ViTaDiN- Browser based chat site

Vitadin.net is a new Browser based chat site which resembles Alamak with some additional features. It has a lot of new cool commands which operators will enjoy. This is a good place to chat for those who want to chat from work places but can not use Orkut, Facebook or IMs. Operator Account is free right now but Later they will be charging some amount from the operators.
Soon after you login, click on 'NewAccount' link u see below and register your nick. Leave the Promotion code empty and give nick 'Aries' in the referer box. Hope you enjoy your time chatting at Vitadin.net.

DoctorsHangout

doctorshangout.com is a Social networking site especially for doctors. Its really good place for doctors to hangout. You can view all latest activities of the members like who commented whom and who joined what community right from the entrance of he site which makes the site lively. The site is technically advanced and is highly user friendly and easy to use. You can add RSS from various sites in the groups you create and also in your main entrance page. Dont forget to have a look at my page after you join the network.

Techtribe

Techtribe is a social networking place for techies. Its a San Fransisco based company whose objective is to connect various IT companies in the world on a common platform where they can share their innovative ideas. On september 14, Rohit Agarwal, the CEO of Techtribe met Kiran Karnik, the President of NASSCOM. On this occassion, Mr.Rohit Agarwal said "All big companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Sun developed when diverse people got together to share ideas. So techTribe believes in connecting rather than competing."

The company would also award Rs 10 lakh each month to an innovative idea collaboratively developed by professionals using the techTribe platform. Mr.Kiran Karnik also had few words of which this statement attracted everyone "Innovation thrives best in diversity. So, when people thinking differently come together would create a platform for ideas to germinate". He strongly believed that lack of mentoring, networking and lack of finances prevented talented Indians from innovations. Techtribe claims to be the right step in encouraging innovative IT professionals.
Apart from creating and joining Tribes (communities), one can write blogs and articles, find answers to their doubts in 'Answers' section and search for jobs.

Dont Cross 15!!

Never send more than 15 messages at MyBlogLog or else you will land yourself in an extremely embarrassing situation. This is the 'decent' message which you would be facing in case you cross the limit of 15- Message:* Now just slow down there, rock star! It appears you've become a bit overzealous with your messaging. Remember, you are only allowed to send 15 messages per day. No sweat though, you can start sending messages again tomorrow.

Go on, get some fresh air, enjoy the great outdoors!

To my surprise and horror I found this extremely uneasy and unconfortable message from MyBlogLog server. This does not suit a site like MyBloglog to act so irresponsibly.

20s30socials- A cool Yahoo Group

Real people, real friends from all over the world sending real messages for friendship and partnership activities. This group is different from other Yahoo groups. You wont feel neglected, you wont feel rejected. You wont feel as an outsider. You get real mails from real people who become real friends and partners. You can reach this group at http://sfoutside.com/ . Its a place for people who like to hang out with new people. For those who like adventure and variety in their life, you will find a link to http://www.snowpals.org/ in 20s30socials home page. Hope you find good friends there. Best of luck.

Careeb

Cool colors and handy descriptions make Careeb a product worth to hang in. Careeb is in beta stage. Apart from its album's cutting edge technological features, lots of features like chats, user communities and video sharing are yet on their way. Brief descriptions of Careeb features are found all over the site which help in taking full advantage of its features to an average internet user.
What makes Careeb different and special from other social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook the privacy and security it provides to the users. You can share and 'hide' whatever you want and with whom ever you want. You can even hide one set of friends from another set and restrict unwanted users to message you or gain access to your profile. This is a class and decent social networking site.
Here is a video clip showing how to invite friends at Careeb.
I will keep checking the latest developments at Careeb and keep updating this blog time. Those who desire an account at Careeb can send a mail at admaniablog@gmail.com to get a Careeb Invitation.

Careeb

Careeb is a new extremely advanced and secure Social networking site I have ever seen. Careeb pronounced as 'Ka reeb' (Hindi करीब) is a social networking site created by an Indian young entrepreneur from Hyderabad named Naveed. Careeb is a web based platform that helps users build separate networks for friends, family and co-workers, ensuring them privacy and social security across your networks.
Careeb is an Urdu word which means 'getting close' or 'getting together'.

Special Features of Careeb:
1. Your friends are divided into groups namely Family, School friends, College friends, Grad School friends, Just Friends and Careeb friends.
2. You can 'Hide' one group from another. This means, you can hide your friends in one group from the friends in another group.
3. You can decide who can view your profile and who can not.
4. Your profile display picture can not be saved or downloaded by others which gives lot of security to the users.
5. You can fully enjoy taking complete control of your Album at Careeb. One can decide which photo others can save and which are not (save of photos in your album is disabled for others).
6. People who are not your friends can not view your message board nor they can send you nuisance messages.
7. Specialty of Careeb is that you have an option to make your pictures sharable to world wide web.

How to get a Careeb account?
Its very simple. You need to be invited form someone from within. This is to ensure reliable and genuine networking platform for its users.

Rank My Blog

A few minutes ago I found another social networking site www.rankmyblog.net .The idea is naive and the site is more user friendly.'Add this link to' ,'Discuss' and 'Track back link' features appear to be very useful.

But there are few negatives which i noticed ...
1.There is a some problem with loading of the site content.
2.The sitemeter bar which blocks the view.
3.Tags are limited in number.
4.The syndications are limited in the 'Add to link' tag.
5.The huge amount of empty space that appears in the middle of the page.

If you can overlook these drawbacks,you will find the site well organised,user friendly with many innovative features (though appears to be a combination of Mybloglog,digg etc).We can see few blogs have already registered themselves including the famous techCrunch which has got 4 votes at present.I have registered my blog with head eMarketing A to Z and waiting for votes.I think Improving the site will surely make it a big hit.

Social Media Optimisation (SMO)

Whats this?Is this some new technology or technique for optimising our blogs? Of course not.It contains everything we did and are doing routinely.This was a logically coined term by Rohit Bhargava who is the Vice President for Interactive Marketing with Ogilvy Public Relations.He did not invent Social Media Optimisation but yes he gave it a special status.Search engines are not the only means of getting traffic.Rather these days,social media places are dominating Search Engines.For clear understanding,I will show you various Social Media networks

• MyBlogLog
• Digg
• Reddit
• Orkut
• StumbleUpon
• YouTube
• Friendster
• Feed readers and Syndications

Anything which takes you into the public,developing relations with them is Social media Optimisation.In short,any networking place which can show your site to its members is Social Media.It lets the people know what your site is about,share their ideas and views.Social Media Optimisation is easier and quicker than SEO.If you are able to establish yourself as a recognised member at any two or three of these Social Media and networking places,you can resign the job of getting traffic to your site.So unless you are crazy about Google page rank and enjoy seeing your blog at Google search listings (like myself),you may stop worrying about SEO and start concentrating at providing quality posts and good relations at network places.Actually, Google page ranking does not matter that much these days (will have another post on this) as it used to be once.What matters more is how much traffic you are able to generate.No one cares where it is comming from.

Take a look at Rohit's 5 rules of SMO.Do you think he is (or even I am) saying something new? But by coining the term SMO,he definitely was able to show people the importance of social networking and bookmarking and that search engines are not the only means of generating traffic.This made people take a serious look at sources 'other' than search engines to generate traffic.

Profile-Social Networking-SEO

Does profile info has anything to do with number of visitors to a site? Surely it has a lot to do.An attractive profile info and a good landing page of the site play very important role in attracting visitors.

This is the reason for the success of MyBlogLog,Orkut and myspace which give lot of importance to profile.MyBlogLog is the talk of the day and is working fantastic.It more or less appears like combination of Orkut and technorati.It allows viewers know who are the recent readers of the site.when they click the pic,it lands into his profile at mybloglog from where readers can enter his website thus making it completely viral networking.Even Blogger 'strongly recommends' to allow readers to view your profile.

The display pic and few poinst about yourself give the reader a sense that these posts are from a human and that you are just like anyother human being.First impression is very important and you can't get the first impression again.A good and decent profile info helps a lot in establishing reader relation with the site.Profile does help you a lot in social networking which can help you in link exchange and SEO.

Meta tags

Meta tags are special HTML elements which increase your site visibility.Recently,it is said that meta tags are dead and that they are of no use.But still a large group of web masters do believe that meta tags significantly increase search engine visibility of websites.
Meta tags are more useful in social bookmarking though they might have lost their impotance in SEO.

You can find many Meta tag Generators available on net for free.Create your meta tags in one of these sites which build you your site's meta tags and copy paste the code in your template html.
If you are a Blogger(like me), am sure you would get this 'error' message when you try to save your meta tags in your template - Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: The element type "meta" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "". This is because Blogger uses XHTML and not just HTML.You need to terminate each line starting with "meta" with />.

Example - [meta name="whatever" content="good"/] This is how each line starting with "meta" should end.
Note: In the above example,Replace the parenthesis - [ ] with < > (so each line should end with />)

An article about XHTML and HTML

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is playing an increasingly pivotal role in today's eMarketing.The concept is clear,the method is effective.Just Socialise Bookmarks (your site/blog).This makes your bookmarks visible globally on the internet.When people surf through the bookmarks they are interested in,they find your bookmarks(site).Thus your site is out in the internet world!For further details click here Secret Positioning System.
Bookmarking demon
Complete guide
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Hope you enjoy the tour!