tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52207462008-11-23T00:00:52.909+05:30Ankur Patel - Specialist in PHP, SEO & all kind of web & outsourcing solutions from India.Ankur Patel - Open Source Hackernoreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220746.post-84037965791963994562008-11-22T23:56:00.002+05:302008-11-23T00:00:52.925+05:30

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html Just read the latest news of Google's crowdSourcing effort called - SearchWiki Summary for SEO professionals: In future, the search engine industry will only dependent upon the intelligence of crowd & that means, the best sites MUST have excellent & the most useful unique content on its web-site. More and more unique/

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Recently, Google India started "Got the Apptitude Challenge", which is a good campaign to woo most frequent users of Email & Word/Spreadsheet document users. At Infotrex, we are going to promote this solution to local Ahemadabad/Gujarat based colleges & universities. Read interesting article related to this campaign here. Other than that, we have found out that Google App's one of the feature

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Nobody knows what's the future of Web App? But it seems that Ruby on Rails will be surely the tough competition for PHP, Perl & Python. May be future is....LLMR (Linux, LightyD, MySQL & Ruby on Rails). Anyway, let me start with some basics: What Is Ruby On Rails? You’ve perhaps heard of Ruby on Rails, which has been generating sound in the web improvement field over the past year. While drone

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http://lifehacker.com/380044/top-10-email-productivity-boostershttp://lifehacker.com/software/texter/lifehacker-code-texter-windows-238306.php -- Ankur PateL(ankur@infotrex.com)CEO - Infotrex Services - Managing Information 4 UWeb: http://www.infotrex.comPhone Numbers: USA Home: 1-313-887-9964USA Office: 1-734-437-9243India : 011-91-9376133927Lets be in touch using IMs:Yahoo:ankurpateL78MSN:

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Its interesting to read this post: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/crowdspring-enters-crowded-field-of-crowdsourcing-with-5000-prize-invites/ Just thinking that - in future will it be a viable option for some outsourcing projects to be done via crowdsourcing way? Lets see what future brings in for all outsourcing work to India.

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Worth to watch out: http://www.engineyard.com http://www.buildingwebapps.com http://www.buildingwebapps.com/podcasts/1-why-you-should-learn-ruby-on/transcript

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Worth to watch out this website for encouraging Grass root level innovations in India: http://www.ciieindia.org/ http://www.sristi.org/cms/ http://www.maricoinnovationfoundation.org http://www.ediindia.org/

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Below Mega Trends are taken from Economic Times.com 1. Emerging Markets The world market for software and related services has been long dominated by the US and companies have spoken of Europe as a de-risking destination. But the fastest growth in the next few years will come from emerging markets, the group of countries that IDC calls BRIC+9 (Brazil, Russia, India, China followed by Mexico,

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Interesting thing to see some stats on Techcrunch.com Clearly Gmail is going to be the winner because of its easy,fast,powerful & nice interface. I used to use Yahoo for almost 6-7 years an when I start using Gmail, it was instant realization that Google Enginners have done excellent job at Email Management. Many USA universities are adopting Google for its Email infrastructure and that shows

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Its really paiful to see our child dying in front of our eye. Isn't it? I think same happens when you are a start-up company & you have to shut down your company because of any reasons. Recently, I read that Edgeio is going for deadpool. Its interesting to read the Blog post at Techcrunch. (FYI, http://www.TechCrunch.com is one of my most favorite & useful sites for Tech news). Good luck to all

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Just for people to know - Charity & non-profit work are always part of Infotrex & Ankur Patel's philosophy. There is a great project & site called http://www.kiva.org is available online. Thanks to Premal Shah. I am active member of this site & help other entrepreneours in under developed countries. Very few Indians are doing this and I am one of them, so feeling proud about it. See "My Account"

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Today- Dec.2,2007 I read interesting article about "Perl on Rails". Basically the article is related to software engineering happening/happened at BBC. Its interesting to know that they are using Ruby on Rails already and implemented similar MVC framework using Perl language. I started my professional career with Perl language first, so I have some inclination for Perl language, and recently

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Recently, I have read about some defame information, which people want to throw at me. Let me first clear that - All the blog maintained here are not solely written by me. I give instructions to post it online for easy read later on. It must be purely considered as private reading material, which is just put it online for sake of easy access to read(Same like everyone keep their private reading

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Google announced from the 1st of August they will stop showing any pages from their supplemental result. From last week I was constantly monitor on Google site index result and I was amazed that now Google don't show result from that extended database. I checked number of websites and search for thousand results but I was unable to find any pages under supplement results, so Google take off

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One point to note on this list; the points are just as valid for people developing by themselves as they are for teams of 20, with the exception that you will have to play the Wii by yourself (we'd recommend Zelda instead of Wii Tennis). Spend time or money on a decent IDEWe've been developing our content management system with Intellij Idea since version 3. It is seriously good

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Interested for Ruby on Rails & the company behind it? Read this interesting book http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ Strange thing is - They promote Ruby on Rails, but use PHP for this book site!!! Cheers to PHP Programmers!!!

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I think its really worth to follow... Scrum is a "lean" approach to software development. The term Scrum comes from a 1986 study [1] by Takeuchi and Nonaka that was published in the Harvard Business Review. In that study, Takeuchi and Nonaka note that projects using small, cross-functional teams historically produce the best results. They write that these high-performing teams were like the

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Recently, I have given the lecture of searching effectively using Google. Some more search related URLs: http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=links http://www.altsearchengines.com/ http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/Web_Search_Engines_Learn_More_About_Web_Search_Engines.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#General_search_engines

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http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/which-web-framework-is-right-for-your-business.html http://www.highrisehq.com/ http://www.showcasere.com/page.php/index

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Worth to check it out: http://www.shoutcast.com http://www.live365.com http://www.ubroadcast.com/

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The Dos and Don'ts of Article WritingOver the past year or two, every SEO, Blogger, and Website Promoterhas heard about the wonders of article distribution and the positiveresults that articles can yield for an otherwise unknown website.The purpose of article marketing is three fold: 1.) Get your name out there as an expert 2.) Get traffic from links within your article 3.) Increase your

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PRESS RELEASE BLUNDERS   (Or "Top 10 Errors That Make The Media Scream") Nothing discourages a journalist from reading your release more quickly than errors, either typographical or grammatical. You will want to proof - and proof again - and then ask someone else for assistance. If you would like to take advantage of our copywriting services, note that we charge just enough to cover the

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Why Web-Users Are So ImpatientDon't Speed-It-Up; Slow-It-DownWebsite visitors are speedy and they are sointent on getting what they want as quickly and efficiently aspossible, that they often surf the Internet out-of-control.How many times have you sat in front of the computer with yourhand resting on your mouse searching for some desired product,service, or information, when all of sudden you

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Interview: Joel Spolsky, Co-Founder, Fog Creek SoftwareJoel Spolsky founded Fog Creek Software with his friend Michael Pryorin 2000. They didn't have a specific product in mind, but weremotivated to start the kind of software company where they would wantto work—one where programmers were the stars.Around the same time, Spolsky began writing Joel on Software—now oneof the most widely read

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Building a web app is easy. Building a successful and profitable web app is where most people fail. In this new series of articles, I will share valuable strategies and tips for building successful web apps. I’ll be covering everything from powerful marketing strategies, how to build a quality team, tips for great customer support and finally, exit strategies. Building a web app is no different

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