Earn money through scribd.com

scribd.com announces new type of document viewer, iPaper. Now it allows you to earn money through your documents. If you own a document, you can use iPaper to display them on your site or blog, and if you choose to display advertisements in the documents you will get some percentage of money earned by the ads.

Read more at scribd FAQs.

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Scheduled posts in blogger

Blogger introduced Scheduled posts feature in the draft version. You can login to draft.blogger.com instead of blogger.com to use draft feature. Soon this will be available in the regular blogger version too.

Now you can write a lot of posts and schedule them to be published in the future. For doing this, expand 'Post Options' in compose window, change the date and time to a future date and publish the post. It will be automatically posted at the specified date. This feature is already available in the wordpress.

Scheduled Posts in Blogger

Oracle buys Bea, Sun buys MySQL

Oracle is buying Bea Systems Inc, vendor of the application server Weblogic for $8.5 billion. (read more)
Sun buys opensource database provider MySQL for $1 billion. (read more)

Google Knol aims at Wikipedia: Do you think so?

Google is testing a new tool called Knol, which allows any person to write on a topic they know just like wikipedia. Many are seeing it as an attempt aimed at Wikipedia. But I think Google is not aiming at wikipedia, rather it is just creating a new avenue to display its advertisements, which accounts to more than 90% of its revenues.

The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books
have authors' names right on the cover, news articles have bylines,
scientific articles always have authors -- but somehow the web evolved
without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted.

I don't see any competition to wikipedia in this. Because blogs are already doing just the same thing. Only author can edit a knol, just like in blogs. You can suggest changes by putting a comment again just like a blog. The authors who really care will care to keep the page updated whether it is a knol or a blog. Then what is the difference between a blog and knol. Apart from its wiki style interface, setting a knol may be a little easier than setting a blog with no control on page design.

I will go to wikipedia because those pages will mostly be accurate (some knols which are written by good authors might click, but these will be very few). Since wikipedia pages are owned by everyone, everyone willing to update the page to keep it up to date. We can't expect the same in Knol, moreover author has to check the suggestions and change the page.

Just it is an attempt by Google to create a pile of information for showing its advertisements, nothing else.


Please share your views.

FeedBlitz Ad Network

Good news for all those who are using FeedBlitz service in their blogs.  Now you can join FeedBlitz ad network.  It will show ads in the emails it serves, and it is context sensitive like Google's AdSense program.  So, you can get good clicks and good money.

Topping all these, it is open to everyone unlike Feedburner's Ad Network.

Learn more here.

Site offers hacking business

Security researchers have stumbled upon a website which offers hacking services for hire. The site, loads.cc, probably hosted from Russia, controls a large botnet (network of hijacked computers).Clients can make use of this botnet to induce malware into other computers and networks. The site will charge the clients 20 cents per infected computer. According to security researchers, clie-nts can also limit the number of infections. For instance, they can ask the botnet to infect 500 PCs and pay $200. Of course, they can choose the malware. The site also provides the client with a bill with details of the IP addresses infected and the data stolen. It is all very professional.

Follow your comments in mail

You might be writing comments on many blogs you are visiting daily, you want to follow the replies given to your comments. So, you need to periodically visit those sites again to track your comments.

But now Google has introduced new feature. Whenever you write a comment you can choose to receive the follow-up comments in email. In this way, you don't need to check many times the same page for new comments. And you wont loose those comments, which were made after several months also. You can easily unsubscribe also, when you feel there is no more need to follow the comments.

Source: Blogger Buzz

Yahoo search features

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See the above link to find out how to use Yahoo search engine most effectively. It explains about five features which are not present in Google but in Yahoo search.

• compose e-mails
• specifying the order
• finding lyrics
• search other websites from yahoo
• linkdomain