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Reach People Globally Through Extraordinaire Blog Hosting

Blog hosting is not just confined to the geeks anymore, as blogging has become a part and parcel of everyday life. Today, it seems like the whole world is blogging more than talking, as even major corporates are resorting to blogs, in order to communicate better with their employees. Even our mothers can be seen blogging in the virtual world and everybody has a blog today, especially with the advent of WordPress in the blogging hemisphere.

Today, virtually even your 12 year old nephew can blog, as blog hosting has been made easy with WordPress. The folks at web hosting services make it easy for their clients to make a good blog on the World Wide Web. But behind the scenes, the people working with blog hosting services are involved in serious thought process, planning and extra effort that gives the blog an edge over the others.

Blog hosting companies offer WordPress that aids in not just building a blog but creating a blog with a face value in the virtual arena. Today, there are millions of blogs and web hosting services, available on the internet and there is a cut throat competition for the top position. It is the invincible ability and talent to create a blog which incites a desire in people to read again and again, that sets a good web hosting company stands out in the crowd.

Infact, the web hosting companies give a complete solution to their clients, and are not just confined to setting up a blog, but an extraordinaire blog hosting company actively participates in helping the client pick a theme for the blog, and it also helps in using tags to choose widgets and building a community on the internet. The web hosting package will include installation and a step by step guide to using WordPress for setting up and running the blog.

The package does not end here, as the company makes sure that the site is designed to create an everlasting impression on the readers as well as bloggers. The service will also aid in maintaining user accounts, and at the same time managing a website with the WordPress dashboard and making effective usage of the various plug-ins.

This is also useful for learning the effective usage of images, in order to make the website more attractive. One becomes a master in the technique of using pages, templates and links while posting the blog. It enhances interactivity by guiding while dealing with comments from the readers if there are any, thus one learns to maintain the website and is also able to fix problems on his own. These are the characteristics of a good web hosting service on the internet.

10 Mar 2010
A Review For New eBook Viewers For the Year 2010

With the massive campaign for a greener environment, avid readers were psyched to believe that carrying their Kindles around is a greener way of doing their hobby. Well, prejudices aside, e-book readers are great ways to bring dozens of books without stuffing up your tote bag too much. And bookmarking pages will not be a problem anymore because electronic bookmarks can be pasted in just a push of a button.

It is hard to analyze which is the best ebook reader for the year 2010. After all, each one of these readers are very competent in terms of speed in browsing ebooks and ease of usage. Let me just provide you a list of the ebooks currently competing in the market now. The Consumer Electronics Show recently held in Las Vegas showcased dozens of e-readers and here are the top favorites (arranged in alphabetical order):

Kindle/Kindle DX (Amazon)
Amazon’s ebook reader was the first to surface in the ebook reader market. So does it prove that the early bird gets the worm? Well, not quite. Other ebook reader manufacturers are catching up with the Kindle. But notable Kindle features are the text-to-speech function (which narrates the whole story to you, word by word, when you’re having an eye strain but wanted to finish the latest trilogy you’re viewing).

Nook
Many have been looking forward to greater improvements on the Nook’s software. Users who have tried the nook unanimously say that it is slow or even unresponsive at times but is A+ in terms of design. But really, you don’t pay for an ebook reader for the cover. Ebook enthusiasts are expecting more improvements from the developers of this reader since most people also say it has much potential to become the best ebook reader-given the chance to be developed for a couple of years more.

Skiff
If you want some real big screen when reading your favorite book or magazine, Skiff is the choice. It is the one reader which gives consumers an unprecedented 11.5 reading screen. Imagine such a big screen right in front of your face. It’s almost the size of a cute magazine. The only catch is that it isn’t a color ebook reader. So if you plan on using it to view colorful magazines then it will be quite a dull reading time not seeing what color is Angelina Jolie’s dress to the Emmy’s.

There are other newcomers in the field like the iPad which also encountered early disappointment from early buyers. As with other new age technology, we consumers should give these items a chance to improve and be worthy of an applause. The best ebook viewers are the ones which can pose tremendous developments from its first model. And so the battle begins.

10 Mar 2010
Getting Ready For WordPress Trends 2010

From new blog-from-email applications to new WordPress themes, there are a lot of surprises awaiting users of WordPress this 2010. Let us view a couple of them.

New WordPress Theme
Made by Elephant (madebyelephant.com) has unveiled yet another wonderful creation-now, a wonderful theme for all WordPress users to use and abuse. The new theme is called Steira and it has a clean and white background with overtones of blue and font written in black. It was unveiled only recently and was instantly loved by WP users.

In addition to the clean, crisp look, Steira also has a very nice photo gallery function which is perfect for all the blogging photographers out there who want to showcase their latest shots in WP. The minimalist Steira is widely used now by the WP blogosphere and is consistently in demand-possibly because of referrals or when people stumble on heir friend’s blog and saw the Steira theme. This WordPress fashion will surely be hot for a long long time.

Better Poll Applications and Ratings Functions
Bloggers love giving polls. It has been a blogger’s best friend when he wants to ask a specific question to all his followers and wants to do it in a quick, democratic way. Now, WP users can import PollDaddy options right into their blogs. And it can also be displayed on the front page of your personal blog.

Rating, on the other hand, is similar to how you would rate YouTube videos or article in Google. There are various ways why you should go for the ratings function of WP. This is the way professional bloggers and writing enthusiasts get to see the responses of their readers – of whether they like the post or not. For additional comment, they could write on the comments page. Talk about cool WordPress fashion, ratings in each of your post will also tell you your progress in being a writer.

Post by Email Features
Actually, this is not very new since many WP users are already using this application since mid-2009. But since it is a widely popular application, WP is also increasing the capacity of e-mails that can be sent right to your blog. With 50MB capacity per e-mailed post, there is just no stopping blogger from typing away in the keyboard about anything that fancies them.

There are many ways in which you can use WordPress to your advantage, and these new WP trends will surely help you out in your blogging experience. These latest WordPress fashions will surely make your blogging experience better, faster and more multimedia friendly. With the step by step ways on how to get the new themes of how to post blogs through e-mail, WordPress is really a user-friendly blog that can be used by both youngsters and the young “once.”

9 Mar 2010
利基市场是决定网络营销策略成功的重要因素

寻找和定位合适的利基市场不仅能使我们的网站更容易生存，也是决定我们的网络营销策略成败的重要因素之一。利基市场是指那些大企业经常忽略或无法进入的高度专门化需求市场。只有找到合适你的利基市场，你才能最清楚、明确的向目标市场和目标用户展开营销活动。这样，你不但可以快速找到适应的营销手段和渠道，还能节省不必要的广告预算和时间精力。

假如你定位的利基市场是专门卖女性皮包的，那么你应该知道自己投入的广告预算应该花在一些关于美容、女性保健的网站，花多点时间在时尚女性聚集的话题论坛上。找一些和自己产品相关的关键词去目标用户聚集的论坛或社交网站了解用户们都在讨论些什么？对产品有什么样的评价和需要解决的问题等。你也可以在这些论坛跟帖、发帖，说出自己的想法和意见，看其他人是否感兴趣或有什么想法。像这样活跃大量用户的论坛都会很乐于回答你的问题。在这其中，你可以更清楚、了解和掌握目标客户的特征及需求，更能直接、有效的进行网络营销策略。

做好利基市场的定位和目标用户的资料统计之后，你就能够根据目标用的购物特点设计自己的网站。例如，根据不同用户的心理特征和喜好使用不同的文字、标题、图片等最大限度的打动目标用户的心弦。

寻找明确的利基市场不但有利于网络营销策略的成功，还能使你更容易成为这个细分市场的专家、取得用户的信任和受到众人的尊敬。

15 Feb 2010
Domain Name Renewal Scam From China?

Was this an internet domain name renewal scam? I shared my expertise and you examined it yourself.

I just received this email titled ‘Internet Trademark Protect’ claiming that one of my domain names was going to be trademarked by a company call DERUI Investment and I was asked if I objected to the third party application claim. I started to get worried and troubled if my domain name would be revoked.

Then I read the email again and I began to doubt because I spotted simple grammar and syntax errors like ‘asia’ is spelt ‘ASIA’ and the date is typed ‘February,2nd,2010’. The ending signature was really done unprofessionally. If a big company was big enough to buy up all the variant domain names and trademarked it, then they would get a decent representative to handle such matter and the representative would unlikely sign off so mildly.

The 2 giveaways were the contact ‘Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950’ and the website link ‘web:www.ygnetwork.cn’. If it was a China based company, unlikely they would put the plus sign (+) and the bracketed zero. A typical Chinese company would put the contact in this format, (021) 1234 5678. Obviously, the sender was targeting non China resident to call into China. The website was not hyperlinked and used the word ‘web:’ which was not what a typical Chinese company would do. Not hyperlinked mean it was deliberately unlink, then why still typed in the web address.

I did a whois on the domain name ygnetwork.cn and ygnetwork.org.cn and traced it. The whois information were messy. Then I quickly checked the email header and the email address [email protected] could not be validated. It was interesting to note that the A in the Angela@ was capitalised.

Finally I went over to view the website. First thing, I scrolled all the way down to the footer to look for the ICP licence. The ICP licence was not displayed. No ICP licence number on the website means it was not registered with the local authority that the company was registered and this was violating China internet regulations. In simple English, it was illegal and law breaking. How could a company that claimed to be a domain name registration and bearing the .cn without displaying ICP licence. This was the greatest giveaway that it was a scam.

There were many things I could still checked and exposed if it was a domain name renewal scam like, the phone numbers used on the website was it a mobile number that faked a land line number. I could also check the directory to validate the occupant of the address and so forth but I need not anymore because the ICP number missing from the website was sufficient for me to pass the judgement.

If you went to the contact page, you could find the Beijing and Hongkong share a similar address. If you were familiar with Hangzhou, you would easily spot that the address was wrong. Lastly, how could a .cn website not available in Chinese language.

The whole setup had a lot scam elements. An invalid email address that you cannot reply but to make a call to one of their numbers. A scammer always preferred a phone call than email conversation because it was not traceable. A lot of cannot-make-sense credentials to valid the website legitimacy. Contact numbers displayed in a uniformed format that made it easy for it potential targets to make the initial call.

A domain name renewal scam or a real legitimate business, you decided?

Below was the content I received in my email.

Dear Manager:

We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is a professional Internet Domain Name Registration and dispute resolution organization in China.On February,2nd,2010, We received DERUI Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “mydomain” as their Internet Trademark and “mydomain.cn”,”mydomain.com.cn” ,”mydomain.asia”domain names etc.,It is China and ASIA domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you! Looking forward to your reply. Kind regards

Angela

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Oversea marketing manager

Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950

Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557

web:www.ygnetwork.cn

3 Feb 2010
Affiliate Marketing In China

A slide presentation on affiliate marketing in China, bringing web products and services to the Chinese internet. If you have something for me to sell to the Chinese, please let me know. I am very interested in your products and serivces.

30 Jan 2010
Google – Empty Vessel Makes the Most Noise
Why Google always complaining about the Chinese censorship and not Microsoft and Yahoo. We do not hear so much nonsenses from other search companies but Google. And once a while from Matt Mullenweg too! Why?

China is a country with fifty-six ethnic groups, sharing land borders with fourteen countries. World largest population with a recorded population of 1.3 billion plus another estimated of at least one billion unregistered citizens and now the second largest economy in the world.

A big growing nation with so many cultural and ethnic differences, and fourteen different borders to defence, not including those still disputing over territorial rights, the Chinese government is managing their lands and people as one unified country and will not allow extremists or religious zealots to cause instability to the country or dethrone its sovereignty.

As a sovereign nation, the Chinese government is doing it best to protect it citizens. China still have a huge population of less educated citizens and these people can be easily manipulated by extremists. Using technologies from Google and Twitter, an extremist can easily raise an army to go against the government.

If the supremacy of the President of the United States has been compromised, schedules of the president publish on the internet and articles circulating on Twitter with title like ‘Three Easy Steps To Kill The President’. Will Google in the name of freedom of speech allows such contents to circulate freely? I believe any country leadership that is threaten by contents on the internet, the government will take it own initiative to censor, like the chinese censorship, and protect it sovereignty, just like catching illegal arms dealers smuggling arms into a country.

So many years have past, why Google has not learn it lesson and still cannot grab a stable foothold in the Chinese market? China has four thousands years of history. It has it own diverse cultures and beliefs the country still trying to cope with. Most of the families are still poor today and still depending on farming or living on daughters’ hard earned money from prostitution. China has come a long and hard way in it reform and it is still learning to fit itself into the modern world.

Does Google really has an understanding of the Chinese market or it just a bimbo brand? If you do a Chinese keyword search and compare Google search results for Chinese based contents to other Chinese search engines, it will show you how Google is so lack behind. This indicates to me that Google do not have an understanding of the Chinese internet. From the beginning, If Google has take it time to understand the Chinese culture and learn the Chinese way, I believe by now, Google is also the number one search engine in China.

Google please do not impose your western education in a Chinese culture. Instead learn to blend in your enriched western technologies into Chinese censorship, helping the Chinese government to build a better future and not condemning it to build your own egoistic empire at the expense of a country sovereignty.

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28 Jan 2010
Poll: Which Freelance Website Do You Use Most?

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Do you have a comment? I would like to hear from you, why you use your selection most?

26 Jan 2010
Why Google Fails in China and Humping Over Chinese Censorship Over Now and Then
All of us have our crafted reasons why Google fails in China and humping over Chinese censorship over now and then. Most of us will blame it on the Chinese government. For me, here are my reasons.

Google did not localise it search engine and products for the Chinese market. Google offers a factory default packaging which is not even fit for the entire chinese market. Recent years Google is modifying it products to be in better position to compete with local competitors but it is advancing slowly. Take a look at McDonalds the fast food chain in China. Knowing that burger is not Chinese type of food, it learns fast and quickly adapts to the diverse Chinese cultures and offer food that is more appealing to the Chinese people of different ethics groups. Different McDonalds restaurants at different locations offer different type of food and not a one-size-fit-all burger.

Google is egoistic and think that he is the superstar and and we all adore him. Sad to say, how can a superstar do not love his fans. Google only think for himself and not how he can contribute to make China a better place on earth. China is a big country with fifty-six minority ethics groups to manage, sharing fourteen land borders with many hostile neighbours. All Google cares is singing his freedom of speech song, neglecting China peace keeping efforts can be easily destroy in the abusive name of free speech.

Google rely too much on technology. This world is fill with people and human beings use Google not robots. China is a country with four thousands years of history deeply rooted in ‘guanxi’ (connected relationship). Connected relationship is people deeply related to one another and helping one another for mutual benefits. Every expat living in China will learn this Chinese vocabulary and understand how Chinese people work and how Chinese organisations are intertwine. Without the rightful connected relationship, you will get to no where. In China, connected relationship comes first. Technology second.

Google has no understanding of the diverse Chinese cultures and the peace the Chinese government trying to maintain. Chinese people are smart and hardworking and are very good at abusing what they have at hand and circumventing the laws. Chinese people are hunger for wealth and will do anything to make them rich instantly. Take a look at all the pirated stuffs available in China, fake Nokia N95, fake ATM booth to steal your card PIN numbers, etc. Restricting certain technologies and web services available to the public help to protect Chinese citizens from being a victim from technology abuse.

The Chinese censorship is in place to protect the citizens and not to fend off western invasion. China is a growing nation and many Chinese are still lowly educated and cannot differentiate a fake iPhone from a real one. It takes time for the nation with more than 1.4 billion people, to grow mature and every Chinese learns to protect himself.

Why Google cares so much about how it search engine should work in China? If Google understands all these and help with the Chinese censorship, Chinese people will grow faster in due time. China will soon to be a safer place on earth and Chinese people will embrace Google in the near future.

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17 Jan 2010
Three Reasons Why Google Should Leave China
Google leaving China or not, is not an important issue to many people like us living inside the great firewall of China and for people searching for Chinese article contents because Google do not play any important role in our internet life.

Here are the three reasons why Google should leave China and as early as possible.

No big difference. When you talk about searching for Chinese article contents, it is a waste of time using Google. Search using google.com or google.cn make not much different in your search. Main differences are, you do not see youtube video and other blocked websites, and reorder of search results for google.cn. The only benefit is, if you search with Hanyu Pinyin in google.cn you get the option to choose to search the Chinese characters instead of Hanyu Pinyin, which is already a typical feature in a Chinese search engine.

Too many keywords search. Searching for your hard to find chinese article contents from Google may take you from five to ten keywords. A typical Chinese search engine, will take less than five keywords to find what you want. If you are looking for a hard to find mp3, Google may give you the result after the tenth page. A Chinese search engine will most likely give you the result on the first page. This tells me a lot about Google and it commitment to the Chinese market. Google do not care about how the Chinese people way of life and if they do, Google search engine will be more Chinese search friendly.

Google is a stupid name. Google in English has no meaning to the Chinese people because majority of the Chinese do not read English. Having a Chinese Google name and not using it, makes Google more stupid. In the Chinese internet world, Google uses the English Google name mix with chinese characters on the search buttons and heading tags to form a sentence and this is annoying to the majority of non-english Chinese users. Mixing them is like reading Japanese and English texts combine together. Who the hell knows what it means!

Google should learn from his competitor, Yahoo. Yahoo uses the Chinese Yahoo name in everything they do, including offline promotion. An interesting fact here is, people hear of Google know Chinese Yahoo name but people hear of Chinese Yahoo name may not know Google. I think is time for Google to sell themselves as GuGe, the Chinese friendly name, or else is about time for Google to leave.

If you ever need to search for Chinese article contents on the internet, do a comparison next time and see if Google give you what you want faster or a typical Chinese search engine will serve you better. Test it out!

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16 Jan 2010