Offering a Ritual Suicide for Facebook users' virtual profile

Posted on December 12, 2009 by sharath

End your social network life with seppukoo. The site Seppukkooo.com offers assistance to a ritual suicide for facebook users’ virtual profiles by deactivating your account.

If you are willing to end it all the site will feature a RIP memorial page on its site and sends the page to all your Facebook friends.

“You are more than your virtual identity”, the site says pass away and leave your ID behind.

The site means – Ancient Japanese samurai act of “seppuku.” The samurai preferred to die with honor. So, rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, samurai would voluntarily kill themselves by plunging a sword into their stomach.

“As the seppuku restores the samurai’s honour as a warrior, Seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body,” the site says.

What’s more:

Friends can write on your memorial page. In addition, you get points for recruiting others to commit “seppukoo” and follow you into the virtual netherworld. The site keeps score and lists the point leaders.
The design and layout of Seppukoo.com is strikingly similar to Facebook – the exception being that Seppukoo is red and gray, while Facebook is blue and white. Another small point of differentiation: Seppukoo features paintings of sword-wielding samurai.

About 20,000 people have signed up on the site since it launched last month, McMusker said. Facebook says it has 300 million users. But he insists that Seppukoo.com was not started to attack Facebook. Instead, the site aims “to help people discover what happens after their virtual life and to rediscover the importance of being anyone, instead of pretending to be someone.”

Do you want to end you virtual profile too? Head over to seppukoo and discover the afterlife of your social profile…. lol

Top 5 ways to help you NOT kill your blog instantly

Posted on September 1, 2009 by sharath

Passion leads to Blogging and when all the passion is gone, it leads to depression and death of the blog. Many people start blogging with the hope to reach the top but there are only few who make it to the TOP with their blogging career. When blogging, the focus needs to be on the content, visitor trending rather than on making money!

There is also lots of dilemma as to what to write about? And whenever you see something new, first thing on a bloggers mind would be “I need to blog that!” . If you are a beginner, then the first thing that you need is to let go of “I need to blog that!” factor from your mind.

Here are something’s which I personally thought would affect and kill your blog instantly.

Blog on something that you are Good at(keeping the content unique):

There are lots of blogs… I mean millions of blogs.. the only difference b\w your blog and others is the personalized content in your blog. Are you good in social media stuff? Did you notice something that none did on a social network? Now that’s worth blogging (Search engine likes fresh content).

Too many Ads\Affiliate marketing is a big NO NO.

It’s one of the main reasons why people don’t use a site very regularly.

People get the negative impression that the site is spam and since most of the ads (including the ads pretending to be content links) point to other pages on the same site (*.sys-con.com). On most articles it also does an overlay ad obscuring the entirety of the actual content. It’s an elaborate ad revenue and link share. Here is a funny picture of ads on a website and why people hate them so much.

Affiliate marketing is good to earn money, but it is a slow process, many blogger want to earn money rapidly and the end result will do some serious damage to the reputation of blog. So don’t make affiliate marketing your motto. Try to give information as your first preference and selling others product as your second preference.

Use the right social media

Promote your blog. Don’t wait for Google, Yahoo or Bing to index your site. Try joining social media sites like Facebook, twitter to promote your site for your readers and friends.

Know your grammar, re-read before you publish

I bet, I can write about 20 articles a day BUT do you think it would all have the correct grammar and people would be able to read it easily? I think NOT. There’s a famous saying “Slow and steady wins the race”, No matter how long it takes to write an article, re-read it yourself. Show it to your friends, maybe they can help you proof read your articles before publishing it to the world.

Customize your Blog design

Try to customize your blog design as much as possible, “First impression is always the best impression”. Many people visit the site more often just because of the web design and layout. The content that you post would be more interesting if the layout | design of the blog is easily Steerable. There are millions and millions of blog themes available on the web, but all it takes is your own personalized touch.

Well, for all you people who just started blogging, I hope this helps! If you like this post, please subscribe to our feeds via RSS or email, or follow me on Twitter to get faster and free updates. .

Plaxo and Facebook are in open relationship – Plaxo adds new features to sync status and feeds with Facebook!

Posted on April 29, 2009 by sharath

Plaxo being a social aggregator now adds Facebook connect …. Now you can connect with people in Plaxo automatically who are your Facebook friends – Sigh, no more duplicate connections. What’s more, you get to share all the information from your Facebook wall stories (like photos, links, and videos) with your Plaxo friends easily. Keep your Facebook status updated when ever you change the status on Plaxo or vice-versa.

Quick snap of what’s gonna happen if you add Facebook connect in Plaxo:

Automatically connect with your Facebook friends who already use Plaxo
Share your Facebook Wall Stories (like photos, links, and videos) with your Plaxo friends
Keep your Plaxo and Facebook status in sync

Now, you can feed the content you’re sharing on Facebook (such as photos, videos, links, and events) over to Plaxo for sharing to your friends here. In addition, you can sync your status updates between the two services (in either or both directions). And, when you share a link or post a review in Plaxo, you can also share it over to your friends on Facebook.

“We believe this is an historic day, one that marks the beginning of a new era for the Internet, characterized by an open and interoperable Social Web” says Plaxo chief architect Joseph Smarr and VP marketting John McCrea..

Sounds cool, where do I start?…. Go to http://www.plaxo.com/settings/facebook and click on the connect button. You would need to sign in to your Facebook account and grant permission that you want to add Plaxo application on Facebook. Now make sure what you want to share (Status, photos etc..) and whom you want to share it with (Business, family & friends or a group in Plaxo) …. Once you have done that you’re all good – Hola you’re done!

Plaxo could add the ability to sign up and sign in to Plaxo via Facebook Connect. Hope, Plaxo will continue to collaborate with Facebook add more features … and we’ll need wait and watch what’s coming up next .

Birth of the Social Web: Facebook Connect and Google Friend

Posted on December 5, 2008 by sharath

December 4, 2008. Today may be remembered as the birth of the Social Web, as two major projects aimed at turning the Web social emerged from their restricted beta periods for general availability, Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect. Together, these two major events sound the death knell for the walled garden phase of social networking. Early reactions to the news are quick to frame this as a head-to-head battle between Google and Facebook, but the truth requires a look at the details, and I think something much more profound is happening…

First, the similarities. Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect share the same basic vision of the Social Web. Any site can become social, without having to build up its own social network. Users should be able to access those social features without having to experience the pain of usernames, passwords, uploading a photo, filling out a profile, importing an address book, and re-friending the people they’ve already connected with elsewhere. And, activity streams out to web-wide lifestream aggregators should become important engines of social discovery and growth for the site.

Now to the differences. One major difference between these two offerings is the technology under the hood. Google Friend Connect is built on the “open stack,” leveraging building blocks like OpenID, OAuth, and OpenSocial, whereas Facebook Connect is built on Facebook’s proprietary stack. A second difference is target market. Facebook has clearly focused on major sites, like Digg, Hulu, and CitySearch, and while simple implementations can be done with very little coding, most will involve a bit more complex development. Google, in contrast, has explicitly targeted the “long tail” of the web, sites that would never dream of writing their own social code; the focus of Google Friend Connect is to help these sites become social by cutting-and-pasting a few lines of javascript. The third major difference is one of strategy. Facebook Connect is all about making Facebook more useful to its users all over the Web. Google Friend Connect, on the other hand, is all about making the Web more social, with an approach that incorporates other social networks. For example, the current release integrates not only Orkut, but also Plaxo. (And recall that the earliest version also included Facebook, until Facebook shut that down.)

I’ve been playing around with Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect all along the way while these services were being carefully tested and refined prior to today’s formal rollout. I like them both, but see lots of room for improvement. But that’s to be expected; this is a major shift in how the Web will work, and there’s a lot of complexity under the covers. Today marks the birth of the Social Web, and we should expect to see lots of rapid progress for this newborn.

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