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Periodic Table of Marketing Elements

2009-11-17T06:15:00.000-08:00

This is an excellent Marketing Periodic Table which comes handy for Marketing personnel. If you are looking to Market some of your products or services this table will guide you through all the process which you need to take care of. Finally a great piece of resource everyone need to have.

Google introduces "Page Preview" into its Search Options

2009-11-04T05:41:00.000-08:00

Google has come out with yet another interesting search option to its search results. A Page preview option is added to its search today. Just go to Google and search on something and click the "Show Options" available on the top left side and next click "Page Preview" available under the "Standard Results".

You can find the Page preview option in the above screen shot

Check the Thumbnail image Preview options enabled in the above screen shot. If you are not interested in using this preview option you can click on the Reset Options available to disable the Preview feature. While this page preview is nothing new to the search industry as it was earlier adopted by Ask and Bing and also this preview feature can be enabled by using some of the Firefox add-ons.

Microsoft MSN Redesigned - Gets more Social, Adds Twitter and Facebook

2009-11-04T05:18:00.000-08:00

Earlier Today Microosft unveiled a completely new redesign of its portal MSN.com. You need to have a look into it earlier design and the new design before moving ahead with our discussion. So here we go

MSN before

MSN redesigned now

A Preview of the new MSN can be found here.

So from the above images you can observe that there is less clustering of information. One can observe the changes in their logo and Butterfly designs which looks more appealing now than before. You can also observe a better integration of their Bing search box compared to their earlier design. One more interesting feature to observe here is that their integartion of Social Features like Twitter and Facebook. You can directly view and update your Twitter and Facebook accounts in the redesigned page.

Note. The new rolled out redesigned page may not be visible for everyone right now. So i advise you to use the preview tool above to have a look of their redesigned version.

Google Wave Search Commands Tips and Tricks

2009-10-12T06:28:00.000-07:00

A big part of navigating through your Google Wave inbox are the search commands. They help you find public waves, your archived messages, or just waves related to work. Here are some of the most important commands to keep in mind while working on your Google Wave:

1) is:read and is:unread: This will help you find all of the waves you have or have not read. is:active is the same as is:unreadcurrently.
2) is:mute and is:unmute: The same type of deal – This helps you find conversations you may have muted or unmuted.
3) title:(keyword): This command helps you find waves with a specific word in their titles.
4) caption:(keyword): This helps you find waves with a keyword in the captions of attached images and files.
5) from:(address): This command will help you find waves from specific people. On the same token, from:me finds waves from you. to:(address) finds waves where it’s just you and the person you’re searching for.
6) past:(date), previous:(date), after:(date), and before:(date):These four commands help you search for waves in time periods, based on days, weeks, months, and years. Use “d” for day, “w” for week, “m” for month, and “y” for year. So, if you want to find something from before 3 months ago, you’d type “before:3m”. Yes, it’s complicated.
7) has: The has command will search for whether a wave has an attachment, a document, an image, or even a gadget (has:gadget).
There are actually a lot more commands. To read them all, you need to check out Google Wave’s advanced search terms list.

Wave Navigation:
There are an abundance of keyboard shortcuts that make using Google Wave a more streamlined experience. Thanks to a list first created by Google’s Greg Dalesandre in the development version of Google Wave, we can bring you a full list of keyboard shortcuts, which we’ll update periodically.

First, here are the commands for Wave Navigation:

1) Up/Down Arrows: As you might expect, use the arrows to navigate messages.
2) Tab/Shift-tab: Same functionality as the Up/Down arrows (outside of edit mode).
3) Home/End: Moves you to the first or last message.
4) Space: Go to next unread message (note: it doesn’t have to be within the same wave).
5) Left/Right Arrows: Switch focus between digest panel and wave panel.
6) Page Up/Down: Currently doesn’t work properly due to a bug.
7) Ctrl-Space: Marks all messages as read.

Messages in Wave:
1) Enter: Replies to messages. Your reply will appear just below the selected message. If it’s the first reply, it will not be indented (but otherwise it will be).
2) Ctrl-R: The same as enter.
3) Shift-Enter: Replies to messages at the end of a thread. Replies of this nature appear at the bottom with the same indentation in almost all cases.
4) Highlight Text + Enter: Creates an inline reply. Your reply will be indented inside the current message.
5) Ctrl-E: Edit a message.
6) Ctrl-Enter (while editing): Inserts an inline reply at the caret.

Text Editing:
None of these commands will really come as a shock, but they’re still good to know.
1) Ctrl-B: Bolds text.
2) Ctrl-I: Italicizes text.
3) Ctrl-G: Adjust the color.
4) Ctrl-L: Currently links to another wave if you hightlight the text and put in the URL or Wave ID, but the keyboard shortcut will be changing soon according to Google.
5) Ctrl-C: Copies text.
6) Ctrl-X: Cuts text.
7) Ctrl-V: Pastes text.

Structural Formatting:
Once again, not too many surprises here:
1) Ctrl-<#>: Changes the current line to a different-sized heading – 1 is biggest, 4 is smallest.
2) Ctrl-5: Adds bullets.
3) Ctrl-6: Normalizes text/removes bullets and headings. Does not remove italics, bold, or text edits.
4) Ctrl-7: Left alignment.
5) Ctrl-8: Right alignment.

Text Editing and Structural Formatting commands are the ones which we deal with often in our day-to-day life here. So, if you can remember the Wave navigation commands you can speed up your conversations on wave making the work much easier for you !