Online Radio - How to Use It to Get Your Music Fix

What kind of music really gets your heart pumping? Do you love to rock out to the latest top 40 music? Or, do you love something a little older, like 70's music? No matter what your fancy, you can find it all 24/7 with online radio!

What is online radio?

It is live streams of radio stations from around the world. With online radio, you get to listen to real radio stations through your internet connection, instead of over the air. And, online radio is always streaming, so you can listen to your favorite tunes any time of the day or night!

Since online radio is made up of real radio stations from around the world, you get real DJ's picking the music. It's far better than listening to playlists that are randomly generated by a computer!

When you listen to online radio, it won't be any different than if you were listening to the radio station over the air. You will get all of the same commercials, news updates, and traffic reports as the people who are listening locally. But, since your radio signal is coming over the internet, instead of over the air through an antenna, your sound quality will be much better. You won't have to worry about static, or interference in large buildings, or during thunderstorms.

As an added benefit, online radio is completely free! You don't have to deal with any download fees or monthly listening limits. You simply get the music you want, without any strings attached.

So, what kind of music gets played on online radio?

Absolutely everything!

Since online radio websites literally have thousands of radio stations to choose from, you can listen to anything you want! If 80's music or 90's music makes you nostalgic for your high school days, there are plenty of 80's music and radio stations to choose from. Or, if you want to travel back in time for a Disco theme party, you can use online radio to find some great 70's music.

But it's not just oldie goldies. With online radio, you can also listen to more recent music. There are plenty of radio stations available that play the very latest top 40 music.

No matter what you like, you can listen to it all. Whether you're at work, at home, or even in the car, you can listen to all of your favorite songs!

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By Richard A.Manfredi

Effective Web Hosting for Social Media Sites

Social media websites are a relevant and a crucial aspect of web surfacing in all parts of the world. The social media networking websites of today require only the most accommodating and innovative Web hosting. Because social media, podcast, forum wikis and weblog formats are varied, website hosts must be responsive and flexible to all of their client's needs. One of the common features among social networking websites is how they discuss and share personal information, which is something all social media campaigns need to keep in mind.

Above all else, it is important to remember that social media campaigns are becoming quite crowded and generate a huge amount of traffic. Because of this, bandwidth usage is higher than ever. In order to meet this demand, fast servers are a must when launching social media efforts. Every day, high bandwidth usage continues to grow as various media elements, such as applets, instant message functions, pictures and videos, are integrated into social media websites. All of these types of media place a heavy demand on the web hosts of today.

Perhaps the most critical area where web hosts need to excel is in their response to the public interest. Targeted SM campaigns cause big traffic boosts once the public begins to respond to the campaign message. Due to this traffic surge, server overload risks increase, which is why website hosts need to take a proactive approach to accommodating this high demand. But they cannot get away with using any kind of site content. In order to attract new users as well as nail down long-term interest, it is essential to utilize timely content management. Websites that do not provide regular fresh content, are not well maintained, run slow and are not open to suggestions do not gain and keep substantial amounts of traffic. Traffic is the main goal of all successful SM campaigns.

Because SM website hosting relies on content management, it is the job of web hosts to provide a wide array of tools for installing and editing Web content. Drupal is one of these effective software packages that helps people and businesses publish content on their websites. The free add-ons and built-in functions of Drupal aid users in uploading files, creating blogs and using p2p networking. cPanel is another crucial tool for website hosting. This application allows for tight security, layered administration and features not available in any other similar application. The cPanel program is a must-have toolkit for launching new websites, which is a critical phase in any SM campaign.

Besides the above-mentioned tools, there are more common features shared by superb social media campaigns. One such similarity is that they are all goal oriented. A clear and straightforward description of the goals and is the start of all great campaigns. If you want to raise product awareness or get product/service feedback, you need to first determine your goals in order to avoid aimlessness. As the campaign continues, review these goals to maintain focus as you consider account experiences.

Brand identity is of the utmost importance. Due to social media's nature, your marketing campaign will have a wide reach so your campaign must correctly reflect its purpose from the word "go."

It is also important to establish a communication outlet with the Internet community. While there are some SM campaigns that dislike feedback and disable comments, successful campaigns are responsive and tailor their message in order to meet the always-changing demands of their target audience.

Entice your visitors. You can encourage online visitors to share information about your campaign efforts by giving away new offers and special discounts to repeat guests.

Finally, utilize your Facebook page's status changes and updates to expand your network of prospective clients. Because people tend to check their personal profiles on a regular basis, you will be able to instantly update them regarding special promotions.

If you use the above tips and tools, you can achieve a powerful social media campaign in just a few clicks. 

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Colocation Hosting - A Look at Migration for Servers

Colocation hosting is a great option for people who have businesses that depend on the internet. If you have a blog, a web channel or a search engine optimization business, this will prove to be extra beneficial for you, your enterprise, and its staff.

If you are owning a It Business or a SEO task than Colocation becomes an important factor for you. Colocation hosting means that you have a server in someone else's facility. There are several flavors. In the simplest version, you rent space in a server rack but you actually own the server. In this model, the owner of the hosting center doesn't really touch your computer. They provide you bandwidth, power, and an appropriate environment (air conditioning, fire suppression, physical security).

There are also facilities on lease for clients to use for housing their computing devices. It can be done by installing the machinery in the facility leased from the data center. The leased facility is usually composed of storage measured in rack units. On the other hand, larger facilities like suites are also offered.

And When it comes to virtual hosting we can't forget the name of VPS Hosting is the common choice now for small as well as medium scale enterprises. VPS Hosting is cost effective as well as feature rich so people find it more attractive as compared to dedicated servers as well as Shared Hosting solutions. It comes in two forms namely Windows VPS as well as Linux VPS. A Windows VPS is definitely more popular as it is compatible with lots of software and programs and hence it serves varied purposes for different requirements of businesses. It is more friendly with the user too as it is based on GUI and is not based on text commands. Windows VPS is also known as Cheap VPS as it is very cheap and so it is the best VPS among all.

To get complete control over the VPS server, one should always choose unmanaged VPS service. However once should have good knowledge about the operating system on which VPS is working because any changes or up gradation is in the hand of the customer. Managed VPS services has an upper edge over unmanaged VPS hosting services because of the flexibility of increasing space as per business requirement with an added cost. However one should understand that during peak hours, due to such system, the web traffic is on the higher end and which can make the site slow or inaccessible. However with new softwares, these issues have also been taken care off in last few years.

And if you are talking about the Web hosting. The quest for a colocation centre Singapore, best hosting provider for a Singaporean business owner involves research and a dedicated approach. There are a myriad of hosting services being offered that are not only cost effective, but also in sync with the latest technology. Singapore hosting has got its unique name in the field of web hosting and it provides all the essential components of webhosting.

Colocation hosting and VPS hosting is a great option for people who have businesses that depend on the internet. Choose best colocation centre Singapore for web hosting service. Further more information about this articles, the author invites you to visit Sparkstation VPS Singapore.

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Sustainable Operations Management (SOM) : design, modelling and analysis

Nevertheless, there are not many articles that deal with modelling and analysis of SOM decision making at strategic, tactical and operational levels that are important for implementation of SOM decisions. The aim of this special issue is to help researchers and decision makers to understand the strategies, tactics and implementation processes involved in SOM decisions and the performance measures and metrics through modelling and analysis of SOM. With the help of these articles appearing in this special issue, one should be able to gain a better understanding of the issues involved in SOM and how to model and evaluate SOM decision-making environments and decisions through appropriate modelling and analysis of both manufacturing and service supply chains. The scope of the special issue is to present researchers and senior managers with conceptual modelling and analysis of various sustainable operations decisions and their performance outcomes in supply chains. This includes optimisation related to closed-loop chains, carbon footprinting of supply chains, life-cycle management, greening supply chains, green and reverse logistics, product and process development towards improving energy savings, efficiency of transport and other related areas. Emphasis is placed on sustainable operations design, modelling and analysis, optimisation, and their performance measurement in a supply chain. The special issue contains articles that cover the following topics:

1. Implications of SOM in the 21st century organisational competitiveness;
2. Modelling of performance measures and metrics in SOM;
3. Modelling and assessment of life-cycle perspectives of SOM;
4. Modelling of cost/benefit and risk considerations/realizsations in SOM;
5. Macro-economic or industry-wide modelling and assessment of sustainable policies and actions;
6. Justification for SOM through conceptual modelling and analysis through the use of OR techniques;
7. Selecting SOM alternatives through appropriate Operations Research modelling and analysis;
8. Models for studying the impact of sustainable operations initiatives and policies;
9. Optimal supply chain configuration from a strategic, tactical or operational perspective;
10. Performance measures and models for SOM decisions;
11. Partnership development for SOM through modelling and optimisation.

The 11 papers appearing in this special issue deal with the above issues of modelling and analysis of SOM. A brief summary of each article is presented below.

SOM can be defined as the operations strategies, tactics and techniques, and operational policies to support both the economic and the environmental objectives and goals. The subject of sustainability has gained much attention from both researchers and practitioners over the past 6–8 years. Most of the articles deal with sustainability from an environmental perspective, but not many of them integrate both economic and environmental implications. Moreover, there is a limited focus on modelling and analysis of SOM integrating the interests of both economic and environmental interests. To address this, Gunasekaran, Irani, Papadopoulos in their paper entitled Modelling and Analysis of Sustainable Operations Management: Certain Investigations for Research and Applications review the papers on modelling and analysis of SOM. Therefore, an attempt has been made in this paper to review the extant literature on SOM. The objective is to understand the definition of SOM and present the current status of research in modelling and analysis, as well as future research directions in the field. Considering the recent focus on the subject, they review the literature beginning in 2000 in order to make the study current and more relevant for both researchers and practitioners.

Further more information about this articles, please you check on Journal of the Operational Research Society.


By Angappa Gunasekaran & Zahir Irani
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