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Social networking is the fastest growing activity on Web 2.0 – the basic idea behind it is socializing. Everyone has started socializing with each other for nurturing friendship and business. iSocial is a powerful social networking script that helps webmasters build an effecient, user-friendly social networking site.

One can make money on social networking sites through monthly subscriptions and at large, they can make money by placing advertisements. To make money, start an elegant website with a concept that could attract more visitors. A website could make money, only when the website attracts the attention of people towards itself.

iSocial facilitates webmasters to build a RIA-based website which offers a responsive and seamless interface to users. With RIA, users can get fast page loading, easy navigation and smooth handling of site. The Open social developer network in iSocial lets developers with standard JavaScript and HTML create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.

Similar to Facebook connect, iSocial comes with iSocial connect to help users carry their credential data to other sites integrated with iSocial connect API. The photo snap features comes with the techniques- clear, filter, distort, frame and scene. The unique features of iSocial don’t stop with this, it includes open ID, multi-lingual support, Shindig and applications, videos, photos, customizable classifieds and much more.

“We are proud to launch the iSocial script with extraordinary features in the web masters’ networking world. We hope they can satisfy their users and earn more moeny with our iSocial script and recommend our excellent script to their friends” said Ms. Sheerin, the Vice President of Ahasan.

iSocial is one more hot product from Ahsan Technologies, a leading provider of Web 2.0 applications and experts in social networking software for business enterprises and startups.

For more details, visit http://www.isocial.in

A search engine considers the quality of backlinks of websites while determining site rankings. Due to the time consumption and the endurance to carry-out a genuine link building campaign, many webmasters go for shortcuts to increasing backlinks. Though these shortcuts can bring desired rankings, you can’t retain it for long periods.

Here are the link building strategies that you can follow easily to promote your site in an effective manner.

1. In link building, the general practice is to submit sites in web directories. What people do is search for web directories on the web through search engines, and submit their sites on all the web directories. But it is not really the best idea; a better way of link building is to find directories related to your niche and submitting sites in those web directories.

2. First prepare a list of do-follow blogs and start commenting on those blogs with high page rank. Dealing with high page ranking site will fetch you good results.

3. Actively participate on do-follow signature allowed forums.

4. Another simple way is to participate actively in popular social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc. You may feel that this process will take much time. Yes it will, but only at the starting stage where you need to build a network with people related to your niche. After that you can just spend 10 – 15 minutes daily to comment on others’ post and answer queries.

5. Place your products/services ads on free classified sites under relevant categories.
This tip comes as a bonus to you- hire a consultant. Yes, you can outsource link building to someone experienced and get your job done. Outsourcing will help you save money and time which can be utilized to enhance your current products/services or build a new one. Just happens, that this bonus tip is the most followed strategy by online business experts.

Google has recently released a new tool known as “Google Squared”. It extracts data that you are looking for and shows results in an online spreadsheet-format. The square structures the unstructured data on the web. If you are curious about which mobile phones are the best, all you have to do is simply type “mobile” in the search box of Google squared and click the “square it’ button. It will return information in a spreadsheet format with names, images, description, weight, memory etc in columns and rows.

You can customize squares as per your desire. Remember common attributes for an item can be listed as columns in a square. You can delete the attributes that you don’t care about. If you want to expand your initial square you can use the add rows and add columns search boxes to see suggestions for other items and attributes that you can add to your square. You can also type your own items and attributes that you have in mind.

You can also save your square and share it with your friends. If you are signed into your Google account, you can save a particular squared search, then get back to it later, and share it with your friends by simply copying the URL from the address bar of the square that you have created and send it to them.

Like the Google square, a computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha has came into the internet world. It is designed to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable to everyone. With Wolfram Alpha, you can calculate how many calories a man can burn if he swims for 30 minutes. The difference between the two is that Wolfram Alpha is simply based on its own database, while Google Squared gathers data from the entire web.

Google unveiled a new communication and collaboration tool called ‘Google Wave’, at the Google I/O Conference took place in San Francisco. The original creator of Google Maps, Lars and Jens Rasmussen took the stage to present their latest creation Google Wave. Wave fluxes email, chat, photo/video sharing features and other online communication facilities, to let people work together more productively online.

Commenting on Wave, Rasmussen said, “A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.” He referred to it as a developer platform “Developers can build extensions to Google Wave using our open APIs, embed waves in other sites, or build applications that interoperate with Google Wave.”

The Google Wave API provides two primary types of development; Extensions and Embed, to allow developers to enhance Google Wave. With this product, you can create a wave and add people to it. People within a wave can make use of sources like richly formatted text, gadgets, photos and even feeds with other wave members.

Developers can create applications that run within a wave. At the presentation, the wave development team has shown collaborative gaming as a sample. Wave can be used to enhance an existing workflow within an enterprise. During the presentation, a bug tracking system was shown in which wave is used to report bugs and assign them to team members for correction.

The net world is looking forward to this amazing product being released.

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Agriya Infoway, a web development company, announced the release of the beta version of Rayzz lite, a pure video sharing script. Rayzz lite will help webmasters put together a video sharing site like YouTube, and start earning money.

Web video watching is experiencing skyrocketing growth at the moment. Online video usage is up by 53 percent since this time last year. Video is the future of the internet; people love to get information through videos rather than text. Video pulls more visitors to a website and improves site traffic. Social networking sites have also seen vast growth in the past decades. So a combination of both social networking and video is the way to do it.

Rayzz lite is developed based on this idea to enable webmasters to build an effective video sharing site through which users can network with their friends while sharing videos of high quality. Videos can be categorized under channels to facilitate easy search of videos.

Site owners can start earning by placing banners in the top, bottom and/or side bars of the site. They can also earn with pre-ads and/or post-ads in videos. The internal messaging system will ensure effective collaboration among site members. The maturity warning setting helps webmasters to start a family-friendly networking site which is a must in the current net world to safeguard children.

“There are several keys to the success of our company,” said Sheerin, Vice president of Marketing at Agriya. “One of them is creating a video sharing script. Our latest release of Rayzz Lite is targeted at webmasters who are willing to create a networking site with essential features to connect people and share videos, and make money out of it. We are confident that this script will be accepted by clients just like our other products.”

Rayzz Lite is now available at 77$, this offer is only for a limited period.

Web templates are a life saver for people starting a business or wanting to interact with others in the virtual world. It helps them to start a website through which they can interact with the world. The web site design plays a major role in attracting customers and making them interested.

Web templates are a boon for web developers. One can make use of it as a layout to build a site. Templates with schematic layouts are used to generating massive numbers of web pages. An effective web template provides a user the capability to start the design process quickly, thereby helping him save time and cost in building a web site.

It is best to go for optimized and nicely designed templates for developing sites with lots of pages and navigation links. If your site needs frequent updates, using a web template is the ideal choice. While building a site using a template, a web developer can prepare a basic template by editing it according to the requirement.

If site templates are optimized properly, then the sites developed will be search engine friendly. While selecting a template, make sure that the template design is appropriate for your business. Use web site design software like Dream Weaver to customize your website. While selecting colors, fonts and sizes, keep in mind that your site should be visually appealing.

While designing your site, use images only when they are needed and limit the usage of flash animations as images and flash animations will raise your site loading time. Your site should load within 10 to 15 seconds, or the viewer is likely to go to other sites.

Using a text menu with necessary navigation links is the best practice, as pull down, graphics or pop-ups will confuse users and are invisible to search engine bots.

Templates are perfect for both beginners and professionals to build a site. www.ocarda.com is a good place to get high quality templates at reasonable costs.

Chennai, India – June 04, 2009. Agriya Infoway, a web development company, unveiled Kootali 2.0.8, the latest version of a closed social networking script today. Agriya has enhanced the features of Kootali to meet the requirements and satisfy the needs of their customers.

Social networks help people expand their contact with anyone around the world, by sharing their profile and content like photos, videos etc. Privacy plays a major role in any social network, and the Kootali team has taken this into concern and offered privacy setting in almost all content shared through the sites developed using Kootali. Now users can block any other users from viewing their profile, even when the privacy setting for their profile is set on public.

Instant recording of audio is possible on the site. Users can convey any message to their friends or site members, by simply recording their voice. It would be a refreshing change from text messages.

As the networking site grows, it will be loaded with a large number of audios and videos. Then it will be difficult to find a specific video or audio from big lists. Kootali offers videos/audios search options in the respective pages to help users locate files they are looking for. In the latest version, users can view featured videos and audios on the play page so they can know the featured videos/audios of the site while they were watching something else.

If a user has made a mistake while recording a video/audio, the edit option can be used to make rectifications. While playing a video/audio, users can know how well it has reached other people through ‘Favorites Count’ displayed in the information box.

“In a highly sophisticated networking market, people are turning to powerful and intuitive networking scripts to stay competitive in the net world,” said Sheerin, Vice President of Marketing at Agriya. “We continue to work to offer most cutting-edge networking scripts and are excited that customers will be able to experience the enhanced features and functionality of the latest version of Kootali.”

For further details, visit www.kootali.com

Every successful corporation has a responsibility to use its resources and influences to create new things for people. Bing is the latest attempt by Microsoft to gain popularity in the search market. Bing, is a new Internet search engine designed to navigate the web and find online information easily.

Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. There are hundreds of new features on Microsoft’s Bing. A few of the interesting features include:

Bing will provide useful links and information related to your search. For instance, if you search information about a black berry, Bing will provide links to reviews on the item and give you complete details about the particular product as well. This feature will reduce a user’s clicks to find specific information.

Going into search engines, typing something in, and searching items is very difficult nowadays. Bing facilitates people to save favorite sites while they are searching information. It helps them to save their time by saving their favorite stuff and accessing them at anytime.

Microsoft maintains partnerships with different online services like airlines, hotels and holiday resorts. If you are searching for flight information, Bing can offer specific information like flight deals, reviews etc.

Bing will Auto-Suggest the search queries. For instance, if you’re looking for “Obama” then it will auto-suggest some additional queries like his biography, information on his speeches, quotes, facts and so on.

Bing can also provide videos and images about an item in the search results page.

Microsoft is currently holding a third-place behind Google and Yahoo Inc. it hopes that Bing will play a big role to reach a good position in the search market. Microsoft is trying to pull people away from Google and Yahoo.

Wolfram Alpha, a computational engine offers a single search result instead of thousands of web pages as offered by Google. If Alpha offers the right answer, then it will be the best way to gather data on the net. If it is not the right answer, then the search may end up in vain and user will have to go for another search engine which most commonly is Google.

Even with Google, people might not get desired results on the first page; they have to explore the thousands of search results to get the answer. Both have pros and corns, so Firefox has come up with the brilliant idea of blending Google and Wolfram Alpha, through its new add-on “Wolfram Alpha Google”. Just imagine how useful it will be for surfers to have both kinds of search results on the same page.

The downside of the add-on is that it can clip off the bottom of the Wolfram Alpha results when the search result of Alpha is longer. This can be overcome by setting Google to show 20 or more search results per page. Also the add-on comes with a quick link called ‘Open Wolfram Alpha in New tab’ which allows surfers to view the Alpha results in a different browser tab so that they don’t miss out on any important information.

This plug-in facilitates Google surfers to get the best of both worlds. It is also an ideal solution for comparing the results between these two engines. This add-on is still experimental; you need to be registered with Mozilla’s add-on to be able to instal it in your browser.

Your website is your identity in the net world, through which you can promote your products or ideas. It may be a personal or a commercial website, but whatever it is, it should be effective enough to reach the right kind of people so you can achieve your purpose.

Here we have listed seven golden rules that are to be kept in mind while designing your website. These will help you build a good quality website.

Content
“Content is the King”. Visitors will land on your page either through search engines or back links. Once they visit your page, they will look for information. If they don’t find what they are looking for, they will simply leave your site. A high quality website must be informative, and help visitors obtain the information they are looking for. So make sure the content on your site is accurate and adequate.

User-friendly Navigation
Offer menus and sitemap to help visitors browse relevant information and navigate to desired sections of the site easily. Also provide breadcrumb which lists the path of screens that a user has visited, at the top frame of a page to help them find out where they are now and navigate to previous pages easily.

Appearance
Use a professional, appealing and relevant style in your site throughout, to show consistency. Choose appropriate colors for your site that don’t clash. Also make sure you pick colours based on your intended audience. If the intended audience is that of children, use bright, attractive colors. If it is for professionals, use mild, pastel colors. Make sure that the text and background colors contrast and that the text is readable.

Quick download
Studies have revealed that site download time should be less than 15 seconds, or you will lose visitors. So avoid large images and animations on your site, as they take too much time to download. It would be best to use photos of .JPEG format and graphics of .GIF format.

To be avoided
Avoid using Pop-ups they annoy users and some browsers might block pop-ups. Do not use splash page which is a special entrance page to a site. Splash page are often filled with graphics and little text content, so they are not beneficial to search engine rankings and internet users.

Test your site
Ask a third person to check for spelling and grammatical errors on your site. After building your site, test it in different browsers as people may use different browsers. Also check for broken links and missing images on your site, and correct them before launching.

Visibility
Just building a site is not enough, you have to promote it both online and offline to divert people to it.