Short URL: Top 5 Websites That Provide Free Short URL Service
What is a "short URL"? Short URL or tiny URL is an URL used to represent a long URL For example, http://tinyurl.com/45lk7x can be used to represent and will be used to redirect to http://www.snippetit.com/2008/10/implement-your-own-short-url.
Why people use short URL? First, because it is easy to remember. Imagine when you read an article on a magazine or newspaper that shows you a site with 100 characters and complicated URL. How can you remember the long URL, put down the magazine or newspaper, sit in front of your computer and type out the URL at web browser correctly? When the URL is short, for example tinyurl.com/45lk7x, you can do it easily.
Second, short URL is more portable. For instance, when you want to send your friend a SMS that contains some message and an URL, with short URL you can save a lot of space and give you more space to type your message.
Google Chromium OS
Google Chromium OS or Chrome OS is an open source project created by Google that aims to build an operating system that provide fast, simple and more secure computing experience. The new OS is target for people who spend most of their time on the web.
The following videos explain in detailed what Chrome OS is:
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WordPress Plugin: Official StatCounter Plugin
Official StatCounter Plugin is a plugin created by StatCounter to insert statcounter.com stats script into WordPress blog automatically. StatCounter is a free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats.
PayPal: Withdraw PayPal Money to Malaysia Bank Account
Good news to all Malaysian who has PayPal account! You can now withdraw you PayPal account to you local bank account in Malaysia.
Sitestimator.com: New Badge Released
Sitestimator.com, a website value evaluation tool, has developed and released a new badge. The new badge comes with new design, one of most famous ads size on the Internet - 125 pixels height and 125 pixels width.
Wolfram|Alpha: A Computational Knowledge Engine
Wolfram|Alpha is a computational knowledge engine. Unlike regular search engines (Google, Yahoo and Live) which return a list of relevant websites on queries, Wolfram|Alpha processes the queries to return an actual answer.
Bing: A New Search Engine from Microsoft
Bing or the "Google Killer" as said by some of the bloggers is a new powerful search engine from Microsoft. The search engine is still under beta testing but is running live as beta.
SEO: Get Higher Ranking in Search Engines
SEO or search engine optimization is a process of improving a website's traffic volume or traffic quality. SEO is not a simple process but involve deep studies the behavior of search engines like Google, Yahoo and Live.
SEO is very important to company especially those involve Internet businesses. Besides Internet businesses, other businesses also can make use of Internet to promote their brandings and product to the world wide.
Twitter: What it is?
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Sitemaps: Submit Sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools
Submitting your website's sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools is one of the way to give Google information about your site. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process.
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