Tilak Bisht

SEO Consultant & WordPress Web Designer

YouTube launches online remixer tool

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YouTube has begun offering a Web-Based Remixer Tool that is powered by Adobe Premiere.YouTube Online Remixer Tool

The “remixer” which is enables users to create more professional look of videos by fix together video clips, music, graphics and other effects, according to information found on the site. It lets you assemble your new video in an easy drag-and-drop timeline, and then publish it right back to YouTube.

Its been more than two weeks and haven’t posted anything new. Now I am back to blogging. I thank all my blog buddies for checking on me. 😉

New Look Of Ask.com

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Ask3D

Ask.com has undergone drastic changes. This new re-launch name is Ask3D. According to Ask.com

3D stands for the three dimensions of searching – query expression, investigating results, and digging deeply into content. You used to have to visit three different pages or websites to see and search through each dimension. With Ask3D, you can now get everything you need on one page…in many cases above the fold.

New look of Ask.com is neat and clean with the pretty graphics, the ability to narrow searches.

Yahoo! weather update

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Yahoo! has rolled out new search index on 22nd May night and I believe it has been completed. I haven’t seen major fluctuation in my client’s keywords in search ranking yet after a week now. I wish it has been a good weather update as far as my concern 😉

Google monitoring the web

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During the surfing I reached at Nick Carr’s most recent article (Google preparing to police web). According to his article Google plan is to use new software which automatically identify compromised web pages in its database and label them as “potentially harmful” in its search results.

He has used the reference of Google engineers’ written papers on the subject, The Ghost in the Browser, where Google explains how Google is preparing to respond to the threat by incorporating an automated security analysis into its routine spidering and indexing of sites:

To address this problem and to protect users from being infected while browsing the web, we have started an effort to identify all web pages on the Internet that could potentially be malicious. Google already crawls billions of web pages on the Internet. We apply simple heuristics to the crawled pages repository to determine which pages attempt to exploit web browsers. The heuristics reduce the number of URLs we subject to further processing significantly. The pages classified as potentially malicious are used as input to instrumented browser instances running under virtual machines. Our goal is to observe the malware behavior when visiting malicious URLs and discover if malware binaries are being downloaded as a result of visiting a URL. Web sites that have been identified as malicious, using our verification procedure, are labeled as potentially harmful when returned as a search result. Marking pages with a label allows users to avoid exposure to such sites and results in fewer users being infected.

As far as my concerns, it is good if Google remove these type of sites from their index completely and re-include after clean up. That would take care of the intentionally malicious sites, because Google has good share in search traffic.

Quick tips for newbie bloggers

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As an individual you can consider a free blogging platform to start with, but I would urge you to check if the URL matching your chosen blog name URL is available. If not-consider changing the name. Don’t fuss to much about a ‘dot com’ id in today’s times of powerful search even a ‘dot in’ would work well and may sometimes be more relevant. If possible block the URL – it costs just a few hundred Rupees but then you won’t have to worry about availability, if the blog takes off and you wish to move to your own domain name.

Any platform you choose today will give you dozens of template options to pick from – go ahead and use any – you can change them at any point in time.

If you are a corporate or a big brand, you blog will prove to be a very important communication tool, internally and externally, do ensure that it lives the personality of your brand. Spend sometime and money, work with professionals who could help you on usability, customization, design, valueadds based on your needs and indeed with advice on what you can do with a blog. Remember, a blog is just a tool, what you do with it is what makes it powerful or useless.

Coming your way soon

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Sorry about the long period with no updates, but I have been very busy with my other projects. Now I expect things should be back as usual by the end of the week. 🙂

How to select of web design & development company

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Once you decide you need a website, it’s time to decide who will do it with good technical knowledge and professional manner. If you have the technical knowledge or the money to hire a full-time web staff, you can develop the site yourself or outsource the company. But if you’re like most small businesses, you’ll want to outsource the work.

Always be careful when you hire a web design company. A poorly designed website can cost you money, away from the customers. It can also hurt your company reputation. Follow a few basic steps to increase your odds of hiring a creative, technically and cost-effective design firm.1.

1) Assess your needs: Be realistic about your own goals and growth plans so you know whether to hire a long-term or a short-term company.

2) Research company’s work: It’s essential that you research a company’s work so you can evaluate their potential. Once you’ve found a company you like – through recommendations, web directories or competitors sites – evaluate their technology skills. A site doesn’t have to be flashy to do its job, but you must appreciate the developer’s design sense.

3) Evaluate their services: Decide if the company meets your needs. If you want to sell your products online, look for proven e-commerce experience. Determine what extras the firms offer, such as copywriting, marketing and other services. Try to get almost all web services from one place rather than shop around a lot. It is a very big time saver.

4) Meet the company: Your web design firm is going to present your web persona to the world. You must be able to work collaboratively. Ask yourself these questions and rely on your gut reaction:
» Do they listen to my needs?
» Do they explain issues in ways I can understand?
» Do they give fair suggestions about my project?
» Do they share my vision for the site?

5) Company history: You always ask/read of the company background/history.

6) Check references: Browsing a company’s work is helpful, but you also want to know how they work. A web design firm can be the most creative in the world, but if it never finishes your site, it won’t do you much good. Call past clients and ask if the design firm:
» Adhered to deadlines.
» Met their requests.
» Was responsive to suggestions and questions.
» Fixed problems promptly.» Worked within the original budget.

7) Think ahead: Over the past year, hundreds of web design firms of all sizes have merged, cut back their operations or simply closed. Although it’s impossible to know for sure whether or not a firm will be around in the future, you have a right to ask questions if you expect to build a long-term relationship. You should also ask whether a design firm will accept payment in stages or whether they’ll demand most of their payment up front. Firms that aren’t willing to link payment to their own ability to deliver might not be worth the risk you’ll take to deal with them.

Shakedown for net service providers

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To get non-serious Internet service providers out of the system, the telecom regulator will propose a revenue share of 6% and will seek an entry fee in three slabs of Rs 20 lakh, Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, up from the existing Rs 1 they pay as licence fee now.

The three slab entry fee will apply to Internet service providers in categories A, B and C representing all India operations, major cities and smaller towns. the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will also propose a directive asking category C licence-holders to upgrade to category B within two years.