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Google Web Elements all together accessible at the same place

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Google Web Widgets are really useful open source elements easy to use on. Bloggers find them very helpful & use on their blogs to add different effects & functionality.

Now all the google web widgets can be accessed at one place. All google web elements is now available at its fresh website, Google Web Elements where allow you to easily add your favorite Google widgets onto your own website.

One can see  8 widgets in the Google Web Elements webpage :

  • Calendar (for sharing your Google Calendar with your readers)
  • Conversation (a comment replacement where users can have a conversation)
  • Custom Search (custom Google search engine)
  • Maps (easier Google Maps integration)
  • News (latest Google News articles)
  • Presentations (for sharing Google Docs presentations)
  • Spreadsheets (for sharing Google Docs spreadsheets)
  • Youtube News (Youtube news videos from a selected list of publishers)

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10 Reasons Why TechCrunch Rules Tech-Media | A Study from Inforids

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Michael Arrington founded TechCrunch, Tech Media Blog Network in 2005 and has built it into one of the most influential Tech blog network in the world with about $25 million value. TechCrunch has now grown into a network of technology focused sites offering a wide range of content and new media.

Michael Arrington: Founder of TechCrunch

With 7.5 million unique visitors and 20 million page views / month, TechCrunch  has 1,037,662 followers on Twitter, it has over 3,337,000 RSS feed subscribers aand its articles are always on top of Tweetmeme, Digg and Social Bookmarking Sites.

Competing with iamweb2.0 &  Mashable, TechCrunch has reached the #1 Tech Audience Online.

These are the 10 reasons why TechCrunch is on the top of Technology blogs today.

Be The First

TechCrunch take the things very keenly, that are happening & that can influence the world in the near future. They put them first to their tech audience.

New Internet products and Companies

Now as Technology & Web is emerging, new web & technology based business, products & services are too emerging like never before. They profile those & review them.

TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the web 2.0 space.

- Michael Arrington

Increasing The Scope

Yes, they went with wide range of content and new media,  growing their network in every arena where they come up with the most of the content that pleases audience.

The Crunch Network consists:

  1. TechCrunch
  2. CrunchBase
  3. CrunchGear
  4. MobileCrunch
  5. TechCrunchIT
  6. TechCrunch Europe
  7. TechCrunch Francais
  8. TechCrunch Japan
  9. The Gillmor Gangs
  10. Elevator Pitches

The Skilled Team

TechCrunch Network is equipped with a team consisting people from most diverse fields, powering the entire Crunch Network.

Simple Design & Content Reach

TechCrunch blog design is really simple, so its easy for the reader to  reach the content they are looking for. They present the content in a simple way that is easy to grasp on.

Easy navigation & less number of ads is most important features of their blog designs.

Write for the Web & for People

They acts as a medium between business, products, services & the readers & mainstream audience.

Like all good web 2.0 services, this site will be a two-way communications medium. Comments, trackbacks and other feedback will be welcome. We will distribute this content in every way our readers want it – our website, RSS, Atom, email, and other web 2.0 distribution mechanisms that companies that we profile will think up!

- Michael Arrington

Powerful Headlines

Look at these:

  1. Letting Data Die A Natural Death
  2. This Is What Happens When Your Mother-In-Law Uses Internet Explorer 6
  3. Google Squared Gets Better, But It Still Can’t Find Mars

These are some of the example of the headlines of the posts I figured out recently from TechCrunch. These depicts the unique way they go for Titles. They go for titles that are  quite interesting & appealing.

Content, Content & Content

TechCrunch publishes some 10+ posts every day. They vary in their areas & are written by their teams. So, these articles are diverse & vary in presentation.

They know what to post, when to post & how to post the articles.

In-Depth Article Coverage

If you read some TechCrunch posts you will quickly see how they track down the source of information, they check out the original report, examine the original study and write a short summary of the most interesting points.

The Depth of coverage is mainly drawn on a series of articles that are linked quite nicely.

Encourage Sharing

Yes, TechCrunch post for their readers & valuable information that  readers enjoy, they will spread the word to their friends for you. So, Blog is embedded with most popular social networking site buttons like Twitter & Facebook.

But they are readers who never hesitate to spread the interesting artilces to Digg, Stumbleupon & other social networking sites & that is the real source of their traffic.

So, Good & quality content can’t remain hidden for a long time. It will came out definitely.

TechCrunch is a great example & inspiration to bloggers. It shows how anyone can start from scratch, work hard & can establish an blog empire, just like Michael Arrington did with TechCrunch Tech Media Blog Network.

So, What do you think after reading this article? Do you remember of such inspiring moves?
Share with us your views.

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15 High Quality & Awesome Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes

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Really the War of WordPress themes is already going on & many beautiful WordPress themes are available, many are good and only a little are just one of a kind. The choice is big enough, but the search is worth it. Today we present speacilly for or readers,  only 15 Free High Quality & successful Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive with great look & functionlity.

Neoclassical

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Blue Station

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Magazeen

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Type Based

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Black Motion

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Deskspace

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Yoghourt

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Simple Balance

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Blues – Free WordPress Theme

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Freemium

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MainStream

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DarkForest

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BlakMagik

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30 Must have WordPress Plugins for Admin to Enhance their Website Control

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WordPress is the most eminent & competent platform for website owners & bloggers today. It’s also the most accepted one in platforms niche.  WordPress support for using plugins makes it more robust, easy & reliable platform for administrators, providing them full control over their websites & blogs. Here you can find the most requistic Plugins for WordPress Administrators.

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Starting A New Blog | The First Essential Steps every Blogger must Consider

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Going to start a new blog, great! But if you want a really cool & attractive blog you should first consider a few things that are indispensable for newbie stepping into blogging. This article will introduce you to essential aspects of blogging before you actually start & help you to have one with a professionally-crafted design & content.

Identify the Central theme/idea for your blog

Deciding the central category/idea/theme for blogging: It should be clear what is the basic theme of your blog that all your blog content would reflect. Write some of the articles early before you have the blog. It will help you easily post them quickly on your blog.

Choosing the blogging platform

Deciding the platform for blogging & signing up: Choosing the platform for blogging is easy depending upon the services provided & eminancy of the platform. Sign up & start blogging.

Most popular blogging platforms are:

If you are new to blogging & want to put first steps towards blogging for fun, you should go for Blogger platform which is best & easy to start with. Blogger provides you with all the elements which can be easily used to write your posts & publish them to the world, even when you don’t have any idea of web html & web programming. Just go & sign up in the blogger account & start on writing . Blogger also provide major facilities to work on the templates not only by editing the  Html but also to add extra codes thorugh adding the gadgets code in the layout.

WordPress.com too offers similar type of services to bloggers but in a completly different way. This platform is easy to work on & allows users a limited control over their blogs in terms of choosing themes & plugins.

But if you own a domain & have hosting space, then WordPress.org is the excellent & most widely platform used by bloggers. WordPress.org platform extends capabilities of the blogging & provides many support services like  themes & plugins uploading. It has taken blogging to the next level.

Blogging Services are very large in number & are greatly influnced by the popularity & taste of the bloggers. The number of bloggers using a blogging service also vary accourding to the region & countries.

Choosing the right theme/template for your blog

Deciding the fully working & attractive template/theme which suits your blog central idea: A 3 column template will be the best choice & can be downloaded free. Many websites are itself dedicated for providing free blogger templates & wordpress templates.

Writing the first blog article & publishing it

Writing the blog content is one of the most important stage which you need to take seriously. I had already explained it here

The 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article


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Transforming Ravage 2GB Flash Drive – Adding “Transformers Effect”

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If you are a Transformers lover, then now you can add “The Transformers Effect” to your digital life by using creative 2GB flash drive which may look like a Ravage Transformers toys. This toy like flash drive will serve as a utility device in the normally but can transform into a savage cat when you play with it. The drive is compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista as well as Mac.

This Transforming Flash drive is one of the most creative additions in BigBadToy Store after the impressive designed gadgets like Dinobots or SkyLynx, is available for pre-order for $42.99 (eta September 2009). Via Nerd Approved

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WordPress 2.8 Baker Released | A First Look on its Key features

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Finally the “Baker” version of WordPress arrived yesterday, with so many cool & more enhanced features. Named for noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, this WordPress had got a lot with it for the people who love it. Major improvement were done in the themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speedwith about over 790 bugs fixes. This video explains  more than the words.

Highlights of what’s new in WordPress 2.8:

  • New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
  • Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
  • Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
  • Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
  • Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
  • Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
  • Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
  • Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

Using META Tags for Search Engine Optimization: Meta Descriptors that Search Engines look for

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Getting a top ranking in search engines is  a No problem Now! All you need to do is add a HTML “meta tags” to your web pages, and you’ll elevate to the top of the listings in the search engine results. Meta Tags the most useful for search engine optimization. Other techniques includes Increasing Blog Traffic: Submitting your websites & blogs to 100+ search engines & directories for Free

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Ultimate Beginners Guide for Torrents | Start using Torrents in 10 Minutes

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What is a torrent?

Torrents are specialized files utilized in peer-to-peer (P2P) network environments. The first P2P software designed to utilize torrents was BitTorrent by Bram Cohen.

How torrent is different from Limewire?

A torrent system works a little different from how limewire does. When you search in Limewire, the program scouts through other Limewire user files to find what best matches your search. If you choose to download a file, it makes a copy of the other persons (or group of peoples) file and puts it onto your computer.

Torrents work in much the same way. However, a separate file first needs to be downloaded. This separate file, commonly known as a torrent (.torrent) file, has all the information needed to download what you want. Basically, the torrent file is a set of instructions where and what to get. The big benefit of this system is that you can download entire libraries of files, not just one by one.

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What is a .torrent file?

To start the download of a file, a user has to click on a link pointing to .torrent meta-data file. These meta-data files are not stored on the torrent trackers server, but are distributed among a number of .torrent file servers. In turn, each .torrent file points to a tracker, which keeps a global registry of all the downloaders and seeds of the corresponding file. The tracker responds to a user’s request with a list of some of the peers having (part of) the requested file, with whom the user can establish direct connections to barter for chunks of the file. One tracker can supervise the simultaneous downloads of multiple files.

What is Seed?

This is a torrent downloader who completely is finished downloading the files. Now he/she is only distributing.

What is Leecher/Peer?

This is the term used for a torrent downloader who is downloading the torrent. This would be you if your not 100% done with the download.

What is a torrent tracker?

A tracker is a program, not located on your computer, which keeps track of everyone who is downloading the same torrent. Each torrent file comes with their own instruction to which tracker the torrent belongs to. BitTorrent trackers are software server “toolkit” applications that typically run on Web sites.

Tracker software serves up torrent files for download from a web site. The torrent tracker maintains information about all BitTorrent clients utilizing each torrent. Using the tracker, the program connects to different peers from which it gets the files.

What is a bit torrent client?

A BitTorrent client is any program which implements the BitTorrent protocol. Each client is capable of preparing, requesting, and transmitting any type of computer file over a network, using the protocol.

How does it work?

What basically happens is a users browses a torrent tracker to find a torrent file of interest, download it, and open it with a BitTorrent client. The client connects to the tracker specified in the torrent file, from which it receives a list of peers currently transferring pieces of the file(s) specified in the torrent. The client connects to those peers to obtain the various pieces.

Such a group of peers connected to each other to share a torrent is called a swarm. If the swarm contains only the initial seeder, the client connects directly to it and begins to request pieces. As peers enter the swarm, they begin to trade pieces with one another, instead of downloading directly from the seeder.

Now, Getting things done? Start Downloading

First of all, you need a program that will take the torrent file and download the files associated with it. There are Softwares for torrents but because all the programs are mostly exactly the same, it doesn’t really matter which one to chose.

A lot of Torrents websites are there, where you can find torrent downloads in almost many categories.

Search for the files you want like ‘OpenSuse’ or ‘Need For Speed Most Wanted’ Game. When you get your results, download the file  utorrent should automatically identify and download and open giving you options about what files to download, where to put them etc. Press ok, and the file should start downloading. Your done!

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