Archive for June 2009

Youtube showing Featured Videos in Related Videos

YouTube has just changed the way it displays related videos and now the topmost video in related videos block is going to be Featured video, most likely a video for which Google is getting paid to show.

Now I am not sure it is such a great idea specially if the Featured video is not very related to the video being watched right now. For example if see below, the featured video look out of place.

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Build your Family Tree with Geni

Geni is a website that allows you to create your own family tree and share it with your close family members and friends. It is an award winning website with over 50 million profiles and growing daily. It was started by early employees and executives of corporate giants like Yahoo, PayPal, eBay and Tribe with support from venture capital firms Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures.

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4 Free Online Office Productivity Applications

Since 2005, there are many applications on the web which allows office like features online like creating, editing spreadsheets, docs etc. One advantage of these online applications is that they are free to use and can be accessed from anywhere, like I create the documents at home and finish them in office on Google docs. These Office Applications are also handy for data and file storage, which lot of people save in their email boxes.

So here is the list of 4 Online Office suits available on the web -

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Get Cheap Traffic using Adbrite

adbrite An Indian site diggflicks which is a video uploading site, heavily uses adbrite, an advertising program like adsense which can be used on any site, even on adult and warez site. For publishers, it don’t pay much, the earnings are around 5 to 10% of adsense earnings but if you are looking to get cheap traffic, adbrite can be a great option.

You can get a unique visitor for as less as 2 cents from genuine sites and its great for cheap branding as using Google network is way more costlier. So if you have a site which you feels can go on its own once it gets some x number of visitors and members, you can give a try to adbrite.

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Disable Showing all Comments on Youtube Videos

If you are tired of looking those flamed irritating comments on almost all youtube videos, you can disable it by install a simple firefox addon and a javascript code.

disable-comments-youtube1. Install the Greasemonkey plugin from here (mozilla’s site)
2. Restart firefox
3. Install Disable Youtube Comments script from here (userscript.org site)
4. You are done, From now on, no youtube video will show you any comments.

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What is Google Wave ?

Google on 29th May launched Google Wave in a conference in Australia, you can look at the video (it is 80 minute video so you better be free). For those of you, who are wondering what is Google Wave ? it is an online collaborative program where developers can collaborate and communicate in the most easiest way with loads of features. It is still in very early stage and not available to public.

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Update your status on Twitter from MSN, Yahoo or GTalk messenger

Twitter is highly popular among all kind of users these days. But sometime we don’t get enough time to update twitter from our busy schedule. Now you can update your status on Twitter easily with IMs like MSN, Yahoo, GTalk. You can do it in a very easy way with Twip.me.

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Zenbe the Most Advancd and Innovative Email Service

Zenbe a one of the lesser known new email service provider now claiming to be the best free email service ever. Zenbe is providing 4GB free email space (Ok, gmail provide unlimited) for personal use and comes with advance business version as well.

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Carry Linux in your USB Drive and Boot Instantly

Here I would like to introduce you with a very interesting and innovative version of Linux which is called Damn Small Linux. You can install it directly on your portable USB drive or CD. May be you are thinking that it will eat up your disk space, don’t worry it will take just less than 50MB space on your drive.

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so I Made $4300 in May

Ok so lot of bloggers publish these monthly earnings report so I felt may be I too can do this too. My earnings are certainly not that huge as many of other big professional bloggers and infact a big chunk of it came from doing coding for my past clients but still earnings are earnings, doesn’t matter how you earn it as long as its legal.

So here is the breakup of my earnings -

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