Google is an awesome search engine, and of course we know it revolutionized Internet searching. But if you’re bored with the mostly-text interface, or if you’d like to liven up your searching experience a bit, try searchme (www.searchme.com). It’s a graphical search engine that looks fabulous! Take a look at the screen shot:
A Swedish company that’s known worldwide for its openly aggressive stance for what’s generally known as piracy, has launched a new blogging service called BayWords. The Pirate Bay created it specifically to provide bloggers with unencumbered self-expression. This move was ostensibly in response to the deletion of a WordPress.com blog by Automattic (operator of WordPress.com) for linking to copyrighted material.
After reading about a man who was practically saved from Egyptian detention thanks to Twitter, I think I may have been too harsh on this online service. According to the story, James Karl Buck, a graduate student of journalism in University of California at Berkeley, was arrested in Egypt. The charge: none, but he was picked up while photographing a public demonstration.
Thank goodness for Twitter’s mobile phone service! Come to think of it, I used to twit from my cellphone before… but it’s just too darned expensive (P10 per text message, I believe). The important thing is, it’s an available option!
I use OpenDNS during times when I feel that my ISP’s own DNS server is lagging behind. For example, currently I’m working on a new website, but the domain name hasn’t fully propagated throughout the Internet yet. In simple terms, my ISP still isn’t aware that the domain name already exists. Usually on OpenDNS, this isn’t a problem.
For this, and for blocking out phishing sites and other malicious entities on the Web, I appreciate the value of OpenDNS. Plus, using them really makes surfing the Web a bit faster. Read on»
When I first signed up for a Twitter account, I thought it would be nice to have a cute little gadget on my blog for letting people know what I was up to. It was a way to connect with my readers, to let them in on my personal side once in a while. So that’s how I used it at first — just a glossy-looking box in my sidebar to tell people I was doing this or that. Oh, and it was a good way of announcing events and stuff. So I left it at that.
Before I knew it, people were using it like it was a chat room, a globally public chat room. Until now I feel put off by this. But I do get it. It’s just not my thing.
What is one thing that matters a whole lot on the Internet? I’m sure most of you will readily answer: customer support. Fast, reliable, intelligent customer service. Netizens abandon many Internet-based providers, which eventually fall by the wayside and die, because of poor customer relations practices.
I happen to like what MyBlogLog does, and I remember a time when my emails were answered quite promptly and personably by the people running it. Now it’s under Yahoo. And twice now I’ve received slow, undependable and, well, not very intelligent support responses.
Say hello to the new look and feel of the Davao Blogs Directory! I created this directory of blogs in February 2007, so it’s now a year old and then some. Happily, the Directory has achieved its goal: to become the definitive repository of blogs about Davao and/or by Dabawenyos.
This Directory lists blogs from all over the city and the region of Davao. Or, blogs that talk about Davao in one way or another. Read on»
Found this cool show for keeping myself up-to-date with what’s going on in the Web. It’s called “WebbAlert - Your Daily Tech Roundup” and it’s hosted by Morgan Webb (she was an FHM model once, I hear). For now, the show comes out Mondays to Thursdays. Check it out:
from WebbAlert.com
The content of the vlog might be too USA-centric, but there are stuff there that is relevant to anyone who’s on the Internet a lot.
I’d like to share with you a recent discovery I’ve made: Website Grader. It’s one of those finds that brings a smile to the lips of bloggers and webmasters. This online tool will help you analyze your site’s SEO health. While Website Grader works for all websites, it includes reports that are blog-specific.
When using Website Grader, you will input your site’s URL and keywords. Optionally, you may submit your competitor sites’ URLs as well, for comparison. After submission, WG will output an SEO score for your site. (This blog got a 92 out of 100.) Below that will be an exhaustive report on your site’s SEO preparedness. Read on»
Here’s what you need to know when you decide to advertise your business via the Internet. There are in fact a number of methods, and just as many platforms upon which to advertise online, but let’s stick to the World Wide Web for now. And to further simplify it, we’ll focus on search engine marketing.
Probably the most important target of online marketing is the search engine. And the ultimate goal is to have your website (therefore, your products / services) appear on the first page of search engine results. When people do a Google search for, say, “houses for rent in Davao”, the search engine returns links to websites, ordered by relevance. In other words, the links you see on the first search engine results page (SERP) are those of websites that are likeliest to be the most relevant to your search. Read on»
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