The people of Inakadate Village have grown different rice breeds with various color shades according to their design pattern. The paddy fields turn into marvelous art works when the rice varieties are fully grown.
Aug
16
Three world powers, namely Japan, the United States, and the European Union, join hands in forming a new central command to tackle global warming. The project will be officially announced in the G8 Summit in July. The new agency will propose energy-saving plans to and assess the operation of G8 countries, members of IEA, including China and India, in order to transfer knowledge on energy conservation from developed countries to major energy consumers.
Aug
14
Get yourself ready before taking a lap in this swimming pool, because it is guaranteed by Guinness World Record to be the largest pool in the world. Located at San Alfonso Del Mar Resort in Chile, the pool spreads across the 20 acre land and is 35 meter deep; therefore, some 66 million gallon of water can fill the pool. With the size equivalent to 6,000 standard pools, this lagoon costs around 2 billion US dollars with 5 years under construction. It will require some 4 million US dollars to be well-maintained (so, are all these worth it?).
Aug
14
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Who would know that this cardboard can be transformed into a table in a blink. This creative work comes from Sruli Recht, who designed this foldable and portable cardboard table. This is one idea that turns waste into usable object, in hopes to ease global warming.
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Aug
14
Green is everywhere. Even in the club! Surya club in the UK, is designed to be the friendliest club to the environment.By a very special electricity generating technology, Piezo, that applies pressure to generate electricity. It means when people are dancing, the electricity is produced! The floor of the club is specially made with crystal and ceramics lattice for this technology. The furniture is made from recycle material. Guests who come by bus, gets free admission! Everything here is, well, going Green!
Aug
14
Wherever you look in China now, everything is so colorful thanks to the coming Olympic Game. Celebrations of the being the host of the Game include sand sculpture competition. Thousands of people took part in the competition. Anybody who wants to see art on the sand, head to Dalian beach!
Aug
13
Finally the Nairobi National Museum at the capital of Kenya, Nairobi is opened for public after the big renovation since 2005. The museum is now twice bigger than it was. Plus more facilities, exhibition halls, and science labs. The cost of the renovation is 14.5 million USD. The project was supported by European Union. Good news to kids who look for learning opportunity outside school!
Aug
11
My List of the 10 Largest Search Engine Optimization Websites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links (from Yahoo Site Explorer), Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and traffic data Compete.
1. searchenginewatch.com
SearchEngineWatch is the Internet’s leading source for search engine marketing issues and provides hundreds of techniques to maximize exposure. SearchEngineWatch is edited by Danny Sullivan, the world’s expert on search engines. Sullivan will also host Search Engine Strategies 2000, a day-long seminar in New York City on March 9.
Google Page Rank: 8
Alexa Ranking: 16,745
Compete Monthly Visitors: 501,361
Inbound Links: 429,951
2. seomoz.org
SEOmoz, a Seattle-based search engine optimization company, serves as a hub for search marketers worldwide, providing education, tools, resources and paid services.
Google Page Rank: 6
Alexa Ranking: 24,956
Compete Monthly Visitors: 536,021
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Aug
10
Delicious Popular Social Bookmarking launched a redesign. Since it was bought by Yahoo in 2005, Delicious added some new features and the redesign. New design that is more powerful and easier to use, along with a revamped search that’s faster and more robust. It’s also full of useful features that people have been requesting for years.
Aug
6
AideRSS is an intelligent assistant that saves time and keeps you on top of the latest news. We research every story and filter out the noise, allowing you to focus on what matters most.
There are over 86 million blogs, and each one has an RSS feed. All it takes is a few subscriptions to the sites that interest you, and your feed reader is overwhelmed with a never-ending stream of hundreds of headlines. Like an aide or a personal assistant, AideRSS helps to filter and rank these feeds based on a number of criteria to help you read what matters, ensure that you find the good stuff, and to help keep things organized and manageable.
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Aug
2
Jefferson Graham interviewed Matt Cutts for USA TODAY. Five easy tips on how to “optimize” your site this is best techniques if websmasters want your site get to top of Google’s search rankings
1. Spotlight your search term on the page.
Put your keyword(s) on the top of your page you want to rank.
2. Fill in your “tags.”
When creating websites includes two key tags: title and description. That’s what is displayed on the search results. And third tag, to add keywords, or search terms, but Cutts says Google doesn’t put much weight in its rankings on that one.