Ever wondered who came out the winner of the Microsoft and Yahoo deal? According to Clayton Moran, an analyst of the financial services firm Standford Group:

“We think Google’s the winner, Its two main competitors are separate and floundering.”

Though several lessons had been learned on the deal, one of the most notable is sometimes to bargain.  A 47.5 billion dollar isn’t bad after all.  I had just thought that sometimes how I lose a deal because of wanting a higher price. Accordingly, Steve Ballmer believes that the business isn’t over rumors has it that Microsoft will rebid at the end of the year.

But in the meantime, so to catch up with the winner, Google, Ballmer had continually laid out plans on how to top online advertising leader google.  Google topped the market with approximately 75% market share while Microsoft at about 4%.  And the rest is for second place Yahoo.

However, there are other online advertising aspect where Microsoft expects to have headway - video advertising which is expected to grow in the next couple of years but still, dominated by Google.  Another lesson that might be learned from the deal is persistence.  According to Ballmer:

“We’re very persistent,iIf we don’t get it right, we’ll keep coming and coming and coming.”

As I see it, statistics shows that it might be very hard for Microsoft to make a headway.  But with those lessons, I think Microsoft will give Google a run for their money that only after several years to come.

I would like to hear from you whether who you think is the winner and add up to the list of lessons from the tech giants’ deal.

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What is a linkbait? And why is it a very powerful Search Engine Optimization Tool?  Well,  linkbait is in any form of article that catches the readers attention and in such a way bait them to link to it.  A linkbait article must be something of genuine and informative that people sees it as something useful for others to know. Thus, linking to them.

So far, though I had been blogging for almost three years and (my first blog was with EntrepreStuff, a blog when I was still a junior blogger) this site had gotten three linkbaits.  Not bad I think for a three months old site?  The articles that got the bait was:

• Simple Search Engine Optimization for Beginners
• Tips to Writing Better Articles

Why exactly is it very powerful? Because your credibility as a website depends upon the number of quality incoming links from other sites.  And normally, this results into higher search engine rankings.

Tips to a sustainable linkbaiting campaign as of my experience blogging is quality content topping the list.  For readers to continually bait to you, you must right quality articles spelling and grammar error free. The relevance of the article according to current events is also a key.  For short, it must be timely.  Writing articles about the current political turmoil and recession in the United States as of this was written might be a good match for the timely and relevant.

And to encourage even more baits most importantly is to write informative articles where people find it worthy of sharing.  A good example for these informative articles are the best wordpress plugin, wordpress themes, installations, making money online, history, events and many more.  As long as it is giving information to readers I guess you are on the right track!

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Iron Man topped the box office on its first week selling an estimated $200 million over the weekend. The movie established a new franchise record for Marvel Entertainment. Go to your nearest movie house and grab your tickets now!

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Admittedly saying social networking technology is a fad in the web today.  More and more social networking sites such as myspace, facebook, multiply, friendster are coming.  You are not even “in” today if you don’t have a twitter. Even I myself has been a member several of these.  But how knowledgeable are members of these sites about their privacy? Not so much, I guess. Spams and impersonators to seek information from someone has been hounding these sites.

When using these, it is extremely important to be knowledgeable of your privacy settings.  First step is to be cautious on who to accept to your network list. Setting it for it to be only viewable by your network might help.  But third or fourth degree network can also sometimes view. 

In lest of information that might be stolen, it is adviseable only to give personal information at certain level.  It shall not reach to a point where it encourages online theft to hack your account such as exposing security questions.  Lastly, but not the least, it is most notable for social network members not to have the same password as your personal email and other important areas online.

And speaking more of these social networking sites, a new social networking site is up and is called Moli (visit Moli.com). It allows members to create multiple profiles in one account.  But the site might not do good for the individual that does not walk and talk.

Personally, if you’d like one to view your profile, I recommend linkedin.  It is a business social networking site with a professional look without those smileys and gift giving features. You may view my linked in profile here.

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I supposed that you must have seen or witnessed individuals be it in basketball, football, soccer or any other sports who scores heavily but hardly wins.  Or as in any business, individuals who sells heavily compromising profit margins as well as other expenses and cost of sales.

These are actually individuals who would rather go for personal records than the whole team winning or as in business individuals who are more focused for personal glory rather than the whole company succeed.  They compromised winning.

But the thing is that there is a huge difference between scoring and winning.  If you score heavily, that does not necessarily mean your team wins. Likewise, if you sell the highest, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you are in a highly successful organization. Because winning has a whole lot of aspects to consider - teamwork, trust, relationship, development, communication among others.

Below are some of the aspect areas to consider if you want to win:

Winning is all about complementing each other that for every weakness that you have becomes someone else’s strength.  Ergo, that being said, shows how a Michale Jordan, one of the world’s famous athlete needs Dennis Rodman to do the rebounding of basketball.

It needs constant communication to share ideas and resolve issues, and most importantly to allow contingencies solution.  You may be performing, but you can even do better when you communicate.  Take for instance being in a situation of a hopeless deal.  That deal might be saved if you had begun to communicate about the issue with your colleague. Isn’t it?

Try doing these stuffs in your own little way so you can start to win.  Set aside personal records so as not to compromise winning.  I would like to hear your thoughts about winning and scoring and how they differ from each other.

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Just recently, I had installed the nofollow free wordpress plugin from Cristian Mezei. That said, makes Eric Go dot Net a no follow free site. 

Nofollow free removes the nofollow attribute from your site.  That make readers get a free linkback through your name that is hyperlinked when submitting comment.  The said link can be found on the right sidebar or at the comment facility per single post. Although it shares limitation by not taking off the nofollow attribute within the text body.  However, the plugin should work perfectly fine.

Though my site is still in the build up process, I knew there are a couple of readers who deserves to get it.  This is also a way of giving back to loyal readers who had there piece of thoughts on articles posted. So it is highly encouraged that you share your thoughts to increase your sites ranking in google as well with other search engine.

In such way, you increase your technorati rankings by adding more blog reactions and authorities making your site a more credible ones. So most importantly, do not be shy to share your thoughts through the comments facility.

As a way of helping not just through comments, it is also notable that you add me up to your reader.

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By reading the title of this article above, you might pleasantly be amused from how by blood am I related to starbucks’ Uncle Howie. But I am not… Who is he? Its a nick where people fondly called him inside the once most famous coffee business in the world.

A few years back Schultz stepped down as a Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks but maintains his position as the Chairman of the Board. Starbucks’ went on smoothly.

Until last year, they are facing a dilemma where for the first time in more than two decades they were at a negative business situation having several stores losing.

Just recently last January 2008, Schultz was appointed back as the Chief Executive Officer and first thing first the goal was to connect with his customers. Look at how the CEO works, that is very highly commended, with a fellow executive at Starbucks they went on to visit a store and try to chat a drive-thru customer, however but to no avail.

To some this has led them to ask can he save Starbucks?

Though virtually he didn’t sit out of Starbucks office seating as Chairman of the Board. Several tough decisions has been made. One of which is the closure of 7,100 non profitable stores for employees retraining.

One of the most notable is adding a machine that quickens at a rate 40% for creating a cup of drink. And of course the setting up of the My Starbucks Idea site.

With these innovations most especially on his focused on the company’s mission, I bet it wouldn’t be too far of saving Starbucks. Currently they are focused on global operations.

I would like to hear from you your opinion.

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What a long three weeks after facing several rocky roads in my blog. First, I had moved to another webhost provider and second several technical issues arose. When I moved to a new webhost provider it was working well fine in the beginning. Only to realized that I had somehow done a bit, just a bit, of a stupid thing to prolong the agony.

I had set the permission to all the directory file to 777, I think. And I think it was way well a reason that made my site inaccessible at least for a couple of days. Gladly, the crew of MarvinsWeb restored it in due time.

Now the second challenge came after they restored back my site. All interlinks became broken. And again it took another two days for us to diagnose and troubleshoot. And heck, only to find out that the solution is just simply to set the .htaccess file to 777, just a few minutes to solved in contrast to the two days wasted.

And finally, it is up and running. I had made several adjustments though to the Coffee Break theme, in which some things came not to my agreement. Of course the header on top (which was a design of Michelle Ann Yu).

Going to the technical side. I had to delete the not-so-useful (useless) double slash “//” after the categories right below a single post. And had to changed the word “tags” to “categories” since the labels link to that of categories in effect. Lastly, instead of using a coffee cup as sidebar bullets, I had to set it to a solid square bullet.

In the next couple of days, I might or I should be working in populating pages with contents such as the make money button and adding more favorite blogs.

Well, that was quite long and would sought to end this by saying, Eric Go dot Net is now Officially Back!

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I must admit that I am not a real good writer.  In the online community there must be a million out there who writes better than me.  While in school, I’ve had some schoolmates who are members of a writing guild and writes regularly in the school bulletin.  These, I knew that one day their articles will be published in the local paper.  But that did not happen… really.

Instead, I, who had never imagined to developed a passion for writing was in fact now, is a contributor of our local newspaper. No, I’m not bragging, but what I am saying is that does this make me a credible person to write tips to writing better articles? I do hope so.  As this is the challenge in blogging on how to keep readers coming back - writing quality articles. Not just in blogging but almost to all aspects of writing - in magazine, newspaper, etc.

Now, moving forward let me share to you some tips that I had documented in nearly three years of writing:

Start the paragraph that Summarizes the Whole Article

In your language class this is called the “point of view”.  The “point of view” is a paragraph that describes or summarize the whole article.  This paragraph is where the readers grabs a glimpse on what to expect to further reading.

Let me illustrate, say for instance if you are writing about an event.  A good way to start the paragraph is to write it that in such a way it answers the questions - what was the event about, when was the event, where was it held.  In such case readers will gladly want to move further as to who came in, what happened to the party, among others.

Explain Briefly in Details the Point of View

What happened to the event is what this paragraph should talk about.  In layman’s term this is the “body of the article.”  This is the part where you explain in detail or if not briefly on what the ”point of view” is all about. 

Say for instance in a boxing event, who won round by round, how the audience reacted after the introduction,  and how tense the fighter minutes before the event and who was the celebrity the audience looked into the crowd of thousands watching in Mandala Bay, Las Vegas.

Modifiers, Modifiers, Modifiers

Modifiers are words that will make your article look cool.  These are sets of unusual phrases used to described a particular incident in the article. Some examples of these so called modifiers below:

• “Want to frolic with a leggy masseuse? Anytime, baby. There are more spas and massage parlors in Las Vegas than there are churches in Cebu. Need some company for the night? No sweat, just be careful.”
• “Hot air from the nearby Atlantic Ocean slapped me, inducing more pain to my pressure headache, while the humidity was thicker than a politician’s hide.”
• “My friend destroyed the myth that accountants are dead people walking, boring as their calculators.

Conclude and Put Closure to Your Articles

This is the part where you write how your topic ends. Who won the boxing fight, what was the finale presentation of the party you are attending. This is the part where you let your readers switch their light off and have a good nights sleep by not making them hung.

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According to BusinessWeek, media executives had developed a new word in the media business - AdXiety.

Adxiety refers to how a TV viewer feels when they are watching ad-laden TV programs live after they have developed the habit of time-shifting their programs with digital-video-recorder in order to fast-forward through the ads.

Adxiety is really devastating most specially when you are watching a live coverage boxing program for instance. Ten or twenty commercial breaks before the live coverage resumes. So with impeccable logic if a boxing match is good only for 30 minutes, it would normally reach an hour and a half with those ads in line.

Though we might be feeling it, but the truth is that the live coverage is not suppose to be possible without those advertisers doing the sponsorships.

So how do your combat that? A simple way to fix adxiety is to “Fill in the Gap in Between”. You can check your emails through your computers, continue reading some good books, eat your meals, do your assignments, blog or etc. while waiting for the show to resume. These make sure that you had maximize your time by utilizing the gaps in-between.

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