Undersea Cables Map
February 12, 2008
The vast majority of the world’s communications are not carried by satellites but by an altogether older technology: Undersea cables.
As a ship accidentally wipes out most of Asia’s internet access, this Undersea Cables Map shows how we rely on collections of wires of less that 10cm diameter to link us all together.
The first intercontinental telephony undersea cable system TAT -1, connected North America to Europe in 1958 and had an initial capacity of 640,000 bytes/second. Since then, total trans-Atlantic cable capacity has soared to over 7 trillion bps.
The Longest Undersea Cables
The SeaMeWe-3 system from Norden in Germany to Keoje, South Korea connects 32 different countries with 39 landing points. This long undersea cable extends for almost 39,000 km.
SeaMeWe - 3 : 39,000 km
Southern Cross: 30,500 km
China - US: 30,476 km
FLAG Europe- Asia: 28,000 km
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Importance of Search Engine Optimization
October 13, 2007
When you type in something in a search engine say Google for example, have you ever wondered why the #1 result is there and what is the difference between the first result for your search query as say 10 million other results all linking to an article on a possibly different website. As the CEO of a search engine optimization company, I will tell you the reason.
For all search engines, content is the king. If your article has the answer to a question being asked, more than likely your website would rank among the top results. But what is the difference between a #10 search result and a #1 result even though both might have the answer to the query. The difference is keyword optimization and link building which comes with trust from other websites in your site. Finally, the site with the #1 result could have a smart webadmin who probably employed a SEO firm to help him rank high in search engines.
Why is ranking high important? Well, for starters it brings in traffic as research has shown that people do not click beyond the 2nd page for most part when they search for something on a search engine.
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October 12, 2007
As consumers grow increasingly more comfortable with shopping online, the winter holiday season is when online retailers traditionally see the biggest upswing in their business. In order for online retailers to capitalize during the busiest online shopping season of the year, they need to make sure their Ecommerce sites are in top shape and that they’ve planned a tailored search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. In a new Ecommerce Whitepaper, “Is Your Site Holiday-Ready? 7 Steps to Improve Your Online Holiday Sales,” Network Solutions explains the importance of ensuring Ecommerce sites are updated and tailored to shoppers, as well as the importance of developing an SEO strategy.
Jeff Zimmerman, Vice President, Product Marketing with Network Solutions explains, “There are so many ways that online retailers can really utilize the Internet to drive more shoppers to their stores, and we want to ensure that it is easy to do. From simple tweaks to your site, to implementing a complete online marketing campaign, online retailers must be cognizant as to how to stick out from their competitors–and thus have the most profitable holiday season possible!”
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October 10, 2007
Ever since Facebook opened up to the developer community to build cool applications for its site, more than 5000 Facebook applications have been created since May. Many of these have become wildly successful and popular with the Facebook community.
So now, Facebook wants it’s next generation cool app to come from the students themselves. So, Facebook hands over a check of $10 million to Stanford and is giving out upto $250,000 to developers who build promising new software to sit on top of Facebook.
Students at the university are flocking to this computer science class which is on Designing Software Applications for Facebook according to this article on Fortune magazine. Students hope to make a quick buck by designing the next killer application for Facebook
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Facebook to separate Work Friends from Social Ones
October 9, 2007
Facebook is apparently rolling out a new feature that will help you separate your work friends or “professional contacts” from your friends or “social friends”.
You can see this right now in facebook where if you are out of college and are working full time somewhere, you can be a part of your company’s group. However, what Facebook is working on is grouping your friends according to whether they are social or professional contacts and create profiles tailored for each of these categories.
Right now, the leading business networking site is LinkedIn. People are already tired of being part of a thousand different networks and if Facebook does a good job of creating their professional network within your Facebook account, it would be game, set and match for their rivals.
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Facebook might be launching a Music Store
October 9, 2007
TechCrunch is reporting on a rumor that Facebook might be launching an online music store soon. At this point of time the more likely online music portals it might be competing against seems to be Apple’s iTunes music store.
Another report by Paidcontent insists that this music platform for artists will be competing with MySpace and not iTunes. However, in my personal opinion, Facebook has long conquered MySpace and has emerged as the #1 player in online social hangout sites. If this Music store is launched, they will definitely leverage their member personalities, run contests asking its members to vote. I see a huge huge upside to Facebook and their own music store.
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September 9, 2007
For many companies, the need to augment their in-house teams and/or provide them assistance on a per project basis is growing every day especially in this booming economy of ours.
Momentum is a company providing such Internet Outsourcing solutions and has positioned itself where its IT specialists thrive on business challenges, your business challenges. They offer tailored solutions depending on your budget and requirements aligning their managed services to your business objectives.
Momentum features a state of the art five million-dollar server hosting facility servicing the US and Canada with best-in-class managed hosting services, including dedicated managed server hosting and colocation web hosting.
Their Managed Hosting solution guarantees continued server operation even under the most extreme conditions whether its managing your equipment, data, applications, or network, you can rest assured that your business structure remains safe and secure, and that it can’t be compromised in any way.
To ensure the complete integrity of our Managed Hosting services, they have constructed a secure hosting facility and Network Operations Center using the latest, most advanced construction techniques. An electronic authentication and access control system assures physical security, and a state-of-the-art video surveillance system, staffed 24/7/365 and digitally archived, monitors the centre continuously.
Equipped with a Dual Uninterrupted Power Supply battery, the centre also offers a host of other features designed to protect your assets at all costs. As hosting providers, in addition to managed hosting, they offer a complete site-to-site VPN solution, which includes design, deployment, and management. Momentum’s managed VPN solution also provides you with an efficient, turnkey program with Enterprise class HP Openview monitoring.
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