http://www.farooque.com Wandering thoughts of an unsettled mind... Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:09:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter — which is based on Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) but inspired by the ancient Greeks — people default to four primary temperaments: The Spontaneous: (Artisan: Sensing-Perceiving) – often competes and is primarily motivated by the thrill of the winning experience, the adrenaline rush. The Competitive: (Rationalist: ... http://www.farooque.com/four-primary-temperaments/ When creating copy for your website personas, take into consideration personality. Generally speaking, people can be classified into four types: Spontaneous, Humanistic, Competitive, and Methodical. Each type of person has specific needs and goals when they go to your website. Each of the four types has a different way of ... http://www.farooque.com/website-personas/ The top 5 reasons they don't work Your Nephew Jimmy... Leaving your company website development in the hands of a relative or student to save a few hundred dollars is a strategy that usually backfires. Amateur productions... You wouldn’t show a client a homemade business card printed on flimsy paper? Why would you stake ... http://www.farooque.com/websites-dont-work/ http://www.farooque.com/arabic-latin-fusion/ LEARN CHINESE IN 5 MINUTES Say the words out loud.  1) That's not right....................Sum Ting Wong  2) Are you harboring a fugitive? ......Hu Yu Hai Ding  3) See me ASAP.........................Kum Hia Nao  4) Stupid Man..........................Dum Fuk  5) Small Horse.........................Tai Ni Po Ni  6) Did you go to the Beach?............Wai Yu So Tan  7) I bumped into a coffee ... http://www.farooque.com/chinese-in-5-minutes/ One day, imma gonna New York City to bigga hotel. Inna morning, I go to eat breakfast. I tella the waitress, I wanna two pissa toast. She bringa me only one piss. I tella her I wanna two piss. She say go to the toilet. I say no understand, I ... http://www.farooque.com/the-italian-way/ In February 1998, Jeffrey Brewer of Goto.com, a 25 employee startup company (later Overture, now part of Yahoo!), presented a PPC search engine proof-of-concept to the TED8 conference in California. This and the events that followed created the PPC advertising system. Credit for the concept of the PPC model is ... http://www.farooque.com/ppc-advertising-system/ The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of “hits” (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail. As the costs of ... http://www.farooque.com/long-tail-keywords/ Back in 1995, when co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met at Stanford University, they didn't like each other much. But by January 1996, they were collaborating on BackRub, a graduate project analyzing how back links could be used to improve search results. In September 1998, when Google Inc. opened for ... http://www.farooque.com/backrub-analyzing-back-links/ Some hobbies take on a life of their own; others change the world. In early 1994, Stanford Ph.D. students Jerry Yang and David Filo posted a list of their favorite sites on the Web. The exact date they posted the links is lost to history, but we do know the ... http://www.farooque.com/yet-another-hierarchical-officious-oracle/ A bus stopped and two Italian men got on. They sat down together and engaged in animated conversation. The lady sitting behind them ignored them at first, but her attention was galvanized when she heard one of the men become graphic. "Emma come first. Denna I come. ... http://www.farooque.com/italian-joke/ No. - The rank of the search term; sorted from the terms that Wordtracker thinks may be most competitive (based on the KEI number) down to the least competitive. Keyword - The search term. KEI Analysis - The Keyword Effectiveness Index is one way to consider keyword competitiveness. The KEI compares the ... http://www.farooque.com/wordtracker-summary/