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Looking to build a logo but don’t have the time? Need a temporary logo for your website, software or documents? Here’s a good website that you might find very useful. Logo54.com allows you to create similar logos of the following:
Here are some examples:
Pretty nifty huh? Oh, and please remember that the patterns used for building these logos are patented (copyright?) so only use it for placeholders or “just-for-fun” activities.
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May 08, 2009: Yahoo! has updated with new social networking features.
If you haven’t checked out yahoo profile for quite some time now, now is a very good time. Yahoo has breathe new life into yahoo profiles by adding some very neat social networking features that will keep you updated with your connections straight from your yahoo mailbox and yahoo profile’s welcome page. Yahoo’s new social networking feature, which yahoo dubs as Connections, will keep you and your contacts(you need to invite them first) updated, once connected your contact’s updates (See list of supported 3rd party below) will show up in your yahoo mail and profile welcome screen. New features include:
- Prioritized Email(Yahoo Mail) – A seperate tab that says: “From Connections” will now be available in your inbox, clicking this tab will display emails from your connections.
- Smarter Inbox(Yahoo Mail) – With the smarter inbox feature, priority emails will not get lost in your mail anymore.
- Social Networking(Yahoo Profiles) – Stay updated with your contacts and see what are they up to.
It is going to be interesting where this is going to, right now your connections can only share the following updates:
- Photos: Picasa Web Albums, SmugMug, Webshots, Zooomr
- Bookmarking: Furl, Ma.gnolia, StumbleUpon
- Blog: Blogger, Bloglines, TravelPod, Tumblr, Vox, Xanga
- Music: Last.fm, Pandora
- Video: Vimeo, Youtube
- Status / Microblogs: Twitter
- Reviews: Yelp
- Others: GoodReads, SlideShare
Screenshots
Stay connected with the new Yahoo Profiles
Invite your contacts to connect through Yahoo Profiles
Yahoo Mail Welcome Screen
Yahoo Mail: From Connections
Don’t forget to send me an invite! wowcyber@yahoo.com
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After writing my 6th post, i’ve decided that i’m now an expert blogger. This is a beginner’s expert guide on blogging your way to the top.
Hey, look. Isn’t that a great idea of yours that have just passed through?
Ideas flashes in an instant so it’s only natural that you could forget it just as fast – this is always a bad thing because that idea that you let passed through you? That could’ve been “the” post that could’ve made you an instant hit.
Drafting your ideas should be your #1 priority.
This writing as of now is an idea that suddenly popped out of nowhere while writing a blog about a game. Ideas usually comes up in the weirdest times(and places) so make sure you’re always ready for it. Whenever that happens, I stop whatever I’m doing, fire up my notepad and start writing right away. One idea leads to another so don’t break it up by letting any of those ideas pass through. So draft, save and continue editing it in a later date. Before you know it, that little idea of yours has already become a very interesting blog on it’s own. This is one of the key to having many things to blog about in the future.
Chop ‘em down
Sometimes even a well written post can be very exhausting when it’s too long. Break your posts down by sections or find a way to split some parts into an entire different post if its possible.
It’s all about quality of the content…
How you write your content is very important. If you get a lot of visitor hits or traffic but your content is mediocre then it won’t matter, you are just turning them off and making them vow not to visit anything related to your website again, so take some time, grabe a coffee and polish your content. Getting visitors is one thing but keeping them is another.
… and the blog title
How do you invite a visitor to read your content? That’s the job of your blog title, it’s the door that seperates the visitors from the blog itself. Placing a very uninteresting title is like putting a "Do not disturb" sign so make your title really stand out, read it over a couple of times and think: "If im a regular reader, will I find this title interesting?".
Nothing personal, you’re just becoming too personal.
Hey let’s face it, unless all visitors are friends and relatives, personal blogs about ourselves is just plain too uninteresting. I won’t be getting as much hits as I have now if my blogs is all about what I’ve done during my vacation, what I got for my birthday or whatever, no one cares. But don’t let me get you too worked up here, personal blogging is a-ok! just avoid having too many, unless you can make them very interesting. If personal blogging is more of your thing then you might want to try twitting instead.
Reach a wider audience by sticking to a certain theme and creating an online persona.
Setting a certain category or theme to your blog will put some interests into your links and post. A reader from google who found you through a keyword for Technology might not be interested to click your recent posts about cultures or cooking, stick to a few themes and all your posts will now be related to each other, which your readers might find interesting. A wider audience is good but if you become too diverse, you will lose more readers than usual. If you prefer to blog about anything, then a very good way of attracting your users is through an online persona(build your own character, create a style of writing, cosplay, act) and carry it throughout your posts. Chances are, people will subscribe to you because they find how you write very interesting or entertaining.
Do something special or unique.
What makes your blog super-special? Exclusive contents of course! Contents that you can’t find anywhere but yours. Do something very original! did you a create a cool application? are you a beta tester of an upcoming hyped up game? Did you discover the meaning of life? or perhaps you made an awesome video? then blog about it.
Get your name out there. Explore, Connect.
Be part of communities, participate in forums. Post a smart or helpful comment in other people’s blogs. Help people in IRCs. Join social networking websites. Getting your name out there by participating and being part of a large community is sure fire way of getting good traffic.
Share anything useful.
Have you finally found the solution to a problem that’s been plaguing you for quite some time now? If you had this problem then chances are, someone else is having the same problem as yours right? Make things easier for other troubled users by blogging about it.
Motivate yourself.
Getting addicted to blogging, or writing content is of course, the most important part to blogging. Installing WordPress Stats, Google Analytics, Woopra, CrazyEgg or myBlogLog to keep track of your visitors Sources(where they come from), Unique Visitors and what search keywords they used to get to your site is a great way of motivating yourself.
People are People. They have other important things to attend to as well.
I respect my readers and their valuable time – that’s why I always have something in the start of my post detailing what they’re about to read to save them the trouble of going through the content only to find out what they’re looking for isn’t there.
Get Addicted to Blogging, Do a lot of Drafts, Have a lot of fun, and most importantly have a lot of heart
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Ok if there’s something we really know Soulja Boy(Soldier Boy) of, besides his hit single: Crank dat(Superman), is how this kid knows how to use the Internets (Viral videos via youtube). From the looks of things though his open challenged seems real enough (although some would argue that it’s a publicity stunt made for xbox 360). Now for everyone who don’t got any idea what started it all, be entertained as a group of video game nerds (Screwattack), representing all of the internets (and they have the rights to say so), gets their game on and accepted the open challenge, watch the following videos (chronologically ordered because I love you all awww):
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHXBqo6RgN4
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Dg9nvt-i8
Lol, Pokemon? Soulja Bitch? This is why I love Screwattack.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpW-X5B3MyU
and Soulja Boy’s response?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPtRx7RKY5s&feature=PlayList&p=A1405E7BFB1BAE0C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B4-FCOhvcQ&feature=channel_page
I’m not sure what happened after he accepted the challenge though (besides Soulja Boy deleting his acceptance challenge in his official website) :/, well one thing’s for sure Screwattack would have updated us if something did happen so it probably never did. Now that you’ve seen how cool the people over at Screwattack is then you might want to check some of their other cool stuffs as well.
Oh and here are some of Soulja Boy’s videos against that MTV guy:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmImERn4rsc&feature=related
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87NC8VXF-8I&feature=PlayList&p=46B12887ED1FD89D&index=3
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIdZhFk4Qzc&feature=PlayList&p=46B12887ED1FD89D&index=4
Lol. Classic button mashing? Sorry to break it to you.
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Don’t you hate it when someone tells you that you should stop because someone else is better? |
One of the things i really don’t get is how someone tends to forget a person’s potential, instead they choose to go ahead and say a nicer version of: “But you suck at that, you should ask [name] since he’s better than you”. Lame.
He’s the best programmer, she’s the best artist, you’re pretty bad at that, you might as well give it to him instead, he’s the best. This is one of those things I’ve always loathed to hear. What gives? Whatever happened in being constructive so everyone can just become better? There was a time that I got insulted because a website of mine didn’t look flashy and it lacks design. Well, it’s a web application, my audience is different, i’m supporting every browser out there (yes even the dreaded IE6, but hey this was before I joined the Stop IE6 Movement), i’m using javascript to dynamically put things into place so I don’t even want to bother getting rid of that 1 pixel problem. So don’t get out of your way and tell me I suck at something when I have that everything intended that way in the first place.
This rant is not for me but for those who can’t stand up for themselves, you see, you can’t bring me down, these things fuel me, tell me that I suck at something and I will just get up tomorrow and become better than before just so you can eat your own words, but that’s the thing, not everyone thinks similarly, you think you are doing them any favor by telling them to stop just because they’re bad or someone else is better? You are not doing society any good. What’s with all the hate anyway? Where is the love?
Everyone is good at something, it’s only a matter of giving them the right comments at the right time. Sure, we all may suck sometimes but that doesn’t mean it’s going to stay that way. Who knows? We might be the next big thing, we only need that one little comment to have our potentials unlocked. Is your pride able to handle it when the person you said have sucked and could never be good at something turned out to be one of the greatest in a few years time. When that happens (oh and it will, you just don’t know it yet), everyone will be happy to feed your own words back to you. It’s not for anyone to decide what a person can and cannot do. Why don’t you do the world a favor and give some constructive criticisms instead, after all, you are that great right?
