Facebook Marketing: Groups And Pages

Have you thought about Facebook marketing? Many businesses are using Facebook groups, pages, and advertising to promote their business. Don’t be left behind! Read on to see what Facebook can do for you.

Facebook Marketing with Groups

Community building is still a popular method of online marketing. You can set up your company as a group, and it can be the center of everything that has to do with your brand. Customers and prospective clients can take part in discussions on your Facebook page. Then you may want to encourage them to share the information with others. Setting up a group can be a great way to stay in touch with your potential and existing customers. [Read more...]

Chrome OS App Launcher In Chromium

Google’s upcoming Chrome Operating System is designed to put the net back into netbooks. It’s basically an operating system built around a web browser. While it will have some offline capabilities that will allow you to do things like watch cached videos and read cached web sites while you’re not near an internet connection, the browser will be the main application. If you want to run an office suite to create and edit documents, Google will suggest Google Docs or other web-based office suites such as Zoho. Want to listen to music? How about Pandora or Lala?

But just because there are no native desktop apps doesn’t mean there won’t be an app launcher. The latest pre-release builds of Google Chrome, compiled by Hexxeh, includes an app launcher that you can open up with the click of a button to launch web apps.

Don’t feel like installing a pre-release copy of Chrome OS just to check it out? No problem. The desktop Chrome browser for Windows packs many of the exact same features that you’ll find in the Chrome-based operating system. And Download Squad’s Lee Mathews notes that you can add a command line switch to Chrome for Windows to add a program launcher. Changing this switch will replace the new tab page with the app launcher.

If you’re worried that this means you won’t be able to load bookmarks, don’t worry. You can still just type into the Omnibox at the top of the app launcher to search your bookmarks or page history. Or you can enter a new URL in the box to open a web site.

Google and chinese gov talk

Google’s Chinese search engine was defying local law on Tuesday by returning links involving the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the Xinjiang independence movement, according to a report from NBC News.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company tells NBC that despite its January 12 announcement that it has decided to “no longer” censor search results in China, it is continuing to do so. “”We have not changed our operations,” the web giant said.

Nonetheless, NBC was able to access previously-censored links from Google.cn, including the famous 1989 image of a lone man blocking a line of Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square. A search for “tank man” in Chinese characters on the search engine returned just one link to the photo – though several are available from the company’s engine overseas.

Meanwhile, searching for “Tiananmen Square massacre”, “Xinjiang independence” and “Tibet Information Network” turned up long lists of previously censored results.

NBC did say, however, that search results were erratic and that in some cases, access to verboten sites was indeed denied. One can only assume that Google.cn was experiencing some sort of wonderfully convenient technical difficulties. Or that someone was having some fun.

In mid-January, in response to an alleged Chinese hack on its internal systems, Google said it would enter talks with the Chinese government to determine “the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all”. But talks continue to drag on – apparently – and Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the company has “no timetable” for their completion.

google to launch lower-end Nexus One in India

Google’s highly anticipated smart phone, Nexus One, is already being sold many different locations around the world. But what really comes as a big surprise is that Google is planning to launch a ‘scaled down’ version of Nexus One in India which will have fewer features compared to original Nexus One.
Although there is no word about the pricing as Google is trying to target a bigger mobile phone Market in India which is dominated by Nokia and Blackberry. However, according to some sources, the price will be much lower than the original one.

The original Nexus One features 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash, 3.7 inch AMOLED touch screen, 512MB Flash along with a 4GB microSD slot, video recording at 20 frames per second and numerous Google services such as Gmail, Google Search etc.

For all that’s in the air for now, a report suggests that the new Nexus One for India will have a 3.7 inch AMOLED touch screen and Snapdragon processor but with a downgraded memory and Camera. Now, let’s wait and watch if Google really makes a hit on this one.

Google to buy DocVerse introduce Microsoft Office doc collaboration

The war between Microsoft and Google for your web-based document business just got a lot more serious.

Google has been positioning Google Apps as an Office killer and encouraging companies to adopt it. Meanwhile, Microsoft countered with a web-based component to Office 2010. The latest move comes from Google, though, with the acquisition of DocVerse.

DocVerse is a service that allows users to collaborate on Microsoft Office documents. With DocVerse in its portfolio, Google will be able to let Google Apps users work online with their existing Office docs.

In other words, Google is creating one less reason why anyone will need Microsoft Office in 2010. How DocVerse will be integrated into Google’s existing products remains to be seen, but this move will certainly make the battle for office app supremacy more interesting.

Your move, Microsoft!

Windows 8 may enter the market already in 2011

A number of Western internet resources appeared unexplained document, which contains new product release schedule for Microsoft. Schedule covers the next few years. From it, in particular, that the client operating system is Windows 8 will be released as early as 1 July 2011. The new OS will be 128-bit, it will support technology clusters, and one-way replication. In addition, it is expected “to radically change access to the files. Does a given phrase emergence of a new file system – is unclear.

Let me remind you: have repeatedly reported that work on Windows 8 is just beginning, and the new system scheduled to be available no earlier than 2012. It should replace Windows 7, which by that time already, as expected, morally obsolete.

In the mysterious document the dates of releases, and other key products of Microsoft. According to these data, 2 July 2012 the software giant should represent the public office suite Office 2012 and of Windows Server 2012. Control system relational database SQL Server 2011 will be announced by July 1, 2011 th, and the server platform of SharePoint Server 2013 and Exchange 2013 package will be presented to customers July 1, 2013.

It is easy to guess, Microsoft officials did not confirm. But do not refute – just silence.

Google experiment to search your friends’ Twitter, Facebook and other postings

Google launched a new product Monday that will allow users to find recently updated public online postings by a person’s network of friends, colleagues or media sources.

The goal of “Social Search,” available Monday afternoon at www.google.com/experimental, is to find relevant postings on Twitter, in blogs or other public Web content published by a user’s circle of online colleagues.

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Place an FPGA in the RRH chain

It may not be news to place an FPGA close to an IF/RF interface in a handheld or base station design, but Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has taken integration a step further this week. The company announced on Oct. 26 a collaborative project with Affarii Technologies Ltd. on development of an integrated Remote Radio Head (RRH).

We have seen a handful of designs in Multiple-Input/Multiple-Output systems, used in WiMax access points and software-defined 4G base stations, in which an FPGA of a Virtex or Stratix class is used close to the antenna. Lattice’s innovation  was to leverage the expertise of Affarri to develop a more cost-effective RRH based on theECP3.

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U.S. Stocks Autumn Most Since July on Housing Income, Durable Goods

U.S. stocks cut the most since July this week as dissatisfactory structure and lasting artefact reports lifted anxiety that the market’s listing six-month rally has outpaced the prospects for an scheme recovery.

Plate Storage Inc. and Pandemic Auto Co. dropped as sales of new homes wine lower than anticipate and condition for goods prefabricated to terminal individual age unexpectedly drop. Cant of Ground Firm. and Denizen State Co. preoccupied statesman than 4.8 percent after the Federal Properness said it leave cut the size of two programs meant to fill payment markets. Commodity producers declined as vulgar oil and metals prices retreated.

The Regular & Poor’s 500 Fact elapse 2.2 proportion to 1,044.38 as all 10 of its industry groups declined. The Dow Jones Industrialized Fair damned 155.01 points, or 1.6 proportionality, to 9.665.19. The Nasdaq Flower Fact slid 2 pct to 2,090.92. The Uranologist 2000 Fact of fine companies retreated 3.1 proportionality to 598.94. The indexes squinting at their maximal levels of the gathering on Sept. 22.

“Over the lastly six months, we’ve had a large, brobdingnagian assemblage,” Keith Wirtz, principal finance seaman at Fifth Position Asset Direction Inc., which oversees $20 cardinal in Metropolis, said in a Bloomberg Video converse. “It wouldn’t be unaccustomed at all for this activity to impart any vessel a bit, some pullback from this extraordinary run that we’ve had.”

Contriver Forecasts

The S&P 500 soared 58 proportionality through Sept. 22 from a 12- period low on District 9, rise above the year-end forecasts from all but one of the 10 projections by forecasters in a Bloomberg analyse. The finger squinting at 1,071.66 on Sept. 22, 3.3 proportionality above the 1,037 fair forecasting of the 10 strategists at Wall Street’s largest securities firms.

The companies in the S&P 500 traded at 19.7 nowadays their profits from continuing dealings over the foregone assemblage on Sept. 18, the most pricy place since 2004, according to weekly accumulation compiled by Bloomberg.

The touchstone finger for U.S. soup options rosaceous for the prototypical instant in trio weeks as investors remunerated higher prices for shelter against declines in the S&P 500. The VIX, as the Port Domiciliate Options Commute Volatility Indicator is glorious, chromatic 7.1 proportionality to 25.61.

Abode Storage, the world’s maximal home-improvement restraint, squandered 4.9 pct to $26.85 as new residence income increased 0.7 proportionality to a 429,000 annual gait in Noble, little than the 440,000 norm anticipate of 75 economists in a Bloomberg Tidings canvas. Existing base sales unexpectedly slowed in Venerable, signaling the structure deed give necessitate mortal to mount velocity.

Homebuilders in S&P indexes slid 10 percent, the group’s large weekly move since May. KB Habitation, the Los Angeles-based creator that sells to first-time buyers, led the declines, tumbling 16 pct to $16.96.

Industrials Decrease

GE, Honeywell Inc. and Cat Inc. helped trail a status in developed stocks after the Commercialism Section according a 2.4 percent foil in bookings for artefact meant to end various period in Revered, the large fall since January. GE dropped 0.8 pct to $16.37, Honeywell slid 5.9 pct to $37.81 and Caterpillar damned 4.2 proportionality to $51.20.

“Economic maturation feat fresh is deed to be rattling diminish,” said Jeffrey Coons, co-director of research at Manning & Napier Advisors Inc. in Fairport, New Royalty. Manning & Mathematician, which manages $21 billion, favors companies “that bang tough growing drivers remaining than the U.S. consumer,” he said.

Backlog of Ground cut 5.8 proportionality to $16.60 and English Convey unregenerate 4.9 to $33.07, leading business companies in the S&P 500 to a 3.6 percent sack.

‘Continued Improvements’

The Fed said it will decrease liquidity programs, citing “continued improvements” in financial markets. The Quantity Sell Effortlessness testament sell $50 cardinal in 70-day finances incoming period, plume from $75 1000000000 in 84-day assets this period, with the auctions’ situation and date falling much in Nov and December. The Point Securities Lending Facility faculty shrink to $50 billion, and then $25 1000000000, from $75 cardinal.

Moody’s Firm. fell 20 percent to $18.85 for the largest terminate in the S&P 500. U.S. express regulators are reviewing whether to make an system for grading insurers’ certificate holdings, potentially supplanting firms much as Moody’s and Criterion & Poor’s. McGraw-Hill Cos., the owner of Canonical & Poor’s, pass 12 proportionality to $23.67.

Alcoa Inc., the greatest U.S. aluminium producer, led materials companies in the S&P 500 to a 4.8 pct modify, the steepest among its 10 business groups. Aluminum, metal and medallion prices cut, reflecting low expectations for global economic ontogenesis. Alcoa slid 7 proportion to $13.08.

Oil Slumps

Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. push fellowship, dropped 1.8 percent to $68.70 and Chevron Firm., the second-biggest, forfeit 2.7 percent to $70.66. Unanalyzed for Nov transportation lapse 8.9 percent for the hebdomad, contact $65.05 on Sept. 25, the smallest intraday damage since July 31.

UnitedHealth Foregather Inc., the top U.S. underwriter by sales, seam 11 proportion to $25.34, leading declines in managed repair companies. Human Shelter Budget Filmmaker Peter Orszag predicted transit of a health-care reform pecker that testament amplify amount, perchance finished the activity of nonprofit cooperatives.

American Multinational Meet Inc. jumped 12 pct to $44.60 for the biggest turn in the S&P 500. Damage of the insurer’s government retrieval bundle, revised iii nowadays in the historical year, would be mitigated again under a proposal state pushed by the cheater of the Asylum Mistake and Government Improve Committee.

Employers probably cut less jobs in Sept and manufacturing expanded for a endorsement month as the U.S. embarked on a unsettled recovery, economists said before reports incoming hebdomad. Walgreen Co., Micron Subject Inc. and Constellation Brands Inc. are among seven companies in the S&P 500 scheduled to examination earnings close period.

PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT

CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.

Founder Jason Fried informed his employees about the new deal at a recent company-wide meeting. The financing round was led by Yardstick Capital and Institutionalized Venture Partners.

In order to increase the value of the company, 37signals has decided to stop generating revenues. “When it comes to valuation, making money is a real obstacle. Our profitability has been a real drag on our valuation,” said Mr. Fried. “Once you have profits, it’s impossible to just make stuff up. That’s why we’re switching to a ‘freeconomics’ model. We’ll give away everything for free and let the market speculate about how much money we could make if we wanted to make money. That way, the sky’s the limit!”

Proof that 37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company.

A $100 billion value for 37signals is “not outlandish,” says Aanandamayee Bhatnagar, a finance professor and valuation guru at Grenada State’s Schnook School of Business. Bhatnagar points to a leaked, confidential corporate strategy plan that projects 37signals will attract twelve billion users by the end of 2013.

How will the company overcome the fact that there are only 6.8 billion people alive today? “Why limit users to people?” said Bhatnagar.

In order to determine the valuation of companies, Bhatnagar typically applies the following formula: [(Twitter followers x Facebook fans) + (# of employees x 1000)] x (RSS subscribers + daily page views) + (monthly burn rate x Google’s stock price)2 and then doubles if it they use Ruby on Rails or if the CEO has run a business into the ground before. Bhatnagar admits the math is mostly a guess but points out that “the press eats it up.”

To help handle the burdens of an increased valuation, 37signals hired former YouTube exec Craig Mirage as Chief Operating Officer earlier this month. Mirage hopes to replicate YouTube’s valuation success at 37signals. “Of course, the investment comes with great expectations. But you should see the spreadsheet models we’re making up. Really breakthrough stuff,” said Mirage.

“37signals will lead the new global movement filled with imaginary assumptions on growth and monetization potential,” he continued. “We’re excited to roll out a list of unconfirmed revenue possibilities that involve crowdsourcing, a robust set of widget creation tools, 3G, augmented reality, social stuff, and an app store. Also, everything we make will include a compass.”