In an interview with the second boss, Woz has compared their position today with what Microsoft and Macintosh first had. Mac has first entered the world then Microsoft follows embracing the market and loosely getting away from Macintosh’ users count. Now, Apple faces its rival, Google’s Android, which just recently topped the charts slashing Apple in the number two spot. “My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.” Woz added that voice commands work better in Androids and that their built-in navigation system is one advantage too. Androids, on the other perspective, really aren’t simple to use, but not that complicated to, “if you’re willing to do the work to understand it a little bit, well I hate to say it, but there’s more available in some ways,” Woz said.

Apple fans may have the grudges over these Google’s Androids, but not Steve Wozniak. He and the head of the Android project, Andy Rubin, were old friends and were once working with Andy. Woz respected Andy, and so is the project.

Microsoft’s goal was to take hold of the market over Macintosh, and it did well because it licensed its software to different and many hardware makers grabbing the larger share of buyers from Apple’s huddle, while Mac only works on the hardware that’s been provided exclusively for its existence. Now, Apple faces the same problem as it’s been theorized that Android can also work in iOS (Apple’s Operating System). Because of Apple’s exclusive OS feature and Androids’ flexibility, there will be a big chance of history repeating itself.

The other addendum for the Apple’s sad story is that on Microsoft’s case, applications are updated and created longer, while for the Apple-Androids battle, apps do otherwise and actually, they might even have the edge.

Siri, a talking mobile virtual assistant and Apple 4’s latest feature, is also quite a leap backward against Androids’ ones.  “I have a lower success rate with Siri than I do with the voice built into the Android, and that bothers me,” Woz says. “I’ll be saying, over and over again in my car, ‘Call the Lark Creek Steak House,’ and I can’t get it done. Then I pick up my Android, say the same thing, and it’s done. Plus I get navigation. Android is way ahead on that.”

But Woz never failed to still endorse Apple in the free market being one of the saints of the Apple digital gadgets. “The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it’s so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don’t want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here’s a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do,” he closed.

Inclusive of the new set of apps, Facebook users can now enhance their Timeline experience where one can relate one’s story like in a real time and in a real-world. These apps can help you express more the things in your mind like cooking, eating, travelling, jogging or even watching movies. Also, using a wider range of verbs and nouns such as “baked” and “listened”, one can describe the activities or statuses aside from the “Like” button. To furnish these features, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, divulged that these new add-ons would further allow users to have frictionless experiences and real-time serendipity.

App awareness escalation- revenue torrent

Aside from being a giant in the social networking sites community, Facebook is also lauded by a Sydeney-based analyst Phil Hassey, to be very innovative in coming up with Open Graph as a mechanism for optimizing monetary probabilities from its consumer base. “ Clearly, Facebook is evolving very quickly and looking to exploit every commercial option it can find to grow revenue, and justify its rumored IPO price,” the analyst continued.

The use of Open Graph Protocol which was first introduced last 2010 as an extension of social graph, has been counted to be a positive move not only for the Facebook users but also to app developers especially nowadays’ trending technology where everything comes to be handy. The Timeline feature keeps the morale of app developers to create and discover new apps to make and to revise, thus giving both advantages to developers and consumers.

This is also beneficial for marketers, as for the increase of word-of-mouth, subscription and sales increase as well. But this could be appalling when time comes that every user in Facebook exist along with its thousands of friend that information could go overload. This leads us to the next issue, privact and information feed.

Privacy: concern of the majority

Facebook users’ population is divided on how Timeline affects their Facebook experience. Some say it’s a mess, some say it’s better and it’s what we call innovation, but some are more serious in dealing with this, “our privacy can be corrupted!” Actually, this issue can be cut short, if you believe that your privacy shall be stricken, so you do not make any action that’ll make it stricken. Some of the people are reacting that it could have been better if they had not used Timeline because the past shall be dug up and it shall ruin relationships. But the good thing for this Open Graph Protocol is that, it gives you the choice of privacy. You can always filter it, display what you want to display and hide what should be hidden. That easy.

Marketers’ wisdom

Well, it’s not easy to adapt to a new custom, and it does not happen in one night; this is the thought of the marketers, which should be marked as their business wisdom. It is hard to embrace the given app because of some holes that still need to be filled up with moderation, semblance and social common sense. Maybe, it seems to be improbable, but situation like one is updating his status and an app displays it that he or she is jogging, this may help the occurrence of burglars around the vicinity where he or she is jogging; and some cases would go worse. Also, users who are new in the usage of the app have a little knowledge or control that they may over express themselves and may implicate brands. And their remark: wait for the outcome, if it’s clean or if it is not.

Better SEO

Now, every website has its own ways of creating the most effective SEO, but, eventually, SEO is not just all about the content itself but also the path that every search engine uses to drive into your site, and if these path has so many errors, then the output: ZERO SEO. Well, for most of the minor sites, or those sites that have minimal budget for maintenance and functionality; common errors are, they refuse to check their homepages’ setup, especially on the “refresh” aspect, making your site invisible to the search engine’s sight, or if better, making your site on the least priorities. The NUMBER 1 spot belongs to the most convenient.

Help from the Social Media

The social media is not just a mere world created for people to connect, express and wonder but also to publicize things that interest the people living in the social media realm like Facebook, Tweeter, Multiply, etc. As to the term “interest”, you should mark your site as interesting. Social media has really owned an effective way of spreading gossips, news and the latest talks of the town; thus, making it also one of the most powerful spreader of links and sites. Through its “like” button, Facebook attracts, through its intrigues, Tweeter spreads and through its “follow” feature, Multiply multiplies. That’s easy indeed. Now, here’s the catch, if you post your site, then you like it and you share it, and everyone you know does the same, then the world learns your existence, then your rank soars higher; that’s how social media works. Just a piece of advice, go with the positive flow, DO NOT SPAM.

The Heart of Content

Your content is the key for selling your site, logically selling, as in gaining popularity. People will search for information, not for emotion and for appreciating the art of language and logic. What the previous sentence means is that people needs to learn from facts, thus, put the facts, not the emotion of the facts. Many people are now engaged to writing with reflections, but actually, the easiest way to enter the senses of every netizen is to feed them with information and facts that they need. Do not just right for the sake of length; write for the sake of benefitting others, because then, you things will just perfectly boomerang.

Building Friendship and Links

Of course, friendship does not only exist in the real world, as a matter of fact, the internet has grown into this size because of friendship; and that’s how you shall win the highest spot in SEO. Building links maybe a strenuous job at first because you shall find people who also wants the interest of the people, in simple words, people who owns websites. By befriending them you get to advertise and publicize your site through their site; such a leeching game though. But this step would definitely add up to your chances of getting the first spot in every search engine page’ searches.

Functionality and Convenience

How do you make your life worth living? By making it convenient, understandable and justifiable; such answers are also applicable on the question, how do you make your visitors’ visit worth the visit? Yes, it is an obligation to make your website easy, understandable for the average man, and usable. It’s just like searching in a library, that when you’re finding for a Philippine history book from a pile of world history books, you surrender because of its complicated and inconvenient arrangement. In making a website, you have the responsibility to be organized; otherwise, you lose a chance of getting spots in the first page of search engine results, because your visitors are your responsibility.

Seems like people’s taste have evolved from being classy and elegant to a vibrant and more playful preference making Samsung a better choice for users as it also uses almost the same operating system which they call the Android OS. Apple was predicted to lose its cool factor in 2012, and somehow they attribute this to the loss of the mastermind of Apple, Steve Jobs.

Androids are now getting well in the industry’s streamline, and successfully have won over the greatness Apple has. But this would not stop Apple to do and furnish their outputs. After their release of IPhone 4S, everybody became so curious about how is living with a personal assistant slotted inside a phone named Siri. Apple believes that business is not about what you get, because business is all about what you can give. Turnouts just follow. With these, people and even competitors, wait for the next bomb that Apple shall blast out with flying colors; because remember, Apple has set the pace which no other company has set it the way they did.

Apple’s iphone with its thousand features amazes its every user with the built in store called apple app store where you can buy and just choose to whichever application you would like to download- and this has become quite a battlefield for programmers. Iphone app development has grown into a louder noise for programmers and software developers around the world. Applications are sold to users through the app store, it’s just like selling software and when your software booms, then, you get a load of bucks.

In the Philippines, iphone app development is not much of an issue because, primarily, Filipinos are not into iphones, and secondly, iphones are costly for an ordinary citizen. But this is not the matter that will block the Filipino programmers to make iphone applications, because eventually, many Filipino programmers are now into iphone app development and it just marks the start of an Apple invasion to the archipelago.

Iphone has changed the worldwide mobile scenario, from the messaging process, to the photo-taking up to the entertainment feeding- it’s remarkable. It’s also the only phone to store a store inside its system where you can buy applications you wish to enjoy. Furthermore, iphone is more than a want, because it also roughly covers the side of being a need. Its development is one of the world’s greatest creation, a masterpiece of digital chunk of the combination of man’s powerful mind and nature’s ruling physics and chemistry.

Surely, many now have engaged to IT or Information Technology because there really is a bigger opportunity that awaits to burst for everyone, especially here in the Philippines where it is recently names as the number one outsourcing country in the world with the highest revenue all accounting to outsourcing processes. Web designing is part of Information Technology course, but how about for those who have not studied and undertook the course and wanted to make a website as pleasing, as effective and as visitor- friendly such as those sites made by products of Information technology? Well, the answer is web design tutorial foe beginners.

The outsourcing industry welcomes every person who have interests on it and who wants to share and learn the knowledge it demands. As for you to be one, you have to learn first the web design tutorial for beginners, then you can do the next step, engage and freely enter the world of programming and outsourcing.

Actually, small business web design is not that of a problem because there are so many service providers who are now into selling and rendering their services for the better of the cyber world. The only thing that you still have to find scrutinize is the team that will going to plan, create and design your web. You have to understand that there are many characteristics and qualifications that you have to consider before saying yes to a service-providing transaction. First, you have to find out if the services offered are permanent or temporary; second, you have to learn the processes that they employ on your site- it’s basic; third, you search for the best price and best quality- those providers with numerous and positive reviews.

Services such as web designs and web maintenance are two difficult things to do; they require more than an effort to turn out very well. This service usually comes in packages to ensure their clients to acquire not only web designing services but also its maintenance. Of course, because small business web design is also business, service providers make sure that they provide the best. They design not just for their benefit, but also for your future quality business equipment.

The digits have just dubbed the real situation in the branch of BPO which is the call center and the BPO itself; Philippines is the leading go-to outsourced country. Well, there are reasons why things turned out so well for the Pearl of the Orient- first, the Filipinos have a closer cultural affinity to the Americans making them easily adjust with the usage of language; second, the Filipinos own communication skills that are innate to them making effective communication outputs.

This overwhelming result of obtaining the top spot in call center industry’s workforce count worldwide exclaims our win against the prime rival of the Philippines, India. And this is not because of the fact that the country has lower labor and resources cost than India, but for the fact that Filipinos do have the talent of being excellent, proficient and versatile- these are highly commended worldwide.

Authorities are now urging the government to support and promote the growing industry of call center in the country. It is undoubtedly an opportunity seeder to the striving economy of the Philippines and which is expected to provide 1.3 million with an expected quota of $25 billion in revenue for the next five years.

So how does the solution go? The service provider or the business process outsourcing solution provider commonly offers financial accounting services, procurement recordings, supply chain management, customer operations management, knowledge process outsourcing, and even social media management. These are that components which make up the package of a BPO solution, which could also be the package, you’ve been waiting for. In the Philippines, where business process outsourcing is still raw, BPO solutions are not widely used yet because of the tolerable competence and population of customers inland and off shores. But time shall tell, may be a year or so, BPO solutions shall be of an advantage to every Filipino firm or organization owner who desires to even out every single process the organization performs and accomplishes.

Some other specific tasks that business process outsourcing solutions do are providing tax information and security, allocation of resources, asset management and pension recordkeeping- these are just a set of few of the many. BPO solutions are not the solutions you get from any arithmetic problem, it involves foreseeing, prediction, less usage of resources and living and accuracy.

In the Philippines, outsourced accounting services only comprise less than 10% of the total outsourcing industry. Accounting jobs requires accounting skills and disciplines making this online opportunity limited to the considerable population of applicants who have studied a bachelor’s course in accountancy or accounting technology. Though there are still many people who would love to acquire an accounting job, employers offshore and even inland seek competent personnel to help them balance and compute the resources, budgeting and accounts that a firm uses.

Online services are done in more complicated but cleaner way as everything is fixed when it comes to records, financial statements and others. These services could pack up functions such as financial reconciliation, payroll processing, financial reporting, payable management and accounts receiving. Outsourced accounting services are one job which one shall maximize and fully utilize one’s logic and sense of balance because of the things that you need to be concerned of. Of course, a delightful and strenuous job is waged by a delightful and glorious salary. Accounting is not a simple way, mark it, and the opportunity is not also a simple one, mark this.