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IndusWebi Technologies Adds New SEO, SMO and PPC Packages to their Offerings – Newswire Today (press release)
Dec 29th
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IndusWebi Technologies Adds New SEO, SMO and PPC Packages to their Offerings
Newswire Today (press release) IndusWebi is one of the top SEO companies in India and it provides SMO, PPC, Web Designing, Web Development and SEO services in India. The company has recently announced new offers on various SEO, SMO and PPC packages for the first time. … Web SEO Services, an Upcoming SEO Company from India, Gets New Redesigned … |
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Top 10 Feed & RSS Technologies of 2011
Dec 18th
News and activity feeds are more alive today than ever before, even as engagement with their simplest format, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), appears to be waning. What were the Top 10 Most Awesome RSS & Feed Products of 2011? We offer our list below. Though some of these weren’t born in the past year, all of them have made a big impact and are thoroughly awesome.
Anyone with an interest in competitive knowledge work should be aware of and give some thought to these applications. We’d love to hear your thoughts on others in comments below, too, readers. I’ve put the following 10 in a particular order: from the most geeky to the most mainstream.
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10. AppNotifications
Fabien Penso’s fabulous iPhone push notification app released a 3.0 version this year, but it’s just the nice clean basics that make this one a winner. Input any feed, or many other sources of information, and Penso’s app will push it to your phone in real time. It works really, really well and is better than ever with the introduction of the Apple Notification Center in iOS5. A double digit percentage of the stories I reported on this year came from feeds I consumed in this app. See also: BoxCar and Notifo.
9. iftt
If This Then That is a point and click mashup maker that lets you do all kinds of things with feeds of information and multiple applications. It’s loads of fun, though some high-volume RSS feeds seem to overwhelm it. I wish it worked with AppNotifications above, or UrbanAirship. The ifttt recipe that pushes my Foursquare check-ins into my Google Calendar like a diary entry? That’s awesome. Ifttt was recently funded by Betaworks, a story I was able to break because of another awesome feed bot – the Neubot VC portfolio tracker.
8. Flipboard
The feed reader your parents always wished you’d bring home, Flipboard finally released its iPhone version this Fall after more than a year of dominating the iPad magazine reader app market. Competitor Zite is nice and was acquired by CNN, Google’s new Currents is ok, Yahoo’s competitor is not so great and others are floating around too. Flipboard puts a premium on design though and wins as a result. Adoption of its new iPhone app has been breathtaking. The best way to enjoy Flipboard, though, is to populate it with a great Twitter list.
7. Summify
The computer science nerds behind iPhone app Summify have done a great job combining social engineering, smart algorithms and nice design to solve the information overload problem. If you haven’t seen Summify, you should check it out. It feels related to the iPad’s News.me, which is a strong contender for this spot in the list as well.
6. Path
The story behind Path seems downright smug – the company’s founders reportedly turned down $100 million from Google before even launching and they walk through the wasteland of social networking healing the sick with their mere touch, but the latest version of the app is undeniably fantastic. It’s like Facebook Mobile meets Instagram meets Foursquare meets Gowalla meets better design than any of the above. Expect to see a giant pile of apps try to model their design after Path’s in the next year. It’s a great presentation of an activity feed. It’s the kind of thing that nerds and noobs can all love, too.
5. Percolate
“Percolate turns brands into curators,” this new startup says. Marketers love this service and it seems to have done a great job of discovering feeds full of content and making them easy for Percolate users to add to and capture value from.
4. Feedly
Feedly rides on top of your Google Reader subscriptions and provides a great cross-platform feed reading experience on web, mobile and tablets. When you’re ready to stop messing around with filters, social, recommendations, etc. and you just want to stand in front of a pipe of feeds you subscribed to yourself, Feedly is a great way to do it. (Disclosure: The author did a small amount of consulting for Feedly on launch strategy but has no ongoing financial interest in the company, beyond a glowing endorsement of said consulting services. Sorry, but it’s still a feed app that lots of people love.)
3. New Twitter Interactions
Love or hate the #newnewTwitter just launched at the end of this year, the new Interactions tab on web and mobile is a great big nod to activity feeds. It’s very cool to see all the relevant activity surfaced with regard to your content: you’ve been replied to, favorited, added to a list, retweeted. Putting all of that in one big feed is really nice and is probably one of the biggest feed changes that tens of millions of people are going to engage with next year. That will make it one of the biggest, except for…
2. The Facebook Timeline
Facebook’s new Timeline feature looks at all the activities you’ve published into the site since creating your account and it surfaces the highlights by analyzing social activity around each event. It’s awesome, if a little frightening. Now that hundreds of millions of people will become familiar with this kind of presentation around their data, they’ll be all the more ready for…
1. Facebook Seamless Sharing
The biggest thing in feeds for 2011 is clearly Facebook’s Seamless Sharing, or Open Graph Protocol. I think the way the company implemented the paradigm is risky, irresponsible and wrong. But it’s going to pave the way for a wholly instrumented world. Today the music you listen to is streamed into your social network and profile (unless you opt-out) and in the future almost everything else you do with a machine will be, too. Every machine you use will be network-connected and will publish data onto the web. Remember when Facebook hired “my year in review” infographic artists Nicholas Felton and Ryan Case this Spring? Their work appeared in the aforementioned Facebook Timeline, but they and their thinking will help build dashboards we use to track our home electricity usage, our debit card activity, our exercise, our travel and a whole lot more in the future. It will all be pushed automatically into the network too, just like Facebook’s Seamless Sharing.
Hopefully Facebook can move this ball forward in a way that allows users to make clear, informed decisions how to participate – odds of that aren’t great – but either way it’s likely to happen. And it’s going to be very big.
Those are my list of the Top 10 Feed Technologies in 2011 – what do you think? What should be included? Is there too much Facebook here? Please share your comments below.
Disclosure: The author is building an unlaunched startup related to this sector; it may either compete or collaborate with any number of the above companies. Except Facebook, it doesn’t have anything to do with Facebook.
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Microsoft Technologies and SEO Web Development – SEOmoz (blog)
Dec 13th
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Microsoft Technologies and SEO Web Development
SEOmoz (blog) There have been a few articles on Microsoft technologies and SEO of late and I have tried not to double up. I will confess I am pro Microsoft, a Microsoft Partner and a Microsoft WebsiteSpark WebPro and have been involved in many Microsoft programs … |
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Forrester: VDI, PaaS Technologies Stuck in the Gestation Phase
Nov 22nd
The prospects for virtual desktop technologies include the ability for office workers to utilize their business assets from just about anyplace, including their tablets, without transporting those assets directly into mobile devices and exposing them to security dangers. Already, businesses are saving millions by reducing the number of servers they would have deployed to host operating systems. And cloud-based developer platforms are helping businesses deploy new and dynamic applications with less overhead and reduced time to maturity.
At least that’s what the mimeograph machine has been repeating up to now, and that’s the message that’s been repeated here and elsewhere. But yesterday’s Q4 Forrester TechRadar status report for cloud computing paints a darker picture for VDI and PaaS, claiming vendors are attempting new business models for these technologies that prospective customers may be rejecting.
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More evidence of virtual stall
There’s plenty of standardization happening in enterprises around cloud technologies, write Forrester’s James Staten and Galen Schreck, but these trends appear to have abandoned PaaS and VDI. With respect to virtual desktops, Schreck and Staten contend that VDI service vendors (no names were offered as examples) remain busy trying to build a viable business model, while corporations struggle with the notion of their live, working operating systems partly or wholly in the public cloud.
“Vendors are often attempting to break new ground by employing widely varying business models or trying to standardize what isn’t standard in enterprises today,” the pair writes. “Enterprises betting on technologies in these categories risk that their chosen solution will not become standard; therefore, they should seek competitive differentiation or significant time-to-market advantages to balance the risk of having to migrate away if the solution fails to gain market traction.”
Put another way, vendors are risking differentiating their service offerings in order to establish themselves in the market. If their differentiated models fail down the road, customers may have to find a way to export their assets to a new host or new hosting model. Standards such as Open Virtual Format (OVF) for virtual machines, supported by VMware, may help to some degree, but they may fail to take with them the policies and procedures companies create around the use of those VMs. Granted, many of those policies may already be outmoded (for example, throwing away customized deployments every week and copying fresh installations from the master, as many colleges do), but the understanding that change would happen could be making new customers resist.
It’s more evidence of the trend that CA Technologies calls “virtual stall.”
Forrester believes that VDI technologies are evolving, but from stage one rather than eleven or twelve like SaaS and other technologies. Right now, Staten and Shreck write, current business models are best suited for “general office workers who can run on highly standardized Windows systems that can be cloned in a cookie-cutter fashion.” But frankly, the cookie-cutter nature of early VDI deployments works against ROI anyway, with policies that limit the viability of the technology to user scenarios that can take the least advantage of it. Information workers who need specialized software could be better suited to VDI, say the Forrester analysts, if VDI’s business models better applied to them.
So where are all these savings coming from?
Of course, this flies in the face of Forrester studies over the past few years predicting huge savings and ROI gains from VMware VDI. A 2008 Forrester study (PDF available here) projected net savings over four years for typical VDI deployments in the healthcare field at $2.1 million, with a risk-adjusted ROI of 122%. For financial services (PDF available here), that same year Forrester projected net savings for VMware VDI in financial institutions at $8 million, with 255% risk-adjusted ROI. And more recent studies aren’t much different, with a July 2010 study on Citrix XenDesktop VDI deployment in educational institutions (PDF available here) netting savings of nearly $2.8 million over four years, with ROI over the term at 170%.
So is that a contradiction? Not if you take into account that Forrester was evaluating the potential ROI of successful VDI deployments, the actual number of which yesterday’s report indicates there may be few.
The Forrester report yesterday also cited platform-as-a-service as being slow to gestate of late. The reasons cited, however, may actually reflect an older state of the technology that may no longer be the case everywhere: “PaaS solutions promise developer productivity,” the team writes, “and for a select set of developers working on specific Web-oriented applications, they can deliver. However, breadth of applicability is lacking among PaaS providers today, as many are narrowly focused on a class of developer, set of developer skills (i.e., Python or Ruby), or class of application.”
That’s certainly no longer the case with Heroku, which may have started as a Ruby platform, but has since expanded way past Ruby and Python to include diverse offerings such as Clojure, Node.js, and Scala. Still, the research team’s report is consistent with previous Forrester forecasts that indicate that businesses investing more in more widely available SaaS solutions are abandoning previous efforts at developing software in-house on PaaS platforms.
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Xicom Technologies started SEO services – openPR (press release)
Nov 21st
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Xicom Technologies started SEO services
openPR (press release) The company recently stepped into the arena of online marketing and SEO services. Backed by a skilled team of more than 250 IT professionals and cutting edge technologies the organization has maintained its position as the top service provider over … |
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Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012
Oct 21st
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, the analyst firm rolled out its top 10 strategic technologies for 2012 this week. It should come as no surprise that cloud is one of the technologies tapped for top ten.
What’s a “strategic technology”? The short version is that a strategic technology is one that has the potential for “significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.”
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That means either an existing technology that’s matured or become suitable for wider use, or it’s an emerging technology that could provide a strategic business advantage for early adopters. If it’s new(ish) and going to impact your organization’s long-term plans or initiatives.
Cloud computing is a no-brainer, of course. It’s already impacting business, and will continue to do so in 2012. But the rest of the ten is just as interesting:
- Big Data
- Extreme Low-Energy Servers
- Next-Generation Analytics
- App Stores and Marketplaces
- In-Memory Computing
- Mobile-Centric Applications and Interfaces
- Contextual and Social User Experience
- Internet of Things
- Media Tablets
Of course, many of these go together. For instance, contextual and social user experience and Internet of Things depend on one another. App stores and marketplaces and tablet computing go hand-in-hand. Next generation analytics depends on big data and in-memory computing, in many cases.
And, as usual, Gartner’s picks are largely things we’ve been covering here at ReadWriteWeb for some time. I might add, we provide the coverage a lot less expensively, too. Interested in Big Data? Check out our Age of Exabytes report from last year on tools and approaches for managing big data.
It is, however, a good list of technologies to watch. What technologies are you keeping an eye on? Anything not on Gartner’s list?
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Professional SEO Copywriting Services Offered at Oregon Technologies – Stock Markets Review (press release)
Sep 30th
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Professional SEO Copywriting Services Offered at Oregon Technologies
Stock Markets Review (press release) Serving as a leading SEO Company in India, Oregon Technologies provides professional SEO copywriting services. Professional SEO copywriting services from Oregon Technologies could bring about that perfect balance. Our team knows how to get your website … Leading SEO services company Techmagnate announces SEO Copywriting packages |
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