Has anyone of you heard about Meebo? If not, allow us to give you a brief introduction. Meebo is an online web IM that lets you access all your buddies. Yes, all as in all in one > on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber. The best part is you need not to install anything and it’s for free.

How? It’s easy. Just simply type http://wwwe.meebo.com in your internet browser bar, take note of the e after www, log on your details in the corresponding areas and that’s it! Imagine you get connected with your friends without even installing applications in your computer. Try it now!

Aside from blogging, friends network have been so in demand in the past years. Many people have reunited with their high school and old friends through these networks.

One of the most famous social network is Friendster. It has already more than 54 million members worldwide. Friendster is basically focused on helping people stay in touch with friends. It also allows you connect to your friends’ friends. How cool is that? Aside from connecting with your friends, Friendster has also upgraded their system where you can upload 1000 photos excluding the private ones. So if you haven’t encountered Friendster yet, sign up now!

If sometimes you feel that looking at the internet through your regular mobile browser seems text-heavy, very little images, slow, and cumbersome, don’t feel too bad. This was more likely due to both your smartphone’s ageing hardware and likewise integrated web browser. With the introduction of better and more technologically capable smartphones, you may be expecting some enhancements with the browser as well. Well, here comes Skyfire to make your mobile web viewing so much better.

The new mobile browser brings the true internet (like you’d experience from your desktop or laptop computer) to Windows Mobile smartphones. Flash-advertisements, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook – any and all web-pages load in speedy fashion thanks to Skyfire’s behind-the-scenes server-magic. With integrated Flash support, animated/interactive advertisements come to life, embedded videos play in the browser, and Flash-based web-pages are finally viewable.

Available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be integrated whether your smartphone is touch or non-touchscreen. It is currently still under beta testing.
More info on this site.

Just as babies are born every minute, new websites are launched on a regular basis. Organizations – both new and old – put up their online portals. Bloggers start to chronicle their lives online. Companies are formed. Schools are established.And the list goes on and on.

What’s the best way to discover new sites on the web? Get a little help from online portals like Site Releases.com. The website lists links according to a variety of categories including Arts and Humanities, News and Media, and Sports among many others. It’s a good place to start browsing starts if you’re bored and have a lot of time in your hands.

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Google ads are everywhere: in your gmail, google search results, popular blogs. They’re popular because they get good results for both the advertisers and the publishers who put them on their websites or online blogs. Advertisers only pay when somebody clicks on their ad, and can set a fixed amount that they are willing to pay everyday so they won’t go over their advertising budget. But did you know that Google can publish your non-profit ads for free?

There are restrictions, of course: for example, US-based organizations must have current 501(c)(3) status, as assigned by the Internal Revenue Service or IRS. Go to this page for more information on Google Grants and to this page for organizations based in other countries.

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Yuwie is a social network that pays you. The goal is to get paid for what they are doing.Yuwie works like this… a person signs up for an invitation, he then passes this on to another friend of his. A chain is created this way. And that’s how you are paid up for it. You are building a network and the chain can go for ten levels.They pay you for blogging, making new friends and talking to people. Many people get interested to join because they are able to make more new friends and still get paid for it. This is great for home based people. When you have a lot of time to spare, you just log on and blog on.Yuwie is one innovative piece of work where you can enjoy life and earn at the same time.

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Smile. You’re about to encounter the Kensington VideoCAM family – high quality, competitively priced Digital PC Cameras that make it trouble-free to take and send snapshots and video clips online. When you use Kensington Digital PC Camera, you’ll see why the Kensington VideoCAM’s state-of-the-art technology is going to transform the way people communicate. Whether e-mailing still photos and video clips or videoconferencing online, you’ll be looking good – at a great price. Live video conferencing saves money on phone bills and creates more intimate and effective communication. Imagine explaining directly to your client the status of an important project. Imagine singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to a face, not a phone receiver. Just plug the VideoCam into your USB port, load the drivers, and you are ready to go. No interface card required. This tiny device fits on or near your computer. Lean forward or backwards; the person on the other end will still see you. And why wait to show your newly decorated home to your friend – send snapshots over the Internet right now! The tethered cord gives you six feet of range to position and move around with the camera.

Quality content is very important, especially content that people will link to and discuss on their blogs. The number of incoming links to your site is a big factor in bumping up your site to the top of the results page. Many people write controversial topics, or opinions on news articles, for the purpose of getting incoming links and making their site more visible not just for readers but also for the search bots.

The main content should also contain your keywords not just one time but several times, preferably formatted in special ways such as bold or italics. However, using the keywords too much will backfire because your site may be blacklisted as spam.

A business gets astounding results from reaching the top of the results pages of various search engines. Bloggers also get more advertisers and therefore more revenue through increasing their page rank. The art of configuring your site and content to achieve this goal is called Search Engine Optimization.

First of all, the content should be both understandable to human readers and to search bots (programs used by search engines to crawl the world wide web and index sites). To achieve this, each page on your site should have meta tags with keywords and descriptions, especially the title tag which should contain your most important keyword. Each page should preferably be optimized for one or two keywords or phrases only.

To be continued…

Medical staff in the Philippines who allegedly videoed a man having an operation to remove a perfume canister from his anus and then posted it on the Internet risk getting fired and having their licenses revoked, a Department of Health official said on Wednesday.

“We have to investigate first to determine the facts. If true, the staff concerned should of course be made answerable to (the) full extent for violating the patient’s right to privacy and confidentiality,” said Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla.

The video, which was posted on YouTube but then removed, showed medical personnel from a hospital in the central Philippines holding their cell phones and pointing them at the patient’s anus to take pictures while a doctor removed the canister and the other staff in the room laughed and cheered.