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Another day, another honking big funding for another online start-up (and yet another broken embargo too!).

It’s like Groundhog Day in Silicon Valley as usual.

Today, Cambridge, Mass.-based HubSpot wins tech’s version of the lottery, grabbing $32 million from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and also Salesforce.com.

It is unclear what the valuation for HubSpot is now, although it is likely high given it has raised $65 million now.

HubSpot makes marketing software for businesses, who use it to find prospects and generate leads, along with tools to analyze the process. It claims it has “4,000 customers, over 50 percent market share, five million leads managed, and 70 million page views tracked monthly.”

The Series D financing included HubSpot’s existing venture investors–General Catalyst Partners, Matrix Partners, and Scale Venture Partners–and part of it will be used to cash out existing shareholders. In previous rounds, the start-up has raised $33 million.

Here is the official press release:

Sequoia, Google Ventures, and Salesforce.com Invest $32 Million in HubSpot

Marketing Software Company Attracts New Strategic Investors

CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire – March 8, 2011)–Today, for the first time ever, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and Salesforce.com all invested together in one company, providing HubSpot with a Series D round of financing through a $32 million investment. HubSpot provides all-in-one marketing software used by over 4,000 businesses to get found by more prospects, convert them into leads and sales, and analyze the entire marketing process.

“The fundamental way that people shop, learn, and buy has changed radically in the last few years. HubSpot helps transform the way businesses market from outbound marketing (cold calls, email blasts, and direct mail) to inbound marketing (Google, blogs, social media, mobile, etc.),” said Brian Halligan, co-founder and CEO of HubSpot.

Sequoia Capital has a long history of partnering with founders to help them build long-term, multi-billion dollar companies, including Google, LinkedIn, AdMob, YouTube, Yahoo!, Apple, and Oracle. “We back companies that are transforming their industries,” said Jim Goetz, General Partner at Sequoia Capital. “HubSpot is the emerging category leader in the SaaS marketing sector. Their customer base exceeds that of all the other relevant marketing software companies combined, including Eloqua, Marketo, Genius, and Manticore.”

“Today, every company needs to succeed in search, social, sales, and marketing–I can’t think of a more powerful trifecta than Google, Salesforce.com, and HubSpot. With 4,000 customers, HubSpot is already a clear marketing leader–now, with this new infusion of capital and recognition by Google’s venture arm and Salesforce.com, HubSpot has a great opportunity to separate itself from the pack and become the leading marketing platform in the small and medium business space,” said Brent Leary, co-founder of CRM Essentials.

Google Ventures Partner, Rich Miner (formerly co-founder of Android) said, “We agree with HubSpot’s belief that search engines, social media, and mobile devices have fundamentally changed how businesses should market themselves. We’re thrilled to support their efforts to help thousands of small and medium businesses reach potential customers.”

Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot commented, “We founded the company based on a simple premise: Businesses want an easy-to-use, complete and integrated marketing platform that helps them get more leads and customers. We plan to use this new capital to further invest in this ambitious vision and further our existing lead in the marketing software category.”

Ryan Gavin and Dean Hachamovitch, Marketing Guy and Engineer, respectively, for Internet Explorer, have announced that the final build and release of Internet Explorer 9 will indeed be at the party they’re throwing at South by Southwest in Texas on March 14th, 2011. They’ve decided to first announce this to their very favorite community at Channel9, a bunch of developers who are in love with the internet platform, and they’ve spoken here in a video at length what the browser will be able to do.

This browser has been in production for approximately a year, and now they’re going to release it, thanking profusely the community of developers who have stepped up to help them in making this a platform that has a chance at competing with the rest of the powerhouse browsers out in the market today. As you know, Internet Explorer

Hachamovitch will be doing a keynote at MIX 10 as well, showing off how the platform is rolling out, as a sort of “look what we did in a year” sort of thing. These two fellas sitting on the couch are super excited about this rollout and after saying what they came to say, they made sure to prompt Channel9 for what they call an “uncomfortable question.” What Channel9 decided to ask about was HTML5, to which they reply “WE’RE FOR IT!”

Of course the developer community knows this already, so the question is pressed, beyond what HTML5 can do for the everyday user, what does IE9 offer the fringe users who want features that not everyone will use? Hachamovitch replies with a sort of well, we DO do that, we’ve implemented things like Navigation Timing which “got 0% usage on the web,” he then going on to say that they’ve added items that don’t just come from developers who request things, they’ve essentially come up with elements that they and people at Yahoo, Google, and etc have spoken about behind the scenes, bringing these “fringe” features into IE9 at launch.

Essentially what they’re speaking about in this video and what will be coming with Internet Explorer 9 is depth as well as quality implementation of features. We’re hoping for the best!

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Titles from major book publisher Random House will now appear in Apple’s iBooks store. The news was one of many talking points covered earlier today at Apple’s media event. Random House had previously been the only major publisher not represented in Apple’s popular iOS book store, as it was not willing to grant Apple the 30% cut taken on titles sold through iBooks. The addition of Random House is a major coup for Apple as it looks to compete with the likes of Amazon’s Kindle bookstore and other popular offerings. Hit the break for Apple’s full press release.

Random House, Inc. Makes Entire US Catalog of 17,000 ebooks Available on Apple’s iBookstore

iBookstore Now Features More than 2,500 Publishers, Including All Six Major Trade Publishers

SAN FRANCISCO—March 2, 2011—Apple® today announced that Random House, Inc., the largest trade book publisher in the US, has made its full catalog of 17,000 ebooks available on Apple’s iBookstore℠, including bestsellers by Stieg Larsson, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Laura Hillenbrand, Cormac McCarthy, Lee Child and many more of the world’s preeminent authors. Starting today, customers can pre-order upcoming releases from Random House including Lisa Gardner’s “Love You More,” Suze Orman’s “The Money Class” and Jean Auel’s “The Land of Painted Caves.” With the addition of Random House, the iBookstore now offers ebooks from all six major trade publishers and thousands of independent publishers.

“We are delighted that Apple’s iBookstore now will be carrying Random House’s US ebooks for the first time,” said Markus Dohle, Random House’s Chairman and CEO. “And we look forward to bringing our 17,000 ebooks to Apple customers.”

“We’re thrilled to offer Random House on the iBookstore,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “iBookstore customers have already downloaded more than 100 million books in less than one year, and we think they’ll love being able to choose from Random House’s incredible selection of titles to enjoy on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.”

iBookstore customers can choose from a wide selection of illustrated and video-enhanced books that look incredible on iPad™, including Jay-Z’s memoir “Decoded” and Bing West’s “The Wrong War”; bestselling children’s series such as Magic Tree House and Junie B. Jones; and cookbooks by Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, and the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten. Random House, Inc. comprises more than 80 adult and children’s US publishing imprints including Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Crown, Pantheon Books, Vintage, Ballantine and Bantam.

The iBookstore, included in Apple’s free iBooks® app, is the best way to browse, buy and read books on your iPad, iPhone® and iPod touch®. iBookstore offers ebooks from more than 2,500 publishers in more than 20 categories, including Mysteries & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbooks, Children’s & Teen, Humor, Romance, Business and Travel.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

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For Apple, the mobile market is a cash cow. The company’s iPhone and iPad are proving to be the top mobile companions for people around the globe. Apple has sold over 100 million iPhones. Its iPad sales have hit 15 million. The company understands the mobile market and it knows how to capitalize on it.

But what about the living room? It has the Apple TV, sure, and the Mac mini is often times connected to an HDTV, but what else has Apple done to push the envelope in the living room? It still hasn’t launched the long-rumored television we keep hearing about, and it seems that offering a game console — a hope for many Apple fans over the past few years — won’t happen.

I fully realize that Apple can’t be everything to every customer. It delivers computers, smartphones, tablets, personal media players, two operating systems, wireless routers, and much more. But I also realize that Apple is an entertainment company. It’s about trying to give people more opportunity to enjoy their lives through technology. And it would only make sense if it doubled down on the living room.

Let’s turn our attention to the Apple TV for a minute.

Prior to its announcement in September, rumors were running rampant over what the former “hobby” would offer. Folks thought it would deliver gaming, interface with DVRs, include Apple’s App Store, and much more. They thought it would be a sizable update over its predecessor.

Instead, Apple offered a stripped-down alternative.

The second-generation Apple TV comes with the ability for users to stream Netflix content. It has Flickr and Internet radio. And it allows users to stream their music over their home network to their televisions. It offers movies and television shows, as well, but most would agree that it’s slim pickings for now.

At that event in September, Steve Jobs said that Apple’s research showed customers didn’t want everything a company could pile into a device. They simply want the ability to consume the content they enjoy without the fuss that might come along with something like Google TV-based devices.

But by delivering the bare minimum, Apple did itself no favors. The company took the easy way out and pretended like it no longer views the living room as a hobby. The only issue is, the Apple TV is still a hobby. It’s a device that lacks all the functionality we’ve come to expect from Apple — a company that typically prides itself on offering the best value for the cash. And at least so far, it leaves me wanting more.

So, what am I looking for? I want to see Apple improve the Apple TV by bringing its App Store to the platform. I’d also like to see some kind of gaming component come to the device, either through the App Store or as part of a more-capable platform.

And perhaps most importantly, I’d like to see Apple think beyond its set-top box and deliver products that try something new. I’m not sold on the possibility of Apple offering a groundbreaking television, but if it can surprise me, I’m all for it.

Simply put, I’m looking for Apple to be Apple. Right now, it’s just like every other company in the living room; it’s content to have a presence but not dominate.

That needs to end.

No single company can stake claim to the living room right now. Steve Jobs just needs to take advantage of that void and do something special.

But first, he needs to take the living room — and its revenue potential — seriously.

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It looks like women have caught up with men in numbers in the workplace. For the first time in history, women in the USA now outnumber men in the workforce, and there are now more women in supervisory positions than there are males. The question is whether they will handle the downside of working any better than men.

According to an article by Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D., titled The 21st Century Workplace -- Are Women the New Men?, the economic downturn has hit men harder. They held nearly 80 percent of jobs that have been lost during what is now being called the "mancession." Will women now inherit the stress, pressure, exhaustion, burn out and heart attacks commonly associated with male leaders in business?

Some predict that this new female-dominated workplace will mean a softening of the corporate culture, with more benevolent leaders. Others foresee just the opposite. Ella says many women don't want to be seen as "soft" -- and others simply aren't. No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. According to her memoir, Tough Choices, she was sometimes referred to as Chainsaw Carly.

All of this is especially relevant on the entrepreneurial side, since statistics show that women are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of their male counterparts. Some would argue that the growing success rate of women entrepreneurs shows that they are resourceful, and better able to succeed, despite the odds.

While I'm sure we will continue to see progress on the female side, I predict that they will struggle with the same major challenges faced today by men. These include:

1. Funding your dream. Raising money is hard, whether you are counting on friends, investors, or banks. I rarely see women at angel investment groups, either asking for money, or offering to fund new ventures. Men seem more focused on this one.




2. Need for increased confidence and mindset skills. Many women and men are paralyzed by perfection, plagued by pessimism, and the need to satisfy others, rather than themselves. We need more women leaders.




3. Motivation to succeed. Every entrepreneur needs to love what they do, and believe so strongly in their product or service that they can weather the tough times. On this one, it's easy to spot the ones with passion, from either gender.




4. Manage time and priorities. Women, often more than men, try to do too much. It's hard to balance the continual demands of the business, personal relationships, and home life. Every entrepreneur needs to prioritize the important tasks ahead of urgent tasks.




5. Never stop learning. After you start your business, the learning really begins. True entrepreneurs look at failures as their best learning experiences. Networking, and using your network is the next most important element of learning.

I don't see any challenges which are so gender specific that they can't be overcome by any entrepreneur. Yet I don't think women should be convinced that the battle for equality is almost over. There is still the question of why there are so few women in high places, and why the average income for women in business is about 68% of men's income.

What I am hoping is that women will not just be the new men, and suffer from the same maladies and limitations. I'll be looking for women to create the "new business culture" that every worker wants -- better role definitions, more effective and productive leadership, and better work-life balance. That would make women entrepreneurs the new women, rather than the new men!

The major legislative item on the agenda in the Senate this week will be The Small Business Reauthorization Act (S. 493).  Republicans plan to use this bill as a platform to promote critical pieces of legislation through the process of non-germane amendments to the bill.  Here are some vital amendments that will be debated and voted on throughout the week:

• Senator Mitch McConnell is offering an amendment (S. AMDT 183) to prohibit the EPA from promulgating any regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.  There is perhaps no force that is more destructive to our prosperity, consumer freedom of choice, and job creation than onerous cap and trade schemes.  There are many red state Democrats who are up for reelection in 2012 and will be hard pressed to go on record as supporting policies that are an imprecation to the interests of their states.  Make sure to call Senators Claire McCaskill, Joe Manchin, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, and Jon Tester in particular.

• Senator David Vitter is offering an amendment (S.AMDT. 178) forcing the federal government to sell off unused and underused property.  This is a serious issue.  The federal government owns over half of the land in some western states and has been using it to stifle energy development.  Selling unused federal lands would also serve as a prudent means of generating revenue without raising taxes.

• Senator Rand Paul is using the SBA bill as a platform to offer his signature budget bill (S.AMDT 199) which would slash $200 billion in spending for fiscal 2011.  Paul’s plan slashes funding by 50% to the Departments of Energy, Education, and HUD.  This amendment represents real limited government and budget austerity and will separate the men among the boys in the ranks of the Republican Conference.

• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is forcing a vote (S. AMDT 197) to delay the implementation of ObamaCare until a final resolution is reached in pending lawsuits.  Unlike other bills that are designed to merely ameliorate ObamaCare, this amendment would completely halt it during the ensuing legal battles.

• Senator Tom Coburn has filed an amendment (S.AMDT.184) to force federal agencies to compile comprehensive lists of all of their programs

Make sure that all of your Republican senators are on record supporting these amendments, especially Rand Paul’s budget proposal.  Also, let’s see which faux moderate Democrats will commit to supporting anyone of these commonsense initiatives.  Needless to say, I didn’t waste time calling my senators; Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin!

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Google Declares War On Content Farms, What's Demand Media To Do?

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Today we have a guest post from Chas Edwards, Chief Revenue Officer at Pixazza, who's been thinking quite a lot about various content-related business models lately, and wrote the following in response to the recent news of Google's algorithm change

Recently, Google announced changes to the PageRank algorithm that will affect nearly 12% of search results. According to their post at Google�s blog, Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal say the changes are �designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites � sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.�

Presumably this will have an enormous effect on content farms such as Demand Media and Yahoo�s Associated Content. So what�s a content farmer to do?

A few days ago I wrote a post expressing my hope that content farms might grow up into something useful and generally less sucky. Maybe I�ve been reading too many happy-ending fairytales to my daughters. But when I pull back from the actual content from Demand or Associated that makes its way to my search results (which is usually quite bad), I see a platform � and platforms, theoretically, are things on which you can build something lame or something good. If the content farmers help individuals with knowledge find questions (search queries) that need answers (topics too niche for large or mid-sized publishers to cover), it seems plausible that some individuals might create useful content.

My argument, though, misses at least two important points, which Glenn Fleishman and Jeff Jarvis helped me think through.

From BuzzMachine:

�Why do people write on Huffington Post? Because they can. Because they give a shit. Because they like the attention and conversation. Because they couldn�t before. Why do they sing their songs on YouTube? Same reasons.�

Jarvis�s argument is: When we�re doing work, we expect to get paid. When we�re doing something for the love of it, we�re motivated by passion and the opportunity to be heard. When we�re doing it for love, in other words, we often create value for free. Quality content is traded for distribution to an audience and for a chance be an authority.

In a Twitter exchange with Glenn Fleishman, he said �The more you spend, the better content you get, up to a point.� His site, Wi-Fi Net News, was one of the first 10 sites that teamed up with Federated Media back in 2005. So my question back to him was: �But what about WFNN in the early days when the money wasn�t great but the content was?�

Aha. It�s about ownership. Glenn is specifically referring to IP ownership (his words, his URL, his business), but there�s a different kind of ownership too � one that Jarvis is getting at. I�m willing to contribute (to the best of my abilities) good content, free of charge, to Twitter, Quora or the Huffington Post even though I don�t own the IP or the business. I�m willing to do that because I do get to own the authority. Those platforms publish my by-line, picture and bio, so if someone out there thinks I�m smart or funny, I own that goodness. I�m not making money, but I get credit. I work hard to create value because, if I�m successful, that content distributed on those platforms polishes my brand and my reputation.

Even if Demand Media keeps most of the money they�re making from their websites, they might dodge the Google bullet if they can improve content quality by giving their contributors a sense of ownership over what they create. And then they marry the handsome prince!

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In a week when Egypt went into a clinch over the new government’s intensions regarding human rights, freedom and higher pay, Libya erupted into what is, to all intents and purposes, a civil war and in Tunisia the body count continued to increase web trends everywhere laser focused on the same thing: Charlie Sheen.

The Oscars themselves became a footnote to the network TV star’s blitz on the media scene. Suddenly it has become impossible to not trip over his name. On daytime TV and endless chat shows reporters and celebrities pour over his every word, offer opinions, views and advice. Popular Radio shows like Howard Stern’s have held phone-in interviews, CNN’s Piers Morgan gave Sheen a full hour and ABC’s Andrea Canning interviewed him at his home and fuelled speculation over his lifestyle and domestic arrangements.

Sheen who had managed, through a public rant on Alex Jone’s Radio Show, to go from TV’s highest paid actor to unemployed has suddenly become the hottest property in the social media stakes. He topped Google trends on March 1st with millions of people across the United States and Europe looking for information on him and just two days later he clocked the fastest time ever to reach a million followers on Twitter. The Guinness Book of Records handed him the award after Sheen’s Twitter verified account (billed by him as ‘unemployed winner’) became the focus of the blogosphere and the real-time web topping the 1 million mark in 25 hours and 17 minutes. At the time of writing it has topped the 1.3 million mark.

With all these crazy numbers being thrown around the sane voice inside us just has to ask, why? Why are we suddenly so fascinated by a man who is not the greatest talent of his generation, whose inner demons, whatever they may be, are not unique, whose lifestyle, however questionable, is not exceptional in his line of work and whose willingness to participate in the media circus which usually surrounds celebrities is not that far removed from Madonna’s or Lady Gaga’s.

We are living in the era of ‘firsts’. It is the first global credit crunch we have ever experienced. Facebook and Twitter are real-time web ‘firsts’. For the first time we can find out news before the accredited news channels give them to us. For the first time institutions we help inviolable seem to have been built on clay. Charlie Sheen is the first celebrity to allow us unpackaged, raw access to his own personal view of the world. Add to it the fact that he gives us a voyeur’s view into the state of mind and lifestyle of a celebrity who’s unconventional even by celebrity standards and you suddenly have a novelty that’s as addictive as the drugs Charlie Sheen admits he used to take.

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When you begin your personal website there are lots of ways you'll have to sell it off and something of the best ways is to use Search engine optimization Vancouver if you maintain that area. The SEO or search engine optimization services will be the top way of getting good traffic to your website and therefore making more sales.

 

Now, you should know that you won't use SEO service if you are no internet business - but then again, if you don't come with an online presence if you are an offline business, then you'll not allow it to be very far.

 

It's a well known proven fact that if you are going to really make it in the offline world you must have an online presence. This really is something that all people are learning hard way. Something that you should also know is the fact that it's not as simple as just establishing the web site and leaving it to do its things.

 

This can be done in most sorts of ways, but these companies usually take advantage of multiple techniques to create the perfect marketing technique online. You will be able to hire these phones write articles for you, post on forums and blogs, create meta tags and meta descriptions, clean up the code, add alt tags towards the images and much more.

 

It is crucial that you simply do this because otherwise the organization that you have worked so hard for could wind up losing the money. If you have a website that you want to produce, then you'll also use the services of an SEO company, which means search engine optimization company. What this company does is actually take the best parts of your site, check the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure your website is placed close to the the surface of the list for that major search engines like google.

As a result the SEO company cannot only increase your traffic, but also ensure that your site is fully optimized for the internet search engine spiders that will be brought to it. These spiders are used to analyze your website and put it in certain positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you wish to use the SEO services Vancouver then all you have to do is find the top companies. It is through these that the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. Because of so many SEO companies to choose from you need to be certain the one you are going for is reliable. You ought to be able to request a failure of what you want, and the company should also be able to let you know know long they've been operating for. This will limit their email list to reveal the very best ones.

 

SEO Services Offered by Different Vancouver Web Companies

The Vancouver SEO company services are extremely beneficial for business growth because they provide quality services. If you are planning to produce a website for your internet business, then you have arrived at right article when i will be explaining below how Search engine optimization Vancouver company services can improve your website ranking and make it popular.

Before that, you should know what Seo is. It's not that complicated and I'm sure you're going to get a grasp of it reading my article. The main goal of SEO is to get increased traffic aimed at your website and audience. It's a good decision to select a Vancouver SEO company that are experts in this sort of work, which means that your website could be listed in search engines.

There isn't any point in you having a website with no website ranking at all as you won't have any business and profits to survive. It's a very tough atmosphere available as there are a lot of online business people exactly like you, who want their share of pie. You must be familiar with the truth that nearly 85% of internet traffic could be got from websites.

When a user types in a keyword or keywords for which he/she really wants to know in different sites, these use crawlers to get web-sites using the relevant content and index them based on algorithms. It's not necessary to worry about the algorithms which these websites use as that is not important.

To look in the first page of the search result, you will need to hire professionals and experts who can perform the needful to maintain your website among the good books in these websites. These professionals can optimize your website content to ensure that your website gets more traffic.

Once the traffic gets high, it is a sign that you are obtaining a service that will get you more revenues. SEO Vancouver company do the following to create your site appear inside the first page of search results.

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What to anticipate When Getting a Roofing Contractor

When the time comes to correct or replace your homes roof, it's really a daunting job to find somebody that is actually competent to do the job. There are many roofers out there, but the ones who will perform a congrats for a reasonable cost are not frequently easy to find. If you are in the market for the contractor, use the ideas below with regard to interviewing and employing the correct one.

Job interview as well as Discussion

Most roofing companies offer free consultations. This is especially essential, because it gives them an opportunity to assess what your homes roof needs, and it gives you a chance to assess all of them. As with all of businesses, trust your instincts concerning the people a person let up onto your roofing. No matter how great the contractor's status or even suggestion, he ought to begin by showing you having a company greeting card. If a service provider arrives looking as well as speaking in an less than professional method, most likely the task he is going to do may also be less than professional. This isn't to say that you should anticipate contractors to reach within fits. They is going to be hiking on your roofing, therefore most will be dressed up in denim jeans as well as work footwear or even athletic shoes. If the service provider appears to be interested in speaking on their mobile phone while on your homes roof than he is in analyzing your roof's needs, that may be an additional indication that he's not really the one to do the job. For your lawful safety, make sure that the actual contractor offers sufficient liability insurance.

Roofing Assessment

Expect the service provider is going to be going up in your roofing. Actually, any contractor who not need to increase on your roofing to evaluate the issue ought to be immediately discounted. Those who are seriously interested in their own function will possibly create a sketching of your roof's surface as well as tag trouble spots onto it because they undergo their own evaluation, or they'll take photos or even video from the surface while they're up there. This is a very important action, because it enables you to see exactly what the troubles are as well as know how they'll be set.

Estimation

The next phase would be the created estimate. The contractor will take away his calculator and are available up with an itemized estimation. Some companies will go to their truck or van as well as write down the suggestion, while others will crunch the actual amounts to do the job prior to you. Once you're because of the proposal, make sure that you comprehend which products will be utilized, how long the task will require and if you will find any extra or even concealed costs that may occur throughout the repair of the roofing. The contractor will be able to solution many of these concerns with ease and forewarn a person of any additional expenses that could be sustained if the roof's ethics end up being broken within.

After you have obtained a few created estimates from roofing contractors, evaluate exactly what every organization or service provider would like to offer you for the cost. Do not necessarily low cost the greatest bet, because sometimes the highest bet will in reality be the service provider who does the job correctly. Additionally, be wary of bids which are not nearly as expensive others. They may be using inferior products or perhaps be unethical about the possibility of hidden costs. Most importantly, believe in instincts as well as opt for the contractor who enables you to feel quite comfortable about giving more than your money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

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Critics of the sentences say China has politicized the robberies as acts of terrorism.

 

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A Uyghur man walks past armed Chinese security forces in Urumqi, July 17, 2009.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday.

 

The death sentences were handed down by the Supreme People's Court in recent days, according to state media in the regional capital, Urumqi.

 

The men were accused in connection with three separate attacks late last year in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to the news website Urumqi Online.

 

According to another website, the Xinjiang-based Tianshan news site, Aimaiti Tuheti, Yiming Dawuti, and unnamed "others" killed a security guard at a pedestrian mall as part of a failed Aug. 7 robbery attempt.

 

In a separate incident on Oct. 12, it said, Nuermaimaiti Aobulikasimu and 11 others broke into a house, bound and killed the couple living in it, and took their possessions.

 

It said the group also broke into the homes of two brothers, robbed them, and killed six people in a Nov. 11 attack in Kashgar.

 

The report gave no information about the victims or the schedule for the executions.

 

Three of the men were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a sentence that is normally commuted to life imprisonment in China's judicial system.

 

They were convicted of deliberate homicide and armed robbery by the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court in the first instance.

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

A Han Chinese resident of Urumqi surnamed Yang said a reference to "terrorism" in official news reports on the case showed that it was being politicized by the authorities, who have launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in Xinjiang following deadly ethnic violence in July 2009.

 

"There is an implied political meaning; that they were somehow engaged in separatist activities or ethnic divisions," said Yang.

 

Exile Uyghur groups said the trials had been conducted behind closed doors, with scant opportunity for public scrutiny.

 

"The entire process against these men, from the trial through to the judgment, was opaque," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

 

"There was also very little reasonable evidence to convict them on a legal basis, because all the evidence came from one side of the case," he said.

 

"We strongly condemn the Chinese government for continuing to pursue their policies of ethnic division," said Raxit.

 

"We are also strongly opposed to the death penalty in this case."

 

Earlier cases

 

Last month, the Supreme Court sentenced four Uyghurs to death for alleged involvement in an Aug. 19 bomb attack in Xinjiang’s western Aksu city.

 

The World Uyghur Congress pointed to concerns over lack of transparency in those cases too.

 

The Aksu blast left eight people dead, including two of the bombers, and 15 wounded after a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen. Four Uyghurs were arrested shortly after the attack.

 

State media characterized the cases as acts of terrorism and unrelated to longstanding ethnic tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region.

 

Exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer has warned that attacks like those in Aksu will continue to occur until Beijing addresses the underlying source of tension in the region.

 

Millions of Uyghurs—a distinct, Turkic minority who are predominantly Muslim—populate Central Asia and Xinjiang.

 

Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness despite China's ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.

 

Those frustrations erupted in July 2009 in deadly riots that left nearly 200 people dead, by the Chinese government's tally.

 

At least 26 people, mostly Uyghurs, were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the riots, many of whom have been executed, according to state media.

 

China is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined, although the government does not publish official figures.

 

Rights groups say Beijing may execute as many as several thousand prisoners annually.

 

Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for a series of deadly attacks in recent years and accuse one group in particular of maintaining ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

 

New training scheme

 

China on Wednesday also announced a training scheme which places ethnic minority graduates from Xinjiang in work elsewhere in China.

 

Governments of the destination cities will spend 450 million yuan (U.S.$ 69 million) for the program, while Xinjiang will spend 400 million yuan (U.S.$ 61 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.

 

The program targets some 60,000 jobless college graduates in Xinjiang, around 80 percent of whom are from ethnic minorities, and 60 percent of whom are women.

 

However, some commentators see the move as an attempt to assimilate non-Han Chinese into mainstream Chinese culture.

 

"From the point of view of ethnic minorities, the graduate work scheme is really taking the cream of youth from the minorities and using them to 'further cultural development,'" wrote one ethnic minority user on a popular microblogging service.

 

"In fact, the culture that is being advanced is Han culture, and this group of young people will have been totally brainwashed," the microblog update said.

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

"They have run senior high school schemes like this before during the past few years," he said.

 

"Whether it's high-schoolers or graduate training programs, these are measures that are aimed at thought control and brainwashing, and the 'Partification' of their education," he said.

 

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

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Wikileaks and the Uyghurs

through holly upon Dec 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been ever uncertain, info acquired by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers confirmed Chinese language government fears more than its ongoing charge of the location it calls Xinjiang, also is known as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked out wires through U.S. diplomats show the actual degree that Chinese language government bodies attempt to convince governments globally to consider its position on problems affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires additionally show the actual U . s . States' issues and views concerning the ongoing repressive steps in the area.

The majority of illuminating associated with Chinese language federal government pressure would be the wires pointing to Chinese frustration, or even the specter of Chinese ire, over the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. A December 29, 2008 cable applies how Chinese language Assistant Foreign Reverend Liu Jieyi met using the U.S. Ambassador to China to tone of voice Beijing's powerful competitors associated with release in order to any country apart from The far east, and that if the U.S. do indeed accede for this ask for it would "avoid harm to bilateral relations and to co-operation ‘in important areas'". In addition, a Feb 2009 cable television describes how the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly act toward us" and a "slap in the face". That the Ough.S. federal government was firm within not releasing the actual detainees to The far east illustrates the degree from the politicized nature of the Chinese judicial program. Genuine concerns over terrorism tend to be easy to understand, however in the actual Ough.S. government's view the detainees would most likely face torture as well as execution when they came back to The far east

Chinese government stress regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only put on the Ough.Utes. government, but also in order to New Zealand and a handful of European government authorities that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, as well as Eu member states just about all have the symptoms of paid for the impact of Chinese language government unhappiness. Regarding Germany, that was initially willing to consider 2 Uyghurs on purely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less better than other detainees because of the negative effects taking Uyghurs might have upon relationships with The far east. The May 8, 2009 cable relates exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Germany had informed China from the U.S. request to accept a few Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo coupled with been consequently cautioned by The far east associated with ‘a large load on bilateral relations' if Germany had been to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables additionally talk about the unrest in Urumchi, the actual local funds, within This summer '09. A July Thirteen, '09 cable discussing mass incidents within China says:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March of 2008 differ markedly within source and character through bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present severe problems for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Party leadership would not wait to open fireplace upon Uighurs or even Tibetans when they considered it necessary to restore order. Bulk incidents present another type of threat, he said, since the leadership is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters with regard to anxiety about causing huge public outrage that would change against the Party."

This is a chilling viewpoint, especially when one views evidence offered by 50 percent reviews launched this year through the Uyghur Individual Rights Task (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International which detail eyewitness accounts of the use of deadly live fire towards Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. In addition, the actual declaration that fire would not be used against Han Chinese protestors has resonances for that various approach taken through Chinese protection causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese language direct orders in September '09. Throughout those direct orders, after that Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, that experienced demanded that he inform them regarding federal government reactions in order to protection concerns. A similar request to satisfy using the Celebration Assistant by Uyghur protesters within This summer wasn't met.

The broader consequences of the unrest also saw a short dialogue about the impact it would possess on Iran-China relations, and on relationships with Sydney after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the Nationwide Push Club within Canberra in August 2009. Within the second option situation, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian bank that vendors the National Push Membership to use its influence to bar the Kadeer speech there".

The U . s . States' issues about the situation in the Uyghur area also come through in the wires. In a discussion on plan direction within Tibet, Ough.Utes. authorities clarify that it'll end up being impossible with regard to Chinese frontrunners to adopt the much softer collection "if they look like doing this under worldwide pressure". The cable out dated April 16, 2008, 30 days following the episode of unrest within Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the actual observation "that household stability continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, which means there'll ‘almost surely' be no rest of the present hard line upon Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable television additionally storage sheds gentle on the severe sensitivity that the Chinese government views territorial ethics, and also the possible drip more than of unrest through Tibet.

The chance associated with solutions to tensions within Tibet and Xinjiang arising from municipal society tend to be debated in a Feb Twenty-four, 2008 cable. While suggesting that China's economic success will increase its resistance to democratic change, the cable television additionally talks about exactly how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness of "a limited expansion associated with municipal culture, such as improvements in the guideline of regulation along with a stronger part with regard to approved religions, NGOs, non profit organizations along with other stars in areas which bring about social balance and do not problem Communist Celebration guideline." This is a significant alternation in considering, that has observed U.Utes. officials market the idea which Chinese financial improvement, and financial relations along with China brings in regards to a progressively democratic society; nevertheless, more faith appears to be placed in the grassroots motion compared to one which begins in the best quantity of a Chinese language federal government. Nevertheless, the cable concludes that "[i]n areas such as Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism results in tight limitations on the growth of civil society." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the official, who suggests that the actual U.Utes. federal government "should continue to express...serious issues over Beijing's individual rights report as well as appeal to China's growing awareness that higher respect for human privileges, spiritual independence and also the rule of law will serve to promote the very improvement and social balance which The far east looks for in addition to to improve China's worldwide picture." Such a technique might consider substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's paranoid fear the United States privately encourages routine change and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The wires provide understanding of the actual daily company associated with diplomacy that's rarely afforded to everyone, which is fascinating to notice the quantity of work done behind closed doors upon Uyghur issues. The importance of the actual part of the us as a monitor associated with Uyghur individual privileges problems in private discussions is created clear, and contrasts with its sensible public position. Employees from the Uyghur Human Privileges Task is comfortable with the pressure the Chinese federal government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details associated with Chinese government stress on it's alternatives is actually illustrative of the degree which Chinese authorities attempt to control contrary narratives. With increased facts to come through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs might not grab the actual headlines, however the cables have shed new gentle about the paperwork of individual privileges problems in the Uyghur region.

 

Wikileaks and the Uyghurs

by henry upon December 20, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been ever in doubt, info acquired through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese language government fears over it's ongoing charge of the region it phone calls Xinjiang, also is known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked out cables from U.Utes. diplomats show the actual degree that Chinese government bodies attempt to persuade governments globally to consider it's stance upon issues affecting Uyghurs. The actual cables also show the U . s . States' concerns as well as views concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the region.

The majority of illuminating associated with Chinese federal government stress would be the cables pointing in order to Chinese language anger, or even the specter of Chinese ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A December Twenty nine, 08 cable applies exactly how Chinese language Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the U.S. Ambassador to China in order to tone of voice Beijing's powerful competitors associated with launch to any kind of nation apart from The far east, which when the U.S. did indeed accede for this ask for it would "avoid harm to bilateral relations and to cooperation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, a February '09 cable television explains the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable behave toward us" and a "slap within the face". That the U.Utes. government stood firm within not really liberating the actual detainees to The far east illustrates the actual extent of the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial system. Legitimate issues over terrorism tend to be easy to understand, however in the Ough.Utes. government's view the detainees might most likely face torture as well as delivery if they returned in order to The far east

Chinese federal government stress in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't only put on the U.S. federal government, but also in order to Brand new Zealand along with a handful of Western government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, as well as European Union member states just about all have the symptoms of paid for the brunt associated with Chinese federal government unhappiness. In the case of Germany, that was at first prepared to consider two Uyghurs on purely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been much less preferable to additional detainees due to the negative effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relationships with The far east. A May Eight, '09 cable relates how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Germany had informed The far east from the Ough.S. ask for to simply accept a few Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo coupled with already been subsequently warned through China of ‘a large load on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany were to accept any detainees".

The diplomatic wires additionally talk about the unrest in Urumchi, the actual local funds, within July '09. A This summer 13, '09 cable discussing mass occurrences in The far east says:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March associated with 2008 differ substantially in origin as well as character through bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing severe trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Celebration leadership wouldn't hesitate to open fireplace upon Uighurs or even Tibetans if they deemed this necessary to restore order. Bulk incidents pose a different type of threat, he said, since the management is actually ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters for anxiety about causing massive public outrage that will turn against the Celebration."

This can be a relaxing viewpoint, especially when 1 views the evidence presented in two reports released this season by the Uyghur Individual Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that fine detail eyewitness accounts from the use of lethal live fireplace towards Uyghur protestors in This summer '09. Additionally, the actual observation which fireplace would not be used against Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the various approach taken through Chinese language protection causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese language direct orders within September '09. Throughout individuals direct orders, then Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed demonstrators, who had demanded he inform them regarding government responses in order to protection issues. An identical request to meet with the Party Secretary by Uyghur protesters within This summer was not fulfilled.

The broader consequences from the unrest also noticed a short dialogue about the effect it would have on Iran-China relations, and on relationships with Sydney after Globe Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke in the National Push Club in Canberra within July 2009. Within the latter case, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian financial institution which sponsors the nation's Push Membership to use it's impact to bar a Kadeer talk there".

The U . s . States' issues about the scenario in the Uyghur region also come via in the wires. In a discussion on plan path in Tibet, Ough.S. authorities clarify that it'll end up being not possible with regard to Chinese language frontrunners to consider the softer line "if they look like they are doing so under worldwide pressure". The actual cable television out dated 04 16, 2008, 30 days after the outbreak of unrest within Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the actual declaration "that domestic balance remains the leadership's top priority above all else, which means there will ‘almost surely' be absolutely no rest from the present hard collection on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable additionally storage sheds light on the severe sensitivity that the Chinese federal government views territorial ethics, and also the possible spill more than associated with unrest through Tibet.

The chance associated with methods to tensions within Tibet and Xinjiang arising from civil culture tend to be discussed in a Feb Twenty-four, 08 cable television. Whilst recommending which China's economic achievement increases its resistance to democratic reform, the actual cable additionally discusses exactly how Chinese language frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness of "a restricted growth of municipal culture, such as improvements within the rule of regulation and a more powerful part with regard to approved beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other stars within places that bring about social stability and don't challenge Communist Party rule." This can be a significant alternation in considering, that has seen U.Utes. officials market the idea that Chinese economic improvement, as well as financial relations along with China will bring about a progressively democratic culture; nevertheless, more belief seems to be put into a grassroots movement compared to one that begins in the best levels of the Chinese language federal government. Nevertheless, the cable television concludes which "[i]n areas for example Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear associated with separatism leads to tighter restrictions about the growth of civil society." This approach is viewed as counter-productive by the recognized, that shows that the Ough.S. government "should continue to express...serious concerns more than Beijing's human privileges report as well as attract China's developing awareness which higher respect for human privileges, religious freedom and the guideline of law assists to advertise the very development and sociable balance that China seeks in addition to to enhance China's worldwide picture." Such a technique would take considerable diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird fear the United States secretly encourages routine alter and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The wires offer understanding of the actual daily company of diplomacy that is rarely owned by the general public, which is fascinating to notice the amount of function carried out behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual role of the us like a monitor of Uyghur human rights problems in private conversations is created obvious, and contrasts with its tactful public position. Employees of the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is comfortable with pressure the Chinese federal government puts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts associated with Chinese federal government stress on its alternatives is actually illustrative of the degree that Chinese officials make an effort to control contradictory narratives. With more revelations to come from Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs might not get the headlines, but the wires possess shed new light about the paperwork of human privileges conditions within the Uyghur region.

 

Search Engine Optimization And Article promotion Will Place You On Page One

Seo and marketing with articles are a couple of the strongest strategies that can be used in promoting your website and get the revenue and success that you need for your online business. Those two everything has been around for a really while already but they still still be really effective. In reality, these have helped many people free themselves in the traditional means of money-generating options of society.

In the following paragraphs, I will be showing the ways on what it is possible to properly execute seo and marketing with articles for the betterment of your business enterprise web site. Furthermore, I will also be discussing different points you need to look out for if you are using these two online marketing strategies to promote your website and obtain customers. Despite the fact that article marketing and Search engine optimization have been in existence for a long time already, you need to know that the trends and preferences as to how they are performed are continually changing, and that's why you have to keep yourself up to date with these items through the help of Search engine optimization forum sites to be able to quickly adjust and discover ways to make your strategies more efficient.

In the past submitting articles to various websites was previously so simple the effects they produce for web sites was powerful. However, everything has changed a lot today. Currently submitting the same article to various websites has stopped being a good idea because search engines have now changed to some huge extent in the way they rank pages. They no more rank contents which are identical like they accustomed to in the past. This really is the most effective types of changes that exist in web marketing trends. This change has given birth to wide plethora of methods that internet marketers are using today. Nearly all of online marketers now produce articles and distribute them in really popular article directory sites and watch for site visitors arrive at their pages. Be thought of as that most reliable Search engine marketing strategy that can be used. Aside from being effective, this provides positive outcomes frequently. One problem with this particular technique is the caliber of traffic that you'll get out of this won't be so good if you don't do proper keyword research beforehand and use in-links. You first need to attend to these two things before you decide to submit your posts so that you won't wind up losing huge amounts of targeted visitors. This means that you need to practice good amounts of diligence if you'd like your advertising initiatives to be effective.

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Before buying roofing contractor, make sure you have a basic idea of the task that you need to have inked. By no means do you have to be a professional. If you have the Roof Certificate, read it carefully to find the details about your active roof. If you don't have a Ceiling Certificate, refer to documents agreed upon during concluding to locate houses roof Inspection linen. These documents should give you everything you need to learn about your roof. Just before contacting a roofing contractor, you ought to have a list of demands and specs to help you make a decision exactly who works for your covering project. Make sure to write down each and every potential roof covering contractor's answers as well as check all of them against each other. If there are any discrepancies, be sure to notice this and take this into consideration when making a final decision. There are no guaranteed ways to select a roofing contractor, however , if you take take to the info provided, your chances of a successful roofing project are generally greatly increased.

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Article writing could be an extremely powerful kind of Search engine optimization for your company website. Quality written articles manage to improve your websites SERP and add quality to your company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is vital in gaining new backlinks in your business website. Articles can and may be written on topics that are unique for your business or industry. The articles can discuss a range of issues and ideas with your industry. Articles offering people which has a resource will always be probably the most popular and quite a few likely varieties of articles that may bring about backlinks to your website.

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Portraits of Uyghurs

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-western part of China, the province of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is a least populated land while it covers close to a sixth from the nation's area. Having resisted while in hundreds of years the chinese domination, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old East Turkestan, fell within the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is primarily Uyghur People and Turkish - speaking System.

Muslim especially, the Uyghur people have a very good religious identity that, in specific, enabled them to keep a solid difference towards the Chinese invader. Without a doubt, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a amazing civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their own historical past, the Uyghurs successively taken on Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., thus beginning the way to the Islamization of the complete Central Asia.

Under the effect of the beliefs which they taken, the Uyghurs used successively, and at times in a competing way, a large number of written forms (turco-runic, brahmi, tokharien, soghdien) before developing their own graphic system.

The arrival of Islam was a great modification mainly because it was accompanied by the absorption of the Uyghur areas in the enormous Turkic and Islamic Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used presently.

If their own writing, their own language and their religion mark a real big difference with the tradition of Chinese Han, the Uyghurs also are different from their characteristic, so characteristic of Central Asia's people. A shiny skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features going out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek origins of these men and these women.

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only 9 million people - a little for this specific great area. Therefore, Uyghur people are now part of the fifty six racial minority groups having been known in an official way by China.

This law allows them a few privileges in a country exactly where their difference is very often repressed. Thus, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is known as the second official language in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in the People's Republic of China, however, seems quite illusory. The presence of all natural sources in Xinjiang, and its distance with countries known as sensitive, highly encouraged the government to increase the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the higher responsibility work opportunities.

In response to this true will to assimilate the Uyghur people into the Chinese culture, an independent party like East Turkistan Islamic Movement(ETIM) was born in the early 1990.

Saying more freedom, but primarily the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in location Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The events of September 11, 2001, were the perfect occasion for the Chinese government to justify true reprisals: they declared the "Uyghur freedom fighters" as dangerous terrorists linked to Al Quaida because of their Muslim origins and their proximity with Pakistan and Afghanistan... However, the terrible repression which followed did not calm down the anger. The Uyghur peoples population continues today to proudly keep up their identification and their ethnic heritage , even though they become a minority on their own territory.

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When Pocketgear changed course recently and announced it was going to be a white-label app store provider for other companies called Appia, I said we should be prepared for an app store onslaught. Well, it appear it may be starting now with Opera opening the Mobile App, a web storefront where 100 million Opera browser users will be able to buy apps.

Opera said the store will be a Speed Dial link in the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers and will offer apps for Android, Symbian, BlackBerry and Java. The number of apps available will vary according to the end device, with the store only presenting apps that work on that phone. Users will get a tailored store experience that includes local language and currency support, too. By leveraging Appia, Opera will have the ability to offer some 140,000 Appia apps on various platforms and will be able to boast its own store with minimal effort.

As I said earlier, the app market is booming with some projecting off-deck app markets eclipsing native app stores in revenue by next year. Forrester Research recently turned heads by predicting the mobile app market will be worth $38 billion by 2015. That’s a staggering sum, considering Apple’s App Store has generated a little less than $3 billion since it opened in July of 2008, with developers taking $2 billion so far. But it shows there’s a lot of optimism in app stores.

Opera is clearly angling to get a piece of the pie by extending beyond simply providing a mobile browser to being a purveyor of content. It’s hoping to leverage its existing reach in 200 countries, which gives it a leg up in competing for eyeballs. Opera said a pre-launch of the Opera Mobile Store in February attracted more than 15 million users, who racked up more than 700,000 downloads per day.

With everyone rushing to create app stores, I don’t know if anyone but a handful will get the kind of traffic needed to be really successful. The ones that simply resell and don’t create much value for developers or consumers may not see much success. Opera is trying to build relationships with developers through the Opera Publisher Portal, which is meant to make it easy for developers to upload their apps. But unless developers see a lot of money-making opportunities to warrant supporting additional stores, many will concentrate on the destinations that command attention and are willing to promote and market their apps, not just try to make some money off of them. And unless consumers of these stores get exclusive apps, better security, improved discovery or cheaper pricing, I’m not sure many will spend a lot of time in these markets. It’s not proving easy to make a store. The challenge now is ensuring its equipped to compete.

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Of all the smartphone makers whose names are not Apple, HTC is the most impressive. An upstart company from Taiwan, it has done a great job of building iconic hardware using commodity platforms. It has developed branding and messaging that’s edgy, cool and fun.

More importantly, it was the first company to embrace the idea of developing a user experience layer in order to differentiate itself from the commodity OS-based hardware devices that would flood the market. So, it came up with HTC Sense. A lot of credit for this unique sensibility should go to Horace Luke, HTC’s chief innovation officer, who has been the lightening rod behind the company’s design philosophy.

Perhaps that’s why I’m amazed he allowed HTC to release the abominations that are being called HTC’s Facebook phones. These are essentially nothing but regular HTC devices with a dedicated button for Facebook, which provides:

one-touch access to your friends and family. With a simple touch of the Facebook button, your network is immediately privy to the song you’re listening to, the new restaurant you’re checking out or interesting website you’ve stumbled upon.

These aren’t really Facebook phones, which are a whole different beast, and will be game changers when they come to market. If you want to know what a real Facebook Phone will look like – let’s just say it won’t be anything like HTC ChaCha or HTC Salsa. Kevin Tofel pointed out, “aside from the dedicated hardware button, many of the Facebook integrations are already available in widgets or natively in Android.” As I wrote earlier, a real Facebook phone will be a phone that embeds Facebook services in the very core of the phone and uses a Facebook user experience layer.

What these phones seem to be is a marketing gimmick cooked up by the marketing department at HTC and not the innovators. I can guarantee you Apple would never pull a cheesy move like this. Remember the long-forgotten days when Motorola introduced an iTunes phone? Well, we saw how that worked out.

This move by HTC reminds me of the late-90s, when the Internet mania was in full swing. Many companies were jostling for pole position and ended up paying a lot of money to PC makers to place their Internet access software or browser software on the desktop. Others went so far as to bake these Internet software/services into their devices via dedicated buttons. PC makers made those moves by sacrificing the needs of their primary customers and letting the greed get the better of them.

This time around, the situation is entirely different. Hardware makers are leveraging hot Internet brands to differentiate themselves and sell their increasingly commoditized hardware. By building a Facebook button, HTC is essentially trying to anoint Facebook as the social network of choice.

What happens if Facebook becomes less popular and something else pops up? Will HTC make a phone dedicated to that service? Will we soon see a Twitter button, an Angry Birds button, and a Bing button? Or all of them? Will HTC soon be selling hundreds of different models, each with dedicated button? If yes, how will they bring them to market?

The sad part is, now that HTC has gone ahead and done this, it’s almost a certainty that others are going to copy them and start rolling out phones with dedicated buttons. It won’t be good for the overall smartphone market.

The idea of dedicated buttons goes against the very design philosophy behind smartphone platforms. I believe smartphones are blank canvases meant to be hyper-personalized by average Joes and Janes, who download the apps they want and make the device fit their life. I am sorry, HTC; I don’t want you or anyone else making a choice for me via dedicated buttons.

App of the Day: TuneUp

If you’re like me, then you have a music library that’s ungainly and a tad unorganized. For some odd reason, many of the tunes you’ve gathered over the years have missing tags or cover art. Until recently, I had a tough time trying to clean it all up. Then I discovered TuneUp, which works on both Macs and PCs. It’s like sending your expensive shirts for French laundry, except for music. It fixes everything. The free version has advertising, while the premium service costs $29.95, with a yearly renewal fee of $19.95.

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