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A few years ago, the Internet experienced a video revolution. As broadband access expanded and more people began uploading content, video became an expected resource for consumers. Businesses could get more mileage out of television commercials and engage users by linking to video reviews of its products.

A year ago, we saw evidence of small and medium-sized business increasing budgets for video content – to be used both on their homepages and in advertisements. In 2009, 19% of businesses polled were using video (up from 5% in 2008) and I’m willing to bet that number will be much higher in the 2010 report that should come out later this month.

Now, as technology has become more affordable and increasingly mobile, we’re able to experience virtually anything online. As such, local search engines are evolving into master content synthesizers to meet the needs of consumers and advertisers alike – offering video and photos, local advertising deals, user reviews, QR codes, maps and directions, etc.

Consumer expectations of local search engines have never been higher. Users want to see photo and video reviews of a company’s products, read what other people have to say, and even take a virtual tour of your store or restaurant before they visit.

The same is true of small- and medium-sized business owners looking to find a competitive advantage. Local search engines are offering more dynamic content than ever before to users and it’s up to search marketers to help business owners feed that content.

It’s interesting to see how video content has changed since the advent of YouTube. Instead of traditional video advertising, we’re seeing new technology that lets users look around your business from their own home. Soon, we’ll be able to find virtual creations of almost any environment online – and those virtual tours are being integrated with current deals and other advertising promotions to drive traffic to your business.

Recently, a company called EveryScape partnered with Bing and YP to offer digital advertisers a new local search solution – virtual tours. For example, YP360 will let a user step inside a restaurant in Baltimore while they’re still on the train. They can choose a place and even set a reservation, all within the same application on their phone.

Google Earth has gone indoors and local search engines are responsible for bringing this detailed and vivid content to users while keeping it simple and accessible. And the business case for offering this new content to users and advertisers alike is clear as local advertising is expected to grow to $16.1 billion this year, up from $13.7 billion in 2010.

Even more, mobile phone advertising spending is expected to be more than a billion dollars in 2011, up 48% from 2010. Local search engines like YP and Yelp! are seeing over 20 million visitors a month, many of them accessing via mobile phones.

This is a great opportunity for local search engines and advertisers to embrace this new technology and get ahead of the pack. Effective local advertising goes beyond building a social networking presence and listing in directories – you have to make sure your content is engaging. In the online world, the savviest local search marketers who use this technology well will have the most successful campaigns.

I recommend that any business owner or local search marketer read up on the latest digital advertising solutions and consider offering your customers virtual tours of your products or store. To set your business apart, you need to stay current with the best that local search has to offer.

Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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In February of 2007, 83.24 percent of users visiting TechCrunch did so from a Windows machine. One year later, in February 2008, the stranglehold remained firm at 80.44 percent. In February 2009, the number was at 74.04 percent. Last year, it was 61.59 percent. And this year? The number of people visiting our site from Windows machines dipped to 53.84 percent.

The writing is on the wall.

Look at those numbers again for a second. In four years, Windows share among TechCrunch readers has fallen 30 percentage points. That’s incredible.

The knee-jerk reaction in the comment section will likely be something like “it’s because you guys cover Apple so much”. But the fact of the matter is that Macintosh share, after rising for three of those four years, fell last year as well. It’s the mobile devices — specifically the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices — that are eating away at Windows.

In fact, if the trend over the past four years continues at about the same pace, in two years, devices made by Apple (Macs, iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads) will surpass devices that run Windows as the top visitors to TechCrunch. And depending on how popular the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and OS X Lion are, it could easily happen next year.

Here are the broken down numbers:

Feb 2007

• Windows: 83.24%


• Mac: 13.59%


• Linux: 2.51%

Feb 2008

• Windows: 80.44%


• Mac: 15.15%


• Linux: 2.97%


• iPhone: 0.77%


• iPod: 0.15%

Feb 2009

• Windows: 74.04%


• Mac: 20.48%


• Linux: 3.01%


• iPhone: 1.60%


• iPod: 0.28%


• Android: 0.09%

Feb 2010

• Windows: 61.59%


• Mac: 28.62%


• iPhone: 4.07%


• Linux: 3.49%


• Android: 0.87%


• iPod: 0.53%

Feb 2011

• Windows: 53.84%


• Mac: 27.64%


• iPhone: 6.72%


• iPad: 3.44%


• Linux: 3.28%


• Android: 3.06%


• iPod: 0.62%

While even the last batch of stats shows that Windows still has a nice cushion over number two, Mac, if you add the Apple products put together, it’s a different story.

• Feb 2007: 13.59% Apple products


• Feb 2008: 16.07% Apple products


• Feb 2009: 22.36% Apple products


• Feb 2010: 33.22% Apple products


• Feb 2011: 38.42% Apple products

In the four year span, Apple has added 25 percentage points to their share among TechCrunch readers. That nearly all of the 30 percentage points that Windows lost in that same span (Android’s growth pretty much fills in the rest).

So it currently stands at Microsoft’s 53.84 percent versus Apple’s 38.42 percent. Again, a big year for iPad, iPhone, and Mac could mean a changing of the guard as soon as next year. But unless something drastic changes, you can be sure that Apple will be dominant among TechCrunch readers in two years.

The latest rumors have Windows 8 showing up sometime in mid/late 2012. But the fact of the matter is that Windows 7, much more widely praised than the disaster that was Vista, hasn’t helped Microsoft buck this trend among our readers. Perhaps they’re only hope of gaining back share at this point is Windows Phone. So far, that hasn’t been going too well. Nokia should help that, but will it be enough to offset the Windows losses?

Humorously, Microsoft’s best hope for not falling to Apple may well be Android. If Google’s platform continues to make gains, it could prolong Apple passing Microsoft.

But again, Apple has iPhone 5, iPad 2, and OS X Lion on the immediate horizon — all within the next few months. And then there’s the very real possibility of another iPad in the fall.

The iPad 2 and iPhone 5 are likely to push the Apple share forward immediately. But don’t sleep on OS X Lion either. The early indications are that Apple has indeed made it much more iOS-like. That means millions of iPad/iPhone/iPod touch owners who have traditionally been PC users, are going to feel a lot more comfortable on a Mac than ever before.

And a new PC-to-Mac data migration system built in to Lion will only help that.

OS X Lion is going to feed off of iOS users, and vice versa. And the Mac ecosystem is going to continue to expand. Just as happened in the browser world with Chrome taking over, a transition is happening among TechCrunch readers in the ecosystem space. The numbers don’t lie. And Microsoft better pray that our readers aren’t leading indicators of overall trends in the space — which is exactly what you have been in the past.

Titles from major book publisher Random House will now appear in Apple’s iBooks store. The news was one of many talking points covered earlier today at Apple’s media event. Random House had previously been the only major publisher not represented in Apple’s popular iOS book store, as it was not willing to grant Apple the 30% cut taken on titles sold through iBooks. The addition of Random House is a major coup for Apple as it looks to compete with the likes of Amazon’s Kindle bookstore and other popular offerings. Hit the break for Apple’s full press release.

Random House, Inc. Makes Entire US Catalog of 17,000 ebooks Available on Apple’s iBookstore

iBookstore Now Features More than 2,500 Publishers, Including All Six Major Trade Publishers

SAN FRANCISCO—March 2, 2011—Apple® today announced that Random House, Inc., the largest trade book publisher in the US, has made its full catalog of 17,000 ebooks available on Apple’s iBookstore℠, including bestsellers by Stieg Larsson, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Laura Hillenbrand, Cormac McCarthy, Lee Child and many more of the world’s preeminent authors. Starting today, customers can pre-order upcoming releases from Random House including Lisa Gardner’s “Love You More,” Suze Orman’s “The Money Class” and Jean Auel’s “The Land of Painted Caves.” With the addition of Random House, the iBookstore now offers ebooks from all six major trade publishers and thousands of independent publishers.

“We are delighted that Apple’s iBookstore now will be carrying Random House’s US ebooks for the first time,” said Markus Dohle, Random House’s Chairman and CEO. “And we look forward to bringing our 17,000 ebooks to Apple customers.”

“We’re thrilled to offer Random House on the iBookstore,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “iBookstore customers have already downloaded more than 100 million books in less than one year, and we think they’ll love being able to choose from Random House’s incredible selection of titles to enjoy on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.”

iBookstore customers can choose from a wide selection of illustrated and video-enhanced books that look incredible on iPad™, including Jay-Z’s memoir “Decoded” and Bing West’s “The Wrong War”; bestselling children’s series such as Magic Tree House and Junie B. Jones; and cookbooks by Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, and the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten. Random House, Inc. comprises more than 80 adult and children’s US publishing imprints including Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Crown, Pantheon Books, Vintage, Ballantine and Bantam.

The iBookstore, included in Apple’s free iBooks® app, is the best way to browse, buy and read books on your iPad, iPhone® and iPod touch®. iBookstore offers ebooks from more than 2,500 publishers in more than 20 categories, including Mysteries & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbooks, Children’s & Teen, Humor, Romance, Business and Travel.

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Ask yourself, what are my company’s core capabilities? If your answer is simply, restating the product you sell, you are most likely incoherent. The coherence premium is a high level strategy used by some of the largest (and most profitable) corporations in America. Companies that are “coherent” can define 3-6 capabilities internally that differentiate them within their industry, build a deep workable strategy focused on “winning,” and develop product portfolio based around their capabilities.

What makes the coherence premium such an interesting topic? The fact that companies who are “coherent” are healthier, more profitable and better set up for long-term growth. Coca-Cola, a poster child for coherence, (almost 100 on the Coherence Capabilities Score) sees on average 20% higher earnings before interest and taxes than profiled companies with a Coherence Capabilities Score of less than 20.

Take Wal-Mart for instance, they’ve aligned all of their capabilities:

• Aggressive vendor management


• Expert point-of-sale data analytics


• Superior logistics


• Rigorous working capital management

Simple, but to the point, Wal-Mart understands their internal capabilities, which stretch from logistics all the way to IT. Capabilities should be specific enough that they exact a point of where you stop competing and start excelling your industry. A more thorough example of a capability would be, “A company’s ability to use customer-data mining to develop new products.”

Benefits

1. Strengthens a Companies Competitive Advantage


2. Companies are Better Prepared For The Future


3. Produces Efficiencies of Scale


4. Aligns Strategic Intent and Day-To-Day Decision Making

Steps

1. Ways to Play- learn how your company provides value and the way you will face the market.

• Are we investing capabilities that matter to the way we play?


• Are we clear about the way we choose to create value in the marketplace?

2. Capabilities System -determine your 3-6 core capabilities.

• Have we defined how these capabilities work with our system?


• Do all of our businesses draw upon this superior system?

3. Build a Strategy For a Balanced Portfolio – Build your future growth and product initiates to maximize your core capabilities.

• Have we found our product and service “sweet spot”


• Are new products and acquisitions determined on the way the fit within our capabilities system?

Understanding your core capabilities and becoming coherent is not necessarily the easiest thing to do. Your capabilities should be assessed with a healthy mix of both internal and external information and careful thought. All of this is worth the hassle; coherent companies consistently reap more profits, are better prepped for the future and place themselves atop their industries by innovating.

The major legislative item on the agenda in the Senate this week will be The Small Business Reauthorization Act (S. 493).  Republicans plan to use this bill as a platform to promote critical pieces of legislation through the process of non-germane amendments to the bill.  Here are some vital amendments that will be debated and voted on throughout the week:

• Senator Mitch McConnell is offering an amendment (S. AMDT 183) to prohibit the EPA from promulgating any regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.  There is perhaps no force that is more destructive to our prosperity, consumer freedom of choice, and job creation than onerous cap and trade schemes.  There are many red state Democrats who are up for reelection in 2012 and will be hard pressed to go on record as supporting policies that are an imprecation to the interests of their states.  Make sure to call Senators Claire McCaskill, Joe Manchin, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, and Jon Tester in particular.

• Senator David Vitter is offering an amendment (S.AMDT. 178) forcing the federal government to sell off unused and underused property.  This is a serious issue.  The federal government owns over half of the land in some western states and has been using it to stifle energy development.  Selling unused federal lands would also serve as a prudent means of generating revenue without raising taxes.

• Senator Rand Paul is using the SBA bill as a platform to offer his signature budget bill (S.AMDT 199) which would slash $200 billion in spending for fiscal 2011.  Paul’s plan slashes funding by 50% to the Departments of Energy, Education, and HUD.  This amendment represents real limited government and budget austerity and will separate the men among the boys in the ranks of the Republican Conference.

• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is forcing a vote (S. AMDT 197) to delay the implementation of ObamaCare until a final resolution is reached in pending lawsuits.  Unlike other bills that are designed to merely ameliorate ObamaCare, this amendment would completely halt it during the ensuing legal battles.

• Senator Tom Coburn has filed an amendment (S.AMDT.184) to force federal agencies to compile comprehensive lists of all of their programs

Make sure that all of your Republican senators are on record supporting these amendments, especially Rand Paul’s budget proposal.  Also, let’s see which faux moderate Democrats will commit to supporting anyone of these commonsense initiatives.  Needless to say, I didn’t waste time calling my senators; Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin!

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Making Money Work

Some context:

I am basically a one-man design team for a bimonthly magazine.

As a startup, I was never really making much money here. About $48k.

In fact, marketwise, I was barely getting paid what a single designer should make even tho I am doing the job of at least two people.

I havent received a raise since fall 2007, even for cost of living.

In the time since then, my work (and remember that there is only one designer here) has won us about 6 industry awards.

In fact, in 2010 we won 3 awards and they were all design awards.

The reason I bring all this up is because one would hope that a performance record like that would merit a certain amount of base respect. However since this is the first business my boss has owned, I feel like they are simply spoiled into thinking that this work is just a given. Maybe they just dont know any better.



So now, with the industry souring and ad sales dropping a bit, I have taken a significant pay cut and am now doing all of the advert design that they once jobbed out to freelancers. Ad to that our rush to launch an iPad version and I am now doing far more work for even less money.

I wasnt offered flex time. I wasnt offered furlough days. In fact, for a salaried employee that ends up working heavy deadlines once every two months, my bosses still treat me like an employee that needs to saty til the very end of his "shift" regardless of whether I have work to do at the time.



Another issue (more context) is that they seem to think they have some kind of exclusivity with me. At first they asked that I let them know if I was doing any freelance work, as a "courtesy". But the very first time I mentioned that I was doing a poster on my own time on a dead weekend for a friends band for FREE, my boss acted very butthurt. AS if he should wield a veto power over my work on my own time. This has had the effect of me simply hiding the freelance I do from them. I really dont feel its their business.



So annnnnnnyway. Ive had enough and I am building my portfolio site to hopefully begin shopping myself around. I know the economy sucks, but Im not planning to leave until I get a better offer.



Knowing all that you know about the attitude of my boss presented above, should I worry about them trying to prevent me from using the work Ive created here the last 5 years in my portfolio? CAN they prevent me? Should I be worried?



BONUS: am I being treated unfairly? Ive been in this industry for 15 years and Im giving up hope that Ill ever not work for knobs. Does it suck everywhere?

Marco Arment, the former CTO of the Tumblr blog platform, is best known these days for his time-shifting reading app Instapaper. But he could start a side-job as a financial advisor to start-ups. His motto: Get the money from your customers, not investors.

Arment’s more traditional take is built largely on the idea that if he puts out a good product, there’s no shame in asking customers to pay for it. And the more they pay, the less he needs to rely on outside investors. Arment said many developers are of the mindset that they need to amass a huge number of eyeballs through free services. But they don’t focus enough on building a solid product that can command loyalty and payment from consumers, and instead try to gain profitability through advertising and turning to outside venture capital.

By contrast, Arment says his efforts to monetize Instapaper have been successful because he was able to leverage the hard work he put into his paid versions and the good will he’s gotten back from consumers. And that has allowed him to avoid outside funding, something he plans on doing for the forseeable future.

Don’t Take Funding if You Don’t Need It

“If a service can be profitable and breakeven without VC money, you don’t need to take it,” Arment told me in an interview. “There’s no reason for developers to get a lot of users without charging. There’s another path. My goal is to spread that message: Charge for something and make more than you spend.”

Arment launched Instapaper as a free website in January 2008 and became profitable later that fall when he first began selling a paid iPhone app alongside a free version. He’s been profitable ever since. Arment won’t disclose his revenue, but he said he can cover his expenses and can afford to hire a couple more people if he needed. He left his Tumblr job in September to devote himself to Instapaper.

Though Arment maintains a free iPhone app, he said the focus of the company has been on the paid versions which are updated first (a new update is expected in the next month or so). He has yet to release a free iPad version and has only gotten three emails about the lack of it. Most seem happy to pay for the $5 iPad version. Between 25 and 33 percent of people pay for the $5 paid iPhone version. In fact, as an experiment, he pulled the free iPhone app from the app store for a week a little while back and found that only one person emailed. Sales of the paid version didn’t go up, but they didn’t go down either, he said.

“The free version isn’t really competing as much as I expected with the paid version; a lot of people go straight to the paid version,” he said. “It was only a week but the people who were going to the free version would not have gone to the paid version.”

Let Users Thank You by Paying You

That’s what’s allowed Arment to really focus on the paid segment. In fact, he still questions the value of the free version at times because it can leave a more negative impression for users with its limited set of features. Arment said his paying users have surprised him with their support. He started a $1 a month subscription plan in October that didn’t actually offer much in the way of extra features. It was more of a way to let users show their support for Instapaper. He said the response was overwhelmingly positive.

“That was a huge surprise to me how well it’s doing given there’s no real incentive to do it besides good will. But it ends up that good will is powerful,” Arment said. “It shows that people will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.”

Arment is testing the theory again with a new API that leverages his subscription plan. For developers who want to build apps with Instapaper integration, Arment said last month he will require their users to subscribe to Instapaper. Again, the response has been very positive, said Arment. Two hundred developers have applied to get access to the API. All this money-making has allowed Arment to sidestep venture capital money. He has had repeated offers, but Arment said accepting VC funding is akin to taking on a new boss, and the act of raising and maintaining money is a full-time job, he said.

Venture Capital Is Like Having Another Boss

“If you can go without funding, you can be a one- or two-person shop without a whole level of bosses,” he said. “You’re not worried about getting more money and getting diluted anymore.”

Arment’s approach doesn’t work for everyone. He was fortunate to be able to this as a side job and build it up while at Tumblr. And he acknowledges that the lack of funding could be a problem if he wanted to build a staff quickly. But he believes his experience shows that a more old-school approach to building a business and developing a following with consumers is a viable one for entrepreneurs that should be explored more. He may not the biggest company, but he can be a profitable one for a while.

“I don’t need the entire market,” Arment said. “I can get five percent of the market and be rich.”

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Search engine optimization Vancouver For A Better Marketing Solution

 

When you start your own website there are many ways you'll have to sell it off and something the best way is to use Search engine optimization Vancouver if you maintain that area. The SEO or search engine optimization services will be the top way of getting good visitors to your website and for that reason making more sales.

 

Now, you need to know that you will not use SEO service if you're not an internet business - however, if you do not have an online presence if you are an offline business, then you'll not make it very far.

 

It's a popular fact that if you are planning to really make it in the offline world you must have an online business. This really is something that all people are learning the hard way. One thing that you ought to also know is the fact that it's not as simple as just establishing the website and leaving it to do its things.

 

You can do this in all sorts of ways, but these companies usually take advantage of multiple techniques to create the perfect marketing technique online. You will be able to employ these phones write articles for you personally, post on forums and blogs, create meta tags and meta descriptions, clean up the code, add alt tags towards the images plus much more.

 

It is very important that you do this because otherwise the company that you have worked so difficult for could wind up losing the money. When you have an internet site you want to create, then you'll also use the expertise of an SEO company, which means search engine optimization company. What this company does is basically go ahead and take best areas of your site, look into the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure your website is placed close to the top of the list for the major search engines.

As a result the Search engine optimization company cannot only increase your traffic, but also make sure that your website is fully optimized for the search engine spiders that will be introduced to it. These spiders are utilized to analyze your site and place it in a few positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you want to make use of the Search engine optimization Vancouver then all you have to do is find the top companies. It's through these how the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. With so many SEO companies to select from you need to be sure that the main one you are going for is reliable. You should be in a position to ask for a breakdown of what you need, and the company should also have the ability to tell you know long they've been operating for. This will limit the list to reveal the top ones.

 

SEO Services Offered by Different Vancouver Web Companies

The Vancouver SEO company services are very beneficial for business growth as they provide quality services. If you're planning to create a website for your online business, then you have come to right article as I is going to be explaining below how Search engine optimisation Vancouver company services can increase your website ranking making it popular.

Before that, you should know what Search Engine Optimization is. It's not that complicated and I'm sure you're going to get a grasp of it reading my article. The primary goal of SEO is to have increased traffic aimed at your website and audience. It's a good decision to select a Vancouver SEO company that specializes in this sort of work, which means that your website can be indexed by search engines.

There isn't any reason for you using a website with no website ranking at all while you won't get any business and profits to outlive. It is a very tough atmosphere out there because there are so many online business people just like you, who want their share of pie. You must be familiar with the fact that nearly 85% of world-wide-web traffic can be got from web sites.

Whenever a user types in a keyword or keywords for what he/she really wants to know in various sites, these use crawlers to obtain web sites using the relevant content and index them based on algorithms. You don't have to be worried about the algorithms which these sites use as that is not important.

To appear in the first page from the search result, you will need to hire professionals and pros who can do the needful to maintain your website one of the good books in these websites. These professionals can optimize your site content to ensure that your website gets increased traffic.

Once the traffic gets high, it's a sign that you are getting a service which will enable you to get more revenues. SEO Vancouver company do the following to create your site appear inside the first page of search engine results.

Use keywords which are popularly used on search engines in your website content.
Have a web design for the website which is simple because top sites are allergic to flash and weird designs.
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SEO Vancouver company also perform site diagnostics which is a significant part in online optimization as research and analysis on finding keywords is the way to start a SEO campaign. So, be sure you choose the best SEO Vancouver company.

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What to anticipate When Getting a Roofing Contractor

When the time comes to repair or substitute your roof, it can be a challenging job to locate somebody that is competent for the job. There are many roofing contractors out there, however the types who will do a congrats for a reasonable cost are not frequently easy to find. If you are in the market for the contractor, use the tips below with regard to interviewing as well as employing the correct one.

Job interview as well as Discussion

The majority of roofers provide totally free consultations. This is particularly important, because it gives them a chance to evaluate exactly what your roof needs, and it gives you an opportunity to evaluate all of them. As with all companies, trust your intuition about the people you let up onto your roof. No matter exactly how great the contractor's status or recommendation, he or she should begin by showing you having a business card. If a contractor occurs searching and speaking within an less than professional manner, most likely the task he is going to perform will also be unprofessional. This is not to say that you ought to anticipate contractors to arrive in fits. They is going to be climbing on your roof, so most will be dressed up in jeans and work boots or athletic shoes. If the contractor seems to be more interested in talking on their mobile phone during your roof than he's within analyzing your roof's needs, that may be another sign that he's not really the main one to do the job. For your legal protection, be certain that the actual service provider has sufficient legal responsibility insurance.

Roof Assessment

Anticipate the service provider is going to be going up in your roofing. Actually, any kind of service provider who not need to increase on your roof to judge the problem should be instantly reduced. Those who're seriously interested in their function will either create a drawing of the roof's surface and mark trouble spots on it because they go through their own evaluation, or even they'll consider photos or even video of the surface while they are up there. This is a very essential action, because it enables you to observe just what the problems are and understand how they'll be set.

Estimation

The next step would be the created estimation. The contractor will take away his calculator and are available track of an itemized estimate. Some companies will go out to their own vehicle or truck as well as write down the proposal, while some will crisis the actual amounts to do the job in front of you. Once you are given the proposal, ensure that you understand which products will be used, how long the task will require and when there are any additional or concealed expenses that could arise throughout the restore of the roofing. The service provider will be able to answer many of these questions effortlessly as well as forewarn a person of any additional expenses that might be incurred if the roof's integrity be damaged within.

After you have obtained a few written estimations from roofing contractors, evaluate exactly what every company or even contractor would like to provide for that cost. Do not always discount the greatest bet, simply because sometimes the greatest bid will in reality be the contractor who the job properly. Also, be wary associated with prices for bids that are significantly less than other people. They may be using inferior products or be untruthful concerning the chance of concealed expenses. Above all, believe in instincts as well as opt for the contractor who makes you feel quite comfortable about giving over your money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

Critics of the sentences say China has politicized the robberies as acts of terrorism.

 

AFP

A Uyghur man walks past armed Chinese security forces in Urumqi, July 17, 2009.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday.

 

The death sentences were handed down by the Supreme People's Court in recent days, according to state media in the regional capital, Urumqi.

 

The men were accused in connection with three separate attacks late last year in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to the news website Urumqi Online.

 

According to another website, the Xinjiang-based Tianshan news site, Aimaiti Tuheti, Yiming Dawuti, and unnamed "others" killed a security guard at a pedestrian mall as part of a failed Aug. 7 robbery attempt.

 

In a separate incident on Oct. 12, it said, Nuermaimaiti Aobulikasimu and 11 others broke into a house, bound and killed the couple living in it, and took their possessions.

 

It said the group also broke into the homes of two brothers, robbed them, and killed six people in a Nov. 11 attack in Kashgar.

 

The report gave no information about the victims or the schedule for the executions.

 

Three of the men were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a sentence that is normally commuted to life imprisonment in China's judicial system.

 

They were convicted of deliberate homicide and armed robbery by the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court in the first instance.

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

A Han Chinese resident of Urumqi surnamed Yang said a reference to "terrorism" in official news reports on the case showed that it was being politicized by the authorities, who have launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in Xinjiang following deadly ethnic violence in July 2009.

 

"There is an implied political meaning; that they were somehow engaged in separatist activities or ethnic divisions," said Yang.

 

Exile Uyghur groups said the trials had been conducted behind closed doors, with scant opportunity for public scrutiny.

 

"The entire process against these men, from the trial through to the judgment, was opaque," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

 

"There was also very little reasonable evidence to convict them on a legal basis, because all the evidence came from one side of the case," he said.

 

"We strongly condemn the Chinese government for continuing to pursue their policies of ethnic division," said Raxit.

 

"We are also strongly opposed to the death penalty in this case."

 

Earlier cases

 

Last month, the Supreme Court sentenced four Uyghurs to death for alleged involvement in an Aug. 19 bomb attack in Xinjiang’s western Aksu city.

 

The World Uyghur Congress pointed to concerns over lack of transparency in those cases too.

 

The Aksu blast left eight people dead, including two of the bombers, and 15 wounded after a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen. Four Uyghurs were arrested shortly after the attack.

 

State media characterized the cases as acts of terrorism and unrelated to longstanding ethnic tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region.

 

Exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer has warned that attacks like those in Aksu will continue to occur until Beijing addresses the underlying source of tension in the region.

 

Millions of Uyghurs—a distinct, Turkic minority who are predominantly Muslim—populate Central Asia and Xinjiang.

 

Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness despite China's ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.

 

Those frustrations erupted in July 2009 in deadly riots that left nearly 200 people dead, by the Chinese government's tally.

 

At least 26 people, mostly Uyghurs, were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the riots, many of whom have been executed, according to state media.

 

China is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined, although the government does not publish official figures.

 

Rights groups say Beijing may execute as many as several thousand prisoners annually.

 

Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for a series of deadly attacks in recent years and accuse one group in particular of maintaining ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

 

New training scheme

 

China on Wednesday also announced a training scheme which places ethnic minority graduates from Xinjiang in work elsewhere in China.

 

Governments of the destination cities will spend 450 million yuan (U.S.$ 69 million) for the program, while Xinjiang will spend 400 million yuan (U.S.$ 61 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.

 

The program targets some 60,000 jobless college graduates in Xinjiang, around 80 percent of whom are from ethnic minorities, and 60 percent of whom are women.

 

However, some commentators see the move as an attempt to assimilate non-Han Chinese into mainstream Chinese culture.

 

"From the point of view of ethnic minorities, the graduate work scheme is really taking the cream of youth from the minorities and using them to 'further cultural development,'" wrote one ethnic minority user on a popular microblogging service.

 

"In fact, the culture that is being advanced is Han culture, and this group of young people will have been totally brainwashed," the microblog update said.

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

"They have run senior high school schemes like this before during the past few years," he said.

 

"Whether it's high-schoolers or graduate training programs, these are measures that are aimed at thought control and brainwashing, and the 'Partification' of their education," he said.

 

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

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Wikileaks and also the Uyghur

through henry on Dec Twenty, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it were ever in doubt, info obtained through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese language government worries over its ongoing control of the location this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked out cables from Ough.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the actual degree that Chinese language government bodies make an effort to persuade government authorities worldwide to adopt its position on issues impacting Uyghurs. The actual cables additionally show the United States' concerns as well as views regarding the on going repressive steps in the area.

The majority of lighting associated with Chinese language federal government stress are the wires pointing to Chinese frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese language ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third nations. A December Twenty nine, 08 cable television applies how Chinese Assistant Foreign Reverend Liu Jieyi fulfilled using the U.S. Ambassador to China to voice Beijing's strong competitors associated with release in order to any kind of nation other than The far east, and that when the Ough.S. do certainly accede to this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and to cooperation ‘in important areas'". In addition, the February 2009 cable television explains the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act toward us" along with a "slap in the face". That the Ough.Utes. federal government was company within not really liberating the detainees to The far east demonstrates the extent of the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial program. Genuine issues more than terrorism are understandable, but in the actual Ough.S. government's observe the detainees would most likely face torture as well as execution if they came back in order to The far east

Chinese language government stress regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just put on the actual U.Utes. government, but additionally to New Zealand along with a handful of European government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, as well as European Union member states just about all have the symptoms of borne the actual brunt of Chinese language federal government disappointment. In the case of Indonesia, that was at first willing to consider two Uyghurs upon purely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been less better than additional detainees due to the negative effects accepting Uyghurs would have upon relationships with The far east. The May 8, '09 cable television relates exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented that Germany had informed The far east from the U.S. request to accept a few Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo and had been consequently warned by The far east of ‘a large burden on bilateral relations' if Germany were to accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic wires additionally discuss the unrest in Urumchi, the regional capital, within This summer 2009. A July Thirteen, 2009 cable television discussing mass incidents within The far east states:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 and in Tibet in March associated with 08 vary substantially in origin and nature from mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing severe problems for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Party leadership would not wait to spread out fire upon Uighurs or even Tibetans if they deemed it essential to recover purchase. Mass incidents pose another kind of threat, he explained, since the leadership is actually ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters with regard to fear of causing massive public outrage that would turn against the Party."

This is a relaxing opinion, particularly when one considers evidence presented in two reviews launched this year by the Uyghur Human Privileges Task (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that detail eyewitness accounts from the utilization of lethal reside fireplace towards Uyghur protestors in July 2009. Additionally, the declaration that fire wouldn't be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors has resonances for the various strategy taken by Chinese language security causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders in September 2009. Throughout those direct orders, then Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, who experienced required that he let them know regarding government reactions to protection concerns. An identical request to satisfy with the Celebration Assistant by Uyghur protesters in July wasn't met.

The actual wider consequences of the unrest additionally saw a short discussion on the impact it would possess on Iran-China relations, and on relations along with Australia after World Uyghur Our elected representatives President, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke in the National Press Membership within Canberra within August '09. In the latter situation, china government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian financial institution that sponsors the National Push Club to use its impact to bar the Kadeer speech there".

The actual United States' issues concerning the scenario within the Uyghur region are available through in the cables. In a discussion upon plan direction in Tibet, U.Utes. officials clarify that it'll be impossible for Chinese language leaders to consider a softer collection "if they look like doing so under international pressure". The cable television dated April Sixteen, 08, 30 days following the outbreak associated with unrest in Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the observation "that domestic balance continues to be leadership's main concern most of all, meaning there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest of the present hard line on Tibet or perhaps in locations such as Xinjiang." The information contained in the cable also storage sheds light about the extreme sensitivity that china government views territorial integrity, and the possible spill over associated with unrest through Tibet.

The prospect of solutions to tensions within Tibet and Xinjiang arising from civil culture are discussed in a February Twenty-four, 08 cable. Whilst suggesting that China's financial achievement will increase its resistance to democratic change, the cable television also discusses how Chinese leaders see the usefulness associated with "a limited growth of civil culture, such as improvements in the guideline associated with law along with a stronger role with regard to approved beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations and other stars within areas which bring about social stability and do not challenge Communist Celebration rule." This can be a significant alternation in considering, that has seen Ough.Utes. authorities market the idea that Chinese financial improvement, as well as financial relationships along with The far east brings about a progressively democratic culture; however, more belief seems to be placed in a grassroots motion than one which starts in the top levels of the Chinese language government. Nevertheless, the actual cable television proves which "[i]n places for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism results in tighter limitations on the development of civil culture." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the Ough.S. federal government "should continue to express...serious concerns more than Beijing's individual privileges record as well as appeal to China's growing consciousness which higher respect with regard to individual rights, religious freedom and also the rule associated with law assists to advertise the very development and social stability which China looks for in addition to to enhance China's international image." Such a technique might consider substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird concern that the United States secretly encourages routine change as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires offer insight into the actual every day business of diplomacy that is rarely afforded to the general public, and it is interesting to note the amount of work done behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The importance of the actual role of the us like a keep track of of Uyghur individual privileges problems within personal conversations is made clear, and contrasts using its sensible open public stance. The staff from the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is well aware of pressure the Chinese government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts associated with Chinese language federal government stress on it's alternatives is actually illustrative of the diploma which Chinese authorities make an effort to control contrary stories. With increased facts in the future through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs may not grab the headlines, but the wires possess get rid of new gentle about the documentation of human rights conditions in the Uyghur area.

 

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In the middle of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-western part of China, the land of Xinjiang is a least populated province while it covers close to a sixth with the nation's area. Having resisted while in hundreds of years the chinese control, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old East Turkestan, fell within the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is generally Uyghurs and Turkic - speaking System.

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Of all the interesting new tech that seems poised to garner a lot of buzz in 2011, near field communication (NFC), is probably the most exciting. If it takes off, it will transform the ways we communicate, share, and make payments with digital devices. This will likely take years to happen, but the groundwork is being laid right now. And RFinity is one of those companies at the forefront.

While Google and Apple are responsible for generating much of the buzz about NFC at the moment, the technology goes far beyond simply having the right type of chip in your mobile device. For example, how do you handle different types of data transfers being made from one device to another? And how to you ensure that they happen as quickly as possible? And most importantly, how do you ensure that they happen securely? Those are the things that RFinity is thinking about.

The company has just raised $4 million from Horizons Ventures in Hong Kong. And the space has gotten so red hot, in fact, that we hear they’re already out raising another round.

And it’s an easy bet for investors to make not only because of the space, but because of where the project originated: The U.S. Department of Energy. Specifically, RFinity was born when a bunch of infrastructure security experts working for the government were assigned to find all the vulnerabilities in cell phones. Through software they came up with, they were able to quite easily eavesdrop, manipulate SMS messages, and even compromise LAN security. Then they set out to figure out a way to stop people from doing those very things. That work led directly to RFinity.

Work originally began in the person-to-person and person-to-vendor sales space by way of mobile applications that route transactions through RFinity’s own secure servers. But now that NFC appears ready, RFinity is making sure they’re ready for it. The idea is that their technology could cut out the middle man here: themselves.

Obviously, the company isn’t going to share all the details on how they secure NFC transfers. But the basic overview is that they verify an incoming NFC signal and ask for a user’s permission before taking any action. Further, if the action is a transaction, it requires a PIN, just as you might do an ATM withdrawal. That’s all pretty standard. But the key is one-time-use transaction codes that RFinity creates on the fly along with complex cryptographic signatures. These ensure that an transaction is secure since it means that every transaction can only happen once. Even if those numbers were intercepted by a hacker, they would be useless beyond the one-time payment.

And even if your phone is lost or stolen, a thief couldn’t do anything without your PIN. And you can remotely shut down your NFC capabilities via RFinity. It’s enough to make me wish I could throw out all my credit cards right now. “Today’s identification and transaction systems are based on what? A magnetic strip on the back of a card, based on a 1950’s technology that relies on a base station to read the information embedded as a series of simple magnetic markers in plastic tape,” writes Josh Jones-Dilworth, who is working with the company to bring them to market.

Again, NFC as a technology is great and potentially game-changing. But the software is still needed to make it actually work. And some of the big guys began realizing that early on as companies like PayPal, Bank of America, and even Subway have been testing out different things with RFinity for some time. In fact, RFinity has actually been doing field tests of the software end of their technology since 2009 in places like Idaho, well before most people in the U.S. had ever thought about NFC.

But now people are starting to care. And soon, they could be caring a lot more. NFC is already built-in to Google’s new Nexus S device — and the company has put out a call for developers to start using the tech. Rumors have the next iteration of the iPhone gaining the technology as well. In other words, I suspect we may be seeing acquisition rumors starting to fly around RFinity in about six months or so. Provided their technology proves up to the NFC challenge, of course.

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The efficient perps are still at large. Police sources say the robbery happened Thursday night around 10 p.m.; the Daily News reports that one man is white or Hispanic, about 5-foot-10, and was wearing a dark-colored jacket, dark pants, a black mask and black-and-white gloves. The other suspect is also described as white or Hispanic and about 5-foot-10; as you can see from the video he was wearing a dark jacket and pants, a black mask and black gloves. Another important clue: one man carried a New York Sports Club bag! Yep, should be a cinch tracking down these guys.

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Today’s announcement of the $61.5m acquisition of BeatThatQuote by Google will be viewed with interest by Google's search rivals and by other comparison-based businesses.

Assuming Google uses this acquisition to start integrating comparative data into its search results, this acquisition could have far-reaching implications:

1) Improving Search Results

The spread of advanced SEO tactics has allowed high rankings to be achieved by sites with low relevance content. This has led to poorer search result quality and public criticism of Google. Whilst Google must downgrade low quality content farms, it must make sure that authoritative price comparison content ranks highly as this is extremely popular with the modern consumer.

Whilst top comparison sites do perform well on Google search currently, by integrating comparative data into its search results, Google will make it even more prominent, distinct and easy to access.

2) Google Becoming an Active Intermediary

Originally, Google acted as an independent indexer of all online content. This is no longer the case. As an example, when I search for ‘restaurants in Miami’, my Google results page is dominated by Google Places data.

As the war between Facebook and Google for user attention and online business dollars grows, Google’s is shedding its independence and becoming an active intermediary between the user and Internet content. The integration of comparison data generated by Google’s own tools will be a further step in this direction.

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Traditionally, the high volume of strong, independent content produced by comparison sites has allowed them to rank higher for natural search on Google than the operators themselves. In order to get a share of search-generated business, operators have used Pay Per Click adverts on Google and they have paid commissions to the high-ranking comparison sites.

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UPDATE: DirecTV has given Consumerist its side of the story.

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For years, DirecTV has been advertising its "refer your friends and get $100" promotion. But for one DirecTV customer in Florida, that referral didn't end up profiting her; in fact, it ended up draining her bank account after that friend passed away.

The woman referred her friend to DirecTV a few months ago, but when that friend died unexpectedly, DirecTV debited at least $800 — without notifying her — from her bank account to pay for her late friend's unpaid service.

"I was never told of this," she told the NBC affiliate in Jacksonville. "I didn't see any of this. I never signed for this. I was blindsided. I have no record of this....

"I have a sick child at home that I couldn't afford to buy her Pedialyte... I had to ask for help from family. I had to get money for gas to get to work today, and DirecTV hasn't offered anything."

There is nothing in the DirecTV terms and conditions that ties a referrer's account to anyone they refer to the company. But the customer says that all her phone calls, letters and faxes to DirecTV failed to get her an explanation or refund.

It wasn't until after the local TV news got involved that she got any sort of response from DirecTV, who wrote, "This is definitely not part of DirecTV's policy. If a customer refers a friend, they are not responsible for making payments on their friend's account."

Eventually, she received a call from the company's president, who told her that DirecTV would be refunding all the money that was taken from her account. The next day it was back safely in her bank.

We've reached out to DirecTV to see if anyone there can explain what caused this huge error and will update if we get a response.

DirecTV Bills Woman After Friend Dies [News4jax.com]

Thanks to Jeff for the tip!

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