Many times when we are developing the site structure, we are given the options of running different part of the site on either sub domain or sub folder. An example will be: sub-domain – http://career.microsoft.com sub-folder – http://www.microsoft.com...

In SEO, one of the main thing to perform before any activity is to do keyword analysis. Keyword analysis will determine the route you take for future SEO actions and also how you model the type of content you want to publish on your website. The first...

Follow up to the blog post I’ve made here: http://cloudfex.com/cs/blogs/cloud/archive/2009/03/30/start-with-seo-in-mind-to-get-more-traffic-to-your-blog.aspx The blog is started on the 19th March and I’ve been tracking the progress closely for the past...

Recently, I started a blog at ( http://cloudfex.com ) to blog on topics like Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, .NET and any interesting technology news I receive in my mailbox. Before setting off to start this blog, I wanted to make sure I started off with...

For those who are interested to learn more about Search Engine Optimization from a web developer perspective, MIX09 has a session on that which you can download now at : T86M Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Web Developers (Thomas Deml) WMV WMV (High...

Want to learn more about SEO and news related to search and web technologies as a whole? Check out my technical blog: http://www.cloudfex.com which I am using to post technical guide on how to boost your SEO ranking on your web asset and other cool technologies...

Location aware applications are great!  But then… there is a scary side.  One of our interns in the Singapore MIC sent me a great article in Wired. http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_guineapig?currentPage=1 We are working...

The folks from BzzAgent (an agency focused on word of mouth marketing) released a really interesting e-book about word of mouth. This book gives some great examples of it but does not go much into the “how to” except maybe to hire them. None the less...

We get a lot of ISOs (typically through MSDN) and getting them on DVD/CD is a painful process given all the reinstalls I do on my machine.  Recently found a great (and FREE) tool to burn ISO images.  AND IT WORKS WITH WINDOWS 7.  Yeah!...

I’ve been working with the interns in our Microsoft Innovation Center (Singapore) on some cool Windows Mobile demos.  One of the biggies we encounter is how aggressive Windows Mobile manages power.  Not a bad thing for end users wanting to use...

Over the weekend, I receive a few questions about naming convention that will help improve SEO. Although correct naming doesn’t have too much of an impact in SEO, it does help in certain situation when the crawler needs to infer the content of your page...

In order for the crawler to know which page to crawl, the crawler will try to infer the site structure either using sitemap or simply crawling the links on the main page. You can generate a sitemap XML based on specification located at http://www.sitemaps...

Hi everyone! My name is Yizhe and I’m taking care of SEO related activities in the MSN family for SEA. I’m very passionate in technology – coming from a developer background and live search is my latest love. My primary job scope is to produce SEO best...

Have you seen Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs? Super cool. Honey made a quick “synth” of the Online Services Group – Southeast Asia office area. Check out other cool photosynths (and even create YOUR OWN) here… http://photosynth.net/default.aspx....

Drum roll please.... After many months of hard work, we would to introduce the people of Southeast Asia to our "WhereAmI" project ( http://locationpinpoint.com ). The goal of the project is to help facilitate location based services through...

Are you an Olympics junky? WE ARE! So much so … we build a cool feature into Live Search to help you cheer on your country or sport. No need to surf the links, just get instant answers with the medals tally classified by countries/sports. Give it a try...

Hello southeast Asia! My name is Honey Mittal and I’m the new Search Intern. I work with Chewy Chong (the Search Guy) helping him manage a bunch of his exciting new projects. I am an undergraduate Computer Engineering Yr 4 Student from National University...

Hello again, I've got great news for all the Olympic enthusiasts out there. Do you fancy yourself as an Olympic junky? Windows Live Search has come up with a very user friendly way of following the Beijing Olympics 2008 and cheering your country in the...

Hello everyone, This is Honey Mittal, the new Microsoft South East Asia- Online Services Group Intern. I work with Chewy Chong (the Search Guy form SEA) mostly on Live Search and his bunch of exciting new projects.I've got great news for all the Olympic...

First off, apologies for my readers in Singapore as it has been a heck of a long time since I made a post. The past few months have been quite hectic. I've changed roles (no longer your Developer Evangelist for Singapore) and am now your Search Guy for...

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Hello Singapore!  We working on a number super cool community projects here on my team and we sure can use your help to make Southeast Asia's online experience even better.  We put together our first "sChallenge" (not the best name...

Hello Singapore!  My team (the Online Services Group for Microsoft Southeast Asia) is looking for a few interns to join us for the Summer and Fall period.  If you're smart, organized and crazy passionate about the online world... I want to hear...

Another free MSDN TechTalk Day is just around the corner. Like all our previous TechTalks... we have it jam packed with ooie-gooie technology goodness. We kick off the day with an hours plus of back to back demos ranging from the practical stuff to absolutely...

Come join us this 12th (Tues) February 2008 where Microsoft MVP Wei-Meng Lee will present two sessions on what is new in Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Mobile development. Session 1 - What is new in Visual Studio 2008 If you have always wanted to learn...