Archive for November, 2007

Microsoft plans to open an analogue of Flickr

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Microsoft soon will have the new on-line service similar to popular photoservice Flickr.

Started about three years ago service Flickr now belongs to company Yahoo. The photobank totals more than 25 million active users and in Flickr database are stored hundred millions digital images. The service is accessible in English, French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese languages.

On November 9th on site Microsoft there was an announcement of search of the expert which could head a command of developers of new on-line service. In the announcement it is marked that in the long term given service ” should make competition Flickr, SmugMug and to other similar services “. From the description of vacancy follows that the service will be included into family of free-of-charge web-applications of Windows Live.

Observers are asked by a question whether one more is necessary to network community Flickr. However occurrence of photoservice from Microsoft can help users Flickr. The matter is that for high-grade access to the given service it is necessary to pay 25 dollars a year. And if Microsoft will offer free-of-charge photoservice company Yahoo, quite probably, will reconsider cost of a subscription on Flickr or in general will make service free-of-charge.

It is necessary to notice that recently corporation Microsoft applies many efforts on strengthening own positions in the market the Internet-services. Nevertheless, according to general director Microsoft Steve Ballmer, during some time on-line initiatives of corporation will remain unprofitable as Microsoft continues to invest means in corresponding sphere. However incomes of advertising, according to Balmer, nevertheless grow.

Make Money Online Selling Medications

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Make extra cash now! Making money online becomes very popular in our days. But sure we have to choose the right company to work with. i suggest you to try yourself in pharmacy business. I decided to intorduce a stable pharmacy affiliate program Rx-Partners. Working with this company you even don’t have to have any programming skills. You can earn money by sending targeted traffic to there websites! Everything you just need is to invest some money to third party PPC (major search engines require pharmacy checker id to buy clicks form searches, so they are not acceptable for us).

So, what does they offer:

  1. You can earn up to 50% revshare on every sale
  2. The most popular medications from reliable suppliers that provide different shipping options.
  3. Different ways of payment: they pay every Thursday no matter what. Currently there are several payment options available: Bank wire, Stormpay, Moneybookers, EGold, Epassport, Fethard, PayPal.
  4. They have developed a sophisticated statistics page where you can see where your customers come from (country, state), track the traffic from different sources, monitor sales that are updated immediately, receive fresh info on promotions and domain stats, buy domains and create your own websites.
  5. You can manage your own online store or send traffic to prebuilded shops.

And i can share my some stats for the last period. So i do only SEO (search engine optimization) and some times i buy traffic from ppc engines. Last week i earned 4,327 USD. Sounds pretty good. So you can earn more! I know some top affiliated webmasters and they earn approximately 20K-25K per month.

Here http://rx-partners.biz/register.php you can register with RX-partners. But you need an invitation code. It was done to accept only trusted webmasters. Invitation code you can get by contacting me at webmaster [at] searchthenetnow.com or serge.smith [at] gmail.com. Please remove [at] to @ symbol :) And i can help you to start and advice some tips, list of PPC engines to buy traffic from, list of keywords, how to earn money fast. Why do i do this? If you will earn money i will too, i will get 10% from your monthly earnings. You earn money, i help you and get some comission - We are both happy :)

Hope you will enjoy working with RX-partners and getting a help from me. Good luck!

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Rules of Usability

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

A professional web-developer must be a visitor’s lawyer. He must to defend visitor’s interests and guarantee that independently from how site is difficult a visitor can always find everything he/she needs. So here are some rules and pronciples of Usability:

  1. A 7±2 Rule - Capacity of our memory is not unlimited that’s why George Miller affirms that we can remember approximately 5 - 9 things at once. This fact is usually is under discussion because according to it web developers must to reduce menue element to 7 points. You can read more here
  2. Two Seconds Rule - people must wait a system changes no longer than 2 seconds it can be loading other page or start of other process.
  3. 3 Clicks Rule - a visitor will not be delighted with if you suggest him/her to find necessary information in more that 3 clicks deep.
  4. Reversed Pyramid - it is a style of content writting where the main thought presents in the start of the article. So the main information you should place in the start.
  5. Satisfaction - Usually people don’t choose optimal way to find necessary information. They do not require the best quite the reverse people can accept quick and not the best information.

So above i listed some main rules of usability. Next time i try to explain some psychological moments in usability.

Google Created a Program Mobile Platform

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Google company has officially informed about their new development of mobile platform for portable devices. By all accounts there were some suppositions that Google was going to enter a mobile market. And some months ago Google started to negotiate with the major mobile companies in the USA such as T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel. They said about a possibility to set a up new operational mobile system on portable devices.

Now the preliminary information about Google’s entering to mobile market has been confirmed. The operational system was developed on the Linux kernel and called Android. It is supposed that new cell phones with Android mobile OS will released in next year.

Together with the announcement of Android there were organized a new alliance Open Handset Alliance. In a membership of Alliance are included 34 companies among them are Broadcom, China Mobile, HTC, Intel, KDDI, LG, Marvell, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sprint Nextel и T-Mobile.

Symantec has presented Managed Threat Analysis

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Symantec corporation released new service called MTA (Managed Threat Analysis) wich will be included in the service Managed Security Service (MSS).

Novelty allows to get detailed analysis of corporation network defence. To achive this users of MTA will give an access to Security Response, and in 96 hours analytics will content details report how to prevent external hacks.

The annual subscription price will be 300000 USD. At the same time subscribers can work with DeepSight service.

Google’s Software will appear on mobiles phone Sprint Nextel

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

On the Internet there was a next portion of hearings about plans of company Google on an output on the market of mobile communication.

In the middle of this week a number of network editions have informed that the search giant negotiates for cooperation with large American operators of cellular communication. Under an available information Google discusses an opportunity of preset of the software on the mobile phones offered by the telecommunication companies. Thus Reuters marked, that in negotiations takes part Verizon Wireless whereas, according to Wall Street Journal, discussion is conducted also with Sprint Nextel.

Now Reuters also has confirmed that Sprint Nextel considers an opportunity of installation of some appendices Google and other developers on the portable devices. It is not excluded also, that Sprint Nextel will begin sales of communicators working under control of operational system Google. On hearings, this program platform constructed on the basis of kernel Linux, the search giant will present within two nearest weeks.

Referring to own sources, Reuters emphasizes, that negotiations between Google and operators of cellular communication are conducted actively enough and can be soon completed. While, however, not absolutely clearly, on which conditions the telecommunication companies will work with Google. It is not excluded, that Google will offer OS to operators of communication free of charge, paying back charges due to display of advertising to displays of mobile devices.