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2010

Fifa Music World cup fever strikes sheldon singh

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I’m  a avid fan of  music in general  and was pretty pleased to find some of my favorite oldies like “OSIBISA” ( Sunshine Day – OSIBISA) and “Khaled” performing  at the FIFA Soccer world cup  opening ceremony  as well  as one of my favorites R KELLY. Singer and rapper R. Kelly, who enjoys legend status here in South Africa, was joined on stage by the Soweto Spiritual Singers.And just in case you were searching for the results of the first match between south Africa and MEXICO , it was a DRAW

FIFA OPENING CEREMONY 2010 Music

It was a power packed mix of vibrant and infectious music that was played in the opening ceremony FIFA WORLD SOCCER CUP as well as the pre-opening ceremony where “Black Eyed peas” did their thing. The stadium’s design was beautifully replicated in the centre of the pitch with a vast earth-coloured mat accommodating the hour-long display.

Fifa -World-Cup-Opening-Ceremony-2010

Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu danced in the stands, wrapped in a yellow and green scarf and beanie hat to support the Bafana Bafana national side in their later match against Mexico. Algerian pop star Khaled and Nigeria star Femi Kuti  entertained the crowds “ khaled played his hit single DIDI which set  the pace rolling for more good music , With R KELLY wowing the crowds with his song “Sign of Victory”

FIFA WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA

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Top-class South African artists Thandiswa Mazwai, Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP), TKZee and vocalist Timothy Moloi, performed among others.

“GO THA SOCCEROOS”

Important points of google algorithmic change

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The paragraph below will  pretty much in short  give you the answers to how you can start focusing on your website  , since it has lost a  bit of google juice  affecting your daily income from ad sense or affiliates.

The new google algorithm whack

This change seems to have primarily impacted very large sites with “item” pages that don’t have many individual links into them, might be several clicks from the home page, and may not have substantial unique and value-added content on them. For instance, ecommerce sites often have this structure. The individual product pages are unlikely to attract external links and the majority of the content may be imported from a manufacturer database. Of course, as with any change that results in a traffic hit for some sites, other sites experience the opposite. Based on Matt’s comment at Google I/O, the pages that are now ranking well for these long tail queries are from “higher quality” sites (or perhaps are “higher quality” pages).

Google whack algorithm

So what can you do for your site  to rank well with new google algorithm whack ?

From what matt cuts from google  has to say

What’s a site owner to do? It can be difficult to create compelling content and attract links to these types of pages. My best suggestion to those who have been hit by this is to isolate a set of queries for which the site now is getting less traffic and check out the search results to see what pages are ranking instead. What qualities do they have that make them seen as valuable? For instance, I have no way of knowing how amazon.com has faired during this update, but they’ve done a fairly good job of making individual item pages with duplicated content from manufacturer’s databases unique and compelling by the addition of content like of user reviews. They have set up a fairly robust internal linking (and anchor text) structure with things like recommended items and lists. And they attract external links with features such as the my favorites widget.

Google whack changes Video

 

 

Good luck !!

Get Multi user blogs on wordpress

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I wanted to create something like this for a long time and i was looking in all the wrong places. I searched for  “wordpress cms themes” on google I searched for “forum blogs” and “multi user blogs” etc but got nowhere. The suddenly while browsing one of my favorite  forums i chanced upon a thread  “wpmu Blogs” and ended up doing more research.

Buddypress & WPMU for multi user blogs

Turns out , its just what  i was looking for so long. With “WPMU” or “wordpress Multi blogs” you can install it have have thousand of wordpress blogs from that one install and give permission to their people to run blogs of their own under your domain or hosting.

in my quest for this new  multi user blog i also  came across the “buddy press plugin” , for which i did not know much about and got it added to  my wordpress install. Turns out it give nice added functionality  like unique user profiles can be set up, and  you can  have your own activity rss feed  and connect to other users of the blog. So buddy press is certainly a good plugin for a more interactive blog.

Buddy press sample Wpmu demo

If you install buddy press on a WPMU which is a multi user blog , you get many more added benefits liek a very large  blogging community that can speak  and interact with each other.

So follow me  as i experiment more with Buddypress and WPMU “wordpress Multi User blogs”. in the meantime check out some blogs that are online that use buddy press and WPMU

Blogs on Buddy press and WPMU

1. Harvey Norman Gadget blog

2. Tosh O

3. H mag

4. New York Times

5. Crikey.com.au

wpmu blogs crikey australian ebsite

Here is what wordpress MU does !!
Features
  • Everything WordPress does.
  • Scaling to tens of millions of pageviews per day.
  • Unlimited users and blogs.
  • Different permissions on different blogs.
  • Ambiguity about how to pronounce its name
    • A campus wide social network for your university, school or college.
    • An internal communication tool for your company.
    • A niche social network for your interest topic.
    • A focused social network for your new product.
    • What can I use BuddyPress for?

    BuddyPress is built to bring people together. It works well to enable people with similar interests to connect and communicate. Some of the fantastic uses might be:

Part 1( this one )  Part 2 == >> Part 3 to come

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Different strokes child actor dead

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Gary Coleman, the child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom Diff’rent Strokes whose later career was marred by medical and legal problems, has died at the age of 42 after suffering a brain haemorrhage. Gary Coleman who played Arnold Jackson in the popular family show Different Strokes between 1978 and 1986 leaves behind his wife Shannon Price, 24 who he married in 2008 after they met on a film set.

Gary coleman Dead

Different Strokes actor Gary Coleman died at the age of 42 after the child star playing actor had his life support machine turned off. Gary Coleman was rushed to hospital after falling and hitting his head at his home in Utah, US

More about the show : “Different strokes”
Diff’rent Strokes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Diff’rent Strokes is an American television sitcom that aired on the NBC television network from November 3, 1978 to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September …

History – Cast – Episodes – Ratings

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff’rent_Strokes

Different strokes Video

Actor Todd Bridges who played his older brother Willis, said: “It’s sad that I’m the last kid alive from the show.”

John Alcantar, Gary Coleman Manager said: “Garry passed quickly and peacefully soon after the machine was turned off.”

“Gary is now at peace, and his memory will be kept in the hearts of those who were entertained by him throughout the years.”