There is a booming niche market in the SEO industry. A lot of companies are paying for back links to boost their natural search results in Google. These purchased links really work because they are from very well-known publishers. In fact, many of the most well known, prestigious publications are selling links. It’s very difficult [...]
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Buying links is like addicting to drugs
February 1st, 2011 · Comments
Tags: Innovation · Tools & Tips
My wish lists to improve my Internet and mobile productivity
December 22nd, 2010 · Comments
Many of the readers of this blog work in live in the Silicon Valley. Maybe you can help me solve my problems while making some money. POP Access to Yahoo! Email: I’ve been using Yahoo Mail since 1995. Prior to 2001 (or 2002), Yahoo! lets users to download emails to POP client such as Outlook. [...]
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Search Engine Optimization Still Matters
April 23rd, 2010 · Comments
Lately I have read several articles saying that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not that important any more. Google is becoming smarter and smarter. As long as you have excellent content, Google will find you and let the world know about your content. I’m not so sure. You might have noticed that I recently made [...]
Tags: Blogging · Tools & Tips
Where do you get your information from?
December 14th, 2009 · Comments
I read a lot of blogs. Blogs might have some grammatical or spelling errors, but a lot of bloggers really know their stuff. They are subject matter experts. They are authentic, insightful, and prolific. I trust well-known bloggers more than most journalists. A lot of journalists don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re simply a [...]
Tags: Blogging · Learning and Growing · Tools & Tips
Someone is watching you!
November 30th, 2009 · Comments
You just received your "LinkedIn Network Update" email. Your colleague, Mary Anne, had updated her LinkeIn profile, added 75 new connections, received 3 new recommendations, and joined 3 groups. What kind of intelligence can you infer from above information? Let me tell you something. There is a high probability that Mary Anne is looking for [...]
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How to overcome writer’s or blogger’s block
September 8th, 2009 · Comments
I’m the biggest critic of my own blog writing. Sometime I really struggle to put together blog posts. But, I also set the goal for myself that I would like to make at least 3 posts a week. Lately I’ve tried a few “tricks” to overcome writer’s block. Although they don’t work all the time, [...]
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Wise Bread and 10,001 ways to live large on a small budget
May 7th, 2009 · Comments
A few months ago I came across the personal finance blog Wise Bread. The site immediately caught my attention. Wise Bread is only a little bit over two years ago, but it has achieve some very impressive traffic stats: it averages 1 million page views and 500K unique users per month its Alexa ranking is [...]
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Seven lessons I learned from relocating to a new city
May 6th, 2009 · Comments
Given the current state of economy and job market, I know a lot of people who are thinking about moving to a new city with better job prospect and lower cost of living. Relocation is not easy. For most people who relocate to a new city, they will have to face two very stressful events [...]
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Netbook sales overtake iPhone numbers
March 16th, 2009 · Comments
I first noticed the popularity of Netbook during this past Christmas season. Costco was carrying two brands of Netbook computers (Acer Aspire One and HP Mini .) They were all sold out within a couple of weeks. According to data from Gartner, in third quarter of 2008, 5.6 million Netbook computers were shipped compared to [...]
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Everyone should know a little bit about Fuzzy logic
March 6th, 2009 · Comments
Twelve years ago, when I was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, I was very fortunate to take the Fuzzy Logic course taught by the legendary Professor Zadeh, who invented the field of Fuzzy Logic. The class not only introduced a very exciting new field to me, but also taught me to look at our [...]
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