The touch screen technology is growing leaps and bounds. Not only it reflects a sense of sophistication but it offers a whole array of useful stuff.
Ease of Navigation:
Information is just at your finger tips. Yep! touch it and get the information. Imagine how handy it has become to folks who are not friendly to even mouse of trackballs. At lot of places like, airport, trade-shows, banks ATMS, information kiosks etc. we can see touch screen standing out.
Help Yourself:
Touch screens allow for the convenience of self-service, which can facilitate transactions in stores and other establishments. Order your King's burger with a touch of a finger and you are served in no time.
Plug 'n' Play :
Integrate the input device with the Touch Screen Terminal and start playing things in real time. Wonder how much valuable workspace is saved due to this compactness!!
Trainer's Benefit:
Folks who had been shying away from imparting and sharing their knowledge over those system which requires a handle on the key input systems like Keyboard/mouse are coming forward more and more in numbers with the advent of the touch screen technology. Trainees are also feeling much relieved getting feedback and information with a simple touch (none cumbersome navigation). This over all impact is leading to a much productive training experience to both students and teachers community.
And the list is long..
The human computer interaction is getting better and more interactive with the usage of the touch screen technology. Music, Games, Science... the list is getting just longer, as more and more people and organizations are embracing the touch screen technology.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Teamwork => Key to Success
How do we measure success? It is no rocket science. In crude form we can say setting up milestones at regular (or may be irregular for that matter) yards and keep knocking until we hit the final one.
This is the point where we huddle up, review and publish the result. Everybody is happy if we achieved SUCCESS in our efforts but the roof might just collapse if we have that red flash highlighting FAILURE.
If that is the case then what next? Either we shut the shop (if it was a budding start up) or get down to blame game in case we have sufficient bandwidth to consume the loss.
This game of pointing fingers and raising eyebrows continues for some time until folks get down towards new milestone. This dreaded red flash is guaranteed for any number of time as the entire system get habituated in oscillating back and forth on the same idiotic path.
Come now!! give it a break.. Don't blame it on lady luck, don't expect a miracle at the eleventh hour to become Knight in the shining Armour.
Let us embrace the truth. It is bitter, it is pinching and it really hurts. But the fact is that there is a red flash. So if you are the fortunate ones who gets a second or next chance to play on those new milestones, guys its high time for introspection.
Ask yourselves why the hell we have that red flash. Was it a backward technology? Was it the Project Plan? Was is the funds? Well I can bet this will keep you busy in your quest for the right answer as you might be sitting on top of a killer technology with a well proof plan and proper invoicing done at stages. You have failed because there was a Lack of Teamwork.
You might like to debate on the fact of having one of the greatest team combination to vouch upon. But I can tell you the coordination amongst the team mates was the weakest link which caused Rome to burn down.
Pal, it is time you should
Teamwork is the Key to success! The green flash is guaranteed if we can get it rolling.
This is the point where we huddle up, review and publish the result. Everybody is happy if we achieved SUCCESS in our efforts but the roof might just collapse if we have that red flash highlighting FAILURE.
If that is the case then what next? Either we shut the shop (if it was a budding start up) or get down to blame game in case we have sufficient bandwidth to consume the loss.
This game of pointing fingers and raising eyebrows continues for some time until folks get down towards new milestone. This dreaded red flash is guaranteed for any number of time as the entire system get habituated in oscillating back and forth on the same idiotic path.
Come now!! give it a break.. Don't blame it on lady luck, don't expect a miracle at the eleventh hour to become Knight in the shining Armour.
Let us embrace the truth. It is bitter, it is pinching and it really hurts. But the fact is that there is a red flash. So if you are the fortunate ones who gets a second or next chance to play on those new milestones, guys its high time for introspection.
Ask yourselves why the hell we have that red flash. Was it a backward technology? Was it the Project Plan? Was is the funds? Well I can bet this will keep you busy in your quest for the right answer as you might be sitting on top of a killer technology with a well proof plan and proper invoicing done at stages. You have failed because there was a Lack of Teamwork.
You might like to debate on the fact of having one of the greatest team combination to vouch upon. But I can tell you the coordination amongst the team mates was the weakest link which caused Rome to burn down.
Pal, it is time you should
- really need a set of people who are realistic and honest, who can knit and work well together, and have a passion for doing something great.
- ponder wisely who fits where. Set out a clear KRAs for individual, educate and coach them how to share and huddle as a close knitted team
- align everybody's vision on the same page and motivate them towards the ultimate milestone.
bring into practice some extra co activity to raise and boost the team spirit.
Teamwork is the Key to success! The green flash is guaranteed if we can get it rolling.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Content is the Key
Content is the Key
Web crawlers visits a site to read the title, description and content. However from the crawler perspective, if some thing is hard to read (i.e. not well defined / structured content), it will automatically leave site. Crawler always gives prominence to a page having 2:1 ratio in favor of content on at least 75% of the pages. Crawler loves more content to grab and index, and push such site on top of SERP.
Frame/Flash or Non Frame/Flash
Folks from Yahoo, Google and MSN, have their web masters pages showing that "some web crawlers have difficulty reading the context of these pages". What they doesn't say is don't use flash or framed pages because this is a no-no. Lot of SEO's will try and tell that this is a bad thing and that all your pages need to be flat static pages with lots of alt text behind your flat images. This is not the case. Many websites are in the top ten and number one spots, some of which use both flash and framed pages. Some do not even have any indexable text or links on the home page. So how do we do it? Simple, always have an alternative version of your site which viewers with flash installed will be directed to. For a framed site, you should also have a non-framed version for people whose browsers don't support framed pages. Now that you know how simple it is, here is the temptation. Because your index page will most likely only be seen by maybe 10% of the people that come to your site, the temptation will be to flood that page with keywords and search text to get yourself bumped up the search and that will happen. However, when you get caught (which you will), you will be dumped. This page should only contain a stripped down version of your site and should only contain the same text content as your flash or framed site.
Keyword Iterations
One should always have content on their website for their visitor and not for the crawler. In a move to spider the pages we often fall prey to Keyword Flooding and it hampers the overall objective a big time.
Use it in style
Well defined style sheets always helps the cause of optimising the site for better SERP. However if they are misused then they are treated by Crawler as a non trusted resource. Things like making the H1 tag the same as the normal text style to try and make the crawler think that all the text is important, should be highly discouraged. Crawlers are not as dumb as the used to be. They figured out that nobody has a header that lasts 5 paragraphs. The proper use of the H1 tag is your main page header. Sites have negative impact when pages carry loads of hidden content, refrain from using any such technique. The crawler should always authorise to read the Style-sheet. If not, the crawler mark the site in their non trusted bucket.
Fresh air to breath
We all need fresh air to breath and we always love website pumped with new content. The crawler are also not left behind. They hate stale content and always give preference to sites loaded with new content. Means a site sitting at 6 position on SERP can drop to 12 in no time in case they are not fed with fresh content. I can bet many SEO guru overlook this important point.
Page Rank
If you have downloaded Google's toolbar, you will see a bar at the top of each page which gives you a rating from 1 to 10 of how Google ranks your site. This means absolutely nothing when it comes to search engine optimizing. Some search engine companies think that getting a high page rank means you are going to be listed higher in the search. This is not the case. In fact, it couldn't be further from the truth. What this little bar indicates is simply how important Google sees your site and it makes that judgment on the quality of sites that link to you. The single most important thing about your site is not page rank, it is not how many incoming links you have and it is not how long your site has been up. It is your content, plain and simple. If your content matches the search criteria, then you will be listed. The more relevant content you have, the higher your site will be listed. There are a lot of sites listed in the number one spot that don't have any page rank.
Linking all the way
Don't believe a word you hear about incoming links, the quality of the link or anything to do with link exchange because the truth is; it doesn't really matter how many links you have to your site and what sites link to you. What does matter is the way the sites link to you and how often new links show up to your site. If you wake up tomorrow and, overnight, 1 million other sites decided to link to you, that would not affect your position in any way (what it may do is hurt your listing because it will look like spam). Here is how links work for you:
A plastic surgeon linking to a plastic surgery site, give a boost because the plastic surgeon links to a site of some relevance.
Acquiring new links slowly over the course of time definitely boosts because it looks like the site is gaining popularity.
If internal pages of a site, as well as the home page of that site gains more linkages, that will boost because it looks like the site have lots of pages of relevant information.
Web crawlers visits a site to read the title, description and content. However from the crawler perspective, if some thing is hard to read (i.e. not well defined / structured content), it will automatically leave site. Crawler always gives prominence to a page having 2:1 ratio in favor of content on at least 75% of the pages. Crawler loves more content to grab and index, and push such site on top of SERP.
Frame/Flash or Non Frame/Flash
Folks from Yahoo, Google and MSN, have their web masters pages showing that "some web crawlers have difficulty reading the context of these pages". What they doesn't say is don't use flash or framed pages because this is a no-no. Lot of SEO's will try and tell that this is a bad thing and that all your pages need to be flat static pages with lots of alt text behind your flat images. This is not the case. Many websites are in the top ten and number one spots, some of which use both flash and framed pages. Some do not even have any indexable text or links on the home page. So how do we do it? Simple, always have an alternative version of your site which viewers with flash installed will be directed to. For a framed site, you should also have a non-framed version for people whose browsers don't support framed pages. Now that you know how simple it is, here is the temptation. Because your index page will most likely only be seen by maybe 10% of the people that come to your site, the temptation will be to flood that page with keywords and search text to get yourself bumped up the search and that will happen. However, when you get caught (which you will), you will be dumped. This page should only contain a stripped down version of your site and should only contain the same text content as your flash or framed site.
Keyword Iterations
One should always have content on their website for their visitor and not for the crawler. In a move to spider the pages we often fall prey to Keyword Flooding and it hampers the overall objective a big time.
Use it in style
Well defined style sheets always helps the cause of optimising the site for better SERP. However if they are misused then they are treated by Crawler as a non trusted resource. Things like making the H1 tag the same as the normal text style to try and make the crawler think that all the text is important, should be highly discouraged. Crawlers are not as dumb as the used to be. They figured out that nobody has a header that lasts 5 paragraphs. The proper use of the H1 tag is your main page header. Sites have negative impact when pages carry loads of hidden content, refrain from using any such technique. The crawler should always authorise to read the Style-sheet. If not, the crawler mark the site in their non trusted bucket.
Fresh air to breath
We all need fresh air to breath and we always love website pumped with new content. The crawler are also not left behind. They hate stale content and always give preference to sites loaded with new content. Means a site sitting at 6 position on SERP can drop to 12 in no time in case they are not fed with fresh content. I can bet many SEO guru overlook this important point.
Page Rank
If you have downloaded Google's toolbar, you will see a bar at the top of each page which gives you a rating from 1 to 10 of how Google ranks your site. This means absolutely nothing when it comes to search engine optimizing. Some search engine companies think that getting a high page rank means you are going to be listed higher in the search. This is not the case. In fact, it couldn't be further from the truth. What this little bar indicates is simply how important Google sees your site and it makes that judgment on the quality of sites that link to you. The single most important thing about your site is not page rank, it is not how many incoming links you have and it is not how long your site has been up. It is your content, plain and simple. If your content matches the search criteria, then you will be listed. The more relevant content you have, the higher your site will be listed. There are a lot of sites listed in the number one spot that don't have any page rank.
Linking all the way
Don't believe a word you hear about incoming links, the quality of the link or anything to do with link exchange because the truth is; it doesn't really matter how many links you have to your site and what sites link to you. What does matter is the way the sites link to you and how often new links show up to your site. If you wake up tomorrow and, overnight, 1 million other sites decided to link to you, that would not affect your position in any way (what it may do is hurt your listing because it will look like spam). Here is how links work for you:
A plastic surgeon linking to a plastic surgery site, give a boost because the plastic surgeon links to a site of some relevance.
Acquiring new links slowly over the course of time definitely boosts because it looks like the site is gaining popularity.
If internal pages of a site, as well as the home page of that site gains more linkages, that will boost because it looks like the site have lots of pages of relevant information.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
BlackBerry® Widget SDK 1.0 Beta 2
The new BlackBerry® Widget SDK 1.0 Beta 2 consists of the BlackBerry Widget Packager 1.0 Beta 2, a BlackBerry smartphone simulator, the BlackBerry Email and Connectivity Simulator (this is an HTTP Proxy and is needed to develop widgets), documentation and code samples.
The BlackBerry Widget Packager 1.0 Beta 2 is a new tool that allows web developers to package up their web assets into BlackBerry Widgets (small, discrete, standalone web applications that use HTML, CSS and JavaScript®). A BlackBerry Widget looks, behaves and has the same security mechanisms as a native BlackBerry smartphone application. BlackBerry Widgets can be installed on a BlackBerry smartphone like any native application and extended to use device-specific information and data using the BlackBerry Widget APIs.
New Functionality for this Release
--> Combined both the BlackBerry smartphone simulator and BlackBerry Email and
Connectivity Simulator into the same product bundle as the BlackBerry Widget Packager
--> Added the ability to choose which transport (e.g. Wi-Fi®, BlackBerry® Enterprise Server,
etc.), the order and timeout value
--> Ability to white list a wildcard to allow all outside domain content into your widget (Note:
wildcard doesn’t allow for access to BlackBerry Widget APIs)
--> Top-level domains for white listing are no longer allowed
--> Bug fixing
Core Functionality
--> BlackBerry Widgets leverage the rendering capability of the 5.0 BlackBerry® Browser
--> Leverage Gears APIs for storage, location, multi-threading and more
--> Ability to specify Custom Header Addition to all communications for seamless blend
between server and client content
Security
--> Ability to digitally sign the BlackBerry Widget using the COD signing mechanism
--> Definition of a domain white list with which the BlackBerry Widget is allowed to
communicate
--> BlackBerry Widgets will be packaged the same way a native BlackBerry smartphone
application is packaged and distributed via a website, the desktop manager or BlackBerry
App World™, using the same security model and maintained just like native BlackBerry
smartphone applications
-->All BlackBerry Widgets must be signed to ensure any BlackBerry Widget APIs will follow
User Access Control policies
The BlackBerry Widget Packager 1.0 Beta 2 is a new tool that allows web developers to package up their web assets into BlackBerry Widgets (small, discrete, standalone web applications that use HTML, CSS and JavaScript®). A BlackBerry Widget looks, behaves and has the same security mechanisms as a native BlackBerry smartphone application. BlackBerry Widgets can be installed on a BlackBerry smartphone like any native application and extended to use device-specific information and data using the BlackBerry Widget APIs.
New Functionality for this Release
--> Combined both the BlackBerry smartphone simulator and BlackBerry Email and
Connectivity Simulator into the same product bundle as the BlackBerry Widget Packager
--> Added the ability to choose which transport (e.g. Wi-Fi®, BlackBerry® Enterprise Server,
etc.), the order and timeout value
--> Ability to white list a wildcard to allow all outside domain content into your widget (Note:
wildcard doesn’t allow for access to BlackBerry Widget APIs)
--> Top-level domains for white listing are no longer allowed
--> Bug fixing
Core Functionality
--> BlackBerry Widgets leverage the rendering capability of the 5.0 BlackBerry® Browser
--> Leverage Gears APIs for storage, location, multi-threading and more
--> Ability to specify Custom Header Addition to all communications for seamless blend
between server and client content
Security
--> Ability to digitally sign the BlackBerry Widget using the COD signing mechanism
--> Definition of a domain white list with which the BlackBerry Widget is allowed to
communicate
--> BlackBerry Widgets will be packaged the same way a native BlackBerry smartphone
application is packaged and distributed via a website, the desktop manager or BlackBerry
App World™, using the same security model and maintained just like native BlackBerry
smartphone applications
-->All BlackBerry Widgets must be signed to ensure any BlackBerry Widget APIs will follow
User Access Control policies
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