Gulf of Mexico Continues to Leak

Based on recently revised estimates, BP's ruptured oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continues to leak 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day. The new figures suggest that an amount of oil equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could still be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days. Despite apparent efforts to restrict journalists from accessing affected areas, stories, video and photographs continue to emerge. Collected here are recent photographs of oil-affected wildlife, people and shorelines around the Gulf of Mexico on this, the 51st day after the initial explosion.

Oil covered brown pelicans found off the Louisiana coast and affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico wait in a holding pen for cleaning at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, June 9, 2010. An American Egret takes flight from an oil-impacted marsh along the Louisiana coast Monday, June, 7, 2010.

Sheila Clark, widow of Donald Clark who was killed in the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, listens as U.S. Senator Charles Schumer speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill June 10, 2010 in Washington, DC. Family members of the 11 victims of the explosion called on the Senate to ensure that the oil and drilling companies are held responsible for the tragedy.

A hard hat from an oil worker lies in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010.

The feet of Rebecca Thomasson, of Knoxville, Tennessee are covered in oil after walking along the beach as oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill washes ashore in Gulf Shores, Alabama on June 4, 2010.

A helicopter flies over livestock with sandbags, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 in Buras, Louisiana. Efforts to protect the area from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continue.

A worker walks past a fountain of sand from a dredge as it is pumped onto East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana to provide a barrier against the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools against the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

APTN photographer Rich Matthews dives into the water to take a closer look at oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on June 7, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, Louisiana.

Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen from an underwater vantage, Monday, June 7, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, Louisiana.

A sea turtle is mired in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010.

Oil slicks move toward the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Saturday, June 5, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing ashore on the Alabama and Florida coast beaches.

Clumps of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill splash in the surf on a beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama on June 4, 2010.

Oil sheen is seen streaking under the Perdido Pass Bridge from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama coast as viewed from a Coast Guard HC-144A plane Thursday, June 10, 2010 in Perdido, Alabama.

An exhausted oil-covered brown pelican tries to climb over an oil containment boom along Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery, 3 miles northeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana June 5, 2010. Wildlife experts are working to rescue birds from the rookery which has been affected by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and transporting them to the Fort Jackson Rehabilitation Center.

A bird rescue team captures an oiled pelican for cleaning on Cat Island in Barataria Bay June 6, 2010 near Grand Isle, Louisiana.

Tim Kimmel of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service carries an pelican covered in oil from a nesting area to a waiting boat in Barataria Bay, Louisiana June 5, 2010. The pelican was successfully transported to a stabilization center on Grand Isle, Louisiana before being taken to the Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Venice, Louisiana for cleaning.

Brown Pelicans, covered in oil from BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, huddle together in a cage at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, Louisiana June 6, 2010.



Workers clean a Brown Pelican covered in oil at a rescue center at a facility set up by the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, Louisiana on Saturday, June 5, 2010.

Members of the media photograph volunteers as they clean oil covered pelicans found off the Louisiana coast at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, June 9, 2010.

A volunteer uses a toothbrush to clean an oil covered white pelican found off the Louisiana coast at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, June 9, 2010.

Volunteer Cassen Pulaski cleans an oiled Brown Pelican at a rescue center at a facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana June 7, 2010. Two hundred and ninety two birds have been brought to the center over a six week period. Eighty-six have been brought in on Sunday. These birds are being rescued and transported to the Fort Jackson Rehabilitation Center by well-trained and knowledgeable wildlife responders, veterinarians, biologists and wildlife rehabilitators.

Brown pelicans recently cleaned of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen in a holding area at the International Bird Rescue Research Center Tuesday, June 8, 2010 in Buras, Louisiana.

A worker uses a suction hose to remove oil that has washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill, Sunday, June 6, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana.

A suction hose is used to remove oil washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill, Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, Louisiana.

Ed and Lucy Waltz of Leroy, Illinois, walk to the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Monday, June 7, 2010.

Marine reef ecologist Scott Porter works to remove oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from his hands on Monday, June 7, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, Louisiana.

This image from high resolution video made June 3, 2010, and provided by BP PLC Wednesday morning, June 9, 2010, shows oil continuing to pour out at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

A controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill sends towers of fire hundreds of feet into the air over the Gulf of Mexico June 9.

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, June 10th, 2010 and the satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument captured this image of the thickest part of the oil slick. In the image, the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is positioned in sunglint. In the sunglint region - where the mirror-like reflection of the Sun gets blurred into a wide, bright silvery-gray strip - differences in the texture of the water surface may be enhanced. In the thickest part of the slick, oil smooths the water, making it a better "mirror." Areas where thick oil cover the water are nearly white in this image. Additional oil may also be present. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Gas is flared off on the Discovery Enterprise drilling ship which is collecting oil at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast Wednesday, June 9, 2010.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill coats marsh grass at the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

A brown pelican coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf June 4, 2010 on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana.

An oiled brown pelican tries to take flight from Barataria Bay while oil slicks float past June 6, 2010 near Grand Isle, Louisiana.

Oil absorbent booms lie coiled together near Queen Bess Island as clean up operations of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continue in off the coast of Louisiana Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

A dead young egret covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead is turned over to wildlife rescue team near Bird Island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana just off the Gulf of Mexico June 7, 2010.

A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana Monday, June, 7, 2010.

Unidentified BP contract workers remove oil related material on Santa Rosa Island, Florida on Wednesday June 9, 2010.

Hermit crabs struggle to cross a patch of oil from the the Deepwater Horizon spill on a barrier island near East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana on Sunday, June 6, 2010.

An oiled White Ibis is seen at an unnamed island in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

Streaks of oil sheens are seen north of the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama coast as viewed from a Coast Guard HC-144A plane Thursday, June 10, 2010.

Incredible Hanging Temple in Datong, China

Datong the city has little to offer but nearby are the very unusual 'hanging' monastery and the Yungang caves.

The Hanging Temple is quite unique architecturally and is over 1400 years old. It is built into the side of a mountain. For support cross-beams were built into the side of the mountain while the back of the mountain provides additional support. There were two principal reasons for building a temple in such an odd location; the mountain provided relief from rain, snow and other natural hazards. The other reason is the Taoist principle of no noise. At that height and isolation they needn't worry about that! In the temple itself there are relics that reference to the three main religions of China: Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, which is also a unique attribute of this monastery.

The Hanging Temple, located about 60 km southwest of Datong, China in Shanxi province, is one of the world's forgotten wonders. Clinging to a crag of Hengshan mountain, in apparent defiance of gravity, it consists of 40 rooms linked by a dizzying maze of passageways. The temple is said to have been built by a monk named Liao Ran, during the late Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534 AD) and restored in 1900.

The temple was constructed by drilling holes into the cliff side into which the poles that hold up the temples are set. Interestingly the temple is dedicated to not just one religion, but three, with Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism all worshiped within the temple and represented in 78 statues and carvings throughout the temple.

7 Ways To Track Your Competition Online

The ancient Chinese wise man, Sun Tzu, once said: "If you are ignorant of both your enemy and yourself, then you are a fool and certain to be defeated in every battle." SunTzu was talking about the military battlefield and not the business battlefield. But if Sun Tzu was a businessman today, he would be thrilled with all the information he could find out about his enemies on the internet.

Business owners have traditionally turned to their marketing department for information on competitors. Now they are better off turning to their webmaster. In fact, one of the first things your webmaster should be asking you is who your top three competitors are.

This kind of information comes at a price. Run a Google search on "competitive intelligence" and over 11,000 results show up. There are literally thousands of consultants who will help you identify and gather information on the competition but it will cost you dearly. Save your money. Here are 7 ways you can be your own online intelligence gatherer and it won't cost anything but time. Because as another ancient wise man once said: "A fool and his money are soon parted."

Check Back Links
A recent survey by the Pew Research found that only 50 percent of internet users actually use a search engine everyday. So what is driving traffic to a website? The answer - back links. In other words, other sites that link to your competition. Find out the back links from your competitor's site and get linked from these sites as well. You will increase your traffic dramatically.



Look at Keywords
Take a look at the competition's keywords. This is easy information to get from sites like Key Word Density. Another way is to look at the code of their websites. This isn't difficult. Go to the site and click on "View" at the top of the browser, then click "Source" or "Page Source." A page of HTML code will open and the keywords will be revealed in the code near the top of the page.

Monitor Traffic
Just as you are monitoring unique visitors, length of stay, most viewed pages, and where visitors are coming from on your website, follow these same rules on your competitor's site. You can find this information by going to Quantcast or Alexa.

Google Alerts
Google alerts allows users to set up alerts with keywords and phrases that trigger an email notification every time that word or phrase shows up on a site, blog or press release. For example, if you interested in a competitor, set up a Google alert on that company and their top executives and you will be notified every time they are mentioned online.

Monitor Twitter
It is time to get acquainted or re-acquainted with Twitter for your corporate spying. This is the place where industry buzz starts. It is where you hear the first low rumble of something that is about to happen. But you can't just watch, you have to participate. Try to update your Tweets on a daily basis. If you are too busy to do this, use TweetLater, one of the best apps out there for accomplishing this.

Monitor Movement
You can learn a lot about a company just by reading their "About Us" page and monitoring their job listings. If your competitor is an auto parts company and they just hired a new CEO with a background in marketing, that may be a clue about how they plan to increase sales. If a company has several listings for jobs in another state, chances are it is expanding or relocating there. If the online bios of the top executives are vague, you can research them on professional networking sites like Linkedin or Plaxo.

RSS Feeds
If all this sounds like too many channels of information to monitor on a regular basis, RSS feeds are a good solution. Many experts are fans of feeds for intelligence gathering. You can keep up with industries, customers, and competitors by feeding things like Google Alerts, Twitter, and all of your other RSS feeds into one feed. MySyndicaat has very effective tools for doing this.

Seo Experts Are The One Responsible To Rush Traffic On To Your Site

In these drastically changing times of technological advancements the internet has come to the rescue of a large number of small and large business firms. Now a day with the growing number of internet users, business heads have understood the need to highlight their niche in the web space so that more and more people are made aware of the products and services produced by the corporation. The firms try to woo their visitors by various marketing techniques designed especially to attract web users and convert the visits into transactions. These conversions will directly lead the revenues to go up thereby profiting the company. Various companies prefer outsourcing these things to professional SEO service providers.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and involves numerous practices which are aimed to rush traffic on to a particular web site. The main focus is on the keywords to be used for specific web sites; websites vary from each other and have different purposes on the web. Some are there to provide information, some are there to sell products or services, and some are present only for the reason to help. Whatever the reason may be the help provided by SEO experts always come handy. There is always the possibility for companies to raise their standards thereby providing higher quality of services and products. Opting for cheap SEO services without compromising on quality is the word doing the rounds.


India is considered the outsourcing hub of the world and thus SEO services India are gaining popularity in the world business map. They provide high quality and high standards of work at very affordable prices which make them a personal favorite.

With changing scenarios and scenes, various search engines have also changed their algorithms as to determine which pages could be more relevant to users than others and employ spiders which crawl through the contents of a website and when they come upon these specific keywords return results. Based on these algorithms page rank is awarded. The higher the page rank, the higher are the chances of people visiting your website when they type in their required keywords.

Keywords can be generated from a large number of free keyword generating tools available over the internet. Various processes employed by the SEO firms are writing and submitting articles, writing press releases, blog commenting, link building etc. these things contain backlinks and are thus able to bring considerate traffic on to the concerned site. Backlinks are links on other sites which when clicked directs a user to your website. Backlinks from a website with higher page ranks always helps in increasing your page rank. Thus to cut a long story short SEO services should always be trusted and used efficiently if you want your business to scale new heights.

The only thing that keeps your web site from rush of traffic is quality SEO services. Moreover the contents of your site also hold prominent importance as now a day user look for contents that are not only productive but also original and ground breaking.

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YouTube Mobile Gets a Kick Start

(Cross-posted with the YouTube Blog)

It’s well known that the mobile internet is huge and growing fast; what’s surprising is exactly how fast. According to a recent report, within 5 years more users will connect to the internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs. YouTube consumption on mobile devices has also grown considerably -- playbacks were up 160% in 2009 over the previous year. And we’re excited to announce that YouTube Mobile now receives more than 100 million video playbacks a day. This is roughly the number of daily playbacks that YouTube.com was streaming when we joined forces with Google in 2006.

We launched YouTube on mobile devices in 2007 with about 1,000 videos available on the mobile site (m.youtube.com). While this suddenly opened up the possibility to access videos on the go, our site, mobile browsers and the hardware had limitations that prevented the mobile experience from keeping up with YouTube on the desktop. Today, more than ever, we know that you want to be able to find and access your favorite videos wherever you are. That’s why we’ve been working hard to roll out an updated version of the mobile site.

Here's what's new about the new mobile site:

• It's really fast.
• The new user interface incorporates larger, more touch friendly elements, making it easier to access videos on the go.
• It incorporates the features and functionality you’ve come to expect from the .com site, like search query suggestions, the options to create playlists,the ability to designate “favorite,” “like,” or “unlike” videos directly from your device.
• As we make improvements to Youtube.com, you’ll see them quickly follow on our mobile site, unlike native apps which are not updated as frequently.

As the world continues to go mobile, we think this is a great improvement for users who want a more consistent YouTube across many devices, no matter where they are. We're launching in English only today, but will be rolling it out in other languages in the coming months. You can access the latest YouTube mobile site from your iPhone or Android browser. To learn more, visit m.youtube.com to check out the latest improvements and take a minute to watch this demo video:



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47 % Discount on HTC P3300

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HTC HD2 vs HTC Desire (Comparison)

HTC is my favorite Smartphone brand, they are introducing some very great phones of today's age. Here I have compared 2 great smart devices HTC HD2 and HTC Desire, both of them are amazing phones with different Operating system. HTC HD2 is based on Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional while HTC Desire smartphone is based of Google's android operating system with latest version Android 2.1 (Eclair).

HTC HD2

HTC Desire

I will describe comparison points below.

Comparison	HTC HD2	HTC Desire
Network	Both HTC HD2 and Desire capable of working on most common network frequencies for 2G & 3G networks
Released Date	HTC HD2 Released on october 2009	HTC Desire is newest, released on February 2010
Dimension	HTC HD2 is little taller than Desire with a 67 mm	HTC Desire is 9 mm thicker than HD2 and 1.5 mm less wider than HD2
Weight	HTC HD2 weighs 157g	HTC Desire weighs 135g
Operating System	Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional	Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)
Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML	HTML only
CPU	Both HD2 and Desire has same Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor
GPS	GPS is offcourse is necessary for every smartphone these days. So do HD2 and Desire
Display	HD2 comes with Biggest 4.3 inch TFT capacitive touch screen with 65k colors, WVGA resolution 400 x 800 pixels. Additional screen features are: - Sense UI - Multi-touch input method - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Pick-to-mute	HTC Desire comes with 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen with 16 Million colors, WVGA resolution 400 x 800 pixels. - HTC Sense UI - Multi-touch input method - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Optical trackpad
Headphone jack	3.5 mm audio jack	3.5 mm audio jack
Memory	HTC HD2 comes with 448 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM	Desire has higher 576 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM
Expansion Slot	Both devices has microSD support upto 32 GB
Data	Below is the detail. GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps EDGE Class 12 3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wi-Fi router Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP USB microUSB	Below is the detail. GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps 3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP USB microUSB v2.0
Camera Features	HTC HD2 comes with 5 megapixel camera, 2592 x 1944 pixels resolution Additionally supporting autofocus. Equipped with dual LED flash and Geo-tagging feature. Video recording at 30 frames per second.	HTC Desire also comes with 5 megapixel camera, 2592 x 1944 pixels resolution Additionally supporting autofocus. Equipped with LED flash and Geo-tagging, smile detection features. From video recording point of view it is looser Just at 15 frames per second
Battery	HTC HD2 has little low power battery as compared to Desire. Li-Ion 1230mAh Battery that gives you Up to 6 h 20 min talktime and 490 hours of Standby time.	HTC Desire didn't jump too high from HD2 but little more battery power of Li-Ion 1400 mAh that can manage up to 6 h 40 min talktime and up to 340 h standby.
Additional Features	Both devices equipped with Digital compass, Facebook and Twitter integration, Google Search, Google Maps, Youtube App and Flickr App

This is just a comparison. From the point of view of style and look both devices are great and we can say King of other smartphone in their respective Operating systems Windows Mobile and Android OS. GSM Arena reviews pros and cons of HTC HD2 and HTC Desire. Also check them out.

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