Is this Diaspora social networking site takes over facebook or twitter? Call it the anti-Facebook

A new communuty based social networking site called Diaspora takes over facebook or twitter?

• Authors of this says they do it.lets see what they say?
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• This is community based open source social networking site.which means anyone can edit the codes and customize it(like Wikipedia)
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• source codes are released to community
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• You can immigrate to this from various social networks along with the account information and history.

these are some quotes what the definite diaspora platform

Diaspora promotes itself on its website as "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network.

Diaspora is the creation of four New York University's Courant Institute students - Dan Grippi, Max Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy. The four gave themselves a timeline of 39 days to raise $10,000.

The alpha release is scheduled for October. That is when they will see whether the privacy concerns are enough to give them a leg up on the half-billion strong Facebook.

what do you think of this?

How to add Related Posts for Blogger / Blogspot blogs?

Have you ever see this feature in any blogs you have visited? This was in Wordpress.Fortunately   Blogspot Blogger also can use this using following simple steps.
Procedure

Log in blogger Click Design 

Edit HTML

Check the "Expand Widget Templates" box in the top right in the screen.

 

 Now Search for  Following tag   

</head>   

(simply press Ctrl+F and paste this )
4. Add the following code just before the </head> tag.

<style>
#related-posts {
float : left;
width : 540px;
margin-top:20px;
margin-left : 5px;
margin-bottom:20px;
font : 11px Verdana;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
#related-posts .widget {
list-style-type : none;
margin : 5px 0 5px 0;
padding : 0;
}
#related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2 {
color : #940f04;
font-size : 20px;
font-weight : normal;
margin : 5px 7px 0;
padding : 0 0 5px;
}
#related-posts a {
color : #054474;
font-size : 11px;
text-decoration : none;
}
#related-posts a:hover {
color : #054474;
text-decoration : none;
}
#related-posts ul {
border : medium none;
margin : 10px;
padding : 0;
}
#related-posts ul li {
display : block;
background : url("http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm297/zozuglogger/weed-bullet.gif") no-repeat 0 0;
margin : 0;
padding-top : 0;
padding-right : 0;
padding-bottom : 1px;
padding-left : 16px;
margin-bottom : 5px;
line-height : 2em;
border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc;
}
</style>
<script src='http://torrentmoon.com/javascripts/Related_posts_hack.js' type='text/javascript'/>

5. Now search for <p><data:post.body/></p> (simply press Ctrl+F and paste this )

6. Add the following code just beneath the code you just searched for.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div id="related-posts">
<font face='Arial' size='3'><b>Related Posts : </b></font><font color='#FFFFFF'><b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'><data:label.name/><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'>,</b:if><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>

<script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + &quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels&amp;max-results=5&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop> </font>
<script type='text/javascript'> removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels();
</script>
</div></b:if>

Script copied from www.deluxetemplates.net

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What is the use of it?

Related articles showing under the current article keep you visitors long time withing your articles.Which means your traffic will increase.Reader also have the facility to enter related content with a  single click.

How to Insert Documents in Blogger Post ?

If your blog post is related to your office matter or a book.you may need to put the Document to your blog.You can also  Upload the Documents to a file hosting service and add the download link to the post.Insted of that You can also place a small thumbanail of the Document.isnt it attractive.lets do then.

Follow steps

1.      sign Up Scribd and create a account(If you already have .Sign in)

2. Upload your document



4. Describe Your Documents - You can add categories / description / make it private, click Save Changes.

5. Share Your Documents [this is important] - Scroll window down and find Embed Code click Copy button.

6. log in to  Blogger Dashboard 

      New Post

 

è  Edit HTML . 

   Paste the code anywhere in your post.

[ Supported File Types:  by Scribd doc, docx, ppt, pptx, pps xls, xlsx, pdf, ps, odt, odp, sxw, sxi, txt, rtf ]
You can use http://docs.google.com to add your documents. But you will not have the emmbebed link.But the best benefit is Visitors don’t require any software like Adobe Reader,Word… etc to view the file. It is accessible every ware by every Operating system and its that flexible.

How to stop visitors from copy paste your blog content. ?

I will teach you how stop your visitors from copying and pasting your blog content.This will make it hard enough to discourage them and get them moving on to easier targets.However This means your content isn’t completely safe.This Trick is easily bypass.

Procedure
Log in blogger Click Design

Page Elements Add Gadget

 

HTML/JavaScript

 Copy Following Java script code(note that the credits of the author of this java script remains.Please don’t remove it if you share this.Keep them)

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--  
//Disable right mouse click Script
//By Maximus (maximus@nsimail.com) w/ mods by DynamicDrive
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com  
var message="Function Disabled!";  

///////////////////////////////////
function clickIE4(){
if (event.button==2){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}  
function clickNS4(e){
if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){
if (e.which==2||e.which==3){ alert(message); return false;
}
}
}  
if (document.layers){
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
document.onmousedown=clickNS4;
}
else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){
document.onmousedown=clickIE4;
}  
document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false")  
// -->
</script>

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Try right Clicking on your blog the message will appear that Funcltion Disabled.You can change the Error message appears.just replace Funcltion Disabled quote to what ever you like to add such as Copy Denied,Copy Right Content….etc

How to Random Post for Blogger / Blogspot blogs?

This also a cool  gadget.You can keep this widget without any hassle.Random Post for blogger is also a important  feature like Related posts.Keep your readers live withing your site.

Log in blogger Click Design

Page Elements  

Add Gadget

 

HTML/JavaScript

Copy following Java script code and paste(Give the title Randomn post or what ever you like)

<script type="text/javascript"> function showLucky(root){ var feed = root.feed; var entries = feed.entry || []; var entry = feed.entry[0]; for (var j = 0; j < entry.link.length; ++j){if (entry.link[j].rel == 'alternate'){window.location = entry.link[j].href;}}} function fetchLuck(luck){ script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = '/feeds/posts/summary?start-index='+luck+'&max-results=1&alt=json-in-script&callback=showLucky'; script.type = 'text/javascript'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script); } function feelingLucky(root){ var feed = root.feed; var total = parseInt(feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t,10); var luckyNumber = Math.floor(Math.random()*total);luckyNumber++; a = document.createElement('a'); a.href = '#random'; a.rel = luckyNumber; a.onclick = function(){fetchLuck(this.rel);}; a.innerHTML = 'View Random Post'; document.getElementById('myLuckyPost').appendChild(a); } </script> <script src="/feeds/posts/summary?max-results=0&alt=json-in-script&callback=feelingLucky"></script>

Once you have installed the widget, you can change the link text. The default value is "View Random Post". To change this, view the code and search for View Random Post, and change it to any desired text.

SEO 1st lesson(Submit Blog to Search Engines)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) means   increasing the traffic and improving the quality of traffic to a website from search engine results. Certain Search engines use different algorithms to analyze the contents and keywords of the web sites  and  show the search results. Google gives page ranks to the sites.Sites that has high rank  appears early in the results. What they considered to give you good rank?relevance, unique content, quality of links and codingstructure.Therefore your SEO tools and tricks must target on this.


No one can tell you will have certain traffic after doing this as you can see there are several factors to fulfill.However Having your site linked to by many other sites and indexed by various search engines increase its exposure and visibility.I will provide a list of search engines and their corresponding submitting URL links to your convenience.



Google
Yahoo! Search
Microsoft Live Search
Alexa Web Search
Baidu (Chinese search engine)
ExactSeek
SearchSight
Walhello
SearchIt
email Mozdex
Jayde
AnooX
Splat Search
Infotiger
Abacho (European search engine)
Submit-one
TowerSearch
SearchWarp
Mixcat
BestYellow
Beamed
 eVisum (educational resource)
DinoSearch
SearchRamp
Scrub the Web
EntireWeb
HotLaunch
Shoula
The-search-site
Websquash
Unasked
Gigablast
Exalead
SearchKing
whatUseek
SearchtheWeb

Before you go 
You should check whether your site has been indexed by a search engine.Just enter the full URL(http://yourblogname.com) into search box.if the search results showed your address.it is no require to add it again.add it only it doesn't show it.Search results may not show your page instantly.You have to wait some time patiently.

Follow Gmail on Twitter - Official Gmail Blog and win a T shirt

Follow Gmail on Twitter - Official Gmail Blog and win a T shirt

good mornig all of you with this good news "Gmail is now in twitter" You heard it correct.Not a dream,clean up your eye.and sit at your Pc and see.What a combination?

Why dont you just tweet?
Its worthy tweeting as you will be served with a "snazzy T-Shirt"

Not for all.First come first serve basis.First 140 visitors

why wait any more? just jump in to this

http://twitter.com/gmail

Have a nice Day!

How to add Music file, Audio Player to your Blogger ?

Step 1: You have to Upload your Mp3 file to a File hosting service and get the URL/Link From them.I recommend this site. http://www.upload-mp3.com

Sometimes certain site give direct link to Mp3 files they hosted .You can use it too.

But please be noted  to get the direct path to the file(Not a link to a page or Advertising stuff)

Copy the link/URl you get and savee it somewhere.

Login to your Blogger account and Click Page Elements 

You can see the Placement of the Items in your Blog.(In colums)

Click the Link Add a Gadge   

where you need the player should add.

The Popup will appear and choose Add HTML/Java Script Code.

Give a preferred name and Paste the code below

<embed width="200" height="50" autostart="false" src="MUSIC FILE URL"/></embed>

‘Note that the Music File URL means the URL/Link of the mp3 file you have uploaded to File host.

Save it

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You can too add this to any where in a single post.When you creating a post.Click HTML mode and paste the same code anywhere inside it

How to add your personal favicon (.ico) to blogger ?

Favicon is more popular these days in every web site you vist.when you type a URL of a web site you will see a  small icon appears in Address bar after few seconds.This is called favicon. Generally Blogger blogs shows Blogger icon by default.However you can easily add your personal favicon

Here how to add logo/favicon in blogger

1.  To Create a favicon, from a image/logo of your own.Visit this site Favicon from Pics to convert  it to  Favicon File ( .ico file.)

2. Upload it  yourBlogger account, you can use Google Picasa web albums.(I recommend this as you can easily manage Picasa with your Blogger platform).You can also use Imageshack or Photobucket too.

3. Get theURL/link of Your Favicon,

 Login to your Blogger account and  go to

then Edit HTML

Search for  Following (simply press Ctrl+F and paste this)

</head>

Paste this code above it

<link href='Link of your favicon ' rel='icon' type='image/x-icon'/>
<link href='Link of your favicon' rel='shortcut icon'/>

Note that the Link of your favicon is the URL of your favicon

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How to Increase your site traffic?

Until now, the Title Tags generated for each page of your Blogger blog would display the blog title first, then the name of your post. This isnt good for your search engine rankings.
So use this little steps to improve your search rankings
 

1. Go to Design

 

 Then Edit HTML

Search for  Following (simply press Ctrl+F and paste this )

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

3. Replace That tag with following tag

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

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