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Chatwing Live Chat Widget helps increase websites’ user engagment.

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Chatwing Live Chat Widget helps increase websites’ user engagment.

How many chat apps have you found on the web since you have first started using your computer? I’m sure you have tried a lot. But , here we  are introducing new chat app for the websites and blogs. This chat app allows website owners to add a chat box to any website and let users take charge of the rest.

 

This is  versatile chat app which gives the users to connect globally and improves website’s overall user engagement and traffic. Chatbox is seen very helpful in educational websites where people come to get help each other from the other community. Chatwing.com has focused on the development of real-time communication in the platform. The developers understand that information must travel fast in every website, forum, or blog.

 ChatWing chatbox on page

Excellent designed Chatwing chatbox gives the flexibility to fully customize it with  size, color width, height, font, background image and much more, that helps you make it look blending to your website’s color scheme. This is the main highlight of Chatwing over other similar tools which offers very least customizing branding options.

Features that Chatwing offers:

  • User Engagement: Engage your Visitors with Chatwing, Chatwing provides you the facility that makes you engage more visitors. By embedding the chatwing in your website, increase more chances to communicate with the visitors and groups.Which prove to be ideal platform to exchange useful ideas and build strong online relationships.
  • Lets you embed on any website: ChatWing is available as an embedded widget or pop out button.
  • Complete customization : There are plenty of variable you can  customize like size, color, widget name, background color changing flexibility according to your website.
  • Social Sharing with the Chatwing : Users can login with their Facebook, or twitter  accounts and share content on social networks with their friends.
  • Direct Reply : Chatwing users can maintain a professional and wholesome discussion made possible by its word filter option that can be activated any time and get instant reply directly.
  • Its Free: Chatwing services are free to use.

How to get Chatwing on your page

 

Step 1. When you login, you see the basic options in which you can do basic customization  like chatbox color, background image, font, audio and other styles. Under each tab you will get more options further customization according to your needs.

 

Custmise Chatwing

 

Step 2 : Here you can pick your chatbox alias which will be the url to your chatbox

and additional chatbox options like chatnox name, moderators filters, login methods and blacklist.

 

Step 3 : Below is the preview for the chat wing.

Step: 2  Once you are satisfied tweaking the appearance and settings, you can save the settings and click on “Use Chatbox” button, and in the next page you can get your embed code and direct link to your chatbox to share with your friends of team or organization to get started and use chatbox.

Use Chatwing

If you wish to use it on your website, just pick the embed code, set the preferred width and height of the chatbox and copy paste the code to your website, where you want it to appear. You are good to go and enjoy chatting and collaborating with people.

ChatWing is absolutely great and free  tool to use, get it at http://chatwing.com/. Hope you like the post, let us know if you already use chatwing and how you find it helpful. Drop your comments below.

 

Top new updates and features AdWords received in 2012

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Top new updates and features AdWords received in 2012

It’s no secret that AdWords is the greatest revenue generating source for Google thus for businesses and firms involved with PPC advertising have nothing to be worried about as Google will always try to make sure that the AdWords system is efficient, powerful, and constantly improving. Google constantly updates their AdWords system with new updates and features.

Google is the market leader in the ads business and it makes sure they constantly update its systems so that its most revenue generating system works great for its customers. To keep you up to date, we’ve compiled the top AdWords updates and features added by Google in 2012.

AdWords

A number of modifications have been made to AdWords in recent times. These new AdWords features (announced from time-to-time) are primarily designed to help search engine marketers create successful advertising campaigns. The focus of the feature enhancements are generally on improving ease of campaign management, better ad targeting, creating more advertising options and improving trackability and measurement of SEM campaigns.

Let’s have a look at the most exciting features which AdWords received from Google:

Flexible Targeting Tab

A new interface has been added in AdWords to facilitate display buying. The Display Network latest feature makes display buying easier and efficient by combining marketers’ targeting, bidding, and optimizing at one place. In short, a campaign manager gets greater control over the display ads with this feature.

The new AdWords Editor 9.8.1

Google launched the AdWords Editor version 9.8.1. It lets marketers manage local targeting more conveniently.

Two new ad tabs have been added; dynamic search ads and product listing ads. It lets marketers view their ads and make alterations or additions easily. These two new targeting tabs also lets you manage product targets and dynamic ad targets.

Ad Rotation Changes

The “rotate evenly” ad rotation setting will now function differently than how it had been working as Google will now only rotate ads evenly for a period of 30 days instead the earlier method of rotating ads indefinitely. Once those 30 days are over, the ads will default to the “optimize for clicks” setting.

If you are used to the earlier method used by Google then unfortunately there is no way to opt out with this new feature, so basically it means that this setting will automatically change whether advertisers want it or not agree to it.

Improved Keyword Tool

Now, marketers can get keyword ideas grouped on the basis of themes. The updated keyword tool lets you quickly view the suggested new ad group themes and add those to your account directly. In addition, the traffic estimator integration facilitates easy view of the data for your keywords and equips you to take campaign strategy decisions faster.

Changes in Traffic estimator

The new additions let marketers graph performance estimates, draft ad groups and add them to AdWords account.

Enhanced Ad Sitelinks

Sitelinks are a useful extension available for AdWord accounts that gives your ad more visibility by providing additional link options. With Enhanced Sitelinks, Google combines the other ads in your account with your existing Sitelinks to create a much more attractive ad.

To be eligible to use this feature, you must rank in the top 3 ad positions on Google search and your account must contain active ads that are closely related to the Sitelinks in your campaign.

Automated Rules Now in My Client Center

In keeping with the Automated Rules theme, another great feature added by Google is the ability to create automated rules and functions across multiple accounts.

This feature allows users managing multiple AdWords accounts to set automatic rules that affect some or all accounts simultaneously.  While there’s significant risk involved in setting up automatic action across multiple accounts, we can’t deny the potential for saving time that this feature may have for AdWords users.

Match Type Changes

The phrase and exact match keywords will now be triggered according to what the close variants are including misspellings, plural forms, singular forms, different stemmings, accents, and abbreviations. Reportedly, at least 7% of search queries contain a misspelling, and the longer the query, the higher the rate.

Changes in Location Targeting

Location targeting is a huge feature for advertisers and the new update includes three new features to improve the service of local targeting.

  • Zip code targeting: With the new update, there is now an ability for advertisers to target more than 30,000 U.S. Zip codes in AdWords. You can now even include up to 1,000 postal codes per every campaign. The new Zip Code feature also provides reporting providing very great insights into performance of your ads.
  • Location insertion: This is also a brand new feature which will allow the advertisers to update ad title dynamically, text, display URL or destination URL with city, phone number or Zip code of the local business into the ad text without manually creating these components for geo-targeting ads.
  • Advanced location targeting: This feature allows exclusion or you can target locations using a physical location or a location that you find interest in.
Image Ads Easily for Free with the Display Ad Builder

The new Google Display Ad Builder makes designing and creating image ads easy and it’s free. And with 300+ free ad templates to choose from Google AdWords has made it even easier for businesses to get started.

 

Video Assets to Build Video Ads

Google AdWords is also making it easier for businesses to design and create their own video ads.  Businesses can take existing video footage from their computer, website, phone, etc., and cut and clip those videos into advertisements.

 Account Labels

Account Labels is another new feature which may small compared to the other features we get but rather it is actually an exciting new feature that can help users to organize AdWords accounts. It enables advertisers to organize their AdWords accounts keywords, ads, ad groups and campaigns into custom groupings for easier filtering and reporting and it will surely be useful to large scale advertisers.

This feature basically brings a smart account structure to the AdWords world. The examples of how to use the labels are:

  • Campaigns by brand or non-brand
  • Label specific product categories
  • Differentiate geographically targeting campaigns
  • Label promotional campaigns

Once labels are set, you can filter by the labels and can run reports to check performance of your accounts by label.

Extend Text Ad with Mobile Call Extensions

Most people are familiar with the search engine results pages of Google when searching Google via their PC’s, however, as more and more people are using their mobile devices to access information online, Google has had to rethink and redesign how search results appear via mobile devices.

One of the most exciting new features in AdWords is extending text ads with mobile call extensions, meaning now when a business’s information comes up in search results, their phone number will be displayed as a click-to-call number, allowing potential customers of yours to call you directly from the search engine results page your business/product/service is displayed on.

AdWords

Well these are the latest updates and features which made it to the AdWords system thanks to Google but we are sure we might have missed a feature or two, in that case if you think you know another feature which we din’t mention then tell us in the comments below. We surely love to hear from you.

LG’s “World Record Campaign” shines with a Flash Mob Proposal in India

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LG’s “World Record Campaign” shines with a Flash Mob Proposal in India

We all love flash mobs, well i guess most of us surely do as they have an element of surprise and some great fun to be enjoyed. LG Electronics India have rolled out an innovative 360-degree global marketing initiative, “World Record Campaign” with the aim of celebrating LG’s historical focus on product excellence and innovation over the past 54 years and to highlight LG’s technical excellence.

Being India’s leading company in consumer electronics goods, LG has launched the ambitious campaign here in India first with a flash mob in one of the busiest venues of Gurgaon city i.e. Ambience Mall to celebrate the holiday and festival season in India. The flash mob was basically conducted to help Mr. Karan Arora, a proud LG customer to help him in a marriage proposal to his girlfriend, Pooja. The amazing flash mob was organized by the LG WR Team.

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Here is the amazing video of the flash mob conducted by the LG WR team followed by its making:

How it all began

It all started with Karan interrogating about Dual Play glasses on LG’s World Record Forum on Facebook, he just happened to mention that he was planning on becoming engaged, the guy he had been communicating with was LG Electronics World Record (WR) man, Sherlock, the company’s brand ambassador on the social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Well Sherlock thought of an opportunity to improve recognition of the brand by utilizing Karan’s proposal and the rest is pretty much history to say the least as Karan wouldn’t have even dreamt of his proposal becoming an international phenomenon thanks to the LG WR guys and LG on the whole for creating such an awesome event.

Although the flash mob entirely lasted only few minutes but the guys behind the whole event had to work really hard to make it  to successful as it took more than a month to get the act together with the planning and execution.

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The Flash Mob Execution and Story

The event was conducted in a very secret manner and no one except the event organizers, media persons and dancers were aware about this surprising flash mob executed in a busy evening. The event started with a shot of the upmarket Ambience Mall, then Pooja and presumably her friend appear on the scene. They enter an electronics store, put on the glasses, and sit in front of a TV screen. Karan then appears on the screen and invites them to go outside and enjoy a surprise.

As the girls went down, a group of youngsters all of sudden started a coordinated dance on popular Bollywood tracks playing in background much to the surprise of all the shoppers present in the mall and also Pooja. As is the rule with flash mobs initially only few people started and later small groups joined them in middle surprising everyone. And suddenly within a minute or two, around 100 professional dancers joined the flash mob making everything look so amazing. Once the atmosphere was set the crowd too joined the mob later including children, adults and onlookers.

The motto of the event was successful Mr. Karan proposed his lady love. He fell down on his knees in full romantic style to propose Ms. Pooja for marriage. Well with the crowd cheering and yelling, Pooja accepted the proposal much to the delight of the crowd.

LG’s reason for such an event

Now you must be thinking as to what must LG get doing things like this being a consumer electronics company. Well once the flash mob ended, LG WR team leader Greg, addressed the crowd and he explained the reason for LG organizing a flash mob like this. He stated –

“We want to strengthen the association of users with LG products in line with our core motto – Life is Good. This is true not only when you are using our products, but the very association with LG can make good things happen in your life – just like this flash mob marriage proposal.”

Another member of the LG WR team Sherlock, elaborated the explanation of LG being the leading electronic brand associating with a flash mob. He said – “India is a young country with 65% of its population is below 35 years of age. Nowadays, because our society is so family-oriented, youngsters are a very important factor in buying decisions for important products. So, we thought of a way where we could associate ourselves with this core group of youth, while celebrating family values at the same time.”

If LG truly wants to be the unmatched electronics consumer company in India then these unconventional events are the key. LG has some really innovative products in their lineup which has made them be known as the go to company thanks to their TV, LM series, 3D TVs. The event truly is unconventional as it defines the new way of marketing by engaging customers and breaking the traditional marketing methodology which has been going for long. The event also helped LG in increasing the awareness about the LG World Record Campaign.

LG India recently uploaded the video of this flash mob in YouTube which is going viral day by day. They even made a post about this event in their official Facebook Page. LG has officially released the Behind the Scenes video of the event too that elaborates how the group of professional dancers were doing the rounds in net for some time and the uniqueness of the event.

How To Scan QR Codes From Your Computer?

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How To Scan QR Codes From Your Computer?

You’ve probably encountered with QR codes in magazines, on websites, on business cards, a small black squares arranged in a square with white background. The QR code (QR for Quick Response) is a type of barcode in two dimensions that can be read and decoded quickly. It has the advantage of being able to store more information than a traditional barcode. QR codes can contain a web address, text, a card or an event.

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Amazing images of the “Black Marble” view of the Earth at night released by NASA

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Amazing images of the “Black Marble” view of the Earth at night released by NASA

Nasa has unveiled the “black marble” views of the planet by night after almost 40 years to the day when the Apollo 17 crew took the famed “blue marble” image of Earth in space on December 7, 1972. The amazing images have been released today by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration thanks to the capabilities of of the agencies’ newest weather satellite, the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership.

The sensor on the  Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership has the ability to capture the equivalent of three low-light images simultaneously, thus giving researchers the opportunity to study Earth‘s atmosphere, land and oceans at night time. “It’s very high-quality data,” NOAA scientist Christopher Elvidge told reporters at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco. “I rate it six times better spatial resolution.” The so-called day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, or VIIRS has the ability to distinguish the night-time glow of Earth‘s atmosphere as well as a light from a single ship at sea. The resolution is also far sharper than what has been available previously from other satellites. VIIRS is aboard the Suomi NPP satellite, which orbits about 500 miles (800 km) above Earth’s poles.

Earth

Some VIIRS images have surprised scientists. The sensor, for example, captured light from the upper atmosphere illuminating clouds and ice in visible wavelengths – by night.

Earth
Night time view of the Aurora Borealis over Canada

The NPP satellite carries other instruments considered to be crucial to medium-range weather forecasting, and it is scheduled to be in service through 2017. However, delays in the next generation of polar-orbiting satellites will leave the U.S. with a gap in satellite coverage that is expected to last for more than a year, potentially degrading weather forecast accuracy.

The scientists made use of the day-night sensor to watch the superstorm Sandy hitting the New Jersey shore on Oct. 29 in moonlight.

Earth

It also captured the power outages that put the area into darkness as the storm tore apart into populated areas.

Earth

India was also shown during the Diwali, the festival of light celebrations and boy it looked gorgeous.

Earth

It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands at night. The new data was mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.

According to reports, the images are so detailed that it’s possible to see light from fishing boats and wildfires. Data collected by the Suomi NPP will be used for weather forecasting and will help scientists better understand climate change.

Night time view of the Aurora Borealis over Canada

“For all the reasons that we need to see Earth during the day, we also need to see Earth at night,” Steve Miller, a researcher at NOAA’s Colorado State University Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, said in a NASA news release. “Unlike humans, the Earth never sleeps.”

Check out the full array of Black Marble imagery, including an animation, at the NASA Earth Observatory website or Goddard Space Flight Center’s Flickr gallery. Oh, and don’t miss NASA’s “White Marble.”

Reasons Why Some People Hate Windows 8!

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Reasons Why Some People Hate Windows 8!

Windows 8 is the most recent version of the Microsoft operating system that powers laptops, desktop PCs and tablet as well.  If you are using Windows 7 then you won’t feel any drastic change while using Windows 8 on PCs but you will surely find it interesting on tablet especially on surface.  Though Windows 8 has become an apple of eye for many people, some people hate it, let’s discuss what segments and features made people to hate it.

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Multiple Interfaces

metro ui interface

In windows 8 you will mess with two kinds of interfaces namely start screen (metro UI) and desktop mode. The noticeable change Microsoft has made to Windows 8 is Start menu, the typical start menu has been replaced with the all new start screen, this alteration confuses windows users and makes them to ask “Where is my start button located?”. In the desktop mode you don’t get start button so you need to install additional software if you are missing the start menu. Check out our earlier post Top 5 Free Tools to Bring Back the Missing Start Menu in Windows 8.

Switching between start screen and desktop mode makes you feel inconvenient and confusing. So if you are not interested in start screen (metro UI) then just install a third-party tool to bring back the start menu and work only on desktop mode. Do you know Start8 tool by Stardock allows you boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop mode.

Not a Good Experience with Keyboard and Mouse

Using start screen (metro UI) on the tablet is better experience as it delivers the smooth interface but some people find it awkward to use the new metro interface with keyboard and mouse, initially most of the users find it difficult to operate the PC powered by Windows 8 therefore it takes some to get adjusted to the new interface which was stable since Windows 95.

According to some opinions users have found it easy to swipe the start screen on a touch screen rather than scrolling with a mouse wheel, scroll bar or the arrow keys.

Conclusion

There is no doubt Windows 8 serves the great performance compared to older versions including Windows 7 and of course it has more features but the reasons mentioned above made some users to dislike it.

Apple’s iTunes Music Video Store now available for Indian users

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Apple’s iTunes Music Video Store now available for Indian users

Well its finally here, the Apple iTunes music and video store is now available for Indian users. All the iOS users that is the iPhone, iPod, iPad users in India can finally purchase Bollywood and regional music, movies and books from the iTunes store, with Apple launching the popular service in the India.

iTunes Store

The iTunes Store has now also been launched in 55 other countries, including Russia, Turkey, and South Africa where the users can now buy stuff of their regions and also the international content. This should bring up huge sales on content for Apple as they had the iTunes Store in 119 countries already and with the addition of 55 more countries, we can all expect Apple to rake in lots more revenues from the iTunes Store.

On its India debut the iTunes Store is offering a selected range of Indian music and movies for purchase with prices in Indian rupees. Individual songs are available for purchase for Rs 12 and albums are available at prices ranging from Rs 72 to Rs 150. Bollywood movies are also available for rent and purchase. Movies can be rented for Rs 80 to Rs 120 and purchased for Rs 190 to Rs 490. Some movies are available in standard as well as high definition.

iTunes Store

The latest Salman Khan movie Ek Tha Tiger, for instance, can be bought for Rs 290 or rented for Rs 80 on the iTunes store for the SD version while the HD one will cost you Rs 490 to buy the movie and Rs 120 for rent. Individual songs from new movie Dabang2 can be bought for Rs 12 a piece.

In addition to local Indian content, Indian users can also buy international movies and music from the iTunes Store. The Indian movies and music collection on iTunes is currently limited and it is expected that Apple will widen its offering soon.

The iTunes Match service which lets you match your music collection to the cloud has also been launched here at Rs. 1200.

Although all are not going to be impressed with the offerings from Apple since its surely pricey than what you will get from the competition. Flyte offers individual song download for Rs 6 and the full album at Rs 72 while iTunes offers it at Rs 96.

iTunes Store

Another competitor is the Nokia offering, the Nokia Music which offers over 4.5 million songs from its store . The service costs Rs 50 for seven days, Rs 99 for 30 days, and Rs 250 for 90 days. New handsets come with free subscriptions for up to a year. Also, Nokia Music gives users the ability to download any song from its library—it’s not restricted to the ones you have. According to Nokia, 1.4 million songs get downloaded from its music store by the users.

Music companies such as Sony Music expect a bump in sales as well as an accompanying reduction in piracy from the iTunes launch.

“Stores like iTunes and Flyte come as a boon in this scenario where we all are working towards banishing music piracy,” said Shridhar Subramaniam, president (India and the Middle East) at Sony Music.

“This launch is going to change the way we purchase music in India, and will see the start of consumer paid download services outside the operator ecosystem. The company is offering 500,000 songs from its catalogue, including Bollywood, international and Tamil film songs,” he said. “We expect a great response.”

Apple does not yet offer TV shows or books from its iTunes Store although copyright-free books are available but we hope Apple brings these too as they would surely add great value to the iTunes Store against its competitors.
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