Facebook is creating a flexible platform to engage its users and participate in the Facebook activities and produce content on the site.

Quick Status Posting Button:

Facebook has instilled a new ‘quick post sharing button’ on its top blue bar, clicking on which users can post a status, audio or video within a blink of eye from any page of the site. Typically, posting of status or audio-visual content was only possible with the ‘status-sharing’ option on the profile page. But with this option users will be able to post anything from any page of the site.

How will this button help you in sharing your thoughts?

When you will click on the status sharing icon on the top blue bar of the site, a familiar light-box pops up on the page. Type what’s in your mind and click the ‘post’ button. The process is currently under testing phase by the site.

With a series of updates every month, Facebook is gaining wide popularity even more than its current status. Expect more such surprises from the social media giant in the coming months.

What does the course consist of?

The course will be divided into seven topics/chapters with each covering a specific area of web app development and explaining the every feature of Chrome DevTools. Each chapter will be accompanied by a video tutorial to make learning and understanding simple. Additionally, to test what you have learnt from each session or chapter, a special test is devised after completing one topic. Attempting this test will help you discover what you have learnt so far.

Is the course only for New Developers?

While the course is designed specifically for novice developers, even experienced developers can attend it to brush up their skills. Chrome DevTools Training session will help you learn many small things, which you might not be aware of till date. These sessions will boost your knowledge about the field.

What will the course teach you? A snapshot:

• Debugging Web App Development issues
• Speeding up the development process
• Time-saving Tricks while debugging CSS etc.

Attend the interactive training session by Google and learn the latest updates and methods in the web app development arena.

Weather or climate is one of the most essential factors one should consider when organizing an event or planning a picnic. The social media giant, Facebook has begun making it easier for organizers to guess the climate of the place you choose. It began adding weather forecasts to upcoming events page, which will forecast the weather of the picnic day.

What will this change display?

Facebook added a weather forecast option on the events page. Events that are designated to a particular location and those which will occur within the next 10 days will display an additional option of ‘weather forecast’ showing estimate for high or low temperatures. Users can click on the option to get more details on the weather and climate. This option will be made available to both mobile and desktop users.

When users will create an event on Facebook, weather details will be listed on the same page to help you plan the event accordingly. This option will help you decide whether a particular place is suitable for the event or not.

Have you ever wondered why the iPhone is so popular in the market? Its sleek and stylish looks, interactive features, dynamic touchscreen, and interesting applications make it the sensation of the season. Today, the demand for Smartphone applications has touched the sky. Users demand more and more apps for a variety of purposes. There are millions of apps in the App Store serving different purposes. There are iPhone apps for education, finance, banking, autism, learning, business, entertainment, communication (both B2B and B2C) and social networking etc. Choose from the wide range of apps and download almost each of these for free from the App Store.

iPhone application development has experienced a boost since the launch of iPhone 5. The device comes preloaded with multiple interesting apps, while you can also download as per your need and requirements from the App Store.

If you are a company with no technical background then hiring a professional app development team is the ideal way to market your product and services and stay ahead in the competition. For instance, a marketing firm generally lacks specialized technology knowledge and expertise; therefore they can hire experienced app developers to create applications that can market their company to prospects interestingly.

Today, Smartphone market has a bunch of professional developers, who with their creative ideas and technological expertise will help you create an app that has the ability to convert leads into opportunities and loss into profits.

The iPad apps developed by skilled personnel are highly useful and user-friendly. With Smartphone apps you can capture the market attention easily and cost-effectively. An iPhone application development from experienced developers is different from those developed by novice ones.

Best iPhone Apps of 2013:
• Wood Camera – Vintage Photo Editor
• Jam. It
• Pixel People
• Get Glue
• Temple Run
• Jetpack Joyride
• Flickr
• SloPro
• Camera+

Find these apps in the App store and download to make our phone smarter.

Your phone takes care of your health as well. There are also health and fitness apps for couch potatoes. Some of the top health and fitness apps of the season are:
• Runtastic
• FitBit
• Pocket Yoga
• MyFitnessPal
• Live Strong
• Lose It!

In this piece we will assist you with helpful hints to recover your hacked website, starting from why the sites are hacked, the process to recover, time of recovery, and how to recover options. Read below for the step by step guidance:

Why and how websites are hacked?

As said earlier, hackers modify the source code of the site to fulfill their requirements. They insert spam texts or links in the code, which increases their site traffic and ranking. In a way they advertise and sell their product and services using your site by manipulating the source codes (adding their website link in the code).

Hackers generally use plugins to hack a particular website. They distribute plugins for free, and website using those plugins easily comes in hackers.

How owners are intimated about the hack?

Hackers use plugins to hack a particular site, but website owners don’t understand this until Search Engines reports of the same. Search Engine Bots read websites, which reveals your site is hit by malware or spam attack. Hacked websites get notification or warning message from Search Engines stating their portal is hacked

How to recover your site?

Build a support team – This step is for beginners who are not technically sound. Contact the hoster, take assistance, and consider options to recover your site. How to get started?

• Contact your site hoster and intimate about your site being compromised. The hoster ensures your site and its visitors aren’t affected, and extend instant support.
• Your next step should be to locate communities or sources that can assist you in recover process. Try searching and reading related discussions on the online forum, also put forth your question and start a discussion. Some of the useful sources include Google’s Webmaster Central’s forum discussion, StopBadware.org articles and blogs etc.
• Consult a trusted security expert, if you aren’t able to recover your website from the above means. Ask family or friends, migrate your site to new and experienced hoster etc.

Go offline – To prevent your site from causing further harm to your visitors or users, go offline. How to get started?

• Take your site offline so users will not have access to your content. Going offline will help you undertake your site recovery task without hindrances from hackers.
• Ensure your hoster gets complete detail of this hacking, so that can extend required support immediately.
• Change the passwords of your FTP account, database access, CMS, and system administrator accounts.

Keep in touch with Webmaster Tools – Verifying ownership of your site is a crucial step towards recovery. How to get started?

• Verify ownership of your site in Webmaster Tools
• Check whether the cyber criminals have already verified your account in Webmaster Tools and make necessary setting changes
• Determine the nature of the attack, where through content spamming or malware attack.

Evaluate the damage – List down the damages to determine the hacker’s aim or intention. This is relatively lengthy yet crucial step, since this list will help during the next step – cleaning the site. You need to follow three important steps to evaluate the damage:

• Create a document to record the nature of damages and related details
• Copy the URLs of suspected hacking in your document.
• Filesystem damage assessment.

Determine the vulnerability – factors that made hacking easy for the hacker. Hacking can happen due to the following reasons:

• Virus-infected admin computer
• Weak, simple, or re-used password
• Obsolete software

Remove the spam and maintain your site – Upload the good content, discard the bad content, remove spammy links, work on vulnerabilities, regularly your site’s security, and maintain your site.

Follow these processes and enjoy higher rankings!

The popular means of sharing images, messages, and chats with friends had experienced a problem this hour at 11:50 am (approx) on 2^nd March, 2013.

An error message by Google stated “The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try after 30 seconds. That’s all we know.”  Several users experienced slow performance or error.

The server issue was resolved at around 12:10 pm, approximately 20 minutes after the error.

This not the first time users experienced this annoying server issue. Back on December 10^th, 2012 and 2010 too similar issue had affected the service.

What does the agreement have to say?

The two most popular companies signed an agreement for Yahoo to display ads from Google on various Yahoo properties and ‘certain co-branded sites’ using Google’s ad programs like AdSense and AdMob.

These programs will display ads that are relevant to the content on a particular site or page. For instance, for beauty care sites beauty product advertisements will be displayed. This deal may benefit online users as they will get quality content supporting relevant advertisement.

The new deal with Google will also help Yahoo to expand its networks and serve users with quality and substantive advertisements. This tie-up will ensure right ad is delivered to the right user and at the right time. This will surely enhance the user experience to a larger extent.

However, the company termed it as a “non-exclusive agreement,” since Yahoo is still in partnership with Microsoft for the same reason.

Everything for the users: Yahoo!

Yahoo quoted, the tie-up is in the interest of users to provide them relevant content – be it the advertising or website content. The idea behind this agreement is to make search more impressive and engaging. Everyday millions of people turn to Yahoo to read news, get weather update, or search for other interesting items. The motive is to make the user experience more inspiring and engrossing.

How will it benefit both advertisers and users?

The ads will be search-specific; therefore will benefit both advertisers and users. For instance: you are online to shop for paintings. If you search for content on paintings, the search result will display relevant advertisements along with textual content. That is why contextual advertisement is a strong medium helping both advertisers and consumers.

What more will this agreement bring for online users? Time will decide!

Online reviews are considered as an effective medium by businesses to market their product and services easily. Many took it for granted and began creating fake reviews for their benefit. Google announced this update to help consumers get genuine reviews, ratings, and recommendations that are useful to them.

Google stated, to protect the interest and allow businesses to get their deserving place, we have updated the spam detection system to remove forge reviews. Spamming the links will be penalized by Google. The company will rank only those businesses that are reviewed by real people.

Google has also listed separate guidelines for business owners, reviewers, public (consumers), and SEOs. The company expects each of these guideposts to be followed properly to get higher ranking, honest comments, and genuine guidelines.

Here are the categorized guidelines by Google:

• For Business owners: Google suggests businesses to be suspicious of an online reputation management or SEO company, who promise to generate maximum reviews. These companies generally resort to unethical means to generate fake reviews, of which most are self-written. Respond to reviews yourself. Don’t set up computers or tablets and urge customers to leave their reviews. We don’t consider reviews generated using forceful means or those through bribing (paid or by distributing free gifts and discounts).

• For Reviewers: Google flags self-written reviews (those written by SEO professionals) as spam. Also, reviews with URLs and links will not be entertained by Google. Make sure all the reviews are genuine, to the point, and written by real people. Additionally, refer Google’s review content guidelines for complete details.

• For SEOs: Google does not allow posting reviews on behalf of others. Make sure the reviews are written and posted by real users. Any attempt of duping its guidelines, will be penalized by Google.

• For consumers: Google stated that if a user suspects fake comments or reviews, they can report the issue by clicking on the gray flag icon.

Follow these guidelines before posting reviews from now. Beware of the Google Spam Detection update!

Don’t crave for higher search engine ranking by Google. For faster results you might rely on shortcuts, which eventually will result in high penalty or permanent ban. Improve your website’s health by utilizing the benefits of healthy link building techniques.

Follow a proper natural diet plan and understand the dose correctly to maintain a firm balance. Avoid overdose! As per the age of your business, feed your website. For instance:

• If your website is a year old, 10-12 quality content marketing links are enough to get recognition from Google
• If its 3+ years old, you at least 30 links consistently for better health.

Your website should have more than 100 quality backlinks every year. This will nurture your website and add years to your business. Quality links are a booster tonic for your website.

Ways to generate quality backlinks:

• Unique and interesting marketing copy

• Embed Generic keyword in your copy

• Right keyword placement

• Highlight keywords

• Simple to read but should be relevant etc.

Natural link diet: What Google expects?

The Search Engine Giant, Google expects links to come from, self-researched and unique content. The links should:

• The backlinks should come from different websites and IP address, otherwise it will be treated as a spam

• The links should be Google recognized

• The pages have less out-bound links and should be one that is created for self-promotion.

Google has come up with its quality guidelines or tips on how to regain your website reputation. Follow these points (http://bit.ly/11T5LlB) properly to get ample exposure.
Follow the natural diet plan, as recommended by Google!

As the name suggests, with Real-Time you can check the activity as and when they happen. With the Real-Time tool, webmasters can closely monitor the most recent activities on their website. It is a vital tool to understand your site traffic, and consumer behavior and needs more accurately. Any happening in the site is reported instantly on Real-Time. The page views and number of active visitors on site is updated every second. You can check the views by seconds and minutes.

What you can see on Real-Time?

• With Real-Time, you can see:

• How many people visited your site

• Which page did they visit

• Their geographic locations

• Details on page views per minute and seconds

• Whether the users are new or returning one’s

The feature also displays traffic source in numbers. If you have 3 active users on the site, the tool gives details on the exact number (bifurcation) of visitors from a particular location. For instance: 1 from India, 2 – US.

Also, with this feature you can check the effect of latest alterations and changes on the website. For example: if you have made a change in your website content or a web page, with this tool you can measure the immediate effect of those changes.

Let us understand it comprehensively. If you have added a new image to your product portfolio page, the Real-Time tool will immediately reflect the change in site traffic (if any) after this addition. You may use this tool to:

• Check whether there are any changes in the number of views or site traffic after the implementation

• see how many visitors visited that particular page and from where

• see which pages these visitors are viewing etc.

Through the Real-Time feature, you can check the exact traffic source and their mediums.

How to use Real-Time feature?

• Log in to your Google Analytic account

• Select Real-Time feature below the Standard Reports section from left hand report navigation column

• Click on overview option to get a detailed report about page views, source etc.