Entries Tagged as 'Guide'

The Best Way to Blog

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Being anonymous when you blog is one way of having your privacy. Fortunately, technologies are available to help you hide your identity online. You may use a Pseudonym. Just remember not to use pseudonyms that sounds like the real ones that they are based on. You may check the Internet for services that offers free anonymous blog hosting. Be resourceful. Limiting your audience also helps to protect your blog especially if your goal is just to communicate to friends and family. Because of technology , even if you don’t use your real name or personal information in your blog, people can still find out who you are by looking up the WHOIS records for your domain name, so it would be best to register your domain name anonymously.

Mozilla Launches JetPack

mozillajetpackMozilla, the company behind FireFox, the browser that took the crown from IE as the most popular browser on the web is announcing the launch of JetPack, an open-source project that aims to create browser add-on’s easier for people who may have an idea or two. This can be compared to the way apple has allowed users, developers and just anybody who has an idea or two to author apps for their online store which has topped the apps sale records. Firefox has quite a number of notable plugins and add-ons yet they still cannot compare to the overall customization they may have envisioned for their browser. [Read more →]

Meebo makes chatting easier

If you find installing various instant messaging platforms tedious, but have contacts scattered all around, then Meebo might be the online web instant messaging platform that will address all your needs.

In a nutshell, Meebo enables you to log into all the popular instant messaging platforms like Facebook chat, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, MSN, MySpace chat, and GTalk, to name a few. You do not need to download any sort of software, or even register in their site. All you need to to is go there and input your actual username and password. Don’t worry, Meebo is NOT a phishing site and guarantees the safety and privacy of all your conversations through them.

What’s more, Meebo is absolutely 100% FREE to use so you don’t have to worry about fees and payments.

Social Web Into the Clouds

cloudcomputingMany of the Web Giants are gearing for the introduction and expected full implementation of cloud computing that is set to become web 3.0. Industry giants like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, IBM and many other have been gearing for the big push but a recent move by Facebook, one of the social web’s biggest networks has raised a lot of alarms as to the ownership of the cloud.
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Be Aware. Downloading Screensavers is not always safe.


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News: Controversial Vigilante Screensaver Shut Down; Trojan Warning.
Just days after they released their controversial anti-spam screensaver, Lycos Europe has shut down the campaign. The new program, “Make Love Not Spam”, was designed to actively handcuff spam servers by choking their bandwidth connection. Now, Lycos Europe has shut the campaign down for reasons still unclear.

To further compound this juicy controversy, a new Trojan horse virus has popped up, masquerading as the Make Love Not Spam screensaver. Be warned: this Trojan is NOT the MLNS program!

Social bookmarking: Digg

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To Digg or not to Digg? That’s a good question. Digg is a popular online social bookmarking site where you can digg or bury–rate an online article, video or podcast thumbs up or thumbs down. Submit what you like for other members to find. The more diggs it receives, the more popular it gets and the higher it comes up on top of the page heap. This is one place where your reactions are valued. Digg lets you visualize the content and participate in a number of ways. That’s the social part of it, aside from letting you find out what your friends are digging. Members can also customize their view to remove categories they are not interested in. But even if you don’t sign in, you can find out what diggers are discovering.

Blogging as a fad

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When you decide to blog, don’t just do it because you want to hitch your cart on the bandwagon. If anything, blog because you want to. Blog because you feel the need to express and share your thoughts, emotions and ideas. Blog because you want to contribute something to the new media that is the internet. Blog because you want to be of service to others.

There are bloggers who are over conscious with what is in and what is cool in the world of blogging. Others are more concerned with writing about topics that are sure traffic getters. But if you are comfortable in your own niche and you believe you have a sure and loyal audience to your blog, then there is no reason why you should write about American Idol because it’s in season. Or deviate unnecessarily from your theme by blogging about Britney Spears just because she is No. 1 in Google search.

Blogging should not be seen as fad. Otherwise, it will defeat the very purpose of communication for which it came to be.