Companies have a lot to gain from creating their own online community.  Here are the top 10 reasons:

1. Website that is interactive and adds value
2. Learn and understand your customers and their needs
3. Create brand Loyalty
4. Collaboration between your customers – help each other
5. Power of communication
6. Promote your products and services
7. Better visibility on Search Engines that results in increased website traffic
8. Educate customers with a power of community media
9. Reduced support calls
10. Select qualified users for product testing / service feedback/ survey

Some following tips are derived from the book High Performance Web Sites (O’Reilly) by Steve Souders:

1. Make fewer HTTP requests to reduce object overhead.
2. Use a content delivery network.
3. Add an Expires header.
4. Gzip/compress text components.
5. Put stylesheets at the top in the head.
6. Put scripts at the bottom of the body.
7. Avoid CSS expressions which are CPU-intensive and can be evaluated frequently.
8. Make JavaScript and CSS files external.
9. Reduce Domain Name System (DNS) lookups to reduce the overhead of DNS delay by splitting lookups between two to four unique hostnames.
10. Minify JavaScript.
11. Avoid redirects which slow performance. It’s better to CNAME or alias.
12. Remove duplicate scripts to eliminate extra HTTP requests in Internet Explorer.
13. Configure ETags for sites hosted on multiple servers. FileETag none in Apache removes Etags to avoid improper cache validation.
14. Make Ajax cacheable and small to avoid unnecessary HTTP requests.

1. Yii

2. CodeIgniter

3. CakePHP


4. PHPDevShell


5. Akelos

6. Symfony

7. Prado

8. Zend

9. ZooP

10. QPHP

11 . PHP on Track

12. The Zoop Framework

• Business Understanding
  • Understand the client’s business.  If the SEO team does not understand what the  client is all about then it probably is not going to make a big success. If your client is in the real estate business, then your team should know basics of the real estate business. If they don’t understand the difference between a Realtor, agent and broker, they probably cannot do adequate research on keywords and may not link the site in appropriate places.
• Targeted Marketing.
  • It is very important to learn the market that the client is focusing on. Rather than focusing on keywords that have high search volume, it is better to focus on keywords that actually bring some business. For example, the keyword “SEO” may be searched more times than “Austin SEO”. However, people who search the term “SEO” may be doing it just for learning purposes. You can be sure when someone searches “Austin SEO” they are actually looking for someone in Austin who can do SEO.
• Competitive Intelligence
  • Know your client’s competitors. What are they doing? Who is linking to their website(s)? Where do they rank for each keyword? Once you find out these things then you can easily come up with a strategy to outperform them.
• Fixing the Website
  • This involves several processes.  The better you optimize the website the sooner you get some ranking on the search engines. Keep in mind that the website has to have a balance of key words that satisfy the search engines and the users who read it.
    • Rewrite the contents with targeted keywords.
    • Fix the titles, Meta tags etc. Write better algorithms for dynamic pages. Make the titles unique.
    • Add title and alt tags wherever possible.
    • Add a Sitemap
    • Above all, make the site readable and easy to navigate for user.
• Link Building
  • Link building is not for the sake of getting inbound links but getting quality traffic. Adding the website to proper categories of relevant business directories with appropriate information is significant. That’s why it is important to understand the business. If you know where the potential customers are looking for your client, then that’s where you should target your links, write blogs, add videos and so forth. Do not spam links on places where the business does not fit or  could make the community mad.
• Traffic Analysis and Goal Conversion
  • Install tools like Google Analytics. Improving ranking is significant for SEO, however, measuring the traffic and setting the goals is what actually helps the business. Watch where and how the traffic comes.  Is it coming from blogs, directories, other sites, or was it direct traffic?
  • Now that you are getting traffic,  is it being  converted into deals? How many minutes does your user spend on your site? Which pages are they staying on longer and which pages are they leaving from?. All of these things are important to know in order to convert your traffic into actual business deals.

1. Action Framework
2. AppFuse
3. Baritus
4. Barracuda
5. Bento
6. Bishop
7. Cameleon
8. Canyamo
9. Cassandra
10. Chiba
11. Click
12. Cocoon
13. Dinamica
14. Dovetail
15. Echo
16. Expresso
17. Folium
18. Genie
19. GWT
20. Helma
21. Jacquard
22. Jaffa
23. Japple
24. JATO
25. JBanana
26. Jeenius
27. JFormular
28. JPublish
29. JSF
30. jStatemachine
31. Jucas
32. JWAA
33. JWarp
34. jZonic
35. Macaw
36. Maverick
37. Melati
38. Millstone
39. MyFaces
40. Nacho
41. Niggle
42. OpenEmcee
43. OXF
44. RIFE
45. Scope
46. Shocks
47. Smile
48. SOFIA
49. Spring MVC
50. Stripes
51. Struts
52. SWF
53. Tapestry
54. TeaServlet
55. ThineWire
56. Turbine
57. Verge
58. Waffle
59. Warfare
60. WebOnSwing
61. WebWork
62. wingS
63. Xoplon

How nice that would be to call on the go and get direction as a text message?

Dial Directions offers this free service currently in New York, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Step 1:  Call  DIR-ECT-IONS   (347-328-4667)

Step 2:  Say, Where you are and the place where you are going.

Step 3:  Receive the driving directions by text message.

Dial Directions says it is compatible with any cell phone. 

Web forms are now a routine target of spammers. Whether your web site is a personal one just looking for feedback or a commercial site generating sales leads, getting dozens of entries for link exchanges or online gambling sites isn’t anyone’s idea of useful feedback
It can be really disturbing when you started to getting lots of useless SPAM through the web form on your site. 

Is there something we can do about it?

Luckily, the answer is yes.

I found few interesting articles.

Method 1:

Checking for the value of HTTP_USER_AGENT, if it is empty that means it is not from any browser. 

Method 2:

Simple, but powerful. Having an extra text box but make it invisible using CSS, check if the textbox has any value in your server script. If the text box has a value in it, that means it is not a regular user’s input.

The demo page is here

<script>
document.onhlep=new Function(“return false”);
window.onhelp=new Function(“return false”);
</script>

Here are a list of shortcuts to help you move faster in Microsoft Outlook: (From an Email forward – I have not tried all of them)

Alt + . (period) Open the Address Book with the To field selected

Alt + A Open the Action drop-down menu

Alt + B Open the Address Book with the BCC field selected

Alt + C Select message recipients for CC field

Alt + D Switch to Daily calendar view

Alt + E Open the Edit drop-down menu

Alt + F Open the File drop-down menu

Alt + G Open the Go drop-down menu

Alt + H Open the Help drop-down menu

Alt + I Open the Find tool bar / Open the Insert drop-down menu

Alt + J Move to the Subject field

Alt + K Check names in the To, CC, or BCC field against the Address Book (cursor must be in the corresponding message header field)

Alt + L Reply All

Alt + M Switch to Monthly calendar view

Alt + N Open the Accounts drop-down menu

Alt + O Open the Format drop-down menu / Switch to Today calendar view

Alt + P Open the Message Options dialog box

Alt + R Reply / Switch to Work Week Calendar view

Alt + S Send

Alt + T Open the Tools drop-down menu

Alt + V Open the View drop-down menu

Alt + H Open the Help drop-down menu

Alt + I Open the Find tool bar / Open the Insert drop-down menu

Alt + J Move to the Subject field

Alt + K Check names in the To, CC, or BCC field against the Address Book (cursor must be in the corresponding message header field)

Alt + L Reply All

Alt + M Switch to Monthly calendar view

Alt + N Open the Accounts drop-down menu

Alt + O Open the Format drop-down menu / Switch to Today calendar view

Alt + P Open the Message Options dialog box

Alt + R Reply / Switch to Work Week Calendar view

Alt + S Send

Alt + T Open the Tools drop-down menu

Alt + V Open the View drop-down menu 

Alt + W Forward an item / Switch to Weekly calendar view

Alt + Y Switch to Daily calendar view

Ctrl + 1 Go to Mail

Ctrl + 2 Go to Calendar

Ctrl + 3 Go to Contacts

Ctrl + 4 Go to Tasks

Ctrl + 5 Go to Notes

Ctrl + 6 Go to Folder List

Ctrl + 7 Go to Shortcuts

Ctrl + 8 Go to Journal

Ctrl + A Select all

Ctrl + B Bold when editing a rich text message

Ctrl + C Copy

Ctrl + D Delete an item (message, task, contact, etc.)

Ctrl + E Activate the Find drop-down menu / Center Align when editing a rich text message”,1] ); //–>

Alt + W Forward an item / Switch to Weekly calendar view

Alt + Y Switch to Daily calendar view

Ctrl + 1 Go to Mail

Ctrl + 2 Go to Calendar

Ctrl + 3 Go to Contacts

Ctrl + 4 Go to Tasks

Ctrl + 5 Go to Notes

Ctrl + 6 Go to Folder List

Ctrl + 7 Go to Shortcuts

Ctrl + 8 Go to Journal

Ctrl + A Select all

Ctrl + B Bold when editing a rich text message

Ctrl + C Copy

Ctrl + D Delete an item (message, task, contact, etc.)

Ctrl + E Activate the Find drop-down menu / Center Align when editing a rich text message
Ctrl + F Forward

Ctrl + J Open a new Journal Entry from the selected item (message, task, contact, etc.)

Ctrl + K Check names in the To, CC, or BCC field against the Address Book (cursor must be in the corresponding message header field)

Ctrl + M Send/Receive all

Ctrl + O Open

Ctrl + P Print

Ctrl + Q Mark the selected message Read

Ctrl + R Reply

Ctrl + S Save a draft message

Ctrl + T Tab

Ctrl + U Mark the selected message Unread

Ctrl + V Paste

Ctrl + X Cut

“,1] ); //–>

Ctrl + F Forward

Ctrl + J Open a new Journal Entry from the selected item (message, task, contact, etc.)

Ctrl + K Check names in the To, CC, or BCC field against the Address Book (cursor must be in the corresponding message header field)

Ctrl + M Send/Receive all

Ctrl + O Open

Ctrl + P Print

Ctrl + Q Mark the selected message Read

Ctrl + R Reply

Ctrl + S Save a draft message

Ctrl + T Tab

Ctrl + U Mark the selected message Unread

Ctrl + V Paste

Ctrl + X Cut

Ctrl + Y Go to Folder

Ctrl + Z Undo

Ctrl + Backspace Delete the previous word

Ctrl + End Move to the end

Ctrl + Home Move to the beginning

Ctrl + Shift + A Open a new Appointment

Ctrl + Shift + B Open the Address Book

Ctrl + Shift + C Create a new Contact

Ctrl + Shift + E Open a new folder

Ctrl + Shift + F Open the Advanced Find window

Ctrl + Shift + G Flag message for follow up

Ctrl + Shift + J Open a new Journal Entry

Ctrl + Shift + K”,1] ); //–>Ctrl + Y Go to Folder
Ctrl + Z Undo

Ctrl + Backspace Delete the previous word

Ctrl + End Move to the end

Ctrl + Home Move to the beginning

Ctrl + Shift + A Open a new Appointment

Ctrl + Shift + B Open the Address Book

Ctrl + Shift + C Create a new Contact

Ctrl + Shift + E Open a new folder

Ctrl + Shift + F Open the Advanced Find window

Ctrl + Shift + G Flag message for follow up

Ctrl + Shift + J Open a new Journal Entry

Ctrl + Shift + K
Ctrl + Shift + L Open a new Distribution List

Ctrl + Shift + M Open a new Message

Ctrl + Shift + N Open a new Note

Ctrl + Shift + O Switch to the Outbox

Ctrl + Shift + P Open the New Search Folder window

Ctrl + Shift + Q Open a new Meeting Request

Ctrl + Shift + R Reply All

Ctrl + Shift + S Open a new Discussion

Ctrl + Shift + U Open a new Task Request

Ctrl + Shift + Y Copy a Folder

Shift + Tab Select the previous message header button or field

F1 Open Outlook Help

“,1] ); //–> Open a new Task
Ctrl + Shift + L Open a new Distribution List

Ctrl + Shift + M Open a new Message

Ctrl + Shift + N Open a new Note

Ctrl + Shift + O Switch to the Outbox

Ctrl + Shift + P Open the New Search Folder window

Ctrl + Shift + Q Open a new Meeting Request

Ctrl + Shift + R Reply All

Ctrl + Shift + S Open a new Discussion

Ctrl + Shift + U Open a new Task Request

Ctrl + Shift + Y Copy a Folder

Shift + Tab Select the previous message header button or field

F1 Open Outlook Help

Activate the Find toolbar
F4 Open the Find window

F7 Spellcheck

F9 Send and receive all

F10 Select File from the Outlook toolbar button

F11 Activate the “Find a contact” dialog box

F12 Save As

Alt + F4 Close the active window
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Grant Gross writes based on a new Internet survey:

Just 21 percent of U.S. residents believe the next Bill Gates will come from their country, according to a new survey on Internet attitudes released Wednesday

About 27 percent of respondents said they believed the next wildly successful technology entrepreneur will come from China, and another 22 percent said Japan, according to the poll, conducted earlier this month by polling firm Zogby International and public-relations firm 463 Communications, both based in Washington, D.C.