Google Products and Projects that you never knew

Article authored by Sankaranand

The Search Giant Google plays many major roles in web industry from advertising, analytics to communication and enterprise solutions. But an average user is never aware of some of the interesting products and projects maintained by them. So I thought of writing a compilation of some of the interesting projects and products developed by Google.

Google Power meter

The free Energy monitoring is a tool that analyses power consumption and provides solutions to save energy and money. You need an energy monitoring device to run this tool, the information gathered is then analyzed and utilized by Google Power meter to show your home's power consumption information and solutions for cost reduction and energy saving. The best part is you can access it anywhere in the world since it’s saved in the cloud. This tool is completely free.

Google TV

Google TV allows you to search content on your TV, the web and applications. It can transform your TV into a digital entertainment box by reducing dependency on just Cable or STB networks. Starting 2011, TV manufactures bundle Google TV with them. Google TV brings content personalization to users thus you choose what you want to see. You can either buy a Google TV set box or a pre-configured Google TV. You can switch between watching television, web and use applications like in your phone. Google Chrome and Adobe Flash player is pre-installed in it. You can watch videos from YouTube, view photos, chat with friends. It’s just like a power computer designed for Media. Also you can use your android based or Iphone smart phone to control your TV. Seriously I am not joking about it. My final verdict about Google TV is that it is going to change the way you watch Television.

Google Business photos for Local Listing

We know Google Street view, Moon view but the folks at Google had gone further to take high quality business photos of Local listing in Google Places. Right now business consumers in US, Japan and Australia could allow Google Photographers to take Interior photos of their businesses and publish it in their Google Places listing. The photos may include the storefront, decor, layout, merchandise, food, signage about hours and accepted payment types, and other items that help people learn more about a business and decide if they want to go there. Next time if you are looking for a good restaurant for your first date and worried about finding a better ambiance I hope Google places will come to rescue.

Google Self Driving Cars

What if I told you technology can drive cars for you? It’s true. Google has developed a technology that uses video cameras, radar sensors and laser range finder to see other traffic with guided maps to travel and navigate safely across the traffic. These cars have been test drive successfully. By this way Google aims to reduce road accidents and cut carbon emissions by proper use. Google self driving cars are good example of innovation and give a glimpse about our future transportation.

Google Fusion Tables

Fusion table is a modern data management and publishing web application. It allows you to manage, collaborate, visualize and publish table data. Enterprises can import their data tables from spreadsheets or CSV files and with the help of Fusion API developers can program to query data to their requirements. Some best features are turn your location tables into maps, make heat maps, plot graphs, filtering data and graph, flexibility in merging different data from different sources. It allows you to make maps in minutes never mind how big the data is. You can collaborate with other users in cloud for working in your data. This will be a useful tool for businesses that depend in data analysis and analytics.

Google Follow Finder

Follow finder helps analyze public social graph information about a particular list in Twitter. Based on the list, it generates two Tweeps you follow and tweeps with similar followers. For example if you are following a web designer's tweet and wants to learn and find similar web designers, it generates a list from their network as well as public.

Google Browser Size

It creates a visualization of various browser sizes in our browser. It is a very useful tool for designers and web developers to decide about the site interface. Once a developer enters a URL of their site, it analyses and creates an overlay layer which shows the percentage of users visits in that particular area. By this way the designer can be sure that his content is reached to a wide range of audience.

Tourism in Pondicherry, the most attractive places

Article authored by Sankaranand

Pondicherry, the peaceful city was once known as "La Côte d'Azur de l'Est" meaning "The French Riviera of the East". There are many tourist attractions in and around Pondicherry which makes it one of the popular tourist destinations especially for foreigners. Well known for its heritage which retains much evidence of its history of French Colonies as well as Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville, Beaches, Temples, Churches, Heritage Buildings, Museums, Backwater and Star Hotels.

Sri Aurobindo Ashram



Sri Aurobindo Ashram is the oneness of Sri Aurobindo. The Ashram aims at providing a complete method of Yoga that would transform human nature to divine life. It also administrates many public benefits like providing free medical facilities and its most popular School for Perfect Eyesight, a health center promoting Bates method to improve and restore vision without the use of glasses. It is located on “rue de la Marine”.

Auroville



Auroville a small township is a city of dawn established just 10 kms from Pondicherry, and universal town where people of world countries live in peace and harmony. The major tagline of Auroville is realizing "human unity". So they believe in oneness and live without any differences on the basis of culture and creed. It was a project of Sri Aurobindo Society by Mirra Alfassa lovingly called as The Mother by her disciples.

Beaches



Some of the beaches to be visited in this city are the Paradise and Serenity Beach. The Serenity is located just blocks from the central town with monuments of Gandhi and Nehru. Stretched along 1.5 km across Bay of Bengal, you can experience evening relaxation and deep meditation feeling the cool sea breeze. Major hotels like Promenade and Le Dupleix are located in this area, where you can have a soothing spa experience as well as sipping the French wine along the cost. These major hotels are chain of Worlds Luxury Brand Hidesign. The Paradise Beach is located on the Cuddalore -Pondy Highway over the backwaters of Chunnambar. One can access the beauty beach by hiring a speed or motor boat at the boat house.

Temples


Spiritually Pondicherry is surrounded by a large number of heritage as well as modern temples. The Manakula Vinayagar Temple of Lord Ganesha is a three century old temple with Gold embossed dome and Pondicherry's Sweet pet Elephant Lakshmi. The elephant is well known for its silver anklets and drinking a 2 liters bottle full of Pepsi. The Varadaraja Perumal temple dated back to 600 AD, Vedhapureeswara Temple, Kamathi Amman Temple and Kanniga Parameswari Temple are other temples located over the town area.

Churches, Heritage Building and Museums


The Sacred Heart of Jesus Church is dated back to around 17 – 18 century. Every morning and evening rituals will take place and more no of devotees come here for worship. Other heritage places include the 19th century light house, French War Memorial, Dupleix Statue, Several French restoration buildings, Vysial Street (UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Award) for cultural heritage restoration. Some of the heritage buildings are turned out to heritage hotels and cottages.

The Pondicherry museum is located at Saint Louis Street. It has collections from the Pandavas and Cholas. There you can find as well as artifacts collected from Arikamedu: some of the Pre-Christian relics, remnants of Greek and Roman jars. You will also discover several pieces of the furniture that fitted Governor General Dupleix’s residence. It also has geology collections like shells and fossils. A must see.

Hotels

Pondicherry is abundant with resorts and hotels of all class. Some class hotels include The Promenade, Le Dupleix, Anandha Inn, GRT Grand Sunway and Atithi. Over the last few years several establishments of resorts steal the tourism such as Mahindra Beach Resorts' Zest Beach, Pondicherry Ashok Hotel and Bonheur's Ocean Spray (5 star grade hotel), Mango Hill…

Les fonctionnalités de Windows entrants 8

Un an après le lancement de Windows 7, les entreprises et d’autres clients attendent impatiemment la prochaine version majeure du système d’exploitation de Microsoft « Windows 8 »

Sur la liste des nouvelles fonctionnalités proposées sur Windows 8, le PC windows 8 démarre plus vite et les programmes se lancent très rapidement. On pourrait ouvrir les applications tels que les emails ou bien jouer à des jeux de pc qui se chargent très instantanément sans délai inattendu.

L'interface graphique est considérablement améliorée, plus simple et plus moderne. Windows 8 fonctionnerait avec de nouveaux types d’écrans, dont les modèles 3D sans fil et les appareils HDTV.

D’autres caractéristiques intéressantes :

La virtualisation
La reconnaissance vocale sera une caractéristique plus avancés de Windows 8
L’amélioration de la performance

Service DSFR: un moteur de réplication multi-maître est mis en place pour la synchronisation entre plusieurs serveurs.

BranchCache: BranchCache était une nouvelle fonctionnalité de Microsoft Windows 7. Cette fonctionnalité permet de récupérer des données du cache local d’une machine au lieu de les récupérer à partir d’un serveur distant. Ainsi, une amélioration importante est attendue sur Windows 8.

App Store: Le point le plus intéressant est windows 8 détecte facilement les applications des « l'Apple Store » comme Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Il y a avait très peu de rumeur qui se sont sorties mais Microsoft se refusé tout commentaire à ce sujet.

L'avenir nous le dira :)

Mise à jour du page Rank Google pour votre site web

Qu’est ce qu’un PageRank (PR)?
Page Rank est une valeur numérique (de 0 à 10) qui représente l'importance d'une page sur le web. l’algorithme de Google considère chaque lien vers une page web comme un vote. PR 0 est la note la moins importante, plus la valeur tend vers 10, plus la page est censée être populaire.

Pourquoi le PR est-il important?
Il est important parce qu'il est l'un des facteurs qui déterminent le classement d'une page dans les résultats de recherche.

Comment calculent-ils ?
PR(A) = (1-d)+d((PR(X1)/v(X1))+……+(PR(Xn)/v(Xn)))

D = facteur atténuation, généralement fixée à 0,85
X1 à Xn sont les pages des liens vers A
V est le nombre de liens sortants

Donc finalement nous pouvons dire:
Page Rank de A = 0,15+0,85 * (une "part" du Page Rank de chaque page des liens pointants vers la page web A)

"Part" = PR des liens pointants vers la page web A divisé par le nombre de liens sortants.


Quand aura lieu la prochaine mise à jour ?

-la 1ere mise à jour du Pagerank s'est déroulé du 1er au 30 avril 2010
-la deuxième mise à jour du Pagerank s'est déroulée du 1er au 30 juillet 2010
-La troisième mise à jour du Pagerank s'est déroulée du 1er October au 30 October 2010
-la quatrième mise à jour du Pagerank s'est déroulée du 1er janvier au 30 October 2011

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Twitter Tips: Monitor, Engage, Follow

As Twitter becomes more and more mainstream - the business benefits of Twitter become clearer.

First, a word of caution. When engaging in any social media, you want to do so authentically - it will involve a fair amount of your participation, both give and take. Your first step once you join Twitter should probably not be to go follow 1,000 people. First of all, you very possibly might not be able to due to recent limits set by Twitter. This act seems kind of spammy, and that's the last thing you want to do in social media. You should aim to let your community grow organically. That said, there are a few things you can do to get started.

The first thing you absolutely have to do once you sign up for a Twitter account (though you can do this before signing up for Twitter, but you won't be able to do much beyond this), start monitoring who and what people are saying about your company . Go to Search.Twitter and search for your company name, your executives' names, perhaps your competitors' names. You'll see all the recent tweets that mention that name or phrase. What's also great about these services is you can subscribe by RSS to this thread so you'll be able to keep tabs on new posts about your company. When someone does talk about your company - respond, favorite the tweet perhaps if it's favorable, and start following the person.

A very close second most important thing to do once you're on Twitter is to actually engage in the community . If you want people to follow you, you need to give them a reason to. Post interesting tweets, respond to others (see first point above). As noted in my word of caution, you want to be an authentic participant in the community. One of the wonderful things about Twitter is that you have to opt-in to receive someone's updates (follow them). So, you need to think of ways to warrant a follow. I've been pretty impressed with Whole Foods in this regard. I started following them, though I'm no Whole Foods nut, because of their interesting tweets like "TOTD" (tweet of the day), and interesting food-related tweets like plugging food festivals across the country.

Those are really the two most important things you can do on Twitter. But, if you're still interested in ramping up your Twitter following, here are a few additional ideas :

• Go back to Search.Twitter and search on more general phrases that relate to the audience you're trying to reach. Subscribe to those updates and respond/follow as appropriate.
• Check out the directories, like Twellow . Twellow is a directory of Twitter users categorized by industry or interest. There are a few other cool services, like Twubble and Twits Like Me . ReadWriteWeb posted a great article on these services here .
• Follow those who follow you. People like to feel like you're listening to them and that they're engaging in a two-way conversation with you. A follow-back is a great way to set that environment.
• Check out who your followers are following. They are likely interested in similar topics, and are a natural extension to your existing network.

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Conference SEO SMO India Search Summit 2010 au Tidel Parc IT de Chennai

Hangar 17 était présent à la conférence “India Search Summit (ISS)” qui s’est tenue le 28 et 29 Août 2010 au Tidel Parc IT de Chennai. Nous avons établi des contacts avec les autres agences web et webmasters venus de toute l’Inde. Cette séance de « remue-méninges » sur les nouvelles tendances et les technologies dans le marketing de recherche a duré deux jours.

les sujtes abordés:

-L'optimisation de l'e-commerce

-L'évolution et la révolution des médias sociaux en Inde

-Comment créer du contenu dupliqué qui se vende bien

-Analyse SEO du site www.tamilnadutourism.org

-Changement du paysage du référencement

-Statistiques sur l'investissement du PPC

-les média sociaux qui stimulent le moteur de recherche

-la notion de backlinks ("liens de retour")

-Comment développer sa marque personnelle sur les réseaux sociaux

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