That Indians are moving away comfortable corporate jobs and daring to carve a path for themselves is no secret. Look around and you will find at least 2 entrepreneurs in a group of 10*. While some are walking down the e-commerce path, some others are venturing into never-before-explored careers; take stand-up comedy for example. A distinct breed of ‘entrepreneurs’ are bloggers. These are the people...

  Facebook has released its special social widgets for WordPress, the largest blog publishing platform in the world. Many blogs including ours rely on the WordPress platform to deliver information to the world. The inclusion of Facebook’s Social Widgets will make it easier for people to interact and share WordPress content on Facebook easily making the discovery of content on the web easier. The...

When you think of a blogger, what first comes to your mind? Is it a teenager writing angst filled poems on their multicolored page? Is it of a computer whiz unraveling the newest Software Development Kit? Blogging has evolved over the years and now takes many forms. Nowadays, with the introduction of several platforms like WordPress and Blogger, more and more people have been introduced to this phenomenon....

Trends in the online world have a tendency to radically change over time. What was once thought to be a much needed form of expressing yourself online, has been replaced by an even more innate desire to connect with people but through liking something or tweeting about it. Indeed, blogging is now passé as Twitter and Facebook have taken over, suggesting a humongous shift in online communication. Blog...

Google is on a mission to revive Blogger. After revealing the redesigned platform at SXSW, Google is now releasing previews of a new dynamic user interface which allows users to view blogposts in dramatically new ways. You can experience the new changes, which have been developed using AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3, by adding “/view” behind the URL of any blog hosted publicly using Blogger (for...

Google acquired Blogger in 2003, which is almost eleven years, has been used for over half a billion blog posts and has over 400 million active readers, according to Chang Kim the Product Manager. Kim added that the platform is amongst the top 10 sites according to Alexa and has been dubbed the most reliable blogging service by Royal Pingdom. Kim mentions the various features added through 2010, but...

Even though the Hyperlink as a concept had been around long before the internet itself – Ted Nelson is considered to be the father of hypertext and hyperlinks. It became the backbone of the Internet on the day Tim Berners Lee set up the first web page on December 25th, 1990. And while it is amazing how much the web itself has evolved since then. Right from technology, infrastructure, to the people...

If anyone still remembers Rediff had its own blogging platform like Blogger and WordPress known as rediff iland and I remember trying my best to use it in 2006 and found myself cursing under my breathe as I found it extremely unfriendly to use. I guess rediff has now realized this and has launched RediffBlogs to replace the old product Rediff Iland. Rediff Blogs Not A Rediff Product Rediff Blogs...

Just a few hours ago we reported on Naukri’s quarterly results and blogged about how they need to rethink their model and add social features to their site inorder to appeal to the growing social nature of the web today vs that of ten years ago. Well it seems as I said it Timesjobs had already rolled out a similar feature called Globalconnect. Globalconnect allows you to add various social...

Finally! WordPress has launched two mobile themes that will be automatically rendered when someone accesses the WordPress blogs with a “compatible mobile phone“. These themes will be independent of the themes rendered on web browsers. It will only depend on the type of mobile phone used. According to the Official WordPress blog, mobile devices account for over 60 million page views per...