Social Search Recommendation

The internet as a conduit of information cannot be over emphasized, but how such information are presented and the level of accuracy of search results remains a great challenge. Hence, the need for more human contribution to the search mechanism through viable social features.



Google's recently launched, Plus One (+1), seems a tool in the right direction to incorporating social experience into general internet search. It's a direct recommendation of things of interest which invariably effects better search results.



Plus One (+1) makes it easier to find exactly what you are searching for when a friend or someone you know already found it. The social connections to search may greatly enhance local search as it directly recommends a product to friends and gives a general rave review.



Microsoft had earlier incorporated Facebook 'like' into its search result, but not effected in overall search algorithm.



The new search trend is perhaps a major shift in the visual architecture of internet search, albeit the search giant is yet to integrate it into its search algorithm. However, webmasters have been called upon to avail themselves of the social tool in their web contents as it will soon serve great search engine optimization (SEO) criteria.

Meet Allahabad's Internet sensation, Govind Tiwari

Internet makes heroes of unusual people. On Monday someone tweeted a link to the blog of some Govind Tiwari. Within a matter of hours, the little-known teenager from Allahabad was an Internet sensation. In an interview, Tiwari tells us more about himself and that he had no clue about his fame till he read about it in the papers on Wednesday.

On the morning of Wednesday, Govind Tiwari woke up wondering why on earth every single person in his phone book was trying to reach him.

As it turned out that morning's Dainik Jagran had a photo of his on the front page and a turn to page 5 where an article mentioned about his rather unusual achievement.

If you are on Twitter you'd probably know that Govind Tiwari is no ordinary man.

Tiwari was number one on Twitter's trending topics and number 5 worldwide! The reason? This: http://govindtiwari.blogspot.com/

Someone tweeted a link to this blog with its gaudy and awful-as-hell design, not to mention his blinking photographs and even a picture of Obama watching his picture on television.

By the time someone somewhere said 'Govind Tiwari', the link went viral and by Monday afternoon practically everyone on Twitter had noticed his work of genius.

How to send a voice mail to your friend using Windows XP?

E-mail is a most popular and effective way to communicate with others through the internet. You can send documents, pictures and other types of files to any destination but the interesting thing is that you can send also your voice in a mail by attaching the file with e-mail. In windows XP, you can record your voice using Sound Recorder and a microphone options.

Follow the given steps to record your voice in windows XP:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative

rights. 

To start recording process, first make sure you have attached a microphone

to your computer.

First click on Start button> All programs> Accessories> click Entertainment and then click on Sound Recorder option.

Now a small "Sound - Sound Recorder" will appear, go to File menu and click on New to start a new file for recording.

Click on Record button to start recording process and start talking then click on Stop button to stop the recording.

Now again click on File menu to save this file with .wav extension to a folder of your choice.

Now send this voice file as an attachment via e-mail message to your friends.

How to change AutoRecover interval in Office 2007 and 2010?

Among the many useful features of the Microsoft Office 2007 applications is AutoRecover.  It involves saving all the data in the Office 2007 application after a specific time interval so that it is recovered in case there is a power outage or a system crash. All your work or data in the Office application is saved automatically after that specific time interval. This feature keeps you from losing work you have done. By default, this AutoRecover interval is set to 10 minutes in all the Office 2007 applications. However, it is possible to change AutoRecover interval in Office 2007.  If you change AutoRecover interval in Office 2007 to less than 10 minutes such as after every 5 minutes, you will be able to save your work or data frequently. It will prove very helpful if you are facing problems in the power supply or your operating system.

The option to change AutoRecover interval in Office 2007 is offered for every application. Here we will use the example of Excel 2007. Follow these steps to change AutoRecover interval in Office 2007: 

1.     Click on the Office button.

2.     Click on the "Excel Options" button on the bottom of the resulting menu.

3.     The Excel Options dialog box will appear. Select Save on the left hand side of the menu. 

4.      Check the box for "Save AutoRecover information".

5.     Select how often you would like Excel to save the data for AutoRecover.

6.     Click OK.

 

You should not set the time to a very short time interval. Remember that when working on larger worksheets or documents don't set the AutoRecover to a very short time interval such as 1 minute because that may begin to slow down the computer, as saving a large amount of data after each minute will strain the computer.

Facebook soon launching skype video chat

Facebook will add Skype video chat to its pages, aiming to spice up the appeal of the world’s No. 1 Internet social networking service while fending off increased competition from Google.

The agreement, announced by Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg at the company’s Palo Alto, California, headquarters on Wednesday, deepens the company’s cooperation with Microsoft Corp, which is in the process of buying Skype.

Microsoft owns 1.6 percent of Facebook and announced its US$8.5 billion purchase of Skype in May.

Zuckerberg said Facebook has hit a record 750 million users. The new service, rolling out from Wednesday, could be a huge boost for Skype, which currently has about 145 million regular users.

Facebook’s Skype service, initially limited to one-to-one video chat, will be free. Financial details of the deal, if any, were not disclosed.

Skype chief executive Tony Bates said Wednesday’s deal with Facebook was only the start of a potentially lucrative partnership.

“For us, this makes a lot of business sense,” Bates said at the Palo Alto event. “We get huge reach. In the future, we’re talking about potentially also having Skype paid products available within the Web format we saw here today.”

In a phone interview later on Wednesday, Neil Stevens, the general manager of Skype’s consumer business, said the company was planning on introducing a for-pay service that would allow users on Facebook to place calls to landline and mobile phones.

Stevens said he could not provide a timeframe for when such a service might be available, and said details about whether the service would work with Facebook’s so-called Credits currency had yet to be worked out.

Facebook, which also unveiled a group messaging function, adding to its existing one-to-one text chat, is returning fire from Google, which last week turned up the competitive heat by introducing a social networking service dubbed Google+.

While many of Google+’s social networking features are similar to those already available on Facebook, Google is generating interest with its videoconferencing function, which allows up to 10 people on the service to participate in a video call.

Zuckerberg hinted that video chat for multiple people could eventually be available on Facebook, but he said that most video chats today occur between two people.

“We think this is awesome because we’re using the best technology that’s out there for doing video chat with the best social infrastructure that’s out there to create some really cool new scenarios,” Zuckerberg said.

Zuckerberg said Wednesday’s announcements were the first of several to come in what he described as “launching season 2011.”

Get free facebook likes g +1's with tweers.com

These days two third of internet users have profiles on social networks so every one of those who are on any network always like to grow their community. Major social networks likes Facebook and twitter have pulled attention of users by giving attractive things all the time especially the incentives to increase their networks. Now Google has jumped into social arena and this race has become bit interesting.

Companies are always investing in social networks to promote their services so users with large networks always get opportunity to earn big on these websites. Question is how to increase your networks rapidly and monetize your accounts? Answer is tweers.com

What is Tweers?

Tweers is a community of people all around the globe who use twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google+ and come here to grow their networks through mutual exchanges.  Every user on tweers.com earn points for his activities like watching movies, following other twitter users, liking Facebook pages or giving plus ones to any webpage.

You can use these points to gain similar following for your networks like you can get unlimited free Facebook likes on tweers, unlimited Google plus ones for your website to increase its search engine rankings, grow your twitter followers or gain more views on your YouTube videos.

Tweers is absolutely free to join with incentive of 50 bonus points for referring other users.

How tweers is different from others?

In addition to these major services tweers has an additional option for blog owners to socialize their blog posts and gain more traffic. You can add your blog story on tweers and get free diggs, stumble upons, retweets and facebook likes. This is absolutely new thing in growing social communities for bloggers to gain extra benefit in terms of traffic. 

Apart from its free service tweers is always giving away from coupon codes to users

5 Ways to download photos from Facebook

1. Photo Download

In our opinion this method is the best way to download entire albums from friends in just a few clicks. Photo Download is a web-based, no installation required, allow it via Facebook to be used on any browser and operating system.

To use it just go http://socialphotodownload.com/ and login with Facebook.

2. PhotoGrabber

This software is available for Windows and Mac that lets you download albums with a few clicks of our friends including the comments and tags on photos.

Download: Windows - Mac

3.  Extension for Google Chrome

If you use Google Chrome this will make you comfortable that this extension is integrated to the browser. To download all photos on a page just hit Ctrl + S. Download the extension

4.  Firefox Extension

Similar to the plug-ins for Chrome users here is the one for Mozilla Firefox. ( link )

This fits into the context menu of the operating system. Just right click on a page with the photos you want to download.