@mattcutts – Website Matt Cutts joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000. He currently the head of Google’s Webspam team. Before Google, He worked as Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also have an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky.

@dannysullivan – Website Beyond Ad Age, He was the “Search Alert” columnist for Yahoo! Internet Life from April 1999 through May 2001.

@zaibatsu Reg Saddler has been involved in IT consulting for 15 years, and two years ago he moved into social media, advising corporations on best practices, and showing them how to create content that begs to be shared.  Reg is the managing partner for Difference Theory.

@sengineland – Website The site is led by journalist Danny Sullivan, who has been covering search for the past 11 years. It is published by Third Door Media, which also produces the Search Marketing Expo conference series and the Search Marketing Now webcast events.

@aaronwall – Website Aaron Wall is an aggressive and creative viral marketer who thinks of the Web in terms of how ideas spread, is a leading figure in Search Engine Marketing and SEO. Aaron literally wrote the book on search engine optimization:  SEO Book. SEO Book is quite possibly the most authoritative work on SEO strategies and practices currently available.

@seosmarty – Website Ann Smarty is an SEO specialist and social media enthusiast. She has been actively involved in Internet marketing since 2003 year but only became known in SEO community in 2007 when she started her own SEO blog SEOsmarty.com. Ann’s specialty is viral content, blog promotion and community building.

@graywolf – Website Michael Gray became involved in web development and website management in 1998.Michael has been a speaker at SMX, Search Engine Strategies and PubCon He is moderator at Webmaster World and Sphinn and an editor at ThreadWatch. He has been a guest speaker on SEO RockStars, Good Karma, and The Daily Search Cast. Michael has also been interviewed for SEO articles in CNET and Forbes.com.

@leeodden – Website A veteran internet marketer, Odden has consulted for clients including: HP, McKesson, BT, Northwest Airlines, PRWeb, Supervalu, WebAwards and the national PRSA.

@yoast – Website Joost de Valk is a WordPress developer and SEO specialist. He started out in the open source world by contributing to Apples WebKit, where he became one of the first non-Apple employees with commit rights. After that he moved on to the world of blogging and SEO. His blog Yoast.com is one of the most important references for people who want to improve and optimize their WordPress blog.

@rustybrick – Website Barry is often quoted and interviewed in publications such as Forbes, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, USA Today BuinessWeek, News.com, Publish and many more. He has over a decade of hands on experience in web strategy, marketing and business optimization.

@DaveNaylor – Website David Naylor, more commonly known as DaveN, started working in the SEO industry over 13 years ago with three major corporations releasing their database driven data, creating internal link structures and improving usability.

@vanessafox – Website Vanessa Fox is a search engine optimization expert, writer and consultant best known for her work creating Google Webmaster Central and as a Google spokesperson. Fox joined Google in 2005 as a technical writer in its Kirkland, Washington office. She left Google in June 2007, and briefly worked for real-estate startup Zillow. She is an Entrepreneur In Residence for Ignition Partners Seattle, Washington -based venture capital firm. Additionally, she is the founder of Nine By Blue, a marketing consultancy with an emphasis on search.

@stuntdubl – Website Todd Malicoat (aka stuntdubl) has over 10 years of experience in internet marketing and 5 years experience consulting on search marketing management at an executive level.  He’s consulted and created training documentation for the Public Broadcast System (PBS.org), Meredith Corporation, Thomas Industrial, Rasmussen College, Real Networks, and other large brands.

@jillwhalen – Website Jill Whalen is a search engine optimization (SEO) consultant, speaker and writer. Whalen is CEO of High Rankings, and co-founder of Search Engine Marketing New England (SEMNE). She is a regular speaker at Search Engine Strategies Conferences. High Rankings includes a top-rated SEO discussion forum.

@BrentDPayne – Website Brent D Payne, as the Tribune Company’s in-house Director of Search Engine Optimization (and bald SEO legend), has managed a 20 million increase in monthly visits to its websites, including the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times.

@SEOTipADay – Website SEOTipADay.com is ran by Rich Howard. Rich resides in Bowling Green, KY and has been working actively in the internet/e-commerce world for almost 10 years. He started working with search engine optimization (SEO) and other internet marketing efforts roughly 8 years ago and has compiled a long list of successes with his unique marketing campaigns.

@the_gman – Website Gerald Weber president of Search Engine Marketing Group in Houston Texas. He have been a search engine marketing professional since 2001. He also specialize in website design, organic SEO (search engine optimization), pay per click campaign management and social media optimization.

@btabke – Website Brett Tabke is the Founder and CEO of WebmasterWorld and chair of PubCon conferences. Tabke has run community networking sites continuously since 1984. He was also featured in the Biography Channel special on the Google founders. Tabke was a founding board member of SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization). In addition to the thousands of educational posts he has written for the WebmasterWorld audience, he has authored a chapter for the best selling “Google Hacks” book.

@danwegner – Website Dan Wegner provided a webinar for several dozen website owners on how to gain top positions in Google’s Local Business Results, a key piece of search engine real estate when users perform local searches. A second webinar is being scheduled. Dan Wegner and Kat Soland formed Traffic Resources International, LLC in early 2009 to meet the website traffic needs of mid-sized and large companies.

@outspokenmedia – Website Outspoken Media team is able to offer clients a comprehensive mix of SEO consulting, social media services, content creation, online reputation management, affiliate marketing and SEO training services. They have also created the Outspoken blog to help teach other SEOs and business owners how to benefit from the world of SEO and Internet marketing.

@sugarrae – Website Rae is a regular speaker at the PubCon conferences and a former moderator for the WebmasterWorld forums. Additionally, Rae is a regular columnist at Search Engine Land and has also spoken at various industry conferences such as Search Engine Strategies and SMX. Rae was recently listed in the Invesp Top 100 Most Influential Online Marketers of 2008 and named one of the Top Ten Women of 2008 in Canadian Social Media.

@patrickaltoft – Website A full time SEO consultant since 2002 Patrick has developed the natural search strategies of some of the worlds largest brands. A regular speaker at conferences and occasional writer at E-Consultancy Patrick has been quoted in publications such as the BBC News, The Times, Guardian, TechCrunch, Mashable, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, Ars Technica, ZD Net, CNet News.com, Information Week, The Inquirer, Web Pro News, CNBC, and Wired.

@BrentCsutoras – Website Brent Csutoras is a seasoned Internet Marketing Consultant who primarily specializes in Social Media, Viral Linkbait and Search Engine Marketing strategies. Known for his work on Weird Asia News, a popular website serving a growing audience of around a million unique visitors a month, Brent has built a reputation as a Social Media expert.

@thegypsy – Website With over 8 years in search engine optimization and 4 years of writing and blogging, David Harry got the vision and passion to bring the SEO Dojo to life. He currently writes at the main HuoMah SEO Blog, is syndicated by WebPro News (and family) and contributes at Search Engine Journal and more. In the past David also written for Site Reference and the social blog, Collective Thoughts.

Understand What You Want to Track.
Do you want to track how many people are clicking and sharing your links or updates? Do you want to track a specific social media champaign? Or you’re just intereset in trends related topics?

So how do you monitor all the buzz? How do you monitor your brand? I’ve compiled a list of 10 online tools for tracking social media marketing. These tools will make it easy to see who’s connected with you.

Addict O Matic
You can type in a keyword, topic or phrase and out it goes searching the top blogs, news sites, Google, Technorati, Ask, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Topix and more. You’ll be given a personalized results page to bookmark with everything it finds related to your topic.

Backtweets
A search engine for Twitter. See who’s tweeting your links and more. Can also sign up for email alerts of new findings.

Blogpulse
Enter a word/phrase or a URL to view blog comments containing the word/phrase/URL for any date range over the last 6 months. View volume trend graph comparing up to three words/phrases/URLs. Click anywhere on the volume lines to see the blog entries for that word/phrase/URL at that point in time. Track conversations.

Buzzoo
Buzzoo is all about internet buzz. It that tracks several visible sites to find for stories that are hot right now.

Happnin
Enter a word/phrase to see popular phrases that include the word/phrase used on Twitter within 20 miles of major cities around the world.

Hootsuite
Allows you to manage multiple twitter accounts in one place. The interface is clean and it’s easy to use.

Social Mention
Enter your keyword phrase and email address to be notified of any new findings. Searches blogs, microblogs like Twitter, bookmarks, comments, events, images, news, videos and more.

Surchur
Search for the latest and greatest on topics that are popular right now. Type in a keyphrase and it searches blogs, social news sites, photo and video sites for your chosen topic.

Twitrratr
Enter a word/phrase to view recent tweets containing the word/phrase grouped into positive, neutral, and negative columns, with a count and % for each sentiment column.

Twitter Analyzer
What’s not to love about this tool that analyzes your influence on twitter filled with comprehensive stats that calculates daily tweets, users who are retweeting your messages, and their unique reach.

They start to research about Batik pattern with Fractal Theory. In December 2007 Muhamad Lukman representing Pixel People Project set off to Milan and presents Batik Fractal research,designs and software before the Board Committee of 10th Generative Art International Conference in Politecnico di Milano. Lukman shows the batik samples and demonstrates Mathebatica and Batica Software. In May 2008 Muhamad Lukman and Yun Hariadi from Pixel People Project presented Batik Fractal and the Fractal Geometry in batik and demo the latest version of batik fractal software at that time (jBatik) Achmad Haldani from FSRD ITB presented Batik Fractal in relation to Indonesia traditional batik. November 2008 Batik Fractal software (jBatik) Wins Asia Pacific ICT Award 2008 (APICTA) 2008 in Tourism and Hospitality category. After 5 years participating in this competition and only granted with Merit Award (second best award), Indonesia finally is the winner of three categories. As a newcomer in this competition, Pixel People Project proud to bring victory to Indonesia team.

One thing to be noted in this competition is the strongpoint from Batik Fractal software (jBatik) is not merely the software itself,but more to uniqueness of the idea, the economic value and market potential ofthe software. Presentation also takes a big part in final judgment where this team presenting jBatik from the scientific background (Fractal Theory), the uniqueidea of jBatik in designing and the market potential point of view. This is the combination that brings jBatik to be the winner.

What is jBatik?
Based on the original word, jBatik which is a combination of two words: Java and Batik. JBatik is an open source software, custom developed to design Batik Fractal. This Java based program can be found in website www.pxlpplproject.com for user can have first hand experience to generate graphics by writing fractal formula based on L-Systems. User can also copy the formula provided in Galleries, manipulating the formula, iterations or angles of the fractal to produce various results. End results can be saved in png format for further development. For more info visit www.batikfractal.com or www.pxlpplproject.com.

Sample works using Jbatik
Shiny Scales

Dragon Wings

Dancing Phoenix

Shiny Scales-Free Style

Phoenix Traditional

Dragon Modern

What is Batik?
Batik is one way of making fabrics. Besides batik can refer to two things. The first is the technique of coloring cloth using the night to prevent the coloring part of the fabric. In the international literature, this technique is known as a wax-resist dyeing. The second notion is a cloth or clothing made with these techniques, including the use of certain motifs that have specificity. Batik Indonesia, as the overall engineering, technology, and development and cultural motives related, defined by UNESCO as a Cultural Heritage for Humanity Oral and Nonbendawi (Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity) since October 2, 2009. (Source Wikipedia)

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