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Today, I'm with something new for the community. An Online QR-Code Generator based on the Google API. The application will just help you create the Google Chart API Code to create your QR-Code image. Then you can download it or use directly the Google API Code.
Here's an image made with QR-Code Tool.

1. What's QR-Code
   QR-Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave
   in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator
   intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR
   Codes are common in Japan where they are currently the most popular
   type of two dimensional codes.
2. Why use it?
   QR Code are used to identify objects, but mostly with mobiles. For example, you can open a web page with a QR-Code where the URL is encoded in the QR-Code. Other example, if you have an i-phone, you can send an SMS, simply by putting your iphone in front of the QR-Code.
3. Why we are the best?
   You may ask why my Online QR-Code Generator is the best on the web. Simply, because it's based on the Google API. So you guarantee that you QR-Code image will work with an QR Reader or QR-Code reader.
4. How to create your own QR-Code generator
   Ok, I made my Online QR-Code generator with PHP and Google API. I'm going to explain in the future, how I build it. So that every one can do the same in his website!
   So keep up with the blog :)
   

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Labels: barcode, google, qrcode, review

Today I discovered that my Feedburner readers reached 100! At the same time, this post in number 100 also. Google Analytics shows about 24,000 total page views, and Google Adsense about 20,000 impression with a total of $92 earnings. Just in 2 months exactly, I started this blog.

From my first post I said, that I'm planing to get 15,000 daily unique after one year. But is this possible? In just one year only?
The idea is simple thought, if I succeed in writing 356 article, that each one brings 10 visitors from Search Engines, 20 visitors from social sites, 10 visitors from other sites, I'll get luckily more than 15,000 daily unique.

But how to do that?

• Writing optimized search engine content.
• Writing content that last! Not hot news.
• Getting back links means quality content.

Am I going to?

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Labels: blogger, startup, success, traffic, web

Cool and smart. Ajax, now all new services are running with. That's simple, the rule is: No page reload! But Ajax have to load from the server. There's many icons for Ajax loading. Like the rotating arrow icon or the loading bar animated icon. Or even other animated loading that are nice and smart. Here's them, bought to you from another cool service: Ajaxload!

1. What that icon is good for
   If you have an Ajax service or any other service, you may consider putting an icon near 'Loading Please wait'. That animated icon will make the visitor more patient.
   If you succeed to create a loading bar, that much more better. If you didn't, so no matter in that you can still use a simple icon. The problem on real loading bar, that they need extra and hard coding, and also JavaScript animation. So it's another Ajax function
   
   
2. Ajax Load simple and easy
   It's a real stupid service. Completely stupid, the webmaster gathered as much as he can icons and then placed them on the site. Rather then placing them like that, he offered the possibility to change colors, then preview the icons. Try AjaxLoad it's cool!
   

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Labels: ajax, designer, review, tech, web 2.0

This is a very important change on Google Trend. Now, you can do more in the same place: Compare keywords, websites, see hottest keywords and much more.
Google Trends is now much more better than Alexa, as it gives you the number of visitors! But the bad, is available only for big sites receiving a high amount of traffic generally more than 20,000 visitor daily.

1. Google Trends for searches
   Google Trends for searches will let you compare keywords. Google Trends can only compare keywords that have high search volume. This is normal as Google won't store all searches in its' database.
   
   
2. Google Trends for sites
   It's unique and the only that I saw online. Alexa gives wrong approximation all the time! My traffic is increasing however I see it dropping in Alexa; Alexa is good only with huge portals.
   However Alexa don't let me know the daily unique visitors.
   
   
3. Google Hot Trends
   Those are exploding keywords! That mean keywords that had been searched with an unusual way, that hour, or for a short period of time. Google trends update it frequently.
   
   
4. Much more than that!
   You can grape the trends on RSS feeds
   You can add them on a gadget.
   

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Labels: analyse, blogger, google, traffic, web

I was upon reading an article on Gmail about, gmail rss clips. Yes, they are good, as we can customize them to add our favorite Rss feeds. I just them want to highlight a free, brand new service called friend feeds.

Friend feed, works like Google Reader, but gives the sharing a little bit more importance. So, you create your account in friendfeed, the thing that you have to do with any service. Then you invite your friends through your email account or social media. Friendfeed (after giving it the password) will crawl your email address and invite your friends. This is useful unless you don't trust the service.

Friend feed can do the following, or have the following features

• Connect you to your friend by mail or social sites like Facebook
• Let you share your favorite RSS feeds
• You can create rooms for your friends or public
• Rooms settings aren't advanced :(
• Friend feed is also for Iphone!
  
• For programmer there's API =)
• There's a blog in friendfeed, with RSS Feeds :) lol just 4 laugh
  

But friend feed still a good service! I prefer that you try it out. Here's my room : Spring Of Life room on Friend feed.

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Labels: blogger, feeds, rss, web

Have you been with Entrecard? Have you been banned? Or have you tried one time to ask the moderator a question? Or didn't you get bored from the nice template that the site have??
Ahh! You get traffic, but no, you don't! How much will you get from EntreCard : 100, 200 or 300? But why it's bad, why its' traffic is useless and bad traffic. Yes here's why

1. traffic come to drop your card and not to read your traffic
2. You need to visit the site every day, to accept new adverts and buy adverts
3. The beginning is very hard and depend how much your are active!
4. Even if you have traffic, you won't have credit :(
5. If you get banned by error, then forget your credit, moderators won't hear
6. Credit value is down day after day :(
   

So why stick with EntreCard? Here's a better program Performancing Ads! All depend on your traffic and its' automatized! Plus credit is $$$
It works like Adsense, Adword and Entrecard ::: All in one!
Join now and quit EntreCard! Exchange and publish and advertise with real money and not credit.

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Labels: blogger, money, traffic, web

I have now about 100 post in my blog, but only 500 visitor daily. So is this a success? Totally no, because I have only 5 visitors per post. However, I think a blog with 20 visitors a day is more successful than me, if it has only 1 post!
So the matter isn't in the traffic, but in the traffic per post. If I managed to get constant 25 visitor per post every day, I should have now, about 3,000 visitor daily. Here's what I'm doing now, spreading my articles to be better seen.

First thing, you should care about search engines

• Creating friendly search engine content
• Optimizing your articles for search engines
• Getting back links for your articles.

Next, you can publish your articles on different places

• Like forums, you can publish on Webcosmo and earn double (adsense shared)
• Google groups is a heavy source of traffic, I get 50 daily with few work
• Sites like Entreview let you easily publish your articles

Also the social media

• Work on digg, by making friends and sending shouts
• Reddit is fair, so care about your title
• Mixx also is good

And also the small wikis

• Publish a hub, but you must have many fans to be read
• Create a lens, but you must also have fans
• What about Knol? Yes, you may get featured.

Getting back links

• Commenting and discussing on a topic, you can link to your article then
• Try to get back links from wikiepdia
• Track backing other sites

If you do that all!! I grant 30 visitor + every day!
Good luck for your articles.

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Some Useful Links:
Google in your language - Google Blog
You are not spam - Blogger Buzz
Search quality, continued - Google Blog
More Transparency in Customized Search Results - Google Blog
A picture isn't always worth a thousand words - Inside Adsense
Orkut in maintenance - Orkut Blog
8000 iphone per week - Tech Crunch

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Labels: blogger, engines, google, tech, traffic, web

1 million student, is a few members. But when it become a service with 1 million students as user, so it's a very big success and also a huge number. Google now is back to school with more than 1 million student! It's a great success for this service, but what's Google Apps.



I don't know Google apps before 2 years, but when I need it I knew it! The idea was in getting a gmail box with my @omarabid.Com extension. This was really great but I don't know that it can be. Until a friend told me about Google Apps and Hotmail Apps for your domain.

Google apps isn't only for Gmail. It makes an enclosed community where member logs with there Id@yourdomain.com and you can control all the members. Members
have access to Gmail, Calendar and also a chat between the different member.

The good news, is that service is totally free; (it exist paid version, but for small business you can choose the free edition.)

There's also a special edition for universities and student. I liked also the bus trip in Google map. You can check it out.

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Labels: gmail, google, life, success, talk, tech, web