Showing newest 14 of 32 posts from 07.2008. Show older posts
Showing newest 14 of 32 posts from 07.2008. Show older posts
  • Thursday, July 31, 2008 TIMELINE DIGEST | WEB 2.0 XML BLOGGER THEME Here’s another great theme from Dezzain.com which is a great money maker Blogspot theme. Timeline Digest has several ad spots including the popular 125 x 125 sized banners in the sidebar. It’s a great way to sell ads on your site to bring in some extra money each month. You can also just place your own affiliate ads there as well. The version included in this download has 6 affiliate placeholders which are perfect for Blogspot bloggers.

    TIMELINE DIGEST WEB2.0 XML Blogger Template
    TIMELINE DIGEST WEB2.0 XML Blogger Template





    Features Include

    • 3 column theme with separate top sidebar block and bottom sidebar with split 2 widget sidebars
    • Theme Option to control your font style, featured category and front page post control (full content or excerpt content)
    • 6-8 ad space for 125 x 125 banner advertisement to generate aside income from your advertising
    • top header 728×90 skyscraper banner *optional - you can replace it with google AdSense
    • 300×250 ad banner compatible in sidebar
    • Bottom left post content to featured 2 parent category from your archive
    • Sidebar featured category with custom field and auto excerpt
    • Custom Category Page With Inline Left Custom Image
    • Archives page and sitemap page included


    • Top Ad Space : 728X90 large advertisement space at the top. you can either include some ads of can place some images there.

      TIMELINE DIGEST WEB2.0 XML Blogger Template


    • Label Cloud : Code which shows Label Cloud already included.

      TIMELINE DIGEST WEB2.0 XML Blogger Template


    • Top Menu : Stylish top menu.

      TIMELINE DIGEST WEB2.0 XML Blogger Template

      You can Add/Delete or Edit links in this menu. Just look for the below given code and edit it as you want.
      <div id='navigation'>
      <ul class='top-page'>
      <li id='home'>
      <a href='/' title='Home'>Frontpage</a>
      </li>
      <li class='page_item page-item-2'>
      <a href='http://bloggerweb20templates.blogspot.com/' title='About'>About</a>
      </li>
      <li class='page_item page-item-9'>
      <a href='http://bloggerweb20templates.blogspot.com/' title='Page 1'>Page 1</a>
      </li>
      <li class='page_item page-item-10'>
      <a href='http://bloggerweb20templates.blogspot.com/' title='Page 2'>Page 2</a>
      </li>
      </ul>
      </div>


    • Sociable Links : Stylish and cool sociable links added at the bottom of each post for users to bookmark and discuss the blog posts.

      TIMELINE DIGEST WEB2.0 XML Blogger Template


    • RSS Feeds Section : Attractive RSS Feeds Subscription section which allows you to show off your feed circulation and let readers subscribe for the Feeds.

      TIMELINE DIGEST WEB2.0 XML Blogger Template

      To edit this section look in the code for the following piece of code.

      <div id='rssbox'>
      <p id='subs'>Subscribes To Our Rss Feeds</p>
      <p><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/BW20T'>Feeds Via Readers Feed</a></p>
      <p><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/BW20T'>Feeds Via Email Subscriptions</a></p>
      <p>
      <a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/BW20T' style='height: 25px;'>
      <img alt='' src='http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Efc/BW20T?bg=F1F1F1&fg=444444&anim=0' style='border: 0pt none ;' width='88'/></a>
      </p>
      </div>


      Once found change the part in the code in BOLD to make the feed links pointing to your blog.


    • Space for 125X125 Ads : Space for popular 125X125 ads in the sidebar. By default there are 6 Ad spaces for 125X125 ads.

      TIMELINE DIGEST WEB2.0 XML Blogger Template

      You can always increase or decrease the number of ads in this space.Just look for this piece of code adn edit it to include the ads.

      <div class='sidebar-ads2'>
      <h3>Sponsors</h3>
      <a href='/'><img alt='ads' border='0' src='http://i344.photobucket.com/albums/p340/codebreeze/TimelineDigest/125ad.png'/></a> <a href='/'><img alt='ads' border='0' src='http://i344.photobucket.com/albums/p340/codebreeze/TimelineDigest/125ad.png'/></a> <a href='/'><img alt='ads' border='0' src='http://i344.photobucket.com/albums/p340/codebreeze/TimelineDigest/125ad.png'/></a> <a href='/'><img alt='ads' border='0' src='http://i344.photobucket.com/albums/p340/codebreeze/TimelineDigest/125ad.png'/></a> <a href='/'><img alt='ads' border='0' src='http://i344.photobucket.com/albums/p340/codebreeze/TimelineDigest/125ad.png'/></a> <a href='/'><img alt='ads' border='0' src='http://i344.photobucket.com/albums/p340/codebreeze/TimelineDigest/125ad.png'/></a></div>


    • Customized Comments Block : Very stylish and eye catching comments block will make your readers to leave a comment.

      TIMELINE DIGEST WEB2.0 XML Blogger Template


    These templates are offered free of charge! You are free to make any structural changes in the Templates. Only thing I ask is to please keep the links in the footer edited or unedited. Please don't remove them as I had spent a hell lot of time to make these tempaltes available forr you fellow bloggers.



    PLEASE TRY TO REHOST THE TEMPLATE CSS IMAGES TO YOUR PREFERRED IMAGE STORAGE AS THE IAMGES STORED BY USE MIGHT GET DELETED ANYTIME.



    Good luck and I hope you find my free templates useful!

    ALSO READ THIS : HOW TO INSTALL AN XML TEMPLATE?
    For more templates for blogger please check out WEB 2.0 Blogger Templates.

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  • Thursday, July 31, 2008 FBI WARNS OF NEW STORM WORM VIRUS Be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software (malware) which mention "F.B.I. vs. facebook". The e-mail directs the recipient to click on a link to view an article about the FBI and Facebook. Once the user clicks on the link, malware is downloaded to the Internet connected device and causes it to become infected and become part of the Storm Worm botnet.

    A botnet is a network of compromised machines under the control of a single user. Botnets are typically set up to facilitate criminal activity such as spam e-mail, identity theft, denial of service attacks, and spreading malware to other machines on the Internet.

    "The spammers spreading this virus are preying on internet users and making their computers an unwitting part of criminal botnet activity," said the FBI in a press release. "We urge citizens to help prevent the spread of botnets by becoming web-savvy."

    The Storm Worm virus has capitalized on various holidays and fictitious world events in the last year by sending millions of e-mails advertising an e-card link within the text of the spam e-mail.

    Be wary of any e-mail received from an unknown sender. Do not open any unsolicited e-mail and do not click on any links provided. The FBI is warning users not to respond to spam email and not to open attachments or links provided within such email, and advising them to validate the legitimacy of the email by typing the organization’s website address directly into a browser window, rather than clicking on a provided link.

    If you have received this, or a similar e-mail, please file a complaint at Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

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  • Thursday, July 31, 2008 INTERESTING WEB 2.0 APPS Web 2.0 applications just keep getting better, gaining the features people expect from traditional desktop applications. Here are some of the interesting WEB 2.0 application I found. Some of these may be really usefull for you people, while others are the repetition of some highly popular web services.

    Featured Startup
    Founded in March 2008, Balsamiq Studios creates rich, elegant, high quality plugins for Web Office applications.

    Balsamiq is company that sells a software mockup tool. Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it's digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting.

    Less than 6 weeks from launch, Balsamiq Studios reached USD 10,000 in revenue.This is a true one man show. Yes, you heard it right! The whole company, Balsamiq Studios LLC consists of a single guy.

    There are a lot of WEB 2.0 application s coming up daily, but a small number of them are getting noticed. Some of these are really useful for us. The apps listed here are not rated based on anthing. These are just random picks by me and thought they are good and should spread the word.

    1. Hikkup: Hikkup is a free tool for communicating with friends without revealing who's who. Express yourself or to get honest feedback from friends about things that are deep and personal or just fun.

    Get something off your chest. Learn something that your friends might not tell you in person. Hikkup takes the risk out of having an open conversation with people you know so everyone can speak their mind.

    2. Trendio:Trendio provides a stock exchange environment for headline news predictions. Sign up for Trendio and predict what will make the headlines in the news. Join this community-based game which features news predictions in politics, business, entertainment, sports and technology.

    Use words from specific categories and determine their value by their presence in the media. Use the word search tool to search for specific words.View the word's category, last quote and change. Find out which words are the most traded and which ones have been added recently.

    View the word's category, last quote and change. Find out which words are the most traded and which ones have been added recently. Buy/sell words to trendio, choose which words to play and bet on specific trends. Vote for words or suggest new ones. See a list of the current contests and competitions and register to compete. Increase your ranking by winning and contest/competition.

    3. Reddit : Use Reddit to bookmark your favorite pages in one central location. Create tags and share them with others. Browse Reddit.com for bookmarks of your interest or preference. Meet other people who share your same interests. See if Dragons really exist. See what George Orwells 5 rules of effective writing are. Rate your bookmarks and others for easy access.

    Subscribe to bookmarks of your interest and preference. Search Redditt by category or keyword without a need to register. Use Reddits search function to sort bookmarks by category, date, and others. Visit the Reddit homepage to see what bookmarks are hot or what bookmarks are new for today. Visit the Reddit blog for more information on how to use Redditt, or for updates to Redditt.

    4.Hot Help Desk : Hot Help Desk is a free ticket management and 100% web-based help desk system which can be accessed from any browser, with no plug-ins, no client maintenance and no client updates. Your customers can create and update tickets via online web based form or email easily, so you are able to track the history of support requests from inception to resolution, including routing, ownership and transfers .

    5. Ma.gnolia : Bookmark your favorite webpages using Ma.Gnolia and save them in one central location. Use tags to organize your bookmarked pages and share them with others. Access your collection of bookmarks from any computer. Ma.Gnolia saves your searched pages/ Keep your bookmarks private if you dont want anybody else to see them. Browse through different bookmarks and see what other people like, as well as finding other people who like the same thing as you.

    6. Grouptivity : Socialize with your friends and create social discussions with Grouptivity. Discuss about music, videos, stories or news and hear what your friends have to say. Download the toolbar to your browser and start a discussion on a website that has caught your interest. See who is online by adding your buddies from Yahoo IM, AIM and other messenger providers. Select from one of the various templates available including Discuss Shopping, Discuss News, Family Reunions, Charities, Event Planning, Photos, and Travel.

    7. Squidoo : Find the stuff you are looking for online with Squidoo. With Squidoo, you create a Lens that enables you to use Squidoo. A lens is one person's view on a topic that matters to them. With Squidoo, you can place your blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, your eBay auctions, CafePress designs, Amazon books or music, and more in one single location. Share information witn Squidoo, increase traffic on your web page by posting more information, and do other things as well.

    8. Monitor.us : mon.itor.us provides 24 x 7 network and website monitoring service with personalized interactive interface, where you can add server performance and availability tests, get uptime reports, track visitors, check CPU, memory and other systems resources, add contacts to get the alert notifications. End-user availability tests will be performed from geographically distributed servers as well from customer locations. The monitoring will be performed both outside and inside of your network firewall.

    9. Second Life : Second Life® is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe. Businesses use it for meetings, individuals use it for social interaction, building, and fun. Explore the possibilities in a virtual world teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Language support in eleven languages, including Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

    10. Spicypage : Bookmarking and social networking application. Spicypage lets you post, comment on, vote on, share your favorite sites or blogs with your friends and others. Network and meet other people with similar interests as you. Use Spicypage to bookmark your favorite web pages and save them in one central location. Use tags to organize your bookmarks. Share your bookmarks with friends, co-workers, and other Spicypage users. Meet other Spicypage users who share similar interests and have similar preferences. Comment on your bookmarks and others, and vote on the popularity of different bookmarks.

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  • Wednesday, July 30, 2008 PERSONAL MAG | XML WEB 2.0 BLOGGER TEMPALTE
    True Blogger XML Blogger Template
    PERSONAL MAG | XML WEB 2.0 BLOGGER TEMPALTE


    Personal Mag is a magazine wordpress theme original designed by WPThemeDesigner. ThemeLib.com have just adapted from Wordpress Theme to Blogger/Blogspot Template and now it is available for you - Blogspot Bloggers.



    Features Included
    • Three columns with 2 right sidebars

    • Good design with magazine style

    • Built-in RSS feed and Email Subscription links

    • Nice top navigation bar

    • Customized comment box

    • Different list style on widgets

    • Adsense ready (468×60 banner, 200×200 square)


    If you have doubts on how to install this template in your blog, refer this : HOW TO INSTALL AN XML TEMPLATE?


    HELP


    Step 1 : Change Blog’s name and Blog’s description
    1. Go to Blogger Home

    2. Go to Layout >> Edit HTML

    3. Find the below given piece of Code

      <h1><a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Personal Mag</a></h1>
      <h2>Blogger Template by ThemeLib.com</h2>

    4. Change the parts highlighted [in red] to include the blog header and description.


    Step 2 : Set up the Top Navigation
    1. Go to Blogger Home

    2. Go to Layout >> Edit HTML

    3. Find the below given piece of Code

      <li><a href="http://blogger.com">Blogger</a></li>

      <li><a href="http://themelib.com">ThemeLib</a></li>

      You can Change/Remove or Add more links as you wish.


    Step 3 : RSS Feed and Email Subscription links
    1. Go to Blogger Home

    2. Go to Layout >> Edit HTML

    3. Find the below given piece of Code
      <div id='rss'>
      <p class='first'>
      <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThemeLib">Subscribe to Rss feed</a>
      </p>

      <p class=’Second’>
      <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2136690">Subscribe to the feed via E-mail</a>
      </p>
      </div>

      Replace http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThemeLib with your blogs feed address


    Step 4 : Recent Posts and Recent Comments Widgets

    This one is optional and can be included/omitted as you wish. The template will work without these. To add these thisngs please refer to ADD RECENT POSTS & COMMENTS WIDGETS

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  • Wednesday, July 30, 2008 ADD RECENT POSTS & COMMENTS WIDGETS These things have been posted in a lot many blogs with different levels of expertise and in different ways. I already have posted a topic on How to add Customizable Recent Comments Widgetin this blog. That one uses javascript and allows you to modify the format and number of comments shown in the widget.

    Still I want to post something about how to add a Recent Posts and Comments widgets in your blog, as some of the templates available for download through my blog uses these widgets. Adding these widgets are pretty simple for those who know how to add other widgets to their blogs. Also the great thing about this is, there's no script to install or javascript involved. It can be easily done just by using Blogger Beta's widget feature.This post was written to provide a step-by-step guide on how to create Recent Posts and Recent Comments widgets for Blogger beta.

    Before we start anything, we'll need to find out your blogs Posts and Comments feed. This usually comes in the below given format.
    http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
    http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

    Replace the YOUR_BLOG_NAME wiith your blog name and its the address for your Post / Comments feeds. Now after finding these please follow the steps given below.

    1. Go to Blogger Home.

    2. Click on the "Layout" link for the blog.

      Edit Layout

    3. Make sure you are in the "Page Elements" part. By default this will be selected.

      Edit Layout

    4. Decide on where you want to put your widgets on (ideally this will be on the sidebar part) and click on "Add a Page Element" link. A pop-up window is opened, and choose a Feed element (comes in the middle of the pop-up window) then click "Add to Blog".

      Edit Layout

    5. Fill in your Feed address for the content [ Post Comments ] in the space provided

      Edit Layout

    6. You can change the Title, number for comments/posts displayed, show the published date or the author if needed and then click Save.

      Edit Layout

    7. Finished


    You would be thrilled to know that by listing your most recent post and comments actually helps with your Search Engine Optimizations!!!

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  • Tuesday, July 29, 2008 CUIL SEARCH | A GOOGLE COMPETITOR? A former Google employee and her husband launched a new search engine Monday called Cuil (pronounced "cool"), aiming to topple Google by indexing more Web pages than the search giant.

    The company, which has raised about $33 million in two rounds of founding from Madrone Capital Partners, Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners, has been the subject of much speculation in Silicon Valley, mostly because of founders’ (Patterson, Tom Costello and Russell Power) pedigrees — not to mention some well-known search luminaries who have joined the company.

    Patterson, for instance, was the technical lead of Googlebase and helped form Google’s TeraGoogle search index. She had worked at Archives.org before joining Google. Costello had developed an early version of WebFountain. Power also worked on TeraGoogle. Former Altavista CTO Louis Monier is also at Cuil. The company had gotten into a spot of bother earlier this year when it started to crawl in what can be described as an ungentlemanly manner, prompting a few thousand sites to ban its crawler. Despite all that, it is still one of the more interesting companies to watch.
    Cuil, of Menlo Park, California, is led by Anna Patterson , a former leader of Google's search index and her husband, Tom Costello, who researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM. The two, president and CEO, respectively, met at Stanford.

    Russell Power, the third cofounder of the group, also worked at Google on search indexing, Web rankings, and spam detection. He works as vice president of engineering at Cuil.

    The company, which shaved an 'L' off its name to become Cuil, said it has indexed 120 billion Web pages and can provide results organized by ideas with complete privacy for users.

    Google on Friday said it had discovered 1 trillion unique Web pages on the Internet, but did not give an updated number on how many of those pages it has indexed.


    Cuil said its search engine goes beyond traditional approaches by analyzing the context of each page and the concepts behind each query so it can provide better rankings by content rather than popularity. Cuil then organizes similar results into groups and sorts them by category. It also offers tabs to clarify subjects, as well as suggestions on how to refine searches.

    Cuil isn't the first Google rival to launch this year. Wikia Search, a highly anticipated search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, made its official debut in January . Wikia Search hopes to provide better search results by allowing a community of users to index pages by using their Web page rankings and other suggestions, as well as its own indexing of the Web.

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  • Monday, July 28, 2008 DAPPER | ANOTHER MASHUP MAKER Dapper is a US company with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. Founded by Eran Shir and Jon Aizen in late 2005, Dapper aims to make it easy and possible for anyone to extract and reuse content from any website. By doing so, we hope to allow others to realize their creativity and implement new and exciting services and applications.

    "Dapper is a new service. You may have noticed that there are many of those emerging these days. Dapper, however, is different. It’s a new kind of service." says dapper people in their blog.

    Dapper allows any content owner to easily tap into new means of distributing content on the web such as RSS feeds and widgets. Using the "Distribute Your Content" service, you can easily create RSS feeds, widgets, Google Gadgets, image loops and other feed formats for your audience to enjoy. Embedding these new content tools in your site is as easy as copy and paste.

    Dapper allows you extract data and create a web service out of ANY webpage. No need to understand grep, curl or complex scripting. They provide a visual interface for selecting the content elements that you want to capture from a page.

    In addition, through Dapper you can generate more traffic and tap into new audiences if you decide to license your content using the "traffic back" license. Then, services that make use of your content will link back to you, generating valuable traffic. In the future, Dapper will allow you to monetize directly on your content.

    They’ve done a decent job with the interface for defining which content you want to scrape from a page though I think they can and will do more to make the parsing easier.

    Once you’ve configured a Dapper, you can output the resulting data in an array of formats:

    • XML - A raw XML feed
    • HTML - A simple HTML display of the scraped data
    • RSS - A RSS Feed
    • Alert - Sends an email alert whenever the data on the page changes.
    • Email - Emails the data to any email address
    • Google Map - Creates a Google map with any address data from the data source.
    • Google Gadget - Creates a gadget to place on your Google homepage
    • Image Loop - Creates a scrolling display of all the images in the data feed
    • JSON - A JSON datafeed that you can utilize directly in your javascript apps
    • Link to Another Dapper - Allows you to use data from one Dapper in another Dapper

    To top it all off, they’ve created API’s for PHP4, PHP5 and Java5 allowing you to easily access the data generated from your dapper.

    The BILLIONS of pages out there that don’t have an API or RSS feed can now be parsed without a lot of effort.Dapper’s mission is to allow you to use any web based content in any way you can imagine. And by use, we mean going beyond just reading or viewing a webpage. You may want to create an RSS feed or a Google Gadget for a site, take a site’s content and put it on a map, receive an email alert when your site’s Alexa’s ranking goes below 5000, or create a mashup of your favorite band’s tour dates and a camping locations reservation website to organize your musical camping vacation. Whatever you want to do, however you want to mold the web, Dapper can help you do it.

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  • Monday, July 28, 2008 BrowseRank | MICROSOFT'S ANSWER TO GOOGLE PAGERANK Google's PageRank Web site-ranking method is being challenged by Microsoft. Microsoft's new tool, BrowseRank, aims to add a human factor to the site-ranking process. Microsoft claims PageRank does not take into account frequency and staying time of Web site visits, while BrowseRank monitors user behavior data to calculate page importance.

    Microsoft engineers, in collaboration with researchers at several Asian institutions, have proposed a new method for improving upon the Web page rankings produced by today's search engine requests. Called BrowseRank, the new approach adds a human factor to the process by weighing how people actually use the Internet, the collaborators reported in a paper recently presented before the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval.

    "The more visits [to] the page made by the users, and the longer time periods spent by the users on the page, the more likely the page is important," the paper's authors noted. The goal is to "leverage hundreds of millions of users' 'implicit voting' on page importance," they said, "in accordance with the concept of Web 2.0."

    PageRank : Google's trademarked PageRank method measures the relative importance of Web pages through the use of a sequence of data-processing instructions -- called a link analysis algorithm -- that assigns a numerical weighting to each element within any given set of hyperlinked documents.

    "Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results," Google said. "We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the Web to determine a page's importance."

    Browserank : Microsoft and its academic collaborators say their new method is superior because it is based on a user-browsing graph that is generated from data that reflects actual human behavior. "User-behavior data can be recorded by Internet browsers at Web clients and collected at a Web server," they said.

    BrowseRank's user-browsing graph can more precisely represent the Web surfer's random walk process, and thus is more useful for calculating page importance, the collaborators claim. Furthermore, the amount of time spent on the pages by users is also included under the BrowseRank method.

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  • Monday, July 28, 2008 TWITTER ACQUIRES SUMMIZE Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers. All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc. This is an important step forward in the evolution of Twitter as a service and as a company.

    Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

    Twitter, Inc. was born out of the offices of Obvious in March of 2006. We are located in the beautiful South Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

    Summize is a popular service for searching Twitter and keeping up with emerging trends in real-time. Like Twitter, Summize offers an API so other products and services can filter the constant queue of updates in a variety of ways. The Summize service and API will be merged with our own and integrated under the Twitter brand.

    There is an undeniable need to search, filter, and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being transmitted to Twitter every second. Twitter says they will be adding search and its related features to the core offering of Twitter in the very near future. In the meantime, everyone is welcome to access search.twitter.com—there’s no need for a Twitter account.

    Twitter
    Website : www.twitter.com
    Service : Micro-Blogging
    Available Language(s) : English, Japanese
    Location : South Park, San Francisco, California
    Founded : March 2006

    Twitter is social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message.The service was started by Obvious Corp, and had launched the Japanese version in April 2008.

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  • Friday, July 25, 2008 TRUE BLOGGER | XML BLOGGER TEMPLATE
    True Blogger XML Blogger Template
    TRUE BLOGGER | PREMIUM XML BLOGGER TEMPLATE


    This template is originnally designed by Blog Oh! Blog for Wordpress as a Premium Theme. This is a 3-column, blue-colored theme with an eye-catching Web 2.0 design. The theme draws power from the jQuery platform to integrate two useful components required for modern blogging, and it is a fixed-width theme with enough space for any blogger’s gadgets and gizmos.



    Here are some salient features of the Trueblogger theme:

    • BBC Style Header Ticker : Display a dynamic, stylish BBC style header for your blog.



      To make this happen follow the steps.

      1. Go to Blogger Home

      2. Go to Layout >> Edit HTML

      3. Search for this piece of code in our blog code.

      4. <div id='ticker'>
        <ul id='popular'>
        <li><a href='/'>WEB 2.0 BLOGGER TEMPLATES...........</a></li>
        <li><a href='/'>Cool blogger templates for you</a></li>
        </ul>
        </div>

      5. Replace WEB 2.0 BLOGGER TEMPLATES with your Blog Name

      6. Replace Cool blogger templates for you with your Blog Description

      7. Save.

    • Header Images Component : This feature also uses jQuery platform + Easynews plugin to show different header images for your blog. The component supports all kind of HTML code, so you can put pictures or any other data that you want in the news items. Your site visitors can scroll through the news experiencing a smooth javascript transition.


    • Support for Advertisements : The theme also has support for 125×125 ads right in the middle section (hottest area of a website according to Google Heat Maps). These banners are also controlled by modifying a single file in the theme.


      Search for these codes in your template code:
      <div align='center' id='ads'>
      <div class='ad125'><img alt='Advertisement' src='http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll161/templatehell/images/tb/ad.gif'/></div>
      <div class='ad125'><img alt='Advertisement' src='http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll161/templatehell/images/tb/ad.gif'/></div>
      <div class='ad125'><img alt='Advertisement' src='http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll161/templatehell/images/tb/ad.gif'/></div>
      <div class='ad125'><img alt='Advertisement' src='http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll161/templatehell/images/tb/ad.gif'/></div>
      </div>

      And replace
      <img alt='Advertisement' src='http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll161/templatehell/images/tb/ad.gif'/>

      with the code for 125 X 125 ads for your blog.

    • Comments & Trackbacks : The comments and trackbacks in this theme are tracked separately so it will be easy for the website administrator to follow up on both of them.


    • Social Bookmarking Icons : A stylish division for social bookmarking icons had been included at the end of each post to allow users to bokmark the story.


    • Design & Layout : Unique Web 2.0 Design with crisp colors and layout. A nice RSS Feed icon has also been added for your viewing pleasure.



    • Convenient Vertical Menu : Strategically placed vertical menu makes the navigation easy and effective.


    • Noticable & Stylish Date Header : Different date header for your posts whichs is different from the normal Blogger Date Header. Please take care that you need to change the date format. For this follow the steps.



      STEPS :
      1. Go to your Blogger Central and then go to Layouts->Page Elements
      2. Click on EDIT button on the BLOG widget.
      3. Change the date format as shown in the image. [DD[space]MONTH[space]YEAR]

    These templates are offered free of charge! Only thing I ask is to please keep the links in the footer edited or unedited. Please don't remove them.

    Good luck and I hope you find my free templates useful!



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  • Friday, July 25, 2008 WHAT IS WEB 2.0? You’ve probably heard the phrase "Web 2.0". You may’ve even read some of the various definitions of it. And Web 2.0 does appear to mean different things to different people, so you would be forgiven for still feeling confused about the term. Here are some of the definitions of Web 2.0 floating about:

    • Web 2.0 : The web as platform
    • Web 2.0 : The underlying philosophy of relinquishing control
    • Web 2.0 : Glocalization ("making global information available to local social contexts and giving people the flexibility to find, organize, share and create information in a locally meaningful fashion that is globally accessible")
    • Web 2.0 : An attitude not a technology
    • Web 2.0 : When data, interface and metadata no longer need to go hand in hand
    • Web 2.0 : Action-at-a-distance interactions and ad hoc integration
    • Web 2.0 : Power and control via APIs
    • Web 2.0 : Giving up control and setting the data free
    While at first glance some of those definitions may be contradictory, we can distill from them certain characteristics of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is social, it’s open (or at least it should be), it’s letting go of control over your data, it’s mixing the global with the local. Web 2.0 is about new interfaces - new ways of searching and accessing Web content. And last but not least, Web 2.0 is a platform - and not just for developers to create web applications like Gmail and Flickr. The Web is a platform to build on for educators, media, politics, community, for virtually everyone in fact!

    Web 2.0 is all of the above things - don’t let anyone tell you it’s one or the other definition. More immediately, Web 2.0 is the era when people have come to realize that it's not the software that enables the web that matters so much as the services that are delivered over the web. Web 1.0 was the era when people could think that Netscape (a software company) was the contender for the computer industry crown; Web 2.0 is the era when people are recognizing that leadership in the computer industry has passed from traditional software companies to a new kind of internet service company.

    The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other.

    The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.

    In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.

    Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.

    The core competencies of Web 2.0 companies:

    • Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
    • Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
    • Trusting users as co-developers
    • Harnessing collective intelligence
    • Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
    • Software above the level of a single device
    • Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models

    Google was a pioneer in all three components of Web 2.0: their core business sounds crushingly hip when described in Web 2.0 terms, "Don't maltreat users" is a subset of "Don't be evil," and of course Google set off the whole Ajax boom with Google Maps.

    Web 2.0 means using the web as it was meant to be used, and Google does. That's their secret. They're sailing with the wind, instead of sitting becalmed praying for a business model, like the print media, or trying to tack upwind by suing their customers, like Microsoft and the record labels.

    Sites like del.icio.us and flickr allow users to "tag" content with descriptive tokens. But there is also huge source of implicit tags that they ignore: the text within web links. Moreover, these links represent a social network connecting the individuals and organizations who created the pages, and by using graph theory we can compute from this network an estimate of the reputation of each member. We plan to mine the web for these implicit tags, and use them together with the reputation hierarchy they embody to enhance web searches.

    One ingredient of its meaning is certainly Ajax, which I can still only just bear to use without scare quotes. Basically, what "Ajax" means is "Javascript now works." And that in turn means that web-based applications can now be made to work much more like desktop ones.

    The second big element of Web 2.0 is democracy. We now have several examples to prove that amateurs can surpass professionals, when they have the right kind of system to channel their efforts. Wikipedia may be the most famous. Experts have given Wikipedia middling reviews, but they miss the critical point: it's good enough. And it's free, which means people actually read it. On the web, articles you have to pay for might as well not exist. Even if you were willing to pay to read them yourself, you can't link to them. They're not part of the conversation.

    What Makes a Web 2.0 Application?

    Open Data

    • Open data formats

    • No data lock-in or walled gardens

    • User created data

    • User owns their own data

    • Ability to use data outside the confines of the application

    • Data used across devices


    Rich User Experience

    • Easy to use

    • Pleasurable to use

    • Build social networks

    • Rich user interface

    • Functions like a traditional application


    Core Web 2.0 Technologies

    • Open data through API's and web services

    • RSS

    • Ajax

    • Web Standards (DOM Scripting, XHTML, CSS)


    References
    What is WEB 2.0? - By Tim O'Reilly
    What is WEB 2.0? - By Richard MacManus
    WEB 2.0 - By Paul Graham

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  • Friday, July 25, 2008 LOOPT | ANOTHER CONNECTING TOOL Loopt shows users where friends are located and what they are doing via detailed, interactive maps on their mobile phones. Loopt helps friends connect on the fly and navigate their social lives by orienting them to people, places and events. Users can also share location updates, geo-tagged photos and comments with friends in their mobile address book or on online social networks, communities and blogs. Loopt was designed with user privacy at its core and offers a variety of effective and intuitive privacy controls.

    With Loopt, turn your phone into a social compass. Use the map to find where your friends are and what they’re doing. Connect on the fly, share photos and tips on cool places.

    Use Loopt to stay connected with great emerging artists this summer.

    Find out where they are, what they're up to, and what it's like to be an artist on tour. Read their updates, add comments to their journals, and get pics from the road. The only way to get closer is if you're on their tourbus.
    Here's how:
    1. Sign-up and download Loopt to your mobile phone.

    2. Use the codes to invite the artists you want to follow. (ex: 000-000-0001)

    3. Invite your friends so everyone can Follow the Music (and each other!)
    Loopt®, a revolutionary social-mapping and communication service, announced that it has joined Facebook Connect to allow users to "connect" their Facebook® identity, friends, and privacy settings to the Loopt service.

    Facebook gives everyone the power to share with the people they care about making the world more open and transparent. Facebook users communicate through the social graph, the network of connections and relationships that exist in the world between people. With more than 90 million active users, Facebook is the fourth-most trafficked website in the world.

    Facebook launched Facebook Connect to allow users to take their identity and friends with them around the Web, while being able to trust that their information is always up to date and always protected by their privacy settings.

    Loopt offers the most intuitive and effective privacy controls and security features for end users. Loopt is 100 percent permission-based and users share location information only with their selected friends, communities and services. Users can easily turn location-sharing on or off at any time. Loopt regularly works with organizations such as the Family Online Safety Institute, ConnectSafely.org, Progress & Freedom Foundation's Center for Digital Media Freedom, and the Internet Safety Task Force.

    Loopt, based in Silicon-Valley and backed by leading venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates, has created a truly interoperable and accessible social-mapping service that is available across multiple carrier networks and supported on over 80 mobile devices. Leveraging the latest location technology, Loopt changes the way people connect, share and explore in the real world. Loopt was designed with privacy considerations at its core and offers a variety of effective and easy-to-use privacy controls for subscribers.

    Loopt works with leading mobile, social networking, and online privacy and security organizations such as the Family Online Safety Institute, Cyber Safe California, ConnectSafely.org, Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, Progress & Freedom Foundation's Center for Digital Media Freedom, and the Internet Safety Task Force. Loopt is also TRUSTe certified. For more information, please visit LOOPT.

    Recent News : Loopt Make Deals to Cut Down Costs on GPS Data

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  • Thursday, July 24, 2008 How To Add A Digg Button In Your Blog Posts You might have seen in a lot of blogs with the Digg button which is used to submit a post or a content which you feel useful to others. Clicking on this button will take you to digg.com, where you can submit the story and will be published to much larger audience.

    This button will also help to get you more visitors and readers to your blog as the story submitted in Digg is open to a larger community. Lot of peoples goes to digg to search for the contents of their interest. This is much more more helpful than searching in a single website as digg carries contents submitted by people from the whole world, collected from websites through out the net.

    To submit a story in Digg.com you need to register there and is totally free. Click here to register free at digg.com.

    Here I will tell you about how to add a Digg button to your posts, which will allow the readers to digg the story. This works almost same as delicious submissions.First you have to decide where you want the digg button to appear. Whether you want after the post, or at the beginning of the post like that.

    In this article we will see how to add a Digg button in your blog posts, which will appear at the top right corner of your blog post content.

    ADD DIGG BUTTON TO YOUR BLOG POSTS


    1. Go to Blogger Home
    2. Select the Blog
    3. Go to Layout >> Edit HTML [When you click on Layout, by default Blogger will take you to the Page Elements ]
    4. Make sure that you download the current template and copy it in your local system. You will be able to revert back to the original template if something wierd happens.
    5. Make sure that you have selected the Expand Widget Templates check box. This appears above the top right corner of the HTML Editor.
    6. Now Search for this line of code
      1. Normally in almost all the templates you will be able to find this piece of code.
        <div class='post-body entry-content'>
        <data:post.body/>
        <div style='clear: both;'/>
        </div>

      2. If you can't find this whole piece of code search for this piece of code
        <data:post.body/>

    7. Now copy the code exactly as given below
      <div style="float:right; margin: 3px 3px;">
      <script type='text/javascript'>
      digg_url = "<data:post.url/>";
      </script>
      <script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>
      </div>
    8. And paste it above the line : <data:post.body/>
    9. Now your code should appear like given below.
      • If you followed STEP 6.1, then the resulting code will be
        <div class='post-body entry-content'>
        <div style="float:right; margin: 3px 3px;">
        <script type='text/javascript'>
        digg_url = "<data:post.url/>";
        </script>
        <script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>
        </div>

        <data:post.body/>
        <div style='clear: both;'/>
        </div>
      • If you followed STEP 6.2, then the resulting code will be
        <div style="float:right; margin: 3px 3px;">
        <script type='text/javascript'>
        digg_url = "<data:post.url/>";
        </script>
        <script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>
        </div>

        <data:post.body/>

    10. Save your Template. Click on the Save Template button at the bottom right corner of the HTML Editor
    11. The digg button as the one that is shown in the left side of each of the posts in my blog will be shown at the top of each post (after the heading) in your blog!


    If you face any difficulties in installing this button in your blog pleace feel free to contact me. Would be happy to assist you.

    If you feel there is a better way to install the Digg button, please let me know.

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  • Tuesday, July 22, 2008 FREEDOM WALL | XML BLOGGER TEMPLATE These templates are offered free of charge! Only thing I ask is to please keep the links in the footer edited or unedited. Please don't remove them.

    FREEDOM WALL  XML BLOGGER TEMPLATE
    FREEDOM WALL XML BLOGGER TEMPLATE




    1. New Blogger XML version
    2. 2 Columns Blogger XML Template
    3. Widget Ready Blogger XML Template
    4. Full Valid CSS Blogger XML Template
    5. Adsense ready Blogger XML Templates



    Good luck and I hope you find my free templates useful!

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