No Windows, No Gates, It is OPEN; No Bill, It is FREE
Like many other people his age, Mark Zuckerberg the founder of social networking site Facebook spends most of his day in front of a computer screen. But he is no ordinary 23-year-old he’s officially the world’s youngest US billionaire.
Worth 1.5 billion dollars, the young man has made a debut in this years Forbes magazine’s list of the World’s Billionaires where he has secured the 785th rank. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday mk of blognone.com announced the launch of a new sub-forum to conduct discussions in English Language on the site which is otherwise in Thai.
The Announcement :-
Dear non-Thai members (or Thai members who want to talk in English),
This forum is for discuss on (almost) everything you want to. The only thing you should know is Blognone uses Markdown as default input format. Please see the instruction manual from the link if you’ve never heard of Markdown before. Anyway, HTML is also selectable in the input format tab under the textbox.
Now enjoy talking!
This is excelent news for those who dont read or write much Thai as well as the Thais who want to communicate more in English to have more practice. Finally there is now a place where foreigners and Thais can chare ideas and views.
About Blognone :-
Blognone is Thai independent IT news site. It was found on August 2004 and driven by geek community in Thailand. Our goals are:
- deliver update and high quality IT news in Thai language
- sharing knowledge between IT industry/community
- promote use of open source, open standard and other good alternative concepts
IMHO Blognone.com is also a good example of a community website built using Drupal.
w00t w00t w00t!!!!
Got some inside scoop today that there is a high probability of IIFA awards for 2008 would be held in Bangkok. This is great news for us Indians in Bangkok….
For the uninnitiated,
The awards of the International Indian Film Academy (commonly known as the IIFA Awards) is a prestigious award ceremony, honouring Hindi movies (Bollywood) around the world. In the past, IIFA awards have been hosted at Yorkshire, Dubai, Amsterdam, Singapore, Johannesburg, Genting Highlands, Sun City and London.
Ive even started fantasizing which stars im gonna see, who can i meet, and most importantly who can I photograph.
This event is bigger than me taking photos. It is great for many things… Read the rest of this entry »
Alexa traffic graphs never ceases to amaze me.
This graph speaks a thousand words…
alltop.com is the latest website by Guy Kawasaki which was launched on twitter and has been made using a lot of feedback from his twitter followers. If you follow @guykawasaki’s twitter page, you can see evangelism in live action. Basically alltop is a RSS aggregator where there are various categories like Celebs, Egos, Gadgets, etc etc.. Each category is a page and it shows links to last 5 posts from important Blogs/Websites in the specific niche. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently when trying to “Sign Up for Amazon Payments” I had to login and then the form shown to me had only United States as an option. Couldn’t find an explanation for this anywhere. My account as my Thailand address listed. Why does amazon force me to accept that I am from US? Or is it that they seriously believe that people outside United States don’t use the internet?
Today i learnt a neat trick. It it took me more time to make the script than it would have taken me to do the task manually.. the old fashioned way.. but it would save me(and hopefully you) a lot of time in the future. Flickr does have a nice API with many methods, almost everything which can be done via flickr website can be done using this API. You would need to have a Flickr API key to use this script.
The objective : To generate some html code based on the images in one particular set in my flickr account and to display them in a nice manner(well better than earlier 
) using Lightbox2
I am not going to go into details on how to use Lightbox. This page is detailed enough. Read the rest of this entry »
Just noticed a new feature on Google webmaster tools. Now we can get important information directly on iGoogle homepage. Adding this gadget is very easy. Simply log in to webmaster tools and under tools there is a new option called Gadgets. Thank you Google and keep coming up with cool stuff like this! Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday was Google Dance day and the SEOs are perhaps still dancing today (Tuesday in US). Some say that page rank is useless, but i tend to believe it has some relevance. At least it is an indicative of the link authority of the site.
First noticed it yesterday evening(early a.m. in US) when BarCampBangkok homepage showed pagerank 4. This was a direct jump from no rank. This is the result of loads of Bangkok based Geeks linking to BarCampBangkok from their blogs and sites. I too am guilty of providing a site wide link 
Another surprising change I noticed was our travel portal. Until yesterday, it had no page rank. The site has had site wide links from my other sites. Until a month ago all it had on it was meaningless Lipsum, I’ve been adding content to it only since 5 weeks ago and it is a slow and painful process. But the bottom line is site wide links from 2 domains can get a site’s homepage to page rank 5?
Pagerank updates may not have finished, the results mentioned here may change. In the last Google Dance my news site also jumped from 0 to 5. Thank you Google.
This is the Second part of my side by side comparison of Drupal and Joomla from an SEO viewpoint. In the first part i wrote about Search Engine Friendly URLs, this part will talk about meta tags.
Meta tags are an important part of the web page. They are used to pass information to browsers and bots and are not intended for the average browser to see. We will basically discuss about the 2 most common meta attributes which are keywords and description.
In Joomla, The editing of the meta tags is a core functionality, and can be added while editing or creating content.
Also note the “Sect/Cat/Title” button. when pressing it it automatically adds the Section name, Category name and the title of the content into the Keyword attribute.
In Drupal, the meta attributes cant be set by default, you would need to install a module such as “Meta Tags” to do this for you.
This is the box while editing a node.
The meta editor in Joomla is a core feature, however as Drupal is very flexible, i can perhaps get it to include the taxonomy terms into the keyword without replication as well. Both the CMS does well in this simple but important factor. The Joomla people had to put in all these features into Joomla, however the Drupal guys only made a platform where anyone can make modules for any specific task. Based on my initial observations, Drupal module development is easier compared to Joomla extension development. Read the rest of this entry »
Today while searching for photography tutorials, i landed up on Cameratown’s tutorial page. Surprisingly, there was a contextual text ad for “Canon Flash Photography” on it. Wonder if it is a new phenomenon, searching on Google would only lead me to articles/posts about the adsense video ad units. Take a look at the image below, it shows the adsense text ad within the video.
Is this something Google is doing to monetize Youtube or there is some involvement/share of Cameratown in this case? On refreshing the page I couldn’t get the ad back, neither have I seen this ad unit on other embedded youtube videos. Lucky that I took a screen shot in time.
If you have any more info on this phenomenon then do let me know.
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