Friday, April 16, 2010

Blogcatalog.com is in wrong direction? Porn-friendly?


I used to tell everyone about BlogCatalog. But they seems to make changes in their site that did not justify their name. As I noticed last couple of days their home page has been captured by adult and sex toy blogs. This is quite embarrassing for visitors like us. They can certainly change technology or add feature but let visitors safe from them.

BlogCatalog has been losing their position in Alexa for since they have changed their home page. (Snapped onApril 16, 2010)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Build Mp3 Player Site with Google Doc in 5 minute

Google has recently added File upload feature in Google Doc. It only allows docs but Poor Men's Mp3 Player Shows a cool tricks that you can just rename Files to PDF and even can run them in embedded player without any hassle. here is the link you can find more.. Visit DEMO SITE

Steps are as follows
A. HOST MP3 FILES IN GOOGLE

1. Create a new Google account












2. Go to docs.google.com

Click upload. It should redirect to

http://docs.google.com/DocAction?action=updoc&hl=en

4. Create a folder in your PC where you place all the mp3s

5. Rename Mp3 to PDF ( .pdf)

6. Upload files

7. Copy Download link (File should be available to everyone)

8. Shorten the url > using http://u.nu

B. UPDATE BLOG TO SHOW MP3 PLAYER
Create a blog by just typing http://www.blogspot.com and follow instructions.

1. Embed Odeo mp3 flash player code and put google’s url there





2. Replace Mp3 File address with shortened url.

3. Publish and your are done.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Linux based Baby Rocker

A baby rocker bot with Linux! Should it tweet also showing rocker status?

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Sears offered Diamond at $29 in email and then admit typo



Sears sent email blast on special deal and that showed a Diamond ring at only $29.00 . There was a picure of that Diamond ring, but then few minutes back they sent mass email that it was a mistake!

Is that believable? How come such a reputed organization send mass emails without checking product or pricing? Or that's another cheap marketing gimmick?

Monday, December 14, 2009

18 types of Tweets


There are around 18 types of tweets arround

1. Stomach Tweet: What you have for lunch is not interesting unless it’s something based in Soy Sauce and it fell on the woman next to you. We’ve all had Chipotle and we know it’s really, really good.

2. Package Quotes: If you quote someone, make sure it’s something people understand and not some sixth century nomadic who stood on a pole for 67 years.

3. Sweeet Pics: If you serve up a picture of your lovable dog, make sure its of him getting away with murder as he just digested your last copy of your first graphic novel. We all have dogs and we love them too.

4. Recursive Tweets: If you tweet a lot, realize that if your Tweets are connected to Facebook, your spamming the hell out of people. (I’ve done this while tweeting a conference and had hate mail for a week.)

5. I think I believe - Tweet: If you have an opinion, make sure you don’t assume it’s the only one in existence. Nothing turns people off faster than a closed mind.

6. Please Buy it Tweet: If you’re selling something, consider the value of your readers and not just your pocketbook.

7. The PR Tweet: If you’re serving up articles about yourself or your new book (unless stuff is free), you’re treading a very fine line. If you’ve crossed it, it’s hard to come back over that line.

8. Free Offer Tweet: This could be the single best reason to use Twitter. If you’re helping people find good stuff, especially free, it’s all good.

9. Knowledge Tweet: If you ask for help, people will generally give it to you. We’re like that.

10. Shameless Link Tweet: If you link to humor, beauty, or tragedy, you’re pretty much golden.

11. Blog Tweet: The twin brother of the Link tweet. If you have a blog and advertise it on Twitter, don’t tweet it over an over again. Multiple tweets suggest you don’t have confidence in what you have to say. We do know you write and we’ll get around to it. We think.

12. The Wallow Tweet: If you’re having a bad day, we’ll feel sorrow for you. If you’re having two bad days, we’ll feel extra sorrow for you. If you’re having a bad year, it’s pretty much time to reevaluate things.

13. The Play-By-Play Tweet: There’s a reason Twitter is 140 characters. We don’t need every last detail.

14. The Name Dropping Tweet: If you hang with really famous people, it’s cool. If you let us know about it all the time, we’re starting to wonder if you have self-esteem issues.

15. The Provocative Tweet: We love it when you tempt us with something like, “You don’t want to read this.” You know we’re going to go ahead and click that link.

16. The Thank You Tweet: I’m not good at this and I want to be. Thank people for RT and gracious comments. The little bit of recognition takes sixteen seconds and last a long time.

17. The Conversation Starter Tweet: If you have a really great question that gets lots of people Tweeting and ReTweeting, you’ve hit the jackpot

18. I don't know tweets: Some tweets are automated. The owner never even know whats going on..all spaghetti of RSS or News or Quote feeds.

Inspired by: Jonathan Brink

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Download Mp3 Files from Vibe Streamer

Vibe Streamer is great way to share your MP3 files among your friends. You can use regular Cable or DSL based internet connection and safely setup Mp3 server. (as long as your Internet host does not block ports). I tried Comcast line and it works like charm.

First of all it saves you from mirroring Mp3 files. Playing one MP3 at a time does not consume huge bandwidth. Why not let them an option to download current MP3. Tell them install FlashGot Add on. (I assume) FlashGot looks into browser cache and let them download currently playing Mp3 Files. So they would love it while you save some bandwidth!

Friday, December 4, 2009

Cute Puppet turned in to Angry Man

Funny Puppet turned to Angry Man from Ra Pennsylvania on Vimeo.



When there is something funny and you like to point your camera, there is a chance its a commercial wrapper!