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Friday, September 13, 2013
Twitter Is Going Public, Files S-1 With SEC ALEX WILHELM
2013-09-12_14h21_11 Today Twitter confirmed that it has filed an S-1 with the SEC and is therefore on the road to going public. This is an important moment for Twitter, and for tech, as it shows that the IPO window is open. Here’s Twitter on its filing: Count to 10 and let’s hope the damn thing leaks right away. We don’t know much, but expect Twitter to go public at a valuation of roughly between $15 billion and $20 billion, roughly. Its last private money came in at around a $10 billion valuation, and those investors will want a return on their funds. Goldman Sachs is said to be the lead underwriter of the offering. Facebook’s IPO, for comparison, valued the social giant at around $100 billion on the day of its flotation. The irony here is that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday at Disrupt told the world that it should not be afraid of going public. Twitter did not decide to go public on the back of Zuck’s axiom, but it is nicely pat that it announced this news the day after his comments. Facebook’s public offering was marred with trading errors and a slipping stock price, and the company lost tens of billions of value before it recovered. Facebook is currently trading at fresh highs, helping to set the stage for Twitter: Whatever the Facebook IPO hangover was, it is no more. Twitter’s public offering has been a very long time in coming, and contains inside of it oodles of institutional pressure: With hundreds of millions of invested capital under its belt, Twitter has a number of investors that want their money back. It has been well-managed, sure, but cash has a certain feel to it. The IPO will be a zoo. But it will be a fun zoo, and that is all that matters. The NASDAQ and the NYSE are at war a bit on who gets to host more tech offerings, but I think that we’ll be seeing the NASDAQ scoop up this deal. Now, what are Twitter’s revenue and profit figures? We’ll actually get to know soon, though the fact they are filing in this fashion does imply that Twitter had less than $1 billion in revenue in 2012. So, there’s that. Top Image Credit: Emmanuel Huybrechts
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Born on the East Coast, raised on the tough streets of Philly, a Royal Spirit, learned early that life's experiences is the best teacher and, nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. I have been helping people start their own businesses for over twenty years and revel in the challenge of helping others navigate through life's challenges, Spiritual, Mental, Physical. Developing a love and affection for people of all walks of life allow us to benefit from the vast richness of the collective body of spirit and knowledge. A ROYAL-SPIRIT with a passion to assist others to reach and, achieve their goals. The Secret Work will- expose you to important and critical information that, if applied will, truly empower and transform the life of those whom are ready to receive it. Remember Knowledge Is Power but, The proper use of Knowledge is Supreme!
Thursday, September 12, 2013
USEFUL WEBSITES
Here is a list of websites we have featured in the past that might come in handy.
Educational/Learning
- khanacademy.org - video lectures on just about any subject
- ted.com - lectures by smart people
- academicearth.org - classroom lectures
- freerice.com - expand your vocabulary while feeding the hungry
- lizardpoint.com - a collection of geography quizzes
- mathrun.net - timed math quizzes
- classicshorts.com - the best short stories
- erowid.org - learn about drugs
- qwikia.com - turn a Wikipedia article into a video
- unplugthetv.com - a collection of intellectually stimulating videos
- factsie.com - a place to learn amazing and unusual historical and scientific facts
Learn Skills
- highercomputingforeveryone.com - learn to program in C
- thechesswebsite.com - a bunch of chess tactics, tutorials, and puzzles
- htmldog.com - learn html
- codecademy.com - learn to code through interactive lessons
- cookingforengineers.com - learn to cook
- digital-photography-school.com - learn photography
- memrise.com - learn a foreign language
- justinguitar.com - guitar video tutorials
- livemocha.com - a language learning community
- musictheory.net - learn music theory
- investopedia.com - learn and practice investing
Useful Web Apps
- mint.com - for budgeting your money
- billshrink.com - compare cell phone and credit card plans
- duckduckgo.com - a search engine that isn’t following you
- padmapper.com - maps out possible apartments/homes that fit your criteria
- zillow.com - another great source for finding your next home
- printfriendly.com - make any webpage print friendly
- printwhatyoulike.com - print precisely what you want from any webpage
- privnote.com - write a note to someone that will self-destruct after they read it
- freecycle.org - a network of people giving away free stuff in their towns
- couchsurfing.org - crash on someone’s couch anywhere in the world
- recipepuppy.com - search for recipes based on the ingredients you have
- pipl.com - a search engine for finding people
- donorschoose.org - donate to a classroom in need
- charitynavigator.org - evaluates various charities
- govdeals.com - find cheap stuff the government is getting rid of
- newsmap.jp - popular news headlines
- radioreference.com - listen to radio channels across the nation
- jimmyr.com - link aggregator
- msworddit.com - Reddit in Microsoft Word form
- wepay.com - like paypal but less scummy
- thefuckingweather.com - a more profane look at the weather
- wolframalpha.com - a computational knowledge engine
- heavens-above.com - follow satellites and constellations
- whatismyip.com - figure out you I.P. address
- spreeder.com - improve reading speed and comprehension
- simplynoise.com - listen to white noise
- camelcamelcamel.com - tracks prices for any product
- ptable.com - an interactive periodic table
- retailmenot.com - find coupons for just about anything
- searchtempest.com - search all of craigslist with one search
- join.me - peek in on somebody’s computer screen
- thistothat.com - find out the best way to glue this to that
- woorank.com - find out what your website is missing, how you can improve it, and how to make Google recognize it better
- scribblemaps.com - draw on maps then share them with friends
- mailvu.com - video email
- rhymer.com - online rhyming dictionary
- homestyler.com - design your dream home
- wetransfer.com - an easy way to send big files
- mapofthedead.com - shows places around you to help you survive the zombie apocalypse
- pastebin.com - a place to paste text
- idlekeyboard.com - make it sound like you’re hard at work
- wherethefuckshouldigofordrinks.com - find somewhere to get a drink in your area
- dropbox.com - backup your sensitive document online
- seatguru.com - find out where the best seats are on your plane flight
- unlistmy.info - find out which websites store data about you, and tell them to unlist your info
- ifoundyourcamera.net - a collection of lost cameras
- sizeasy.com - check the size of items you buy online
- sleepyti.me - plan out your sleep schedule better
- ninite.com - download all the free software you want at the same time
- ripetrack.com - find out when certain fruits are ripe
- compassionpit.com - talk out your problems with others, or help others yourself
- paperbackswap.com - swap books with others
- reddpics.com - a look at Reddit’s favorite pictures
- swole.me - plan out your meals better
- weatherspark.com - a graphical look at the weather
- network-tools.com - network tools
- amazon.com - the best place to buy things online
- writecheck.com - correct grammar and check for plagiarism
- wakerupper.com - send yourself a wake-up call
- pcpartpicker.com - plan out your next pc build
- nophonetrees.com - talk to an actual person instead of a machine when you call customer service
- theuselessweb.com - visit random useless websites
- loads.in - find out how long it takes websites to load
Entertainment - Music, Movies, Sports, Books
- redditunes.com - Reddit’s favorite music
- grooveshark.com - great place to listen to tunes
- isitback.com - find out when your favorite television shows come back on air
- literature-map.com - type in an author and they will show you others of a similar style
- runpee.com - find out the best time to run to the bathroom during any movie
- songkick.com - searches your music library and tells you when your favorite musicians play in your area
- midomi.com - sing or hum a song you don’t the name of and it will identify it for you
- slashfilm.com - the best movie news blog on the internet
- nanocrowd.com - find out what movie you should watch next
- page99test.com - read page 99 of a book
- bookseer.com - get recommendations for your next read
- sbnation.com - awesome community of sports blogs
- justthefirstframe.com - just the first frame of today’s webcomics
- music-map.com - find similar musicians
- iwl.com - find which famous writer your write like
Other Interesting Blogs
- thestuffofmen.com - cool stuff every man should own
- artofmanliness.com - learn man stuff
- johnnywebber.com - hobbies, habits, and personal growth
- thedailymiscellany.com - daily tips, DIYs, ane more
- getrichslowly.org - personal finance advice
- thedatingspecialist.com - seduction tips
- brainpickings.org - a human-powered discovery engine
- fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com - a look at politics through the numbers
- hackaday.com - a new DIY project every day
- shorpy.com - old and interesting pictures
- boston.com/bigpicture - amazing pictures covering the latest news around the world
- newscientist.com - science news
- uncrate.com - a place for stuff men love
- tastespotting.com - pictures of delicious food
- zenhabits.net - take a breath and read this blog
- foodgawker.com - more pictures of delicious food
- theburninghouse.com - a blog cataloging which possessions people choose to save from a burning home
- dwellinggawker.com - check out how amazing the inside of some homes look
- thesimpledollar.com - more personal finance advice
- veryquiet.com - world news and analysis
- mentalfloss.com - where knowledge junkies get their fix
- mrmoneymustache.com - financial advice through badassity
- studyblue.com - study tips
- lettersofnote.com - personal letters written by famous people
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Born on the East Coast, raised on the tough streets of Philly, a Royal Spirit, learned early that life's experiences is the best teacher and, nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. I have been helping people start their own businesses for over twenty years and revel in the challenge of helping others navigate through life's challenges, Spiritual, Mental, Physical. Developing a love and affection for people of all walks of life allow us to benefit from the vast richness of the collective body of spirit and knowledge. A ROYAL-SPIRIT with a passion to assist others to reach and, achieve their goals. The Secret Work will- expose you to important and critical information that, if applied will, truly empower and transform the life of those whom are ready to receive it. Remember Knowledge Is Power but, The proper use of Knowledge is Supreme!
Saturday, September 7, 2013
8 Ways to Make Your WordPress Perform Much Better
WordPress is one of the most celebrated platform for developing web applications and blogs etc. It is user friendly, search engine friendly and is such a power packed development framework that it hardly comes as a surprise to find out that it is the most popular and frequently downloaded system for powering web applications.
However, if you feel stuck with this application, for the pages are taking longer than usual to load and there isn’t anything that you can do about it, you have stumbled upon the right place. Below we shall discuss 8 amazing ways with which you can greatly improve the performance of your WP application. Kindly read ahead to discover more:
8 Great Ways to Boost up WP’s Performance
First up, Update your System
We go to the ends of the world in order to optimize our WordPress based web applications, and yet we are the ones causing the leaks in its performance, by still using the older and stagnant versions of the platform and its various plugins. In order to boost up the performance, ensure that you have employed only the latest version of the platform, and all the plugins and other functionalities that have you deployed, are running in their latest and most advanced version.
Updating the WP blog or website is not only a better practice, but also ensures higher and much advanced functioning and security of the application. And there is no reason why you should decide against keeping the backend architecture well updated.
Now, Get a WP Caching Plugin
If you have not gotten a Caching plugin in the backend of your WordPress, we really doubt whether you are serious at all regarding boosting the performance of the website or not. For any WordPress user, the sure shot way to significantly improve the performance of the website is by getting a caching mechanism right in the backend structure. W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache are two widely used plugins which you can utilize to leverage from the same.
Also, optimize the images for better results
Images play a key role in both – bringing more and newer visitors to your website, and boosting up the performance as well, if only you don’t fail to capitalize upon the same. Firstly, it completely fails us to understand why bloggers and WP site owners would not use IMG ALT tag to optimize the images with proper keywords and make the images appear meaningful for the search engine crawlers.
Furthermore, you must resize and filter the images prior to uploading them, and do not rely on the browser to that for you. Use image manipulation software and adequately resize them prior to uploading them on the website. This way, not only would the images attract newer visitors from myriad sources, but would also not make the website clumsy in loading etc.
Replace PHP queries with HTML, wherever possible
The browser takes an irritatingly long span of time to load and work around with PHP queries. What you can do instead is to replace these queries with static HTML, wherever you deem perfect. HTML is easily read and accessed by the web browsers, and hence more the HTML, better is going to be loading speed, and hence the performance.
Update the database at regular intervals
When you keep the database optimized time to time, you save yourself hefty amount of data which otherwise would have been wasted to optimize the database and the site, after the damage had already begun to happen. The plugin which you may want to use for this step is ‘myPhpAdmin.’ This plugin updates the database before you may even drop your hat and makes it look perfectly seamless.
Kick out all the plugins that you don’t require
At times we download various plugins in jiffy, perhaps as an act of impulse, but we make no bones about it when we tell you that extra plugins are only going to make the web page heavy and hence lethargic. These plugins are not any old fond memories which you would cherish. If you do not use them, kick them out of the system RIGHT NOW! Most of the plugins are free anyway, and so you may install and utilize them again, as and when you require. Likewise you may consider opting for offshore WordPress development, and hire well learnt and skilled offshore experts to customize the plugins, and get them to completely meet your requirement set.
Rethink the choice of your web hosting service provider
If you have taken almost every major step that we or someone else mentioned, then probably it is time to break the ties with your web hosting service provider, and hire a new one, or perhaps revise the hosting plans for now. Whether you confront the current hosting services provider to own up to the lack of performance, and provide a better deal, or you get in touch with some other services provide, that is your call, but if you wish to boost up the performance, this is a step you are eventually going to have to take.
Finally, keep a regular tab on the performance of the website
We all understand that performance optimization is not a onetime affair and you probably would have to be at the top of your game at all times, in order to check any anomalies and weed them out of the architecture. We shall leave you with a code which you may include in the backend of the website, and it will let you know as and when the optimization work is needed to be carried out next with your WP website.
Just mention – ‘ queries in seconds’ in the backend of the template and you would get all the required insights regarding the performance of the website.
This brings us to the end of this post. We hope that these tips would help you enhance the performance of your WordPress website. For superior quality results, please hire WordPress developers from an offshore center. And do not forget to share with us your opinions about everything that we just discussed above in the article. We shall await your comments and feedbacks.
Author Bio:
Jason Roiz is an eminent online marketer, who researches on search engine optimization efficiencies of WordPress Development websites. He is associated with OSSMedia Ltd as an online marketing consultant. Notably, OSSMedia Ltd is a leading opensource software development company . Hire WordPress developer for custom WordPress development services.
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