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February 2009

February 20, 2009
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Get your Blog Comments to Facebook via Comments Box [Blogging]

If you haven’t setup the Facebook Connect for your blog, here is one good reason to do so.   Facebook has launched the social widget for Facebook Connect, the Comments Box. Using this, you Blog’s Facebook readers can comment on posts or other content, and these comments can be published in Facebook as a Feed. [...]

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February 14, 2009
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Google Software Construction Toolkit for your Cross-Platform build needs [Programming]

Google has released the Google Software Construction Toolkit for building applications across platforms.  Using this toolkit, you can use a single “makefile” shared between all platforms – Windows, Mac and Unix. This toolkit is written in Python and uses the Open Source SCons build tool.  The toolkit is Open Source and can be used easily [...]

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February 14, 2009
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Fast Forward – Its kinda StumbleUpon with the flavor of Amazon [Firefox add-ons]

Fast Forward is a Firefox add-on that provides recommendations on the similar web pages that are most visited by readers, who visited the current web page you are in. As they claim on their add-on page: It’s like Amazon recommendations for webpages. “People who viewed this page also viewed this next…” At all times, the [...]

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February 12, 2009
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How to find your leaders on Twitter? [Twitter]

Much has been talked on getting more followers, retaining your followers and blah, blah, blah… But in this post, you will find ways to locate people on Twitter, who are worthy following.  I prefer to call them your Leaders (in a linguistic sense) on Twitter, whom you choose to follow!!  Because who you follow, determines [...]

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February 11, 2009
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Posting to Twitter by E-Mail [Twitter]

Is Twitter blocked by your Organization, terming it as a ‘Social Networking Site’ or you don’t have Internet access at all?  Can’t you live without your Twitter update?  Don’t worry.  There’s respite in sight. TwitterMail is a service that can send tweets from your Twitter account, if you send them an e-mail.  To set things [...]

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February 9, 2009
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4 Handy Tools to post to Twitter as you surf [Twitter]

Do you surf the web a lot and love to post updates to Twitter on the run?  Then you must know the following browser-based tools because they make the job easy for you. Friendbar (for Firefox) Friendbar is by far the best browser-based Twitter tool I have come across.   But, the downside is its availability [...]

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February 3, 2009
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Yahoo! at ACM Multimedia 2009 [Contests]

Yahoo! is determined to boost up their Image and Video search for sure.  Yesterday, Yahoo! announced a couple of Multimedia grand challenge problems for researchers and algorithm specialists. A brief intro on these challenges: Image Search – Developing a robust way to search across images in the web, to provide more meaningful results to searchers. [...]

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February 1, 2009
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Everything you wanted to know about XML Sitemaps [SEO Tips]

What is a Sitemap? Sitemaps are an easy way to tell search engines about pages on the site, that are available for crawling.  There are two types of sitemaps: HTML Sitemap – Listing of the pages of your site, so that the users can find relevant and important information faster XML Sitemap – List of [...]

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