Gloo

I recently discovered this new real-time online collaboration tool called Gloo. It is one of the exclusive offers by Globe Broadband.

Gloo is perfect this season, when you have no time to personally meet with relatives, friends or colleagues to discuss plans for Christmas Party or as such.

Let me share to you my experience in using this. First, I signed up and checked my mail for activation, but found the activation email on my Spam folder; so you better check your Junk or Spam folder if you haven’t seen an email in your Inbox after creating an account on Gloo. Upon activation, I created a practice space then made this a chance to talk to my cousin who is away from home, but will be arriving in time for Christmas. I invited her on my “Practice” space. When she accepted my invitation and activated her profile, we chatted about plans regarding our Family Christmas party and I showed her a video of my daughter whom I would like to offer a song number. She loved the idea and liked that I introduced to her Gloo.

After she went offline, I edited my profile and added my Globe number as my cousin did as she activated her account. I tried the SMS feature and it works like a charm. SMS from Gloo is free, but MMS cost Php 2.50. Replying to a message sent from Gloo would also cost Php 2.50.

I really enjoyed using Gloo! This is best use as scrapbook, business page, group meetings, place for parents to interact with their kids and family from abroad, barkada message board, planning events, collaboration tool for business meeting, collaboration board for school meetings.

Inquire about Gloo if you want to know more by texting HELP GLOO to 2910 or call EGG (02) 892-8108 Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

I guess a voice and video solves all the problem for people who communicates via Gmail. My father and I use this because my dad doesn’t know how to use anything but Gmail.

It is an answered prayer. Check: Voice and Video Chat on Gmail.

Now communicating via Gmail would be better than ever, and I know Google is making things better.

I just read the post of a Filipino SEO, Benj Arriola about the Google Translation service. He created a good example on his site; a Tagalog or Filipino being translated in English. I just want to refer you to it, so that you would understand it more clearly.

Here’s Benj’s post: Ingat sa mga translations

For now, the translation is not refined, but as Benj say, it would be soon.

I think it is a great development for us to gain more knowledge. My apploud to Google on this one, but their Google Chrome just isn’t doing well for me now.

My Friend has informed me that his blog increased its Page Rank, so I checked all my blogs about this update. Indeed it is true, Google had updated the Page Rank or better known as PR.

Page Rank is important for SEO because it is a way of Google to determine your sites popularity.

My new blog Broken Hearted that formerly has no PR or n/a, is now a PR 3. I am happy with this result.

Check your Page Rank:

Yesterday, I found this useful tool. As a blogger, I often need images to share to other bloggers. I have found an easy way to grab and share it to them.

Skitch is a screen grab software that lets you copy an image on your screen or desktop.

Here is a video tutorial on how easy it is to use Skitch.

If you belong in a Quality Assurance department, you might need this. This is a free software, unlike other competitors like Snag-it. Currently, Skitch is in beta. Try it, it works wonderfully.

I use this as my dictionary in terms of SEO. Everything I wanted to learn, I search in here and it always gives me the result I wanted.

It has a lot of tools, tips and everything else you need to learn about SEO for FREE.

I use this tool and I recommend this to all of you.

This is the only free software you could find that has basic features you need running when you need it.

I use this when checking my ranking on a specific keyword and the ranks of my competitors as well. This is a good software to use, specially if you joined an SEO contest.

I have been using it since I started SEO works and I could say, it is all that I needed. AND AGAIN, IT IS FREE!

WP Themer Kit is a tool that makes Wordpress Theme. So, if you are a Wordpress fan like me, and you are having a hard time making or choosing a theme you want, make one yourself. This kit will help you make or create a theme very easy.

The website has video on how to use the kit. As I said on my former posts, I like video’s because in that way, I would understand or absorb the information easily.

Is somehow the same as Blog Catalog. The idea, is to be able to have a widget on the sidebar,  to know who visited your site, without the visitors leaving any message.

This is also good for marketers, to know bloggers or blog that is about a specific topic. You could check the community and have huge list of bloggers within that said topic. There you could get a list of people you would like to get in touch with while promoting a site.

This is owned by Yahoo.

Blog Catalog is the premiere social blog directory on the internet. Whether you’re looking to promote your own blog or find blogs on various topics.

I use Blog Catalog widget to be able to know the visitors on my blog.

TIP: It is always nice to pay a blog visit to someone who has visited yours.

Steps on installing the widget:

• Register to Blog Catalog, or if you already have an account, sign in.
• Go to Manage Blogs. Add a blog if you haven’t added a blog that you want to put the widget.
• Build a custom widget for __the blog you wanted to put the widget__.
• Edit the widget color or features according to your liking. Be sure that the width fits the width of your sidebar.
• Copy the code given and paste it to the area on your sidebar where you want it to be seen.
• DONE