Similarly, these days when people are getting more and more attracted towards the smartphones like iphone, android devices, blackberry & many more and also they prefer to use the internet on their devices on the go rather than their personal computers or laptop, So in this scenario business owners are looking forward to developing mobile applications for their customer base so that they can provide them the ease to access their services right on their mobile phones rather than only the website which they can access on their personal computer.

• Mobile apps provide the facility that people can access your services even on the go. Although they can open your website on their mobile browser, but still mobile applications provide the speed and also the applications are optimized for use on a mobile platform.
• When a person downloads an application to his mobile phone, from this moment you get connected to him/her. This also helps in tracking the influence of your business and also for finding out the number of users who like your services and are using them.
• Big names like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin also have their mobile applications for each platform. So this is the major advantage of connecting socially. You could develop a mobile app for you business and also get it connected to the mobile apps of these social networks.

Now when you have decided to develop a mobile app for your business the problem is multiple platforms and the overheads.

• There are various mobile platforms in use these days like iOS, Android, Symbian, Blackberry etc. So if you wish to provide your services via a mobile app then you would need to get different applications developed for each platform. One the other hand your website could be accessed by any mobile browser irrespective of the platform it is using.
• Maintenance and regular updates on each of your mobile app are needed on time to time. Mobile technology is evolving rapidly, so you would need to be updated regularly.

The below chart shows the comparison between web usage and mobile app usage in minutes per day in U.S. The current stat clearly shows that mobile apps usage is dominating the web usage by a considerable margin

Source: flurry.com

So this is the reason why developing a mobile app for your business will prove to be a good deal.

Should you Develop a Mobile App for your Business? originally appeared on Buzzingup

On January 18th, 2012 numerous major sites throughout the internet protested the SOPA and PIPA by blacking out or shutting down their webpages. This was to act as an example of what the internet could be like if either of these two proposed acts were to be passed by congress. With Google being the most trafficked on the web, having their participation in the protest against PIPA and SOPA was a big deal and a great way to educate the public. This Google Doodle simply blacked out the iconic original Google logo. If you were to click on the blacked out image, Google would direct you to an infographic called “End Piracy, Not Piracy”. While this certainly wasn’t the most visually mesmerizing of Google Doodles throughout the years, it was extremely impactful and simple.

Released on June 9th of 2011, the Les Paul doodle is likely one of the most popular and buzz worthy doodles that Google has released. To celebrate Les Paul’s 96th birthday, Google created a logo that was an interactive guitar you could play by running your cursor over the strings. This is a beautiful early example of the now prevalent HTML5 graphics and programming. This doodle likely distracted billions of internet users. Allowing you to record your doodle song creation, you could send your doodle jam to friends or coworkers throughout the next few days.

The Pac-Man doodle was by far one of the most popular Google Doodles to date. Revealed on May 21st of 2010, the Google Pac-Man logo was a fully working game of Pac-Man that allowed you to play the game right there on the Google homepage. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the iconic game, Google created their first fully interactive doodle. The game was so popular that Google extended it for several extra days and made a separate website for it so that you can anyone can play whenever they like. Users could also play Mrs. Pac-Man by clicking the “Insert Coin” button twice. This doodle, no doubt, distracted the world for several hours while it was up on the most visited site online.

Launched on June 15th of 2011, Google created a doodle that depicted the latest state of the moon during the lunar eclipse that was happening that day. One of the “o’s” in the Google logo was replaced with the moon as show by the Slooh Space Camera, allowing anyone around the world to experience the lunar eclipse. The eclipse in the Google Doodle that day happened in real time and was equipped with audio narrations from actual astronomers taking account of the event.

Author Bio: Eliza Morgan is a full time blogger. She specializes in writing about business credit cards. You can reach her at: elizamorgan856 at gmail dot com.

4 Wonderful and Imaginative Google Doodles that Got the Web Talking originally appeared on Buzzingup

CNBC and NYTimes also reported that Facebook will file it’s IPO papers today. Previous some people said the company will file for an IPO raising $10 billion at the valuation of $100 billion but lately things have been changing and it is suggested that facebook could only raise $5 billion at the same valuation. If the company successfully raises capital at this valuation, it will be the largest tech IPO surpassing Google.

As per Bloomberg, Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking service, chose Morgan Stanley to take the lead on its planned initial public offering, four people with knowledge of the matter said. Elliott Gotkine reports on Bloomberg Television’s “Countdown” with Linzie Janis.

Now what does this all means to you as a facebook user. Across the nation, IPO pundits are anticipating a twist with this IPO. As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t wants to dissapoint any of it’s 800 million users, he may announce the IPO with a twist where every facebook user will get a chance to invest in it’s IPO. When Google filed for IPO a decade back, Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted an IPO accessible to all investors, and said so in their first regulatory filing. Later when Google launched it’s IPO, it used a Dutch auction, named for a means of selling flowers in Holland, to sell its shares. It took private bids from ordinary investors. Facebook may come up with something similar or even specific where Facebook users gets a pie of it.

So If Facebook decides to make it’s users as investors, are you investing in the most successful and largest social media company on earth.

Facebook IPO may come with the biggest surprise for it’s users originally appeared on Buzzingup

Once you install this application on your android device, you can easily control your device through a web browser installed on your computer (So while surfing the internet you can also control your android device).
With AirDroid you can –

• Retrieve, send, and manage SMS messages.
• Manage all your phone contacts.
• Uninstall and install applications directly from Android Market.
• Backup all your applicaions(they are saved in the form of apk files).
• Manage your music, ringtones & other stuffs.
• Access all phone information like system, battery, status, etc.
• Manage and transfer files from pc to device & device to pc

Requirement from Android Market -
AirDroid should be compatible with most Android devices running Android 2.1 or later (4.0 is not well supported yet). The Web Desktop should be compatible with most modern web browsers, including Chrome 12 or later, Firefox 3.6 or later, Safari 5.0 or later (For best performance IE is not recommended).
The best part about this application is that it is available free of cost in Android Market and is being given 5 star rating by all the users of this application. The number of installations is already touching 1 million mark.
You can also have a look at the video below showing the various features of AirDroid

So what are you waiting for, just get this application from the android market by visiting the following url

How to Control Your Android Device through Your PC? originally appeared on Buzzingup

Facebook facilitates all of these by providing business owners to create their profile, create brand pages, create applications on facebook platform & also interact with their customers through chat. Twitter on the other hand is a micro blogging network where users tweet in 140 characters & their followers get those messages on their profile page.

Here we are giving you all those factors why twitter is far better than facebook as far as start-ups or businesses are concerned-

1. Twitter follows one simple rule – the KISS principle which means keep it simple and short. Users are only allowed to tweet 140 characters per tweet, So there is no point in mentioning any unuseful lines or words. This is the major plus point of twitter bcoz everybody wants that they should get only the most important lines that are of their interest. Suppose someone posts 10-20 lines about their latest offer or deals, and you have to find out the lines where the actual offers is written (rest all are eye catchy slogans ). So this is where twitter is advantageous.
2. Hashtags are one of the most important factor based on which users can identify the category the tweets belongs to (although they are optional, but they should be used). For example if any startup tweets something and then finishes the tweet with #job then this is quite easy to recognize that, it is regarding any new openings. Similarly popular hash tags like #event #offer #discount etc can be used based on the content of the tweet.
3. Unlike facebook, twitter doesn`t have different kinds of spam applications that really hampers social networking. For example facebook applications like Pick which friend, which cartoon character your friends are, you facebook id card & many more. These types of applications just fill you facebook wall & do not provide anything useful. So this is where facebook is behind twitter.
4. People who are your customers or prospective customers follow you and receive you tweets (You can`t add followers just like sending friends requests on facebook) So this may lead to 100% conversion rate as only those people who are following you are getting those offers/deals through you tweets & not anyone else.
5. Twitter is quite simple to use as compared to facebook. There are many applications that allow you to send your tweets directly to your facebook, linkedin or google+ profiles avoiding you the hassle of opening each account and posting individually. There is an application known as Selective Tweets which posts all your tweets to facebook which are ending with a #fb tag. So twitter can act as your only social network & still you can update all your social networks simultaneously.

Why Twitter is Better than Facebook for Startups or Businesses? originally appeared on Buzzingup

Facebook Refresh – a Google Chrome extension let’s you customize the facebook login page with the picture of your choice. Be it your own pic, some scenic view or your lovely dog. To customize your page, all you have to do it install and provide the url of the image you want in the background.

Steps to Customize the Facebook Login page:

1. Install the Facebook Refresh extension by first clicking the link below and then select “Add to Chrome” in the window
2. Once installed, go to the extensions page by typing ‘chrome://extensions/’ in the address bar and press enter
3. Click the ‘Options’ link under the Facebook Refresh
4. Enter the url of image your want in the background and hit save.

   

5. Now open the facebook login window and you will see your new login screen and good bye to old blue login screen of facebook.

How To Customize Facebook Login Page? originally appeared on Buzzingup

Let us find the drawbacks of free hosting service. But before that, remember, even if you are tight on budget you can always avail discount coupon deals as that of westhost coupons and yahoo web hosting coupon codes.

The process of creation of an account with free hosting service is very simple. As soon as you register your details, your account will be activated and you will be able to upload information on the server. Even though an account is created on your name, it may be deleted at any point of time with or without your notice. This will be a great hindrance if you are really dependant on your website for various business needs.

Free web hosting service provider offers limited number of resources. The amount of disk space offered may not be sufficient to your requirements. It is not scalable. Scalability is very important for growing organizations. With free web hosting service provider, you will not have freedom to choose your database and size of database. The types of software that can be installed on free servers are limited. Number of email accounts that can be created are limited. Another disadvantage is that you cannot have an email address named after your own domain name. The website address will be of long length and the website name may not be attractive and as fancy as you wish.

You should be able to get required bandwidth from web hosting service provider. As you grow in business, as number of hits on your website increase, you may want to go for paid hosting service. Changing from free plan to paid plan is not so smooth with some hosting services. Reliability is another important feature that cannot be expected in a majority of free hosting services. If you have an issue with the hosting service, you man not expect immediate redress. 24 x 7 customer support is not available as the service offered is free of cost.

Free websites generate revenue by displaying ads on your web pages. You will not have any control on the display of advertisements and affiliate programs promoted by the web hosting company. In fact, this is the main source of income for free web hosting service providers. If you are really averse to these kinds of ads and want to keep your web pages clean from having ads, then the only option is going for paid hosting service.

Free web hosting service offers limited or no protection for your data present on servers. You may not have backup facilities. Server reliability is utmost important and the server downtime should be the least. Free hosting services will not allow you to add interactive features such as chat, message boards, shopping cart, games, etc. For businesses it may be a hindrance as customers may not give prominence to free sites. If you are really serious in business, you will not hesitate to invest money and you would like to offer quality service to your customers. Search engines will give priority to websites that are located on paid hosting service providers. Websites hosted on free hosting space will come next and your website’s chances of getting better index in search engines will be less.

Free hosting service may not be forever and in the course of time, you may want to go for paid hosting service. Shifting from free hosting service to paid hosting service is a tedious process. It is difficult to carry all the SEO prominence from one hosting to another hosting. Sometimes, you may want to start your SEO efforts right from the scratch. This will be really difficult part and all your hard work will not be credited in your new environment.

Having come across all the difficulties listed here it is advisable to go for paid hosting service if you are really serious about your business and want to stay in business for long-term. In fact, it will take considerable time to become popular in the online world. Hence, it is better to invest in a good quality web hosting service provider that has established reputation over a period of time in the market. By being partnering with a solid web hosting service provider, you will be in forefront of technology. The upgrade process will be smooth, cost effective and efficient with a proven web hosting service provider.

You can get a good quality web hosting by using discount deals as that of westhost coupons and yahoo web hosting coupon codes without having to worry about your budget and choosing a free webhosting account. Jane also writes for a discount coupon blog that features webhost and yahoo hosting discount deals.

Why should you stay away from free hosting? originally appeared on Buzzingup

We all know that search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc work on the principle of indexing by crawlers/spiders, backlinks & pagerank. But the time has changed today after the evolution of social networking websites like Facebook & Twitter.

The basic concept followed by search engines is still the same but they have evolved with time & nowadays search results are also affected by social media. Both Microsoft Bing and Google admitted in interviews that their search results are positively affected by social signals, which includes tweets, facebook Likes, and +1s.

Google+ uses the concept of +1 which is quite similar to facebook likes, but the major difference is that whenever any google+ user publicly +1 any content on the web, it immediately gets reflected beside the search results. So they say that the number of +1 of any content is directly proportional to its higher placement in google search results. This is the reason why you should not ignore +1 by google if you are looking for good ranking in search results.

The number of times any web content is shared or liked on facebook or tweeted on twitter by different users is a big sign that it is liked by majority of users around the world. So this is what search engines are looking for and according to an experiment performed by a leading SEO firm, they proved that when two different content with the same parameters but with different social media popularity were tested, The one with more social media popularity dominated in the search results as compared to the another one.

Another thing that search engines look for in the social shares is that what are the sentiments surrounding the action. For example if any content is getting shared on twitter but with hash tags such as #bad #poor. So this means that even the content is getting shared but people are displeased by that particular content.

According to the conventional approach followed by search engines, black hat seo also comes into play & even those results get displayed which are not liked by users but they show just because they are stuffed with keywords, or even have many backlinks. But with social media, search engines are striving hard to include those results at the top which are genuine and even shared by various users on social networking websites.

So search engines are becoming complex day by day just to facilitate good quality in search results. But there is not doubt that social media is helping search engines deliver much relevant results to the user. This will eventually end up helping SEO-based businesses focus more on Social media to get good search engines ranking.

Does Social Media Help you in Search Engine Ranking? originally appeared on Buzzingup

Research in Motion (RIM), makers of the BlackBerry suffered a major stock plummet last fall with a drop of 68%. With the never-ending competition from multiple worldwide cell phone manufacturers and increasingly impressive platforms, it’s no wonder RIM decided to take the drastic measure they did and bring in some fresh blood. Though Heines has been with the company for 4 years, recent interviews reveal an exciting enthusiasm concerning the future of RIM.

Heines says he wants to earn and keep a top-3 spot in the mobile market share, and in order to do this he wants to generate enthusiasm internally and listen to consumers to suit their needs. He seems to have a good understanding that it will take timely releases of high quality, cost effective product to meet the consumer’s needs, as well as internally to increase inspiration and participation to achieve this goal.

BlackBerry 10 is on the horizon, and the revamping that has created the new face of this platform is expected to be impressive. Let’s hope so. If not, RIM may not be able to come back from another dud in the water.

Author’s Bio: Erin is a technology blogger who writes about the latest trends in software, how to get great deals using an HP coupon, and what’s going on in the world of mobile platforms.

BlackBerry’s CEOs Step Down To Make Room For Change originally appeared on Buzzingup

However, a thing that Skype lacks of is the feature of recording your own voice and video calls. This is vital especially to record important conference calls and record interviews made. This is where third party applications come by. There are literally hundreds of applications to record Skype calls but not all of them can fulfill the users’ expectations. In this article, several recommended applications for computer will be introduced.

Perhaps the best one among all is Solicall, which can be used by other instant chat messengers as well. Not only that it can record sounds, it will also improve the sound quality of the audio being recorded and it is also free for use in any platform, be it Windows, Mac OS or Linux. In addition, Solicall reduces background noise and filters disturbance in the calls being made. However, it is only capable of recording audio files only, not video files.

If you are searching for an application that can record video calls on Skype, you can try using IMCapture for Skype. Formerly known as SkypeCap, it will record videos as well as audios in several formats. It is compatible for both Windows and Mac OS. Perhaps the only low of the application is that you need to buy IMCapture for Skype at a really high price of $49.95 to use the application to its full potential. If you are searching for a cheaper alternative, you can try PowerGramo at just $14.95.

All the applications mentioned above is just for use with a PC or Mac. What if we want to record Skype calls we made on our tablet and phones like iPhone and iPad?

For iPhones and iPad, there are three applications in the App Store to record Skype voice calls; there is still no app that can record video calls in iPhone and iPad.

As far as i know, the only free application to record Skype calls is the QuickVoice Recorder by nFinity Inc. It can record while you are using other apps so it is not exclusively for use with Skype only. However, it is not as stable as the paid apps available in the app store. The Audio Memos by Imesart and Voice Recorder HD by eFUSION are the other two applications that can be used for recording Skype calls and they both have their own strength and weaknesses.

For the Android smartphones and tablets, many apps have been developed to record Skype calls but most of them are not matching the users’ expectations. As per my research there are also no apps in Android that can record Skype video calls. From observations and reviews made by users, the Call & Note Recorder Mailer PRO is the only application that receives great reviews from users. It is more or less the same with apps for iOS where it can be used while in the background. Therefore, you need to activate this app first before you can record your Skype calls.

Record Skype Calls On Your Computer, iPhone, iPad or Android originally appeared on Buzzingup