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The world of Syndication: Atom 1.0 vs. RSS 2.0? sticky icon

Syndication Syndication has become and inseparable part of the internet. There are two major syndication formats that exist today – RSS 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom 1.0 (Atom Syndication Format). While they achieve the same end result, there are differences.

Web 2.0 Building Block 1 - REST: Who does not need that? sticky icon

 Rest_Area I promised myself to stay on top of latest technologies as they shape the web.

Google won't let me search now.... I am a computer virus

Today, I was trying to search for twitter desktop clients and I entered the query "twitter desktop clients" in the search bar in IE 7. It was a nasty early morning surprise to see that I am forbidden (HTTP 403). Check out the image below.

Windows Live Favorites: Have you heard of it?

image A while back, I was trying to find an online service where I could save my favorites (or bookmarks). I could not find any one convincing enough.

Lifeblob.com: Navigate your interactions with web (Invites)

image  Lifeblob is a great new concept that I have been tracking for a while now.

Streaming live from your Mobile Phone

image Yesterday I blogged about how Applebee's was using videos, continuing the topic, today it's about streaming live v

Applebee's: Tapping the potential of Video

image  I have recently started noticing Applebee's advertising about the new video feature on their site, have you? I continue to be positive on the role of media in our lives.

Reach out to Web 2.0

image I have been observing the Web 2.0 world and I am amazed at how powerful it is.

Starting a blog? 5 tools you must know about

image Are you planning to start a blog? If you aren't you should be, in today's world you should have a blog, you absolutely can't ignore the enormity of the World Wide Web.

OpenID - Do you support it?

image I am happy to say that my blog supports OpenID. So, in case you are wondering what do I mean by that, let me explain. Here is the definition from Wikipedia:

'Buzz Targeting' from YouTube

image In a previous post I talked about how YouTube and Adsense alliance is working out.

Friendfeed: Could have, should have

image Here goes another leaf of my book of thoughts on building a Web2.0 site myself. I was wondering how come no one has done a web-site where I could just keep track of my all the web services my friends use in a single place (read feed).

Analysis: YouTube through AdSense

This may be old news for most of you, but I discovered this today. I was just playing with my Adsense account to add some more advertising content to my site www.vishalsood.com and voila! I see YouTube in my Adsense account. Adsense now allows me to show some syndicated videos with ads in them. I had read about YouTube was now showing Ads but seeing is believing.

 

womenZweb.com - that is where it all started

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The Story

It is almost two years now, four of us were sitting in a room and just as anyone else from our generation, we were thinking how we could make our million.

"Internet is to Human interactions as Pringles is to potatoes"

image Great, little video on social networking - "Internet is to Human interactions as Pringles is to potatoes", "Twitter is like Pringles".

What is happening inside twitter?

image Twitter lets me tell what is happening in my life. Is there a twitter page that tells me what is happening inside twitter?

Adding images to Drupal 6.x blog with Windows Live Writer

I posted yesterday about using Windows Live writer with Drupal. I was able to make that work but then I did struggle getting images to show up. I won over the struggle eventually and the blog post has images now. I did a lot of search but did not get a convincing answer anywhere so thought of this post.

For anyone else that has difficulty figuring out what to do, here are the steps:

Using Windows Live Writer with Drupal

I just finished configuring Windows Live Writer for this blog. As I write this post, the thought going through my mind is why did I not use it so far. I am becoming a fan (if you may say that) of Scott Hanselman and I was reading his blog and thought of giving it a try and viola here we are. If you don't use Windows Live Writer so far don't take my word for it, try it!

Steve Ballmer talks to MVPs and discusses hot topics like Yahoo

image Microsoft had a MVP summit last few and I was lucky enough to meet a few as well where I talked about the new IIS Media Pack.

Google now allows you to buy trademarks as keywords

Yesterday, I was reading an article in Financial Times. Google is now allowing anyone to buy trademarks are ad keywords.

So now, I could very easily show my ad against a competitor's search. E.g., Nissan motors could now bid for keyword Toyota and show their Ads when one searches for Toyota. This means if I have to save my keyword, I need to pay more.