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Ever wanted to put your thoughts somewhere? 

Or you wanted your friends to know more about you? 

Or you wanted to put constant updates about your field of interest on net? 

Or make a file sharing platform? 

Or you wanted to have a website of your own?

Or you wanted to know more about Internet?

Answer for all the above questions is having a blog. The best way of achieving all the above questions is of course, having a website. However, you need to have the domain where you can design your website. And this is not free. You need to purchase and register your domain. So, blog is the perfect option.

How to create?

 There are plenty of blog platforms where you can build your blog. Some of them lists as:

www.blogger.com

www.wordpress.com

www.sosblog.com

www.thoughts.com

Blogger and Wordpress are the most widely used and you can experiment so many things here. I would suggest blogger or wordpress. Just login to its account and start posting!

The answer to this question is in your hands. What to post is completely dependent on your perception and your ideas. Be very specific on what you want to post. Once you start posting about one topic, you may find it hard to deviate. You can use Tumblr and other platforms to post articles.

It is advisable to post atleast 2 to 3 articles per week. Do not leave the blog static. Keep posting articles so that the visitors keep visiting your blog often.

Next thing is to submit your blog to search engines if you want your blog to be found there. Google uses Webmasters, Yahoo uses direct link submission and so on. To make your blog reach the first pages of search engine, you need to optimize your blog.

You can place lot of attractive widgets, compromising loading time, which can attract users. Also, you can add some interactive sessions, feedback forms, links to other sites, funny articles(pertaining to your topic) etc. Also you can use eye-catching blog templates available on various websites like blogtemplates, bloggerstyles etc.

How do you draw visitors to blog?
Add a sharing widget using which you and your visitors can share the blog posts to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, Delicious, Orkut etc. Their friends can view this link and visit your blog. This is very elementary of course. Next, you can submit your blog links to various blog search engines like Blogged.com, Spillbean.com, blogsearchengine.com, indiblogger.com, getblogs.com etc. Finally you can get traffic from search engines. But to achieve this, you will have to keep your blog up and running for months.

To make money from your blog, only way is to get advertisements to your blog from famous Ad providers. Google AdSense provides ads to blogs,but they expect your blog to have large content and atleast 6-8 months old. Adbrite is another Ad supplier who expect you to have large content on your blog again. Similarly there are many other websites which provide Ads, provided your blog pass their tests.

Gain better hold on HTML.

Web Designing becomes easy and interesting.

Develops interest in Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing.
Develops network world wide (If you are smart enough).
Understand the importance of HTML, Java, Javascripts, Analytics, Web Traffic etc.

Disadvantages:
Difficult to pick up a topic to post articles.

You might have seen in some Hollywood movies, that a car is being driven on its own. May be in a Super Hero movies or in fact more, in horror movies! Now Google has conducted a horrifying experiment successfully and has indeed become a Super Hero!

Aligning with Google’s optimistic view about technology’s ability to advance society, Google has made a surprising move! Google developed the technology for automated cars and test drove the car from Google’s Mountain View campus to Santa Monica office and on to Hollywood Boulevard and logged over 140,000 miles (225,308 kms)! This project uses artificial-intelligence software that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by a human driver. The automated cars use video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to “see” other traffic, as well as detailed maps to navigate the road ahead.

The project is the brainchild of Sebastian Thrun, the 43-year-old director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Google engineer and the co-inventor of the Street View mapping service. Google is using six Priuses and an Audi TT in the project.

While the test is conducted, the car was manned by a trained safety driver behind the wheel who can take over as easily as one disengages cruise control. With this automation, Google expects to reduce traffic accidents.

“Your car should drive itself; it’s amazing to me that we let humans drive cars,” Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, said at a technology conference last month. “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.”

The car's already traveled 140,000 miles, depending on cameras and a scanning laser to do the driving so you don't have to. You just tell it your destination and it plots a route for you, taking into consideration speed limits and traffic patterns. A Google engineer describes it as "Super Cruise Control," a way to augment your experience rather than usurp it. Although part of me is pretty sure that if I had this function available to me, I'd never turn it off.

The bad news: Google's not anywhere close to even thinking about retail at this point, and even if they did the cost would be astronomical. Besides, I'm sure they're just using the extra time to figure out how to make this baby fly.

However, this is a tremendous experiment and we could see these cars on roads in the near future and see a great decrease in the number of accidents.

 

Twitter is one of the most famous Websites in the World. Twitter is used as micro-blogging website. In other words, Twitter allows its users to share anything from the user's profile. Friends and others who are in your network can come to know what's happening on your side. Twitter, like Facebook, began life as a tool for college students. Allowing only 140 characters per message, a "Tweet" was used to update friends and family in a casual way via the tagline "What are you doing?"

Both Google and Twitter have little boxes for you to type into, but on Google you're looking for information, and expecting a machine response, whereas on Twitter you're declaring an emotion and expecting a human response.

 Twitter is called the micro-blogging site since it allows users to type in only 140 characters at once! Also Twitter is a social networking site since it allows a set of users of common interest,friends etc. to stay connected in a network. This is given a name 'Follow' on Twitter. Friends can share information through DM's(Direct Messages).

Basic Working:

•    Twitter allows you to post short updates (AKA Tweets) as often as you want; they are limited to 140 characters.
•    Follow other users, and you’ll be able to read their tweets.
•    When they follow you, they’ll read your tweets. 
•    A business should follow everyone who is following them, because when they follow you, it means that they want to engage in a conversation.  This is an opportunity to make a connection with your existing or prospective customer. 

Twitter is mostly used for marketing rather than just chatting with friends. Twitter is most powerful when it comes to networking and marketing. Any website links can be shared in Twitter and get your followers reach the Website links. While most film actors use Twitter for publicity purpose, corporates use it to share the services offered by them and improve their customer relationship. Each day 5 to 10 thousand new people join Twitter, and it currently has around 5 million users, according to the State of the Twittersphere report. That’s a lot of opportunity waiting for your business!

Here are a few more reasons why you need Twitter for your business:

1.    Your message can reach hundreds and thousands of people instantly, so you won’t have to chase after customers.  They will find you—for free.

2.    You can grow your reputation as an expert by offering advice and/or referring people to interesting business-related articles.  As long as you go easy on the self-promotion, people will come to trust your advice and will be more open to visiting your website to find out more about you and your business.

3.    You can provide coupons and special offers in a matter of seconds with a Tweet.  

Lastly, here are some of our favorite Twitter related services, which makes tweeting even more fun:

•    Twitpic.com lets you share photos on Twitter.
•    Cheaptweet.com scans Twitter for the best deals, coupons and sales that people are tweeting about.
•    Twitterholic.com gathers data and updates a list of the most popular twitter users. Who’s the most popular Twitter user? Our new president with 346,422 followers.
•    Crazybob.org searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.

Twitter is obviously one of the main targets of business using which they can grow more than expected.

The Mozilla Seabird, part of the Mozilla Labs’ Concept Series, is an experiment in how users might interact with their mobile content as devices and technology advances. Drawing on insights culled from the Mozilla community through the project’s blog, a focus quickly developed around frustrating physical interactions. While mobile CPUs, connectivity and development platforms begin approaching that of desktops, the lagging ability to efficiently input information has grown ever more pronounced.