Content Generation

Mnemonicdictionary.com helps people learn and remember words and their meaning easily by providing memory aids (called mnemonics) for each word.

How it began... “The idea struck when I was preparing for my GRE in final year of college (IIT B). This technique worked for me, so I decided to reach out to all those people for whom vocabulary is a major roadblock,” says Aggarwal. His partners in the venture include Pritam Kumari and Prameela Jeppu.

Aggarwal invested a mere Rs 8,000 on the website mainly as domain and hosting charges. But the initial days were tough. “I quit my high-paying job and there was no cash inflow. I was taking care of practically everything… from technical work to marketing the website and generating revenue,” he says. But somehow things worked out.

Full Story: Make memory matter - Hindustan Times

SEO was the most important aspect of work on your website, after getting it built. Then there was a need to get your website seen in the search engines, so you head along the long road of SEO. Cleaning up your HTML, ensuring links can be followed, getting good content live and the holy grail, links back to you! Of course, this is just a small part of the entire SEO project for any website.

SEO is still as important as it was 12 months earlier. In fact, it is even more important because as more companies realise the importance of SEO and being found higher through the search engines, fierce competition arises with everyone. Everyone wants that coveted 1 st place when someone searches for a particular term.

Panic is arising in many companies because they realise that they need to concentrate on their SEO as well as their Social Media campaigns – they are literally being left behind by their competitors! If you want to appear anywhere useful in Google, then you need to work at it. Google will only rank websites highly if the site meets their criteria. The two most important areas here are still Link Building and Content.

Full Story: The Future of Search: SERP's, Social Media & SEO - Boosh Articles (press release) (blog)

Tracks can be placed in an inbox system, allowing friends to rate and suggest track choices, providing a socially interactive tool on the music site.

The Guardian reports that the Spotify profile also allows users to import tracks off their own personal music library to their music collection and in addition, export playlists to the music sharing site’s iPhone, Symbian and Android mobile apps.

ITProPortal believes that such innovations have put Spotify in direct competition with Apple’s iTunes, as well as shaking up the music industry as a whole.

Full Story: Spotify to join the social bandwagon - Vertical Leap News (press release)

Revenues for the quarter were $2.6bn, 66 per cent up or a billion dollars higher than the year-ago quarter. Net income was $400m, a massive jump from the $50m earned a year ago. WD made 51.1 million hard drives, almost 20 million more than the year-ago quarter's 31.6 million. This was a 62 per cent increase year-on-year and three per cent sequentially.

Western Digital exceeded Seagate's 50.3 million units after a long quarterly catch-up in production number terms. Seagate is still bigger than WD in market capitalisation terms - $9.83bn vs $9.30bn - but that measure looks likely to swing the other way if WD sustains its unit production numbers lead and builds its enterprise hard drive market sales faster than Seagate.

CEO and president John Coyne said the overall demand for hard disk drives (HDD) in the quarter was higher than the firm anticipated, confirming the view that the storage recession is over. He's confident about the rest of the year, saying, "We believe that calendar year 2010 will be an extremely strong year for storage," and he expects next quarter's revenue to be in the range $2.48bn-$2.58bn.

Full Story: Western Digital laps Seagate - Register

Website globalisation encompasses many challenges, from how to integrate it into your operations from a content generation and management perspective, through to the intricacies of grey market control, currency, taxation and fulfilment if you are involved in e-commerce.

In this post I focus on one aspect of a global website and that is language. This is a common challenge to both transactional and passive content websites.

There is a distinction between providing a multilingual website (one site available to a global audience with each page being available, fully translated, in multiple languages) and providing local country sites that present content that is of specific interest to that locale and would be delivered in the local language with a possible English translation as a backup.

Full Story: Tips for planning multi-language websites - Econsultancy (blog)