Saturday, May 1, 2010

Facebook, The App Store, And The Sound Of Inevitability


“That is the sound of inevitability…“
I’m reminded of this quote from The Matrix as I read headline after headline around the blogosphere about how Facebook and Apple and their (at least relatively) closed ecosystems are going to destroy the fabric of the web as we know it. Me? I’m not worried in the slightest bit. Why? Because it occurs to me that what’s going on now is just a part of a cycle. A necessary cycle. Yes, the web (by which I mean the entire Internet), it seems to me, is cyclical.
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Lookup and compare backlinks data of two websites

open site explorer backlinks Lookup and compare backlinks data of two websites

For any blog or for that matter for any website, back-links are very important as it basically leads to a decent Google Page Rank and then leads to greater organic traffic through search engines. A page rank is determined by the number of websites linking to a website and their authority thanks to their page ranks.
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Google adds virtual keyboard to search pages


google virtual keyboard Google adds virtual keyboard to search pages
Have you every searched for something in a foreign language on Google search. Yes withing search settings there is an option for selecting a language you prefer to use for entering your search query. This makes Google so widely acceptable across cultures and languages.
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Decoding Steve Jobs’ Dressing Down Of Flash


Steve Jobs doesn’t blog often, but when he does, it’s always entertaining. Today, Apple’s CEO has taken the time to write a 1,700 word post about why Apple (or perhaps more precisely, he) doesn’t like Adobe Flash. And why Apple doesn’t support it in new products. And more importantly, why Apple won’t support it in new products.
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iPad 3G Dismantled: There Are Five Antennas



iPad 3G Dismantled: There Are Five Antennas










We've seen its communications board before, but now the entire iPad 3G has been torn open and had its parts analyzed. Here's what makes it different from a Wi-Fi-only iPad according to the guys at iFixit:
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Only 27.3% Of Android Phones Can Use The Official Twitter Client


Earlier today Twitter released its official Twitter app for Android — a move that’s been expected since CEO Ev Williams announced that it was coming during Twitter’s Chirp conference. In our post, we mentioned that this was only going to be available for Android 2.1, and as others have pointed out, that means we have another case of Android’s lingeringfragmentation problem rearing its ugly head. But just how bad is it? We don’t have to guess.
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BlogBuzzer: Ping your Blog and Let Search Engines Index Quickly


Search Engines checks randomly the sites they have in their index for updated content. Even after submitting your blog to search engines, when you update your blog and post new content, it doesn't necessarily mean that it'll be checked in real time or the moment you submit your post unless you ping your blog through some (Blog) Pinging Servers.
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Is Google getting ready to move user-created themes out of the Extensions Gallery?


 Yesterday  night while I was browsing the Chrome Extensions Gallery, I noticed something a bit odd. A recently uploaded theme returned the error you see above when I clicked it. OK, I thought... Maybe the author really did take it down.
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