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Google To Test 1 GB per Second Internet Connection

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Internet search giant, Google, last week announced a plan to test an ultra high-speed broadband network at Stanford University in 2011.

Incidentally, Stanford is also where Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, attended. The company will provide high speed access to over 800 staff-owned and faculty members based on Stanford’s Palo Alto, California, campus.

This connection will provide high speed internet access at about 100 times the current average connection speeds, up to 1 GB (gigabit) per second. Using Fiber-optic technology, the company plans to break ground on the project in early 2011.

Also earlier this year, Google announced plans to offer a similar service on a trial basis in one or more locations in the United States, which would allow them to test the network with at least 50,000 people or even more. It is not yet known where these location(s) will be, as Google will only announce the winning community(s) towards the end of this year.

Among Google’s many offerings are also a much faster internet browser called, Google Chrome. Among some of the positive attributes is that the actual display area of the browser is noticeable bigger than for instance Internet Explorer and Firefox

Google’s products seem to keep evolving, with the company branching out into various other areas of business and product offerings to its vast user network.
Monday, October 25, 2010
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Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post

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Sharing Via Social Media:



1. Using Twitter to Tweet and Share: Perhaps the fastest and most effective way to share a great blog post is through Twitter. Sharing or retweeting a link in Twitter can spread like wildfire. Use a URL shortener such as tinyurl or bit.ly to shorten links to fit within 140 characters.

2. Posting to Facebook: Sharing a blog post on the world’s largest social network is as simple as going to the Facebook homepage and posting a link.

3. Digg it: Not only will you help bring that blog post one step closer to reaching the front page of the news site Digg(which will spread it even further), but all of your Digg friends will see it as well.

4. Post on MySpace Profile: Don’t forget about the world’s second largest social network when sharing your favorite articles. Post the link to your MySpace profile so your friends can enjoy it too.

5. Posting to LinkedIn: Some blog posts are worthy of being shared by your business network onLinkedIn. Post a link to the Network Updates area in the homepage.

6. Stumbling on StumbleUpon Stumble the post! StumbleUpon is a favorite network for discovering fun websites and useful information, so make sure that you give the post a thumbs up. The StumbleUpon Toolbar is the easiest way to Stumble.

7. Bookmarking to Delicious: Delicious is great for not only sharing posts, but for helping categorize blog posts for others to find. In addition, you can import your delicious bookmarks to Facebook,FriendFeed, and other social media websites.

8. Sharing on FriendFeed: The social media aggregator FriendFeed has a vibrant community who love to share videos, links, and pictures. Use the FriendFeed bookmarklet to quickly share a good blog post to FriendFeed.

9. Adding to Reddit: Reddit is another great social media site for sharing and voting on articles. It’s quick and easy to submit a link

Sharing Via Blogs:

10. Reblogging Great Posts: Blogging about a great article is one of the best ways to engage with the topics being discussed. Post a link, write some commentary, and share it with all of your readers. And don’t forget to share your own blog post as well!

11. Sharing via Google Reader: Google Reader has a great feature for sharing blog posts. If you use Google Reader as your news reader of choice, all you have to do is click the “share” button at the bottom of blog posts to share it with all of your Google friends. You can also add notes and comment as well.

12. Posting on Tumblr or Posterous: If you want to share something via a blog, but don’t want to write a full blog post about it, there are great options for that as well, primarily Tumblr andPosterous. They are the quick and easy versions of full-fledged blogs, ideal for posting about pictures and blog posts.

Useful Tools for Sharing


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13. TwitThat: TwitThat is one of the quickest and easiest tools for sharing blog posts. It will post to your Twitter quickly and easily. Just add the bookmarklet to your browser toolbar and click it whenever you come across a great post.

14. Shareaholic Firefox Extension: There are a lot of great social networks where you can share a great post, but who wants to visit Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and LinkedIn to share a post? If you are a Firefox user, then install Shareaholic, an extension that goes on your toolbar. It provides quick links for sharing to all of the major social networks.

15. Ping.fm: If you’re a busy person, you might not have time to share on all of these social media websites. Isn’t there an easy way to share a blog post everywhere, all at once? Ping.fm links to all of your social networks and sends your updates to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, to any other website you wish to link to it. You can even update from your instant messenger. It’s the perfect solution for those who like to share content all over the web.

Other Ways to Share:


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16. Emailing: Email has always been a good way to share articles, especially with close friends and family. Although it may not reach as many people as Twitter, it will definitely reach anyone who isn’t as deep into social media as you are.

17. Texting: Did you know you that many blogs, including Mashable, support sharing an article via text message? Look out for the ShareThis button (three green dots connected by lines) under blog posts and select the “text” option. iPhones and mobile browsers have made it easy to read links sent by texts.

18. Changing IM Statuses: You probably have dozens, if not hundreds of IM contacts. Share great posts with all of them by changing your IM status to a great post you just read or wrote.

19. IMing a friend: If changing an IM status seems too impersonal, then just IM your friends the link. You can then have a fun chat about the blog post.

20. Talking to Friends: If you don’t have a computer handy, then don’t forget about the analog approach - call a friend or tell him or her over coffee about a great blog post you read. You can always send the link later if necessary.

How Do You Share Blog Posts?

This post only scratches the surface of sharing in social media. There are hundreds of tools and resources at your disposal. If you have another great way to share blog posts, please add it in the comments.

Sunday, April 05, 2009
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Download the World Wide Web

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These days, if you can't access the Web, you can't do your business or probably nothing else . 
The days where you couldn't surf the web because you had no Internet connection available are no more ! 

Imagine if you can download the Web in your computer, you will be able to access it from anywhere, anytime !

Making your imagination true , a company called MyWebDownload.com launched this project.

Can't believe this ?  or stuck with lots of doubts ?..Then read this..

Q: Isn’t the Web too big to for anyone to be able to download it?
If we consider the whole World Wide Web, yes it would be impossible to download it. The latest numbers from Google estimate that there are around 40 billion pages on the Web. If we then estimate that each page has 10KB on average, that is already 400,000,000,000 KB, or 400 Terabytes!

It turns out, however, that 90% of those websites are pornographic or gambling related. Once we removed those, therefore, the size of The Web was reduced to 10% of its initial value, or 40,000,000,000 KB (40 Terabytes).

After that we removed the illegal MP3 and movie downloads, and the YouTube videos. This further reduced the size of The Web to 3,444,000,000 (or 3,444 Terabytes), and that is the size of our file collection.

I guess it makes sense.

The files are very big, each with over 100 Gigabytes. The site recommend users to use a download manager software to make sure that they will be able to pause and restart downloads if necessary.

Overall it is a nice idea, and certainly a website to keep an eye on.


Friday, April 03, 2009
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75 websites you can submit your blog to

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Blog directories will never bring you a huge burst of traffic however it’s still worth submitting your blog to a few sites, particularly if you are promoting a new blog. This post lists 75 websites which bloggers can submit their blog to.

Blog Communities
  1. MyBlogLog
  2. BumpZee | Submit Page
  3. Blog Catalog | Submit Page
  4. SpicyPage
  5. FuelMyBlog
Blog Directories
  1. 5 Star Blogs | Submit Page
  2. Aviva Directory | Submit Page (has a blog section)
  3. B4Blogs Directory | Submit Page
  4. Best Blogs | Submit Page
  5. Bigger Blogger
  6. Blawg | Submit Page
  7. BlogAdr | Submit Page
  8. Blogarama | Submit Page
  9. BlogBunch | Submit Page
  10. BlogCode | Submit Page
  11. Blog Directory | Submit Page
  12. Blog Dust | Submit Page
  13. Blogdup | Submit Page
  14. Bloggernity | Submit Page
  15. BlogFlux | Submit Page
  16. BlogHop | Submit Page
  17. Blog Point | Submit Page
  18. Blog Watch
  19. Bloggapedia
  20. BloggerNow
  21. Blogging Fusion | Submit Page
  22. BlogIntro | Submit Page
  23. Blog Listing | Submit Page
  24. BlogListing.net | Submit Page
  25. Blogoozle | Submit Page
  26. BlogPulse | Submit Page
  27. BlogRankings
  28. Blogs Collection | Submit Page
  29. BlogSearch - Submit Page
  30. BlogSweet
  31. Blog Top List | Submit Page
  32. Blog Universe | Submit Page
  33. Blogz | Submit Page
  34. Brit Blog | Submit Page
  35. Dmoz Open Directory Project
  36. Eaton Web Blog Directory
  37. FindingBlog | Submit Page
  38. GetBlogs
  39. Globe of Blogs | Submit Page
  40. I Blog Business | Submit Page
  41. IceRocket | Submit Page (more of a search site but they have a blog submission page)
  42. LS Blogs | Submit Page
  43. MyBlogDirectory
  44. Read A Blog | Submit Page
  45. Small Business Blog Directory | Submit Page
  46. SpillBean
  47. Strategic Board | Submit Page
  48. Super Blog Directory | Submit Page
  49. TailRank
  50. Technorati | Submit Page
  51. Top Blog Area | Submit Page
Paid Submissions
Most of the directories who charge for a listing will waive the fee if you have a link to them on your blog.
  1. All-Blogs | Submit Page - $10 fee, Free submission if you link to them
  2. Best of the Web Blogs | Submit Page - $39.95 One-Time Review Fee
  3. Blog Announce | Submit Page - $9.95 fee, $6.95 if you link to them
  4. BlogBib | Submit Page - $15 fee, Free submission if you link to them
  5. Bloggeries | Submit Page - $19.99 fee, Free submission if you link to them
  6. Bloggers Directory | Submit Page - $1.99 fee, Free submission if you link to them
  7. Bulletize | Submit Page - $14.50 fee, Free submission if you link to them
  8. Delightful Blogs | Submit Page - $11 fee
  9. Submit Blog Directory |Submit Page - $5 fee, Free submission if you link to them
RSS Feed Directories
  1. Feeds for all | Submit Page
  2. Feedage | Submit Page
  3. Feedboy Submit Page
  4. Feedsfarm | Submit Page
  5. Jordo Media | Submit Page
  6. RSS Buffet | Submit Page
  7. RSS Feeds | Submit Page
  8. RSS Micro | Submit Page
  9. Search 4 RSS
  10. Syndic8 | Submit Page
I hope that you find this list useful. If you know of any more useful sites please let me know and I will add them to the list
Friday, April 03, 2009
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Internet is Fragmenting

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If you want my theory in short, this is whats happening, instead of the Internet growing as a whole and taking together every person that hops on to it, the Internet is fragmenting into smaller parts and breaking down the free transmission of data that used to happen.

The first major change that affected me when Google News switched to Google News India automatically when I would go to it. What happened is instead of all the international news showing up, my news gets India centric. Now I am more of a global person, its not that Indian news does not interest me, it sure does cause it affects me the most. But my perspective is narrowed down to one part of the world which I get to know anyway in the local newspapers.
 

Apart from not being able to see everything I want on a global level, YouTube that just launched YouTube India, I am not too sure how good the move is, perhaps it will benefit documentary makers and small scale filmmakers in India, but its also going to stop the exposure of a person to a completely new level of learning. The moment you get to YouTube India, you have the same stuff thats there on TV, people singing, reality shows and the scenes from bollywood movies. Why is the Internet replicating the same content that can be found on television? Wouldn't it be better for an Indian mind to learn much more from a YouTube.com than a localized version of the same. Perhaps YouTube will do what it claims to on their blog, act as a democratic platform for communication, but what if the democratic government does not allow them to give them the opportunity to give its Indian users the freedom the American version requires. YouTube bent over for the Chinese when they were asked to do it, well only time will tell, lets get the debates on YouTube, lets get the bribing cops caught, I wish all the self made Tehelka to do their democratic duty and give us the show of our lives!Another point to ponder on is if YouTube's move is basically to reap the benefits out of an emerging market. Rather than helping people learn and get exposed to global cultures and events. The doors are slowly being closed on these levels as Google's just turning out to be another big clog in the machine, with them narrowing down our exposure to information and making maximum profits out of it. Perhaps YouTube India could be the change required to get Indian who are glued to the idiot box online.

It would be much better for websites like Google to take active steps in educating the masses on global levels. This is what our Earth and this civilization really need at this point of time. Educate the people about to the numerous amounts of catastrophes happening, like climate change and the ones lurking around the corner.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
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Could the Internet run out of space?

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When a small group of university scientists began linking computers on different campus sites at the very end of the 1960s, they had no idea that their work would one day spiral into a globally-accessible network in which the total number of pages is measured in the tens of billions.

Such has been the Internet's phenomenal and dizzying growth that much of the technology which supports it has grown organically and without much forward planning.

But what if the Internet was to run out of space? This isn't just a theoretical debate, but something experts warn could become a real issue within a few years. Now, one business school professor studying the issue believes he may have come up with a solution.

The problem isn't one of storage, but of location, the so-called IP addresses which are handed out to new sites. These are all given a unique number based on something called the IPv4 (Internet protocol version 4) standard, the system under which the web first expanded globally.

IPv4 assigns main host addresses using a system which gives around 4 billion possible combinations, a figure which at the time seemed greater than could possibly ever be used. But now the numbers are running out. A new system, IPv6, has been developed, but technical issues and a reluctance among Web companies to begin using it means it could be years before this is widely adopted.

Benjamin G. Edelman, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, is warning that such a bottleneck could seriously hamper the Internet, saying the Web is in danger of becoming "a victim of its own success."

If new technology businesses can't acquire sufficient IP addresses it will be difficult for them to get a foothold in the industry, he said.

"Entry and potential entry are an important part of competition. We need to make sure new firms can easily begin operations so that existing providers can't hold customers hostage."

Edelman believes he has come up with an interim solution -- a free market in defunct or unused IP addresses, of which there are many millions, which can be transferred, at a price, to new owners.

"It's unlikely that other networks would return their space for free. Why would they?" he said. "But if the price is right, they may be willing to transfer the space to someone who needs it more."

In the Web's early days, Edelman explains, when the number of IP addresses seemed inexhaustible, some networks were allocated huge numbers by the non-governmental independent regulators which control this. Some of these companies later scaled back their Internet activities or even went out of business altogether.

These unused addresses could attract a market price, bringing not only what economists call "allocative efficiency" -- moving resources to where they are most needed -- but also another benefit.

"By putting a positive price on IPv4 space, a market mechanism would remind current v4 users that their v4 space is valuable, and that they might want to try to vacate it, to the extent they can, perhaps by moving to IPv6," he said.

"A market basically tells networks: 'We will pay you to use v6 instead.' That's a transition incentive quite different from anything we've seen to date. That's a transition incentive that just might work."

Economically efficient it might be. But would this mean ordinary Web users having to pay in order to surf? Edelman believes not.

"If this transition goes smoothly, consumers should never notice. To date, IP addresses have been a trivially small part of the cost of Internet access and Web site hosting. Even if IP address prices increased 100 times, consumers still probably wouldn't notice," he said.

"The bigger worries come if Internet Service Providers just cannot expand, or just cannot enter the market. If that were to come to pass, I wouldn't be surprised to see effects on service price and quality."


Monday, March 30, 2009
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The Best Website Taglines Around the Internet

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A tagline can make or break a website (well, maybe not, but it is cool to be dramatic). Below you will find a collection of the best taglines around the Internet. Some of them are funny, some are clever; but all of them deliver the message! Hopefully it will serve as inspiration.
  1. The Straight Dope: Fighting Ignorance since 1973 (It’s taking longer than we thought).
  2. Maxim Philippines: The best thing that ever happened to men … after women!
  3. The Consumerist: Shoppers bite back.
  4. Random Acts of Reality: Trying to kill as few people as possible…
  5. Joshuaink: Same old shit, different day.
  6. The Superficial: Because you’re ugly.
  7. Smashing Magazine: We smash you with information that will make your life easier. Really.
  8. The Best Page in the Universe: This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.
  9. Scaryduck: Not scary. Not a duck.
  10. The Art of Rhysisms: Chronologically inept since 2060.
  11. Needcoffee.com: We are the Internet equivalent of a triple espresso with whipped cream. Mmmm…whipped cream.
  12. Ample Sanity: Life is short. Make fun of it.
  13. Rathergood.com: The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom - a load of stuff by Joel Veitch that will probably crush your will to live.
  14. The Breakfast Blog: In search of the best eggs in town.
  15. Dooce: Not even remotely funny.
  16. Pink is the new blog: Everybody’s business is my business.
  17. Shoemoney: Skills to pay the bills.
  18. Oh No They Didnt’t!: The celebrities are disposable, the content is priceless.
  19. YouTube: Broadcast Yourself.
  20. Waiter Rant: Do you want Pommes Frite with that?
  21. Newshounds: We watch FOX so you don’t have to.
  22. Sabrina Faire: All the fun of a saucy wench, none of the overpriced beer.
  23. Defective Yeti: A maze of twisty passages, all alike.
  24. All About George: All about George Kelly… you know, if you go in for that sort of thing.
  25. Go Fug Yourself: Fugly is the new pretty.
  26. kottke.org: Home of fine hypertext products.
  27. Slashdot: News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
  28. Gawker: Daily Manhattan media news and gossip. Reporting live from the center of the universe.
  29. Get Rich Slowly: Personal finance that makes cents.
  30. hi5: Who’s in?
  31. Fotolog: Share your world with the world.
  32. Jezebel: Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women, Without Aribrushing.
  33. Autoblog: We obssessibely cover the auto industry.
  34. Boing Boing: A directory of wonderful things.
  35. Perez Hilton: Celebrity Juice. Not from concentrate.
  36. DumbLittleMan: So what do we do here? Well, it’s simple. 15 to 20 times per week we provide tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane.
  37. Lifehacker: Don’t live to geek, geek to live!
  38. Gizmodo: The gadget guide. So much in love with shiny new toys, it’s unnatural.
  39. John Cow Dot Com: Make Moooney Online with John Cow Dot Com
  40. WebWorkerDaily: Rebooting the workforce.
  41. The Simple Dollar: Financial talk for the rest of us.
  42. TrafficBunnies: Making your hits multiply like rabbits.
  43. Mighty Girl: Famous among dozens.
  44. The Sneeze: Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.
  45. Buzz Marketing: Because everyone is entitled to my opinion.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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