Blogger Adds New feature : Now Mark your Location on the Map

What are you blogging about? From where are you Blogging? Words are not really enough, right? So here’s what you should use to tell people your location. A map!

Blogger in Draft released this feature where any user can mark his location or the posts locations using a simple Map. If it is successful then this feature may be added to Blogger’s Original Version. Yes!

I Love what Amazing features Blogger keeps on adding and experimenting.

Heres a list of recent additions -

  • Followers
  • Import , Export Blog
  • Rating the Blog
  • Location Marker

"Indian" Politicians Start Blogging : What?

ADvani Blog ADsWhat? Politicans blogging? (especailly Indian Politicians?) What is happening? Those who wake up from their deep sleep only before the elections? I think they have started a publicity Campaign , Maybe?
And I hate this part. They Are Spending Money on advertisements. Yes, they want to gain votes via a new source, internet! What is this Man. We pay taxes for the Good of the country and not for people to advertise their blog. Oh God Someone please save the internet or else it will also soon be infected by the Indian Politics Bug.


I wish if i was a politician. I would get to advertise my blog for free.  

And you know  what excuse he gives for starting a blog? Here’s a excerpt from his blog -

L K Advani's BLog
Welcome, friends, to my blog. My young colleagues who have created this website told me that a political portal without a blog is like a letter without a signature. I quickly accepted this compelling logic.
I am excited by the idea of using the Internet as a platform for political communication and, especially, for election campaign. As someone who has had the good fortune of participating, either as a campaigner or as a candidate, in every single general election in India since the first one held in 1952, I have seen how the tools of communication have evolved. As far communication is concerned, I am technology-agnostic. My philosophy in this matter is simple: anything that works, deserves to be welcomed. In my own political life spanning six decades, I have enthusiastically embraced every new communication technology – from the early simple Casio digital diary to i-pod and i-phone.”

Like Obama’s Hope Poster? Replace him with you in the poster!

Custom Obama Hope PosterWhat? Loved Barack Obama’s Hope poster? You can replace him in the poster too!

Obamicon.Me is a crazy web Tool for people who love obama’s Hope poster. You can replace Obama’s face with your’s! Very Simple. Just upload it or use your webcam and capture your image. Then add custom text to it. And finally Save and Submit.

These images are perfect for you to put as a Avatar or your image on Social Networking websites instead of putting images of those too-common actors. Something unique!

The image in the left is an example of a poster i created using the interactive tool. Its nice and easy. Go try it and become another Obama.

Now Search the internet just like you use Cover Flow to search music on Ipods

Search Me search engineYou love using your Ipods, especially using the Cover Flow to easily find out your songs. But what can you say when this comes to your Browser! 

If like searching one Google you will love this search engine. Searchme.com , i think so may become a Problem for Google in Future Because of it’s awesome search interface. Yes. I bet you make it your homepage as soon as you use it. The reason behind this is that we can actually see the complete homepage before we click on it. And this also applies with Images and Videos too. The best part id that you can even use it on your Iphone! So now search the internet just how you search your Music! 

Heres a paragraph from their press release - 
What Is Searchme?

Searchme is a new search engine that uses visual search and category refinement. We think it will help you find what you’re looking for, faster, with a lot less spam. It’s a new way to search that takes advantage of the size and bandwidth of today’s Internet and the increasingly visual way that we all interact online.

The idea for Searchme came when Mark Kvamme, Searchme’s chairman, got tired of looking through a bunch of unrelated results for articles on motocross. He suggested to founders Randy Adams and John Holland that they create a search engine that sorted results into categories. The Searchme visual interface came about when Randy, a father of seven, helped his four-year-old son search for children’s web sites that he’d seen on TV. It struck Adams that if a search engine could show big pictures of the pages it found before users clicked through to a site, it’d be much easier to quickly find what they were looking for.

After more than three years of engineering, imaging billions of web pages, and fine-tuning our approach many times over, Searchme was born. We’ve built it from the ground up to optimize it for speed, but we still have a long way to go. We’re just getting started on our first steps toward creating a smart new way to search today’s Web.”

Twitter Festival : Celebrate it to raise funds for a noble cause

Twitter Festival MumbaiYes! After tweeting on the twitter , i mean after tweet its time to meet! Yes. Few people from U.K are organising a twitter festival where people from all over the world will set up a twitter festival on Feb 12 to bring awareness about Water, that about one sixth of 1.1 billion people drink unsafe water and about 80% diseases are caused due to this.

Even i have decided to participate in the nobal cause and 100% funds gathered will go for that cause. So what are you waiting for? GO register your city at Twestival.com
If you are from Mumbai and interested in Helping please contact me here –> monik@etiole.com

Launching My Social Network and Blogging platform

tech-e-zinesWhile i saw facebook and blogger gaining fast popularity even i thought of creating something like that. So here’s what i did.

I created a social networking website and a blogging platform of my own. I thought of the name techezines for it. Tech – E – Zines was my long awaited project as i always wanted to make something much more than just a blog. So thats what i came up with.

PLease Guys Join it have fun and also post on the forums out there and also please don’t forget to blog! This also one of my reason as i did not blog much on etiole due to the project but now when it is done i’ll be more regular at etiole!

Thank you and also please don’t forget to bookmark Tech-e-zines!

Adsense may disable your account if you don’t have a Privacy Policy for your adsense website

It has been some time since adsense came out with this rule where every user should have a privacy policy which shall tell that the ads will put up some cookies on their computer. I have noticed that many people have not put it up. Please put it up or this could land you up in trouble.
I have a sample one ready -

“If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at your_mail@domain.com.

At your_site, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by your_site and how it is used.

Log Files
Like many other Web sites, your_site makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons
your_site does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include Google Adsense, Commission Junction, Widget Bucks, Adbrite, Clickbank, Azoogle, Chitika, Linkshare, Amazon, Kontera.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on your_site send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

your_site has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. your_site’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. “

Please Replace your_site with your domain and your_mail with your mail id.

You can also generate a new policy using the Privacy Policy Generator.

Share, store and view your Photos online for free

Photosynth Nowadays sharing items with people around the world has become something quite common. So many of may like to sare our images and for that we use our facebook albums but do you think that’s enough?

Photosynth, A service developed by Microsoft Live Labs allows users will allows users to store it online and retain its awesome picture quality, even more clearer than reality (if you shot it like that) and then allows you to search through it very easily using a nice sliding interface. Now that’s something like I-Touch, isn’t it?

It can be more fun if you use it on your iphone because then for you it will be just like going through your albums on your iPhone but this time it’s stored online.

From their about page -

What is Photosynth?
Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience.

Go check it out!