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Adding Social Gadgets to Our Site

Adding Social Gadgets to Our Site

            
              Google announced the most effective social networking gadget, that can be attached to  the website more effectively…  Google enables the web masters to get networked with the persons who visited and also who joins in the Google Connect. 
Google Friend Connect means more people engagging [...]

Google Lively Not Live After 2008

Google Lively Not Live After 2008

Lively which was supposed to add another dimension to the Google’s social networking ventures will be closed by the end of this year.Lively is just four months old now and to be frank it was not a big success. The closing down was expected.
Many of you may have seen the new notice at the top [...]

Google Chrome v/s Mozilla FireFox - Comparing Web 2.0 Performance

Google Chrome v/s Mozilla FireFox – Comparing Web 2.0 Performance

Keeping all the calculations and theory away, lets make a raw attempt to compare the speed of Google Chrome and Firefox in Web 2.0 applications like Gmail. Lets see how fast is fast enough to say faster.
The scene set for the test is a Google Mail App, similar to Gmail. Preference is given to firefox [...]

Picasa Web Albums - Face Recognition

Picasa Web Albums – Face Recognition

Google is super hot this week. After Google Chrome , its a revamped version of  Picasa Web Albums with Name tags aided with Face Recognition. A new beta version of Picasa 3 is also out now.
Name Tags is a feature by which Picasa Web Album automatically scans our photos and identifies “Faces”in the photos.
To activate [...]

WordPress Delete Categories and Posts Within Using SQL

WordPress Delete Categories and Posts Within Using SQL

Have you ever wanted to delete some categories and posts within it from your WordPress blog? Here is one simple step to delete multiple categories and the posts associated with it in a single step using a little SQL. If you have a PhpMyAdmin interface to your MySql , it would be better and simple.
Before [...]

Embeddable SlideShows In Flickr

Embeddable SlideShows In Flickr

Flickr was feature rich. It overtook all other photosharing sites and became a model of web 2.0 service. But still it lacked one thing. A slideshow that can be embedded to any external site. People relied on third party tools to rip slideshows from flickr to post on blogs.But now, Flickr allows sharing slideshow as [...]

Blog Camp Kerala – A bloggers meet.

Finally the day is here. On 16th of August I am attending the first of its kind, a bloggers meet with blog writers from Kerala in the most lovely place on world – Backwaters of kerala.
The event is sponsered mainly by Kerala Tourism Department and is a result of two guys, Kenny and Anand. As [...]

FeedBurner Hack

FeedBurner Hack

I am trying out the FeedBurner-Netvibes flaw as listed in thenextweb. The hack is to increase your feed count by 1000s with a few clicks.My feed is a new one,started yesterday with just 8 subscribers. I uploaded an opml file with 1000+ entries to netvibes just now. Lets see how it ends up.
The opml file [...]

Target = _new Good practice?

While optimizing this blog for better visibility by search engines, I got confused about what to do with the links to other websites from this blog, many of them being my own sites. I have read somewhere that target=_new or target=_blank attribute is not a good practice while creating links. I don’t know why [...]

TeaShark - Free Unlimited Internet from Mobile with Airtel Live

TeaShark – Free Unlimited Internet from Mobile with Airtel Live

Once i had blogged about some hacks to use with Airtel Live for getting free and unlimited Internet . Most of them wont work now as Airtel fixed the loop holes in their service. What now new is, TeaShark – a Java Application just like Opera Mini , which can be used with Airtel Live [...]