Hungry black hole wakes up for a planet-sized snack

Geneva: Astrophysicists have witnessed the rare event of a black hole awakening from its slumber to snack on a planet-sized object in a galaxy 47 million light years away, the University of Geneva said Tuesday.

The observation made using the European Space Agency’s INTEGRAL satellite project, revealed a black hole that had been slumbering for years chomping on a giant, low-mass object that had come too close.

Scientists at the Swiss university analyse the data collected by INTEGRAL, launched in 2002 to study gamma rays and throw light on events far from Earth’s galaxy.

They spotted a light flare coming from a black hole in the centre of the NGC 4845 galaxy, which has a mass more than 300,000 greater than the Sun and had been dormant for more than 30 years, the university said in a statement.

Matter-sucking black holes normally lurk dormant and undetected at the centre of galaxies, but can occasionally be tracked by the scraps left over from their stellar fests.

This black hole had woken up and absorbed an object with a mass 15 times that of our own Jupiter – after taking three months to drag the snack from its trajectory.

It managed to swallow 10 per cent of the object’s total mass, while the remainder stayed in orbit.

In a separate statement, the European Space Agency said the object was either a giant planet or a brown dwarf – a stars that lacks sufficient mass to sustain a thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen and helium which makes other stars, like our sun, shine brightly.

Astronomers estimate there as many errant planets in the Universe as there are stars – meaning plenty for lunch options for black holes.

Details of the project’s findings were published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

“The observation was completely unexpected, from a galaxy that has been quiet for at least 20-30 years,” the European Space Agency quoted lead author Marek Nikolajuk of Poland’s University of Bialystok as saying.

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4. Make Reputation and some good back links … every day…

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Why startups shouldn’t shoot from the hip

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Speed is important when you’re building a new company. But don’t think it’s the only thing that matters, says Philipp Moehring, one of the faces behind leading European accelerator Seedcamp.

Urgency is the name of the game in startups.

One key characteristic of founders is the great urge to get things done — and this urge is a key component of success. However, there’s also a tendency to simply blast through everything on the agenda so that you can move faster, which is not always a good idea. There are lucky moments where startups stumble upon something that is suddenly loved and used, but most startups do not have the luxury to shoot from the hip to try and hit the target: they need to know where to aim.

To find out what you should work on with highest priority, you need to paint a larger picture and define your own position within that.

Momentum is an indicator of success, not speed

At Seedcamp, we see hundreds of startups at our events each year, and we usually invest in a couple each month. All these companies are selected from a much larger range of applicants, and they’re already among the best early-stage teams. We look at various characteristics when we make our decisions, but momentum of any kind is often a very solid indicator of success.

Momentum is usually the result of a founding team understanding exactly what they are trying to achieve, and moving the right levers to make that happen. And it’s important to understand that momentum is not about moving the fastest. It’s about moving in the right direction to achieve your goals.
Finding out what that focus should be on at any time requires a deep understanding of a set of different factors: the market situation, your positioning, and the key product components that come out of it.

Understand the market and rationalize your position

Knowing the larger marketplace and your competitive situation is necessary to know how to position yourself. Founders are often engrossed with the idea for a product from a perspective of possibilities, rather than opportunities. But just because something is possible, that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a good idea.

If the team knows their market in detail and can define why their product or service is stands out from the competition, then they also know which niche in the market is still open — or attainable. They’ll be able to identify where value is being left on the table, or where unhappy customers are fed up with the current status quo. That’s a clear opportunity.

Next comes the definition of the feature set that make up the minimum viable product. It’s not just an exercise about getting anything out of the door, but rather the result of a deep understanding of the most essential part of the whole experience. Successful minimum viable products are addictive and solve one problem immediately. They also often remain at the core of the company’s offering and define their existence.

Don’t forget your customers

The previous steps can never exist in a vacuum – talking to customers is just as important as theorizing and understanding the underlying concept. Failing to balance both leads to either constant reshuffling of priorities, or a product that nobody wants to use.

Understanding these three components enables the team to focus their time and effort on the few necessary actions to achieve momentum. All else is secondary.

In the end, the biggest constraint in a startup is time — so working on the right things is crucial to be as fast as possible. Momentum in these focus areas can then easily be tracked and improved, leading to a virtuous cycle.

People shooting gunsMany startups that fail to rationalize their position and raison d’être make rash decisions that are not grounded in an understanding of the bigger picture. Because of the scarcity of time and other resources, this robs the team of what little buffer they have to get it right, and sets them up for failure. The same goes for momentum: if the limited resources of a startup are spread out to solve too many problems at once, none of them will see any measurable progress.

The urgency fueled by the limited resources in early days is one of the reasons founders tend to move too fast without taking aim. However, startups that have identified the right focal points early on can often point to indicators of momentum and use them to their advantage.

Don’t shoot from the hip – aim and focus, so you gain momentum early. The rest will come.

 

Top Ten Management Skills Every IT Manager Needs to Cultivate

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Post is Copied from One of the my Favorite personality in IT Mr. Sandeep Mundra from his personal blog.

While a select few are born to lead, most others have to nourish their personality in order to make their leadership skills blossom. It takes years of hard work and skill building to become a natural leader. Whether one is responsible for sales, operations or technology, one needs to cultivate certain basic leadership skills to make a positive difference in the organization and to deliver positive results. Let’s take a look at ten management skills that can help one become a better IT manager.

1. Leading by Example

A lot depends on whether your team members and junior follows you because of compulsion or because of respect. You must behave as you expect your team members to behave, whenever possible. As your role is quite different from theirs, it may not be possible all the time. But if you want them to be dedicated, punctual and disciplined, you must also display such characteristics.

2. Building Rapport

You need to have a good vibe in your team. You need to build a good rapport with your colleagues, your team members and all the other people you come in contact with. Not only does this help build trust and promote cooperation, but it also increases the work efficiency of your whole team.

3. Building the Right Team

One disgruntled and negativity-filled person can disrupt the whole team. You must learn how to hire the right kind of person to build an efficient and vibrant team. Hire people with the right attitude, train them to fit the team perfectly and encourage them to expand their skills sets. Hire people who are better than you and learn to appreciate and benefit from their expertise.

4. Communicating Effectively

A lot of headache can be saved by being extra careful while communicating with your colleagues and team members. You must work hard on your ability to get your message across. Spell out every detail clearly and do everything you can to avoid any kind of misunderstanding.

5. Setting Clear Goals

Clarity in communication should be complemented by clarity of purpose. Ensure that every team member knows what he is working for. When people don’t see the whole picture, it is difficult for them to be motivated. Set clear goals for the team, and encourage your juniors to set clear goals for themselves.

6. Transforming ME into WE

The best results come through collective effort. While most people work for personal gain of some or other kind, it is essential that you help your team members build and believe in an identity as a team. At the same time, you need to see yourself as a part of the team too. When people work together to bring applause to the team, the results are truly amazing.

7. Maintaining Transparency

Before you ask someone to do a particular task, find out the important points about the task yourself. In case of technical tasks, it is extremely important to get a clear idea of what is expected before you pass it on to someone else. Also, send all the relevant information to the person who you’ve assigned on the particular task. Leaders who fail to do this earn the everlasting scorn of their team.

8. Encouraging Assertiveness & Discouraging Aggressiveness

A team that is made up of people who are afraid to express their views cannot perform at an optimum level. Similarly, a team that sees a lot of aggressive behavior cannot fulfill its potential. You must lead by example and encourage your team members to express their ideas freely, and you must show that it is okay to disagree. But you must put your foot down and send a clear signal that you’d not tolerate aggressive behavior.

9. Motivating & Staying Motivated

Generating passion for the work under hand can be a little difficult at times. If a leader seems uninterested in some work, the team is most likely to follow his lead. On the other hand, if you seem enthusiastic and motivated at work, chances are that the people working for you will also walk with a spring in their step.

10. Prioritization & Delegation

As an IT manager, you’ll often be confronted with scores of tasks that need immediate attention. At such times, you need to learn how to prioritize the tasks. Another important skill that many managers need to master is delegation. If you have a good team and are aware of the abilities of each member, you can delegate some of the tasks to them and make your life easier.

What SEO Features Should Your E-Commerce Software Offer?

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 thousands of individual product detail pages and category pages, e-commerce sites ha

v

e many opportunit

ies for great SEO. However, it is critical that you choose an e-commerce platform th


at allows you to control the many factors that are important for SEO.

Webmaster Tools Verification

When first completing an SEO audit or building a new e-commerce website, there are several key steps that can set up the website for success. This includes the verification of the website through Google and Bing Webmaster Tool. These platforms allow you to see crawl errors, update SEO settings for your website, and more.

 

Google Analytics Ecommerce

Another key feature you’ll need is the ability to setup Google Analytics or another traffic analytic tracking service. Google Analytics offers e-commerce tracking support that can display extensive information about user’s shopping behavior. To setup e-commerce tracking, your shopping cart will need to be able to pass specific data to Google Analytics via the order thank you page.

Once this is complete, it’s time to set up a dynamic XML sitemap. If your e-commerce platform can create an instantly updated XML sitemap, setup and maintenance of the sitemap will be much easier.XML Sitemap

E-commerce sitemaps must be upd

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ted regularly, as products are often removed, edited, or added to the site. Once the sitemap is set up on the site (usually located at yoursite.com/sitemap.xml), it can be submitted to Google and Bing Webmaster Tools, as well as other search engines, such as Ask and Baidu (China’s largest search engine).

 

Duplicate content is the enemy of successful e-commerce SEO, so you need the ability to edit almost anything on each individual product detail page. Being able to edit product page page titles and meta descriptions indCustomized Product Detail Pages—Titles & Descriptions

ividually is critical.

Meta descriptions may not directly impact SERP rankings, but they definitely influence CTRs. They should never be the

same or overly generic, such as “Clothes.com offers dresses, pants, and more for men and women.”

Instead, a meta description for a product page for a black lace cocktail dress should say something like, “This Jill Stuart black lace cocktail dress is perfect for parties, weddings, and other celebrations. Free

shipping until Dec 24th.”

More Product Detail Page Tips

Each new product description page offers a variety of SEO opportunities that can help increase website traffic and online sales. Some of these include:

  • Keyword Image Alt tags: Be sure to have the alt tag for the photo on the page to include the title of the product.
  • Related Products: Use other product titles as the anchor text in a related products section near the bottom of the page that users may be interested in.
  • Utilize Video: Besides great photos and content, product description pages could include a video testimonial, review, or overview of the product. Zappos.com does this for the majority of their products. They have a Zappos employee model the product and then speak about its features. For clothing, shoes, and accessories, this can help the customer feel more certain about their purchase because they know what it looks like when held or modeled by a real person.
  • Adding social sharing too
  • ls, including Pinterest: Pinterest can be a traffic superstar for many ecommerce sites, especially when users pin images that directly go to the description page. Regularly check to make sure the social sharing tools are working (many times, a change in permissions or API logic can cause issues) and make sure the buttons are visible on the page next the image.
  • Keyword-Rich URLs: Make sure that the URL structure of product pages include high-level keywords. For the example above, a good URL would be yoursite.com/womens-dresses/jill-stuart-julia-cocktail or something similar. The URL doesn’t need to include all  eywords, but the brand, model, and type is a good place to start.

Don’t Forget the Category Pages

The product details pages are important, but never forget SEO opportunities for the category pages. Your ecommerce software should support similar features for category pages that we listed for product pages:

  • Ability to edit page title
  • s and meta descriptions
  • Ability to add social share buttons
  • Use of image alt tags
  • Keyword rich, static URLS

Another feature you should look for is the ability add custom text or HTML to category pages—a great way to provide useful text both for visitors and for googlebot.

SEO for e-commerce websites goes far beyond installing G
oogle Analytics and adding a keywords meta tag. It’s critical that you choose an ecommerce platform that includes the SEO features you’ll need to succeed.

Quick SEO Tips to get fast result for new SEO or new web master

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Everyone loves a good tip, right? Here are 55 quick tips for search engine optimization that even your mother could use to get cooking. Well, not my mother, but you get my point. Most folks with some web design and beginner SEO knowledge should be able to take these to the bank without any problem.

1. If you absolutely MUST use Java script drop down menus, image maps or image links, be sure to put text links somewhere on the page for the spiders to follow.

2. Content is king, so be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your primary keyword or keyword phrase.

3. If content is king, then links are queen. Build a network of quality backlinks using your keyword phrase as the link. Remember, if there is no good, logical reason for that site to link to you, you don’t want the link.

4. Don’t be obsessed with PageRank. It is just one isty bitsy part of the ranking algorithm. A site with lower PR can actually outrank one with a higher PR.

5. Be sure you have a unique, keyword focused Title tag on every page of your site. And, if you MUST have the name of your company in it, put it at the end. Unless you are a major brand name that is a household name, your business name will probably get few searches.

6. Fresh content can help improve your rankings. Add new, useful content to your pages on a regular basis. Content freshness adds relevancy to your site in the eyes of the search engines.

7. Be sure links to your site and within your site use your keyword phrase. In other words, if your target is “blue widgets” then link to “blue widgets” instead of a “Click here” link.

8. Focus on search phrases, not single keywords, and put your location in your text (“our Palm Springs store” not “our store”) to help you get found in local searches.

9. Don’t design your web site without considering SEO. Make sure your web designer understands your expectations for organic SEO. Doing a retrofit on your shiny new Flash-based site after it is built won’t cut it. Spiders can crawl text, not Flash or images.

10. Use keywords and keyword phrases appropriately in text links, image ALT attributes and even your domain name.

11. Check for canonicalization issues – www and non-www domains. Decide which you want to use and 301 redirect the other to it. In other words, if http://www.domain.com is your preference, then http://domain.com should redirect to it.

12. Check the link to your home page throughout your site. Is index.html appended to your domain name? If so, you’re splitting your links. Outside links go to http://www.domain.com and internal links go to http://www.domain.com/index.html.

Ditch the index.html or default.php or whatever the page is and always link back to your domain.

13. Frames, Flash and AJAX all share a common problem – you can’t link to a single page. It’s either all or nothing. Don’t use Frames at all and use Flash and AJAX sparingly for best SEO results.

14. Your URL file extension doesn’t matter. You can use .html, .htm, .asp, .php, etc. and it won’t make a difference as far as your SEO is concerned.

15. Got a new web site you want spidered? Submitting through Google’s regular submission form can take weeks. The quickest way to get your site spidered is by getting a link to it through another quality site.

16. If your site content doesn’t change often, your site needs a blog because search spiders like fresh text. Blog at least three time a week with good, fresh content to feed those little crawlers.

17. When link building, think quality, not quantity. One single, good, authoritative link can do a lot more for you than a dozen poor quality links, which can actually hurt you.

18. Search engines want natural language content. Don’t try to stuff your text with keywords. It won’t work. Search engines look at how many times a term is in your content and if it is abnormally high, will count this against you rather than for you.

19. Not only should your links use keyword anchor text, but the text around the links should also be related to your keywords. In other words, surround the link with descriptive text.

20. If you are on a shared server, do a blacklist check to be sure you’re not on a proxy with a spammer or banned site. Their negative notoriety could affect your own rankings.

21. Be aware that by using services that block domain ownership information when you register a domain, Google might see you as a potential spammer.

22. When optimizing your blog posts, optimize your post title tag independently from your blog title.

23. The bottom line in SEO is Text, Links, Popularity and Reputation.

24. Make sure your site is easy to use. This can influence your link building ability and popularity and, thus, your ranking.

25. Give link love, Get link love. Don’t be stingy with linking out. That will encourage others to link to you.

26. Search engines like unique content that is also quality content. There can be a difference between unique content and quality content. Make sure your content is both.

27. If you absolutely MUST have your main page as a splash page that is all Flash or one big image, place text and navigation links below the fold.

28. Some of your most valuable links might not appear in web sites at all but be in the form of e-mail communications such as newletters and zines.

29. You get NOTHING from paid links except a few clicks unless the links are embedded in body text and NOT obvious sponsored links.

30. Links from .edu domains are given nice weight by the search engines. Run a search for possible non-profit .edu sites that are looking for sponsors.

31. Give them something to talk about. Linkbaiting is simply good content.

32. Give each page a focus on a single keyword phrase. Don’t try to optimize the page for several keywords at once.

33. SEO is useless if you have a weak or non-existent call to action. Make sure your call to action is clear and present.

34. SEO is not a one-shot process. The search landscape changes daily, so expect to work on your optimization daily.

35. Cater to influential bloggers and authority sites who might link to you, your images, videos, podcasts, etc. or ask to reprint your content.

36. Get the owner or CEO blogging. It’s priceless! CEO influence on a blog is incredible as this is the VOICE of the company. Response from the owner to reader comments will cause your credibility to skyrocket!

37. Optimize the text in your RSS feed just like you should with your posts and web pages. Use descriptive, keyword rich text in your title and description.

38. Use captions with your images. As with newspaper photos, place keyword rich captions with your images.

39. Pay attention to the context surrounding your images. Images can rank based on text that surrounds them on the page. Pay attention to keyword text, headings, etc.

40. You’re better off letting your site pages be found naturally by the crawler. Good global navigation and linking will serve you much better than relying only on an XML Sitemap.

41. There are two ways to NOT see Google’s Personalized Search results:

(1) Log out of Google

(2) Append &pws=0 to the end of your search URL in the search bar

42. Links (especially deep links) from a high PageRank site are golden. High PR indicates high trust, so the back links will carry more weight.

43. Use absolute links. Not only will it make your on-site link navigation less prone to problems (like links to and from https pages), but if someone scrapes your content, you’ll get backlink juice out of it.

44. See if your hosting company offers “Sticky” forwarding when moving to a new domain. This allows temporary forwarding to the new domain from the old, retaining the new URL in the address bar so that users can gradually get used to the new URL.

45. Understand social marketing. It IS part of SEO. The more you understand about sites like Digg, Yelp, del.icio.us, Facebook, etc., the better you will be able to compete in search.

46. To get the best chance for your videos to be found by the crawlers, create a video sitemap and list it in your Google Webmaster Central account.

47. Videos that show up in Google blended search results don’t just come from YouTube. Be sure to submit your videos to other quality video sites like Metacafe, AOL, MSN and Yahoo to name a few.

48. Surround video content on your pages with keyword rich text. The search engines look at surrounding content to define the usefulness of the video for the query.

49. Use the words “image” or “picture” in your photo ALT descriptions and captions. A lot of searches are for a keyword plus one of those words.

50. Enable “Enhanced image search” in your Google Webmaster Central account. Images are a big part of the new blended search results, so allowing Google to find your photos will help your SEO efforts.

51. Add viral components to your web site or blog – reviews, sharing functions, ratings, visitor comments, etc.

52. Broaden your range of services to include video, podcasts, news, social content and so forth. SEO is not about 10 blue links anymore.

53. When considering a link purchase or exchange, check the cache date of the page where your link will be located in Google. Search for “cache:URL” where you substitute “URL” for the actual page. The newer the cache date the better. If the page isn’t there or the cache date is more than an month old, the page isn’t worth much.

54. If you have pages on your site that are very similar (you are concerned about duplicate content issues) and you want to be sure the correct one is included in the search engines, place the URL of your preferred page in your sitemaps.

55. Check your server headers. Search for “check server header” to find free online tools for this. You want to be sure your URLs report a “200 OK” status or “301 Moved Permanently ” for redirects. If the status shows anything else, check to be sure your URLs are set up properly and used consistently throughout your site.

I get this tips from Search Engine Journal – One of the best Search Engine Related Blog & I love it