Customize Your News Headlines and Track What Matters with Xygnal

Where do you go to read the news? Are you able to customize your news source and filter out the topics that interest you and the ones that don’t? More than likely you can’t filter anything, which is why Xygnal is a breath of fresh air. Many people start their day by reading the top news headlines, but often don’t care about many of the headlines. With Xygnal, you can customize the news based on topics that you’re interested in; no need to wade through all of the irrelevant topics or articles that you may have no interest in.

Xygnal is currently in an early beta stage and has just one website that works on any device or browser; there are no downloads or updates required.

This section shows you the top news headlines and the trending topics within those headlines. While you can’t view the whole story on the site, you will be able to see an excerpt and link to original source. Additionally, you can also see how long ago the story was posted (in minutes, hours, days) and you can click to see related articles.

Xygnal offers 3 options for each article: you can save it (to later view under Saved), share it (on Facebook, Twitter, Google+), and/or track topics within the article.

The tracking features gives you the option to track any topics or keywords within the article. So if you are reading an article about social media and it’s also talking about Facebook and Google, you can track Facebook and/or Google so that you can keep up with other articles that are related to those topics.

When you click on a topic to track, you can choose to track it for a day, week, month, or you can ban the topic (by clicking on the red crossed out icon show above).

When you go to the “Tracked” section, you’ll be able to see all of the topics trending in your tracked topics along with articles related to those topics. The tracking feature is a great way to filter out the topics that you’re most interested in.

This section is where all of your saved articles go. They will stay here until you remove them. As you begin to save articles, you’ll also be able to see the most popular topics within those saved articles.

The search feature does just as expected: it lets you search for any topic and then view articles based on those topics. Again, you’ll have the same options as above (view related articles, save, share, track topics).

There’s not much to offer in the settings just yet. You can edit the topics you’re tracking or banning, check your email address, and delete your account. That’s about it.

Remember, Xygnal is in early beta so there is still a lot features being added and changes being made.

I’m not very fond of the design, but I love the concept and can definitely see myself using Xygnal as my main news source on a daily basis. It’s nice that users can customize the news to their liking by tracking and banning topics. This way, you only see articles based on the topics that matter to you, instead of having to sift through it all just to find what you’re interested in.

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Canadian Father Helps To Catch Internet Predator

The Internet is a good thing. It helps us in our lives from the way we make our living to the things that entertain us. More and more every day the Internet becomes a permanent fixture in people’s lives but just like human nature, there is a bad side to how people use this innovation.

That’s why it’s a good thing there are people like Robert Kleisinger. The British Columbia native listened to his ‘gut feeling’ when his teenage stepdaughter began an online relationship with an older man. He spent hours researching and then installed the right software to monitor the situation. Finally, the hero from Abbotsford contacted police when he had the evidence to nab the suspect.

To catch the pervert, Kleisinger set up a fake Facebook account to lure the suspect. His work resulted in a conviction.

Staying with Canada for a moment, the regulatory body there plans on keeping a tighter reign on the ISP providers in the frozen North. When the CRTC allowed the providers that work in that country to use traffic management practices to slow down some features so there was ample bandwidth available to all consumers, they opened a can of worms only possible with this kind of bloated governmental interference. Peer to peer traffic was one of the techniques slated. The latest guidelines will essentially keep an eye on the practices that these companies can employ and how much they need to tell the public about which ones they are going to use. A free market here would end these silly little shell games. Maybe it will happen under the current pro business government.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) announced they plan on dramatically increasing the number of domain endings that will be available in the summer. According to reports, there will be hundreds of new domain names available soon including .Google or even .Coke. Currently 250 country domain suffixes and companies looking for industry or firm specific endings will need to show some manner of legal ownership. The process will start according to the BBC in January.

Finally there are new rumblings that Yahoo could be sold. After firing CEO Carol Bartz over the phone, more fuel has been added to the fire with an email sent to employees from the top brass and founders saying that all possibilities were being looked at.

Still, the same memo states Yahoo is looking for a replacement for Carol Bartz and that in itself isn’t the kind of thing as firm would do if they were looking to sell.

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6 Marketing tips by email for beginners

Email marketing is an effective way to communicate with potential buyers. Whatever it is that needs to be sold, email marketing proves to be an effective means for converting prospects to buyers. For internet marketing beginners, it is difficult to do properly. Many beginners start on the wrong foot and thus obtain results very shortly. To save each newbie many headaches, here are 6 tips marketing email for beginners.

1 Allow your members free to join, to stay or leave

Nobody likes a sentence of imprisonment. Customers want to know that they can make a decision, whenever they want. Do not start send unsolicited e-mail to people who had not joined your mailing list. They will see you as a spammer. They may even report to their ISP, and this will help you on a blacklist. If this happens, every email you send is never delivered to the email associated with the ISP. To avoid this will always give members of your freedom. Let them voluntarily consent to your mailing list. When you send messages to your list, make sure that the unsubscribe link is added to all your messages. When you have good content in your message, your subscribers will remain. If you do not add the unsubscribe link in your email, your subscribers will automatically build the resistance you because they will see that you are them bombarding messages without the option to stop it if they wish.

2. Choose a good Solution of Marketing by e-mail

A good email marketing solution is one of the keys to the success of your email marketing campaign. A good marketing solution email must have a high level of deliverability. What good is if you send 1000 messages and only 400 offer? A good marketing solution email must have 90% deliverability. A good email marketing solution should have good support that responds well to requests for customer information. FlutterMail is an example of a good email marketing solution. They have a very low rate and a free 30 day subscription. No credit card is necessary at registration free for 30 days. You can check their on www.fluttermail.com. They have full characteristics to help you start your successful email marketing campaigns.

3 Make it easy for your members to join your list

To collect a good list you need to make it easy for new subscribers to register. A good and effective option is to create a page squeeze. On the page squeeze, explain clearly what the stand of the prospective subscriber get when they subscribe to your list. On some other pages of your Web site, you can also put a registration form. When doing so, place the registration form in a position on the web page that will be visible. Preferably, not to use images to make the dark form. Place the form where first time to your blog or your site visitors can easily see. Where you want to know the best placed to do this, it is the right side of your web page.

4 Maintain a theme

When people have joined your list, they have done for a reason. For example if you promised to give them something related to weight loss, to stick to the niche of weight lost. Maintaining this theme. All e-mails should be linked to weight loss. When you want to sell any product, let it be related to weight loss. Even if you want to wander to something else, not wander too far. Your list is a targeted list. People who joined your list have similar interests. Your posts should focus on this interest. This initiative will help to reduce the number of breaks in the opt. As in the example above, your list has people interested in weight loss. If you start to send messages to them on parenting, you will find many people of disengagement. Why? Just because some of your subscribers are not favourable in questions of the parents and that they will see you as the sending of non-relevant messages that fills all their email box. Stick to a theme.

5 Use the good subject lines

The subject line is the invitation to your message. A good and catchy subject line will ensure that your messages read. Do not write your subject uppercase line. It will consider non-professional. Your subject lines must contain more words one syllable. The human brain easily recognizes short sentences and short words. A way to choose the good subject lines is to study the subjects in your Inbox that attracts your attention.

6 Call to Action

At the end of your e-mail, to appeal to the action. The call to action can be an application for the reader to click and they will be directed to your site, blog or on your sales page. A call to the à l' action action is usually a phrase for example "for more information on how your body mass index is related to your health, visit www.bbbbbbb.com" the reader will be easily click and you will be achieving the goal of your email marketing campaign.

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