Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Blogging

Advantages:

  • Easy and quick
  • The ability to vent your feelings
  • Can lead to unreal expectations for business blog
  • Able to post new information quickly
Disadvantages:
  • Posting too much information about personal information
  • Wasting time
  • Make organisations look like disorganisations, with multiple tones and opinion
  • Need to been maintained while maintaining a blog is not easy
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Monday, March 29, 2010

How to create a blog with Blogger


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The advantage and disadvantage of social network website

These days the social networking sites have become extremely popular among the youth as well as the professional people. Keeping in mind, the growing popularity of these sites and the effect it has and the benefits that it brings along, it can be easily predicted that its popularity is sure to grow much more. Some of the sites such as Friendster and MySpace are the two most popular sites that aim to build special niche for people who share common interests and passions. Whereas social networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn are more professionally related and help the business men promote their businesses.

However, everything has a positive and negative side. Similarly, the social networking sites are also made up of their set of pros and cons.

Analyzing The Pros of social networking: The social networking websites are more like the virtual meeting places where people can just chill and hang out with friends. They can discuss on different topics, share information, and exchange files and pictures. There are some people who use these sites as a platform to meet long lost friend and batch mates, whereas there are others for whom it becomes a bridge to meet their future love. You can either reconnect with your friends and family members or search a dating partner. Some people also use these websites to promote their blogs and services. The professional people uses this as a medium to raise their visibility, get noticed, tell about their company, service, and get more clients.

By joining different communities, now people can easily know about the latest news related to that community. You can easily get the experts advice on any challenge you may face related to their topic of interest. And the best part of this is that the advice is free. You don’t need to pay a single paisa for it. Experts are always ready to give their advice and share information with you. These are just some of the several positive things that have contributed to make social networking really popular among people and spread smiles. It has made world a small pace and everyone can stay connected.

Analyzing The Cons of social networking:

Social networking of course helps in a lot of ways but the users have to really careful to stay secure and safe. Security is one of the topmost concerns of social networking sites that you currently use. This is mainly because the social networking sites allow you to display your personal information such as name, location, and email address. There are some people who always in search of a fake identity. If they get all the information about you on internet, they may use your identity for different type of illegal activities, which may cause you problems in future. It is always advisable to don’t provide your entire identity information online.

You may get many requests for adding as friends or joining different communities. Always try to know as much as possible before adding anyone as friend or joining any community. Because they may use fake identity or may involve in some illegal activities, which may spoil your image.

http://thetechedition.com/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-social-networking-sites/

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Friday, March 26, 2010

Blogger

Blogger is a blog storage service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It is funded by on-screen ads. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.The service itself is located at www.blogger.com. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com. Until May 1 2010 [3] an FTP service allows pages edited through Blogger to be published to other hosts. If this service ceases, all blogger blogs will be hosted by Google, though domains other than blogspot.com may be used.

Blogger
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Major events in the history of Blogger:

  • On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format.
  • In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free. About a year later, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google.
  • In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs.
  • On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email.
  • On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and included some new features.
  • In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta.
  • By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers.

Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.[4][dated info]

As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers.[5]

Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.

In a version of the service called Blogger in Draft,[6] new features are tested before being released to all users. New features are discussed in the service's official blog.

In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogger as part of its tenth anniversary celebration. The features included a new interface for post editing, improved image handling, Raw HTML Conversion, and other Google Docs-based implementations, including:

  • Adding location to posts via geotagging.
  • Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation.
  • Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.
  • Link editing in Compose mode.
  • Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and Mac OS.
  • New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.
  • Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in Compose mode.
  • New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons. Also added was the full justification button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.

The new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor.[7]



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Why Do People Use Online Social Networking?

Online social networking can provide a valuable way for people to connect, share interest, and stay in touch with people across the miles. The reasons people use online social networking are:

1) Helping People Connect
The reason so many people use online social networking is that it provides a way for people to connect. You can keep in touch with friends, share information about events and even help one another with homework with online social networking tools.

With online social networks, you can get in touch with old friends and make new ones. Most social networking Web sites have tools that enable you to track down old friends and colleagues. You can also use an online social network to make new friends with similar interests. Online social networking is a great way to expand your social circle and get in touch with people you otherwise wouldn’t speak with regularly, or at all.

2) Collaborating at Work
Social networking tools are also very useful for work. If you're looking for a job, you can use it to get references from old coworkers. You can also connect with other people who work for the same company, or in the same industry. Managers looking to hire people with specific skills can then find you using social networking tools.

Both businesses and individuals use social networking for marketing purposes. They use it to advertise new products and deals, to stay in touch with customers or to follow other people who might have items or offerings they could use. Social networking can be a great forum for viral marketing, but it's important to be clear that you're marketing a product or the message won't get through.

3) The Quest for Popularity
Along with the positives, social networking carries a few negatives. Some people see social networking as a big popularity contest. These people use social networks to grab as many friends as possible, and people with few friends may be seen as losers or people with poor social skills. However, friends’ lists in online social networks can be very misleading, as many of those people may simply be acquaintances who are also looking to collect and acquire online friends.

4) Hiding from Real Life
People with poor social skills may use online social networks to withdraw from real life. They may feel less pressured in online interactions, and rely more and more on online tools to interact with friends and peers. Using online social networks and withdrawing from real life interactions is a real danger, and parents must be vigilant to ensure kids are still spending quality time with friends in person. There's simply no substitute for spending time together with friends in the real world.

http://www.life123.com/parenting/tweens-teens/social-networking/why-do-people-use-online-social-networking.shtml


Post By Ghost

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Definitions of Social Network Website

In Wikipedia, a Social Network Website or Social Network Service focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people.



A Social Network Website is defined as a website that enable to link people all around the world for communication, business, studies etc. The few examples of famous Social Network Website existed in this world is Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/), Twitter (http://twitter.com/), Friendster (http://www.friendster.com/), and nevertheless Blogspot (https://www.blogger.com/start)


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Social Network Website

Topic : Blog

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Inti-Dementile

Harloo~this time is my first time for playing blogging...

Team Member:

HuM@n (Boon Hui)
Gh0sT (Chen Kit)
D3@thG0D (Kendrick)
Und3@D (Sam)

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