Bloggers, own your domain

1. It happened that a post on a facebook CBC group that A blog has plagiarized our member blog post.
2. Apart from that, I learned from and CBCian “Sylvian” that Google can also own your content and if needed they could use them for their own purpose if needed, that is what policy says.
3. For what you write, blogger or wordpress or any subdomain owners contribution improves ranking for the domain i.e wordpress.com or blogger.com etc

Here is what I learned, once I moved to my domain. What ever I write or the media belongs to me, all rights reserved.

Who should move to their own domain?

If you are casual blogger, occasional post and probably feel you would not make a dent in the universe, then it is a big no.
People who are trying to creating their own branding in any genre, name it fashion, photography, tech blogger etc, should plan to move.

How can you avoid plagiarism?

If you use wordpress CMS, there is a plugin available “Yoast WordPress SEO” under RSS feeds you could customize your URL, so what happens, if bots copy your content, still it points to your own domain and not his. I am sure, your design company could also write a custom plugin to solve this problem.

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So who is the content owner now?

It is you

What about your ranking for your work?

If you can write for a subdomain owner, why not for you and create own branding image.

The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions

Why only few interactions are successful?
It is not just usability, there are few more things beyond to make users to stick on with your product or service.

My wife just sent me a mail forward, wondering whether I am a saint or Husband.

Long ago, Men who sacrificed their

love, youth, parents, identity,

laughter and their happines

were called SAINT!

Now they are called HUSBAND!

Facebook adult content Notifications

facebook adult content notification

Facebook notifications are some times intimidating, I haven’t subscribed to any adult oriented notifications on facebook. I believe as I am member of some groups which are being exploited by these lame spammers.

Making of an unproductive Indian

These days I have been traveling by local train, the MRTS in chennai, While I was returning home the other day, it was 7:30 PM. I saw a juvenile girl singing some weird language song, While her younger brother been collecting money in the compartment where my friend and myself being present. I was so pissed of with this activity of sending this girl to do the beggar job. I started scolding their parents and was telling my friend. So my friend asked me on an average day how much money will they be making. My friend has been traveling for years, I just started accompanying him for the last few months.

Can any one guess? The train had 9 compartments running time 45 Minutes. And frequency of this train on an average would be 10-15 Minutes during peak hours.

So I replied my friend saying a 100 Rupees a day. He just laughed at me and explained that they would have already obtained 100 or more Rupees on this trip alone. He went on explaining that an average Indian would give a 1 Rupee to these beggars. The regular travelers know these beggars. So they don’t give them money. It is floating population which falls for these people. Take a single compartment at least 10 to 15 people flick a one Rupee coin and by that 9 compartment of this train they make an average of over 100 Rupees. Imagine if they make around 8 or more trips a day.

I said to my friend, that I was not making that much money being a software professional after all the bloody useless taxes which I have been paying for the Indian Government.

He went on and said, that he had no clues on what happens to that money. But he said, that is one reason we see the parents encouraging their children to beg for money. So for generation they are in the Beggar Business. So now you known why Indians are being considered as Beggars by foreign nationals.

So what is the solution for an unproductive Indian?
While the middle class has been loaded with more and more taxes and the top class has been evading from tax and while the poor has no idea about What taxes were meant to be.

One possible thing which stuck my mind was that these beggars have to be in prison and asked to work on different trades, some thing like the co-operative societies do and be paid really less. It is some thing like saying if you beg you will make 10 Rupees a day. While you work outside you could earn more, So the choice is theirs. Well some one could make Indian roads to every place clean.

Next time you see any one begging on public places please don’t serve that Rupee you are in the process of making an unproductive Indian. Think twice please.

If you have any more ways to make them work do comment.

Technorati Tags: productive, Indian, Chennai, train, MRTS, Child labour, juvenile, taxes, India, Rupee

Chennai water Desalination plant

We all know that the next time, if there is war it has to be for water. I am not joking. Water is abundant, very much true. How much of water is fit to drink remains a major question.

If most Governments take the Eden project seriously, they could end the war for water.

I have been watching Discovery Channel at 9 P.M amazing. Here is what I would like to suggest to Chennai Metro water department. I am sure they are planning for water desalination plant, but would be great if they could look in to the latest technology of producing water to its clearest form with one time production cost.

As Nature seems to do the natural work of desalination.

The project is seawater greenhouse, the idea was sort of dream for Charlie Paton. So go a head and check out the Eden Project.  You may want to look in to the video of water is naturally desalinated to obtain pure drinking water.

If you liked the idea, and you felt Chennai should install a low cost desalination plant with no fuel for production, please blog about the Eden Project. You don’t even need to trackback to this blog post. But do blog if you are blogger, if you are a reader please do share this blogpost by bookmarking on delicious, digg, reddit, fark, clipmarks, stumbleupon and please do share the you tube video

Technorati Tags: water, war, desaltination, plant, eden project, seawater greenhouse, green house, sea water, charlie paton, you tube, video, DIY, Chennai, India

mGinger Captcha Challenge, UserExperience

mginger captcha challenge

After a long time, I finally login to mGinger to find any thing interesting happening and wanted to know how much I had earned so far.

There was an interesting promo to refer a friend, I did fell for the marketing stunt, so I choose the option as Orkut, because most friends at orkut don’t mind getting spams and they are not that serious types if I had sent them an advertising promo the chances are high that they would visit the link.

Now the challenge part, Orkut has captcha installed to reduce spam, and mGinger wants its users to spam Orkut, Imagine If I selected 60 contacts to send an invite, I would have to fill all the 60 captcha correctly inorder to send the invite.

OMG – mGinger could have warned me about the captcha when I was selecting the orkut friends for referrals

There are actually 2 options available for mGinger to keep the users from frustration or to provide better user experience.

• Option 1: quietly remove the orkut referral program
• Option 2: Beat the orkut captcha to give a better user experience

so how many of them actually made pocket money for every month is still a question with mGinger?

June 7th is World Drawing Day – Use ToonDoo

Hi Friends
As you might have seen from the title that tomorrow is world drawing day. If you would like to express your creativity ToonDoo is the right place. There are numerous characters, props available in the Library all you have to do is drag and drop. You don’t even have to draw, just use your creativity to express what you have in your mind.

Have fun.

For more information on World Drawing day check out this website

Technorati Tags: toonDoo, cartoons, drawing, creativity, fun, unproductivity, express, feelings, life, art

College Students, Bee a smart Lender – use LendBee

Photo Courtesy: Rosie Hardy

Imagine countless books for reference on top of your semester books, Carrying them, taking care of them is a much pain. Here is a cool solution which will make you feel better

Lendbee is a system which allows you to share books, CD, DVD, Movies, Magazines, Ebooks and those online manuals which you can actually share with a closed group of friends and college juniors. The best part is no ones else knows what materials you share except the ones on your group.

Bee a smart Lender and let some one take care of your materials and how to place them in their apartments, when you need them back, the lendbee allows you to track the materials on who currently has them.

So check the lendbee today, remember knowledge is power, so can even expect your friends to share materials which you can get them for free.

Technorati Tags: free, books, CD, DVD, Movies, Magazines, Ebooks, lendbee, social networking

FaceBook killer – Bravo Google Friend Connect

Seems like Google wants to embrace the non social networking sites to be part of social networking sites.

If you thought Myspace, Ning and Facebook made a killing, Please welcome the new Kid on the Block – Google Friend Connect. Do check the introduction video for more elaborate answers.

I see a lot of traffic to be increased to the personal or corporate websites too. All you need to do is sign up then embed few piece of code in to your website and let your friends and customers do the talking (bring the traffic back to you)

How does the traffic happen?
When ever a visitor visits a site and interact, their interactions are being reflected as updates in to the social networking sites which they belong. The updates are not mandatory, if wished, the interactions are reflected.

Corporate sites could integrate friend connect to have more authentic users

Personal websites could bring all friends buzzing among themselves and create new friends too

Bravo Google
An approach to fight spam is unleashed.

Technorati Tags: google, freind connect, friends, social networking, social, networking, traffic, facebook, myspace, ning