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		<title>A Review on Mashable.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news and media website that is known as mashables.com is something that needs to be considered for a number of different reasons.  This website has a number of things that are considered important for a number of individuals.  The website does a great job of giving news information for those in the modern world.  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Mashable" href="http://mashable.com/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-396" style="border: 1px solid #dddddd;margin: 5px" src="http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/files/2009/11/mashables.jpg" alt="Mashables" width="320" height="240" /></a>The news and media website that is known as <strong><a title="Mashables" href="http://mashable.com/" target="_blank">mashables.com</a></strong> is something that needs to be considered for a number of different reasons.  This website has a number of things that are considered important for a number of individuals.  The website does a great job of giving news information for those in the modern world.  There is a focus on social networking where the website has been available.  Further there are separate channels and each of them focuses on the social networking sites that are available.  The website offers a number of different formats for these different various types of social networking.  There are news/media stories that are covered in the form of stories or articles as well as in the form of videos.</p>
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<p>Mashable offers a number of different things that it can help you with.  By being able to understand the format of the website you too can have more success at being able to find desired stories and things that are needed.  The website even offers a great selection of jobs that are available through the jobs section and these jobs offer a number of interesting and unique opportunities for different things, many of which are online jobs.  One unique thing about the different jobs are that there is not only a section about the jobs that are being promoted through this website but also jobs that can be seen at different various websites online.  This could be help you to find the perfect job for you and a look into a number of different types of jobs dependent upon where you are currently living.  There were a lot of jobs that were located in the New York and Maryland areas that were being advertised at the time.</p>
<p>The website also offers a number of different things that could be very useful if looked at in the right way.  There are two different types of formats that can be seen through the website.  There are Mashable Lists and News Channels both that can be seen online.  Through these the user can note a number of different things and can find a number of different types of information.  By looking at these two areas you can figure out a number of different formats for information as well as finding out new information about specific topics.  These topics can be from a number of different areas as well as other information.</p>
<p>Overall the website was very interesting and versatile.  The website had a lot of information and could be a bit confusing.  Some of these different areas are also considered as there are so many different things to look at on the site.  Also there was no set description of what the site was and what the intended purpose for the site was.  This was very confusing as there were a number of different areas in which one might be considering this type of website however it would be nice to have some overall description of things.  Further there were no overall indicators as to what was going on through the site.  This was that there were no other areas.  Another thing was that there was not a set home page or way to get back to the home page that was easily found and it ended up being that the back browser was used a lot but this did seem to waste some additional time on the site and to make things a bit more difficult.</p>
<p>Further the home page was much cluttered and there were a number of problems that were found when trying to navigate it.  There was a list of articles that were featured through the home page.  These articles had a variety of topics and were of unrelated subject matter as well.  There were basically a few lines from each of the articles and a link to the full text if you were interested in that.  Further there were also a number of advertisements and a number of other things to look at on the home page.  There was so much information on this page that many people could find themselves getting frustrated or being upset as they were unable to understand how to properly navigate through things.</p>
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		<title>Social Networking through Twitter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/social-networking-through-twitter.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is one of the most prominent social networking sites now. In fact moment by moment update as a way of very interesting means of keeping in touch with your friends and family, making new friends, advertising, updating clients and promoting had never taken such an interesting twist as before. With more and more developments [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_292" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><strong><img class="size-full wp-image-292   " style="border: 1px solid black" src="http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/files/2009/08/twitter.jpg" alt="Twitter" width="300" height="167" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">twitter.com</p></div>
<p><a title="Twitter" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.twitter.com" target="_blank"><strong>Twitter</strong></a> is one of the most prominent <strong>social networking</strong> sites now. In fact moment by moment update as a way of very interesting means of keeping in touch with your friends and family, making new friends, advertising, updating clients and promoting had never taken such an interesting twist as before. With more and more developments and Twitter going into the mobile phone application system, social networking ways like Twitter only got faster and sassier. This is the ultimate of<strong> <a title="Micro Blogging" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging" target="_blank">micro blogging</a></strong> in current age and you would be missing a whole lot in business or networking in <strong>personal circles</strong>, if you don’t happen to be Tweeting. You would be getting all those cool and extra special updates from celebs to your old school friends and would not like to miss any of those points. Build opportunities, create contacts and determine your niche or play with it, with the advent of Twitter.</p>
<p><span id="more-276"></span>Twitter’s goal has always been about updates that are small, succinct and to the point. Today however you can upload your videos or you could just do a number of things with your Tweeting but then it cuts most social network sites in terms of practical as well as satisfying experience due to its down to earth way of expression. Twitter had had humble beginnings when Twitting was first introduced by <a title="Jack Dorsey" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey" target="_blank"><strong>Jack Dorsey</strong></a> who wanted to know how what his friends were doing. As it became too much of a trouble to keep in touch with work pressure, etc. this came as a bright idea, that at least made it fun to know about friends’ updates within a matter of common group.</p>
<p>Twitter has been growing every since its inception. Its power got generated through<strong> <a title="Ruby on Rails" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ohloh.net/p/rails" target="_blank">Ruby Rail projects</a></strong> and had thus been allowing to quickly change or adapt to tests, deploys, public testing, etc. There has never been a quiet period for Twitter people where they had not been testing of new things and opportunities in Tweeting. Twitter had ever since been ever expanding and growing.</p>
<p>Today Twitter is the 79th most trafficked site on the net. It has an almost vertical upscale in terms of reach. The statistics according to <a title="Alexa" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.alexa.com/" target="_blank">Alexa.com</a> is that about 1.37% of all internet users across the globe, is now using Twitter and the rate just continues to keep getting higher and higher.</p>
<p>But Twitter as a business, has been spending more money than making it. Their business model is being implemented on extremely successful grounds making them earn tons of revenue. But it is yet to gain its complete financial freedom. Twitter’s main message is to keep things simple and succinct. So it is easy for you to connect on the go while keeping it light and fun. It is always about “What are you doing now?” and so could be a lot of many things to you or none at all. But given that it is one of the greatest ways to know and learn of different ways and means of social networking. Through updating your users you let your followers, which could be a wide range of friends, business colleagues, old friends, clients, etc and your followers get to know of your updates. The history of Twitter has been rather interesting and how it works from the scratch will actually be a great thing to discover.</p>
<p>Twitter got designed through Omnigraffle and Photoshop that allows you to explore a range of possibilities. It also has it focus on simple things like direct massaging, replying, status update and even uses of controlling of privacy. If you do not want anyone to follow you, you can simply remove that person from your list.</p>
<p>Twitter also has its own API which makes it easier for it to customize homepage as well as the background of your own page. You can do so much more through your Twitter profile now with continued growth and expansion. You would find great fun following the people you wish to follow and they could be anyone from big business makers, updating what they wish to publicly admit or even just updates from the bloke round your block, if you happen to be interesting in knowing his world too. From the high and mighty, to the simplest, Twitter has room and possibilities to bring you diverse updates all at once.</p>
<p>Twitter has been exploring levels of popularity through their latest developments and continues to soar high among different levels of people. Many makers and builders of today find it easier to access Twitter than any other social networking site because of the fuss free manner and the simplest of profound ways of communicating. This really allows people to come as close as you would only want them to be but then all these happens without taking much time. However there have been reported cases of the new media taking so much of your world in a sweep that many addicts would constantly be on Twitter or <a title="Facebook" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Facebook</strong></a>, always updating or uploading without breaks. These are real addiction hook ups that really take you further away from reality and what you are doing in the present moment.</p>
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		<title>Reddit – Share your Views</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reddit is a website where users can post social news through links available on the web which can be voted by other users. On the basis of this voting a news is displayed on the homepage. A news getting more votes can be on the homepage and viewed by users of this site. Alexis Ohanian [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_308" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-full wp-image-308 " style="border: 1px solid black" src="http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/files/2009/03/Reddit.jpg" alt="Reddit.Com" width="300" height="169" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Reddit.Com</p></div>
<p><strong><a title="Reddit" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.reddit.com/" target="_blank">Reddit</a></strong> is a website where users can post social news through links available on the web which can be voted by other users. On the basis of this voting a news is displayed on the homepage. A news getting more votes can be on the homepage and viewed by users of this site.</p>
<p>Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded it in 2005. These people were studying in University of Virginia. The company that initially formed was name NOT A BUG which was acquired by Conde Nast Publications, owner of Wired, on 31st October 2006.</p>
<p><strong>Ohanian named reddit as short form of &#8220;read it&#8221;.</strong></p>
<p>Website has a white background with news in blue color fonts. The top bar of the website is in dull blue as well. On the top of this bar there are links to various sections dedicated to particular type of news any user may want to vote submit or read including politics, Pics, funny, programming, world news etc. These links are called sub reddits.</p>
<p><span id="more-169"></span>There is a discussion area on this site where users can discuss various links posted. Users can even vote against a particular link. A link is not displayed by default if enough votes are against a particular link. People submitting good articles which gets voted by other users as interesting are rewarded by &#8220;Karma&#8221; points.</p>
<p>Owners of the readdit don&#8217;t moderate it. But a system is available which curtails spam and is based on Users &#8220;reports&#8221;.</p>
<p>My reddit section is available on this website where user can personalize the type of news he wants to look for while singing in. This is a very good way for a reader of getting the exact type of links and news he is looking for. Search section available on right top of the homepage also facilitates searching of links in a very easy and user friendly way.</p>
<p>In the days of blogging and user generated content, reddit is a very successful and useful medium which lets individuals and websites to reach public in a very effective way. On the other hand it provide users with a platform where they can look out for type of content they want to read without hassles of searching it on various search engines.</p>
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		<title>Technorati.com</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/technoraticom.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iguides.org/reviews/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Technorati site can be stated as a blog or feed search engine, which aims to provide users with many options of searching the World Live Web, with great emphasis on LIVE. The user just has to enter an item to search for, and the Technorati engine provides instant results and displays most recent blogs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_311" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-full wp-image-311 " style="border: 1px solid black" src="http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/files/2009/03/Technorati.jpg" alt="Technorati.Com" width="300" height="213" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Technorati.Com</p></div>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://technorati.com/" target="_blank">Technorati</a> site can be stated as a blog or feed search engine, which aims to provide users with many options of searching the World Live Web, with great emphasis on LIVE. The user just has to enter an item to search for, and the Technorati engine provides instant results and displays most recent blogs and news posts on the related topics. The site defines itself as a collector, distributor and organizer of the global online conversation. This site had been founded to help bloggers getting success through accommodating, highlighting, and allocating the online global conversation. This is one of the leading blog search engines available today that provides comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere. The site has an index of more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time and users are introduced to millions of blog and social media content through the same.</p>
<p><span id="more-166"></span>The site extends its service through matching the skills of the bloggers and the creators of the media, who want to market their products and join in. They battle ahead with new services like if you have claimed a blog account then you can also specify the tags you want associated with your blog. A user can specify up to 20 tags and experience the thrills of its usability, interface design and industrial design. The option of &#8220;Technorati This&#8221; allows user to access to Technorati search engine from any website and the user can add the bookmarklet as a bookmark in their browsers. The Technorati Search Engine page opens up and searches the key words that have been highlighted by the users. But this is search is always done in current postings, which means that if the searched terms are hunted again then different results are provided. On the whole bloggers are able to get comprehensive information related to their blogs and news articles instantly.</p>
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		<title>Delicious.com</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/deliciouscom.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The delicious.com site is basically a social bookmarking service, which permits the users to tag, save, administer and share web pages through a centralized source. The site lays stress on the power of the community, and thus helps to improve how people ascertain, remember and share on the Internet. Those who use this site can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_314" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-full wp-image-314" src="http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/files/2009/03/delicious.jpg" alt="Ddelicious.Com" width="300" height="227" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ddelicious.Com</p></div>
<p>The <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://delicious.com/" target="_blank">delicious.com</a></strong> site is basically a social bookmarking service, which permits the users to tag, save, administer and share web pages through a centralized source. The site lays stress on the power of the community, and thus helps to improve how people ascertain, remember and share on the Internet. Those who use this site can avail facilities like book-marking any site on the Internet and can also get it from anywhere. Thus users don&#8217;t have to bother with the hassles of having different bookmarks on every computer, but they can have a solitary set of bookmarks, which would be kept in sync between all their computers. The user does not have to be on his or her computer to access these bookmarks and can get their bookmarks through the Delicious website. Users also have the options to share their bookmarks and get bookmarks in return. The provision of sending bookmarks to friends can be done and these are accessible every time a user logs in. There are other facilities like Subscriptions and Network features for keeping track of tags.</p>
<p><span id="more-163"></span>This social bookmarks manager also allows the users to easily add sites to their personal collection of links. The user can add descriptive terms to group similar links together and amend the heading or label of the page along with extended notes. The site is a social system that has the ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting. The site enables users to view bookmarks through tags, alphabetically and frequency wise also. The user can also save these with one word descriptions and create groupings of bookmarks.</p>
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		<title>Digg.com: get all your images, videos and news all in one place</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/diggcom-get-all-your-images-videos-and-news-all-in-one-place.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iguides.org/reviews/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Digg.com is the new revolution over the internet, which helps people to discover and share contents from anywhere on the internet. This social networking website, which was launched by Kevin Rose in November 2004, surfaces the best online staff judged on the basis of votes of its users. It is the biggest online destination containing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_340" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-full wp-image-340" src="http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/files/2008/12/Digg-Com.jpg" alt="Digg.Com" width="300" height="211" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Digg.com</p></div>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://digg.com/" target="_blank">Digg.com</a></strong> is the new revolution over the internet, which helps people to<strong> discover and share contents from anywhere on the internet</strong>. This <strong>social networking website</strong>, which was <strong>launched by Kevin Rose in November 2004</strong>, surfaces the best online staff judged on the basis of votes of its users. It is the biggest online destination containing the most obscure blogs and fascinating images, tempting site links and enticing videos. You will not come across any editors in Digg.com. It has a place for all the people, where they can determine the value of <strong>content relating to music, photography, science, humour and travel</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Design</strong></p>
<p>Digg.com has used green and blue colours for its designing and a trendy pattern that efficiently attracts the attention of the user. The website carries a modern design, as the main aim of the site is to link many sites. Digg.com has all the key features and elements laid in correct sequence and every detailing has been done by professional web designers. The website has been designed using simple content, but it never compromises with the company&#8217;s image. It has a clear-cut layout giving you easy viewing. The webpage loads very fast, as it incorporates good optimization of graphics.</p>
<p><span id="more-115"></span><strong>Layout</strong></p>
<p>Digg.com adopts the conventional column wise demarcation and has a two-tier layout. Users experience fast navigation in between the pages and the unique layout does not give an appearance of a monotonous search browser. The website doesn&#8217;t look cluttered, as it makes the good use of the available spaces. You get a striking impact on the first look at the website and will be tempted to explore the other features linked to it.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Key features</strong></p>
<p>The website has all <strong>important features, services, lists and tools</strong> and you get all types of news to images to videos which are submitted by the <strong>online community</strong>. Its excellent for <strong>advertisers</strong>, who are looking towards social networking for promoting the website.</p>
<p>So start using Digg.com for the <strong>promotion of your website</strong>, as it is a refined search engine serving all the facilities of a personalised browser with its dynamic approach and <strong>people driven technology</strong>.</p>
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		<title>How Can Squidoo Complement Your Online Business?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/how-can-squidoo-complement-your-online-business.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Squidoo is the newest rage in the age of social marketing. The site allows you to create your own lenses, something similar to the focal point of interest in the areas that you have an expertise in. By being associated with such a site you shall be able to build up your own network by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_378" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-full wp-image-378" src="http://blogs.iguides.org/reviews/files/2008/10/Squidoo.jpg" alt="Squidoo" width="300" height="257" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Squidoo</p></div>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.squidoo.com" target="_blank">Squidoo</a></strong> is the newest rage in the age of social marketing. The site allows you to create your own lenses, something similar to the focal point of interest in the areas that you have an expertise in. By being associated with such a site you shall be able to build up your own network by displaying your expertise to all those who are genuinely interested in it. What comes to your site thereafter is “traffic”.</p>
<p>There are many advantages of using Squidoo, however the one that is preferred the most by a majority of online business owners is that it allows you to present your sales. You will never be banned from this site by putting up your own advertisements. Secondly, Squidoo is frequently crawled by the Google spiders and hence there is a way to get your lens ranked higher in the search engine. This will not only help the advertising revenue but will also attract more potential buyers through the search engine itself. Simply put, you can advertise your own products or the affiliate products without the fear of being banned on Squidoo.<span id="more-84"></span></p>
<p>In order to maximize your profits from <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.squidoo.com" target="_blank">Squidoo</a></strong>, there are certain aspects that you would need to understand better. Squidoo lays a lot of importance on the lens as it the sole operating platform of the website. It is a single web page where you can advertise anything you like. You can also use it to recommend products or services to others personally. You will earn royalties of all the lenses that you create.</p>
<p>Lenses are merely for creating sales copies; however a lot of people use them only for propagating sales. They also serve as a platform to spread the word about the topics that you are interested it. This might also benefit others with the same interests. You are allowed to create a maximum of 10 lenses per day on any topic you want. It’s analogous to creating a painting from a sheet of canvas. Lens is the canvas given to you and you can put in anything you want, in accordance to your imagination. Ensure that you do not stuff it with a bunch of keywords and use proper strategies to bring in the amount of traffic you have always expected.</p>
<p>When you start creating your lens, make sure you put in content that is relevant to your expertise. <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.squidoo.com" target="_blank">Squidoo</a></strong> was introduced in the market as a cross between Wikipedia and Friendster. In addition to being sociable, you would also want to come across as someone legitimate and interesting. Get into the closest possible niche so that it is easy for you to become a brand of sorts.</p>
<p>SquidU is that area to learn all the features pertaining to Squidoo. It is designed in a bulletin format that allows you to check out all the major categories and then pick out the exact topic that concern you. For all those who are new to Squidoo, this can be very useful to connect your web pages and make it as attractive as possible.</p>
<p>Lastly, another important aspect of <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.squidoo.com" target="_blank">Squidoo</a></strong> is the Plexo links. You can set up quite a few of these plexo modules on your profile. A plexo module allows all the users who hit upon your lens to view a list of the content you have chosen and decided to vote on it. Hence it is important to make your plexo link pretty attractive that would bring repeat viewers</p>
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		<title>Review of MySpace.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably know, MySpace is one of the most popular websites in the world. While millions of teenagers use this site, they are not the only ones who find MySpace to be a fun and productive way to spend time. More and more adults are using the service, and the same thing holds true [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you probably know, MySpace is one of the most popular websites in the world. While millions of teenagers use this site, they are not the only ones who find MySpace to be a fun and productive way to spend time. More and more adults are using the service, and the same thing holds true for business men and women. With that being said, there are some things that you need to know about MySpace before getting started. Just because this is one of the most visited sites on the internet, it does not mean that it will hold any value for you.</p>
<p>The first thing that you will notice about MySpace is its simple layout. From the homepage you will never have a difficult time understanding where you are at. A simple search bar is located at the top of the page, with the member login prompts on the right side. To get started, you can either sign up as a new member, or login in if you have already gone through the sign up process. Either way, you will not get hung up on details. MySpace does a great job making sure that everything about the service is easy to use. This works out well for younger users who do not know a lot about the online world, as well as those who are not tech savvy. Even with minimal amounts of computer skills you can use MySpace with a high level of success.</p>
<p><span id="more-26"></span> Once you are logged in, you will then be able to get started with the real fun. It is simple to edit your profile, and with plenty of fields, you can tell the world as much or as little about yourself as you want.</p>
<p>In addition to the basic features of MySpace, there are hundred of third party sites that offer custom backgrounds, images, and much more for your page. If you are really into MySpace, you will want to consider customizing everything that you do. While you may think that this is a waste of time, it can actually be a lot of fun. With so many options to customize your page, you will find yourself occupied for hours on end.</p>
<p>With so many good features of MySpace, the downfalls often times get overlooked. Of course, you need to be aware of these as well. The number one drawback of MySpace for many users is the speed of the site. Load times can be bothersome; this is especially true if you are attempting to visit a page that has been customized to the max. When compared to other popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, it is easy to see just how slow MySpace really is.</p>
<p>If you are a parent, you will definitely want to monitor your childâ€™s MySpace activity. While there is nothing wrong with them making friends, you need to be aware that there are predators that use the site for all the wrong reasons. To go along with this, some MySpace pages may contain vulgar language and images.</p>
<p>There is no denying that MySpace has a lot to offer. It is the biggest social networking site in the world, and continues to grow as each day goes by. If you are interested in using MySpace, you will not be disappointed with the majority of features. With all of the money that this company is earning, it is safe to say that new and improved features will be for every user.</p>
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		<title>Write and Be Heard on Livejournal.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maintaining an online journal and joining a community that has the same interests that you do is possible with Livejournal.com. This virtual community and social networking website makes it feasible for friends, acquaintances, and even strangers to communicate on the same platform and to leave comments on each otherâ€™s journal entries and also on uploaded photos.

Livejournal.com differs on most blogsites in the sense that this social networking site is also a virtual community much like the popular social websites. There is the friends list where you can view friendsâ€™ profiles and blogs, invite friends, accept the invites of friends, and interact with people without the hassle and stress. Moreover, the member can choose different level of accounts according to his needs and paying capacity.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maintaining an online journal and joining a community that has the same interests that you do is possible with <strong><a href="http://www.livejournal.com">Livejournal.com</a></strong>. This virtual community and social networking website makes it feasible for friends, acquaintances, and even strangers to communicate on the same platform and to leave comments on each otherâ€™s journal entries and also on uploaded photos.</p>
<p>Livejournal.com differs on most blogsites in the sense that this social networking site is also a virtual community much like the popular social websites. There is the friends list where you can view friendsâ€™ profiles and blogs, invite friends, accept the invites of friends, and interact with people without the hassle and stress. Moreover, the member can choose different level of accounts according to his needs and paying capacity.</p>
<p><span id="more-24"></span> Members of this site or account owners can choose different account levels. At Livejournal.com, they can opt for the basic account level, plus account level, or the paid account level. Upon creating an account on this site, the member will be asked which account level to choose. There are certain features that are present in one account and absent in another. As for the basic account, there are only a limited number of display pictures on posts and comments, only about a hundred customized designs for the journal, and only 25 subscriptions to new posts, friends, and comments.</p>
<p>The plus account is still free but is loaded with much more features. The only downside is that this account level has advertisement postings on the account site or journal of the member. However, the added features are numerous, like the ability of the member to post photos on the journal via his mobile phone, develop and post surveys, add audio posts aside form the written posts and to store more photos at 1GB capacity.</p>
<p>Finally, the paid account has a starting fee of about $2 per month, depending on whether the member can make instant payments. The advanced features of this paid account makes it attractive for those who want the best journal and online community interaction and are willing to pay a little extra for it. The paid membership level allows the ability to post and upload posts, comments, and photos in a degree thatâ€™s twice or thrice more than the basic and plus accounts. It has all the features of the other lower accounts in greater capacity and a few extra bonuses included as well. The member is able to have an actual email address from Livejournal.com, and the ability to use an easier and faster access during times of high site traffic, called the â€œExpress Laneâ€. Along with the basic account, this account level has no ad postings on the journal pages.</p>
<p>Members of this online community can also choose who can read their posts and view their pictures. The security option can make Livejournal.com members to choose the private setting, so as to have their pages accessible only by friends. In the same way, comments can also be limited within friends or community members.</p>
<p>The community option for members makes this website more unique than other social networking websites. By joining a community, a member is not only able to post entries on his own journal or site; he is also allowed to post journal entries on the community site. However, these community sites are managed by several users who are able to maintain it on a regular basis.</p>
<p>So if you have something to write about, or some cause that you want to dedicate you journal to, then join Livejournal.com, an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_community"><strong>online community</strong></a> that has the excellent features of social networking and blogging site, all in one flexible account.</p>
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		<title>Propeller.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Propeller.com is one of the most famous scial bookmarking sites. It is a part of the American Online Network and is owned and operated by LLC, a Time-Warner company. This is the place where you can share your comments and stories related to the websites you are interested in. Propeller.com has a google page rank [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Propeller.com is one of the most famous scial bookmarking sites. It is a part of the American Online Network and is owned and operated by LLC, a Time-Warner company. This is the place where you can share your comments and stories related to the websites you are interested in. Propeller.com has a google page rank  of 7 and consists of a very high traffic for 24 hour a day and 365 days a year. Members from all around the world register here to share their links and stories. This is a site that is basically programmed for you and by you; all the stories, comments and links are submitted and voted by its own members.</p>
<p>Propeller.com has a team of full time â€˜propller anchorâ€™ who work non stop to keep this site free from any kind of anomaly. They work on various tasks like, removal of spam from various channels of the site. Most of the time it so happens that members do register here just to enhance back links of their site, and they simply put a link of their site and try to sell or promote their products. Such spammers if found are immediately removed by these propeller anchor. The second tasks of these propeller anchor is to choose the most voted stories from the site and then keep those stories and comments at the top of the site on the home page. Third task is to create original videos on such stories which they feel the members and the visitors would enjoy watching. Besides anchors, there are few part time scouts who submit various interesting stories and help anchors to remove spams from the network. Last but not the least there are few trained web developers who build this site and make it a most attractive one.</p>
<p><span id="more-16"></span> There are number of channels specified on the home page which redirect us to the section catering to our interest. These channels are so designed, where you can find all the stories and comments related to that particular section only. For example; books, food, health and fitness, men, music, politics, religion, sports videos and many more. Stories submitted to each of the channel are purely based on algorithmic calculation which gives the stories a score, depending on the number of votes, number of comments and age of the post.</p>
<p>Sometimes it so happens that a link to a story is being changed by the anchors. At this time, members may get confused. But this is a very genuine act by the scouts. In order to prevent the duplicate submission of stories it is important to link the source of that particular story to its original source story. Itâ€™s also been found that a story gets closed sometime. There are few reasons behind such step to be taken by the scouts. Either the story is a press release, or itâ€™s very old news or is something misleading to the members.</p>
<p>Propeller.com also provides a feature of video uploading. You can upload videos of your choice abide by the rules and regulations of the site. It also provides a feature of linking a propeller video to our own web site. They provide a special script with the help of which we can redirect that video straight from the propeller to our site.</p>
<p>Hence this social bookmarking site has lots of advantage pertaining to our needs. Not only it enhances the back links, page rank but also bring lots of unique visitors to our link related to the story.</p>
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