Intel's low-power processor code-named Diamondville will initially be available as a single-core processor, but the company is planning a dual-core version, said a source familiar with Intel's plans. The dual-core Diamondville will deliver better performance than the single-core version and will be for low-cost desktops, the source said.

The dual-core Diamondville chip take Intel into the low-cost desktop market to compete with vendors such as Via Technologies, which is providing low-cost processors in desktops priced at less than $300 being sold by Everex.

The single-core Diamondville will initially be included in low-power notebooks that are fanless, the source said. The chips, which will be available around the middle of this year, will be manufactured using the 45-nanometer process and will likely contain 47 million transistors. It will include a 1.60GHz processor and 512KB cache.

Though processor pricing hasn't been set, the single-core Diamondville chip will be for laptops in the US$250 to $300 price range, the source said.


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Yahoo has added a Digg 'kind of a' functionality to its site that will help highlight popular news, articles & blog posts. This will be based on Search Patterns & User Votes. The Yahoo Buzz extension counts the 'BuzzScore' for news stories, videos, images and blog posts. A story's Buzz Score is based on your votes, searches, emails, and more. Content with the most votes is then considered for placement on Yahoo.com. "Yahoo Buzz is a good example of how we are continuing to innovate and open up our key starting points to third party publishers, making Yahoo! more social and personally relevant for our half a billion consumers," said Jeff Weiner, executive vice president of Yahoo's Network Division

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In your PC if "Show Desktop" icon has got deleted
accidentally, Just copy(CTRL+A, CTRL+C) and paste(CTRL+V) this code as it
is.
Instructions:
1. Click Start , click Run, type notepad, and then click
OK.
2. In Notepad, type the following text
on individual lines:

[Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop

On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as
Show
Desktop.scf.

Note Notepad might
automatically append a .txt extension to the file name. Remove this extension
if present. The file name should be Show Desktop.scf.

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Sony Ericsson W980i Specifications:

• General:
  Announced:2008, February
  Status:Coming soon. Exp. release 2008, Q3
• Size:
  Dimensions:92 x 46 x 16.9 mm
  Weight:100 g
• Display:
  Type:TFT, 256K colors
  Size:240 x 320 pixels, 2.2 inches
• - Second external TFT display, 256K colors (176 x 176 pixels)- Wallpapers, screensavers
• Ringtones:
  Type:Polyphonic, MP3, AAC
  Customization:Download
  Vibration:Yes
• Memory:
  Phonebook:1000 x 20 fields, Photo call
  Call records:30 received, dialed and missed calls
  Card slot:No
  - 8 GB shared memory
• Data:
  GPRS:Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
  HSCSD:Yes
  EDGE:Class 10, 236.8 kbps
  3G:HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
  WLAN:No
  Bluetooth:Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
  Infrared port:No
  USB:Yes, v2.0
• Features:
  Messaging:SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
  Browser:WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (NetFront), RSS reader
  Games:Yes + downloadable
  Colors:Piano Black
  Camera:3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, video; secondary videocall camera
  - Java MIDP 2.0,- Walkman player ,- FM transmitter,- FM radio with RDS and internal antena,- TrackID music recognition,- Shake control,- T9,- Image viewer,- Picture editor,- Organiser,- Built-in handsfree,- Voice memo .
• Battery:Standard battery, Li-Ion
  Stand-by:Up to 300 h
  Talk time:Up to 9 h
• Price:
• Introduction:Richer bass, improved stereo quality - it's a clear audio experience. The W980i Walkman® phone makes sure your music stays true to the sound of the original recording.
• Bluetooth:Every Bluetooth™ device has a unique name, enabling devices to recognise each other once they have been paired, and avoiding interference with other devices. Bluetooth™ enables communication across distances of up to 10 metres, and at speeds of up to 720 kb/s per channel.
• Internet:3G HSDPA high-speed Internet
  The third generation of mobile networks brings the convenience of broadband Internet to your mobile phone. Fast data transfer speeds - up to 3.6Mbit - give you quick, easy access to a world of video calls, audio and video streaming, Web surfing, multimedia messaging and email wherever you go.And it has Web feeds ,Video call ,Video streaming .
• Music Player:Sony Ericsson Walkman® phones bring the ease of digital music players to your mobile. So alongside all the usual advanced phone features, you can also download, stream, store and play back music in your mobile.And it also has Music tones , PlayNow™ ,Polyphonic ringtones ,Flight mode ,Radio ,TrackID™ . It’s easy to manage the music in your phone. One click starts the Walkman® music player. Now you can play, rewind, fast forward, equalise, shuffle tracks and create playlists - just like in any other digital music player. The Walkman® player supports several file formats including MP3 and AAC.
• Conclusion:The new Sony Ericsson W980i looks great. Itz completely a music player device with good cam capabilities.Lets see more details about this mobile after its release.It's price was expected to be 220$ ie approx Rs 10,000/-

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From the Inside Windows Live Messenger Team Blog: Back in November we shipped the final version of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 along with several other Windows Live applications and services. A lot of you have already upgraded, and for that we thank you and hope you’re enjoying it as much as we enjoyed building it. Starting soon, we’re going to make it easier for those of you who haven’t upgraded yet to get onto our latest and greatest.

This will happen in two phases. First, everyone running Windows XP or Windows Vista will get a prompt encouraging you to upgrade. When you accept the upgrade, the new unified installer will launch and start upgrading Messenger. While it’s installing, you’ll have the option to download and install other Windows Live applications. You don’t have to take any of them, but we think you’ll like them and hope you’ll give them a try.

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BMW M3 Specifications:

BMW M3 Performance & Efficiency Standard Features:

• - 3,246 cc 3.2 liters in-line 6 front engine with 87 mm bore, 91 mm stroke, 11.5 compression ratio, double overhead cam, variable valve timing/camshaft and four valves per cylinder
• - Premium unleaded fuel 91
• - Fuel economy EPA highway (mpg): 23 and EPA city (mpg): 16
• - Multi-point injection fuel system
• - 16.6 gallon main premium unleaded fuel tank
• - Power: 248 kW , 333 HP SAE @ 7,900 rpm; 262 ft lb , 355 Nm @ 4,900 rpm

BMW M3 Handling, Ride & Braking Standard Features

• - Four-wheel ABS
• - Brake assist system
• - Cornering brake control
• - Four disc brakes including four ventilated discs
• - Electronic brake distribution
• - Electronic traction control via ABS & engine management
• - Immobilizer
• - Rear limited slip differential
• - Stability control
• - Strut front suspension independent with stabilizer bar and coil springs , multi-link rear suspension independent with stabilizer bar and coil springs
• - Tire kit.

BMW M3 Exterior & Aerodynamics Standard Features

• - Body side molding
• - Body color front and rear bumpers
• - Concealed system convertible rollover protection
• - Electric softtop convertible roof with glass rear window
• - Day time running lights
• - Driver power heated body color door mirrors , passenger power heated body color door mirrors with automatic
• - External dimensions: overall length (inches): 176.9, overall width (inches): 70.1, overall height (inches): 53.9, wheelbase (inches): 107.5, front track (inches): 59.4, rear track (inches): 60 and curb to curb turning circle (feet): 36.1
• - Electric foldable mirrors - Front fog lights
• - Complex surface lens halogen bulb headlights
• - Heat reflective glass
• - Luxury trim leather on gearknob, alloy on doors and alloy on dashboard
• - Black paint
• - Fixed rear window with defogger
• - Tinted glass on cabin
• - Weights: curb weight (lbs) 3,781
• - Windshield wipers with automatic intermittent wipe and rain sensor.

BMW M3 Interior Standard Features

• - Air conditioning with climate control
• - Diversity antenna
• - Front and rear ashtray
• - Audio anti-theft protection: code
• - Manufacturer's own RDS audio system with AM/FM and CD player CD player reads MP3
• - Cargo area light
• - Cargo capacity:
• - Front seats cigar lighter
• - Clock
• - Computer with average speed, average fuel consumption and range for remaining fuel
• - Full dashboard console with covered storage box , full floor console with open storage box
• - Delayed/fade courtesy lights
• - Cruise control
• - Front seats cup holders fixed
• - Door ajar warning
• - Door pockets/bins for driver seat and passenger seat
• - External temperature - Floor covering: carpet in load area
• - Floor mats
• - Driver front airbag with multi-stage deployment , passenger front airbag with occupant sensors and multi-stage deployment
• - Sports electrically adjustable driver and passenger seat with height adjustment, thigh support, five adjustments and tilt adjustment
• - Height adjustable 3-point reel front seat belts on driver seat and passenger seat with pre-tensioners integrated
• - Front seat center armrest
• - Lockable glove compartment
• - Two height adjustable electric adjustable head restraints on front seats , two height adjustable head restraints on rear seats
• - Headlight control with time delay switch-off and dusk sensor
• - Heated washer
• - Illuminated entry system
• - Internal dimensions: front headroom (inches): 38.4, rear headroom (inches): 36.9, front hip room (inches): 56.8, rear hip room (inches): 47.6, front leg room (inches): 41.7, rear leg room (inches): 32, front shoulder room (inches): 54.5 and rear shoulder room (inches): 45.9
• - Low fuel level warning
• - Low tire pressure indicator
• - Memorized adjustment with three settings on door mirror position with five driver's seat positions and head restraint
• - Online information system
• - Remote power locks includes trunk/hatch, includes power windows and speed sensing
• - Power steering
• - Front and rear power windows with two one-touch
• - Front reading lights
• - 3-point reel rear seat belts on driver side and passenger side
• - Two fixed bench/sports front facing rear seats with zero adjustments
• - Automatic operation rear view mirror
• - Steering wheel mounted remote audio controls
• - Remote control remote trunk/hatch release
• - Front seat back storage
• - Leather seat upholstery with additional leather
• - Seating: four seats
• - Service interval indicator
• - Front side airbag
• - Ten speaker(s)
• - Leather covered multi-function steering wheel with tilt adjustment and telescopic adjustment
• - Tachometer
• - Telematics 240 and 12
• - Illuminated driver and passenger vanity mirror
• - Ventilation system with recirculation setting, micro filter and active carbon filter

Best Features:

• BMW M3 pleases enthusiasts of both performance and technology with near race-spec power and handling.
• Satellite radio provides a soundtrack to the racetrack, and a rudimentary navigation unit spares drivers the hassle of BMW's iDrive interface.

Back Drops

• BMW M3 is a high-priced, high-performance gas guzzler that can be balky when cold and at slow speeds.
• The veteran sports car shows its age with the lack of any MP3-playback ability.

Bottom Line:

• The current iteration of BMW's signature sports car blends competition power and handling with the comfort of a workaday sedan.
• Cockpit tech is less than impressive for a car with a price tag of nearly 70 grand, and fuel consumption and emissions are high. But it sure is fun to drive.

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HTC Shift Specifications:

• General:
  Announced:2007, March
  Status:Available. Released 2008, February
• Size:
  Dimensions:207 x 129 x 25 mm
  Weight:800 g
• Display:
  Type:TFT touchscreen, 16M colors
  Size:800 x 480 pixels (Wide-VGA), 7 inches
  - Slide-out QWERTY keyboard- Handwriting recognition
• Ringtones:
  Type:Polyphonic, MP3
  Customization:Download
  Vibration:Yes
  - Dual speakers
• Memory:
  Phonebook:In shared memory
  Call records:Yes
  Card slot:SDIO
  - 1 GB RAM, 128 MB ROM,- 40/80 GB HDD drive,- Intel Stealey 800MHz processor.
• Data:
  GPRS:Yes
  HSCSD:No
  EDGE:Yes
  3G:HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
  WLAN:Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
  Bluetooth:Yes, v2.0
  Infrared port:No
  USB:Yes, v2.0
• Features:
  OS:Microsoft Vista Business OS
  Messaging:SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
  Browser:WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE)
  Games:Yes,
  Colors:Black,Silver,White
  Camera:VGA, 640x480 pixels videocall camera
  - Java MIDP 2.0,- Voice memo,- Windows media player 11,- Video/audio album,- File manager,- Built-in handsfree,- Fingerprint recognition.
• Battery:Standard battery, Li-Po 2700 mAh
  Stand-by:8hrs
  Talk time:4.5hrs.
• Price:
• Key Features:
  Always-on access to critical information with HTC SnapVUE™
  Receive instant e-mails with Microsoft® Direct Push technology up to two days on battery standby.
  Powerful enough to give you the full Windows Vista® experience
  Revolutionary small form factor gives you portability without compromising mobility
  Adjustable 7-inch touch screen
  Mouse buttons and microPad
  Worldwide UMTS with HSDPA
  Bluetooth® 2.0 and Wi-Fi®
  USB 2.0 connectivity
  Fingerprint sensor.
• Introduction:The introduction of the HTC Shift continue HTC's long history of innovative, precedent-setting devices," said Peter Chou, chief executive officer of HTC. "These new devices bridge the gap between being mobile and being in the office, giving customers new choices for how they work, communicate and live.
• Technology:At the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Associations (CTIA) WIRELESS 2007, High Tech Computer Corp. (TAIEX: 2498; "HTC"), the world's leading provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile-based smart devices, announced the expansion of its product portfolio to include new groundbreaking computing device that focus on providing users with the definitive mobile computer experience.The HTC Shift brings the full power of Windows Vista and advanced wireless connectivity into an innovative and compact design that is sure to create a new paradigm for mobile computing.
• It surprises even ourselves when we say that HTC's Shift should be the UMPC device that makes us—who were mild on UMPCs before—a fan of the platform. Instead of using a split keyboard or a *shudder* on-screen circle pad, the Shift makes like the Advantage with its sliding and flipping screen. With the input problem solved, you can really enjoy the 7-inch touchscreen, 30GB hard drive, Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA, Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, and Windows Vista.
• More so than the Advantage, the OQO2, or the Flipstart, the Shift can serve as a substitute for a laptop when you're out of the house, away on business trips—or hell, even at home.
• Other features & Dimensions:The HTC Shift features a 7 inch touch screen and a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard. Other features of the HTC Shift include a 30GB HDD, tri-band HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, USB port, VGA port and SD Card slot. HTC will show the Shift at the CTIA. HTC showed the Shift to the guys at Laptop Magazine. There take: "We think it looks like a more compelling option than the split-keyboard Samsung Q1 Ultra launched at CeBit, especially for highly mobile professionals."
• Camera:A 3 megapixel camera will help with video conferencing, while the whole system when folded can act as one of those "snazzy" tablet PC things or just an incredibly large touchscreen PDA. The move to Vista means that you'll be able to do anything you could do on a laptop (it will be interesting seeing what it's like playing games on it) albeit with a smaller screen and HTC promise the usual 3 to 4 hours when in Vista mode.
• Connectivity:When it comes to connectivity, HTC has included tri-band HSDPA as well as Wi-Fi, to get you working on the move, and very much like HP with its QuickPlay offering that allows you to play DVD's without booting up the operating system, there is SnapVUE to access the phone's functionality. SnapVUE provides instant access to emails, calendar, SMS messages and contacts, without the need to fully boot-up the device and basically turns the Shift into a massive HTC Touch complete with the same Home screen, weather information and other factoids. Battery life for this side of the proceedings is 2 days on standby and it's a fully functional phone.

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Microsoft Corp. announced the departure of several executives Thursday, among them Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft's online business group, a Silicon Valley veteran recruited to help fix its unprofitable Web business. Berkowitz will hand off his duties to three insiders: Satya Nadella, currently in charge of search and search advertising engineering; Bill Veghte, a Windows marketing executive; and Brian McAndrews, formerly the chief executive of online advertising group aQuantive, which Microsoft acquired last year. Berkowitz joined Microsoft in 2006 after turning around Oakland, Calif.-based Ask.com, which, with related sites, was acquired by InterActiveCorp for $2.3 billion during his tenure as chief executive; no reason was given for his departure, and he will stay through August to help with the transition.

Brought in to help turn around Microsoft's own Web business, Berkowitz was charged with expanding the audience on its disparate MSN and Windows Live sites - making them more attractive to advertisers - and forging new business relationships, such as the ad partnership announced last summer with social news site Digg.com. With Berkowitz's departure, all advertising efforts will be consolidated under McAndrews. MSN head Joanne Bradford will report to Nadella. Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said today's announcement is unrelated to the Yahoo negotiations.

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Choose the Right Blog Software (or Custom Build)
The right blog CMS makes a big difference. If you want to set yourself apart, I recommend creating a custom blog solution - one that can be completely customized to your users. In most cases, WordPress, Blogger, MovableType or Typepad will suffice, but building from scratch allows you to be very creative with functionality and formatting. The best CMS is something that's easy for the writer(s) to use and brings together the features that allow the blog to flourish. Think about how you want comments, archiving, sub-pages, categorization, multiple feeds and user accounts to operate in order to narrow down your choices. OpenSourceCMS is a very good tool to help you select a software if you go that route.
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Host Your Blog Directly on Your Domain
Hosting your blog on a different domain from your primary site is one of the worst mistakes you can make. A blog on your domain can attract links, attention, publicity, trust and search rankings - by keeping the blog on a separate domain, you shoot yourself in the foot. From worst to best, your options are - Hosted (on a solution like Blogspot or Wordpress), on a unique domain (at least you can 301 it in the future), on a subdomain (these can be treated as unique from the primary domain by the engines) and as a sub-section of the primary domain (in a subfolder or page - this is the best solution).
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Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind
First and foremost, you're writing a title tag for the people who will visit your site or have a subscription to your feed. Title tags that are short, snappy, on-topic and catchy are imperative. You also want to think about search engines when you title your posts, since the engines can help to drive traffic to your blog. A great way to do this is to write the post and the title first, then run a few searches at Overture, WordTracker & KeywordDiscovery to see if there is a phrasing or ordering that can better help you to target "searched for" terms.
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Participate at Related Forums & Blogs
Whatever industry or niche you're in, there are bloggers, forums and an online community that's already active. Depending on the specificity of your focus, you may need to think one or two levels broader than your own content to find a large community, but with the size of the participatory web today, even the highly specialized content areas receive attention. A great way to find out who these people are is to use Technorati to conduct searches, then sort by number of links (authority). Del.icio.us tags are also very useful in this process, as are straight searches at the engines (Ask.com's blog search in particular is of very good quality).
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Tag Your Content
Technorati is the first place that you should be tagging posts. I actually recommend having the tags right on your page, pointing to the Technorati searches that you're targeting. There are other good places to ping - del.icio.us and Flickr being the two most obvious (the only other one is Blogmarks, which is much smaller). Tagging content can also be valuable to help give you a "bump" towards getting traffic from big sites like Reddit, Digg & StumbleUpon (which requires that you download the toolbar, but trust me - it's worth it). You DO NOT want to submit every post to these sites, but that one out of twenty (see tactic #18) is worth your while.
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Launch Without Comments (and Add Them Later)
There's something sad about a blog with 0 comments on every post. It feels dead, empty and unpopular. Luckily, there's an easy solution - don't offer the ability to post comments on the blog and no one will know that you only get 20 uniques a day. Once you're upwards of 100 RSS subscribers and/or 750 unique visitors per day, you can open up the comments and see light activity. Comments are often how tech-savvy new visitors judge the popularity of a site (and thus, its worth), so play to your strengths and keep your obscurity private.
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Don't Jump on the Bandwagon
Some memes are worthy of being talked about by every blogger in the space, but most aren't. Just because there's huge news in your industry or niche DOES NOT mean you need to be covering it, or even mentioning it (though it can be valuable to link to it as an aside, just to integrate a shared experience into your unique content). Many of the best blogs online DO talk about the big trends - this is because they're already popular, established and are counted on to be a source of news for the community. If you're launching a new blog, you need to show people in your space that you can offer something unique, different and valuable - not just the same story from your point of view. This is less important in spaces where there are very few bloggers and little online coverage and much more in spaces that are overwhelmed with blogs (like search, or anything else tech-related).
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Link Intelligently
When you link out in your blog posts, use convention where applicable and creativity when warranted, but be aware of how the links you serve are part of the content you provide. Not every issue you discuss or site you mention needs a link, but there's a fine line between overlinking and underlinking. The best advice I can give is to think of the post from the standpoint of a relatively uninformed reader. If you mention Wikipedia, everyone is familar and no link is required. If you mention a specific page at Wikipedia, a link is necessary and important. Also, be aware that quoting other bloggers or online sources (or even discussing their ideas) without linking to them is considered bad etitquette and can earn you scorn that could cost you links from those sources in the future. It's almost always better to be over-generous with links than under-generous. And link condoms? Only use them when you're linking to something you find truly distasteful or have serious apprehension about.
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Invite Guest Bloggers
Asking a well known personality in your niche to contribute a short blog on their subject of expertise is a great way to grow the value and reach of your blog. You not only flatter the person by acknowedging their celebrity, you nearly guarantee yourself a link or at least an association with a brand that can earn you readers. Just be sure that you really are getting a quality post from someone that's as close to universally popular and admired as possible (unless you want to start playing the drama linkbait game, which I personally abhor). If you're already somewhat popular, it can often be valuable to look outside your space and bring in guest authors who have a very unique angle or subject matter to help spice up your focus. One note about guest bloggers - make sure they agree to have their work edited by you before it's posted. A disagreement on this subject after the fact can have negative ramifications.
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Eschew Advertising (Until You're Popular)
I hate AdSense on blogs. Usually, I ignore it, but I also cast a sharp eye towards the quality of the posts and professionalism of the content when I see AdSense. That's not to say that contextual advertising can't work well in some blogs, but it needs to be well integrated into the design and layout to help defer criticism. Don't get me wrong - it's unfair to judge a blog by its cover (or, in this case, its ads), but spend a lot of time surfing blogs and you'll have the same impression - low quality blogs run AdSense and many high quality ones don't. I always recommend that whether personal or professional, you wait until your blog has achieved a level of success before you start advertising. Ads, whether they're sponsorships, banners, contextual or other, tend to have a direct, negative impact on the number of readers who subscribe, add to favorites and link - you definitely don't want that limitation while you're still trying to get established.
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Go Beyond Text in Your Posts
Blogs that contain nothing but line after line of text are more difficult to read and less consistently interesting than those that offer images, interactive elements, the occassional multimedia content and some clever charts & graphs. Even if you're having a tough time with non-text content, think about how you can format the text using blockquotes, indentation, bulllet points, etc. to create a more visually appealing and digestable block of content.
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Cover Topics that Need Attention
In every niche, there are certain topics and questions that are frequently asked or pondered, but rarely have definitive answers. While this recommendation applies to nearly every content-based site, it's particularly easy to leverage with a blog. If everyone in the online Nascar forums is wondering about the components and cost of an average Nascar vehicle - give it to them. If the online stock trading industry is rife with questions about the best performing stocks after a terrorist threat, your path is clear. Spend the time and effort to research, document and deliver and you're virtually guaranteed link-worthy content that will attract new visitors and subscribers.
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Pay Attention to Your Analytics
Visitor tracking software can tell you which posts your audience likes best, which ones don't get viewed and how the search engines are delivering traffic. Use these clues to react and improve your strategies. Feedburner is great for RSS and I'm a personal fan of Indextools. Consider adding action tracking to your blog, so you can see what sources of traffic are bringing the best quality visitors (in terms of time spent on the site, # of page views, etc). I particularly like having the "register" link tagged for analytics so I can see what percentage of visitors from each source is interested enough to want to leave a comment or create an account.
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Use a Human Voice
Charisma is a valuable quality, both online and off. Through a blog, it's most often judged by the voice you present to your users. People like empathy, compassion, authority and honesty. Keep these in the forefront of your mind when writing and you'll be in a good position to succeed. It's also critical that you maintain a level of humility in your blogging and stick to your roots. When users start to feel that a blog is taking itself too seriously or losing the characteristics that made it unique, they start to seek new places for content. We've certainly made mistakes (even recently) that have cost us some fans - be cautious to control not only what you say, but how you say it. Lastly - if there's a hot button issue that has you posting emotionally, temper it by letting the post sit in draft mode for an hour or two, re-reading it and considering any revisions. With the advent of feeds, once you publish, there's no going back.
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Archive Effectively
The best archives are carefully organized into subjects and date ranges. For search traffic (particularly long tail terms), it can be best to offer the full content of every post in a category on the archive pages, but from a usability standpoint, just linking to each post is far better (possibly with a very short snippet). Balance these two issues and make the decision based on your goals. A last note on archiving - pagination in blogging can be harmful to search traffic, rather than beneficial (as you provide constantly changing, duplicate content pages). Pagination is great for users who scroll to the bottom and want to see more, though, so consider putting a "noindex" in the meta tag or in the robots.txt file to keep spiders where they belong - in the well-organized archive system.
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Implement Smart URLs
The best URL structure for blogs is, in my opinion, as short as possible while still containing enough information to make an educated guess about the content you'll find on the page. I don't like the 10 hyphen, lengthy blog titles that are the byproduct of many CMS plugins, but they are certainly better than any dynamic parameters in the URL. Yes - I know I'm not walking the talk here, and hopefully it's something we can fix in the near future. To those who say that one dynamic parameter in the URL doesn't hurt, I'd take issue - just re-writing a ?ID=450 to /450 has improved search traffic considerably on several blogs we've worked with.
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Reveal as Much as Possible
The blogosphere is in love with the idea of an open source world on the web. Sharing vast stores of what might ordinarily be considered private information is the rule, rather than the exception. If you can offer content that's usually private - trade secrets, pricing, contract issues, and even the occassional harmless rumor, your blog can benefit. Make a decision about what's off-limits and how far you can go and then push right up to that limit in order to see the best possible effects. Your community will reward you with links and traffic.
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Only One Post in Twenty Can Be Linkbait
Not every post is worthy of making it to the top of Digg, Del.icio.us/popular or even a mention at some other blogs in your space. Trying to over-market every post you write will result in pushback and ultimately lead to negative opinions about your efforts. The less popular your blog is, the harder it will be to build excitement around a post, but the process of linkbait has always been trial and error - build, test, refine and re-build. Keep creating great ideas and bolstering them with lots of solid, everyday content and you'll eventually be big enough to where one out of every 20-40 posts really does become linkbait.
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Make Effective Use of High Traffic Days
If you do have linkbait, whether by design or by accident, make sure to capitalize. When you hit the front page of Digg, Reddit, Boing Boing, or, on a smaller scale, attract a couple hundred visitors from a bigger blog or site in your space, you need to put your best foot forward. Make sure to follow up on a high traffic time period with 2-3 high quality posts that show off your skills as a writer, your depth of understanding and let visitors know that this is content they should be sticking around to see more of. Nothing kills the potential linkbait "bump" faster than a blog whose content doesn't update for 48 hours after they've received a huge influx of visitors.
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Create Expectations and Fulfill Them
When you're writing for your audience, your content focus, post timing and areas of interest will all become associated with your personal style. If you vary widely from that style, you risk alienating folks who've come to know you and rely on you for specific data. Thus, if you build a blog around the idea of being an analytical expert in your field, don't ignore the latest release of industry figures only to chat about an emotional issue - deliver what your readers expect of you and crunch the numbers. This applies equally well to post frequency - if your blog regularly churns out 2 posts a day, having two weeks with only 4 posts is going to have an adverse impact on traffic. That's not to say you can't take a vacation, but you need to schedule it wisely and be prepared to lose RSS subscribers and regulars. It's not fair, but it's the truth. We lose visitors every time I attend an SES conference and drop to one post every two days (note - guest bloggers and time-release posts can help here, too).
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Build a Brand
Possibly one of the most important aspects of all in blogging is brand-building. As Zefrank noted, to be a great brand, you need to be a brand that people want to associate themselves with and a brand that people feel they derive value from being a member. Exclusivity, insider jokes, emails with regulars, the occassional cat post and references to your previous experiences can be offputting for new readers, but they're solid gold for keeping your loyal base feeling good about their brand experience with you. Be careful to stick to your brand - once you have a definition that people like and are comfortable with, it's very hard to break that mold without severe repercussions. If you're building a new blog, or building a low-traffic one, I highly recommend writing down the goals of your brand and the attributes of its identity to help remind you as you write.

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Tough talking is a way of life in the airline business, a sector over-stuffed with suppliers teetering on the brink of extinction, and with a reputation for costly and poor service.

Two months after plucking new chief executive James Whitehurst - a man with a self-confessed lack of direct involvement in open source software but who is known for his operational experience - from struggling Delta Airlines, Red Hat is now talking big.

Whitehurst's vice president in charge of Red Hat's JBoss middleware Craig Muzilla, said Red Hat is going to undercut giants IBM, Oracle and Microsoft in the saturated and expensive middleware sector during the next seven years, using the full JBoss stack.

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Sony Ericsson R300i Radio Specifications:

• General:
  Announced:2008, January
  Status:Coming soon. Exp. release 2008,April
• Size:
  Dimensions:101 x 46 x 12 mm
  Weight:75 g
• Display:
  Type:TFT, 65K colors
  Size:128 x 160 pixels, 1.8 inches
  - Wallpapers, screensavers
• Ringtones:
  Type:Polyphonic, MP3, AAC
  Customization:Composer, download
  Vibration:Yes
• Memory:
  Phonebook:1000 contacts, Photo call
  Call records:30 received, dialed and missed calls
  Card slot:No
  - 8 MB shared memory
• Data:
  GPRS:Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
  HSCSD:No
  EDGE:No
  3G:No
  WLAN:No
  Bluetooth:Yes
  Infrared port:No
  USB:Yes
• Features:
  Messaging:SMS, MMS, Email
  Browser:WAP 2.0/xHTML
  Games:Yes + downloadable
  Colors:Antique Copper, Steel Black
  Camera:VGA, 640x480 pixels
  - TrackID,- MP3/AAC player,- Java MIDP 2.0,- T9,- FM/AM radio receiver/recorder with RDS,- Image viewer,- Picture editor,- Voice memo,- Built-in handsfree,- Alarm clock with radio,- Calculator,- Calendar,- Notes-, Stopwatch,- Tasks,- Timer
• Battery:Standard battery, Li-Ion
  Stand-by:Up to 400 h
  Talk time:Up to 9 h
• Price:
• Entertainment:Java™ Games,Embedded Games.
• Organiser:Phone Book,Alarm Clock with Radio , Calculator,Notes , Stopwatch, Tasks, Timer, Speakerphone,Vibrating Alert.
• Internet:WAP 2.0 XHTML.
• Key Features:FM & AM Radio with Radio RDS,Radio Alarm,Radio Recording,0.3 Megapixel VGA Camera,Bluetooth® Technology,Tri Band (GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900),8 Mbytes Memory .
• Both of these new phones are designed to have a "clear radio look-and-feel" and both offer integrated speakers - stereo in the case of the R306i Radio. Preset buttons on the front let you change stations and offer one click volume control.
• The radio function can be set as your alarm clock and you can record direct from broadcasts, in addition recorded song clips can be used as ringtones. "TrackID" comes as standard on both models. This feature, found on other higher-end SE offerings, lets you record a clip of a song from an external source, then find out within seconds who sang it, the name of the track and which album it is from.
• Both phones feature Bluetooth, the R300i Radio has a VGA camera while the R306i Radio has a 1.3 megapixel camera.
• The R300i Radio, complete with stereo headphones, will launch in two colours: Antique Copper and Steel Black. It will be available in selected (read: mostly emerging) markets from Q2 2008.
• The R306i Radio will launch in two colours: Coffee Black and Champagne White. It will be available in selected markets from Q3 2008.
• The Sony Ericsson R300i comes with a high quality loud speaker which is situated on the back of the handset which enhances the ultimate design of this phone as well as providing crystal clear sound out loud for the user to enjoy their radio entertainment.
• If the user is requiring a private listening experience then the stereo headset provided with the R300i allows the user to gain a private listening experience by plugging in the headset & away they go. The Sony Ericsson R300i comes with a TrackID™ feature which is a music recognition feature which allows the user to find out the name of a song they like the sound of in a few seconds.
• The TrackID™ feature is becoming very popular is a great way to find out all the music information quickly. The radio comes with many useful features which include a radio RDS, recording & a radio alarm.
• The user can access the Internet on their Sony Ericsson R300i which allows the user to view all their favourite Internet sites using the integrated WAP 2.0 browser. The phone supports MMS & SMS messaging services which allow the user to share picture or text messages with other compatible messaging contacts.
• The user can send, store, edit & receive SMS messages which contain text & symbols to their friends & family which is a great way to stay in contact. The MMS messaging service allows the user to send, receive, store, edit & delete messages containing pictures with text & sound.
• The R300i supports a predictive text function which will assist the user when typing text input as the words are predicted for the user as the user starts to type which the user can either accept or decline.

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"We’re excited to share with you Yahoo! Live, a new experiment in live video from the Advanced Products team at Yahoo!. Y! Live was dreamed up as a way to make it possible for anyone to create their own live video experience. Broadcast the concert you’re at. Webcast your own live DJ set. Lifecast. Build your own live video speed dating application. We’ve created a website and an API that lets you do all these things and many more,"Yahoo! Team shared their feelings.

Keep in mind that Y! Live is an experimental release.

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Although Intel's mighty proud of the Core 2 Duo, it looks like the chip wasn't all home-grown - a lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology developed by one of its professors. Back in 1998, CS department chair Gurindar Sohi presented some of his developments relating to instruction level parallelism to Intel and offered to license them, but got nowhere - yet the same technology is in the Core 2 Duo, according to the lawsuit. For its part, Intel says it's been talking to the Badgers for over a year now, and that it hasn't evaluated the complaint - which it might want to do in short order, since the University is asking for the court to halt shipments of the Core 2 Duo in addition to monetary damages and legal fees.

View: [PDF] Formal Complaint to Court

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Computer maker Dell Inc. has stopped selling many computers with processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on its Web site, although it will continue selling some through retailers. This decision is a setback for AMD, which managed to break Dell's exclusive supplier relationship with Intel Corp. in 2006. However, the computer maker was sure to make clear that they weren't abandoning AMD: "We regularly adjust our product offerings and how customers can purchase those products," said spokesman David Frink. "The majority of our consumer AMD-based systems are available through our retail partners and telephone sales...Dell is committed to the AMD product line as a long-term partner to provide flexibility and maximum choice for our customers."

Dell.com will continue to offer desktop and notebook computers and servers with AMD processors for business customers, and a single consumer-oriented desktop model with an AMD processor, while Dell machines with AMD processors can still be had at retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Best Buy Co. Roger Kay, a technology analyst with Endpoint Technologies Associates, said the harm to AMD could be minimal if Dell sticks with AMD processors for machines sold through retailers. But, he said, AMD might be pressured into cutting prices on those chips. Intel declined to comment.

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Nokia 8800 Arte Specifications:

• General:
  Announced:2007, November
  Status:Available. Released 2007, December
• Size:
  Dimensions:109 x 45.6 x 14.6 mm, 65 cc
  Weight:150 g
• Display:
  Type:OLED, 16M colors
  Size:240 x 320 pixels, 2 inches
  - Scratch,-resistant glass,- Living wallpapers,- Downloadable wallpapers, screensavers
• Ringtones:
  Type:Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3, video ringtones
  Customization:Download.
  Vibration:Yes
• Memory:
  Phonebook:1000 entries, Photocall
  Call records:20 dialed, 20 received, 20 missed calls
  Card slot:No
  - 1 GB of user memory
• Data:
  GPRS:Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
  HSCSD:Yes
  EDGE:Class 10, 236.8 kbps
  3G:Yes, 384 kbps
  WLAN:No
  Bluetooth:Yes, v2.0
  Infrared port:No
  USB:Yes, microUSB OTG
• Features:
  Messaging:SMS, MMS, Email
  Browser:WAP 2.0/xHTML
  Games:Yes + Downloadable.
  Colors:Black
  Camera:3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video
  - Java MIDP 2.1,- MP3/AAC/eAAC player,- Voice memo,- T9,- Calculator,- Built-in handsfree,- Durable stainless steel covers-, Turn-to-mute.
• Battery:Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh (BL-4U)
  Stand-by:Up to 300 h
  Talk time:Up to 3 h.
• Price:
• Entertainment:Java™ Games,Embedded Games,Downloadable Games.
• Internet:XHTML Browser.
• Key features:
  Looks
  Body made of the highest-quality materials
  2" 16M color OLED display with QVGA resolution
  3G
  3 megapixel camera with autofocus
  Full-house retail package
  Decent battery life
  Fingerprint resistant surface on the back
  Turn-to-mute
  Magic clock
  Large internal memory
  Series 40 5th edition user interface
• Main disadvantages:
  Poor legibility under direct sunlight
  Tri-band only
  No memory expansion
  Smallish display
  Expensive, believe it or not
• Introduction:The Nokia 8800 Arte is a luxurious state of the art 3G phone which comes in a highly desirable casing. The 8800 Arte is a beautiful designed phone which is made for luxurious & high quality materials. The 3G handset is made from stainless steel & glass which comes with a super smooth slide opening mechanism. The casing is a sleek glossy black colour which adds to its distinctive design. The Nokia 8800 Arte is a high tactile handset that the user will never want to put down. The handset feels & looks quality when in the user hand.
• Dimensions:The overall size of the phone is 109mm by 45.6mm by 14.6mm which is a good size for carrying purposes. The 8800 Arte weighs 150 grams including the fitted battery. This super sleek phone comes with a beautiful high quality two Inch colour screen which displays up to sixteen million colours for the user to experience vivid colours on the screen. The 8800 Arte is a member of the Nokia 8000 series which includes other stylish slide opening mobile phones including the Nokia 8600 Luna, Nokia 8800, Nokia 8800 Sirocco & the Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte but each phones has their own unique features & design.
• Camera Good Pick up:The user can have fun with the phones camera feature complete with video capabilities which allow the user to capture still photos as well as moving video footage. The built in camera is a 3.2 megapixel camera which comes with easy to use camera features including an 8 x digital zoom, auto focus & photo editor. The user can use the camera to record video footage