Yahoo decides to shutdown GeoCities

Yahoo is closing down its geocities services GeoCities was found way back in 1994 has completed its 15 years run and it about to get retired soon. Yahoo bought GeoCities for more than $2.9bn in 1999 when GeoCities had more than 1.1 million users. Yahoo has disabled the new user signup with GeoCities and existing users has to find an alternative soon.

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April 28th, 2009 | Comments

Control name search with Google Profiles

google profiles Search Engine giant Google has now started rolling out the integration of Google Profiles into the search results and is giving the users the ability and flexibility to tailor what shows up when their name is searched for. Google has already rolled out the profile search results in U.S. at the bottom of name-query search pages. Google is now in the process of rolling out for other countries and Google Profile results have already started popping up in few countries including Germany.

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April 23rd, 2009 | Comments

Track your package status from Facebook or Twitter

trackthis Waiting for a package to be delivered and want to know the status of the package as an Instant update without pages getting refreshed ? TrackThis will help you to track your packages through Email, Text message, Facebook or Twitter with great ease thirteen different carriers supporting popular carriers including  UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, TNT etc.

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April 22nd, 2009 | Comments

Its high time to know about Post slugs

post slug Search Engine Optimization is very important for every blogger to rank better in Google Search Results and professional bloggers handle them nicely. There are few aspects or options of SEO which are either not talked about much or novice bloggers are not aware of. One such thing I can immediately think of is post slugs in wordpress for optimized post URLs and titles. I had a discussion about this with few bloggers but most of them are not aware of this topic and  so I have decided to write down few things to share the knowledge. The word Post Slug (aka permalink or post URL) is most common in wordpress blogging which is nothing but the URL friendly version of the post title generated by Wordpress.

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April 21st, 2009 | Comments

Create your personal contact form using Kontactr

free contact form One can find contact forms in websites, blogs, job sites etc but one has to fight against the amount of spam that has been received daily. Unless otherwise the spam protection is enabled, spammers will flood your contact form. The victims are mostly novice bloggers and site owners. It even becomes more difficult for people who don’t have websites or blogs to contact them using the contact form. Revealing email address in the web will lead to spam clogging your inbox. Kontactr solves the above said problems by providing a one-click free contact form service.

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April 18th, 2009 | Comments