Latest target of money-minded hackers is social networking sites

March 17, 2009 at 3:58 am | In Web Masters | Leave a Comment
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Today one of the most serious problems faced by social networking sites is attacks by cyber criminals. Hackers choose social networking sites as they can collect personal identity and sales details of millions of people through social networks. They can misuse the collected data to loot people’s money. Not just money, the hi-tech thieves can take advantage of this and steal valuable data from members, using malware.

Some online mischief-makers can send worms as an ideal vector on site. For instance, if several employees of a given company have records on a social networking site that mention their company’s name, an attacker could send a worm like XSS (enables pickpockets to get the best news and information about people) to hunt down their account details.

The recent attack on social networking sites is the appearance of poisoned banner ads. It was a new type of attack, where if anyone clicks on one such ad, the adware automatically gets downloaded on their desktop and freezes their PC, according to iDefence, a research and security company. Anyway, the issue was fixed after a long time but the attack still found plenty of victims in a huge number of networking sites.

Recently, social networking giant Facebook has been targeted by hackers looking to steal users’ valuable information. It has been hit by five separate security problems in the last seven days, says a security expert.

Facebook had been attacked by four malicious applications along with a new variant of the Koobface virus. These rogue applications try to rob saleable data from profiles of those who open the link.

Every bad experience teaches us to discover a new way to solve the problems. Let us hope, that they will find a perfect way to resolve the security problems arising every hour on the net.

Gaming on social networks

March 10, 2009 at 1:24 pm | In Web Masters | Leave a Comment
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When talking about social networking, its growing association with the world of gaming is often understated. Social and gaming networks, once considered polar opposites, are cross-pollinating as online interactions, steadily gaining in popularity amongst the ‘gamer bees’. Apart from providing an arena for competitive PC gamers in particular, they can socialize, share their gaming feats, and organize themselves into teams and other associations. They also cater to the average internet user who’d like to take some time off from the real life to transcend into a second life. Staying on the topic of ‘second life’, users can now become a part of an online 3D virtual world that goes by the same name. Second Life has managed to capture the imagination of the people, giving them a chance to become the person that they’ve always wanted to be in their real lives. Another example of such an online gaming social network is Kaneva – a shopping-and partying game — where you can operate virtual nightclubs and host parties. Kaneva’s not your average game— the difference lying in the fact that it helps you interact with people, not provide escape from them as traditional games often do. These games are all the more enjoyable because they are less about skill levels and escapism and more about joining friends and strangers in virtual spaces where chatting, comparing notes, going dancing — and, yes, slaying monsters — are all options.

Gaming has also wormed its way into mainstream social networking with interactive titles like Scrabulous for Facebook. Apart from being a lot of fun for the people who play these games, they also make a lot of business sense for the creators. If each of Facebook’s 33 million and MySpace’s 72 million January users paid a dollar each for a new outfit for his or her avatar in a game, that would have produced a lot more revenue than the fractions of a penny the sites got for each click on an ad. The money involved is just fascinating considering the economic downturn in peoples’ ‘first lives’.

So prepare yourself for a lightweight, three-dimensional environment, a virtual world equivalent of Facebook where staying in touch will be more fun than ever before.

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Notification for webmasters using IE 6

March 2, 2009 at 5:21 am | In Web Masters | Leave a Comment
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Are you still using Internet Explorer 6? Then this article is for you. Please read it, and find how backward you are still.

Microsoft introduced IE6 with its XP operating system in 2001. The main drawback of IE 6 is that it doesn’t support Web standards, such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and RSS which are necessary to describe the web style and to publish frequently updated works. Since it was released there have been very few new features if any, and few attempts to make it more inclined towards the W3C standards.

Some of the common problems encountered with the IE 6 are:
1.    Security
An attacker can execute a malicious code on a user’s system, when a user visits an attacker’s website. It paves a great way for attackers to take personal and credit details of a user without their consent.

2.    Alignment
The alignment of text plays a major role in the look and feel of a site. With IE browser, sometimes the text spills out of its container and spoils the very style of a website. When the total web style is distorted, you can’t really enjoy the essence of a website.

Actual format of a website:

Website format collapsed in IE6

3.    Flash
Nowadays, most webmasters use Flash to give special effects to their websites. But visitors using IE6 cannot enjoy it, as the flash player in IE6 cannot load xml files that use HTTP compression and no caching from web servers.

4.    Disappearance of background image and floating text
One more bug that is frequently found in IE 6 is disappearance of background image and even text that having floating elements around, when a web page is scrolled up/down.

5.    Web Style
Another problem encountered with the IE browser is that when you shrink the browser down from 800×600 resolution, the frame fixed at the left slides to the right. This occurs due to the lack of IE6s support for min-width.

Owing to all these issues, most websites like Facebook, digi.no present a notice and ask visitors to upgrade or switch browser when they visit their websites with IE6.

Even Microsoft has joined a campaign against IE6, and claims that its latest browser, IE8 which is in release candidate 1 status, will be the most standards-compliant one it has ever released.

With the increased awareness of Web standards among developers, they have spent lots of time to ensure their pages are compatible with all browsers.

It’s time to upgrade to IE7 or switch to other browsers like Firefox, Opera, Safari, and enjoy worldwide web sites.

Tips to increase site traffic through RSS feed

March 2, 2009 at 5:18 am | In Web design | Leave a Comment
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Having a wonderful site is the first step in online business promotion, but it can’t do anything unless people find it. Remember generating traffic for your website is the most important thing to run a successful business online. RSS (rich site summary) is a fascinating tool that opens a new door to gain visitors.

Ask yourself, is my site content reaching a wide audience? If your answer is yes then it’s great, if the answer is no, try the RSS feed tool that allows you to share updated content quickly. It offers various benefits to webmasters as well as users. Many people are not aware of the concept of the RSS feed and its purpose.

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audios, and videos in a standardized format.

Benefits of RSS feed for webmasters:

Web publishers can deliver updated web content to end users subscribed to the RSS feed of the site, automatically without taking any initiatives.

Think about the power of social networks. If you maintain a profile in one of the popular social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, you can import RSS feed from that networking site into your accounts at any local site so that whenever your profile is updated, the information will be automatically sent to your social profiles.

If you’re an online advertiser and using the RSS feed in Ads, then newly added ads will be automatically available at your clients’ desktop.

It allows you to share new content on your website, directly with your readers without sending mass emails, or newsletters.

Here are some tips to gain more subscribers:

Offer useful content related to products or services that you are promoting.

Send updates on your latest promotions to them.

Post regular updates and make sure the feed is available for RSS-friendly search engines to crawl.

Attach a link to your feed on your website and encourage subscriptions. With one click of a button, site traffic will be increased.

7 Tips to select a web design firm

March 2, 2009 at 5:14 am | In Web design | Leave a Comment
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No matter what size your business is, having an excellent website is important to run a business online. The main purpose of the business site is to drive sales and give the best impression to potential customers, employees, partners and others. Web design plays a major role in achieving it.

The business site must be user-friendly, free from bugs and have a professional look. A well-designed site will help you stand out of the crowd. With busy schedules in business, no one really has the time to design their site. It is best to pick a professional web design company that will design your website effectively.

With a large number of web design companies in the current market, it is tough to select the best one. Before selecting a company, make sure that the company will work with you in defining your company’s services worldwide. Here are a few tips that will help you select a good web design company that will be able to fulfill your needs.

• The most important thing that you need to do before selecting a web design company is to check the credentials of the firm. Make sure that the web design company has not been involved in any fraudulent activities.

• Keep in mind that the web design company is capable of designing an attractive and SEO friendly website so that you can get a higher page rank in popular search engines and maximize profits.

• The firm should design a website using international quality layouts, search engine optimization techniques and attractive color combinations.

• The company must have a professional web design team which is well aware of latest designing tools including dream weaver, HTML, graphic software, scripting, flash, animation, coding, decoding, CGI, Perl, XML, Java scripting etc.

• They ought to develop simple to complex e-business based websites like Real-Estate website, E-commerce site, Database driven Website, online community sites and so on.

• If they have worked for many clients, you can ask for some samples through emails and review them to check whether the look and feel of the site conveys the business need with high quality, and the site reflects a unique visual identity of their business or organization. If you don’t like any of their samples, move on to the next company until you find one that satisfies your needs.

• If you’re going to invest in the web design company, always check their portfolios and see how they work. It not only displays the quality of their work, but also the types of services that they perform on a regular basis.

• Don’t hesitate to raise questions that come to your mind when you outsource web design services to the web design company. Questions such as: what is your pricing structure? Do you meet deadlines always? Do you offer images, logos? Will my website be Search Engine friendly? Will my website work in all internet browsers? The list goes on.

Agriya’s Christmas gift to web surfers

December 19, 2008 at 7:12 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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Its Christmas season, and we’re all sharing joy and happiness by exchanging Christmas presents. We at Agriya are also ready for the season, and would like to share our joy with you, by offering a price reduction for our most remarkable products: FLV players and HD player.

If you have plans of adding videos to your personal sites, commercial sites, non-commercial sites, entertainment sites, or business sites, this is the right time. Using videos on your website is a noteworthy way to increase site traffic, increase page view times and make extra money from your site.

In the current financial crisis, it has become very hard for webmasters to implement any new technique to enhance their sites. No one is ready to take risks by investing large amounts of money in any enhancement processes. In such critical situations, one should make use of this golden offer to own the perfect player for their site, at low costs and foster their site through videos.

Business people can foster their business by showcasing their products and services in an audio visual environment. Other people running commercial and non-commercial sites can increase traffic to their site by providing related and attractive videos on their site.

Agriya offers a list of players including Mini FLV Player, Premium FLV Player, FLV Player Elite and HD FLV Player with different features.

Please refer to the table depicting the comparison between the actual price and the offer price.

Player

Actual Price ($)

Offer Price ($)

Mini FLV Player

79

37

Premium FLV Player

78.75

47

FLV Player Elite

131.2

67

HD FLV Player

147

97

Analyze the cost factor and features of players in their respective pages, and choose a player that best suits your need!

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How Web Application Development Makes Job Easier

October 7, 2008 at 5:51 am | In Software, computers | Leave a Comment
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By Naman Jain

Websites these days are handling most of our work, saving us the essential time and effort. Things which took us hours and days to complete can now be done in just a wink of an eye. Thanks to the various web application developments that are being introduced regularly. These applications are being incorporated into the websites making them more user friendly and efficient. There are several examples of how web application developments have made our work much easier and faster.

Lets take the example of communication for instance, with the help of web applications it is now possible not only to chat Online, but also to conduct video conferences where you can both view and talk to people from across the globe. You can connect as many people you wish to your video conference and speak with them at ease. This is the blessing of web application development.

At the same time, web application development have introduced services that have made shopping Online easy and secured. They have connected websites to your bank that allow easy transaction of money while you are buying Online. The concept of e-commerce has flourished only because of the advanced web application development that happened behind the scenes. These applications are so advanced and technologically supreme that they allow easy interaction between the website owners and the customers and ensure safe deals, that can be maintained for years.

Maintaining a website is now much more easier than what it was a few years ago. A unique web application developed to take care of it is the CMS, better known as the content management system, that ensure fast and efficient management of website content. Now uploading fresh content in your website is an easy task which will take only a few clicks and a few minutes. More over you can also administer the content of your website and keep a check on what is being uploaded or removed by the different users with access to edit your website.

The mechanism that studies the progress of your Internet marketing campaigns be it web analytics or email marketing are also part of your web application development that make the job of monitoring the  progress of the campaigns easier and accurate. These are just a few examples of how web application development have helped make life easier and more efficient today. This is just the beginning, the future of web application is going to be brighter and much advanced than what common man can think of.

About the Author- Naman Jain is an Online marketing professional, Presently working with Rupiz Media,  one of the leading Internet marketing company, providing Search engine marketing, pay per click services and web development solutions as well.

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Custom Web Applications Development

October 7, 2008 at 5:10 am | In Software, computers | 1 Comment
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By Rakhee Chowdhary

The web applications are built for providing variety of solutions for a variety of businesses. The custom software applications make the business to be more dynamic and flexible that allows competition in the high performance business world. Custom Software Development is a practical approach to solve problems connected with Software development. Clients want their projects to be unique. Their ideas can be put into practice with the help of new technologies and approaches to solve all the related problems, and finding new creative solutions in order to meet the specific requirements. The preferences to client’s necessities and preferences is the key idea of custom web application development.

The process of custom web development involves planning strategically in advance for the project. There is the combination of domain expertise and the latest advanced technologies for developing effective applications. All the processes are streamlined to increase the operational efficiencies. All these methods reduce the deployment cycle time and cost and provide a faster rate of return. It gives special emphasis on scalable web application development. A scalable web application development can have room for the rapid business changes with ease in the future too.

A customized web application development resulting out of the vision of the client results in higher productivity with the information well managed in an effective manner. It leads to the reduction in the cost and smooth running of the business processes. The applications can be developed in multiple technologies like java, java script, ASP.NET, Python but the selection of the right technology keeping both the present and the future in mind is most important for developing customized applications. A well built application surely gives the client a winning edge over the competitors.

Rakhi Chowdhary is a SEO strategist, SEO executive, SEO copywriter at a software development, web development, open source development company. She deploys SEO tactics to ensure high ranking on major search engines. Her articles, blog posts, content will help blogs, articles, and web site content readers to learn more and broaden their knowledge base.

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The Need For CMS Web Application Development

September 30, 2008 at 9:56 am | In Software, computers | Leave a Comment
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By Naman Jain

Gone are those days when you had to spend hours with your web designer to explain your ideas to him. Today, you can easily get your website created with ready to use templates available with the different CMS (content management system) web application development packages available. This form of web application service has made it easier for people to have a website and make use of the extremely handy and easy tool to enhance their online business. Here are some of the exciting features that have doubled the demand of this web application development.

CMS web applications are open source applications, meaning any one can freely use them. Like any other web application development, that are aimed at ironing out the difficulties in creating and maintaining a website, CMS web applications too, are used for easy creation and management of the sites. There are several CMS Softwares available in the market, and almost all of them work in more or less the same format. Their names might be different, their formatting might differ from one another in some way, but they all contribute towards easy maintenance of a created website.

CMS Web Application Development are very easy to install, and easier to use. All you need to do is copy the files into a folder and then use them as per your convenience. Most CMS Web application softwares comprise a couple of inbuilt templates that can be readily used for creating a website. Just in case you are not willing to use these, they are flexible enough and can be easily modified as per your requirement.

Managing content becomes extremely easy in CMS Web application development. You need not request your designer to help you update your website every fortnight. All you need to do is utilize the readily available admin panel of your web application and edit the necessary changes. Web applications can make your website management a child’s play. With the CMS software, you can add, edit, replace, delete and even change position of content, images and different feature buttons in your website.

CMS web application development is also an extremely secured means of website maintenance. The package comes with a password protected admin panel which will keep all changes and modifications in your website safe and access to your backend restricted.

About the Author- Naman Jain is an Online marketing professional, Presently working with Rupiz Media, one of the leading online marketing company offering expert UK web development services and website designing solutions over the globe.

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Rising Popularity of Web Application Development

September 30, 2008 at 9:52 am | In Software, computers | Leave a Comment
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By Ivon Hoffman

Web applications are used by industries or companies to promote their business and the scenario today is that every type of business needs their own web applications. The web applications include such simple tasks as filling a form for certain facility as net banking to giving some orders or working on some projects.

The web applications are built according to the user requirements so they are beneficial as they fit well into the environment and can be expanded whenever required according to the usage. Web applications are easy to use and are more presentable and attractive than the traditional softwares.The web applications are getting popular due to the advantages they provide to their users. The use of web application does not require any additional hardware or software configuration for its working. The data security is there as it is stored in one central server and not individual computers. A custom build web application certainly costs less than the off the shelf applications and provides greater efficiency and reduced maintenance. So the cost of supporting and providing services to the customers is reduced. The customers also benefit by these applications by getting the convenience to interact with the company at any time of the day or night. Then it provides improved sales with lower sales cost to the company and at the same time good communication with the customers and higher level of interactivity with the clients,

The development of new web technologies, languages and procedures has given way to the development of new dynamic applications. The growth of web 2.0 trends has lead great influence on the web industry. These facilitate the programs to be made easier and more functional thus enriching user experiences. The development of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML ) has lead to greater web interactivity in which changes are made to individual user interface components rather than refreshing the whole page. The future of web application is enormous with the work going on in the area for semantic web and artificial intelligence.

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