1. Content Will Still Reign as King in 2012

Image Credit: Lars Kehrel

In 2011, there were major changes made to Google’s algorithm that has paved the way for a new emphasis on ‘original’ content.  Regardless of the year, content will always reign as king in the SEO world.

In 2012, you should have a balance of human friendly content and search engine friendly content.  After all, your potential customers (or contacts) will be the one’s purchasing your products or services.

Gone are the days when website owners used to squeak by with poorly written content from basement content writers.  If you want to get noticed in the search engines, having quality content will be the key to your online success in 2012.

2. Web Content Should be Scannable for Mobile Users

Remember, a percentage of your web users will be searching the Web from their iPad and mobile device. If you post content that takes too long to get to the point, people will get bored and move on to your competitor’s website.

Make sure you include a clear Call to Action on each page of your website. Consider hiring a good SEO copywriter to create fresh content for your website, blog and social media sites.  You’ll be one step ahead of the game with a professional SEO copywriter.  SEO copywriters are specialists who are trained to write marketable content that helps in converting readers into paying customers.

3. Is your SEO Consultant Wasting your Time and Money?

If the answer is ‘yes’ or ‘not sure’, that’s a sign it may be the perfect time to ditch your SEO consultant.  In 2012, savvy entrepreneurs and business owners are nickel and diming every aspect of their business.  People are investing their money more wisely than ever before. They are less likely to choose an SEO consultant based on price and they are focusing on SEO experts that have proven track records.

If you’re in the market for a new SEO consultant, make sure you ask him or her to provide you with proof.  In other words, ask to see proven results from ‘current’ customers that they have been with for more than just a couple of months. Internet marketing experts suggest that people choose SEO consultants that have a solid client base of at least 1-2 years (or more) old.

4. Add Original Photos & Videos

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If you want to make your website more interactive, consider adding original photos and interesting videos to your website.  When Google crawls web pages, they look for content that’s diverse.  Don’t forget to optimize your videos and photos for SEO purposes. Check out our previous article: Using Google Image Search as Fuel for SEO

5. Share Web Content via Facebook, Twitter & Google+

If you want to generate more traffic in 2012, share your content with your social media networks.  Make sure you optimize your web pages for social sharing to help attract more traffic. For example, Facebook allows you to make your pages more social media friendly by optimizing your titles and Meta tags by using Facebook Open Graph. When one of your friends shares one of your web pages, this automatically improves the conversion rate of your website.Lastly, when sharing content through social media, don’t forget to include a back link to your website. Social media provides an excellent opportunity to engage with people who ‘like’ or ‘follow’ you online. Although SEO rules are constantly evolving, the tips above will give you a good head start on the race to online success in 2012.

The 12-inch figurine from In Icons -– which will sell for $99, before shipping — will go on sale in the U.S. in February. The site said it is selling the action figure “to honor the American icon and great visionary Steve Jobs.”

The figurine is extremely detailed and more realistic than other models we’ve seen of the former Apple CEO in the past — he’s even wearing a wedding ring.

It also comes with a pair of black socks, a chair, a backdrop that says “One More Thing” and two apples — one with a bite. iPhone not included.

Will you buy a Steve Jobs action figure? Is it too soon for companies to monetize items based on Jobs?

(text/image: mashable.com)

Even the British occasionally have to change with the times. Following a study stating that 80 percent of all web video is now compatible with HTML5, the BBC has formally adopted the standard for videos on the desktop and mobile versions of its website. The full roll-out across BBC.com follows a pilot program in which the broadcaster tested HTML5 on the the Health section of the site. According to Electronista, the BBC has been working with HTML5 delivery systems throughout 2011 to build its iPlayer apps for the iOS. In other news, the BBC has just texted Flash and said it’s totally open to staying friends and meeting up for coffee sometime.

(via: geekgossips.com)

Michael Shaw, the publisher and founder of BagNews Notes, is a clinical psychologist — appropriate, considering the deep, insightful analysis his blog gives to the day’s top news photographs and videos. Examining the tiniest, seemingly mundane details of an image to extract its power, its meaning, and its message, the Notes blog (part of a larger site featuring original photography and live interactive discussions) fulfills its mission of “reading the pictures” by starting provocative conversations about how the media illustrate the biggest stories of the day. Why is the American flag so often featured in visual coverage of natural disasters like the tornado in Joplin, Missouri? How does a wire-service photo of President Obama having a beer in Ireland differ from one captured by the White House photographer? BagNews Notes may not have all the answers, but in raising the questions, it offers a compelling new lens through which to view our politics, culture and, of course, pictures.

WINNER: NPR’s The Picture Show

Sometimes serious (portraits taken in Italy’s triangle of death), sometimes playful (fire ants that float!), NPR’s The Picture Show is like a curious friend with big-time resources. You never know what you’re going to find on The Picture Show — and that’s meant as the highest compliment. The curators look around and ask questions: Why did that Cindy Sherman picture sell for almost $4 million? Who’s behind those photos of exploding potatoes? What does the inside of Antartica’s IceCube Neutrino Observatory look like? (For the record, eerie and amazing.) The generous allotment of photos and text often comes with video and links to NPR stories. If you’re stuck eating lunch at your desk, you will have no better companion than The Picture Show.

WINNER: The New York Times’ Lens

Since it launched in May 2009, Lens has consistently been one of the few indispensable photography blogs. A reliable source of water-cooler fodder for news junkies around the world, the New York Times‘ showcase for visual and multimedia reporting is zealously current and busting at the seams with first-rate content. When a photograph makes news (bin Laden’s Photoshopped “death portrait,” for example), Lens editors and its citizen commentators routinely engage in the sort of informed, occasionally heated conversation and debate that photography fans crave. Then there are times when Lens itself generates headlines: In two posts written in March 2011, for example, Times photographer Lynsey Addario provided a searing first-person account of her own capture and brutal treatment while covering the revolt in Libya. Hard-hitting when it needs to be, Lens can also be poignant — as in Béatrice de Géa’s phenomenal series on how New Yorkers who lack an essential sense (vision, hearing, etc.) perceive the city, or the entries in the feature called “Turning Point,” highlighting the work of emerging photographers who pay tribute to one picture that was utterly crucial to their development as photojournalists and artists. For perspective from the global level to the street level, this is as good as it gets.

WINNER: Pictory Blog

Laura Brunow Miner’s Pictory Blog is an evocative companion site to her equally wonderful Pictorymag.com site, which describes itself as “a showcase of life through true photo stories.” The main site succeeds because of its 13-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird approach to storytelling: Photographers from all over the world submit pictures that address a single theme (lost love, Texas, danger, and on and on). The blog — a collection of posts featuring a single, stunning image married to an provocative sentence (with a link back to the site for the full story) — succeeds because it really, really knows how to tease. See for yourself: “Before she’d gone five feet, a young guy — couldn’t have been older than 18 — and his friend walked in from the alley behind her. He grabbed at her bag, and that’s when Phil and I saw the gun …” Utterly addictive.

WINNER: La Lettre de la Photographie

Monday: Visit a Herb Ritts exhibit in New York. Tuesday: Fly to Moscow to check out portraits of 1960s rock stars. Wednesday: Zip around the Mediterranean coast for a multi-city photo festival. Logistically, that globe-jumping agenda would be pretty impossible to pull off, but the constantly updated La Lettre de la Photographie brings those of us without a private jet one step closer to the fantasy scenario. In the “Agenda” section, organized by day of the week, the blog (available in both French and English) puts a spotlight on must-see happenings in the world of photography, allowing users to peruse highlights from international exhibitions, artist portfolios, or just-published books. Yes, La Lettre’s galleries may be virtual, but editors still treat the work with the requisite white-glove care, running each photo at an impressive size and in stunning, eye-popping resolution.

WINNER: The Sartorialist

“I started The Sartorialist simply to share the photos of people that I saw on the streets of New York that I thought looked great.” And, on one level, that’s what Scott Schuman does and does brilliantly. But his daily, anthropological photographs of people on the street — looking dandyish on a Harlem park bench, sexy in those tight jeans in the crosswalk, casually stylish while window-shopping in SoHo — convey amazing insight into how people seek to express themselves. If street photography shows us the small dramas of everyday life, then the Sartorialist gives us the drama andthe costuming. The Sartorialist’s eye for personality is wonderful and well-trained, and his blog shows us that there is beauty all around us if only we stop and look.

WINNER: Time’s LightBox

Elegant and commanding, intimate and worldly, Time magazine’s beautifully designed LightBox blog is an essential destination for those who appreciate contemporary photography. Much more than photojournalism, Lightbox (which, like LIFE.com, is owned by Time Inc.) explores today’s new documentary and fine art photography from the perspective of the photo editors at Time – arguably the strongest editors working in their field today. LightBox offers fascinating dispatches from every corner of the world — last week, the photo stories came from Cuba, Thailand, Yemen, and Ukraine. One of the most compelling features of the blog is The Backstory, in which photographers describe what went into the making of a particular picture, either their own part in it or that of the people being photographed. To have a renowned photojournalist like James Nachtwey turn his image into a three-dimensional moment, rich with the thoughts and emotions of his subject, is truly enlightening. And leaves you wanting more.

WINNER: What’s the Jackanory?

What’s the Jackanory? (a phrase taken from British slang and a 1960s’ BBC kids’ TV show, meaning “What’s the story?”) is the creation of Dublin-born, NYC-based photographer Andrew Hetherington, and boasts a following of professional shooters and earnest, knowing amateurs alike. Engaging, utterly up to date, and often very funny; filled with discerning takes on industry trends and controversies; and (almost uniquely in the photography world) enthusiastic about other, lesser-known photographic talents, Jackanory is like a never-ending series of personal, thrillingly random postcards from a well-traveled friend. That the friend is a contributor to GQ, Esquire, Wired, Details, and other titles — a guy who seems just as comfortable critiquing a colleague’s gallery show as posting about “star” photographer sightings — provides Jackanory with genuine cred and an insider-y immediacy. Blogging, at its heart, is often about passion — and it’s impossible to visit What’s the Jackanaory? and not feel that this is the brainchild of a man who positively lives and breathes photography.

WINNER: 500 Photographers

On April 5, 2010, Pieter Wisse began a blog, 500 Photographers, with a singular and simple mission: Highlight the work of five great photographers every week until he reached 500. Wisse, a gallerist and photographer in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with an eclectic and wandering eye, brings us work by well-known photographers (Elinor Carucci, Dan Winters, Taryn Simon) that no modern list should be without, but includes photographers you likely wouldn’t find on your own — the touching war photography of Kosuke Okahara, Mike Brodie’s haunting train hoppers, and on and on. 500 Photographers doesn’t chase news or trends, and it is refreshingly catholic in its tastes: black-and-white, Polaroid, straight-up journalism, modernist portraiture, landscape, fashion, clouds, car accidents. It’s like a virtual trip through a mega-gallery museum exhibit of the most influential photographers working today. Wisse will continue adding a photographer a day, until he hits 500 photographers. At that point — in May 2012 — the blog will, in Wisse’s words, “be finished and done. It will then only be here with the function of being an archive of amazing photographers of the 21st century.”

WINNER: Photojojo’s Tumblr

A lot of very, very good blogs are deadly serious in tone and intent. Photojojo is not one of them. And that is precisely its appeal. Photojojo, the quirkiest of LIFE.com’s winners, offers quick news you can use, DIY-crafts, and wonderfully non-essential photography-based tidbits. Want to know how to make a Leica replica out of paper? Photojojo can help. Missed the boat on those weirdly riveting pictures of “yin yang Oreo cookies” everyone’s been talking about? Photojojo has the link. Wondering why the pictures from the latest space shuttle mission are so much more awesome than all the space shuttle pictures that have come before? Photojojo is wondering the same thing — and linking to a great gallery to explain why. Like Archie McPhee with a photography obsession, Photojojo is clever, helpful, and funky without trying too hard to be hip.

WINNER: American Suburb X

A “fiercely edited look at photography’s … past, dramatically shifting present and always unfolding future. . . . Our mission is to provide and provoke, to educate and titillate those who are obsessed with photography and all of its beautiful moving parts.” That’s how American Suburb X describes itself. Big talk? Yes. Ambitious? Yes. But ASX backs it up, again and again. The interviews section alone is a treasure trove, offering conversations with many of most dynamic talents photography’s ever known — Weegee in 1958, Dorthea Lange in 1964, Jacob Holdt in 1993 — all meticulously culled from publications like Art in America, Graphis, and the Smithsonian. That founder and editor-in-chief Doug Rickard also posts words and pictures by some of contemporary photography’s brightest lights (Leigh Ledare, Todd Hido, and countless others) adds yet another layer of gritty immediacy to a site that already feels so full of raw energy and ideas that it’s about to pop off the page.

WINNER: PDN

Photo District News, a mainstay monthly magazine geared to professional shooters, is being honored here for two blogs. PDN breathes life into the Photo of the Day conceit with its global reach and and sky-high standards, not to mention its wide-ranging content: one day, the most beautiful sea grass you’ve ever seen; the next, a 1952 Robert Frank photo; after that, Singapore’s political rallies depicted as landscapes. On top of all that, in a world of aggregators PDN’s Pulseoffers something rare: its own reporting. PDN’s seasoned editors craft smart, on-point stories that are steeped in knowledge of the photo industry. It’s the place to read stories you won’t see on most other blogs, like a post on a former Times-Picayune photog accused of “journalistic betrayal,” and early word of Hasselblad’s new medium-format digital camera. A must-visit daily site for working pros. . . and for those who want to know what the pros know.

WINNER: Prison Photography

Prison Photography doesn’t have a standard “about” section; it has a “manifesto.” But editor Pete Brook’s unexpectedly riveting blog is far more than a mere anti-incarceration screed. While most of the content does mine what Brook calls his “nerdcore niche” — in his words, the “analysis of visual narratives created in prison and jail systems” — he brings such a fluid intelligence to the narrow theme that the blog ends up being about prisons in much the same way that Moby Dick is about fishing: shining a light on one topic, Prison Photography illuminates worlds. At his most insightful, Brook — also the lead blogger for Wired.com’s excellent photo blog, Raw File — transforms vintage and modern photographs made in and of prisons into emblems of larger, eternal themes: social justice; crime and punishment; the limits of liberty; even the nature of beauty. In one superb post, Brook considers Sye Williams photos from a California women’s prison, humanizing both the prisoners’ and their handlers’ plight (” … as a viewer to Williams’ work, I find myself adopting the same caution as the staff and administration”). This is heavy, thoughtful stuff — it’s impossible to spend time here without feeling your assumptions about all sorts of issues beginning to wobble — and Prison Photography presents it all with grace, power, and a wry, welcome humor.

WINNER: Joe McNally’s Blog

“The thoughts, notions, and ideas here come from thirty years in the field as a shooter,” reads the text in the upper-right hand corner of this blog, underneath a smiling stick figure and the casual, handwritten words “Meet Joe.” It’s that juxtaposition of the serious and the playful that make Joe McNally’s Blog such a treat. With bona fides from Sports Illustrated, National Geographic, and LIFE (for which he was a staff photographer), McNally tells stories and gives advice from behind the lens, pulling from his travels and his vibrant, extensive portfolio to riff on newsmakers (like the Navy SEALs, whom he once followed in training), share deeply personal memories of favorite shoots, and totally geek out on lighting technique and gear (explaining, as only he can, the best clamps, lenses, strobes, etc.). With eloquence, humor, and passion, McNally makes every post a love letter to his craft.

WINNER: A Photo Editor

A hugely popular blog for and about the photography business, A Photo Editor raises (and often thoroughly answers) the sort of questions that keep working photographers up at night. Example: A post titled “What to Do When Your Image Is Stolen Online” is a masterfully succinct how-to about an industry certainty that professionals and amateurs alike might want to print out and stick in their pockets. Edited by Rob Haggart, the former director of photography at Men’s Journal and Outside magazines, the blog’s look and feel is, in fact, a bit magazine-y — in the best way — with artful use of white space and an awful lot of text. Thankfully, all of that text (by Haggart, other professional editors and photographers, as well as the blog’s loyal, smart, and vocal community) is scarily well-informed and immensely helpful to anyone interested in photography and photojournalism in the digital age. This is not a blog to visit if you’re looking to “ooh” and “ahh” over big, beautiful photo galleries. But for insight into the most nettlesome, enduring issues around copyrights, freelance options, professional ethics debates, and — not least of all — how to make a viable living by your camera, A Photo Editor is simply unsurpassed.

WINNER: The Atlantic’s In Focus

If the 154-year-old Atlantic’s online incarnation often feels as vigorous and relevant as a Silicon Valley start-up, it’s due in part to its photo blog, In Focus. Alan Taylor, the man who created — and for two years ran – The Boston Globe‘s hugely popular and highly regarded Big Picture blog, serves as curator for In Focus. Here, Taylor replicates the Big Picture design and navigation but has upgraded the experience so it’s now, as the kids say, “on steroids.” Taylor covers the biggest news stories of the day with huge, colorful, high-impact photos that often take your breath away, setting up each gallery with concise, conversational introductions. In Focus is the perfect addition to The Atlantic‘s long tradition of journalism and newer tradition of Web excellence.

WINNER: burn

Describing itself as “an evolving journal for emerging photographers,” burn manages the neat (and rare) trick of feeling at once rambunctious and utterly rigorous. Curated by noted Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey, burn publishes amazingly diverse essays — street kids in Odessa, Ukraine; Morocco’s vanishing Jews; portraits by William Eckersley and Alexander Shields shot along US 80, America’s first coast-to-coast highway — in a vivid big-slideshow format. The community that has evolved around the blog, meanwhile, is both loyal and vocal; it’s not uncommon for posts to generate hundreds of comments. While burn’s focus rests with the photographs — those seeking nothing but a satisfying visual experience won’t be disappointed — the insights that Harvey and the contributors provide about the various photo stories reward those looking for a glimpse behind the camera of an up-and-comer.

WINNER: Conscientious

Perhaps it’s the earnest — and rather cryptic — name. Maybe it’s the formal, intense headshot of the blog’s creator, Joerg Colberg, that suggests a seriously intellectual undertaking. And indeed, Conscientious is seriously intellectual; luckily, though, Colberg’s is a refreshing, bracing intellect, one fueled by a genuine curiosity about — and love of — photography. This is one of the longest-running photo blogs out there, and since its founding in 2002 has offered countless profiles of photographers and their work: Aaron Ruell’s marvelous environmental portraits and Alex te Napel’s moving and unsettling “Faces of Alzheimer’s” portraits, to name just two. And the blog is packed: Readers will also find in-depth interviews, news and commentary on exhibitions, and book reviews, as well as Colberg’s rigorous and wide-ranging musings on matters large (one post: “What makes great photography?”) and small. There’s not an ounce of fluff here, which is why Conscientious is rightly seen and lauded as one of the very few essential photography destinations on the Web.

WINNER: aCurator

This is a blog in love with photographers. Scroll down aCurator‘s page and you’ll see one photographer’s name after another in bold, black letters with sharp, seductive images in between. These posts often link to glorious, full-screen features — free of surrounding navigation bars and text — on the main aCurator.com site. (“Frustration with a lack of full-screen images led me to publish aCurator,” explains founder and editor, Julie Grahame.) But the signature strength of the aCurator blog is, in fact, suggested by its name. Grahame is a curator with a flawless eye and, in her assessment of the work she presents, an immediately trustworthy, no-frills tone. (“Miriam O’Connor is my latest crush,” she writes, introducing one young photographer’s pictures. “Her [series] ‘Attention Seekers’ filled me with joy; it’s refreshing, smart and humorous.”) aCurator’s triumph is a clarity of purpose wedded to a keen intelligence, and a willingness to let its stunning photographs largely speak for themselves.

WINNER: Feature Shoot

Nearly every day, Feature Shoot showcases a different photographer (both established and emerging) by posting selections of his/her work and a short bio. The concept is straightforward enough, but it’s beautifully executed by publisher and managing editor Alison Zavos. A photographer and photo editor with an eye for diverse international work, Zavos’ Feature Shoot has taken its users to the dramatic precipices of Iceland, wild dance parties in Atlanta, and an abandoned theme park in Berlin. Since launching in 2008, the blog has featured more than 500 commercial and fine-art photographers — exposing their talents not only to casual perusers but also to serious publishers and buyers. Occasional Q&As with photographers about their methods, as well as helpful posts providing information about exhibits and grants, give Feature Shoot a warm, community feel, a trait shared by the best blogs.

(via: life.com)

Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.7.3 developer builds have revealed what we already suspected: ultra-high definition Macs are coming. This Get Info window capture reveals a HIDPI (Hi-Dots-Per-Inch) mode checkbox that may come in the next update of Apple’s desktop OS.

The checkbox would open any application using the special high definition screen mode needed to support new hardware. Instead of using low resolution interface elements, Mac OS X would use assets with double the pixel resolution of the current ones. This means that, if you are using new Retina-like displays, the relative resolution will double, making everything twice as sharp while retaining the same absolute size in the screen.

This supports the rumor that a new 15″ MacBook may have a 2880 x 1800-pixel screen early next year. The option box has disappeared from the last Mac OS X developer build, version 11D36.

Like always, take all rumors with a grain of salt. Nobody knows for sure when these ultra-high definition may come. [MacRumors]

(Text & Image source: gizmodo.com)

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Twitter has done its year in review, Facebook revealed the top shared news storiesof 2011, so it’s only natural that Google would follow suit with its very own annual recap.

The search giant has unveiled its UK Zeitgeist 2011 search list, and few will be surprised to learn that the Royal Wedding between Prince William & Catherine Middleton topped the list, in an event that saw hundreds of millions of people watch from around the world.

But it’s the normal, everyday searches that are of most interest here. It seems that in 2011, Britons were really eager to find out more on the much-mooted iPhone 5 which, as we now know, actually ended up being the iPhone 4S, as that was the second most searched phrase in the UK.

You’ve probably made many search queries that begin with ‘what is…’, and Google has produced a specific ‘top 10′ list of questions that begin with those two words. ‘What is scampi?’ was a popular search term in 2011, with interest rising by 80% on the same period in the previous year.

Seafood, however, didn’t top the ‘what is’ list. In a year that saw Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg get his dream of a referendum that would see the electoral system overhauled, the most searched for question in this category was: What is AV?

Sometimes, though, knowing the answer to something isn’t enough and people want to know ‘how to’ do things. As such, the ‘how to’ list was topped by queries seeking revision tips for students, followed by how to kiss. At least the UK youth have their priorities straight…

Finally, the UK has a deep fascination with celebrities. The top 10 most searched celebs were almost entirely female-dominated, with Ricky Gervais the only man on a list that had Kim Kardashian and Rebecca Black at the top.

Whilst the non-existent ‘iPhone 5′ attained a lofty overall search position, both the iPad 2 and Groupon featured in Google’s ‘fastest rising’ search list too.

You can peruse Google’s Zeitgeist lists ranging from 2001 through to 2010 now, with the 2011 one going live some time today.

(via thenextweb)

• Improve stability
• Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage
• Address issues that could cause webpages to flash white
• Allow PDFs to be displayed within web content

Safari 5.1.2 is available via Software Update.

They say the Buddha Air plane lost contact with the control tower near Kathmandu airport.

The jet was carrying 16 tourists to view Mount Everest and other peaks and was returning to the Nepalese capital. It also had three crew members.

It was not immediately known whether there were any survivors. Details are still coming in.

(via bbc.co.uk) 

त्रिभुवन विमानस्थलबाट बिहान करिब ७ बजेतिर माउन्टेन फ्लाइटका लागि उडेको बुद्ध एअरको एउटा जहाज उपत्यका प्रवेश गर्ने क्रममा ललितपुरको विशङ्खुनारायण गाविस र लामाटार गाविसबीचको सीमा कोटडाँडामा दुर्घटनाग्रस्त भएको छ। जहाज लाँकुरी भञ्ज्याङमाथि पुगेपछि सम्पर्कविहीन भएको थियो। दुर्घटनास्थल गोदावरी पार्क जाने बाटोबाट २ किलोमिटर पूर्व र विशङ्खुनारायण मन्दिरबाट एक किलोमिटर उत्तरपूर्वमा पर्छ। विमानमा चालक दलका ३ सदस्य र १६ यात्रु थिए। अधिकांश यात्रुको बुकिङ लोसार ट्राभल्सबाट गरिएको थियो। विमानस्थल स्रोतका अनुसार जहाजमा १० यात्रु भारतीय र ६ युरोपेली देशका थिए। ललितपुरका एसपी भोगबहादुर थापाले एक व्यक्तिलाई जीवितै उद्धार गरेको जानकारी सञ्चारकर्मीहरुलाई दिएका छन्। प्रहरीका अनुसार १६ जनाको दुर्घटनामा मृत्यु भएको छ। विमानस्थल स्रोतका अनुसार नाइन एन- एइके कल साइन रहेको १९०० डी बीचक्राफ्टलाई क्याप्टेन जेबी ताम्राकार र पद्मा अधिकारीले उडाएका थिए। जहाजमा अस्मिता श्रेष्ठ एअर होस्टेस थिइन्। ३० वर्षका ताम्राकार ललितपुर मानभवन निवासी हुन्। नागरिकन्युजकर्मी सुशील भट्टराईका अनुसार १४ वर्षको उड्डयन इतिहास भएको बुद्ध एअरको जहाज बेपत्ता भएको यो पहिलो घटना हो।

(via nagariknews.com) 

Backed by its good support and partnership with global reseller, plus the power of paying in Nepalese currency through eSewa, OhoDomain now announces that it is going to offer new discounted rates on domain.

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गुगलको क्यासे सर्भर नेपालमा राखेर सञ्चालन गर्ने प्रविधि सिकाउन अहिले अमेरिकाबाट प्राविधिक यहाँ आएका छन्। क्यासे सर्भर भनेको सहायक सर्भर हो। सहायक सर्भर भए पनि गुगलको मुख्य सर्भरमा रहेका सबै डाटाहरु यहीबाट प्रयोग गर्न सकिन्छ।

गुगलको सर्भर नेपालमै भएपछि अहिले जिमेललगायत गुगलका सर्च साइट, समाचारका लागि अमेरिकासम्म पुग्नुपर्दैन।

यसअघि टेलिकमले अकामाईको सर्भरसमेत नेपालमा राखिसकेको छ। यो सर्भरले गर्दा याहु, माइक्रोसफ्टका सेवाहरु प्रयोग गर्न अमेरिकासम्मको ब्यान्डविथ खपत हुन रोकिएको छ।

नेपालमा सर्भर राख्न लाग्ने खर्च गुगलले नै बेहोरेको छ। टेलिकम घरायसी इन्टरनेट सेवातर्फ सबैभन्दा ठूलो सेवा प्रदायक भएकाले गुगलले सहकार्य गरेको हो। टेलिकमको जावलाखेलस्थित कार्यालयमा गुगलको सर्भर राखिएको छ।

नेपालमै सर्भर राखेपछि टेलिकमको खर्चसमेत कम हुनेछ। इन्टरनेटमा स्थानीय विषयवस्तुहरु नहुनु र सर्भरसमेत विदेशमै रहँदा इन्टरनेट सेवा प्रदायकले ब्यान्डविथ खर्च बढी तिर्नुपरिरहेको छ। सर्भर नेपालमा राखेपछि एक जिबी ब्यान्डविथ बचत हुँदा टेलिकमको वार्षिक दुईलाख डलर खर्च कम हुन्छ ।

अहिले टेलिकमको अनलिमिटेड इन्टरनेट सेवा प्रयोग गर्ने ग्राहकले फेसबुक, जिमेललगायत साइटहरु साइन इन गरेर बस्दा ब्यान्डविथ खर्च बढेको छ। यही खर्चलाई घटाउन टेलिकमले जिमेलसँग सहकार्य गरेको हो। जिमेलको सर्भर यहीं रहेपछि फेसबुक जस्तै गरी सञ्चालन गरिएको गुगल प्लससमेत छिटो चलाउन सकिन्छ।

‘गुगलको सर्भर यहाँ राखेपछि अहिले इन्टरनेटको ब्यान्डविथ खपत घटेको छ,’ सूचना प्रविधि निर्देशनालयकै अर्का एक अधिकारीले भने। पहिले टेलिकमले लिएको चार जिबी ब्यान्डविथ पूरै प्याक हुने गरेकोमा यही सर्भर राखेपछि एक जिबी खपत कम भएको छ। टेलिकमले गुगलको सर्भर यहीं राख्न सिंगापुरसम्म लिज्डलाइन जोडिएको छ।

पाँच महिनासम्मको निरन्तर प्रयासपछि गुगलले गत साताबाट नेपालमा राखेको क्यास सर्भरको परिक्षण नेपालमै गरेको हो। यसले गर्दा पहिले भन्दा अहिले इन्टरनेट छिटो चल्नु, जिमेल छिटो खुल्न थालेको टेलिकमका अधिकारीहरुले बताएका छन्।

सर्भर नेपालमा राखेपछि गुगलका अधिकारीले नेपालको सूचना प्रविधिबारे यसै साता तीन उच्च तालिमसमेत दिँदैछन्। टेलिकमदेखि लिएर सूचना प्रविधिको क्षेत्रमा कार्यरतलाई ब्यान्डविथ खपत कम गर्ने, सूचना प्रविधिको सुरक्षणका विषयमा गुगलका अधिकारीले प्रशिक्षण दिने छन्।

सन् १९९८ मा स्थापना भएको गुगलले अमेरिकी सेयर बजार नास्डाकमा सूचीकृत कम्पनी हो। सन् २०१० मा यसको आम्दानी २९ अर्ब ३२ करोड डलर थियो। त्यसवर्ष सबै खर्च कटाएर गुगलले ८ अर्ब ५० करोड नाफा गरेको थियो।

इन्टरनेटमा आधारित सर्चिङ, वेव होस्टिङ, समाचार, विज्ञापन, इमेललगायत सेवा सञ्चालन गुगलले गरिरहेको छ। यसको मुख्य कार्यालय अमेरिकाको क्यालिफोर्नियामा छ। गुगलका युट्युब, गुगल भ्वाइस, एड मोबाइललगायत आधा दर्जन सहायक कम्पनीसमेत सञ्चालन गरेको छ।

(text via nagariknews.com)