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Hey..... Matt Whats That?

2009-07-13T12:50:00.000-07:00

I agree to Danny Sullivan:
“Stop giving away Blogger for free. It's just full of junk. Junk, junk, junk.”

WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine

2009-05-16T13:59:00.000-07:00

A few things to try:

enter any date (e.g. a birth date)
june 23, 1988

enter any town (e.g. a home town)
new york

enter any calculation
$250 + 15%

enter any math formula
x^2 sin(x)

enter any two first names
andrew, barbara

enter any chemical formula
H2SO4

Opacity vs. Transparency

2009-05-12T11:47:00.000-07:00

Google may know more about you than your mother does. Got a problem with that?

How Google knows everything about you

25 Surprising Things That Google Knows About You

What Does Google Know About You?

Access any ATM installed in the country free of charge

2009-04-06T12:14:00.000-07:00

According to RBI circular: http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/notification/PDFs/83421.pdf

Banks can no longer levies charges for :
1. For use of own ATMs for any purpose
2. For use of other bank ATMs for balance enquiries
3. For use of other bank ATMs for cash withdrawals

i.e You don’t have to pay for using other banks ATM now for above mentioned services while you will be charged for using your credit card for these services .

Click for more info

Thanks: Debajyoti

Google India Election Centre – Lok Sabha 2009

2009-04-06T11:40:00.000-07:00

Google today announced the launch of Google India Elections Centre : Collection of tools for citizens of India to:

Confirm their voter registration status
• Discover their polling location
• View their constituency on a map
• Consume relevant election-related news, blogs, videos, and quotations
• Evaluate the status of development in their constituency across a range of indicators
• Learn about the background of their Member of Parliament and this year's candidates

According to Google this will be an ongoing resource for analysis, governance, and democracy in India after the election and it will also yield positive changes in voting patterns during the upcoming polls.

Visit: Google India Elections Centre

Microsoft Teaches How to Speed Test Browsers

2009-03-13T04:51:00.000-07:00

Here you go: Measure Browser Performance

And below is screen shot of Browser Performance Test results for 25 websites tested by Microsoft on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 8.

And here’s a link to awesome video: Showcasing these speed tests

Finally we'll be able to monitor the results of this speed tests using these links:
w3schools.com
marketshare.hitslink.com

Google Analytics on Your iPhone

2009-02-05T10:17:00.000-08:00

Michael D Jensen of Inblosam LLC has released Google Analytics iPhone App which provides access to all your website's reports

"Analytics App includes 29 reports in categories including Overview Reports, Visitors Reports, Traffic Reports, Content Reports, Event Tracking Reports, and Custom Reports!"

I guess $5.99US priced iPhone App will prove very helpful to SEM/SEO professionals and their clients to monitor web site's traffic.

I wasn't able to try this App as I........:( . However you should definitely try this if.........:)

To Know more features of this App visit here: http://analyticsapp.com/#features

Photo Credit: Analyticsapp.com

Google + AJAX = "This is only test OR Big Idea"?

2009-02-04T10:37:00.000-08:00

A major update that Google is testing has completely broken the ability for any external analytics service like Clicky to determine the search query used by a visitor arriving at your web site."

TechCrunch Tablet PC (CrunchPad) Vedios

2009-01-19T11:48:00.000-08:00

With the help of Louis Monier TechCrunch is finally happy with $299 ($200 + $99) priced 12-inch touchscreen with a 4:3 aspect ratio "CrunchPad".

"I’m tired of waiting - I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet".

AWESOME....but Who is going bet on us now that's our major concern...-:(

Sitemap Generator by Google

2009-01-14T11:12:00.000-08:00

Google has finally released a Sitemap Generator (Beta) after the release of Python Sitemap generator in 2005.

Google Says - "we have created a different kind of Sitemap generator that uses several ways to find URLs on your website and then allows you to automatically create and maintain different kinds of Sitemap files."

I wasn't able to try it as it needs server installation however I hope all the webmasters will be happy to use Google Sitemap Generator.

Google is awaiting for feedback from all Webmasters and Analytics professionals around the world for pinging.... :-)

Golden Globe Awards Photos and Videos

2009-01-13T11:23:00.001-08:00

Photos and videos of "The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards" are available via the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) web site Goldenglobes.org.

Steven Spielberg received this year's Cecil B. DeMille Award for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field."

Below is details of this years winners:

Cecil B. DeMille Award : Steven Spielberg
Best Motion Picture - Drama : Slumdog Millionaire
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture : Drama Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture : Drama Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Best Motion Picture : Musical Or Comedy - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture : Musical or Comedy : Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy: Colin Farrell – Colin Farrell – In Bruges
Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Kate Winslet – The Reader
Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Best Animated Feature Film : Wall-E
Best Foreign Language Film: Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
Best Director - Motion Picture : Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture : Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Score - Motion Picture : Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Song - Motion Picture : The Wrestler
Best Television Series - Drama : Mad Men (AMC)
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama : Anna Paquin – True Blood (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama : Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment (HBO)
Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy : 30 Rock (NBC)
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy : Tina Fey – 30 Rock (NBC)
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy : Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)
Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television : John Adams (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television : Laura Linney – John Adams (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television : Paul Giamatti – John Adams (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television : Laura Dern – Recount (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television : Tom Wilkinson – John Adams (HBO)

Via : urlwire.com and goldenglobes.org

SEO Starter Guide From Google

2008-11-13T00:49:00.000-08:00

Google posted a 22 pages pdf – Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide to their webmaster central blog. This seo guide covers list of best practices for webmasters to help them improve their site’s crawlability and indexing by search engines.

It contains most common practices for optimizing a site irrespective of its size. Experienced webmasters might not find anything new in this very compact SEO guide however it will help new SEO professionals and webmasters to easily understand what they need to do in order to improve their website’s performance in search engines. The guide contains reference links to many help topics and important webmaster central posts.

The guide covers all the topics given below:

Creating good Title and Description for website pages

Improving the URLs structure

Navigation

Content

Anchor Text

Heading Tags

Optimizing Images

Robots.txt

rel=”nofollow” Attribute

Good practices for promoting your website

Webmaster Tools

Web Analytics

Helpful resources for webmasters

Large Hadron Collider: Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios

2008-09-10T11:56:00.000-07:00

Below posted comment is taken from Wired blog network. Every thing expressed in this comment represents personal view of commenter.

NEW LETTER TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA
Laval, Canada, August 28, 2008
SENATOR OBAMA,

‘It is in adversity’, I was going to say in ‘darkness’, that one recognizes true friends.

Energy of the Sixties tested, confronted by Todays’s Energy crisis, what does Science hold for us in this field at the crossroad of the third millennium?

Each of us should express solidarity, according to his means.

My contribution, apparently futuristic, refers, Senator Obama, to an inexhaustible source of energy, which one should tame now.

In a book with limited publication, translated in English for the needs of the cause, entitled ‘BILL A RI And There Was Light’, addressed during his last American election campaign to President Bill Clinton who acknowledged having received it, I dared to tackle this subject.

It’s like to say to you, Senator Obama, that in the exceptional circumstances in which we live today - in the point of view of energy - no exploration in the mid or long term, by the american expertise , of an additional source of energy, at the same time safe and profitable, should not be ruled out.

There is no witchcraft at all involved in all that, Mister Obama. In spite of my Haïtian ascent and my carefully phrased remarks. It is undoubtedly so when a taboo should be broken through. A taboo of magnitude, Sir, I admit it. A ’scientific’ taboo, seldom encountered.

‘ The taboo arises as a negative categorical imperative,’ affirms Roger Caillois.

It is not saying little. Especially when it is a question of adequately correcting the theory of Newton on light and colors.

However, at the dawn of the twenty first century, to denounce this taboo, to reverse it, should I say, what an asset! Moreover, at the same time the multiple taboos grow blurred which surround another phenomenon of the highest scientific range, the well known phenomenon under the abusive name of ‘Black Holes’, synthesis of light and colors. Indeed Newton, in good faith undoubtedly in his time, really reversed the interpretation of the phenomenon of light. He took the part for the whole ! So much and so well that today like yesterday, the visible appears so much more tempting. Physicists say it: ‘ninety to ninety nine percent of the matter of the universe (Grosso Modo - said here roughly by Lucien BONNET - for more precisions see “LINKS” or “GOOGLE”) is made up of a dark matter, invisible, which generates, propels and surrounds the visible, like the sea surrounds the continents’. Scientists such as Stephen Hawking affirm it. The Hubble Telescope confirms it. But theoretical Optics is stagnant.

My intervention, here, Senator Obama, would mean that. It is possible to use another form of energy. By decoding the Black Matter.Without a play on words. Theoretically initially. While ‘returning the elevator to Newton’ - without a play on words. By the Act which consists in making an AMENDMENT TO THE LAW OF NEWTON ON LIGHT AND COLORS.

Presently, why should we take the result instead of the cause?

— Objectively and in a pragmatic way, how not focusing on the new synthesis?

Consequently, what a liberation !

At the threshold of the third millennium, let light live, invisible by synthesis, visible by analysis !

‘Synthesis and analysis are two wings of the same bird, the rythm of the universe’s heartbeat, tamed inside the infinitely small having mass. Successively contracted and deployed. In the benefit of humanity.’

One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind - I also said myself - in ‘ BILL A RI and there was light !… ‘

Unfortunate, yes, but how much a convenient Energy crisis if I dare say, which invites us to explore other avenues, other concepts and, therefore, other resources so far neglected.

Invitation to go from the invisible to the visible and vice versa. Taking advantage of the sequence of colorless and colored luminous speeds. In order to better understand the Universe. Where Law and Order prevail. Just like in Democracy !

Energetic formula with a unique character !

In the name of Science and Technology, vapor is being reverse !

A winning formula !

In The United States Of America.

By The United States Of America.

For The United States Of America and abroad !

With you today, Senator Obama, I repeat this sentence - since 1972 and 1978 - that is to say forty years old, but always, in my opinion, carrying the same message that I wish more and more positive for the years to come, in the third millennium, as I said since 1972 and on April 10, 1978, in a Letter to Doctor Carl Sagan:

‘On the cosmic scale as on the terrestrial scale, darkness or blackness forms an integral, sine qua non part, of color and light pocess’.

Is it still broad daylight
in the shadow of the black sun?

Yours truly,
Lucien BONNET

Testing google chrome beta

2008-09-03T10:42:00.000-07:00

I don't have too much to share regarding google chrome as its already been all over the net. However I would suggest every one to test their website's for Google Chrome compatibility and share their feedback with google so that quick improvements are implemented to this browser.

Here is a screenshot of what I found accidently. I opened this url http://www.infinite.com in google chrome and....

The Making of TechCrunch's Tablet PC

2008-08-31T11:53:00.000-07:00

Techcrunch finally unveiled its progress on Tablet PC that will cost $200 and run nothing more than just Firefox. Below is a preview of all the effforts behind the project. We wish all best to the team behind this project.

browsershots.org: Test your website appreance in different browsers online

2008-08-27T11:00:00.000-07:00

Browsershots.org is already a popular tool used by thousands of web developers around the world. If you are new into web designing and development then this tool will help you. Testing a website for browser compatibility is a very common practice.

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

Microsoft Live Labs Introduces Photosynth

2008-08-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Live Labs has introduced a new service called Photosynth. Photosynth is a Breakthrough Visual Medium which goes far beyond how you now view, experience and share photos. Its a totally new concept which enables you transform regular digital photos into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience.

With Photosynth, you can look up or down, pan from left to right, zoom in, or pull back to reveal the full sense of where you were. Synths constitute an entirely new visual medium. Photosynth analyzes each photo for similarities to the others, and uses that data to estimate where a photo was taken. It then re-creates the environment and uses that as a canvas on which to display the photos.

In order to use Photosynth you'll need to install free software application to your computer from http://photosynth.com. This software works in concert with the Photosynth Web site, which is also a free service.

As when I tried to test drive Photosynth it was turned to special static/read-only mode. This is what they said..

"Getting ready for the launch we did massive amounts of performance testing, built capacity model after capacity model, and yet with all of that, you threw so much traffic our way that we need to add more capacity. We are adding that extra horsepower right now and should be back up shortly."

Free online image editor

2008-08-19T01:02:00.000-07:00

Pixlr.com is a free online image editor. Pixlr has an interface very similar to photoshop however the features are limited. You may find it easier to edit images using this tool if you are not comfortable using photoshop. You can try this tool by clicking on the Jump In link. No registration is required.

Pixlr.com is no doubt a great tool however some features still needs to be integrated. Text tool is not present and many other features similar to photoshop can make it perfect photo editing tool.

Increase your feedburner subscribers with a simple trick

2008-08-06T00:24:00.000-07:00

Video embedded below shows how to manipulate your Feedburner subscribers in two minutes. Guys at TheNextWeb.org have found a trick to artificially increase your feedburner count.Using this trick any one can show fake feedburner subsciber stats for their site. This is really an issue and needs to be fixed.

Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.

Google steering a powered wheel chair

2008-07-30T11:40:00.000-07:00

This is an inspiring story of 21 year old Naga Naresh Karutura who has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer science and has joined Google in Bangalore (India). You might be guessing what's so special about this? Exactly the same way I reacted when I read about him at maathiyoose.com. All the content posted below is quoted exactly as it is. Please read the complete story. It’s very inspiring.

Naresh is special. His parents are illiterate. He has no legs and moves around in his powered wheel chair. (In fact, when I could not locate his lab, he told me over the mobile phone, ‘I will come and pick you up’. And in no time, he was there to guide me) Ever smiling, optimistic and full of spirit; that is Naresh. He says, “God has always been planning things for me. That is why I feel I am lucky.”

Read why Naresh feels he is lucky.

Childhood in a village

I spent the first seven years of my life in Teeparru, a small village in Andhra Pradesh, on the banks of the river Godavari. My father Prasad was a lorry driver and my mother Kumari, a house wife. Though they were illiterate, my parents instilled in me and my elder sister (Sirisha) the importance of studying.

Looking back, one thing that surprises me now is the way my father taught me when I was in the 1st and 2nd standards. My father would ask me questions from the text book, and I would answer them. At that time, I didn’t know he could not read or write but to make me happy, he helped me in my studies!

Another memory that doesn’t go away is the floods in the village and how I was carried on top of a buffalo by my uncle. I also remember plucking fruits from a tree that was full of thorns. I used to be very naughty, running around and playing all the time with my friends. I used to get a lot of scolding for disturbing the elders who slept in the afternoon. The moment they started scolding, I would run away to the fields! I also remember finishing my school work fast in class and sleeping on the teacher’s lap!

January 11, 1993, the fateful day

On the January 11, 1993 when we had the sankranti holidays, my mother took my sister and me to a nearby village for a family function. From there we were to go with our grandmother to our native place. But my grandmother did not come there. As there were no buses that day, my mother took a lift in my father’s friend’s lorry. As there were many people in the lorry, he made me sit next to him, close to the door.

It was my fault; I fiddled with the door latch and it opened wide throwing me out. As I fell, my legs got cut by the iron rods protruding from the lorry. Nothing happened to me except scratches on my legs. The accident had happened just in front of a big private hospital but they refused to treat me saying it was an accident case. Then a police constable who was passing by took us to a government hospital.

First I underwent an operation as my small intestine got twisted. The doctors also bandaged my legs. I was there for a week. When the doctors found that gangrene had developed and it had reached up to my knees, they asked my father to take me to a district hospital. There, the doctors scolded my parents a lot for neglecting the wounds and allowing the gangrene to develop. But what could my ignorant parents do? In no time, both my legs were amputated up to the hips.

I remember waking up and asking my mother, where are my legs? I also remember that my mother cried when I asked the question. I was in the hospital for three months. Life without legs I don’t think my life changed dramatically after I lost both my legs. Because all at home were doting on me, I was enjoying all the attention rather than pitying myself. I was happy that I got a lot of fruits and biscuits.

‘I never wallowed in self-pity’
July 28, 2008

The day I reached my village, my house was flooded with curious people; all of them wanted to know how a boy without legs looked. But I was not bothered; I was happy to see so many of them coming to see me, especially my friends! All my friends saw to it that I was part of all the games they played; they carried me everywhere. I believe in God. I believe in destiny. I feel he plans everything for you. If not for the accident, we would not have moved from the village to Tanuku, a town. There I joined a missionary school, and my father built a house next to the school. Till the tenth standard, I studied in that school.

If I had continued in Teeparu, I may not have studied after the 10th. I may have started working as a farmer or someone like that after my studies. I am sure God had other plans for me. My sister, my friend When the school was about to reopen, my parents moved from Teeparu to Tanuku, a town, and admitted both of us in a Missionary school. They decided to put my sister also in the same class though she is two years older. They thought she could take care of me if both of us were in the same class. My sister never complained. She would be there for everything. Many of my friends used to tell me, you are so lucky to have such a loving sister. There are many who do not care for their siblings. She carried me in the school for a few years and after a while, my friends took over the task. When I got the tricycle, my sister used to
push me around in the school.

My life, I would say, was normal, as everyone treated me like a normal kid. I never wallowed in self-pity. I was a happy boy and competed with others to be on top and the others also looked at me as a competitor. Inspiration I was inspired by two people when in school; my Maths teacher Pramod Lal who encouraged me to participate in various local talent tests, and a brilliant boy called Chowdhary, who was my senior.

When I came to know that he had joined Gowtham Junior College to prepare for IIT-JEE, it became my dream too. I was school first in 10th scoring 542/600. Because I topped in the state exams, Gowtham Junior College waived the fee for me. Pramod Sir’s recommendation also helped. The fee was around Rs 50,000 per year, which my parents could never afford. Moving to a residential school Living in a residential school was a big change for me because till then my life centred around home and school and I had my parents and sister to take care of all my needs. It was the first time that I was interacting with society. It took one year for me to adjust to the new life.

There, my inspiration was a boy called K K S Bhaskar who was in the top 10 in IIT-JEE exams. He used to come to our school to encourage us. Though my parents didn’t know anything about Gowtham Junior School or IIT, they always saw to it that I was encouraged in whatever I wanted to do. If the results were good, they would praise me to the skies and if bad, they would try to see something good in that. They did not want me to feel bad. They are such wonderful supportive parents.

Life at IIT- Madras

Though my overall rank in the IIT-JEE was not that great (992), I was 4th in the physically handicapped category. So, I joined IIT, Madras to study Computer Science. Here, my role model was Karthik who was also my senior in school. I looked up to him during my years at IIT- Madras. He had asked for attached bathrooms for those with special needs before I came here itself. So, when I came here, the room had attached bath. He used to help me and guide me a lot when I was here. I evolved as a person in these four years, both academically and personally. It has been a great experience studying here. The people I was interacting with were so brilliant that I felt privileged to sit along with them in the class. Just by speaking to my lab mates, I gained a lot.

‘There are more good people in society than bad ones’
July 28, 2008

Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to Prof Pandurangan and all my lab mates; all were simply great. I was sent to Boston along with four others for our internship by Prof Pandurangan. It was a great experience.

Joining Google R&D

I did not want to pursue PhD as I wanted my parents to take rest now. Morgan Stanley selected me first but I preferred Google because I wanted to work in pure computer science, algorithms and game theory.

I am lucky Do you know why I say I am lucky? I get help from total strangers without me asking for it. Once after my second year at IIT, I with some of my friends was traveling in a train for a conference. We met a kind gentleman called Sundar in the train, and he has been taking care of my hostel fees from then on.

I have to mention about Jaipur foot. I had Jaipur foot when I was in 3rd standard. After two years, I stopped using them. As I had almost no stems on my legs, it was very tough to tie them to the body. I found walking with Jaipur foot very, very slow. Sitting also was a problem. I found my tricycle faster because I am one guy who wants to do things faster. One great thing about the hospital is, they don’t think their role ends by just fixing the Jaipur foot; they arrange for livelihood for all. They asked me what help I needed from them. I told them at that time, if I got into an IIT, I needed financial help from them. So, from the day I joined IIT, Madras, my fees were taken care of by them. So, my education at the IIT was never a burden on my parents and they could take care of my sister’s Nursing studies.

Surprise awaited me at IIT

After my first year, when I went home, two things happened here at the Institute without my knowledge. I got a letter from my department that they had arranged a lift and ramps at the department for me. It also said that if I came a bit early and checked whether it met with my requirements, it would be good. Second surprise was, the Dean, Prof Idichandy and the Students General Secretary, Prasad had located a place that sold powered wheel chairs. The cost was Rs 55,000. What they did was, they did not buy the wheel chair; they gave me the money so that the wheel chair belonged to me and not the institute.
My life changed after that. I felt free and independent. That’s why I say I am lucky. God has planned things for me and takes care of me at every step. The world is full of good people I also feel if you are motivated and show some initiative, people around you will always help you. I also feel there are more good people in society than bad ones. I want all those who read this to feel that if Naresh can achieve something in life, you can too.

Credit: Maathiyoose

Who recommended DIGG acquisition by google?

2008-07-23T11:31:00.000-07:00

There were rumors earlier but now it’s confirmed that Google is about to acquire Digg for around $200 million. Google was experimenting with digg like search interface since 2007. And now with acquisition of Digg it will be lot more easy for google to digg up the facts they were experimenting for.

According to VentureBeat this was possible only because there are powerful competitors for Digg like Yahoo! Buzz and Propeller by AOL in the present market. This may be true however its very easy for any one to create a clone similar to digg. So why would Google go for such acquisition?

The answer is simple, GOOGLE is the POWERFUL internet giant and never wants to stay behind in any race. Google has got extra dollars to throw away just for experimenting with &%^*$^&$*.

Google Lively you won't survive...I M here ha ha!!

2008-07-17T12:30:00.000-07:00

Sibley Verbeck creator of virtual islands in Second Life is releasing a platform independent Flash-based based 3-D virtual world application WebFlock, which can run on almost any of the available browsers today. You don't need to download any add-on or S/w to run this application. This application will be available as a hosted service and it’s very expensive to afford...$100,000$ for 12 months.

However this application is not for common men. Its meant for real business if you can afford. Please go throw the PDF's to learn more - WebFlock for Online Marketing, WebFlock for Web Publishers.

So what do you think? Where Google stands in Virtual world? Google has just entered into the virtual world with Google lively and we may expect Google lively as a #1 3-D virtual world application within a few months or YEARS. Its totally depends on whether Google is really serious about his Second Life or Not.

Want some serious readers for your blog?

2008-07-15T13:36:00.000-07:00

Are you new to blogging? Don't know how to get visitors to your blog? Don't be upset. If your posts are original and interesting then you will surely find few serious readers too. Need some serious blogging tips and tricks please visit copyblogger.

Still not getting any readers for your blog...BAD LUCK....Try Entrecard. This is a free service specially for bloggers. As you can clearly notice referrals form Entrecard to this blog, this is a simplest way to get some real traffic to blogs. Moreover it’s very simple to start with. You just need to register with Entrecard and add your blog. After this put the Entrecard widget on your blog and you are done. Now for advertising on thousands of blog already there you need some credits. To earn credits you'll need to browse throw members blogs and give them drops. You may get drops in return so make sure you are a serious dropper. Once you accumulate credits you can choose from number of blogs suiting your available credits for advertising.

Now if you want some comments to your blog then here's good news. Entrecard has partnership with SezWho to help you get some real comments to your blog. Don't hesitate to try this service. This service has just started and you can even earn Entrecard credits by participating. So check out SezWho and keep blogging.

Wordpress 2.6 released

2008-07-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

Some good news for bloggers who are running there blog on Wordpress CMS. Wordpress 2.6 is released today with number of new features and with dozens of improvements to the features of version 2.5.

To learn more about Wordpress 2.6 features watch this vedio.

Below are few of the features highlights:

Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits

"WordPress has always respected the importance of your writing with auto-save, and now we’re taking that to another level by allowing you to view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface, much like Wikipedia."

Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web

"For example, if you click “Press This” from a Youtube page it’ll magically extract the video embed code, and if you do it from a Flickr page it’ll make it easy for you to put the image in your post."

Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging

"Gears is an open source browser extension project started by Google. You can install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer, with support for Safari and Opera pending."

Theme Previews: See it before your audience does

"Now when you select a theme it pops up a window that shows the theme live with all your content, instead of immediately making it active on your site." Read More...

Get Wordpress 2.6

Can Google Lively Survive in Second life?

2008-07-09T12:25:00.000-07:00

Google has launched a new service Lively. It’s a browser based virtual world add-on which enables you to create an avatar and a virtual room which you can embed anywhere on the web.

According to Google its an effort to help people experience another dimension of the web with 3D graphics and real-time avatar interactions. However the story seems to be different as according to TechCrunch $345 Million Invested So Far This Year in virtual world. There already exists some well established competitors in this field. Secondlife, Slide and RockYou are few to name. Google is already a well established internet giant who always wants to be at top whether it’s via acquiring popular startups or with its smart services.

Since lively is free it may become popular with younger users. However the features are limited as compared to Secondlife. We can surely expect some interesting features in Google Lively in coming days and also the monetization.

Want to test drive your Second life visit Google Lively and don’t forget to send your feedback.