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Latest figures coming out of a recent survey show that China has overtaken the mighty USA as the country that sends more visitors on websites.

There were an estimated 221 million Chinese who logged into the web at the end of February compared to only 137 million at the start of 2007. The figure might have increased recently with the Olympic fever hotting up.

But unfortunately, still only 16 percentage of Chinese have internet access compared to the world average of 19 percent. Experts say that the figure will soon shoot up to over 400 million once people who are mostly cultivators or laborers start getting their incomes shoot up due to the economic boom the country has been witnessing for the last two decades or so. The figure is more than that of the total population of the United States of America.

Chinese mostly use the net as means of communication and also great source of entertainment. Video-sharing sites are very popular with the Chinese browsers. So the Chinese advertising market is soon going to see a boom the web has never seen before. Search engines like Baidu will surely make a killing out of it.

When looking for the perfect web host you first gave to figure out exactly what you need. Web hosting businesses often choose to promote and specialize on certain features like frontpage hosting where the customer are offered help and support in order to create a website. If you don’t have knowledge in how to create and publish a website this might be a web host to look for. Now if you’re more educated in the different programming languages, data bases and server operative systems you will be able to find web host that focuses on more advanced website features for example, windows 2003 hosting.

It has been nearly two years since I started my online journey as a directory submitter. But over times, I have become a webmaster myself with 15 websites running. It was exciting to own a website in the beginning especally as I have been totally ignorant of how they ran. To confess frankly, I have been a total NOOB in this field and always browsed other sites and wondered how they were run and managed.

Actually it came easy to me as I bought a ready made website and  the previous owner only transferred the domain ( free push at Namecheap) and game me FTP account access. He also took the responsibility to host my site for further 10 months.

Real problems creped in when  my site went down after four months. In the meantime I made some friends in the webmaster circle. They were unanimous in blaming my current host. Then only I realized how important hosting is to run a site. Many of my friends recommended me their own best website hosts. Of course by this time I became aware of how people earned a lot of money not only through Google AdSense or other income streams. I worked very hard to learn it to the best of my ability. And I came to know that many earned a lot of commissions through affiliate programs and hosting referral was one of them. renowned web hosting companies offer lots of commissions. So it was quite hard for me to judge which hosting was the best service provider. As I still am a NOOB about coding and all other technicalities to run a site- I had to look out for a hosting site that would provided me the best support. I begun to research more and within few hours came upon sites offering reviews on hosting. After a lot of calculations and permutations I found that bluehost web hosting provided me with the best services (i.e. support) that I was looking for. VOILA.

Since then I have been having a worry less webmastering life as I see their hosting is never down and believe me - I never had to ask for any support so far.

Online video sharing has become almost a craze among netizens. People from around the world share their favorite videos with surfers on the net. YouTube has long been the undisputed king of video sharing. The site lets its members to post video files and share with fellow members. Slowly lots of other social sites like YouTube have been established such as Putfile, Break and iFilm.

Most of these sites have different structure and file formats. So it is very difficult to download those file and store them on your favorite PC. The other day, I was surfing the net and came across a site ( Ripzor.com ) that has developed special softwares for downloading files from these video sharing sites. These softwares can convert FLV to AVI file format very easily by ripping the FLV files. So enjoy it.

Yahoo board has officially spurned Microsoft’s offer of $44.6 billion in cash and shares to take up the giant internet portal. In a letter to the software giant’s bid, Yahoo board has rejected the unsolicited bid for ender-valuation. According to Yahoo, Microsoft’s bid “substantially undervalues Yahoo including our global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earning potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments.”

But Microsoft, looking to stop Google from dominating online advertisement market which is said to be worth $45 billions, has already hinted that it is not going to back off. Microsoft has described Yahoo’s response as “unfortunate” and said its own proposal was “full and fair”.

Yahoo is also looking for other options including rival bid to keep off Microsoft from taking over its boards. It has already explored tie-ups with Google for its advertising arm but nothing has come out of it as yet. Analysts believe that nobody is going to rival Microsoft’s bid as it can always outbid those. Also, Microsoft has not immediately raised its offer that stands at $29 per share now, down from initial bid of $31 due to loss of Microsoft’s stocks. In the absence of such offers, Yahoo might just have to try and gain some more values. On the other hand if Yahoo’s current board gets hostile, Microsoft might bypass it and can take the offer directly to shareholders to oust current directors who have until March 13 to nominate a new slate of directors.