Continual Vigilance

Mobile broadband has been advertised as the trendiest development in the Web that is going to be the secret to the future of high speed broadband. Only a few year ago, broad band has been provided on a traditional telephone landline, high speed cable, which brings internet access to your terminal using an ADSL modem. WI FI high speed internet will soon be increasingly spread, whereby the ADSL modem is connected to the laptop thanks to a wireless network, and as a consequence internet surfers are now ridding their homes of cables. However mobile broad band will take things one step further and offering another idea in the evolution of internet; a broadband connection nearly in any room without using a landline cable.

The option of having a fast high speed connection line at home is surely an obviously attractive one to potential users, especially those people that generally connect with their personal computer not from home. Business people for example who regularly travel for work are the main obvious target for mobile broadband since they will surely like the fact of not having to search at all for a WiFi spot for a quite decent internet connection. Mobile broad band is going to go further than that, and since fees start to decrease and internet connection lines become faster it might not be long before we see the majority of broad band clients applying for mobile high speed broadband.

Mobile high speed internet works by connecting a modem to a pc, also referred to as a ‘dongle’, from which your PC can browse the internet by using the mobile high speed connection line the clients have subscribed for. Internet providers are marketing mobile broad-band packages and coverage of the networks, very popular as 3 G networks, which covers around 90% of the UK.

Broad band speed is an important issue with any internet connection and mobile broadband providers at first had problems to convince users that their mobile high speed connection could compete with traditional, ADSL landline broadband. Connections are changing, since Vodafone announcing mobile high speed connection speeds as fast as 7 mb, which is as fast as some of the fastest landline broadband. Countries like England, are laying plans to put huge resources in fibre optic cable networks, because they want to improve broad-band speeds to up to 100mb.

In New Zealand a famous telecom company has said that mobile broadband networks are set to develop rapidly over the coming years and they have forecasted that mobile high speed internet could be delivering speeds of up to 100mb in the next three years, exactly the year the UK’s fibre optic network will be completed. This will create a major step in industry thinking, with the development of a super fast mobile broadband network having remarkable advantages over the cabling of thousands of Kms of fibre optic cables, without mentioning the practical point of view. Get super fast mobile broadband with www.CompareBroadbandUK.com .

Working online used to seem alot like a pipe dream because the only jobs that were being offered always seemed to be some sort of a scam where you did the work but they seemed to make all the money.

You never made enough to make it worth your time either, if you did make money. But the days of the bad internet jobs are coming to a close as a new revolution of work for stay home moms is becoming more and more prominent. The need for people to do several online jobs with very real paychecks is growing!

In many households after having kids people are finding that they end up going to one income and this isn’t enough to support the family.

Luckily their is an influx of great internet jobs appearing all over the place that gives stay at home mom’s a way to still earn an income to supplement the family budget. Ironically some stay at home moms work less hours and end up making more than their counterpart when they go out to work in the job market!

This is a good thing actually as it allows a mom to be at home with her kids and still earn a living!

Despite all the hype and fuss surrounding RSS recently, for the
majority of mainstream Internet users, RSS still remains a
mysterious orange button sitting on your web site. They are
totally unaware of this new method of syndicating information on
the web.

This is not necessarily bad news!

For many Internet users are enjoying the benefits of RSS while
remaining totally clueless as to its function or how it works.
Programs like ‘MyYahoo’ and the RSS empowered Firefox Browser
are letting surfers access RSS and enjoy its major benefits
without having any or no knowledge of it.

In the very near future when Microsoft introduces its new RSS
powered Longhorn Browser and operating system - this situation
will hopefully continue. Internet users should be able to enjoy
all the benefits of RSS without having to know what it is!

Users don’t have to know ‘DOS’ or even ‘HTML’ to enjoy the full
benefits of the Internet and their computers. RSS should fall
into this same category. It would quickly bring RSS into the
mainstream without having to overcome a long learning curve.

However, until RSS is blended seamlessly into web sites and
browsers, there remains one major problem with RSS. Most
browsers can’t access the RSS feed directly. When many surfers
click that little orange button on your site - they get a
jumbled code or worst, their browser freezes. Many will depart
your site scratching their heads or saying a few choice words in
the direction of your site. Not a pleasant situation for anyone.

At the heart of the problem, an RSS Feed must be accessed by
aggregators or an RSS feed (news) reader like Newsgator or an
RSS empowered browser like Firefox which has a ‘Live Bookmark’
feature that basically updates your bookmarks or feeds with RSS.
A direct link to an RSS feed just won’t work with most browsers.

Webmasters must fix this problem. You must fix this problem. You
must make your site RSS User-Friendly. You should realize by
now, every web site visitor counts. Besides, its just good net
etiquette.

Here are some simple solutions to help alleviate this problem
and make your site more RSS-Friendly:

1. Don’t just place the orange RSS button on your site. Always
include a link ‘What is This?’ beside it. Have this link leading
to a page explaining what RSS is and how your visitors can
access and use it. This has a two-fold benefit; visitors who are
familiar with RSS will know how to use the button, visitors who
are in the dark can get a quick education in RSS 101! Here’s an
example I have on my site.
http://www.bizwaremagic.com/What_Is_RSS.htm

You are welcome to use this page on your site if you’re pressed
for time. Just copy it and upload it to your site or link
directly to it. It will do in a pinch!

2. As mentioned before some browsers can Automatically discover
or Access your RSS feed. The Firefox Browser is a prime example.
To facilitate or aid in this AutoDiscovery process place a
simple code in the HEAD section of your webpage’s HTML code:

(link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS”
href=”http://www.bizwaremagic.com/blog/atom.xml” /)

Just don’t forget to replace the ( and ) characters with < and >
in your web page code. Also, place in your OWN feed!

3. Of course, many webmasters use many RSS buttons on their
site to guide their visitors in the right direction. For
example, placing a ‘MyYahoo’ button will make it easier for
visitors using that program to access your RSS feeds. Bloglines
and MyMSN buttons are other examples. Some webmasters even
design their OWN RSS button for their sites. Just remember to
place your ‘What is This?’ link beside it.

4. However, if your visitor is not using an aggregator or RSS
equipped browser - they will still get the jumbled code that
will be puzzling to them. One way around this problem is to use
a free service from Feedburner.com and have your RSS Feed
transformed or presented so that if can be read in your
visitor’s browser. Instead of linking your orange button
directly to your RSS feed, use the Free link from Feedburner in
its place. Your web site visitors will then be able to read your
feeds but they will also still be able to subscribe to your RSS
feed.

More information on what this looks like here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BurnThisRSS2

5. Perhaps, using the same system above, an easier and
friendlier solution to use is a Headline Animator from
Feedburner. This will display your RSS feed headlines on your
site in a very User-Friendly way. Anyone wanting to subscribe to
your feed can do so by clicking this Headline Animator. It will
also provide your visitors with information and headlines about
your feed’s content. Plus, it will give them a real sampling of
your feed. It will immediately make your website more
RSS-Friendly.

RSS is the wave of the future. It will play an ever increasing
role in how information is exchanged on the web. Make sure your
site is RSS User-Friendly so that you can take full advantage
this new technology. Make sure your site is a pleasant RSS
experience for all your visitors, it will not only put your site
in a more favorable light, but it will also make your site more
competitive in a very competitive world.

So for your visitor’s benefit and your own, make your site
RSS-Friendly right now. Don’t delay. Just do it. Your visitors
will thank you in more ways than one.