Got Talent show emerged as the most watched video on YouTube globally and Pitbull’s “I Know You Want Me” tops the the music video category. But aside from these two, YouTube also published their 2009’s fastest rising search on a monthly basis.Some of the fastest rising search terms are correlated with the most watched videos list. In July for instance, the fastest rising search term was something to do with wedding which is of course pertaining to the JFK Wedding Dance which became an instant hit in that month.
The fastest rising search iterms n each month also pertains to what ever made it to the headlines. So it seems that people checked out what YouTube has about these news items.
Anyway here are the rest of the YouTube most watched videos and music videos of 2009 as well as the fastest rising search terms both globally and in the US.
Most Watched YouTube videos (Global):
1. Susan Boyle – Britain’s Got Talent (120+ million views)
2. David After Dentist (37+ million views)
3. JK Wedding Entrance Dance (33+ million views)
4. New Moon Movie Trailer (31+ million views)
5. Evian Roller Babies (27+ million views)
Most Watched music videos on YouTube (Global)*:
1. Pitbull “I Know You Want Me” (82+ million views)
2. Miley Cyrus “The Climb” (64+ million views)
3. Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (54+ million views)
4. The Lonely Island “I’m On a Boat” (48+ million views)
5. Keri Hilson “Knock You Down” (35+ million views)
Fastest Rising YouTube search terms by month (Global):
January: inauguration
February: christian bale
March: the climb
April: susan boyle
May: pacquiao vs hatton
June: michael jackson thriller
July: michael jackson
August: usain bolt
September: kanye west
October: paranormal activity
November: bad romance
December: tiger woods
Fastest Rising YouTube search terms by month (U.S.):
January: obama inauguration
February: on a boat
March: watchmen
April: susan boyle
May: pacquiao
June: michael jackson thriller
July: wedding
August: send it on
September: kanye west
October: paranormal activity
November: adam lambert
December: tiger woods
source- http://www.searchenginejournal.com/and-the-fastest-rising-youtube-search-is-inauguration/15567/
The fastest rising search iterms n each month also pertains to what ever made it to the headlines. So it seems that people checked out what YouTube has about these news items.
Anyway here are the rest of the YouTube most watched videos and music videos of 2009 as well as the fastest rising search terms both globally and in the US.
Most Watched YouTube videos (Global):
1. Susan Boyle – Britain’s Got Talent (120+ million views)
2. David After Dentist (37+ million views)
3. JK Wedding Entrance Dance (33+ million views)
4. New Moon Movie Trailer (31+ million views)
5. Evian Roller Babies (27+ million views)
Most Watched music videos on YouTube (Global)*:
1. Pitbull “I Know You Want Me” (82+ million views)
2. Miley Cyrus “The Climb” (64+ million views)
3. Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (54+ million views)
4. The Lonely Island “I’m On a Boat” (48+ million views)
5. Keri Hilson “Knock You Down” (35+ million views)
Fastest Rising YouTube search terms by month (Global):
January: inauguration
February: christian bale
March: the climb
April: susan boyle
May: pacquiao vs hatton
June: michael jackson thriller
July: michael jackson
August: usain bolt
September: kanye west
October: paranormal activity
November: bad romance
December: tiger woods
Fastest Rising YouTube search terms by month (U.S.):
January: obama inauguration
February: on a boat
March: watchmen
April: susan boyle
May: pacquiao
June: michael jackson thriller
July: wedding
August: send it on
September: kanye west
October: paranormal activity
November: adam lambert
December: tiger woods
source- http://www.searchenginejournal.com/and-the-fastest-rising-youtube-search-is-inauguration/15567/
Wordstream Launches Two Free Keyword Research Tools
Wordstream, a must-have keyword management tool for PPC marketers we reviewed earlier, has just launched two really nice free tools:
1. The Free Keyword Niche Finder: returns structured keyword suggestions:
2. The Free Keyword Grouper : groups a list of keywords or analytic data into tightly related categories to use in more relevant PPC ad groups and targeted SEO Web copy.
Just drop in a list of keywords and The Free Keyword Grouper will show you the most effective way to group them for more profitable PPC campaign structures and effective SEO information architecture.
Source:- http://www.wordstream.com/try
1. The Free Keyword Niche Finder: returns structured keyword suggestions:
2. The Free Keyword Grouper : groups a list of keywords or analytic data into tightly related categories to use in more relevant PPC ad groups and targeted SEO Web copy.
Just drop in a list of keywords and The Free Keyword Grouper will show you the most effective way to group them for more profitable PPC campaign structures and effective SEO information architecture.
Source:- http://www.wordstream.com/try
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