Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

Technology News Feed – Are you New to Rss?

Friday, January 15th, 2010

If so here is a introduction to what RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is and how your website will benefit from offering an RSS feed to your visitor’s. “RSS is used to provide bits and pieces containing fleeting descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version of the content.” (from Wikipedia)
According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 5% (6 million) Americans online consume news and information through RSS aggregators. So the market is by now out there!
But what are RSS Feeds?
RSS is a smooth channel of communication between publishers and visitor’s. Since RSS has grown in recent popularity, more website owners are beginning to experiment with and use RSS feeds to deliver content in new and exciting ways.
But RSS is not only about text. You can easily use it to deliver audio content, video content and even PowerPoint presentations and PDF files. fox news RSS feed A number of RSS search engines and RSS directories exist that allow you to unreservedly submit RSS feeds. Feeds are generally categorized and grouped together by subject. Web surfers looking for RSS feeds about a specific subject will evenly search the RSS directories, to locate a feed that matches their specific criteria. Topic specific RSS feed and podcasting directories are also emerging. Choose a web feed’s category carefully and only submit relevant feeds to topic specific directories.
Once Windows Longhorn is released in late 2006 users will be able to find, subscribe to and read RSS feeds all the while having very small knowledge of how RSS works. Microsoft is helping to make RSS very user friendly. At the top of each RSS Feed (when you look in the source code) you will see some vital info as the date and time the RSS feed was produced or updated.
Some RSS Features you must see are:
1. RSS is the free way of getting your content delivered every time.
2. Every time you update your RSS feed by count new content bits and pieces to the RSS file, the user is told of that through his RSS aggregator, making the content immediately available to him, without it having to face any SPAM filters and other barricades on the way.
3. In a time when spam filters are blocking much of the content visitor’s have questioned for, the largest benefit to using RSS is that RSS gives publishers and readers the chance to connect, and for excellent thoughts to be mutual, without the clutter of unsolicited email messages.
4. You can add your feed to RSS search engines and RSS directories.
5. RSS can also enhance your search engine rankings as well (with advance scripts as the TrafficBoosterPro).
There is small argument from webmasters and publishers that RSS brings in traffic. RSS feeds have yet to hit the mainstream, but they are beginning to appear on prominent web sites including CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo, and even Google. While many sites are now publishing their own RSS feed, they fail to pursue the vital step of promoting it.

Wordpress Introduces Application for I Phone 3G Technology

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

The most hyped consumer electronics device ever produced,The Apple iPhone Third Generation(3G) has irrevocably landed in India.Apple Introducing iPhone 3G. With quick 3G wireless technology, GPS, support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more incredible features in your hands. And just like the original iPhone, it combines three harvest in one —a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device.

 

 

Apple iPhone3G is the newest iPhone3G from Apple. There are many features of iPhone3G. It combines 3 harvest in one – a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod and a breakthrough internet device with HTML email and full web browsing. There are 3 models which are available: a) 8 GB in Black Colour b) 16 GB in White Colour c) 16 GB in Black Colour.

Wordpress Introduces the first Open Source application that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Version 1.1 is now available in the Apple App store. This version includes several performance improvements and bug fixes including:

That’s the number of people worldwide who have installed the WordPress for iPhone App recently. These numbers, supplied by Apple, do not count updates for people who upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1. Here is a chart with the global breakdown of installs:

The iPhone Developer Standard and Enterprise Programs provide the development resources you need to make your iPhone applications, test frankly on iPhone and distribute. Even though Apple produced iPhone as a closed device, several developers bought them with the express purpose of designing and running third-party software. Who have run third party applications on their iPhone, but its concepts and code examples have shown to be remarkably similar to Apple’s official SDK,

Wordpress Technology – the Best Way to Create a Multi Purpose Blog

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Wordpress is the best tool for Blogging. Moreover it has become standard as Content Management System. As its functionality can be enhanced by using pluggins .Content Management is total content control. With a content management system, or CMS, you can maintain consistency across your site with a few clicks. Whether brand messaging, news, or even look and feel, a CMS makes site wide maintenance simple and quick. But there’s more to it than that. With the many capabilities of a Wordpress, businesses can leverage this technology to meet business goals, drive demand, and make deeper user engagement. By immediately posting news, comments, and other information, a company can respond nearly instantaneously to changes in the digital marketplace. Whether this means count, deleting, or editing live content, a wordpress is a tool that should be carried in every webmaster’s toolbox. Wordpress is simple to customize

 

At this point this theme is exactly the same as the original (default), and if any edits you make to your theme do not do as expected, then you can do real-time switching back to the default. Wordpress as a E-commerce Website The lite version of this plugin allows you to sell harvest via PayPal only. Whilst it’s called ‘lite’ it’s not that simple as such. You can have your harvest in categories, there’s a shopping basket and it uses the PayPal IPN for instant notification. I’ve not gone through the total process but I would assume that if you’re selling a digital product it will also then provide a download link to the buyer to download the product, as I’ve had the option to set how many times the product can be downloaded by the buyer. WP e-Commerce is just like any other plugin for the installation. Just unzip the files and upload the directory to your plugins directory, and activate it in the WordPress admin. You then get an extra menu for it, where you can set your shop settings, other preferences, and start count categories, brands and product information. It can deal with physical harvest or digital harvest, the latter was what I was interested in. You can also easily select which fields to have in the form on the front end, and which of these fields to send PayPal so that they’re prefilled. As I’m only looking to sell digital harvest I took the address details out as these are not needed. Marketers need to remember that a wordpress gives them the ability to leverage unique pieces of content across multiple sites while providing multi-lingual support and content, a critical factor for companies with an international reach and online presence. Wordpress as a Forum Website WP-Forum is a WordPress plugin that enables you to have a forum frankly attached to your WordPress installation. As one of the more standard forum software available today, SMF would be a excellent choice if you have no particular inclination towards any forum solution. Itâ??s still pretty bloated/massive and can be hard at times to customise (though less than many alternatives really), so I canâ??t say itâ??s my first choice solution at the moment. And while its backend integration with WordPress just requires the installation of a single WP plugin, I canâ??t seem to find a proper guide on layout integration yet. Hereâ??s how you do it: 1.Install either one of two â??bridgeâ? plugins, i.e. WP SMF Bridge Plugin 1.0 or the CMS & SMF Plugin. While both provide user account integration (log into/register via WP = log into SMF/register into SMF), listing recent forum topics/messages on your blog, and etc., the latter plugin hooks WP to SMF via a portal CMS known as Enigma. This results in a more powerful setup, but also a more complicated one. So, for those who just want a forum to use with WP, I suggest using the former plugin. 2.Now that we have our backends integrated, layout is next. Itâ??s a pity, but, that there doesnâ??t seem to be a step-by-step guide on how to do this. So, for now, youâ??re on your own on this. SMF does have documentation on how to make/edit its themes though. More SEO For Wordpress The Meta-Description is used by Google and other search engines to provide the description of a page. This is reasonably vital – particularly since Wordpress by default does unquestionably nothing about it. wpSEO can generate post descriptions in a variety of ways, but in most cases it makes significance to cite the actual postings – involuntarily. If youâ??d like to be more precise, you can also provide a brief summary for Meta-Description manually. The definition of used Meta-Keywords offers you more flexibility. If you are by now using the plugins UTâ??W or STP, wpSEO can use your tags as keywords. Otherwise the keywords will be involuntarily generated from the article, which is not permanently a sound solution for well-organized SEO. By default wpSEO generates keywords fully involuntarily, but you can let it extract text passages marked in bold or italics or in -tags. You can also use filters to ensure that only relevant data is being used To install the plugin, itâ??s enough to upload it to the plugins directory (wp-content/plugins) and activate it in the Wordpress engine. You should avoid using two or more plugins (as mentioned previous to) at the same time. Previously installed plugins can produce conflicts, just like manual entries in your header.php file. To make sure the wpSEO is working properly, you should at least deactivate similar tools; better – delete them. A last useful feature you might never use, but would be pleased to have available once you need it: you may export all your settings as an XML-file and use them for a further blogs. Therefore itâ??s very simple to maintain the optimal configuration and exchange it to a number of blogs. At it’s very core, Wordpress content management is about reaching the right person, at the right time, with the right CONTENT. This makes an engaging user experience that drives demand. The dynamism of content management, and the re-purposing of relevant and engaging content, is an evolution in online strategy that will drive strong results for any organization.

 

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