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Archive for June, 2009

If you had a dollar for each of the Web 2.0 marketing strategies available to you, you wouldn't even need online success! Web 2.0 or Social Media is transforming the internet marketing landscape almost by the day, and you need to add Web 2.0 marketing strategies to your armoury.Social networking sites, particularly Facebook and Twitter at the time of writing, enjoy enormous traffic. But as we all know many users are happy to fritter their time away on pointless 'apps' or timewasting novelties. But don't let that put you off. These and other social media sites offer great opportunities to you, the patient online marketer.Of all Web 2.0 marketing strategies, the one that will earn you the least money and the least friends is spamming business opportunities or 'bizopps'. Nobody in the social networking community is receptive to that. Think how you feel when that's done to you. So how do people build businesses using Social Media?Well, two things. You can target community users who list themselves as entrepreneurs, business owners and such like. Then, once you've found them - by use of the search functions within Facebook and Myspace, and the use of Twellow.com for Twitter - you can ... [more..]

If you read anything on web design and website maintenance, you've likely heard the term Web 2.0 thrown around. Is the world wide web getting an upgrade? What's going on?The term Web 2.0 is somewhat of a misnomer. With software, new versions are released where bugs are fixed and features are added. The web (and the internet as a whole) is not released in such stages. Instead, it evolves intermittently as time goes on. There's no new version that's coming out soon. Instead, it is constantly changing. Instead of new features there are new trends. You may have one website implementing a certain feature one week, fifteen the next week and hundreds a week later. The internet is full of trends in technology. What might be popular now may die out (animated GIFs spring to mind), or it may evolve into something better (current blogs have evolved from sites that manually updated HTML web pages).Instead of an upgrade, Web 2.0 really refers to the current state of trends in the web. If someone wants a Web 2.0 website, they may be referring to a website that has a popular style of design, a social component, or uses a specific technology. ... [more..]

The modern world has been overtaken by technology of all kinds, shapes and sizes. Everyday, the inventors, scientists and other technological geniuses are coming up with some new thing. These people believe that whatever they invent will help the people in society by making life better in a whole lot of different ways.Case in point: the mobile phones. Way back then, the only phones were those landlines in the houses, stores or offices etcetera. However, inventors thought that it would be a terrific idea to have a small and portable phone that you can use anytime and anywhere, especially during emergencies. That is how they came up with the idea of the mobile phone. And yet, the inventors are still coming up with ways to make these mobile phones work better; become more efficient and even more technologically advanced.There are a lot more inventions and advances to technology that being generated on a daily basis. It actually makes it difficult for people to keep track of them. However, other technological inventions - the computer and the World Wide Web - have made it possible for those people who crave the latest in technological news and updates to get a heads ... [more..]