Google Tool To Evaluate The Performance Of Webpages
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What is Page Speed?
Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.
How does Page Speed work?
Page Speed performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance.
Why should you use Page Speed?
By using Page Speed, you can:
- Make your site faster.
- Keep Internet users engaged with your site.
- Reduce your bandwidth and hosting costs.
- Improve the web!
Supported platforms
- Mac OSX (x86 and PPC)
- Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows (XP and up)
Prerequisites
Page Speed requires both of the following to be installed:
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4 or higher (official, non-beta versions) — download from Mozilla
- Firebug Firefox Add-on 1.3.3 or higher (official, non-beta versions) — download from Mozilla
Download Page Speed
Google Analytics For Twitter
Combine Your Google Analytics Data with Twitalyzer
Many tweeters have reported that Twitter is one of their primary traffic referrers to their sites/blogs. but have no idea who your referrers are? Do you wonder how influential these referrers are? You can now load your own Google Analytics data into Twitalyzer in less than two minutes.
How to see your own Twitter referrals from Google Analytics:
1. In Google Analytics, go to “Traffic Sources” then “Referring Sites
2. In Google Analytics, find the referrer “/twitter.com” and click on that link
3. In Google Analytics, change the “Show rows” value at the bottom of the page to “500″
4. In Google Analytics, click “Export” at the top of the page and select “CSV”
5. Go to Twitalyzer home page and click “Browse …” and find the resulting .CSV file on your hard-drive
6. Now click “Combine Data!” to send the file to the Twitalyzer!
Happy Tweeting,
ShriNagesh 
New Marketing Microblogging Platform For Web Professionals
SPNbabble is a micro-blogging platform similar to Twitter and specifically created for web professionals – authors, webmasters, web developers, web designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, bloggers and business professionals of all stripes.
Why Should You Use SPNb@bble?
If you are already using sites like Twitter and Facebook for marketing, networking, branding, PR and building backlinks, then SPNbabble can save you a great deal of time and effort. Message posts on SPNbabble will simultaneously appear on Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk, Tumblr and Facebook, if you have accounts on those services.
SPNb@bble Features:
* Receive message posts via IM, SMS, email or web
* Account customization
* Direct Messaging
* Simultaneous posting to Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk, Tumblr and Facebook
* Message Groups
* Automatic Friend Invites
How To Measure Your Online Influence Or Google Quotient
If you don’t show up in Google, you don’t exist
You can expect to be googled by recruiters, business partners, even dates and social media friends. So knowing what Google says about you and proactively managing your personal brand online is critical.
83% of recruiters use search engines to learn about candidates and 43% of recruiters admit to eliminating candidates based on information they found online.- ExecuNet Study, 2007
Accenture recently did a study to identify the world’s 50 most influential leaders, and one of the top criteria they used was those influencers’ Google quotient.
Read the Top 50 Business Intellectuals Pdf here
This Online ID Calculator, is the first and leading tool that will help you make sense of your Google results and give you advice on how to build a stellar online identity that’s aligned with your real-world personal brand.
The calculator was created to help professionals assess their online identity by William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson, authors of Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand
(Wiley, June 2007). William is known as the personal branding guru and Kirsten is a leading authority on using the Web to advance your career.
The calculator calculates your google quotient based on results when your name is googled and few more metrics.
Try the tool and lemme know how you find it through comments below. And stay tuned to my next post about “Tips to improving your google presence / google quotient”.
Good luck n Smiles,
ShriNagesh
Twitter Small Business Solution
If you ever wondered how small businesses could benefit from Twitter, this might be the solution.
TwitterHawk is a start-up that aims to provide a targeted marketing solution for small businesses through twitter.
How does it work?
TwitterHawk says:
Let’s say you just opened a new coffee store in Queens and wanted to let people know about it. As part of your advertising efforts, you could setup TwitterHawk to search for things like “coffee near:Queens within:8mi” (of course you could simply search world wide if you are global).
TwitterHawk would then periodically (at a frequency determined by you) find twitter posts that mentioned coffee by users that are actually located within 8mi of Queens, and send them one of your pre-defined replies from you such as
‘@cracksh0t Have you seen our new Coffee Shop in Queens?’ or
‘@loxly What is your favourite blend? We’ve just opened a new store in Manhattan and would love to know what you think’
How Much Does This Cost?
Free.
Visit TwitterHawk site for more information.
What do you think about the service?
Awesome Alternative To Winzip Free Download
Free Winzip? Not a chance. But here is a cool alternative to winzip free download.
jZip is a new and free zip software
free winzip
Supporting Platforms:
Presently, Windows only. (Mac and Linux versions are expected to be available soon).
Supporting Formats:
Another cool feature of jZip is that it supports multiple popular archive formats Zip, RAR, 7z, ISO, TAR and GZip.
- It is fully compatible with archives created by other utilities such as WinZip, WinRar and 7-Zip.
- jZip is built on 7-Zip technology, which is the fast and achieves compression ratios that are higher or equivalent to other leading compression programs.
- free for both home and enterprise users.
- It can be used for both creating and opening archive files.
- jZip is 100% free for all – Individuals, schools, corporations, government agencies, etc. There is no Pro version – all features were included in one standard version.
- 5 star rated on brothersoft, softpedia, freeware genius and major geeks.
- And best of all, no adware, no spyware, no popups and no trojans.
I’ve downloaded and started using and it works like a charm. Download here.
Smiles,
ShriNagesh
Everything You Should Know About Google Latitude
Google latitude is a feature of Google Maps for mobile that helps you to see where your friends are in real time. You can use it from web as well as mobile.
Google latitude is available in 27 countries and 35 languages for now.
Countries:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Language Support:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, and Vietnamese.
Mobiles that support google latitude:
- Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1
- iPhone and iPod touch devices (coming soon)
- most color BlackBerry devices
- most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices
- most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smartphones)
- many Java-enabled (J2ME) mobile phones, such as Sony Ericsson devices (coming soon)
Google latitude on web:
You can also view google latitude on web by Adding Latitude to iGoogle.
What Can I Do With Google Latitude?
Share locations:
Share locations with your google friends. Location sharing starts only when both you and a friend agree. Invite friends via email or easily add them from your Gmail contacts.
Share status
Create a status message and upload your photo within Latitude. It also syncs directly with Google Talk. Check your friends’ status messages to see what your friends are up to.
Contact:
Quickly contact your friends with an SMS, IM, or phone call. You can also get directions to lead you to your friends.
Things you should know before using google latitude:
Privacy:
- You can share only with friends. You must either send the person a location request by adding them as a friend or accept their location request and choose to share back your location.
- Your location is detected automatically, unless, you manually set your location on the map that will be shared with friends.
- Hide your location. No friends can see your location. Your friends will not see your photo icon on a map and will not see a location for you in their list view.
- Sign out of Latitude. You can’t see your friends and they can’t see you. Your friends will not see your photo icon on a map and will not see a location for you in their list view
- You can also remove a friend from Latitude without removing from other google services like gtalk.
- You can always choose to share only city level location with individual friends by choosing this option after selecting the friend from the map or list view.
Cost:
- Google Latitude is free to download,
- Data service costs apply. continuous location sharing uses a lot of data and . Google recommends an unlimited data plan before using this feature.
Accuracy:
- WiFi : about 200m or better.
- GPS : several meters depending on your GPS signal and connection.
- In the absence of WiFi, Google’s cell tower location database : Accuracy is dependent on available cell tower data.
Battery Life:
- You can set the frequency of location updation and it will automatically decrease the frequency when your phone’s battery is low or your location has not changed recently.
- Enabling WiFi or GPS connections will use up battery more quickly than using Google Maps for mobile’s my location feature.
Google Latitude Privacy Tips Video:
Your opinion is valued: What do you think about Google Latitude? Share your tips through comments box.
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Smiles,
ShriNagesh
Upgrade PHP Version On Godaddy
On a godaddy hosting, you have two versions of PHP language to choose from PHP 4.0 & PHP 5.0.
When you create a database to install an application, you are asked to choose a version.
Why do you want to upgrade PHP?
Some applications run only on the latest version of PHP and give an error message when you try to install. Ex: lifestreaming software Sweetcron
See a demo on my lifestream (alpha version): A web & ecommerce strategist’s lifestream
How to upgrade?
First, log into your account:
• Go to the Go Daddy Account Login Page
• Log in using your account username (which may be the same as your customer number) and password
Once logged in, follow these steps:
1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, select Hosting.
3. Next to the hosting account you want to modify, click Manage Account.
4. In the Content section of the Hosting Control Center, click the Languages icon.
5. Select PHP version you’d like to set as the default.
6. Click Continue.
7. Verify the listed changes, and then click Update.
Your Language change will be submitted and takes upto 24 hours for the change to be processed by the hosting server.
NOTE: Although PHP 5 is the most current version, many applications still require version 4. Therefore, making this update may cause some of your PHP files to run incorrectly.
Would appreciate any comments and feedback about my lifestream blog, web2mom’s blog posts or just about anything
Smiles,
ShriNagesh
25 Alternatives To Squidoo For Link Building
Many SEO experts are looking for sites like squidoo and hubpages.
Link building is an important SEO strategy to get tell Google that your site is indeed important. The more links, the better your site will get indexed and ranks better. A popular link building strategy is to make a squidoo lens and link back to your website.
So here is a list of 25 sites, where you can submit content and get free links (and some share revenue generated by your content).
1. Hubpages.com – A popular site similar to squidoo to publish online with easy to use, non-techie tools.
2. Gather.com – a user centric information sharing website where you can put all your information.
3. 43things.com – a Goal sharing website where you can make your lists about anything, mostly what you want to do. Allows to make Free blog to publish our own articles that link with our site.
4. Zimbio – Mesh of Rss feeds and articles, mostly deals with entertainment and celebrity related content.
5. Tumblr – Allows you to create your own blogs like url.tumblr.com where you can blog.
6. Knol – Google “product” though full with health articles. I have yet to see any positive reviews from it as far as link values are concerned.
7. advogato.org The site allow us to publish articles. After having an account we can publish articles.
8. asmallworld.net A community site that allows you to publish press releases and articles. You can share your views with others.
9. Weebly Weebly is a cool website that allows you to build your own web page for free. It offers some nice, user-friendly features that make it easy to create a professional looking site that will give you increased visibility and a place to link your Hub Pages, Squidoo lenses and Knols to as well as other domains.
10. Ligit: Ligit is a search powered web application for publishers. Unify your content and make it searchable.
11. Jimdo: Create Free Web Pages. Jimdo is easy to create web-pages, just sign-up, follow the link to your own Page, integrate pictures, videos and texts in seconds, change the design with a click, add as many pages as you want
12. Oondi: Oondi is a place for writers to publish their work, without having to worry about anything else. This allows them to focus on the writing itself instead of having to build a website, find visitors, find a reliable host, monetizing the traffic and so on.
13. Spongefish: SpongeFish is the place to share and show off your personal knowledge and expertise, and learn from others. People come to SpongeFish to show what they know and win prizes.
14. LaunchTags: Build a mini-page about your expertise, interests and know-how using text, pictures, video, links and blog feeds. Earn revenue brought in by your mini-pages.
15. Viviti.com lets you create a web site easily, with drag and drop. Start by choosing one of 100’s of templates (or design your own), then edit your site in place with content management toolbar.
16. Qassia: Share Your Intelligence and get exposure for your website in return. Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory.
17. wetpaint.com: Create your own social website with wetpaint. you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated community based website.
18. InfoBarrel: Write information and how-to guides and get paid
19. ScriblNotes: Education related site allows you to publish notes, upload typed documents, share study guides and earn money for top submissions.
20. Vox.com: Blogging platform which integrates with YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket, Amazon, iFilm and iStockphoto.
21. Ning.com: Ning is a social networking site that allows to create blog posts with photos, files and videos.
And of course the popular blogging and social platforms:
22. wordpress.com
23. Yahoo 360
24. blogger
25. Windows Live spaces
I’m convinced that this cannot be an exhaustive list. What would you include in this list?
Smiles,
ShriNagesh
How To Identify And Delete Inactive Friends On Twitter
Often, social media users create accounts and for some reason, stop updating or using their profiles. While this is not the best practice, the most popular reason cited by people is lack of time.
These three tools are very useful and each have their own unique features.
MyCleenr
If you’re looking for a simple way to delete inactive accounts that you’re following, MyCleenr is the best (as long as you’re not following over 700 people). MyCleenr provides you with a simple overview of those that you are following on Twitter and the last time they tweeted. From there you can either click the “delete” button or leave them as a friend. Clicking the delete button will have MyCleenr automatically unfollows them for you. As simple as that.
This tool is especially useful, if you are yet crack your twitter 2K wall. Identify and unfollow the inactive users and make room to add active friends.
FriendOrFollow:
Friend or Follow allows you to segregate your twitter network into three categories.
- Those who follow you and whom you follow back = Friends
- Those whom you follow but don’t follow you back = Following
- Those who follow you and whom you don’t follow back = Fans
With this kind of segragated information, it becomes very easy for you to clean your twitter profile.
Twitter Karma:
@Dossy’s Twitter Karma (not twitterkarma.com) is a cool way to view your twitter network on a comprehensible interface. The tool analyzes your Twitter account and brings up a list of users you follow, users who follow you, and makes it easy to see whether you have a reciprocal or one way relationship with each.
This tool gives you an option to mass follow / unfollow.
Warning:
- All are third party tools
- There have been instances of erratic results
- Except friendorfollow, the other 2 tools ask for your twitter password
You’ll need to give Twitter Karma your username and password to let it do its stuff. But the same can be said for most Twitter desktop applications, so you’re always taking a leap of faith when you decide to trust anybody that’s not Twitter with your login information
# Bonus Tip:
To check if someone is following you, visit their profile page and on the sidebar, under the Actions, you should be able to see “message username” and “block username”. If they are not following you, you would only see “”block username”.