A lot of people are doing business online thanks to the free availability of “shopping carts” and other ecommerce tools that help businesses to setup “online shops” where their customers can easily shop. More people are adopting ecommerce approach in recent years as the stumbling block of a huge initial investment for software is now removed thanks to quality free open-source software options available.

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Because of its significant growth over the last few years, the occupation of internet marketing has garnered both accolades and criticism.  It has also spawned a host of myths concerning its viability as a profession.  If you’re someone who is currently engaged in the field of ecommerce, you may have fallen prey to some of these misconceptions or outright fabrications, and chances are, if you’re still in business, you came out a bit more savvy for the experience.  If, however, you’re looking to break into the business, there are few myths that need to be busted.

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I am always amazed at how sometimes what should appear to be obvious to most is actually a complete unknown and foreign concept to many.  Let’s take niche blogging for example.

Niche Blogging Defined

Dictionary.com defines a niche as “a distinct segment of a market.”  And over at Wikipedia niche blogging is described as “the act of creating a blog with the intent of using it to market to a particular niche market.”

Nothing to complicated right?  We can all understand this even before we’ve had our morning coffee.  But the reality is that most bloggers do not.

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‘SEO’ has become something of a buzzword for savvy bloggers. Unfortunately, bad SEO has also become the bane of the blogosphere. Keyword stuffed content that makes little sense, nonsensical titles and blogrolls filled with irrelevant links are the waste material of poorly performed SEO. So how can you write content for your blog that appeals both to search engine bots and humans?

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PHP is the most powerful scripting language that is being used today. The performing websites like Facebook, wordpress, Digg and a lot more use PHP. There can be no greater reason why PHP has now become the ultimate choice of programmers worldwide.

Here are 5 most important tools that can help you improve the quality of scripting.

1. Tool for documentation

phpDocumentor

This is a powerful documentation tool for your PHP code. It is also known as phpdoc and phpdocu. The phpDocumentor tool offers a variety of incredible features. Here are a few features you would like to know about.

• Ability to output HTML and PDF
• Fully customizable according to users’ needs
• Sample PHP files can be directly placed in documentation
• Ability to link API documentation and specific external files
• Source codes can be highlighted and commented for further verification
• Easy to maintain, incredibly fast and highly secure

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Twitter is a great way to stay connected and informed. But these days, I find Twitter is used to promote so many social causes. And some of these causes are really making an impact. People are listening and talking about them. I was amazed to find so much good work being done in so many parts of the world. And I get regular updates about their work on Twitter.

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The rise of social media gaming is not quite anymore. After the stupendous popularity of Farmville on FaceBook, its café World’s turn now, and Zynga has don’t it yet again. Thanks to Facebook advertising and cross marketing on other popular games on Facebook including Farmville, Café World has moved from 0 to 10 million users in just a week.

But is it just the marketing that got so many users to take up the game? Not really so. Café World is as cute as FarmVille. Anyone how has ever fancied owning a restaurant or treating people to delicious dishes would vouch for it. Plus, the game is more spontaneous than Farmville. Its also fun because you can see your FaceBook friends walk into your café , hire few friends to help you in the café and even fire them if they don’t do a good job. Quite interesting you think? If this has made you want to try out the game, here’s a guide that tells you how:

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The new version of TweetDeck (v0.30) has added MySpace and Facebook into its pack of Twitter powered features.

Many users swear by TweetDeck’s groups which allow them to organize their Twitter stream into bite size chunks. The same concept has been applied to Facebook too. TweetDeck users can now organize their friends on Facebook into smaller groups, view photos, videos, links, wall posts and more in TweetDeck. Just a few clicks, and you can write on your Facebook wall, comment and make update Pages directly from TweetDeck.

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