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.

Bhuvan, India’s answer to google earth

via bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in

India’s answer to Google Earth.

Cuil may become tomorrow’s cool search engine

What is Cuil?
It is the new search Engine for the web.

Cuil to be sounded as cool.

Who is bringing us the new Search Engine. guess who?
Check the management page and that should lead you to old pals from Google top minds.

My only thought is that, How could people at google search engine team leave and start a new one as competition.  I should say people at google are either kind enough or being really stupid.

Cuil – All the best guys. Don’t be a disappointment for Google.

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?

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

Are you searching for Wikileaks website?

You may be wondering what Wikileaks is all about and why wikileaks have become so important now.

If you didn’t hear about the whistle blowers website taken offline, officially order by the US court. The news is from BBC website

Here is the link to the live Wikileaks website.

You must be wondering, Why I have taken so much interest on this website.  Check for the links pertaining to India, you can see the ombudsman fighting for common people in India.

This site may harm your computer

If you did search with google for keywords, google suggest for a potential threat from a site, WOW that is proactive search results.

Google guys nice work, hats of to you guys.

click on the above image for the search results, to find the key words.

If you wanted to know what the link suggests for the search results “This site may harm your computer“

How could google engineers think of such an innovation, that is why their search results rocks.

Firefox firebug can slowdown Gmail

I was quiet thrilled when Gmail showed me this error msg. Gmail detected the browser to be firefox and the firebug addon turned on. I use firebug extension when I make AJAX calls on my projects, it is turned on by default.

In fact Gmail suggest what you can do to fix the problem, here is the link which tells you how to turn the firebug extension disabled for a particular site or even the entire firebug extension to be disabled temporarily.

What else more you need from Gmail.

Well raises more suspicion, which I had already talked about right here, is Google sneaking in to our privacy.

Google Soon to announce Open Social API

What does that mean to developers?
Those who are yet to start on the sharing platform, the work is simplified.
For developers who have already started, I see little bit of rework for all their apps if they want to use Google’s code.

Here is the link to google open social API OpenSocial

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