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It’s very true that without this anything can be nothing sooner or later. There have been times that I thought it may not be a feeling that everyone has or need to have. But I just read this article which talks about how Steve Jobs makes it happen at Apple. Not a big fan of Apple that I am, still use an iPod for music and envy the folks who talk about their Macs. Many videos or screencasts that people do, they use one and it looks cool.

Without deviating from the subject, I think the way these guys feel about the products and services that they provide – it’s not just in their talks but in their beliefs. Now that I know it, it’ll be added to the mentoring armory and will be used where possible.

No matter what people might think how silly a product, an idea or what you do can be. If you believe in it – you can make it happen. It seems that’s what many felt about twitter, but I’ve read somewhere that the folks at twitter think that they can change the world with twitter.

I happen to watch this video a moment ago and thought it’s a good idea to put it up here and maybe look for what would be happening in times to come.

Certain policy discussions that has happened worldwide is pretty interesting to see if it gets implemented in countries such as US and India.

The Automatic Upgrade, ever since it came into the scheme of things, we had mixed reactions. We told some of the customers that you won’t need us for doing this. WordPress has made it so easy that it’s available at a press of a button. Nay! The customers went to somebody else

The following steps worked for us, login via SSH and ch to the directory where the wordpress blog resides (It is assumed that you do not have a sub directory called wordpress beneath this one) -

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz
cd wordpress
cp * ../ -R -f
cd ..
rm wordpress -R
rm latest.tar.gz

Now, you can login as admin and do the database patch and get going. Post your experience in the comments below. Please take backups!

One of the real estate sites that we were working on required us to explore WalkScore. It’s an exciting new way to look at things – very practical also. Do visit the site and see what it does. See our implemenation using WalkScore API and Google maps API

It’ll be a novel addition to Real Estate portals and sites. At a point, we expect it becomes a standard!

Looks like it’s coming to an end today. This post at google’s official blog explains how to settle this out. I’ve always had this issue with the gmail address that I used for my official email. We recently moved our email to gmail servers – after trying it out for so many of our customers. And today comes the news – Anyways, it’s good to know that you can do it and I’m sure gmail keeps the conversation in-tact.

The Outlook can now look clean of the recipient’s machine…

Recent times, I’ve been brought to focus on SEO, a subject I strongly avoided to look at but had no choice but being forced to. I always believed that if your site is worth it, it’ll show up on Search Engines otherwise, make efforts to make it “worth it”. This is some 6-7 years ago. This still holds true but it’s good to know how things happen. And I’ve been doing some reading, watching etc.

One thought that was always believed was, no search engine, including google, never cared about what was written inside the meta tags – keywords and description – since they were the first ones people started to stuff when they learnt about search engines and the importance of being on the first page. But today, I watched a video from Matt, that indeed talks about it – that google started looking up things in meta description as well.

So, as a final thought – just keep the appropriate content in appropriate places and things will work one way or the other.

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