» Web Technology http://electrosmart.com/Blog Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:55:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Finally – A Tool To Help Protect PDF Ebooks From Scammers http://electrosmart.com/Blog/finally-a-tool-to-help-protect-pdf-ebooks-from-scammers/ http://electrosmart.com/Blog/finally-a-tool-to-help-protect-pdf-ebooks-from-scammers/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:39:38 +0000 Esmart http://electrosmart.com/Blog/?p=137 Continue reading →]]>

Every now and then one comes across a product that is a no brainer – and I
believe PDF Marker is one of those. For any digital publisher of ebooks, maintaining
the pdf format for ease of use for your cusotmers, exposes you to unethical
scammers who can purchase your ebook, then share it free with the world. Next
minute you find it on multiple free ebook download sites and the months of work
you just invested in is rapidly diluted to a low commercial ROI.

I have just downloaded this product to try for the next 30 days – for only
$USD37. [That's for a limited 50 downloads only]. So if you are looking for
a way around this ongoing issue – this just may be it. Well worth checking it
out. Let me know what you think?

Click Here to Check Out PDF Marker

]]> http://electrosmart.com/Blog/finally-a-tool-to-help-protect-pdf-ebooks-from-scammers/feed/ 0 Visual Search – It’s Finally Here! http://electrosmart.com/Blog/visual-search-its-finally-here/ http://electrosmart.com/Blog/visual-search-its-finally-here/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:36:07 +0000 Esmart http://electrosmart.com/Blog/?p=38 Continue reading →]]> The current search engines used by Google, Yahoo, MSN etc are text-based search engine. They rely on searchers visually checking every link to check to see if the result is what they are really looking for.

SearchMe.com has recently launched a beta version of its exciting new visual search. Simply download a plugin for Internet explorer to search web pages, images and videos. Using this search option, enter your keywords as normal and then select the sub search from: business books, search engines, business news, advertising and marketing, software and all.

Now this is where the big difference comes in – the results, rather than being listed in text format are in visual representations of the media, presented in a Windows Vista style format. This lets you instantly check the quality of the site without wasting time clicking through text links.

In addition, it highlights the search terms on the pages of the visualisations to give you an indication of the relevancy of the page to your search query.

This is really cool stuff, so check it out yourself – there is a lot more to this visual search than I have told you here.

]]> http://electrosmart.com/Blog/visual-search-its-finally-here/feed/ 1 Will The Real Web 2.0 Please Reveal Itself? http://electrosmart.com/Blog/will-the-real-web-20-please-reveal-itself/ http://electrosmart.com/Blog/will-the-real-web-20-please-reveal-itself/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:36:58 +0000 Esmart http://electrosmart.com/Blog/?p=6 Continue reading →]]> There are many good newsletters and authors on the Web; but a lot of the content is blandly repeated from site to site without much added value. Every now and then I come across one that stands out. In this instance it was an article on Clickz on Web 2.0.

I have to admit that I have been somewhat bemused about Web 2.0 editorial to date. Being a mobile telecommunications strategists I have to get a little more in depth understanding of new technologies and behavioural interaction with technology than most. Since Web 2.0 is very much a collision of social behaviour empowered by technology, I found the Clickz discussion on Web 2.0 worthy of repeating here.

ClickZ came up with the closest definition to defining Web 2.0 that I have previously encountered. A summary of their defining characteristics:

“Data abstraction” – Freeing up information data so that it can be shared by tagging, XML, open APIs (define), and mashups. I guess they are saying Web 2.0 is to content as OpenSource is to software code.

“Web 2.0 takes broadband and Moore’s Law for granted” – Web 2.0 is bringing collaboration in media types only possible with higher bandwidth that broadband provides. This includes video sites such as YouTube and document sharing capabilities such as Google Docs & Spreadsheets

“Web 2.0 is about connections” – web 2.0s widening the one:many web connections; and more so it is making it two way. The only one:many resource previously available was many viewers to a single website. Now many viewers can connect to many other viewers through horizontal webs.

“The Web 2.0 revolution puts people first” – taking the power out of the hands of the website developers and marketers, and putting it into the hands of the consumer. The power base has shifted.

“Web 2.0 is about allowing people to manipulate data, not just retrieve data” – Clickz use the ‘AJAX’ model to illustrate how not only the consumer side of Web2.0 is changing from linear 1:1 transactions, but so too the backend technology. Not being an authority on AJAX I cannot comment, but I get the idea.

“Web 2.0 is about doing stuff on the Web that can’t done in any other medium” – I would add to this “FOR NOW!” sure interactive print is pretty impossible, but watch for interactive TV and other media. I guess they are eluding more to the fact that Web2.0 hasn’t really been just a one step progression from Web 1.0 [whatever that was] – it’s a totally new media realm of its own. And Clickz appears to agree – their final statement is worth repeating here:

“To truly do Web 2.0, you must do something that absolutely can not be done without the Web”

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