03 February 2013

What Do You Think Of Facebook’s New Graph Search? [MakeUseOf Poll]



Last week we asked you what’s your favorite way to share photos. Granted, the best way depends on who you want to share with, but many of us still use one way most often despite that. The fight was a very close one, with the votes spreading across several options in almost equal measure, but at the end one method pulled ahead to take first place. Which one was it?


Out of 307 votes in total, the breakdown was as follows: 2% voted for printing as the best photo-sharing method, 4% voted for Instagram, 10% voted for Flickr, 11% prefer email for photo sharing, 19% like Facebook best, 22.5% voted for Picasa/Google+, and in first place by a mere 6 votes, 24% voted for a cloud service such as Dropbox/Box/SkyDrive etc. 7.5% voted for Other.


Full results and this week’s poll after the jump.


It’s interesting to see how uncommon printing has become. Also noteworthy is the surprisingly small number of users who voted for Instagram.


Don’t forget to check out last week’s best comment by Claire Curtis who won 150 points for her contribution!



This week’s poll question is: What Do You Think Of Facebook’s New Graph Search?


Want to make some extra MakeUseOf reward points? The most useful comment on the poll will be awarded 150 points!

Introduced two weeks ago, Facebook’s new Graph Search has by now reached many user profiles. If you’ve seen a notification about it and enabled it, you’ve noticed that the entire top bar of your Facebook homepage has changed, and now includes the option to search for things like “people who like running and are from my hometown” or “my friends who like John Irving”. The search yields very different results from a regular Google search, but naturally comes hand in hand with privacy issues. Have you tried Graph Search yet? What do you think about it?



Tell us in the comments what you like or don’t like about it, how you plan on using it, or reasons you have for not enabling it. If you’re worried about privacy, be sure to check out Angela’s tips on preparing your account for Graph Search.


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What Do You Think Of Facebook’s New Graph Search? [MakeUseOf Poll]



Last week we asked you what’s your favorite way to share photos. Granted, the best way depends on who you want to share with, but many of us still use one way most often despite that. The fight was a very close one, with the votes spreading across several options in almost equal measure, but at the end one method pulled ahead to take first place. Which one was it?


Out of 307 votes in total, the breakdown was as follows: 2% voted for printing as the best photo-sharing method, 4% voted for Instagram, 10% voted for Flickr, 11% prefer email for photo sharing, 19% like Facebook best, 22.5% voted for Picasa/Google+, and in first place by a mere 6 votes, 24% voted for a cloud service such as Dropbox/Box/SkyDrive etc. 7.5% voted for Other.


Full results and this week’s poll after the jump.


It’s interesting to see how uncommon printing has become. Also noteworthy is the surprisingly small number of users who voted for Instagram.


Don’t forget to check out last week’s best comment by Claire Curtis who won 150 points for her contribution!



This week’s poll question is: What Do You Think Of Facebook’s New Graph Search?


Want to make some extra MakeUseOf reward points? The most useful comment on the poll will be awarded 150 points!

Introduced two weeks ago, Facebook’s new Graph Search has by now reached many user profiles. If you’ve seen a notification about it and enabled it, you’ve noticed that the entire top bar of your Facebook homepage has changed, and now includes the option to search for things like “people who like running and are from my hometown” or “my friends who like John Irving”. The search yields very different results from a regular Google search, but naturally comes hand in hand with privacy issues. Have you tried Graph Search yet? What do you think about it?



Tell us in the comments what you like or don’t like about it, how you plan on using it, or reasons you have for not enabling it. If you’re worried about privacy, be sure to check out Angela’s tips on preparing your account for Graph Search.


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5 Steps to Getting the Best Rank in Search Engines



1. Step One: First you have to choose right keyword for web SEO Optimization.


The first thing is you must choose your keywords carefully. This is the first and most important step of SEO. You have chosen keywords that are wrong or ineffective keywords mean it’s an invalid optimization.




You should find popular keywords or niches related to the content of your website, and then know search popularity and competition results of every keyword. Keywords with more popularity and less competition will be your targeted keyword phrases.

Best place to search your keyword: https://adwords.google.com




2. Step Two: Optimize your website ranking factors.

Once you have finished your keyword analysis and selected specific keywords, you should optimize your web site to get better search engine position.

The most important ranking factors are including website title tags, description tags, Meta keyword tags, heading text; link URL, link text, image alt tags, and comment and web page body content text.

You should optimize all these factors are doing carefully. The top 10 ranking website content and ranking factors will give your more help to refer.

5 Steps to Getting the Best Rank in Search Engines

3. Step Three: Submit your website URL to top search engines directories.
After your completion of website optimization then you have to submit your website to Submit all your web sites to Google, Yahoo, MSN, DMOZ and the other major engines.




4 .Step Four: Link Exchange Factor.

Link popularity or Link building is the total number of websites that link to your web site. It is an important method of improving your site's relevancy and place as many engines are using this information as ranking criteria. Both the quantity and quality of link popularity is important to every website. The best "relevant" links from web pages related to your keyword or topic is getting boost to your website.




5. Step Five: Monitoring and reOptimizing your website.
After completion of fourth step, often checking your website search engine position of your targeted keywords, if you are not satisfied with optimization ranking results, you should do more SEO to reach higher search engines ranking position.



Using Wine to Play Games On Linux? Here’s Why You Should Switch To Steam Right Now



In the last couple of months, Steam has been getting a lot of attention. Not necessarily because of the games that it’s been carrying, but because of its expanding support of different operating systems. If you haven’t heard already, Steam has made official plans to support Linux, and has already made substantial progress with their beta Linux client. It really won’t be too long before the Steam client is stable, so all that would be left to do is port games over to Linux.


Now that such a major service is available for our favorite penguin, here’s a couple of reasons why you should at least consider making the switch.


Performance


I’ll start with the obvious with a surprising twist – performance via Steam is a lot better. Of course, when compared to games played via Wine, it’s going to be faster because the games are played natively rather than through a compatibility layer. Performance is one of the most important aspects of gaming, so people shouldn’t take this significance lightly.


Also, did I mention that games played via Steam on Linux ran faster than those run on Windows? The exact same hardware produced better results on Linux for identical games. I’m sure no one expected that because I know I didn’t.


Compatibility



Whenever you buy a game, you can’t be guaranteed that the game will even run with Wine. There is a database for Wine where the compatibility applications and games are listed, but that’ll only save you some money by telling you that it probably won’t work out as you might hope. With Steam, however, all games available for Linux are guaranteed to work, no questions asked.


With this argument, the only temporary downside is that the amount of available games for Linux is relatively small. I expect this number to grow dramatically over time.


Steam Benefits



Of course, by switching to Steam you gain all of its great benefits. This includes occasionally cheaper prices (especially during sales), a completely online experience so that no physical media is ever necessary, updates to both the client and games whenever they’re released, and more.


For example, if you reinstall the operating system on a machine, you can simply open up Steam and it’ll automatically download and install all of your old games, letting you sit back and relax. On Windows and Mac OS X, people have been very pleased with how Steam operates, so it is a reputable place to buy your games.


Let Your Voice Be Heard


Finally, by switching over to Steam, you’re making a statement. I’d be surprised if Steam’s effort towards Linux doesn’t interest your gaming soul, and as a community we need to show support for projects that we appreciate. Switching to Steam will not only make Steam’s ventures into Linux worthwhile, but it also shows others that Linux is a competent gaming platform – people historically just haven’t put in enough time to get to some breakthroughs.


If we can show to others that Linux people love to play games, and that they could make a profit by supporting Linux, they may be more willing to do so. And we all like more games, right?


Conclusion


I absolutely understand if you’re a bit skeptical about switching over to Steam when the chance is high that your games haven’t been added yet. However, just give it some time and check regularly. Eventually a few of your games, as well as some new ones you might enjoy, should be part of those which run just fine on Linux.


What do you think about Steam’s work in Linux? Have you thought about switching? Let us know in the comments!


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