Twitter wants to do more than make their presence felt in China, they want to compete with Weibo.

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter said that they would love to have their presence felt in China. China is currently the world’s largest Internet market with more than 500 million users but many western mainstream websites including Google and Facebook are finding it hard to capture a market share since time immemorial.

China blocks overseas social networking properties like Facebook and Twitter, Google on the other hand is left to dust by Baidu, a Chinese search engine. Weibo is a micro-blogging platform similar to Twitter.

Dorsey stressed that for starters they must be allowed to compete with Weibo. That translates to unblocking Twitter on China. Dorsey made this statement during the All Things Digital AsiaD technology conference in Hong Kong.

Twitter and other websites like Google and Facebook are still accessible to China – through a proxy that is. China’s decision to block these non-local web properties is political in nature. Censorship in China is a serious

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Google Analytics is improving how you can learn more about your website’s traffic, visually and in realtime.

Senior Vice President of advertising at Google Susan Wojcicki said that the move seeks to answer website owners’ desire to learn how users actually move around the website and if they’re converting. The new feature announced at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco aims to answer that.
   
Google used the historic Napoleon's 1812 campaign into Russia for its visual representation. Yes, they did deep down into history and borrowed Charles Minard's popular visualization of the event. The representation showed geography, time, and troop strength of Napoleon’s army. Google used it as an inspiration probably because «probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn.»
 
The new Google Analytics can show you how many visitors are online, ergo real time. Administrators with Analytics account can also see real-time reports. Through this, your website’s performance is immediately reflected on your analytics. This metric may brought upon a new

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Latest stats on browser usage show that Firefox and Internet Explorer declined in number of users favoring Google Chrome. Internet Explorer remains at the prime spot, followed by Firefox, but Chrome is steadily gaining more users.

Chrome’s strength is very obvious with the data released by Net Applications. Other browsers like Opera and Safari still have their small population of users.

We rarely love numbers so take a look at the graph below to see the browsers’ usage shares:


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Reality sank in last week when we were looking at performance graphs in google webmaster tools that over time our page times have crept up to nearly 5 seconds a page as the content on our site had grown to over 62,000 stores an 250,000 coupons. It dawned on us that the rate at which google had been taking pages from our website decreased and our traffic had been relatively stable as this process happened…

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Search engine optimisation is one of those industries that works behind the scenes. The kind of business that the vast majority of people have no idea exists, but that effects their lives on a daily basis.

Whilst nearly everyone will have used Google at some point - billions of searches are made each day by millions of unique users at some point - very few people will have any idea about exactly how the search engine gives them relevant results. If they do, then they might actually have some idea about just what search engine optimisation is and how it works.

Still, even these people would probably be shocked at the size of the industry and the passion of the little community that has sprung up around it. Known internally as SEO, it's a complicated little world of technical intricacy and constant debate that the average outsider will find slightly incomprehensible.

If you're still wondering what search engine optimisation is, prepare for the info-dump. SEO is all about improving the volume or quality of we traffic for a web page - whether it's an ecommerce site, a blog or an online gallery - through one specific source: search engines. Whilst it's an internet marketing strategy, it's not commonly thought of as "search engine marketing.'' This is because SEO stands separate to buying advertisements in search engines; ultimately, it's about making a site appear higher in search rankings.

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I love Picasaa. Here are five reasons you should use, as well as tips. They are listed in no particular order.

1. Picasa Photo Viewer is a quick and Beautiful

Picasa's Photo Viewer provides a nice alternative to the default Windows Photo Viewer. It pops up the image a nice smooth animation and gives you some options that appear in the picture. It'sa very aesthetically pleasing way to view the photos, and doesn't have to use the other part of Picasa! After Picasa is installed, just go to the Start menu, go to Picasa 3, and then click Set Picasa Photo Viewer.

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General users can now download the beta version of Google Chrome for Mac, as the web browser has finally been made available Tuesday.

Chrome for Mac has been a long time to come, more than a year after its Windows counterpart first debuted in beta. Although it was initially planned to allocate in first half of 2009, the product has hit numerous delays.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has admitted this year that Chrome's absence on the Mac platform has been embarrassment for his company. The company has worked to ensure that the beta version of the browser may get a period at the end of 2009.

Download available from Google, is 17.6MB. Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and only runs on Intel processors.

We've been working hard to deliver a first-class browser for the Mac

Google has opened up public access to the new Domain Name System (DNS) service that allows users to make Internet hosts quickly, accurately and safely.

The new service allows users to bypass your own Internet service provider's DNS to use Google's performance-optimized servers, name lookup. Internet users continued access to the DNS in the background every time you enter a URL in your browser, click the hyperlink, email, or perform any other task to resolve IP address of host names.

User's currently assigned DNS server may be overloaded, slow, or even maliciously poisoned provide bad information. This means that Google's new services so the potential to improve the efficiency and safety.

Users can search by entering a new Google's difficult to remember DNS IP addresses (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) to replace their existing DNS settings, either individually on each computer used by, or central to your AirPort base station or other router, which will then have access to Google's DNS to perform all network query host name.

No redirection, blocking or filtering

Other free DNS services are already available, but most cover their costs by shifting is not a query (for mistyped or incorrect URLs) for ad-supported sites that propose alternatives. Until now, Google in March't perform any conversion of such business. Instead, the company providing the service for free as a way to collect information on how Internet users in anonymous and aggregate level.

In its Google Public DNS information page, the company stated,"Sometimes, in the case of queries for mistyped or non-existent domain name, right [DNS] response means that there is no reply or an error message stating the domain name could not be resolved. Public Google DNS never blocks, filters or conversion of users, unlike some open resolvers and ISPs."

Google also provides detailed instructions on how to use their new service, including free telephone support. It also explains performance advantages in security benefits their new services.

Google's network of savvy and ability to handle huge amounts of public requirements would be uniquely placed to offer this service free of charge to the public. The company itself describes the services offered to quickly caught, as every typical user loads a Web page in the browser include several or even many DNS queries, each of which can stall the progress of loading pages, if it can not be resolved quickly.

[via Apple Insider]

Google is planning to launch Chrome browser beta version for Mac OS X in December. Nick Baum, product manager for Chrome, gave the details in a post on the Google Groups page for browser extensions. The post encouraged developers to update their extensions to take advantage of the new Chrome user interface.

"Why make the switch now? The earlier you switch, the more time you will have to polish your experience for our Beta launch in early December," Baum said. "We realize this means dropping Mac support for a couple of weeks, but we already have people working on that. If you prioritize the Windows and Linux versions, we'll bring you cross-platform parity as soon as we can!"

In October, Google Chrome for Mac released the status of developer preview. To the new version will be added QuickTime and printing compatibility.

Company officials had previously said they hope to release a final version of Chrome for Mac by the end of 2009. Currently, the Webkit-based browser is only available as a test version for developers, even though three versions of it have already been released on Windows.
[via Apple Insider]

Google is well-known for its fast searching engine as it can provide search queries within a count of half-second or even less.
Other services of Google perform considerable service for internet users as well except Gmail which sometimes shows poor performance. Google is typical with minimalist design. Yet, the speed performance of Google leaves no lack to the users to get the result of queries at once.

Good news. The key weapon of Google’s velocity is known as Page Speed, an internal tool that works to make efficient its site contents, is unfolded nowadays for website developers. Firefox plugin incorporated with Firebug is the first open-sourced tool that allows individual users to get the websites much faster than usual.

Excerpted from Google Blog Post:

A simple illustration on how Page Speed works to optimize your sites performance is that when you upload an image, compressed type of files will automatically provided for you. Thereby, you can directly display the compressed image on your site with no trouble. JavaScript or CSS which is used for faster display of your web pages can be identified obviously by Page Speed. The brilliance of this internal tool presents unquestionable comfort for individual users who are accessing your website accordingly.

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