TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to a new continent: Announcing Australia!
TechCrunch is headed to Australia to find the most disruptive early-stage startups poised to compete on a global stage. How? We are bringing TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield to Australia this year in partnership with ELEVACAO.
Many are familiar with the many adventurous innovations — zorbing, bungee jumping and jet boating to name a few — that have come out of the Australian-New Zealand ecosystem. But, so did Wi-Fi, black box flight recorders, cochlear implants, ultrasound technology and even atom splitting.
In recent years the island nations have witnessed Atlassian's 1.1 billion IPO, a $250 million equity growth round for Australia's Campaign Monitor and a $150 million round for New Zealand's Xero. These high-growth companies are inspiring a healthy crop of early-stage startups in the region.
The Startup Battlefield has been bringing world-class founders into the spotlight since 2007, and in the past decade almost 700 contestants have gone on to raise nearly $7 billion in funding and rack up nearly 100 exits. Our community of Battlefield Alumni include companies like Mint, Dropbox, Yammer, TripIt, Getaround and Cloudflare. If TechCrunch invested in these companies, we'd perform like a top-10 VC. Instead, we'll stick to telling the founder's stories, uncovering the next wave of disruptive innovations and letting our readers deploy the capital.
Competing in the Battlefield doesn't guarantee success; you earn that with your ideas and your execution. But it does put an unprecedented amount of attention on your company, help you to prepare for pitching investors and sharpen the way you communicate your vision.
TechCrunch Battlefield Australia will bring promising founders from the region's rapidly accelerating startup ecosystem into the Battlefield portfolio. We're thrilled to see what amazing companies we will uncover, and for the world to see this ecosystem's rising founders and innovations launch globally with us on November 16th, 2017 in Sydney. See you there?
Battlefield is simple. Early-stage (typically pre-A round) startups with a functional prototype whose founders are residents of Australia or New Zealand are eligible. Sound like you or someone you know? Apply here. The deadline is September 4th, 2017. We will notify the 15 founders selected to compete in Startup Battlefield Australia on September 30th, 2017. TechCrunch does not take any fees or equity. But it's also tough. We usually accept less than 3 percent of the applicant pool.
If you make the cut, you'll receive expert pitch coaching from Samantha Stein, our Battlefield Editor, and Marisa Warren, CEO & founder of ELEVACAO. When the Battlefield arrives, you'll be ready to pitch your company to seasoned investors and founders in five minutes, and answer any questions they throw your way. If you make it to the finals, you'll pitch again in the top-five for your chance to be the first winner ever of TechCrunch Battlefield Australia, the recipient of a $25,000 equity-free cash prize and an all-expense paid trip (for two) to exhibit at TechCrunch's flagship global competition, Disrupt Battlefield SF 2018 and compete in the Startup Battlefield, assuming the company still qualifies for that competition.
The entire event will be live-streamed (and later available on demand), and carried on TechCrunch.com, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
To bring Battlefield to Australia, TechCrunch is partnering with the ELEVACAO Foundation, whose mission to empower women tech entrepreneurs globally aligns with TechCrunch's Include program to encourage more diversity in tech. We are also joining forces with Founders for Founders, a group dedicated to supporting tech entrepreneurs across Australia, and Hoist, which is promoting innovation through collaboration between entrepreneurs and corporates.
Editorial note: This post has been updated to better explain the winner's prize package and qualification requirement for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2018.


How to boost your Android Device Ram Optimize, You can both your Android operating system as you find in a new device. You cannot both your android mobile phone better than new condition.
The Android mobile phone can be boost by the tutorial we are not doing any special work we are just cleaning our RMNH a memory from the Application Manager in the setting.
You can also clean memory from your android mobile phone because whenever we serve Internet application.
WhatsApp hike we collect so much garbage into our phone in the field of in the form of cat and messages and videos by cleaning Ram we can both our android mobile phone.
I am suggesting you that always clean your chat and to hand it take too much memory into your android mobile phone.
The master is kind of bad application in android mobile phones. This kind of application use the Internet without the use of permission and for us to watch their ads.
That's This application slowdown the android mobile phone. I am suggesting you please uninstall this kind of applications which are using your assets without your permission.
Battery booster pack is also kind of application which is using your Internet without your permission and we think that our android phone using less battery.but it is not true this kind of application using the Internet and our personal data.
In my case when I have removed clean Master from my Samsung Galaxy S9 then I have realized my smartphone is working faster than previous that's why I am suggesting all my readers that do not use these applications.


Greetings on a crisp late autumn night. I have been breathing in the Northwest clean air, and witnessing the beauty of the Nooksack River as spawning ground of the wondrous, wild salmon, blessed to visit them daily at the moment. I am especially touched by "home," as I prepare to leave for India in just a couple of weeks! I am sending this email to invite you to the final class of the autumn Deepening Yoga series on saturday, December 8th at 8Petals, from 3pm to 5:30 pm; we will share our reflections in community circle on Sutra 1-33, that reminds us that tranquility and an inner state of yoga emerges through compassionate conduct in our relationships. We will also practice a bit of restorative yoga, pranayama and meditation together, sharing inner nourishment in silence and in community. The tuition is $20 to $30 sliding fee scale, and I am always open to trade if financial assistance is needed. Please let me know if you will be joining the circle on the 8th!
I include here the sutra 1-33 itself, and a blog entry I wrote a while back reflecting on one element of the sutra.
I'm sorry I will have to miss this third class. I will be cooking at the Rohatsu sesshin all that weekend (literally cooking food).
Thank you for your thoughts, relevant to Sutra 1-33, especially questions you ask about "condemnation"….does it have its place…..does it always have to "create separation"?
I wonder if judging, even robust judging to the point of condemnation, can have a place on a continuum, in deep reflection, along a path toward skillful decision-making? Can the judgment help us to decide which path to choose, this way or that way, in a world with so many choices.
Can one neutralize "condemnation", as defined by the dictionary (my Randam House Websters…"to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on…") and make it, for a while, a partner, consider its message and consider our own "reaction" within our judgment and what lession it brings, then let the judgment go as we continue down the path. What do our judgments have to teach us, especially when we condemn this or that, how can we acknowledge them without being hooked by them, and how can we use this insight to find within ourselves the person we want to be? I look forward to hearing more from others on the 8th.


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S. Martini: Postimperiales Asien
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Postimperiales Asien. Die Zukunft Indiens und Chinas in der anglophonen Weltöffentlichkeit 1919-1939
Silke, Martini
Berlin 2017: de Gruyter
Rezensiert für 'Connections' und H-Soz-Kult von:
Andreas Weiß, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Silke Martini's dissertation deals with anglophone debates on the future of China and India in the interwar period. In ten chapters, organised in four bigger units (two of them with the main topics on ideas on modernity and concepts of world order), she develops an international discussion by American, British, Chinese, and Indian authors. Each of the main blocs is subdivided into three different sections with topics ranging from nation building, economy and culture to world politics, ideas of cultural unity, and bigger geopolitical debates. Each of these parts is structured into sections on China and India, followed by short summaries and a longer conclusion at the end of each chapter. The alternation in the narratives makes the book quite readable. It ends with a lengthy conclusion, which introduces – in some way unfortunately – new theoretical approaches to the topic. The importance of her topic lies for Martini not only in its parallels to todays debates on the economic promises and the massive population of these two countries, it is also her point that both regions re-surfaced in some way during the interwar period with the new discipline of international relations, which was often connected with debates exactly on those areas.
As Martini sees these debates as interconnected ones she does not separate "Eastern" from "Western" contributions. She does not clarify the selection of her sources in-depth, except that they are "international(ist)" authors—a point that comes up in the resume. While this demonstrates the global reach and interwovenness of some arguments, it makes it a little difficult to find the differences between Asian and European, conservative and liberal standpoints.[1] While this creates a common discursive frame, it sometimes makes it hard to clearly contextualise the arguments. Here and there the individual background of the statements becomes a little bit blurred. This fact is connected to another problem: while Martini found rich material, her way of juxtaposing it leads to rather vague statements in the main parts, followed by strong judgements in the resumes, which are themselves not always supported by the short quotes made above (a point that changes over the course of the book). In the later chapters there are stronger conclusions.
The structure of the book puts authors from very different intellectual strands together. For example on page 297 cosmopolitans like H. G. Wells share space with "völkisch" authors like the anthroposoph Rudolf Steiner. Note only the quote on this page could have been contextualised in the old debate on the efeminisation of the Asians [2], also complex interrelations in groups like the theosophs (p. 312) could have been elaborated in a broader scale, as many of the Western founders of this group turned to Eastern spiritualism, Buddhism in particular, because they were critical of the so-called Western decadence. Several works have elaborated on this awkward relationship between anti-modernisation, racism and exoticism.[3]
Furthermore, racism is strangely absent from this study, both Western (not so much) as well as Asian (much more). It would also have been interesting to hear some critical voices, both contemporary critics of the authors mentioned as well as of their overall political and ideological stances. Sometimes there are references to this as in the Chinese adversaries of Tagore (pp. 303-304), but here Silke Martini is lenient with these authors and does not stress enough their nationalistic viewpoints. Both Chinese and Indian traditionalists had exclusionary viewpoints of their own civilisations, which made them hard to integrate in more collaborative ideas of a new world order or a "spiritual restoration". In the end she separates between an Anglo-Indian and a Sino-American sphere, a result in itself that is not so surprising, but not always supported by her own findings which demonstrate a more global public sphere. Here, she demonstrates how strong these four public spheres were interconnected, as Indians not only compared themselves with China, but also looked for the United States as an example for modernisation.[4] Martini refers often to topics which have a longer tradition. The debates on how modern the "East" could be and on the decline of the "West" definitely had many forerunners in the late nineteenth century.
Still, the book often offers enriching new perspectives and brings together a diverse strand of literature. Refreshing, even if quite late in the book, are the chapters were Martini discusses the more problematic revivalists, whose ideologies turned into more violent nationalism (for example the chapter 7.2.4 on "Greater India"). The books message is often fragmented: While in the chapter above Tagore is a cosmopolitan, even of the "Asian" strand, here, the problematic aspects of his thinking, especially the question of race (Aryanism) is very shortly mentioned (see footnotes 143, 146). Some passages on Chinese political possibilities (for example p. 343) read as if the current Chinese government took them as a handbook – an impression that historians today get quite often with the resurrection of nineteenth century nationalism.
[1] This is connected to the problem that Martini only uses publications in Western languages, mainly English. While she makes this clear in the introduction and also discusses its implications, it is still hard to see the Chinese standpoints, as it seems quite plausible that Chinese intellectuals argued in a different way to an international audience than to a Chinese speaking. The Indian case is different, as Martini herself states (p. 24).
[2] Important on this issue: Mrinalini Sinha, Colonial masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the 'Effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth century, Manchester 1995.
[3] For Germany for example: Helmut Zander, Anthroposophie in Deutschland: Theosophische Weltanschauung und gesellschaftliche Praxis 1884 – 1945, 2 volumes, Göttingen 2007.
[4] Like the Indian journalist Saint Nihal Singh who reported for the Modern Review on Afro-American self-strengthening movements as an example for Indian modernisation.
Andreas Weiß: Rezension zu: Silke, Martini: Postimperiales Asien. Die Zukunft Indiens und Chinas in der anglophonen Weltöffentlichkeit 1919-1939. Berlin 2017 , in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 08.02.2019, <www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-29028>.
Copyright (c) 2019 by Clio-online, 'Connections', and the author, all rights reserved. This work may be copied and redistributed for non-commercial, educational purposes, if permission is granted by the author and usage right holders. For permission please contact connections@uni-leipzig.de or hsk.redaktion@geschichte.hu-berlin.de.
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Students brought traditional yummy foods from their backgrounds, highlighting their different cultures to share with their friends. Everyone sat down and enjoyed the feast together celebrating everyone's differences. It was a wonderful day!


Monitoring how much power we use is getting quite popular, most of us have seen the Kill a Watt device before and there are also whole house versions of the Kill a Watt. If I ever get around to it I would like to build a whole house monitoring system that can show me some simple stats of power use, something like how much power was used today and in the last hour. I would also like to have a way to enter the cost of electricity so it can chime every time I have used a dollar of power.
Bill Porter has designed and built a DIY Power Consumption Monitoring System which uses an ATtiny 85 microcontroller to keep track of power usage in his house. He is using two current clamps that feed into his circuit. He has made it wireless so you could use this data anywhere in the house. He has even made a cool LED sign that is being used as a display output from the system. If you would like to build one of your own Bill has provided everything you should need on his site.
Interesting effort, personally I'd rather not constantly know my use though, but it's a whole package he set up and using a relatively original and intelligent approach, you have to respect that.
And it's nice he shares too.
I myself have a plug-in powermeter but I only use it to check the use and then know what each device is really pulling and how smart it is to use it, and the rest of time I don't have it in use.
This makes me want to learn ho to play the drums.


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Rating Arsenal's Performances in the Month of January 2014
Arsenal began the New Year with a nervy victory over Cardiff City and followed it up with a win over their fierce rivals, Tottenham, in the North London Derby. An away trip to Aston Villa followed and two quickfire goals were enough to hand the Gunners all three points and when Fulham came to the Emirates, it was the Santi Cazorla show.
Arsenal's reward for defeating Tottenham was a tasty FA Cup clash against minnows, Coventry City, and Lukas Podolski starred as the Gunners ran riot past their opponents. Arsenal's winning run in January was halted with a draw against Southampton at St. Mary's.
At the end of each month, Gooner Daily rates the performances of the Gunners using a series of categories. There will be three nominations for each category and the blog's readers will place their votes on each category. These votes will be used in the season review post that comes up at the end of the season.
SAVE OF THE MONTH
Wojciech Szczesny featured in all the Gunners' Premier League outings while Lukasz Fabianski was favored for the Cup games. In January, both keepers managed two clean sheets each, which must have done wonders to their confidence.
The nominated saves of the month are Fabianski's stunning save from Baker in the FA Cup clash with Coventry, Szczesny quick reaction save from Gallagher in the game against Southampton and Fabianski's close range save from Christian Eriksen in the North London Derby.
Arsenal scored 14 goals from six games played in January and it's always difficult to take your pick from the pack. However, Gooner Daily is going to settle for Tomas Rosicky's solo effort against Tottenham, Olivier Giroud's improvised flick against Southampton and Theo Walcott's sexy chip against Cardiff.
ASSIST OF THE MONTH
This award goes to the player that created the best assist in the month of January. The nominees are Jack Wilshere's clever chipped ball to Giroud against Aston Villa, Serge Gnabry's perfect-weighted pass to Cazorla against Tottenham and Mesut Ozil's defense-splitting pass to Podolski against Coventry.
MATCH OF THE MONTH
With the Gunners winning five games from a possible six, three of these games would have to be selected for the Match of the Month award. The nominees are Arsenal's resounding win over Coventry, Arsenal's North London Derby victory over Tottenham and Arsenal's tough away win over Fulham.
WORST MATCH OF THE MONTH
This award would unanimously go to the game against Southampton as the Gunners failed to hold unto a lead and would have suffered a worse outcome as the game progressed.
MOST IMPROVED PLAYER OF THE MONTH
This goes to the player that excelled admirably with vastly improved performances in the course of the month. Despite the fact that many players put up improved performances in the month of January, Gooner Daily agrees that Per Mertesacker, Serge Gnabry and Santi Cazorla stepped up the plate in the month of January.
MOST DISAPPOINTING PLAYER OF THE MONTH
Some Gunners somewhat under-performed in the course of the month and it hurts to mention Nacho Monreal as he failed to step up the plate in the game against Southampton. Mathieu Flamini also deserves to be on this list for letting his team down by earning himself a silly red card despite the fact that he was having a bad game already.
Arsenal was in a rich vein of form in January but there were still some players that produced immense glimpses of their quality in the course of the month that stood out from the rest. Without further ado, here are the top three players in month of January; Santi Cazorla, Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny.
Feel free to vote in the various categories as you please.
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Snuza Pico: Sensing Children in Distress with ST's LIS3DH and BlueNRG-MS
Snuza Pico®, a smart wearable movement monitor for infants, reminds us that technology is most special when it completely fades in the background until you suddenly realize it was at the center of a life-changing experience. The device is unique because it comes from Snuza®, the first company in the world to commercialize a portable baby movement monitor and a baby breathing monitor. Since 2002, Snuza has been developing solutions for a very specific purpose: to offer parents and guardians the peace and tranquility that comes from knowing their child is under the caring hand of a small device that monitors their baby's movements or breathing, and it is a great honor for ST to be at the center of this technology.
Clipped onto a diaper, Snuza Pico measures the belly's movements and vibrates if the abdomen hasn't moved for 15 seconds. If the stimuli helped the baby resume breathing, a little red dot on the device will alert parents of the incident. However, if the belly remains immobile after five seconds, an alarm will ring to ensure people nearby can quickly attend to the child. Furthermore, Snuza Pico is the first smart Snuza device, meaning that it connects to a smartphone using Bluetooth, and a mobile app shows the infant's position, or it can send an alert if the subject has fallen.
Snuza Pico: At the Crossroads of Power Consumption and Ultimate Precision
The LIS3DH from ST (click to enlarge)
The movements are measured by ST's LIS3DH, a three-axis accelerometer, which was chosen because its ultra-low-power mode has a current consumption of only 2 µA at 1 Hz, and its typical supply voltage is only 2.5 V. As a result, the Pico is tiny and comfortable, while its small lithium polymer battery offers up to 40 hours of continuous use on a single charge.
As Tielman Terblanche, Senior Electronic Engineer at Snuza, explains:
"There's a lot of competition and we were aiming for a very low power consumption, and a small footprint. The LIS3DH met our expectations with both requirements, and the fact that we were already familiar with it made it an easy choice."
The accelerometer used by the Snuza Pico also has to be very precise to be effective, because the movements measured are naturally very small, and the system must detect motions that are sometimes less than one millimeter. Hence, the LIS3DH was a great choice because it is extremely sensitive.
Snuza Pico: At the Crossroads of Power Consumption and Signal Strength
A BlueNRG module from ST (click to enlarge)
The Pico's power constraints also explain why it uses ST's BlueNRG-MS, a very low-power Bluetooth 4.1 Low Energy module with a current consumption of 1.7 µA. Its transceiver only requires a TX current of 8.2 mA, its Cortex-M0 microcontroller (MCU) is highly efficient, and the maximum input current of only 15 mA at +8 dBm means it works very well with coin cell batteries, for instance.
When Snuza's teams were designing the Pico, the BlueNRG-MS was the first module to have such a high output power (+8 dBm) despite its low power consumption. This was particularly important because they needed to get the maximum signal strength possible. Bluetooth has a naturally short range, and reducing it would seriously impact the product's effectiveness. Hence, given the size and power constraints of the device, the teams had to select the most efficient Bluetooth controller possible.
An Integrated Balun Can Make All the Difference
The Pico by Snuza (click to enlarge)
Snuza was also looking for a separate network processor because, at the time of design, there was no microcontroller that provided the number of IO and specific types of peripherals needed. Additionally, reusing existing device drivers and software frameworks for a known MCU was the simplest and quickest path to commercialization. Developers didn't have to familiarize themselves with a new SDK. They could just focus on the network's specifications and its utilization by their application. This solution does require a little bit more of real estate on the board, but as Mr. Terblanche points out:
"The amount of extra real estate needed was not that much since the compatible balun [BALF-NRG–01D3] that came with the BlueNRG-MS required a lot less space than a component based RF matching circuit to the antenna. Additionally, we have to outsource a lot of that work, since we don't have any RF engineers on the team. Using the integrated balun allowed us to design the entire layout in-house and simply use an external company to tune it, which greatly saved time and money."
Furthermore, what made the process even more efficient was that it was intuitive. Snuza first used Nucleo boards and BlueNRG development platforms to start prototyping. Then, as engineers put everything together, they simply used the balun on top of the Bluetooth module they had already mastered, to optimize their design and processes.
Breathing Innovation
Snuza has been designing baby movement and breathing monitors for more than a decade, and even though Snuza Pico is a wonderful chapter in the company's history, it's certainly not the last. Engineers are already hard at work on the next generation of devices, and they are looking at ways to connect to more smartphones. One solution would be a base station with a link to the Internet, which could use the power of the cloud to enable remote monitoring, among many other things. Snuza will also be using much more precise accelerometers to receive the appropriate certifications for a breathing monitor.
The next devices will be even more feature-rich and will cater to a much wider user group. At this time, Snuza is exploring new product ideas, some of which are service-based, and include sleep analytics, and predictive diagnostics for early detection of various developmental and health related issues.
To know more about Pico, we invite you to visit Snuza's website.
You can also check out ST's website to know more about its accelerometers and Bluetooth modules.
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For an event professional, building a base of fans that trust you to provide a great experience at every event is crucial to being successful. One easy way to upset your regular attendees and lose their confidence is to violate their privacy. With the advent of internet technology that helps plan events and make their execution more efficient, many privacy concerns have arisen.
However, improvements in event registration software are bringing analytics to the event professional and it is important to understand how your registrants' privacy is impacted by the implementation of web analytics on your registration form. First, it is very important to note that the point of web analytics is to study the behavior of web users in aggregate. This means that you won't necessarily be singling out registrants to gather information. Sometimes the intent of analytics isn't enough to deter critics, and so you should also be aware of what information is collected by your system.
Blogging is a great way to log your ideas, opinions and experiences regarding any subject that you strongly feel for. When blogging began it was just a means of expressing oneself but over time the purpose of blogging has undergone a phenomenal change.
Today blogging has come to be a great marketing tool and the next step to creating a blog is to begin efforts for diverting traffic to your blog. Blogs can actually get a lot of traffic and be a marketing platform for your products and services. Blogging can also become a source of income for you and just writing a blog on any issue or a product review can be a means of income for you.
There are several blog affiliate marketing programs that can divert a lot of traffic to your blog and make it real hot property in no time. Ways of getting traffic to your blog would be to have firstly, very informative and interesting content in your blog.
Content plays a very important role in getting people to check out your blog. Regular updating of the blog content is another important factor as it is the only way you can retain the interest of the people who have started visiting your blog. A good blog affiliate marketing technique would be to link your blog to similar other blog sites. Monetizing your blog or how to generate income from your blog can become very simple if you do keep the following things in mind: • The content provided on the blog should be keyword based. This would help bring traffic to your blog through the search engines. • The advertisements provided on the blog should be such that it is related to the blog and also links provided should be subject related. This would provide additional information related to the topic for all those who visit your blog. • The quality of the content should be very high. The content should be such that provides appropriate solutions. • Provide content that is of interest to a major share of people. If you keep the above points in mind then monetizing your blog will no longer be a far-fetched dream.
There are thousands of blogs that are started everyday and efforts are being made to divert traffic to each one of them . Inspite of all these efforts and millions of words of content being generated , there are very few successful blogs that manage to interest the public at large. It is this secret that one has to master.
Efforts are put in by all who want to achieve success but success comes to those who not only work but "work smart". So a little understanding of the market trends and a little creativity is all you need to monetizing your blog and making it a huge success. If your blog is one that receives a lot of traffic then you are sitting on top of a goldmine and this is just the beginning of good times to come.
How can we look for the right business in this industry where there exists a world of different opportunities? It is possible, but you need a lot of reading and research to develop a sound and reliable online business strategy. Some give up before they actually started. Why? Because the amount of effort required is sometimes too heavy to carry.
So, what is one easy way to make money online without having to think how to make it work? It's the great idea of using an affiliate program. Consider if you have been in business online for a while, or if you're just getting started, one critical component to build sales is to generate traffic for your site.
Affiliate programs group together merchants and non-merchants alike, with the common goal to generate traffic. How does it work? Well, as a merchant, you join an affiliate program, and when others join and advertise your site in some way on their site, you get leads from them and you pay them for it. The beauty about affiliate program is that they are pay-for-performance, that means, you don't pay unless a lead is materialized and a sale is generated from that affiliate. Even if you are in a non-merchant business, you can also share the advantages to joining an affiliate program.
To begin, provide your visitors with links to the merchant. When more people visit your site, and click on the links to the merchant, you get paid for the number of leads or sales generated by your efforts. To increase this traffic, you can get others to advertise your site. Of course, you will have to pay for the leads generated, but think of the benefits of the added traffic to your site, they usually outweigh the costs. Last but not least, to all online businesses, affiliate programs are relatively easy to manage, and they are economical solutions to making money. They are less costly, and you need lesser work to join an affiliate program, compared to managing your own list of affiliates. Besides, affiliate programs usually have huge member size, so you stand to tap a far wider range of the market. It is not easy to achieve all this on your own. So, why wait? Use an affiliate program now.
Having backlinks is vital to your blog, as it helps increase its popularity. There are many means available to check your incoming links. One method of checking for incoming links is to use link popularity services such as http://LinkPopularity.com and http://Marketleap.com.
Keep in mind that unlike Yahoo and MSN, Google does not always display all your backlinks. Technorati -Another method for finding what blogs are linking to you is to check Technorati. To check your links on Technorati use the following method http://www.technorati.com/search/ http://yourblogtitle.com. Technorati states that they attempt to index full content from blogs. If they cannot find a full content, they index the HTML on the front page. Any content that can't be found in either of these places does not get indexed currently. So if a blog's RSS feed is not set to "full", then it is possible that not all backlinks will show in Technorati.
Google Blogsearch- http://blogsearch.google.com is another place to check for new incoming links to your blog. Google blog search allows you to search via a specific timeframe, such as blogs linking in within the last hour, 12 hours, one week or months. Google Blogsearch allows you to subscribe to the results via RSS feed so you'll be updated whenever a new site links to your blog. Ask.com Blog Search – http://Ask.com unique algorithm combines http://Ask.com search and Bloglines subscription data. Searches can be conducted by "posts", "feeds" or "news". Advanced search features are available. http://www.ask.com/?tool=bls Icerocket Blog Search- http://icerocket.com is a blog search engine like Google Blog Search. Icerocket Blog Search lets you track links from other blogs to your posts.
Blogs began as places where anyone could post his or her thoughts about anything, in the hope of finding an audience. But mostly, blogs were piles of words piled on top of more piles of words. But that has changed in a big way, and the photographs which used to add visual interest to blogs have been supplanted by blogging video. If you want to perk up your blog so that your visitors will spend more time with you and make a point of coming back, habits you should be cultivating if you want to turn your blog into a money maker, you need to start dressing it up with blogging video.
But that doesn't mean you have to go out and drop a thousand bucks on a video camera. Tip One: YouTube as Your Blogging Video Source The Internet is awash in video sites like YouTube, where the world has congregated to share its discoveries, talents, knowledge, and daily experiences on video. Blogging video can be used to illustrate whatever point you are trying to make with your blog.
If you are trying to tell people how to become bloggers, there's no better way to do it than to set up a series of blogging videos that walk them through the process. If you're a WordPress blogger, and you really should be, you're in luck because WordPress has a plugin designed to enable you to embed your favorite YouTube videos directly in your blogs. The WordPress Viper's Video Quicktags will let you embed not only YouTube videos by those from Metacafe, MySpace, IFILM, and Vimeo. What's involved? Clicking a button and pasting the url of the video into your prompt box. And just to make things even easier, the plugin lets you configure the downloaded videos so you get the most effective presentation on your blog page. You don't need to worry about embedding blogging videos against their owner's wishes, because anyone uploading videos to YouTube can disable the embedding feature if they want. Tip Two: How to Find The Best Blogging Videos for Your Blog All you need to do is look over the YouTube categories, and find the one which seems most likely to have blogging videos related to the focus of your blog.
Then do a specific search in that category, or just flip through pages of that category until you find video which sounds like it might be a good fit. You can even tell how many people have watched each video, so you'll recognize which ones have wide-based appeal. There's really no mystery to enriching your blogs with video content, and in the Xtreme competition of blogging for bucks, you need to do whatever you can to get an edge on other bloggers who are trying to capture the same audience as you. Blogging video is a great way to keep your audience coming back for more, and besides, it will save you the time you normally spend in having to paint word pictures!
There has never been a better time to learn Forex currency trading online. Although there are many Forex training materials available online there are very few that will actually produce measurable results for most people. In the Forex trading industry there are many different approaches and strategies being taught and used.
A few people are having extraordinary results with consistent profit and today's technology enables any Forex trading entrepreneur to have access to the knowledge that those traders are willing to share. A good place to start learning for free is in a forum. However, it has been my experience that some of the most popular Forex trading forums are inhabited by some of the more negative minded people in the industry. Newcomers who even make a slightly positive comment about Forex trading will sometimes be attacked by the obviously unhappy people who resent the idea that it is possible for others to easily succeed.
Most forums will actually damage your ability to succeed rather than help. That is why our Forex trading forum was formed with the intention of helping and encouraging only. Negative comments are simply deleted and users who consistently display negative attitude are permanently banned. A Forex video training course is one of the most effective learning tools for enabling students to master the art of trading. As opposed to live seminars which are also more expensive, Forex training videos can be viewed at any convenient time and replayed again and again.
There may be sections that warrant repeated viewing while other sections can be viewed briefly or skipped. The video format for learning has proven to be extremely effective for learning trading principles quickly. Live web conferences are another amazing tool for aiding the process of learning Forex trading. In a live web conference or webinar participants can interact in real time hearing the presenter speak and seeing her screen while explaining or demonstrating Forex trading entry signals.
The presenter can also pass the screen sharing feature to any participant so that he can ask questions about what he is seeing on his charts. This medium has accelerated the learning process tremendously for many Forex trading students. It is this kind of technology that makes learning Forex currency trading online a very enjoyable and effective process.
Keywords alone won't create high search engine rankings for your eCommerce web site. Combining keywords, repeated several times on your page, with copy that communicates well and provides good reading for the viewer will boost your rankings for your chosen keyword(s).
Your tags and the body of your page become critical elements for eCommerce success. Your Title Tag should be the keyword or phrase you are targeting. Search engines 'find' title tags and display them. Your title tag needs to be at the beginning of your copy, and repeated numerous times throughout your page. Remember that people read search engine results and humans aren't search engines. If what we are reading doesn't capture our interest and attention, we click the mouse and go on to something else.
Repeated keywords or phrases and compelling copy are a winning combination. Creating Meta Tags is very much like Title Tags, except they will be longer and more descriptive. This tag is a page description and it's also available for viewers to read in search engine results. The keyword or phrase needs to be repeated and a compelling description about your product or service needs to catch the eye of the reader. You don't want him/her to lose interest and move on to someone else's web site.
Once your site visitors find you (because you have such great keywords and phrases!) the composition of your page becomes paramount. You need to think about including pictures, slideshows and videos. They must be compelling enough for your visitors to want to hang around and not only see what you have to offer, but consider making a purchase. Your Alt tag for your graphics needs to include your primary keyword or phrase again. Staying with the assumption that you want the visitor to make a purchase, you create compelling copy that describes your product or service and suggests how it may be helpful and important to your viewer.
Be sure to use your keywords and phrases again in the first line of your copy and throughout your page. Search engines look for words and phrases that are repeated on a page. We cannot over-emphasize the importance of compelling copy. Text that is boring simply means your visitor will move on to another site. Your graphics (pictures, slideshow, video) will capture your visitor's interest, but your copy will make the difference between a purchase and a lost opportunity.
Your visitor needs to be able to click on just one link to purchase your product or service. And that link must be available to the viewer on the page that is being viewed. The key is to make a purchase as simple as possible for your cyberspace customers. Using the tags we've talked about, keywords and phrases will get them to your page via their favorite search engine. Your eye-catching graphics will pique their interest. And your compelling copy and simplicity of purchase will increase your average visitor value. Truly a successful cause and effect combination!
Laser engraving business is booming and rapidly growing because of the amazing appeal of various products that it can produce. The world of souvenirs, keepsakes and promotional or corporate novelty items has never been this exciting now that laser engraving technology has penetrated the market.
Laser engraving technology seems to a very complicated process; and the products and designs it can create seems very hard to do; but with the use of modern laser engraving machine, remarkable gift items with intricate designs can be done in a few minutes. Is it unbelievable or too good to be true? No. The right term is amazing! And who would not be captivated by the elegant and lasting beauty of laser engraved products such as bracelets, pendants, paper weights and key chains that look elegant and classic?
Laser engraving business is booming nowadays because both small and huge corporations have realized the value of elegantly engraved paperweights or key chains with their logo or brand name on it over the old-fashioned and cheap looking printed key chains or sticker-labeled paperweights. The market of laser engraved items are not only the companies who want to give corporate novelty items for company promotion or give aways because individuals celebrating special occasions such as wedding, birthdays and baptism are likewise accustomed to give souvenirs and keepsakes for their guests. And how about those people who likes personalizing their gifts for their special someone? All of these make laser engraving business booming and profitable!
Moreover, this business does not need a huge capitalization or a big location; anybody with creative mind and entrepreneurial spirit can start this business anywhere by just purchasing a complete laser engraving machine. And with the pretty good number of laser engraving machine manufacturers, one can definitely purchase a decent quality laser engraving machine at a reasonable price.
One machine allows you to engrave and personalize wide range of products regardless whether they are made in stone, metal, glass, plastic or wood. In short, the low-cost business start-up, affordable materials and unlimited products designs possible that one can do with laser engraving business; plus the corporate and individual market niche it can serve are the major reasons why this kind of business is rapidly growing nowadays.
Almost everyone has heard the phrase black hat tricks when it concerns Search Engine Optimization, but how can you tell if the firm you choose is using black hate methods or what hat. Are they the good guys or the bad guys.
Why is that even important? Simply put playing with the bad guys can get your site delisted completely. But how to tell if a firm is what or black hat? Well first a reputable SEO firm will tell you what they plan to do and how they will accomplish the goals for your site. They will not guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google or any of the search engines. You should not need to employ a link to your SEO company.
Avoid SEOs that talk about the power of "free-for-all" links, link popularity schemes, or submitting your site to thousands of search engines. Some things that are a dead on give away that your SEO guru is wearing a black hat? It's far from a comprehensive list, so if you have any doubts, you should trust your instincts.
By all means, feel free to walk away if the SEO: * owns shadow domains * puts links to their other clients on doorway pages * offers to sell keywords in the address bar * doesn't distinguish between actual search results and ads that appear in search results * guarantees ranking, but only on obscure, long keyword phrases you would get anyway * operates with multiple aliases or falsified WHOIS info * gets traffic from "fake" search engines, spyware, or scumware * has had domains removed from Google's index or is not itself listed in Google These are just a few things to look for when choosing an SEO company, but probably the most important one is comfort, if your gut feel says they are wearing the grey hat run do not walk away, your websites life expectancy can depend on it.
RSS Tips- Important Issues For Setting Up RSS Feeds Here are six tips for creating successful RSS or Rich Site Summary. It is also called Real Simple Syndication. RSS allows internet users to receive current updates from your site without having to log in.
Incorporating these tips into your RSS strategy will lead to increased profits now and in the future. 1. Profitable RSS feeds require extensive planning. You will need to plan not just for one feed, but for each feed that follows. Subscribers depend upon you to be consistent with quality information one a regular basis. 2. To consistently produce reliable RSS feeds, it is imperative that your technological assets are suitable for the task. 3. It is imperative that you have constant access to the appropriate technical support systems at all times. Your RSS system needs to be properly maintained in order to assure continuous feed functions. If the RSS feed system goes down, you risk loosing clients. 4. Continuous promotion of your RSS feeds is necessary to sustain success. Placing your feeds in every location possible is sure to increase subscribership and draw readers to your site. Maximizing your coverage is essential to increasing profitable RSS feeds. 5. When developing your RSS feed it is important to consult with the experts. When deciding whom to depend upon, it is necessary to consider their availability as well as their expertise. The most brilliant of experts is of little help to you if their availability is extremely limited; just as the most readily available expert is of little help if they lack the knowledge or ability to consistently meet your needs. 6. While putting your RSS feed into action, it is also necessary to have a plan to assess the success of the program.
Because the Internet is a fluid environment, constantly evolving and recreating itself, it is necessary to keep a close watch on your feed and make sure that you are keeping up with the changes.
While good SEO skills will get your page noticed by search engines by themselves there other tricks to help increase their effectiveness. Affiliate programs can be a good way to increase your website's own SEO attributes. There are different types of affiliate programs. An older one would be the old banner concept which predates pay-per-click. Google's Adwords is a modern incarnation of this where by people can profit from Google's pay-per-click business. Let's look at some of these.
Not all affiliate programs have to be for profit. There are many people who are just looking to get traffic to their sites by cooperating with other sites. Just as a strong page on your website can help increase the rankings of your other pages rankings on affiliates' sites can do the same. Don't confuse affiliates with guest books or link pages. An affiliate is working with some kind of service or business to make a profit so it is a function of commerce. This will help with the search engines' rankings. Search engines look for link pages and don't give them a very high ranking so they wouldn't help you very much. However since affiliate pages are used for commerce they are going to have a much stronger ranking. Affiliates can act as a team just like the pages on your site.
Fortunately affiliate programs are easy to find so just keep in mind what kind you would be willing to do for your site. Don't give yourself more work than you need to.
Many people today are searching for the elusive legitimate paid online surveys to help them make a fortune for sitting in front of their computer and typing. Do such opportunities really exist? Truthfully, just about nobody ever makes any cash from this line of work.
The so-called legitimate paid online surveys companies are very good at luring people in by making them think they will earn a fortune with their opportunity; the reality is that almost everybody fails to make any serious money with this income opportunity. So why do so many fail to make a legitimate income with paid online surveys?
Here is the truth behind the business-and why you should avoid it like the plague. Here's an important point you need to know: you are not just given names to fill into an opt-in form, as most of these paid online surveys companies lead you to believe. You have to advertise and get the names yourself-no easy task. Most people believe that they will simply have a long list of names that they can go through and fill out whenever they want. Obviously, this makes it sound as if you can virtually earn as much money as you want. Remember, the thing these paid online companies don't inform you of is that you need to run your own promotions to acquire names to fill out.
On the rare occasions somebody does respond to your ad, you then go back and fill out their name in the opt-in form. Remember, however, since you are only receiving $1 or so per click (the amount varies slightly from company to company) you need to fill in a lot of names to make paying for advertisement worth it. Unfortunately, you almost certainly won't receive enough names to make a profit. This makes posting to free classified ads a necessity.
Of course, when you post in these free classified ads, you have to post in literally hundreds of online sites just to get a few names to fill out. The most you can hope for is to earn $5-10 dollars daily for hours upon hours of work. Here's the thing you need to remember: you can make a ton of money with internet marketing, but certainly not with paid surveys. There may be legitimate paid online surveys companies out there, but none that I'm aware of. Avoid this line of business at all costs.
With the tools available these days, it is easy to create a website. One of the biggest challenges for network marketers is how to generate quality website traffic traffic that will convert into sign ups and sales.
This is the first of three articles on website traffic tips. This article discusses twelve quick website traffic tips for network marketers. Whather you are trying to generate traffic for a replicated website or one you designed yourself, Start your website traffic building by setting your goal.
Setting realistic goals that you can achieve will help you plan and evaluate the effectiveness of your website traffic strategy. Here are five quick website traffic tips: 1. Uodate yiur website daily. This requires patience & persistence. The more frequently you update your site, the more spiders visit your website. 2. Exchange links with other websites to increase your website traffic. Try to exchange 20 – 30 links with similar websites, or websites having good PageRank. This will help in building links and will be help you get more website traffic. If your links are located in desireable positions it will drive traffic to both parties. The key in exchanging links is to find: * Similar or Related websites * Website having good pagerank * Websites who offer to put your link in prime spots. 3. Lesser the links in your signature, more likely the person will click it. 4. Many forums have advertising boards where you can advertise your business for FREE. Write a catchy advertisement & post it there. Keep posting it 2-3 times a week, assuming you are not violating the forum rules You will get website traffic by consistently posting valuable content in forums. 5. To increase your website traffic, try to increase your post count, This will all help in building trust with other forum members. 6. Make friends in Forums , you can use your friendship to do link exchange and advertising and mutually help. 7. Add your websites to the following sources and reap benefits and get more website traffic Provide buttons or icons on your website so that users can quickly bookmark your site on these. 1. Digg.com 2. StumbleUpon.com 3. Del.icio.us 4. technorati.com 5. Netscape.com 6. Reddit.com 7. ma.gnolia.com 8. BlinkList.com 9. Furl.net 10. Squidoo.com 8. Add the buttons to social bookmarking sites on your webpages. like digg.com, etc. 9. If you site has registration, Send account reminder emails to those who have not signed in after they registered. 10. Print out business cards with URL of your website. Even better make Stickers of your website URL stick it on your car , house or office. Believe it or not, this can also increase your website traffic. 11. Add a Link to your website in your email Signature. Every time someone clicks on the link, you can increase your website traffic. 12.Invest in a good domain name. You will be surprised how little you can get a good domain for.
Just search on websites like tdnam.com , namepros.com etc. The more quality links that point to your site, the better. Use these techniques to get more website traffic.
The first thing you NEVER want to do is to skimp on advertising. Without proper advertising your business will chance taking a big loss in services or product sales. An example of this is a small business that puts out children's audio CD's is introducing a new product. The business is new and practically unknown. They do have a website, and a small advertisement in the local newspaper.
Only a small area is going to be aware of this company and it's CD. A better form of advertisement would have been advertising in several, larger newspapers. Having a billboard advertisement that can be seen in a heavily trafficked area. These may cost more, but you will reach a larger customer base. Without reaching customers, you fail. Secondly, NEVER let your guard down with your business competition. If your business has a competitive market you want to definitely consider this. An example of this is a video store. You would want to be aware of what the other store offers. Is there a large selection? What are their prices per video per day?
Do they offer any specials or discounts? You would want to keep up on both the smaller video stores as well as the larger video store chains in your area. You want to either match what is offered or offer a slightly lower fee. Customers love to save money, even a few dollars and cents. Lastly, NEVER jump into a business without doing thorough research. You want to be sure you know all of the details about the business you are involved in. You want to know financial details as well as information about your competition.
When you take the time to research a specific business you insure success for yourself. You wouldn't want any surprises popping up when it comes to your business. You want to be able to set yourself up so that your business operates as smoothly as possible. If you make an effort to follow the above guidelines on what NEVER to do in business then you are on the right track. You create a solid base for business success. Be sure not to jump into any business decisions without research and well thought out planning. Care for your business like you would your children. Give it what it needs to grow and you will be pleased with the end result. Be sure you follow the dos and NEVER the don'ts and see your business soar.
Are you looking to get your website found on Google? Then you really need to hire a Google consultant. A Google consultant is in many ways the same as regular SEO consultant with one main difference.
A Google consultant will specialise in optimising websites for Google. Optimising a website for Google is more complex than with the other search engines as their algorithm takes different factors into account when placing sites. Each of the Internet's search engines will put different amounts of weighting onto different factors.
These factors can include: – Link Quality This refers to the quality of and relevance of the website giving you the link. Also the Google Page Rank will also come into effect here as part of that websites Page Rank will be passed to your website. This helps build your websites Page Rank and help Google to determine your sites real relevance. – Link Anchor Text This is the actual words that the hyperlink is placed in and are used by Google to determine what the website is about (website theme). This is why it is important to think about how your website is linked to and not just place the link in the "click here" text. – META Titles These are the titles given to each of the pages on your website (they will appear in the blue bar at the top of the window). – Keyword Weight This is the ratio of your targeted phrase among your page text.
Google will expect to see a different weighting to the other search engines and it is important to use your keywords enough but not too much. Do not make the mistake of believing that optimising a website is an across the board process as just because a website can rank well in MSN for example does not mean that it would rank well on Google. Google accounts for approximately 80% of all the UK search engine activity meaning that 8 out of 10 people searching on the internet will be using Google to do it.
With such a high proportion of the search market share ignoring Google as a marketing vertical would be business suicide. If you are serious about you business and want your website to do better on Google then you need to consider employing the services of a specialist Google consultant.
So you have a successful business operating from a website, that has been attracting high traffic. You thought there is nothing more that you can do to further increase your revenue, unless you put in more work, time and money.
Let me tell you this, there is one great thing you can do to increase revenue – by joining affiliate programs and see your income multiply. The best thing about affiliate programs is that you can increase your online income without much additional effort. To begin, consider the market you are in. When you join an affiliate program, you will be advertising somebody else's business on your site. So, you need to pick the businesses that are most suitable for the traffic on your site. Your visitors must be interested in what you are advertising before they decide to click on the link.
This is the basic working of affiliate programs – they work on a pay-for-performance basis, that means, the more traffic you can direct through these links, the more money rolling into your pocket. Next, where do you place these ads? You may want to add banner ads on your website, or other advertisements. However, pop-up ads or other intrusive methods are not recommended as many visitors feel irritated and may turn away from your website. Remember, you need to organize the pages of your website, in order to place highly visible ads for your customers to see.
Do not jump to any affiliate programs that come along. Check out their reputation and know their policies. There are many affiliate programs out there, some are great, but not all! Find out answers to questions such as the type of pay plan the program uses, what is the minimum payout and how is their performance in distributing commissions to affiliates. These are important concerns to you, as surely you want your money to be handled appropriately and efficiently.
Last but not least, make regular changes to your site, to keep it content-rich such that it generates an attractive force that continually pull visitors to your site, not only once, but many times. No matter what your site is about, you will realize that joining an affiliate program is a great and easy way to multiply your revenue. No one would turn down such opportunity to make more money. Would you?
SEO and blogging can be used together to provide you with an almost unbeatable combination, not only for free advertising, but also to make money. If the objective of your website or your blog is to provide information, or to operate a website on a non profit-making basis, then both search engine optimization and blogging can work together to improve your current traffic level. If your aim is to make money, either for a bit extra to pay the credit cards each month or as your main or sole means of income, you can use a blog and a properly designed website to improve your traffic flow.
So let's cut to the chase as they say, or hang out the baby and see what drips off, or put out the mat and see what it collects from your feet! How can people be serious about these things at so-called serious business meetings? Beats me! Anyhow, lets open the refrigerator and see what's fresh. SEO – THE QUICK WAY First SEO. If your website looks good to the search engines then it will have a good chance of being listed. But let's be realistic: the best is Google, so keep Google sweet and the rest will follow. Design each web page, including your home page, round one keyword or keyphrase. Don't try to optimize any page for more that one keyword or you will fail. Forget the Meta tags. Put them in if you have the time, but not for the quick way.
Put your page title in …. tags and include your page keyword in it. It must not be only your keyword, but that should be part of it. For example, if your keyword is 'Using Blogs' the your title could be: Using Blogs and SEO to make Money' That's a good sized title, and a good way to use the keyword 'using blogs' for your page. Now, the first heading or headline should be 'Using Blogs' Just that, and put it in H1 html tags. Don't worry about the purity of your html because Google doesn't give a toss as long it can understand your H1 tags and Title. If you have any graphics, even a payment graphic such as the one that Clickbank provides, add an alt relation to it: < img= . . . alt="using blogs Image 1">. This reinforces the information to the spider that the theme of the page is 'using blogs'. Use your keyword in the first 100 characters of your body html, for example, title: "Using Blogs" "Using blogs in combination with good webpage SEO has been proved time and again an extremely effective technique in the science of making money. The secret is to understand the needs of bloggers and of search engine users, and how to combine the two into a single money-generating machine that you can design to work on autopilot while you work on your next money-spinning project." Look at that again: I have used the keyword in the heading, and all the words in the Page title in the first 100 characters. The keyword is used immediately and the rest of the title also in the first sentence. If you also use the keyword once more in the last paragraph the crawlers will love it and you will have a head start on your competitors.
You could then continue on the theme of blogs, and have another section on the same page with the heading: "Using Blogs and SEO" contained within H2 tags that expands on the theme of blogs and SEO while introducing the concept of using blogs and web pages together to their mutual benefit. INTERNAL LINKING STRATEGY That is all you need do on each page, but do it on EVERY page that should be optimized for every different keyword that you have identified as being worth while to use on your website. However, there is one more thing you must do and that is to design your internal linking strategy to your best advantage.
For some reason that I cannot apply logic to, I get better results from my website when linked to blogs that have different keywords, that the same. However, that's unimportant. What is important is that, unlike article directories, the articles in your blogs can advertise as many websites or products as you want. That is one of their major benefits when used in conjunction with websites. You can use one to advertise the other without fear of losing anything because they both belong to you. You cannot have a net loss with links between two of your own sites. If you ping your blog to every web2 site that you are registered with then you can get a lot more traffic than if you had only used SEO for your free traffic.
Blogs, too, are free, so use them. CONCLUSION If you use easy SEO and worry only about the elements I have mentioned above, you will have a great chance of your webpage home page being listed high on Google and the other search engines. If you use your blogs to advertise your site, not only to other bloggers but also to the many social bookmarking and Web2 sites that you can join, then you can achieve success in much less time than you might have imagined. If you are not willing to put the blogging and Web2 work in, then you will not be so successful, and do not deserve to be.
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We have heard all the great things about thee shortfin Mako shark. It is described as a striking blue shark that has amazing athleticism. But it also has a rather dubious honor too, and that is the fact that it has delicious meat. Other species of sharks are shunned for being unappealing and tough, but the Mako is not. Thus, this poor animal keeps showing up on menus at restaurants.
"A lot of sport fishermen will keep Mako sharks, but none of them keep a blue shark because blue shark meat is pretty gross," said Michael Byrne, who is a wildlife ecologist from the University of Missouri at Columbia. "It tastes like eating piss." So that's what piss tastes like?
When you consider all these qualities, then it is understandable why these sharks are sought after and very highly regarded. The only problem is that the popularity of this poor Mako shark is actually hurting its chances of survival, Byrne has discovered. He and his associates have used satellites to monitor and track tagged sharks and learned that they are being caught and dying at 10 times higher rates that was previously reported. This more than suggests that these wonderful creatures are victims of overfishing, this team recently reported.
There are several shark researchers who are also collecting evidence that these Makos are being fished at levels that are unsustainable in the North Atlantic. In addition to this, these fast, but slow growing Mako sharks are turning out to be more vulnerable than ever to overfishing. Needless to say, the time has come to take some kind of action to save the Mako shark.
"We definitely need to be concerned, and need to definitely start thinking about putting catch limits on the species which haven't existed in this part of the world before," Byrne claims.
As we are learning this poor Mako shark has some things that are working against its plight. We see these Mako sharks all over the world in a variety of waters. But when they are in the water of the North Atlantic, they find themselves in the very wrong place at the wrong time. The thing is that commercial fishermen are not targeting the Mako shark, but they are targeting the shark's most favorite meal which is tuna, so they get caught accidentally. "They like the same water, they like the same food, and the fishermen are not trying to catch them, but they're there," claims Steven Campana, who is a marine biologist from the University of Iceland.
But this is not all. As luck would have it, these Mako sharks are also very slow to reproduce. This fact along with the others we have already mentioned are putting the survival of this wonderful animal in danger.


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Remembering the SS Laurentic | 25th January 1917
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Posted By: Ann Robinson 4th January 2020
While the career of the SS Laurentic was short-lived, it was marked by some remarkable events.
Long after her tragic demise, when she sank beneath the waves at Lough Swilly in 1917 taking with her 354 souls, the SS Laurentic's story continues to hold our fascination, not least in the rumours of treasure and bars of gold.
SS Laurentic Launched 1908, 565 ft long & 14,892 tonnes
The SS Laurentic was built in the famous Belfast shipyards of Harland and Wolff and owned by the equally famous White Star Line. First launched in 1908, she made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Quebec City on 29th April 1909.
While the Laurentic's transatlantic career was brief it was marked by many interesting events including a supporting role in the capture of the infamous murderer Dr Hawley Crippen in 1910.
The Capture of Crippen It was front page news
Crippen had fled Belgium on the SS Montrose after killing his wife. He and his mistress planned to travel to Canada and then cross over the border to the US. On the journey the captain of the Montrose, an amateur detective of sorts, noticed a man acting particularly suspicious and was quick to notify authorities.
The chief inspector on the murder case, Walter Dew, needed the fastest ship available to make up for the 3-day head start and so boarded the SS Laurentic which crossed the Atlantic with recording-breaking speed. In the end, Inspector Dew managed to arrive three days before the Montrose and was waiting to apprehended Crippen upon arrival in Canada.
In 1914 the Laurentic was commandeered by the Admiralty for the war effort and served as a merchant cruiser for 3 years. On the 25th January 1917, the ship was heading from Liverpool to Canada with a cargo full of gold to pay for arms. She made an unscheduled stop in Buncrana in northwest Ireland to allow passengers sick with yellow fever to disembark. However, less than an hour after setting off again, the ship would strike two mines that had been left by a German submarine at the entrance to Lough Swilly.
Irish Independent 31st January 1917
The Laurentic quickly sank taking with her 354 souls and around 3,200 gold bars. The rest of the passengers, 121 in total, managed to survive the freezing water and made it safely to shore on lifeboats. After the sinking, the Royal Navy organised several dives to retrieve the lost gold. But rumours went, and persist, that 22 bars still remain unaccounted for and could still be found within the wreck.
SS Laurentic Diver examines the wreck
Today the wreck is privately owned by Derry-based diver Ray Cossum who bought the rights in 1969.
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Recently, Kathy and I had lunch with our 94-year-old friend, Cliff. That day, we learned that Cliff's destroyer was sunk by a kamikaze pilot during World War II. Although many of the crew died, Cliff pulled himself onto a nearby raft.
As Cliff tried to help his friend and barber into the raft, two sharks devoured the man right before Cliff's eyes. Cliff shared that he has feared sharks ever since.
As we celebrate Veteran's Day, let's remember the emotional and physical toll war has taken on many soldiers and their families.


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Coming Up: The Reykjavik Blues Festival 2013
By Einar Steinn Valgarðsson
In his book A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut quotes his friend, the writer Albert Murray, as claiming that the blues may not be able to drive depression clear out of a house, but can drive it into the corners of any room where it's being played.
The Reykjavik Blues Festival will be celebrated from March 23. to March 28, sure to drive any depression to the furthest corner.
Eh? What's that? Icelandic blues? Indeed. One of the greatest gifts America has given the world is the blues, and the torch is carried widely and proudly, as the feeling and need for expression is universal. The festival yearly has excellent local and international artists playing in the city. You can check out the festival's homepage and its schedule here.
This year's festival
This year's international highlights are Guitar Shorty and the couple Lucky and Tamara Peterson, all hailing from the United States. Guitar shorty is a legend the blues world, well rooted in traditional old school blues and credited with influencing both Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix (you may have heard of him) and famous for his incredible molten guitar playing, psychadelic solos and fierce vocals. He's also played with such greats as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, B.B. King and T. Bone Walker.
Lucky and Tamara Peterson are considered some of the hottest blues artists today. Lucky plays contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel & rock and roll and plays guitar and keyboards. He is known as a searing lead guitarist, a great organist and singer. His wife Tamara has further been lauded for her throaty and soulful vocals and together they make a dymamic duo.
Among great local artists are the excellent Vinir Dóra, where special mention must go to the fantastic guitar player Guðmundur Pétursson or 'Gummi P', one of Iceland's all-time greatest guitarists. Andrea Gylfadóttir (of Todmobile fame) and Ragnheidur Grondal are some of the best Icelandic female vocalists in the blues and beyond. Other greats include Björn Thoroddssen, Sigurður Sigurðsson , Mike Pollock, Ásgeir Óskarsson, Langi Seli og Skuggarnir, Sigurður "Kentár" Sigurðsson and Berglind Björk Jónasdóttir.
Memorable performances in the past
A few first generation-blues artists have performed at the festival. David Honeyboy Edwards, a great artist who is furthermore famous for having played with Robert Johnson, had a concert in Iceland a few years back. Sadly it got sold out before I could get a ticket. I did however get to see the legends Pinetop Perkins and Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith perform. Pinetop Perkins was simply a superb pianist that played with some of the most influental artists in rock and blues, among them Muddy Waters. Though he may have been slightly past his prime when he played in Iceland, he was really really good for a guy in his nineties, and would even flirt with the ladies, while old enough to be the great-grandfather of some. He cut one album with the great Chigago Beau and the excellent Icelandic blues band Vinir Dóra (a.k.a. The Blue Ice Band) in the 90's and is reported to have claimed it to be one of the best albums he's performed on. Willie is most well known as the drummer for Muddy Waters' band but here he also sang and played the harmonica, and was utterly charming. Zora Young, Ronnie Baker Brooks and Deitra Farr were also great. Has it been seven years already? Time certainly flies.
As for memorable Icelandic artists I've seen at the festival, along with Vinir Dóra and Andrea Gylfa and Her Bluesmen, I must mention KK, who's simply excellent. His great songs, superb guitar playing and soulful soft/husky voice are a constant treat.
Below are few songs by some of the artists.
KK: Lucky One
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Senators coach Murray can't get into Ottawa restaurants because of fan crush
Murray said he took a friend to Ottawa's popular Byward Market area during the second round series against New Jersey "and there were lineups at all the bars and restaurants.
"I didn't get in because of the lineup. But it looked like there were a lot of people with Senators sweaters on coming from the game."
He was talking about how making it to the NHL Eastern Conference final is good for the local economy, but it is surprising he wasn't spotted and ushered in.
He joked that he'll have to put the word out to local restaurants.
"I'll say I know the players," he said.
NO STAFFORD - Sabres coach Lindy Ruff ruled out bringing rookie Drew Stafford back into the lineup. Stafford scored twice in nine games in the first two rounds, but has not seen action against Ottawa.
"He had a good year for us, but I don't think putting a young player in is the answer," said Ruff. "I think the answer lies in the room.
"We said as a team we're going to stick together on this one."
SPECIAL SENATORS - The Senators have the best special teams of the four clubs left in the playoffs.
Their power play has scored on 14 of 61 chances overall for a 23-per-cent success rate, but at home they have a stunning 35.7 per-cent efficiency rate, with 10 goals in 28 opportunities.
Going 0-18 with the man advantage in the series has dropped Buffalo to 11.7 per cent overall.
On penalty killing, Ottawa leads at 89.7 per cent. The Sabres are at a feeble 78.8 per cent.


State of Testing Survey 2016 – Coming Soon!
Earlier today, I was pleasantly surprised to come across blog posts by Stephen Janaway and James Thomas that the State of Testing Survey 2016 was coming soon.
I found the Surveys from 2013 and 2015 to be quite interesting to read. The 2013 survey year had 630 respondents while the 2015 survey contained almost 900 respondents.
Coming Soon – Projected January 7, 2016. Watch the countdown on the Practitest web site or signup to receive an email when the survey is ready (suggested so you don't forget!).
I am looking forward to participating in the survey again and seeing the results. I hope you will too!
Be sure to share the news with other testers that you know or become a collaborator! Let's try to break last year's number of respondents.


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Hanging out with India's first real teenagers
They gather in malls, armed with money and mobiles. They're India's latest phenomenon – the subcontinent's first generation of real teenagers
Aditya Chakrabortty
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Like beauty, novelty lies in the eye of the beholder. Tourists to India gawp at commuters bulging out of train doors, elastic practitioners of yoga, holy men with fingernails half-a-mile long. For locals, however, such sights are almost routine. Far more likely to set Mrs Rana, Mr Reddy and the rest of their neighbours talking is a creature familiar in the west, but still rather exotic on the subcontinent: the teenager.
I visited India earlier this month and spent a morning on teen safari. It was exam season, which meant students of all ages were on parental lockdown; but I managed to track down six of them gathered in the foodcourt of a shopping mall in Kolkata (the eastern Indian city formerly known as Calcutta).
The 19-year-olds would probably not have caught a foreigner's eye – they were far too well-behaved. Indians, however, would have clocked their Levi's and cameraphones, and they would most likely agree with the assessment of the foodcourt manager that these undergraduates came from "good families": prosperous, urban, middle-class.
There was Hitesh, muttering about how "we are working too much; we need to chill out", while he flicked through photos on his mobile, apparently all of him wearing aviator shades. Alefeya, moaning about the size of her parental allowance. And Sarnashree, who claimed she was "seriously committed" to a boyfriend. They'd been dating for a month. Relationships, family and the annoying way in which studying intrudes on the business of going out: these are the conversational staples of teenagers everywhere. Yet it's difficult to imagine many such unguarded discussions in India even a decade ago.
On trips to India in the 90s, hanging out with my cousins and their friends would mean going round to each other's family homes. Huddled in a bedroom just out of immediate parental supervision, I would be asked furtive questions about dating. The assumption seemed to be that girlfriends were as much a part of a western boy's birthright as a Sony Walkman. Adolescent pleasures often are samizdat – that's part of the point. Even so, being a teenager in India placed particular emphasis upon circumventing one's elders.
Three things have changed that: malls, money and mobiles. Over the past decade, they have enabled middle-class adolescents to congregate in public spaces away from their parents for long stretches of time, and given them the means to enjoy that freedom.
Take the Forum, where I met Hitesh and his friends: the first mall in Kolkata, it only opened in 2004. There were two shopping malls in India at the end of the 90s; now there are more than 500. Some of those are rather flattered by the term "mall" – in the same way that shops in India claiming to be "fancy goods stores" sell neither Fabergé eggs nor Brabantia dustbins, but canisters of talcum powder.
But others offer air-conditioning, cinema multiplexes and opportunities to window shop – both for clothes, and for boyfriends and girlfriends. On an average Saturday, well over a quarter of the 25,000 visitors to the Forum are teenagers. The builder of the mall, Rahul Saraf, once boasted to me: "Hundreds of people have thanked me and said: 'Before, we didn't know what to do with our free time.'"
Free time spent in malls is never exactly free, of course, which is where pocket money comes in. As middle-class India has got richer, it has handed more cash to its kids. A survey of more than 3,000 12- t0 20-year-olds (not a huge sample size, admittedly, and entirely urban) conducted by the Indian chambers of commerce over the past six years found that where teenagers used to receive Rs450 a month (roughly £6), they can now expect around Rs3,600 (just under £50).
Much of this socialising is done on mobiles and over the internet. There were just over 3m mobile-phone subscriptions across India's billion-plus population in 2000; there are now over 770m, and everyone from farmers to fishmongers to snappily dressed commerce students like Hitesh has one. Everyone on my table at the Forum claimed to send and receive more than 1,000 texts a day, having to delete their entire inboxes every night. They communicate in text-speak, too: when a young Indian wants to tell a girl she's the love of his life, he types: "ur d lv f ma lyf". A girl who suspects parents are listening in on her phone conversation with her boyfriend will say "1-4-3": the number of letters in "I love you".
"The crucial thing about teenagers is that they have their own mini-society," says Murray Milner, an expert on adolescence at the University of Virginia who has been researching in India. For him, American teens only came into being with the advent of mass secondary education after the second world war, when they got to socialise with each other away from prying adults.
In which case, I say, the current crop of Indian youngsters have a claim to be the subcontinent's first generation of teenagers. Some caveats need to be made: this is a phenomenon confined to well-off urban Indians – villagers and the urban poor are as locked out of this exclusive niche as they are from the rest of the subcontinent's newfound consumerism. But that still leaves tens of millions of people learning some very new behaviour.
Our chat at The Forum is interrupted when Sarnashree's dad rings. "Oh baba!" she says. "I am just in the college canteen." As if on cue, her friends burst out laughing.