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HD Radio, high definition radio technology enables AM and FM radio stations to broadcast their programs digitally. You will hear CD quality sound on FM stations and audio will be clear and soothing without any distortion. To listen to digital AM and FM programming, you need an HD Radio receiver. This new products are available at your local consumer electronic store. The best part of HD Radio is there is no subscription fees. Only thing you need to purchase is the HD Radio receiver. Once you get that, you can listen to AM, FM stations, including HD2 and HD3 multicast channels.

Now you can get an iTunes Tagging enabled HD Radio receiver. You can tag the songs you hear on HD radio and then download it. The song info will be saved in your ipod. You can later download and buy your tagged songs from Apple iTunes Music Store. So if you hear a song which you like on HD Radio, you simply need to click a button to tag it.

You can find new radio stations in your market and the stations on-the-air with HD Radio technilogy at http://www.hdradio.com/find_an_hd_digital_radio_station.php

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Congratulations to WidgetBucks on securing $10 Million Investment to Expand Ad Widget Network (Quoted directly from the announcement)

“We’re very pleased today to announce that WidgetBucks has secured $10 million in Series B funding.

The investment was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, one of the world’s premier venture capital firms. Ignition Partners, which supplied the company’s original venture backing, also participated in the financing. This investment really allows us to expand our vision as an ad network, which will only mean great things for our publishers.”

For more details visit WidgetBucks Blog.

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Nowadays, blogging has become so popular that it seems that this technology has been around for ages. What is a blog? A blog is like an online journal that anyone can share his or her experience, personal story, or expertise with readers. With Wordpress and Blogspot, anyone can start his or her blog online easily. Now, even businesses are using blogs to connect with their prospects and customers.

If you search for particular information in the search engine, you will probably find some of the listings are blogs rather than normal websites. So why search engines love blog so much? A lot of search engine optimization or SEO practitioners have already include blogs as one of their MUST-HAVE optimization tools. Now, let me share with you 3 factors why search engines love blogs and why you must absolutely start a blog now:

1. Fresh content. All search engines love fresh content. A site which updates its content regularly will tend to rank higher on search engine result page. When you run a blog, you will post content regularly to connect with your readers. Whenever you post a new content, search engine spiders will visit your site and they love new content. This will accelerate your SEO process and allow your blog to rank well organically.

2. Unique content. Duplicate content destroy a SEO effort. Unless you are posting other people articles or information on your blog, you should be worrying too much. Nothing beats having unique content on your site when it comes to search engine optimization. If you write your own content, it will be written in a very natural way that will not make search engines feel that you are spamming them with keywords. Sometimes, webmasters purposely stuff too many keywords inside their content which make search engines penalize them and de-list their sites from the indexing. So with unique content on your blog, search engines will reward your blog with good organic rankings.

3. Off-page popularity. Blog is a social networking platform. When you write quality and useful content, you will attract a lot of readers and fans. In return, they will book mark your site on various social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon, which increases the link popularity of your blog. Search engines love sites with good link popularity as they want to present useful sites to their searchers. With this factor, you score another valuable point with search engines.

So if you do not have a blog, start blogging now. Choose a topic of your interest or a niche in which you want to enter into, and start allowing search engines to bring you tons of traffic to your blog now.

Author: Cheow Yu Yuan is the co-founder of OOM, which specializes in SEO Singapore services.

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Good news for the AdSense Publishers from Australia and Japan as Google AdSense announced that Video Units are now available for Australian and Japanese Publishers. (Quoted directly from the announcement)

“Following the success of video units in a number of international locations, we’re excited to announce the launch of video units for English-language websites in Australia. In addition, video units are now available to publishers who are located in Japan or who have Japanese-language websites. If you’re not already familiar, video units are embedded, customizable video players which both enrich sites with relevant video content and enable publishers to earn extra revenue. Relevant and non-intrusive companion and text ads accompany the video content.

So if you live in Australia or Japan than check out the AdSense blog today for more details.

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Watch out this video which shares one videographer’s thoughts on what Web 2.0 is all about. The video was created by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, and Digital Enthnographer at Kansas State University. The music was a piece by Deus called “There’s Nothing Impossible.

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