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Google +1 for your blog

June 3rd, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, Google

Google launched +1 recommendation button for publishers yesterday. This could possibly be the turning point in the Google vs Facebook war to control the web. Facebook has taken a lead by share and like button but google +1 is a bigger counter to all this.

With Google controlling the major portion of publishers organic traffic they would be more than willing to install the recommendation button on their blogs and sites.google+1 google recommends

The implementation is really easy and even easier for wordpress blogs.

Step : 1 Select the desired size of the button. There are four option to pick from.

get google + 1 button

Step : 2 Copy and paste the code in your blog post or website.

insert google +1 code

The first part of the code goes just before the end of <head> tag in your blog /site. and the second part need to be inserted where you want the button to appear.


Fast Tube by Casper

Voila! you are done.

google + 1 on your blog

Google will display the +1 next to search results.

google search result +1 button

How would Google +1 help your blog :

a. Provide authenticity to your blog content

b. Crowd recommendation will boost your search engine read Google rating

c. For users ; they will get more refined and recommended results (Less of spam / ad page blogs)

If you’re a webmaster, you can get the +1 button code and learn more about implementation on Google’s +1 webmaster site.

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Incomplete map of India on google

April 7th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Google, India Insight & Beyond, Internet & Mobile

Totally condemn the way Google repeatedly treat the map of India. J & K is and will remain integral part of India.

India map on Google

And , not showing it part of any other country also is not solution.  Correct your maps Google.

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Google sites not opening with BSNL broadband

May 14th, 2010 | 12 Comments | Posted in Internet & Mobile

Getting BSNL broadband connection is one thing and then make run is another big task. Its not that BSNL dataone connection was my first choice but as they say beggars are not choosers. With limited option to pick from (precisely two BSNL and Tata Indicom) I reluctantly picked the state owned giant.

I also have a hidden agenda behind the same (No its not to please my father in law who works with another former state owned telecom giant MTNL), the bill generated for BSNl act as a legitimate address proof. Many of you would be aware of my plight while trying to reissue my passport where i run from pillar to post to prove my identity.

Anyways, BSNL connection started throwing tantrum from the day of installation only (including by the linesman who would ask for regular chai-pani for activation). The connectivity was erratic and connection tag slow. I relied on the internet god to check the connectivity. But little did I realize that there more to internet beyond google. Everything will work but for Google and related sites.

Here enters the Internet ka Baap, BSNL dataone, which for reasons best known to him don’t gel with google.  I resorted to other search engines and realize this is a very common problem for all BSNL broad band users who tries to access google, orkut, gmail and other google sites.

Doing some more research it suggests , i found following stuff on internet.

“DNS stands for Domain Name Server. When you type www.google.com, the DNS server converts the name into an IP address of Google. Then it follows the IP address to fetch you the webpage.

Now, due to a defective DNS server system, your typed address can not get resolved into IP. So you reach nowhere.”

This was really frustrating as life seems to be standstill for me on internet without google. But surprisingly this complicated and widespread problem has a quick solution.

SOLUTION (Simple) :

BSNL DNS is the root cause of the problem, so simply change it to DNS that works.

IMPLEMENTATION (Simpler) :

a) Double click the LAN icon on your system tray

b) Go to Properties > Click on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

c) Choose “Use the following DNS server addresses”

d) Update 208.67.222.222 as preffered DNS server and 208.67.220.220 as alternate DNS server

e) You’re DONE


These DNS are provided by OpenDNS . I have actually experience a better connectivity and page rendering using these settings. HAPPY SURFING….

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gmail going social with google buzz

February 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Google, Internet & Mobile

Its time now for gmail to go social. In these times when every application is geared for real time collabration, sharing and uploading how come mail be left behind. Google has launched buzz for gmail both on web and mobile.you can upload and share all interesting conversation , images ,link and status messages from the gmail itself.

But what about google wave wasn’t that also suppose to change the way we communicate and share. In-fact it looks promising at first go and there was huge mad rush to grab those few initial invites. Heard that the invites actually got auctioned on eBay.

On the other hand the google buzz seems to be available for larger audience and is not following the invite mode. I believe this shold make it a clear winner over wave. As Google Buzz give an advantage of a ready friend network to share and communicate.

I visited http://buzz.google.com to get started. The buzz appeared as a label on the left menu on gmail. It automatically made me follow people with whom I communicate more (not sure what to call this google intelligence or violation of my privacy / follow discretion). Being very true to the open social it allows me set my twitter and flickr account for updates (Not sure on exact integration, and its yet to integrate facebook).

As per google Official Blog

“We’ve relied on other services’ openness in order to build Buzz (you can connect Flickr and Twitter from Buzz in Gmail), and Buzz itself is not designed to be a closed system. Our goal is to make Buzz a fully open and distributed platform for conversations. We’re building on a suite of open protocols to create a complete read/write developer API, and we invite developers to join us on Google Code to see what is available today and to learn more about how to participate.”

Would I be using this ????    Not really…. (Except for the auto pdates which will reflect on my google profile.

Why ????  This may be a great tool but still not available for hosted domain. For me my network is not on gmail but my own domain. And you need to reach to your audience where they are and not ask them to come to you. So best of luck Google….

image credit : http://www.computerworld.com

Google official Blog

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3 IDIOTS और वर्ष 2009

January 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Me , my family & life

अब बताओ ये  क्या कनेक्शन है और मैं हिंदी में क्यूँ लिख रहा हूँ. नहीं ये बिंगो चिप्स की नई एड भी नहीं है. वो हुआ ऐसे की मैं हिंदी में न्यू इयर ग्रीटिंग टाइप करने का ट्राई कर रहा था और गूगल लिप्यंतरण (Transliteration) टूल एकदम मस्त लगा. और भाई लोगो गूगल लिप्यंतरण(Transliteration) और गूगल अनुवादक (Translator) दो अलग चीज़े है मुझे आज ही पता चला. आप लोगो की जानकारी के लिए भी बता दूं -  गूगल ट्रांसलेटर (Translator) का काम है अनुवाद करना मतलब की आप जो भी लिखेंगे उसे किसी और भाषा में उसी मतलब ले साथ लिखना. इसके द्वारा आप ५१ (51) विभिन्न भाषाओ में translation कर सकते है. जैसे की happy new year का हिंदी भाषा में ट्रांसलेशन होगा ‘नया साल मुबारक हो’ लेकिन गूगल ट्रांसलिटरेशन  (TRANSLITERATION) happy new year को लिखेगा हैप्पी न्यू इयर.

समझ आया या नहीं . आया तो ठीक नहीं तो भाई मतलब की बात सुनो ३ बेवकूफों (3 Idiots) और इस बीते साल का कनेक्शन.

वैसे तो मैं सिनेमा बहुत कम देखता हूँ (वैसे ज्यादा दखने लायक फिल्मे बनती कहाँ है) लेकिन भाई मानना पड़ेगा आमिर खान को मस्त काम करता है , जान लगा देता है . वर्ना मजाल है कोई और हमसे इस मंदी के दौर में १००० रुपये खर्च करवा दे वो भी फिल्म देखने के लिए. 3 Idiots चेतन भगत के नोवेल five point someone पर आधारित है   तो भैया हम पहुंचे अम्बिएंस माल , गुडगाँव जानते तो होंगे आप एक किलोमीटर लम्बा एक फ़लोर और ऐसे चार फ़लोर. अब बताओ इतनी जगह में तो लो फ़लोर बसें चलनी चाहिए (अबे नहीं रिक्शे ज्यादा सेफ है, बसों में तो आग लग रही है और कीमतों में भी ). दिन का पहला शो देखने का फायदा है की सीटे साफ़ मिलती है और मूवी से पहले के सारे एड देखने का मौका :)

फिर भटक गया … वापस चलो ३ idiots पर

मूवी शुरू से आखिर तक उतार चड़ाव से भरी हुई , अचानक से नए नए मोड़ और भावनाए. शुरू होते ही सस्पेंस , कौन है यह ranchoddas shyamaldas  chanchad उर्फ़ rancho जिसकी तलाश में दोस्त लोग निकल पड़े है. फिर शुरू होती है दोस्तों की कॉलेज की जिन्दगी की कहानी , जिसमे है एक दूसरे से आगे निकलने की होड़, बिना सोचे समझे रटने और पास होने की दौड़. साथ में में है उम्मीदों पर खरे न उतरने और हार जाने का डर. इन सब के बीच तीन दोस्त इन सब डरो से लड़ते हुए अपने ही अंदाज़ में जीते जा रहे है. Rancho अपने दोस्तों को जीने का एक अलग ही ढंग सीखा कर एक दिन गायब  हो जाता है. उसके दोस्त आपनी आपनी जिंदगियों में सफल हो जाते है मगर अपने दोस्त को नहीं भूल पाते है.

साल २००९ भी कुछ इस तरह ही शुरू हुआ लेहमन बैंक की मेहेरबानी से जो मंदी का दौर शुरू हुआ था उसका असर पूरे जोर पर था. नौकरियों का कुछ पता नहीं था, बड़ी छोटी सभी कंपनियों  में धड़ले से छटनी  हो रही थी. तन्खाओं में कटौती आम सी बात हो गई थी. साल के पहले छे महीने तनाव व अनिश्चितता से भरे हुए थे.

मगर शाहरुख़ भैया ने कहाँ था अगर सब कुछ ठीक न हो तोह समझो की पिक्चर अभी बाकी है मेरे दोस्त.

तो इंटरवल के बाद मतलब के बाद के ६ महीनो में इकोनोमी में सुधार आने लग गया और २०१० आते आते लगता है वो  सब एक बुरा सपना था. अच्छा है की वो वक़्त बीत गया. मगर जाते जाते बहुत कुछ सीखा गया.

२००९ को मेरी ओर से धन्यवाद :

तुमने दिखा दिया की जो  बलात्कार  करने  की  क्षमता तुममे थी वो  संसार  में किस्सी में  नहीं है. जो बलात्कार पर बलात्कार तुमने किये , वैसा दुनिया कोई नहीं कर सकता. उम्मीद है आप आगे ऐसा कुछ नहीं करेंगे.

मेरे लिए तो 2009 मेरा दोस्त Rancho या funsukh Wangroo ही रहेगा. जिसने हर वक़्त में fun और sukh से रहना सिखा दिया.

जहाँपनाह तुस्सी ग्रेट हो , तोहफू कबूल करो.

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Google Wave – a new wave of communication

May 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Google, Internet & Mobile

wave-logo

Google announced to launch Google wave later this year. This is bound to create a wave across the Internet world. So what is exactly is a wave. In a simple words Google wave is a real-time communication platform. It’s a hybrid of email, instant messaging, web chat, social networking, micro bloging, file share all build into one interface.

google-wave-interface1

Features of wave :

google-wave-interface2

You can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process (contextual suggestions and spelling correction).

It supports the drop and drag attachments from desktop and thus enable the real-time file sharing to anyone in the conversation.

It’s also embeddable, so you can embed Google Wave conversations on any blog.

This could very well turn into a project management tool with all concerns sharing the progress realtime.

It’s also an open-source project with a lot of API integrations. So the possibilities of growth and integration with various web products are unimaginable.

There is more information which will flow in but as a user we have to wait for some more time to swim in the wave. But this will surely bring a mega shift in the internet communication and more. So beware Twitter and FB of the world there is a strong wave coming soon….

Image Credits and official page : Google Wave you can also sign up for Google wave update here.

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How to make a pizza (sinful eating)

May 19th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food, Me , my family & life

So folks let me take you thru the process of making a sinfully unhealthy but amazingly delicious Pizza.

 

Ingredients:

a) Pizza base
b) Cheese (Britannia)
c) Pizza Sauce (By Cremica)
d) Oregano and Chilly Flakes (Leftover from Domino’s blend perfectly)

Toppings:
a) Mushrooms
b) Fresh Paneer
c) Onions
d) Capsicum
e) Red Jalapeno (In Vinegar)

Other key requirement
a) Microwave
b) Electricity (Scarce in Gurgaon)

 

Step 1: Apply a thin coating of pizza sauce on the base.

Step 2: Put Sliced toppings of about 1/2 inch size and put them evenly on base.

Step 3: Now put the shredded Pizza Cheese and cover the pizza base evenly.

Step 4: Put the pizza in Microwave for 7-8 minutes @ 180 C on convection mode. (Hopefully you would have switched on the microwave by now)

Step 5: Wait…Wait…Wait or sing a song or dance or ya get some coke for you.

pizza by amit gupta 

 Final step: Indulge into the sinful act.

PS : recovered this post from google cached file. Love you google ummmaaah . And thanks @mayank for moving my blog successfully to new host.

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Abuse of Cost Per Click (CPC) Marketing?

March 17th, 2009 | 5 Comments | Posted in Google, Internet & Mobile, Marketing & advertising

Cost Per Click better known as CPC advertising is one of the most popular ROI (return on Investment) driven model in online world. Google has build in a complete empire revolving around this model.

This model provides a win-win situation to publishers (websites), ad-networks (like Google, Komli etc) and advertisers (sellers). Advertisers pays to the ad-networks only when a visitor (prospective buyer) clicks on the advertisement (thereby presumed he expresses interest in the advertiser’s services) on the publisher’s website. Thereby justifying the advertising cost as paid by the advertisers. On the same hand ad-networks are in position to calculate and display the ROI and compensation for publishers.

Now in a fair game, a visitor will click on the advertisement to know more about the services and contact the buyer subsequently (If he is interested). On every such click publisher get paid certain amount by ad-networks and advertisers are charged for that click.

Wonderful concept, so where is the abuse?

Google AD - Abuse of CPC Model

Now few advertisers are abusing the ecosystem by removing/reducing the requirement to click the advertisement in order to know the contact info etc. Thus avoiding the charges payable to ad-network and subsequently the publisher.

This short-term strategy will surely have long lasting impact on the ecosystem of publishers, advertisers and ad-networks. I am sure ad-networks would have all the systems and checks in place to avoid such content going live in the advertisement. Ad networks would spend more energy on building more checks to stop abuse, which would have otherwise gone in more constructive activities. All said and done, I believe there is an equal responsibility to be shared by the advertisers also for not abusing the product.

PS : I just found one more and this one is interesting. Skype installed on my system prompt me to call on the number displayed on ad for FREE and again without even clicking on the ad. Google Ads - Abuse of Cost Per Click (CPC) Marketing

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