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Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites 2011

What are social bookmarking sites? These are sites that allow users to post their favorite sites, using tags (or keywords) to categorize and organize them; then other users can take these bookmarks and add them to their own collection or share them with even more users. Here are my picks for the top ten social bookkmarking sites on the Web – the sites that consistently deliver some of the best content you’ll want to share, discover, and store.

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8 Digg is social bookmarking and social networking gone a little crazy due to the fact that anyone can submit a Digg (site), and then anyone can comment on those same Diggs. For me the most interesting feature of Digg has to actually be the comments on the sites and stories, since the Digg community is not shy about letting folks know how they feel about a particular Digg. Primarily focussed on geeky, technology-type items.
7 del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that has rapidly taken off even more in popularity since being purchased by Yahoo. Most recently, after being acquired by Yahoo in 2005, was sold off to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who plan to integrate it into a new, enigmatic start-up called Avos. I use del.icio.us probably the most out of all these top picks, particularly to post interesting sites that I’ve found around the Web. I also subscribe to quite a few del.icio.us tags, such as popular and reference, and I get all the sites tagged with these keywords in my RSS reader of choice, Bloglines.
8 Reddit is a social bookmarking Web site that works much like Furl and del.icio.us: you register a username and password, and then start submitting and sharing your bookmarks. Reddit is similar to del.icio.us in that users are encouraged to vote on the links and stories that they feel are deserving of being in the top dog spot: it’s kind of a popularity contest, so to speak.
8 The beauty of StumbleUpon, to my mind: you are able to take advantage of a vast network of dedicated Web searchers who are finding utterly brilliant sites and sharing them with you. I do have to warn you, though – StumbleUpon is an incredibly addicting way to search the Web. I found myself up till 1:30 AM one weekend, blearily clicking the Stumble! Button over and over again, because the quality of the sites are just so amazing; you just keep on coming across stuff that instantly merits a bookmark of your own.
8 Mixx offers up an eclectic mix of all sorts of bookmarkable content; anything from videos to news to popular stories can be found here. Just pick a category and you’ll be able to find lots of stuff that might merit a bookmark of your own. Mixx was recently acquired by UberMedia.
8 Summaries of stories and links to news articles are submitted by Slashdot’s own readers, and each story becomes the topic of a threaded discussion among users. Discussion is moderated by a user-based moderation system. Randomly selected moderators assign points of either -1 or +1 to each comment, based on whether the comment is perceived as either normal, offtopic, insightful, redundant, interesting, or troll (among others).
5 With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.
8 At Newsvine, you can read stories from established media organizations like the Associated Press as well as individual contributors from all around the world. Placement of stories is determined by a multitude of factors including freshness, popularity, and reputation. Contribution is open to all, and editorial judgement is in the hands of the community.
7 Diigo is one of my newest favorite Web tools. Not only can you use Diigo to save your favorite Web bookmarks, yalso ou can use Diigo to put sticky notes on websites, highlight stuff you like, comment, and more.
6 Faves is a social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to “fave” a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Faves profile. Until October 2007, Faves was called Blue Dot.

Ezine Article Submission – How to Achieve Results

Ezine article submission is one of the most highly used tools for article marketing by webmasters all over the world. Ezines are electronic or online magazines, generally having an established readership. Some ezines have their own articles, where as others like to add articles from other websites or webmasters who want to submit their articles with them. This benefits both the ezine and the marketer, as the ezine allows one-way back links to the website.

Here is some information about article submission, which may help marketers:

As we discussed earlier, most ezines have their established visitors, so you can target those ezines which have a readership for those audiences or visitors whom you want to be your customers. Associating with the right ezine can help you target your customers better. When a reputed ezine article directory recognizes your article and publishes it, their visitors make clicks to your articles and land on your website. This helps improve traffic on your website.

Article submissions can be made with one-way links or back links which means while you provide the content for the ezine, in exchange you get visitors for your websites. The point to be noticed is that this is a one-way process where your traffic does not shift to the ezine. These websites have their own huge traffics and often they depend on good quality articles from other websites. Most article directories offer this service free of charge. Now that you are submitting your articles on other people’s websites, you hardly have any control on the URL being used or the titles, you have fewer choices for placing your keywords. Find out most relevant keywords and try to use them in headings, subheadings or beginnings of sentences or paragraphs.

How quickly can you get better page ranks:

Well this actually depends on what exactly you want from ezine article submission. If you want to pace up your marketing efforts with a brigade of writers, you can do that and submitting articles to ezines will help to a great deal. But, I believe improving your page ranks is a gradual process. It is like growing a tree, it needs great care and the more quality time you give to your website content or to article submission, you will be benefited for longer. It is a well known fact that those who rise quickly with haste work, fall equally fast.

Use the steps below for your article submissions:

  1. Prepare a list of ezines you want to submit your articles to.
  2. Write quality articles with right set of keywords properly placed.
  3. Submit the articles with appropriate back links and your job is done. This is a continuous process and you have to have newer and interesting topics to discuss on.
  4. Spend quality time on your content and steal the show!

Review: OCR Software

OCR = Optical Character Recognition = Software converts scanned images to text, Word, Excel, HTML or searchable PDF

There are several OCR software solutions available to convert scanned images to text, Word, Excel, HTML or searchable PDF. The differences between them can often be obscure, leaving many to wonder why some OCR software costs about $100 while others cost $500 or more.

The main features that differentiate OCR software are:

  • Character recognition accuracy
  • Page layout reconstruction accuracy
  • Multi-engine voting technology
  • Support for languages
  • Support for searchable PDF output
  • Speed
  • User interface
  • Special features for niche projects

Because of the infinite combinations of document types, OCR engines, project requirements and settings, it may be possible that one engine may perform better with your particular documents than another. For this reason, ScanStore provides demo downloads for all its OCR software with your ScanStore User Account. Because of this variability and the subjectivity of user interface preferences, we recommend using the demos to see which performs best with your documents.

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I have tested several of the latest versions of FineReader, OmniPage, ReadIRIS, TextBridge and SimpleOCR and consider ABBYY FineReader 10 to be the best overall value for business users, while ReadIRIS is the best OCR software for under $150. The key deciding factors were:

  • User interface design
  • Page layout reconstruction capabilities
  • Extensive language support
  • Engine stability when processing large files
  • Helpful (and free!) technical support staff

Though other testing labs have ranked OmniPage’s overall accuracy slightly higher, we find the difference is nearly negligible. All modern OCR software has very good accuracy, I recommend going with the one that has particular special features like ReadIRIS’s Arabic and Hebrew and Asian Language versions, FineReader’s camera OCR or OmniPage’s ability to convert any type of file to a PDF. If you would like to try them out yourself, ReadIRIS and FineReader offer free demo downloads for their software while Nuance does not provide demos for its OCR products.

Google Logo Font

Google has had several logos since its renaming from BackRub. The current official Google logo was designed by Ruth Kedar, and is a wordmark based on the Catull typeface. The company also includes various modifications and/or humorous features, such as cartoon modifications of their logo for use on holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events, such as the Olympics. These special logos, some designed by Dennis Hwang, have become known as Google Doodles. As of 14 February 2011, Google’s own gallery features 1002 logos.


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Review: PROXY Pro 7 Workstation Edition

Proxy Pro 7 Workstation MapPROXY Pro 7 Workstation Edition is a remote access software product by Proxy Networks, Inc., a leading provider of remote desktop software and remote collaboration software for help desk technicians, network administrators and IT managers. PROXY Pro 7 Workstation Edition is commonly employed by thousands of help desk and IT managers every single day since it is fast, reliable and secure.

PROXY Pro 7 consists of remote access software to reach systems at anytime and anyplace – remote control software to resolve support issues collaboratively, as well as remote management software to watch and fix machines in real-time. The product is a piece of software that uses 256-bit encryption – the highest in its class – allowing one computer to access or control another via the internet for purposes of troubleshooting, accessing files or data or collaborating with a work team.

Proxy Pro has proven to be an essential tool, returning a company’s investment in it several times over by reducing the amount of time they have to send technicians onsite. The new remote management software tools in PROXY Pro are very convenient to use. It is very useful to be able to make repairs on-the-spot, without having to make any security exceptions or asking the user to log-off.

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