There is no dearth of Product review websites and aggregators on the internet. Services like Google Places, TestFreaks, Retrevo and Buzzilions have been around for a long time now. The latest entrant, SearchReviews promises to be the real search engine for product reviews with more than 40 million reviews of 4 million products, indexed from 1000+ retailers like eBay, Walmart, Amazon and others.
The improvements in broadband internet, coupled with the explosion of social networking websites has resulted in a big change when it comes to the way we share photos with our peers and family. You might know that, with more than 600 million registered users, Facebook has become one of the most valued properties on the web. What you might not know is that more than 60 billion photos were shared on Facebook in 2010 and the estimate for summer 2011 is a whopping 100 billion!
The closest competitors - Photobucket (at 8 billion), Picasa (at 7 billion) and Flickr (at 5 billion) come not even close to Facebook. All these stats are based on the study by Pixable who took a sample data of 100,000 Pixable Photofeed users. You can question the accuracy, but not the trend.
The study also shares some interesting facts-
Having been a blogger since a long time and wanting to successfully continue being a blogger, one of my major blogging objectives has been to increase traffic to my blog, or my online writings. There does exist several strategies that help bloggers in increasing traffic to their blogs, but most of the tips are not as effective in a world now, considering the fact that there are millions of bloggers online.
Here are 10 ways that are not highly publicized which will help enhance the number of visitors to your web page. The best way to do so is not to use all of them at once, or one after the other. The trick lies in using a set of two or three tips, and stick to them religiously thus helping you pull of an efficient blogging career.
1. Secret Blogging Groups - A very under used and under-rated trick is to ensure that you are part of a small and secret blogging club. This club or group must belong to the same genre of blogging that you are part of. The funda is to join a group which has not more than 50 members, share...
house) data center thereby improving cost efficiency. Cloud computing servers help manage virtual and physical servers, thus creating a reliable system even from redundant components.
One problem with cloud consumption is the restricted on-ground bandwidth to use the cloud from WAN....
I'm one of those blokes who starts yawning even before some dignitary starts his/her speech. But not when the dignitary's name is Steven Paul Jobs. I stumbled upon this Youtube video of an awe-inspiring graduation commencement speech given by Jobs at Stanford way back in 2005.
The length of the speech is about 14 minutes, but am sure most of you won't realize that once you click the play button. In short, Jobs' speech is about three stories of his life. The first story is about connecting the dots. The second one is about love and loss. And the third is about death. As you might have guessed, the speech is a combination of experience, philosophy and spirituality, with a careful mix of humor, enough to keep you interested all the while.
Now that Steve is on a self-imposed medical leave, I thought of sharing it as a mark of respect to this great man. If you are reading this on your RSS reader, you might have to visit the blog by clicking on the title.
Here is the complete transcript of the speech...
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
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