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Adwords Quality Score improvements announced by Google

Google adwords blog post carries an announcement about new improvements to the Google Quality Score, a system which Google has been improving over the years to enable it to show quality ads. The recent improvements are: Real time quality score calculation, at the time of each query Keywords would not longer be marked “inactive for search” ‘Minimum bid’ read more..

Comparison of Online Video Sharing Sites

Recently I was introduced to a site which has a nice matrix of comparison of online video sharing sites based on the following parameters: Price Converts file? Download files? Max upload size Storage space Privacy Time Limit Revenue sharing Ease of account creation Ease of Uploading a video Video quality Recording tools Editing ... read more

Collection of free web directory scripts

There is always a need for good web directory script when you want to create a site which has a collection of sites in a particular niche or even an open directory like dmoz. Paid options always exists and provide you much more features but if you are looking for free web directory software scripts, read more..

IPL Live Scorecard Widget for Bloggers and Site Owners

If you are looking for a way to show live scores on your blog and/or website then try this Cricket Live Score Widget at widgetbox. The widget shows all IPL Live Scores and is very easy to use.

Step by step guide to configuring Windows Live Writer to post to Drupal

Windows Live Writer is my prefered blog authoring and publishing tool, same for lot of people out there. It is quiet easy to compose and post using Windows Live Writer and I have been doing that for sometime for my WordPress blogs. But for one new site I am using Drupal for the first time read more..

Collection of best internet marketing posts of 2007

2007 saw huge boom in internet marketing with social networks getting record breaking traffic. Tamar Weinberg at techipedia has published an article which lists about 250+ best internet marketing posts of 2007 nicely laid out in different categories: Social Media Sites: ... read more

First Online Marketing Careers Conference in India and in World

OMCAR 2008 happened in New Delhi on January 12, 2008. Hosted by OMCareers, a non-profit organization, it was first online marketing careers conference in the world. The conference was a huge success and attracted lot of Internet Marketing/ Search engine Optimization companies. The sponsors for the event were: Pinstorm: search marketing company Naukri: job portal OMLogic: online marketing read more..

Effective tips to optimize the performance of your web site

Loads of widgets, integration with third party tools using JavaScript APIs, high performance AJAX. All this is causing sites to slow down. Factors which nobody cared about, now need to be looked into to ensure that the site loads faster. Optimization Techniques I will present some optimization techniques  in several easy to use and understand categories. This read more..

Project Manager

I received this in an email, thought it would be nice to share: A man wanted to buy his son a parrot as a birthday present. The next day he went to the pet shop and saw three identical parrots in a cage. He asked the clerk, “how much for the parrot on the right? The owner said read more..

Some nice Halloween logos

XBox Halloween Logo   Ask.com Halloween Logo Yahoo Halloween Logo YouTube Halloween Logo Technorati Tags: Halloween Logos

Google Halloween Logo Over The Years

I thought it would be interesting to have a peak at Google’s Halloween logo over the years: 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007   My personal favorite is the logo from 2006. Which one do you like the most? Technorati Tags: Google Halloween Logo, Halloween

Yahoo Pipes Vs Feedburner Network

There are several ways to combine multiple feeds into one and publish the aggregated feed. In this post I am going to discuss two ways to do that and list out advantages and disadvantages associated with each. The two very popular tools which allow you to aggregate feeds are: Yahoo Pipes  Feedburner Network Here read more..

Microsoft Excel 2007 math bug and how to fix it

On September 25th, 2007, David Gainer of the Microsoft Excel group did a post acknowledging a Microsoft Excel 2007 math bug involving calculations of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. An example bug is: 77.1 * 850 for which Excel returned 100,000 instead of 65,535. According to David, the issue was due to change in the Excel read more..

Ask Bill Gates

Bill Gates in not unreachable anymore. Newsweek readers can ask Bill Gates questions. He will answer selected questions. The last date to submit your questions is Sept. 28th, 2007. The answers will be published on Oct. 10, 2007. Click here to send your question to Gates | Read this article on Newsweek Technorati tags: Ask Bill Gates, Newsweek

Adding a new Sitemap page in Wordpress gave 404 error

I installed Wordpress 2.2 version on a new blog of mine on Indian Real Estate sometime back and was trying to add a Sitemap page to it today. I added the Sitemap page and it gave a 404 error (page not found). My permalink structure was set to “Date and name based”. I switched to “Default” permalink structure and read more..