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Improving your vocabulary with Twitter

Twitter works as a good information system wherein you can get real time updates from all around the globe about the latest happenings. Unlike popular opinion, writers can benefit and hone their skills while using this popular type of social media. Twitter teaches how one can be concise and still pack a punch with their words. Every tweet has a character limit of 140.

To get the message across one needs to carefully select their words and compose them into their tweets. Due to the character limitation one is forced to dig deep to find new words to fit the scheme of things. These words need to be shorter and more descriptive. In a way it is like you are exercising your vocabulary. The words should help in getting the job done within the character limitations.

The twitter format helps you in taking your craft up a notch. It makes you pump up the verbs you use and place them instead of adjectives and adverbs. Twittering aids you in discovering a clearer, better and concise manner of saying what you want to convey. One wouldn’t be able to keep within the 140 character restriction at the first go. Twitter also tells you the number of characters you ought to remove from the message to make it fit. This is how twitter can make you a good writer.

What is Google Demo Slam?

Google wants to redefine the way you see, view, understand and interpret technology. With this sentiment in mind Google introduced the new Demo Slam website. This is part of the company’s endeavor to inspire the users to creatively re-imagine the technology demo which is typically dry and boring. This encourages users to creatively develop their own exciting renditions.

The Google ‘Demo Slam’ website is based on competition between two demo videos on technology which will be pitted side by side. The videos at the beginning will be seeded by Google itself. The site and its ‘slam’ format will prove to be a catalyst for the users to make demo slams (videos). Users then can vote in weekly competitions to choose their favorite Slam Champ for the week.

The visitors are encouraged to make their own videos showcasing the technologies developed by Google. The users can then go ahead and upload the videos on YouTube. Then wait for Google to decide which two videos will go ahead to fight it out for the title of the demo slam of the week.

According to the team at Google this endeavor is aimed at making their technology available beyond the technical circle. Well only time shall tell if this new platform takes Google’s technology to the main stream audience for now we can play the wait and watch game.

Easy steps to make search engines take notice of your website

Search engines can make or break your websites. They are responsible for most of the traffic to the websites of the world. Many websites are optimized with major search engine Google in mind. For a personal blog or a business website it is essential to have an audience otherwise all the hard work and efforts will not be recognized.

 

Here we list out simple ways in which one can dramatically improve traffic to your website. Content is the core element of any website. Content should target the personal needs of the people. It should be relevant to your website’s theme and should be brief and short.

 

 

Incorporating keywords which are most searched for on the internet helps draw traffic to the website. One should also use location specific keywords. They should also be related to the services and products offered by the company. The website should be easy to navigate and access the products and services. One should be easily able to go through the pages of the website and reach desired content with the least number of mouse clicks.

 

Your website can also be reached and searched by the means of the images and graphics on display on it. Proper and informative ‘alt’ tags should accompany the images. The URLs of the website should be search friendly. A commenting area for visitors to give feedback or start a discussion is also a good idea. And a must is to keep the content of the website original in order to get better ranking in the Google search engine.

Twitter set to get a billion users

In a recent press conference co founders of twitter Evan Williams and Biz Stone shared the podium in San Francisco. They discussed the role of twitter in activism, its news capabilities and the vision for future.

The discussion began with the question that whether twitter has come into the mainstream. To this Evan replied that twitter today continues to get more new users every week than the population of the state of Nebraska. That would put the user sign ups to about 1.8 million per week.

Next both the founders spoke about the positive feedback to the new twitter experience. According to them the new look was in keeping with the simplicity while adding richness and links to the content which is causing a buzz about the network. Biz stone answered a question on the criticism leveled against social media and its power in spurring social movements and causes. He said social media is complementary to activism as it helps in steady and quick information exchange.

Advertisement on twitter has been a raging subject of discussion for quite some time now. Evan Williams cited that twitter is a mix of editorial content and advertising. And all advertisement trends and tweets are labeled the same. Starbucks was one of the first in a long list of brands opting for the promotional tweets. The users showed interest with the brand raking in a million plus followers.

Twitter as per the founders helps individuals find out what is happening around the world. The main aim for twitter is to become an indispensable service in providing and spreading information. And lastly Williams spoke that twitter would reach a billion users and also added that it couldn’t be the same users as facebook.

His remarks are based on the belief that facebook and twitter are different services with different goals. Twitter is an information network more than a social network, was the emphasis behind the comments. It surely is a network that has changed the way in which we consume information and news.

Facebook ‘Groups’ to global domination

This revamped and developed from ground up version of Facebook groups has received a thumps up from the netizens while majority of the facebook users still seem confused about this latest entrant in the facebook family. Many believe re-branding might be necessary to kick start its use.

The Groups have features such as group chat, document sharing, group photo tagging, email lists and are controlled by all the members of the group. A mobile interface has been released by facebook. And the release of the Group’s Open Graph API means the group’s features will soon be available in every possible capacity all across the webosphere.

The groups will function differently with all the members in control similar to a democracy. This new direction according to facebook means that the social norms shall govern all activities. Facebook believes that ultimately the groups function will change the very way in which one uses the social medium. It spear heads a move that gives users more control in the distribution of their messages.

And according to the founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg the groups is designed to be so simplistic that everyone would want to use it for interaction and better functioning. And according to the press release in California the main aim of this social giant is to map the real world groups. This will help facebook ensure and incorporate more participation and build more useful products in various domains.

As part of the open graph undertaking facebook wants to completely understand its member relationships. And how individuals behave will be used in the groups to get a better understanding of the interaction. Facebook definitely looks to dominate!