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There is a big buzz in the blogosphere about a regulation that the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is planning to approve late this summer. If that goes through, they will basically start going after bloggers “for any false claims or failure to disclose any conflict of interest.”

In other words, if you write a testimonial for a product you have never used, you might get busted. This part is the one that makes sense. The controversial one is the “failure to disclose any conflict of interest” one. This could involve bloggers who earned a freebie from a company and ended up writing about it (without disclosing the freebie), for example. Furthermore, it could also mean that you can’t use any affiliate links inside your blog or website without disclosing that you stand to earn money if someone clicks on them.

I believe that trying to enforce strict guidelines and clean the web from spammers and scammers is a good thing. However, I am not sure if this proposed approach is the right one. It kind reminds me of the RIIA, and how they were trying to stop illegal music downloads by suing the heck out of a women who had shared a couple of songs via P2P….

Aaron Wall wrote a really good post about this topic, titled FTC Going After Bloggers = Epic Fail. Here is a quote from it:

What is absurd (to me at least) is how inefficient this process is. What needs to happen is better enforcement on ad networks, search engines, and merchants. Follow the money downstream rather than hunting for nickels upstream.

The people who are making fake sites are doing so because they are paid to. And amoral ad networks that syndicate ads based on *maximizing yield efficiency* (like Google AdWords) are designed to syndicate fraud because it is easy for advertisers to pay a lot for ads when their profit margins are nearly 100% because they scam people.

I completely agree with him. Going after individual bloggers will not solve the problem. It will just make the money shift hands, but the system will remain intact. Either way it is important to keep an eye on the development of this issue, because it might affect all of us.

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Your ears will start listening the world yelling “Google Wave” and by the end of this year this will be loud and clear. I will call Google Wave a next generation Communication Platform.

Google was always first to introduce cool and great tools to Internet surfers. Gmail is the best example of it. I trust that Gmail is one of the most trusted and reliable email service in the world. Apart from this, Google have created tons of applications for all of us and that’s free of cost.

Just Look at some Google Tools and Applications

· Google Docs

· Google Mail (Gmail)

· Google World

· Orkut

· Google Alerts

· Blog Search

· Google Adword

· Google Adsense

· And more and more and more….

And I know that you know more services may be more then me.

With all the powerful and extra ordinary existing tools and applications created, Google is going to add a new Family Member to their Tools & Application List and that is Google Wave. Yes Google Wave is new web application that is developed by the same team who created the most used maps application in the world “Google Maps”

This time this team gets assigned to create such a magical application that will change the meaning of communication on the Internet. There are a lot of IM tools on the web including Gtalk from google then why Google needs to add Google Wave?

Google Wave is different. You even would not get to know that you are on a browser. Yes Google wave will run on a browser any browser like IE, Firefox or Chrome.

While I am finishing this post Google Wave is still in Development & it’s yet not ready for General Users.

The technique you commune via Google Wave will be lightening fast and will be real time. You will feel that you are using something like a future tech gadget lolz J. Well you will get to know why I said future tech gadget by the end of this year when Google Wave will be available for General Users. Google wave is independent from any frameworks and can be run on any browser as I said earlier in this post. You don’t have to install any thing to make run the Google Wave.

Well I know my text would not let you see what I am all talking about so I added the developer’s preview video at the end of this post. See that video and check the demo of Google Wave extra ordinary features and functions that will take you in the next stage of communication.

There are lot of fresh features that are added in Google Wave which were not available yet in any other application as far my knowledge. Let me give you some tips on that.

1. Advance Spell Checker

2. Conversation Tree structure

3. Conversation History

4. Collaborative Document Editing

5. Drag & Drop Uploader

6. API Development

You can embed the Google Wave in to any site or blog so that you can interact with your site audience from one platform. You can add more workflows like MySpace, My favorite Twitter or Facebook etc… using the API service in Google Wave.

If you are a developer and want to get into Google Wave before its launched then go to Google Wave API developer Account Page and get a developer sandbox account.

And yes the most of all Google will be open sourced and even you can develop a site like Google Wave and even can compete against Google if you have guts lolz J. And as far I know Google have allowed competition for the fist time in their field. In Short google went this to be a open source as the email protocol

Here is the video that I recommend you to must watch. It’s a bit long video of about 1 hr 20 min but it’s worth watching. If you really want to know how Google Wave works then do see this video. After watching this video you will be in love with the Big Google Wave.

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Aims to establish a Web site to increase visibility and user traffic.  Search engine optimization to increase website traffic methods.  Another method is to use the Site Map, which allows you to specify a search engine which pages included or index.  Site Map of the concept was first developed by Google, Yahoo and MSN also recently agreed to the application of this standard.  This week our Help Sitemap standards.

The need to establish standards

The use of search engine spiders crawl the Internet, positioning them Indexed web pages to the database.  This process needs a lot of resources, and sometimes, you want to index the page is ignored, without being included with the page.  Search for changes in the network with the new web page, record them and the corresponding Google Googlebot spider classification is a typical example.

Site map for the site which clearly should be the index page, as well as the site has been added which provides a new method.  Basically, its search engine and Web site to provide a communication channel.  In theory, it is the search engine spiders by reducing the processing resources to alleviate the burden of the object, but can not replace the current site map crawling process.

About Site Map

Site Map is an XML document which contains a web site URL and the associated attribute table, the index should be a detailed description of what a particular site.  Site Map must be UTF-8 encoding.  The following is a site map XML file needed elements:

• <Urlset> – site map file to the start and end tags, start tags must include the namespace (xmlns) attribute.
• <Url> – the document that contains every page of this element.
• <Loc> – a document specified in the actual address of the page.  It is a subset of elements <url> elements.

Document the following optional elements:

• <Lastmod> – <url> elements of a subset of elements.  It was last updated the page specified time.
• <Changefreq> – <url> elements of a subset of elements.  It has been designated by the frequency of page updates (regular, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and has never been updated annually).
• <Priority> – <url> elements of a subset of elements.  Its designated website pages in relation to the importance of other pages, valid values for the 0.0-1.0, the default value of 0.5.

Samples of the following Web site explains how to map a sample page in the application of these elements.  It assumes that the Web site as a designated home page, as well as its update frequency, last update time and the priority sites.

<? xml version = “1.0″ encoding = “UTF-8″?>

<urlsetxmlns=”http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″>

<url>

<loc> http://www.test.com/ </ loc>

<lastmod> 2006-11-20 </ lastmod>

<changefreq> daily </ changefreq>

<priority> 0.3 </ priority>

</ url>

</ urlset>

Sitemap file from your own decision, but it determines the location of the document may contain the URL set.  For example, if the above sample file is located in Site Map http://www.test.com/sitemap.xml, then the site map file may contain any http://www.test.com/ at the beginning of the URL.  Therefore, we propose that the site map file stored in the root site.  Site Map file size should not exceed 10MB.  If a file beyond this limit, we need to use gzip to compress.

The establishment of a Site Map

Since the site map in XML-based, you can easily use any text editor to create and edit them, but also specialized tools can be applied.  The following list provides some of the current tools:

• Map node: one to generate and verify XML documents site map tool
• Gsitemap: an application. NET Framework to establish the site map generation tool.
• GSiteCrawler: a site map file to generate the Windows tool.
• phpSitemapNG: PHP with the preparation of a free site map generator.
• Google Sitemap Generator: A site map can be used to generate the Python script file.

Circular search engine

The establishment of a site map file, it should be submitted to a search engine.  Each search has its own interface to submit the site map.  Google’s Webmaster Tools to concentrate contains a site map submitted to the page.  Before the use of an account you must be registered.  Yahoo also has a free site map to submit the page, but the same must be registered before an account.  Will follow the example of other search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN, to provide similar functions.

Other tools

Indexed pages search engine to crawl the process of slow and needs a lot of resources.  Site map for the site specified what should be included which provides a way to search.  They set up the same as a simple XML text files, but there are many tools can help you create a site map file.  Now, they only deal with the current process to add.

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