Archive for August, 2008

How full RSS feeds help in increasing revenue from your blog

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Full V/S partial RSS feeds

You might have noticed some blogs publishing partial RSS feeds. How do you feel when you have to click on that additional link( Read the full story..) in your RSS reader in order to read the full post? Well, if you ask me, such partial RSS feeds are very painful and annoying to me. Full text feeds can help in generating higher revenues for bloggers if they realize the power of full text feeds.

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Create your manga avatar with FaceYourManga

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

My Manga Avatar

FaceYourManga is a free online service for the internet users to create their manga avatars in a quick and innovative way. Unlike other avatar creating services FaceYourManga( read as Face Your Manga) requires no registration to create your manga avatar.

Soon after the avatar is ready the users are able to use it with all IM services like Yahoo!, Skype etc.
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Alphabets being loved by spammers

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Spam Sucks

Seems like a superstitious tale!! Ain’t that? According to a research, those whose names begin with A are more likely to receive spam that those who start with Z.

Richard Clayton, security expert in Cambridge University revealed this trend after analyzing logs of email traffic from demon internet and discovered that those with names higher up the alphabet are more likely to receive spam than those lower down.

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Google Ad Manager for all publishers now

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that helps publishers sell, schedule, deliver and measure all their directly sold and network-based inventory. Now this online ad management solution is available to all publishers across the globe.

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Google Map Maker now in India

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Google Map Maker

Long awaited by Indians, the Google Map Maker has finally been launched in India. Before this, a total of 57 countries’ people were enjoying the feature of mapping their homes, offices, colleges etc. on Google Map Maker. For those who are new to Google Map Maker i’ll define it a bit: Google Map Maker is a product by Google that allows users to edit, create maps anywhere around the globe by marking places of their interest on the map.

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21 amazing facts about Beijing Olympics 2008

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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Two months back no one could have imagined that China can put up a show like this. People around the globe witnessed one of the most unforgettable opening and closing ceremonies. But no one can really think about the technology, money and people involved behind it. So here are some facts that you must know..

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FriendFeed Gets Redesigned

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Firendfeed FriendFeed today released a beta version of its newly designed interface to all users. The new interface is available at http://beta.friendfeed.com and will soon be available on main site.

Below are some of the new features that are added to redesigned FriendFeed.

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Google Suggest to be available by default in Google Search

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Google-Suggest Google Suggest - a search feature that provides real time query suggestions as you type into a search box will now be available by default on Google.com Homepages. Earlier, the Google Suggest Feature was there in Google labs and was used by a  Google Search in Firefox, Firefox Addon Customize Google to add Suggestions feature to normal Google Search in Firefox.

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Some Rib-Tickling Funny Error Messages

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

error2Errors are generally very frustrating, but sometimes they can be funny too. I also encountered a very strange and funny error message while working on my pc. So I decided to find more of these rib tickling messages on the net and I really found some of these. Here’s the entire list

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Twitter gets ready to combat Spammers

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Twitter Remember those crazy followers on Twitter that follow thousands of Twitter users and then use it to send spam to you. But now, the micro blogging platform Twitter will become more secure and spam free as Twitter has planned to take actions on Spammers and take additional measures to combat spam.

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