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Hillary Clinton

librahitech — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:12:25 +0000

We would like to see that Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman President of the United States of America through the Presidential elections currently on.

SAD FOR CONGRESS

librahitech — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:40:47 +0000

Chandigarh, February 27, 2007- Upholding convention, the Punjab voter favoured a change, giving the SAD-BJP alliance a chance to govern the state after a fierce electoral battle.

With 45 per cent of voters below 35 years of age, many old warhorses of the SAD-BJP alliance and the Congress were defeated.

While the Akalis led by three-time Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal survived some anxious contests to improve its tally of 2002 by eight to 48, its alliance partner BJP roared to success in 19 constituencies against two (initially three) seats it held in the outgoing House, giving the combine a total of 68 out of 116.

While 44 sitting MLAs, including ministers, of the Congress have lost election, 21 sitting MLAs of the SAD have been defeated.

For the BJP it has been its biggest ever tally in Punjab, the previous best being 18 in 1997. At that time SAD had 75 legislators in the 93-member ruling alliance.

Parkash Singh Badal, who was projected as chief ministerial candidate by the alliance, is expected to be sworn in as the head of the new government later this week for a fourth term.

Knowing full well that it holds the key to the formation of the Badal-led government, the Bharatiya Janata Party, will stake claim for the post of Deputy Chief Minister.

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Blogs and Blogging

librahitech — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:41:20 +0000

What is a blog?

A blog is essentially a website, with a few features to set it apart. A blog lets people write content easily, and have it shared easily. Blogs make writing to the web easy, because the traditional content management system of a website, usually known only to webmasters, is replaced by a system as easy to understand as email.
Blogs are not simply online diaries or journals, although many such exist. While there are many people blogging to simply speak with friends or family, thousands of businesses have started blogging, mainstream media is blogging, and experts from all areas are sharing their knowledge online.

What is a blogger?

A blogger is someone who writes on a blog. The diversity of bloggers is tremendous. Some are hobbyists, some are journalers, others are the leading analysts and thought-leaders in their fields. One thing that connects all bloggers: they love what they do and love to write about it.

What is the blogosphere?

The blogosphere is the word used to describe the world of blogs – the blogosphere represents all blogs on the internet, and more specifically the community of bloggers working, interacting, and writing together.

What is a blog post?

A blog post is an entry, or article, written to a blog.

Some of the features setting blogs apart from other websites are structure, features, and purpose. Blogs are updated more often, given the ease of publishing vs. that of more static websites. This makes them very search engine friendly. Most blogs use a template system, stored in a database, that can be easily deployed. There are hundreds of designs available, so starting a blog does not require technical know-how.

Comments

This is one of the key features and facets of a blog, comments. Readers can, and are encouraged to, leave comments on the blog about the articles. This continues the dialog and discussion started by the article, and extends it. Comments are part of what makes a blog a community, social networking, relationship focused site. Comment areas are usually found at the bottom of a post.
At the time of this writing (late September, 2005), comment spam is reaching epic new heights, this is temporarily stifling comments. Since comments are so important to the culture of the blogosphere, solutions to this plague are being actively worked on.

Trackbacks

A trackback is a link to an article from another blog. On a blog trackbacks are shown at the bottom of an article with a link to the other blog and a short excerpt of the other article. Trackbacks, like comments, suffer from spam that is reducing the value and usefulness of trackbacks.

Permalinks

Unlike database-driven websites of the past, each blog entry has a “permalink”, that is a real link or URL that can be bookmarked, linked to, and most importantly found and indexed by search engines. This link is permanent and unique giving each blog post its own unique identity on the web.
Since blogs are updated frequently, this permanent identity not only benefits search engines, but allow for readers to scan older posts no longer shown on home pages, and to link to each article – not just the blog name – in reference. This ability to interact specifically has powered much of the interaction and community development of the blogosphere.

Content Organization

When someone writes something on a blog, it is shown at the top of the page – this is known as reverse chronological order.
Each time something new is written on a blog, it is posted (meaning it appears on the blog) at the very top of the main blog page, and the pages for each category archive, pushing the previous articles down. This unique way of sharing information and thoughts, organizing them with “new” at the top sets blogs apart from websites. Just like websites, however, the content is usually organized. Each new post is assigned to one or more categories, making it easy to find later.

What are blog posts?

Blog “posts” are the essence of the blogging phenomenon that has taken off in recent years. A “post” is basically an article, written in varying styles and lengths, usually linking to other articles or websites, with some new perspective or opinion.

What is a feed? What is RSS?

A feed is a computer generated file that is created with each and every blog post – this file is sent onto the internet and allows anyone to read it using an aggregator (see below), rather than visiting the website. This gives great power to individuals and companies to easily share (or ’syndicate’) their blog posts. The feed is very much like the information inserted into a newspaper and distributed around the world – the only difference, this newspaper is online, and contains an infinite variation of personal feeds all read together.
Every time a blogger posts new content, the file is updated that gets sent out to the Internet, can be searched, and can be read by other bloggers in Aggregators or even delivered as email.
Two common formats of feeds are RSS and Atom.

There are three facets of blogging that remain constant:

Linking
Commenting
Relationships (between bloggers)

Linking

Linking to other blogs (via your blogroll or your posts) is the hallmark of blogging. It is this network, this mesh of thoughts and ideas, that makes blogging what it is. Linking is also what makes blogs search engine magnets – each link you get is a ‘vote’ for your blog in search engines, making it more powerful. Linking then flows into the next facet of blogging, comments.

Commenting

When I’m asked about what makes a blog so different than a “regular” website, comments comes to the top of my mind. Most blog posts allow comments from readers – each post has the ability to allow people to comment – leaving name, website, and dialogue right at your post. This continues the discussion presented. The ideas can shift and gain depth. And as people leave comments, bloggers find other people to link to, which leads to more linking and comments and finally to: relationships.

Relationships

Blogging is truly a global social network. Thousands of friendships are made every day. The process of reading other people’s blogs, leaving comments, linking to them, inevitability starts the process of forming friendships and relationships. Of course, there are spats and squabbles, and even cliques, but by and large it is these relationships that make blogging what it is.

Markets are Conversations

These relationships have an interesting facet when it comes to business. Markets are conversations in the truest sense in the blogosphere – employees, customers, investors all talk and participate in the blogosphere. Most likely, your company has been talked about by someone – customers are taking a more active role now than ever in actively participating in buying decisions and company feedback. Businesses now have a unique opportunity to get in, listen, and react to this commentary, and to take lead on their own blog if they so wish. This conversation, this dialogue, is emerging as an important shift to business communications.

Number of blogs

As of November, 21.2 million blogs are being tracked by Technorati, the largest blog search engine. This is growing at a rate of 1 blog per second – with over half of those blogs continuing to be active, written chronicles by bloggers around the world.

Source: Technorati

Number of blog readers out there

More than half of the population in North America knowingly read blogs – with millions more reading, interacting, and clicking on ads in blogs.

Advertising

Why advertise on blogs

Given the reach of blogs, and their level of interactivity, blogs offer advertisers an easy way to reach customers. Blogs, unlike websites, are flourishing and popping up in every niche topic.
Consumers are spending as much time, if not more, online than in front of the television
CPM is far less online, and for blogs, than for traditional media
Customers seek out blogs for what is going on in the world, for product information, and for the newest and best information about everything. More and more blogs are being created everyday, with more and more attention from both big media and your customers.
Advertising on blogs puts you in front of people who are making decisions, buying products, and influencing others.

Growth of online advertising

Spending on online advertising is projected to reach $14.7 billion in 2005 -Forrester Research
78 percent of those surveyed said they think search engine marketing will be more effective than traditional ads within the next three years -Forrester Research
64 percent of respondents showed interest in advertising on blogs, 57 percent through RSS -Forrester Research

Keyword vs. Contextual Advertising

Keyword advertising focuses on the human brain – what a person really thinks about what they’ve written, and how they think readers will interact with that. Many bloggers will describe their posts in specific terms, often using the same words to tag a post, but some bloggers choose complimentary words – those words that may appeal to the readers, even if not specifically mentioned in the post.

Why keyword advertising is better

Giving the blogger the freedom of choice, keywords enable bloggers to maximize their own revenue.
Advertising in blogs is a great way to earn income from a growing and dynamic marketplace.

Advertising options

Aside from keyword vs. contextual, you have the option as well of image/banner vs. text ads. Each has shown to be effective in certain situations, but text ads perform overall far better
Text ads have the advantage of looking like content, and seamlessly integrating with it.
Ads placed close to, or within, content perform better
Ads that can be formatted to alter size, colour, etc to customize to blog features will outperform those that cannot
Putting ads in blogs can be post- or blog-centric

Post-centric vs. blog-centric or feed-centric advertising

Advertising on blogs can be focused on the blog itself, the feed, or on the post.
Blog-centric advertising treats the blog as the main element for revenue. The concept behind this is to capture people who physically go to the website to see the ads. This usually requires placing the ad code into the blog template, and knowledge of HTML at minimum.
Feed-centric advertising is designed to attract people to ads in RSS feeds. These ads are not visible on the blog/website, and are only visible through RSS readers to the blog subscribers.
Post-centric advertising is focused on a combination approach that will captivate attention from people at the site, as well as subscribers to the RSS feed. Ads are placed within the blog posts individually, and these ads will flow through to the RSS feed where they can also be seen.

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Music Download

librahitech — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:18:24 +0000

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MP3DownloadHQ will show you how to access the most popular file download networks.
Along with Music, Movies, Software & Games can also be downloaded on these large networks.

Millions of users download and trade files legally on file-sharing networks.

You can, for example, legally download music from over 850 bands and over 20,000 live concerts as well as access to multiple software titles and games.

File sharing has enabled music fans from around the world to build the largest library of recorded music in history.

File sharing is not illegal as long as you obey and comply with all relevant copyright laws.
Sharing copyrighted material without permission is illegal.

Protecting your privacy is important to us.

Your email address and personal information are confidential and will not be sold or rented.

How AGLOCO works

librahitech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:08:18 +0000

Be a part of the Internet’s first Member-Owned Economic Community.

Join AGLOCO – Own the Internet!

AGLOCO: The Internet’s First Economic Network

Today’s hottest Internet businesses are all about the power of social networks. Companies like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube have become worth billions because businesses have realized that these social networks are generating huge advertising and marketing opportunities. As these social networks grow, the economic potential for its owners – and the advertisers who target the site’s users – is remarkable.

At AGLOCO, we asked a simple question: The users created the community, where’s their share of the profit?

It was from this question that AGLOCO set out to create the Internet’s first Economic Network, harnessing the power of Internet-based social networks to directly benefit the Members who help to create the community.

Becoming a member of AGLOCO is as simple as completing a brief sign-up page (name, age, location and email address.). Once you’re a Member, you will be asked to then download the Viewbar™ software. (Note: the Viewbar™ software is currently unavailable, as it is in closed testing. It will be ready for public download in a few weeks, and members will be notified when it is available.)

AGLOCO makes money for its Members in many ways:

Search: Every time you use the Viewbar™ to do an Internet search, AGLOCO earns money from the search engine providers. (For example, Google pays as much as $0.10 on average for each search that is directed to its search engine.)

Advertising: The Viewbar™ itself displays ads that are targeted based upon the websites you’re visiting. When you click on an ad and make a purchase, AGLOCO receives a referral fee, which we pass on to our Members. (Please note: Individual members do not receive any compensation for clicking on ads in the Viewbar™, and the Viewbar™ can detect if someone is clicking ads in a fraudulent manner.)

Transaction commissions: Many major retailers pay commissions when you refer customers who make a purchase. AGLOCO collects that commission and passes it on to our members. (For example, Amazon pays an 8.5% commission to most websites who refer customers, and has cut deals for even larger percentages. The bigger the AGLOCO community, the better commission we can negotiate for our Members.)

Software distribution: Numerous software companies pay websites to encourage the download of new software releases (for example, Adobe’s Flash and Acrobat Reader software), and trial versions of new programs. AGLOCO members not only get access to the latest and coolest software, they get paid for it.

Service distribution: Many online service providers will look to the AGLOCO community as a source of new and active users for their services. (For example, eBay, Skype, and PayPal, among others, all pay fees to people who help them recruit new active users to their services)

Product distribution: When Members agree to use a product, such as cell phones, high-tech gadgets, office supplies, new credit cards or financial services, AGLOCO can collect referral fees. Some companies even offer special rebate and cash-back programs.

AGLOCO Members make money in four ways.

Members earn a monthly share of the AGLOCO revenue based on the use of the AGLOCO Viewbar™ that month.

Members earn part of the company based on the use of the AGLOCO Viewbar™ that month (currently a maximum of five hours are rewarded).

Members who use our referral system to help build the AGLOCO network will earn more. (AGLOCO only has significant value as a large network and people who help build it should be rewarded. – We also feel that the early users who told friends about YouTube or MySpace or even Google probably deserved something too, but no referral system was available to record their work).

Members will also get a share of any commissions AGLOCO gets when a Member purchases a product or service from an AGLOCO Sponsor company.

Why should I join now?

First, it costs nothing to Join and takes less than one minute.

Second, you can help build the AGLOCO community by recruiting new Members TODAY.

Right now, inviting your friends to join AGLOCO is as easy and productive as it will ever be – but you need to invite your friends before someone else beats you to them.

Remember, the bigger the AGLOCO community, the more attractive AGLOCO is to potential business partners and advertisers.

Recruit your friends and family by contacting them through email. (But remember we have a strict anti-spam policy.)

Use your blog and your existing social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook, to contact your friends and encourage them to join a new community that will actually let them earn money.

Be a part of the Internet’s first Member-Owned Economic Community.
Join AGLOCO – Own the Internet!