Introducing Google Buzz

Google announced a new way to connect with your friends and relatives and share interesting stuff and tell the world that what you are up to. Google introduce Google Buzz along with GMail.


Google blog is the best place to quote about Google Buzz.

Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It's built right into Gmail, so you don't have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. If you think about it, there's always been a big social network underlying Gmail. Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most. We focused on building an easy-to-use sharing experience that richly integrates photos, videos and links, and makes it easy to share publicly or privately (so you don't have to use different tools to share with different audiences). Plus, Buzz integrates tightly with your existing Gmail inbox, so you're sure to see the stuff that matters most as it happens in real time

Watch the video that explain Google Buzz and how it works.



Still I cannot see this new link but Google says that they are going to add it to every account over first few days.
Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Buzz
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Google approach to maximizing advertising revenue for online publishers

Every one would like to know how to make extra money online. This is Google approach to maximizing revenue.

1. AdSense

AdSense has changed the way publishers place advertisement on their web pages. It opens up the doors to the small publishers who cannot afford to have their own ad campaigns.

More traffic you get more Revenue you get.

2. Ad Serving

Larger publishers with their own ad sales teams use our ad serving products (like DoubleClick's DFP or Google Ad Manager) to serve the most valuable ad that they've sold directly to advertisers or ad agencies. DFP is the industry's leading ad serving platform that powers the advertising businesses of the largest online publishers, while Google Ad Manager is designed to meet the needs of growing online publishers.


3. DoubleClick Ad Exchange

DoubleClick Ad Exchange is a real-time auction marketplace for display ad space — it includes ad networks on one side, and major online publishers on the other. Publishers are in complete control of which networks they allow to bid, what ads can appear on their sites and which ad space they make available.


Official Google Blog: Our approach to maximizing advertising revenue for online publishers
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Seriously make your blog load faster in 15 minutes

I was having cool chat with my blogging friend roezer at Blog HQ. Suddenly he drop me a link and small comment "This looks bad". It showed me a colorful diagram and it wasn't look that bad for me. After looking into the details I figure it out that it is the loading time for the blog. It took over 5seconds to load fully. Seriously, it looked really bad. This is how I made my blog load faster and you can do the same.

Here is the steps I followed and seriously if you want your blog to load fast you can follow the same.

1. Check your blog loading time with Pingdom Tools.

Copy and paste your URL and click Test now.

It will start testing your site and show the break down of your blog loading time.
If it is taking longer than couple of seconds then you need to make it load faster

If your site loads withing couple of seconds then you do not have to waste your time making it load faster. Yepppi!!!


2. Go through the list and figure out what components took time to load. In Pingdom Tools you can sort it by loading time and it will give you a better picture. Also, you can check the individual items by clicking on the links.




Back up your template and blog before going to step 3




3. Now you need to take some brave actions. Which I had to do. Most of the time we collect junk in our blogs. Add all the cool gadgets we come a cross and we do not remove them even if it doesn't perform.


Get rid of all the gadgets that you think that dose not help you.
Get rid of scripts that run behind unless they are really useful.


4. Optimize the images.

You can make your blog load faster by optimizing the images you use in the blog. Online Image Optimizer will be good tool to reduce the size of your image by 30% to 70% without affecting the quality of the image. You can choose the best image suite for your blog.

5. Now you can do the test again and you will be surprised with the results. I manage to reduce to loading time to 3 Seconds from 5 Seconds


There are some design issues you can fix to make your blog load faster but it takes time and money to redesign your blog. Until that you can follow this simple steps to make it load faster. Read more...