Google Inc. continue to extend its business tentacles. This time, the search engine is the world’s largest acquired Picnik, a virtual photo editing site online. That means, Google has captured three businesses in three weeks.
Picnik, based in Seattle, currently employs 20 staff. Google interested in acquiring five-year-old company is because they provide software that allows users to edit photos directly from the browser, without having to bother installing additional software.
Unfortunately, Google does not publish the value of this acquisition.
Since the advertising sector to recover from the crisis, Google’s primary business in the field of Internet search is more profitable. Not surprisingly, Google does not seem to run out of funds to continue to annex the Internet business.
Last October, Google’s Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said his company will acquire an average one company each month and make a big deal every one or two years.
Last month, Google bought a social search engine called Aardvark and email service for mobile web named reMail. Since September 2009, Google has acquired eight companies.
Google spokesman Andrew Pederson reported via email that Picnik team is now based at the Google headquarters in Seattle and will work with Google’s Picasa group. Picasa itself is a photo sharing service in a virtual world acquired by Google since 2004.
No major changes enacted in Picnik, but did they plan to do integration and adding new features. This was expressed by Brian Ax, Google’s director of Product Management.
In a teleconference on Monday (1/3/2010) and then, Google’s Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette confirmed that Google did was to strengthen its business in line with the company’s business conditions improved.
Since its founding until now, Google had acquired 62 companies. The value is the largest acquisition when buying online advertising firm DoubleClick for U.S. $ 3.1 billion.
Google also has successfully acquired a number of big names in cyberspace. Call it, FeedBurner, Blogger.com, and YouTube. (http://seoblog.web.id)
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Symbian How are you? Symbian is the smart phone operating system that now rules the world. Until February 2010, the Symbian platform has been developed more than 10 years and has been buried in more than 330 million devices worldwide.
The rate on Symbian smart phones are not overtaken by other operating systems because the power of the operating system that allows outside developers to build applications on Symbian phones.
So, thousands of free and paid applications born of software developers throughout the world. This is what makes the Symbian mobile phone and content-rich Symbian users are individuals who like gadgets and tweaks.
Although there are estimates Android operating system will be number two on the bottom in 2013, Symbian, Symbian was still a capable force. Moreover, according to Motorola officials promised, in 2010, the Symbian Foundation has released the full operating system as open code (open source).
Symbian smart phone is identical with the Nokia. However, not only the actual Nokia uses Symbian.
Symbian Foundation, the institution in charge of taking care of the preparation to open source Symbian, is a nonprofit organization that was announced June 24, 2008. Nokia took Sony Ericsson, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, AT & T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, and several rows of another brand to hoist Symbian.
Besides funding, Siemens to contribute Symbian OS and S60 for Symbian Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola did not want to lose, they donate their mainstay code, which is UIQ. NTT DoCoMo to contribute MOAP (S).
With that capital, the future of the Symbian Foundation should be more hit the market. Speculation is rampant that the Symbian alliance to confront Android.
However, in a chance, Bob Iannucci who was then serving Senior Vice President Chief Technology Officer of Siemens argued that presumption. “All along we are in this business. So this is not true that our response to Android, “he said.
Late show
Symbian Foundation moves too slow to respond to the “Google Addict” who continue to follow the issue and waiting Android features Google applications to run perfectly on the phone. Long before Android phone realized, was to mobilize the community discussion about Android.
Similarly, in Indonesia. Agus Hamonangan, which was not a programmer or a tech expert, diligent in updating the Android technology information and set up a mailing list that Indonesia Android Community id-android@googlegroups.com address at.
Long before Android phones present in Indonesia, the community was already brisk universe internet discussion about Android. “Virus” Android continues to spread. Free ads in the form of word of mouth (WOM) about Android is actually running on a voluntary basis.
“Our members now about 1,200 people. This mailing list for the community that likes ngoprek Android technology, “said Agus. Discussion forums and Android user community continues to grow despite officially Android phone has not circulated in Indonesia. They guerrilla find these products directly to foreign countries that have been released Android phone.
In the vacuum that Android phone, it has not happened stepping strategy of Symbian Symbian although still leading in the segment smart phone operating system. This occurs because the system of the Symbian Foundation membership is not fully open.
Not easy to get the full code because the system requires paid membership of USD 1,500 so that small developers can not get the full code.
By the time Android was launched to directly eliminate Android, Symbian is still the plan to eliminate the software to open source in 2010. This delay is probably related to the settlement of Symbian Limited shares in issue and also integrate all the software applications into the new Symbian.
Vacancies between 2008 and 2010, that’s what Android is used to perform imaging pitch itself as a true open source.
February 4, according to the official website at Symbian.org, the official release of the Symbian Foundation Symbian platform under open source. For the initial release, the new Symbian released for the Kernel and hardware package that free downloadable Services.
More information can be found at http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Platform_Opening. “Symbian platform which has been buried in more than 330 million devices around the world is now officially open and free,” said Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation.
“Community developers are now reinforced to deal with future mobile industry,” added Lee. In full, all the Symbian platform will be opened to the public in mid-2010.
Unfortunately, the publication of the open source release is still minimal and no echo. Lost by an echo Android is starting to embrace the community diligently.
“I have just returned from Singapore, was invited to the Google Android Developer Labs. I did not think was invited. Google seems to embrace the diligent user and developer community. They also have a Developer Days event that raises the developers, “said Agus Hamonangan from mailing en-android.
With this news, it seems smart phone battle will be interesting and the user community and developer community would likely be a “seizure”. However, while in the path open source, Android and Symbian should be able to compete well.
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No one can disregard the importance of effective link building when it comes to gaining popularity for your website with search engines! Whether you own an online business or are simply involved in affiliate marketing, getting high ranking for your website, with all the major search engines on the web, is absolutely vital for making money on the internet in any way.
As a matter of fact, any kind of Search Engine Optimization project is incomplete without an extensive link building program included in it! The higher the number of related websites that link to you, the greater is your search engine ranking and the higher is your position in the search results. You also get more targeted traffic your way with good quality links. All this adds up to increased business.
Popular Ways Of Building Links
Some of the most popular ways of link building are through article submissions to online directories and publishing newsletters, participating in web forums and maintaining regularly updated blogs on your website. While all these are techniques to get free links to your site, you can also purchase links from niche web directories relevant to your target audience.
Categorization Of Links
Link building can be broadly categorized into three main types – One-Way Links, Three-Way Links and Link Exchanges. One-way links are generally ‘purchased’, or, in other words, you pay some amount of money to have your link displayed on a highly popular website in your target segment. Three-way links are obtained through a tedious and time-consuming participation of three domain names in the exercise.
The third category of link building ‘Link Exchanges’, is perhaps the easiest and the most cost effective method to get good quality links to your website. While Search Engines prefer One-way Links over Exchange Links, you can still achieve one of those most coveted top ten positions in search engine results with quality Exchange links.
If you keep in mind the following tips for establishing and maintaining reciprocal links, it can ensure a successful link building campaign.
- Link up with only those websites that are similar in theme with your site. Irrelevant links will neither get you the kind of traffic you want, nor will they be of any benefit in improving your page ranks.
- Getting a link from a high ranking page is far more effective than getting several links from unpopular sites that are scarcely read!
- Always keep a track of your link partners. Being associated with a banned website can have an adverse effect on your rankings.
Article submission to online directories and participation in relevant web forums are also some very popular and effective methods of acquiring free one-way links. They can be used in combination with reciprocal links. A well-planned link building campaign not only increases the visibility of your website, it also reduces your PPC costs by getting you a higher page ranking.
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