HONG KONG, January 26, 2010 - Optec Technology Limited, a leader in fiber optic interconnect and assembly products, today announced it will be participating at CeBIT 2010 in Hannover during March 2 to March 6.

Booth location: Hall 12, Booth C35/1
Venue: Exhibition Grounds Hannover, Germany
Exhibition period: 2nd - 6th March 2010
URL: http://www.cebit.de

During the show, Optec will showcase their Val-max Series Structured Cabling Solutions with the following product highlights:
- Bend insensitive fiber optic cable solutions in both singlemode and multimode
- OM4 fiber optic cable assemblies
- Armored patch cords cable assemblies
- Multi-fiber cable assemblies (MTP / MPO cable assemblies)

Opening Times

2nd March 2010 to 6th March 2010 09:00 - 8:00

About Optec

Optec Technology Limited is your best source for quality cable fiber optic solutions. Optec is a manufacturer and supplier of fiber optic products such as fiber fc cable and MTP cable which serves extensive optical network applications throughout public and private sectors.

It is reported that number of Internet users in China reached 0.384 billion in 2009. Details can be found at:

China Internet Population

According to various news source, Google said that they are considering to pull out from China. So, Google.cn will cease to operate if they finally decide to leave China. If you are getting clicks from Google China, are you panic? If you are worry about this, hang on! It is only a gesture! Google is planning to negotiate with Chinese officials shortly about their operation. I believe they are putting a gesture and try to bargain something.

If you are Google’s CEO, are you going to make a decision to withdrawl from a growing market with more than 1 billion people. This market has a GFP growth rate of higher than 9% in Year 2009 and estimate to get 10% growth rate in 2010.

So, no need to worry!

IF you are interesting about the story, here is the details:

English version:
http://www.funnewsblog.com/blog/google-withdrawl-from-china.html

Chinese version:
http://www.funnewsblog.com/google-retreats-china.html
http://www.funnewsblog.com/baidu-google-china.html

一句簡單不過的「what’s happening 」、「what’s on your mind 」掀起一場社交網站世紀大戰。全球用戶逾4億的facebook、YouTube，以及火速冒起的Twitter形成三國鼎立時代；瀏覽用戶按年以倍數增加，社交網功能亦已轉變成個人及企業免費宣傳平台，如何利用此平台，出奇制勝吸網民注意，引發商業效果，將成為未來社交平台發展的大趨勢。

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今時今日，互聯網的威力有多大已不用多費唇舌解釋，類似Twitter、Facebook及YouTube等社交網站或短片發放平台，只要出現一句說話、一張相片或一段手機拍攝的低像素短片，已足以產生軒然大波。

就是有如此威力，才令社交網站被廣泛應用在商業活動之上，但讀者有否想過，這些社交網站一旦出現有關某公司的負面意見時，所產生的影響到底有多大呢？美國一個調查機構Convergys Corp近日進行調查，發現假如在Twitter上只要出現一個Tweet（Twitter上的信息）是關於某一商戶的負面消息，有三分之二受訪者表示會避免甚至立即停止光顧該商戶，或終止一切業務往來。

相信不少讀者在光顧食肆之前，亦會在本地多個飲食網站先查閱一下該食肆的評語，道理亦是一樣。

顧客網上洩憤 掀連鎖反應

Convergys Corp高級副主席Frank Sherlock指出，網絡及影片為消費者提供新類型消費資訊，這是消費者之福；但站在提供服務的商店或者零售商，這就是可怕的新型武器，因為消費者遇到不快後，毋須直接向店舖投訴，只要上網宣洩，然後轉為光顧另一商店。

英國另一客戶服務機構進行類似調查，發現2,000名英國消費者中，有三分之一人表示會將一些當顧客的壞經驗，毫不猶豫地放上互聯網，這結果確實令不少商店頭痛。

商品開Twitter帳號 增互動

雖然上述社交網對商店而言好像是敵人，但在人人都擁抱互聯網的年代，要與之為敵，不如想法子善用它。美國不少知名商店如JC Penney、Best Buy、Home Depot及玩具反斗城，首次在今年的消費季度在Twitter及Facebook等社交網上開設帳戶，與顧客直接對話，務求能即時知道顧客的反應，對服務是否有好感及改善空間等，希望以顧客最熟悉的方法及最低成本，做到更貼近顧客的要求。

據筆者經驗，本地亦有不少商店或食肆，自行開設Twitter帳戶，務求將新產品第一時間介紹給顧客，這種手法論成本論速度，怎樣計都比以往的賣廣告或派傳單來得高明及直接。

From today, the headlines of the BBC News website will become longer to make its stories easier to find on search engines.

“We estimate that about 29% of BBC News website UK traffic comes from search engines.”, says Steve Herrmann, editor of BBC News website.

The BBC will therefore allow its journalists to create two headlines for a story. While the shorter one between 31 and 33 characters appears on the front page and the website indexes as well as on mobile phones, the longer one – up to 55 characters will appear on the story itself – and in search engine results.

Search engine optimisation has become a standard practice for most online organisations over the past couple of years. As users began to find stories more and more via search engines or Google News, via personal recommendations on social media or in email, via links on Twitter or their RSS readers, news publishers wanted to be sure of reaching them.

“The practice of ’search engine optimisation’ – making content in such a way that it is easily retrieved via search engines – is an important area for us and for others across the web,” explained Steve Herrmann to the BBC news users in a blogpost.

So does the justification damage the use of language? Or does it only stop journalists from inventing too complex phrases that were not understandable anyway? Since search-optimised headlines will tend to include all the key words a user might type in when he or she is searching for a topic, the headlines may even be more useful.

In fact, in the news sector, the changes are minimal – as the BBC shows in an example: “Possible counter-bid for Cadbury” becomes “Ferrero and Hershey in possible counter-bid for Cadbury”. Might be a bit harder to scan on a front page, but the longer headline is definitely more informative.

Recently, Credit Suisse issued an investment report and gave a Hong Kong stock, Alibaba.com a ”overweight” rating and raise the target price to $23.7. The reason is because pageviews of alibaba had been increased, according to Alexa.com

For search engine optimizers, all know that alexa measures data based on their users. So, the traffic ranking could have bias. The following is extracted from alexa.com:

”A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site.”

Alibaba.com serves b2b market. In fact, I wonder how many business users install and use alexa toolbar in their office computer. How come a very big investment bank can use Alexa traffic ranking as a basis to make investment recommendation? How can we trust those investment report?

Such a big investment bank can misunderstand and misuse of Alexa data, and it explains why some SEO companies can make use of Alexa traffic ranking and show their clients how good they are and ask clients to trust them.

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