Twitter Buys TweetDeck

So, this is official, Twitter has acquired TweetDeck. The rumor of Twitter buying TweetDeck was flying in the air for a long time. Now, Twitter has finally announced that it has acquired TweetDeck, one of the most widely used third-party Twitter applications. The price on which Twitter bought TweetDeck has not been disclosed yet. According to some reports, the price is around $40 million which, in my opinion is very huge for TweetDeck.

“This acquisition is an important step forward for us, TweetDeck provides brands, publishers, marketers and others with a powerful platform to track all the real-time conversations they care about.” said by Dick Costolo(Twitter CEO). The rumors of course were going on from a long time but this news was made official when Dick Costolo himself posted about this news on Twitter Blog.

Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion

Rumors from the last few days were that Facebook would buy Skype but Microsoft rose and bought Skype for a price of $8.5 Billion. It is the largest price Microsoft has paid for a company in a decade. After the acquisition, Bates will take on the title of president of the Microsoft Skype Division and report directly to Ballmer.

Now, that Microsoft has acquired Skype, how will it change Skype is the question. According to some reports, Microsoft has planned to integrate Skype into Microsoft devices and systems such as Xbox and Kinect, Xbox Live, the Windows Phone, Lync and Outlook. Now, you might see some video ads in Skype.

Kudos! I'm Back Contest Winners

Heyya frienzz,
We're concluding the I'm back dashing contest today! We'll be giving away the valuable prizes to our winners today!

Before that let me thank all our sponsors once again, My whole hearted thanks for all the support and co-operation from your side dear sponsors. Thank you for sponsoring such valuable prizes in a small blog like mine.


CORE SPONSOR:

WPWEBHOST.com: They're the pioneers in WordPress hosting providers. It is a hosting company, started by a group of WordPress enthusiasts, to serve the WordPress community in hosting their websites. The biggest difference between WPWebHost and other WordPress compatible web hosts is – they provide WordPress-related support in a very friendly manner. Their team has average 2-3 years of experience on using, customizing and editing WordPress. They’ve built many sites using WordPress, tested literally hundreds of plugins and customized thousands of themes. Any WordPress problems (albeit a technical ones) are within their reach. They always welcome any WordPress user for any kind of help, rather than hosting they also provide almost all the services that are connected with Blogging. A blogger's help desk, host frequent giveaways and contests which helps a lot of minor bloggers to have an identity. Yes, I'm one among such bloggers who has acquired a position with the help of WPWEBHOST. Hats off to the mind blowing range of services and offers. And amazingly challenging prices. And that keeps WPWEBHOST apart from any other hosting giants.

To know more: http://www.wpwebhost.com/wpwebhost/about/

GRAND PRIZE:

1 Year Freedom Plan from WPWEBHOST 

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Lifetime* Domain, Worth: Nearly $200

Disk Space: 50GB
Traffic: < 30k visitors/month
Monthly Data Transfer: 500GB
Ideal for: Professional blogs, Small e-commerce, CMS application

The advantages are not yet over. Unlimited emails, unlimited sub-domains, lifetime free domain as long as you host on WPWEBHOST, live support, 99% uptime guarantee and much more... What else needed??
To know more about the Freedom plan and other plans offered by this firm click here. 

Google- The planned buyer

Hi friends,

Google is one among the world's biggest web companies today. There are lots and lots of Google services which we cant avoid in today's world. These services cant be replaced by anyone else easily. But the real truth is that, Google is a planned buyer rather than a developer. Yeah, it is. Most of the user-fondly services of Google were launched by other web companies and when those services became successful and well-developed, Google just snatched it away from them. I am not criticizing Google on this aspect, even though I'm just bringing this into your notice. Let me prove it with examples...

1. Blogger: Blogger is one among the most used services from Google. Blogger is a free blog hosting platform which allows users to start their own blog without even a penny.

In August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free and the credit goes to Google for this step.

2. Picasa: Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website.

Picasa was originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004.

3. FeedBurner: Feedburner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Maybe One among every 3 bloggers use this service.

On June 3, 2007, FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc., for a rumored price of $100 million.One month later, two of their popular PROservices (MyBrand and TotalStats) were made free to all users.

Google Ad-sense Mafia- Stronger and Larger

Reposted on May 4th
Hi friends,
Google's Adsense is of the most reputed Ad providers and managers powered by Google. It is neither easy nor difficult to grab an pproved adsense account. Sometimes you have to wait for a pretty long time for an account to be approved. Besides the time lag there are a set of rules, regulations and minimum standards for your blog or site to be accepted.

Here comes the role of Adsense Resellers. Wondering what? Yes Adsense resellers! They're just taking off all the mess and getting you 100% genuine Adsense accounts. Site standards or the rules does not matter. And the maximum time for an account to get approved is just 2 days! Now a days such resellers are very common and can be easily found. But isn't it illegal? Yes, they're charging about 40-50$ while Google does not charge for this service. Thus its an illegal transaction indeed.

Here is my conversation with such a reseller:

I-Phone 4 crawling towards India

At least two mobile operators – Bharti Airtel and Aircel – on Monday announced plans to launch Apple’s ‘iPhone 4’ in the country in “coming months”, without giving any details on either its pricing or their tariff plans for the smartphone.

In their statements, both Bharti Airtel and Aircel said iPhone 4 was the most innovative phone in the world, featuring Apple’s stunning retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone and FaceTime, which makes video calling a reality.

US-based Apple Inc, the inventors of iPod, iPhones and iPads, will introduce the iPhone 4, which is equipped with a sharper screen and video-chat features as it attempts to ward-off competition from devices running Google’s Android software. The iPhone 4 will have a 3.5 inch display with 640 X 960 pixel resolution, two cameras and a 5-megapixel camera with built-in LED flash.

Coming soon: Better Ads in Gmail

If you've been using Gmail for a while, you may have noticed a time or two where they've missed. Bad ads tend to annoy people. They're trying to cut down on these ads, and make the ones you do see much more useful.

With features like Priority Inbox, they’ve been working hard to help sort through the ‘bacn’ in your messages -- the unimportant messages that get in your way. Soon they’re going to try a similar approach to ads: using some of the same signals that help predict which messages are likely to be important to you, Gmail will better predict which ads may be useful to you. For example, if you’ve recently received a lot of messages about photography or cameras, a deal from a local camera store might be interesting. On the other hand if you’ve reported these messages as spam, you probably don’t want to see that deal.

I'm Back Dashing Contest

Hi friends,
We're back with yet another amazing contest. And this time is really special. This contest marks the end of my exams, break in blogging and the launch of our all new Online Club named "Passionate Bloggers". We've got great sponsors this time to support us make this contest a great success.

Let me first introduce our sponsors along with their contributions:

CORE SPONSOR:

WPWEBHOST.com: They're the pioneers in WordPress hosting providers. It is a hosting company, started by a group of WordPress enthusiasts, to serve the WordPress community in hosting their websites. The biggest difference between WPWebHost and other WordPress compatible web hosts is – they provide WordPress-related support in a very friendly manner. Their team has average 2-3 years of experience on using, customizing and editing WordPress. They’ve built many sites using WordPress, tested literally hundreds of plugins and customized thousands of themes. Any WordPress problems (albeit a technical ones) are within their reach. They always welcome any WordPress user for any kind of help, rather than hosting they also provide almost all the services that are connected with Blogging. A blogger's help desk, host frequent giveaways and contests which helps a lot of minor bloggers to have an identity. Yes, I'm one among such bloggers who has acquired a position with the help of WPWEBHOST. Hats off to the mind blowing range of services and offers. And amazingly challenging prices. And that keeps WPWEBHOST apart from any other hosting giants.

To know more: http://www.wpwebhost.com/wpwebhost/about/

GRAND PRIZE:

1 Year Freedom Plan from WPWEBHOST 

+ 

Lifetime* Domain, Worth: Nearly $200

Disk Space: 50GB
Traffic: < 30k visitors/month
Monthly Data Transfer: 500GB
Ideal for: Professional blogs, Small e-commerce, CMS application

The advantages are not yet over. Unlimited emails, unlimited sub-domains, lifetime free domain as long as you host on WPWEBHOST, live support, 99% uptime guarantee and much more... What else needed??
To know more about the Freedom plan and other plans offered by this firm click here.

SUPPORT SPONSORS:

AVG: A prominent name in the security field. Serving millions with their antivirus needs for the past years. Offering a wide range of products such as Antivirus solutions (including AVG Free), Internet Security software and Anti Spam utilities. Offering a wide range of products such as Antiviruses, Internet Securities, Anti Spammers and Free Antivirus. I don't think there is much need for introducing them to you. AVG was founded in 1991 with the express purpose of protecting people around the world using the latest in cutting edge security technologies. AVG gained success quickly and is now recognized as one of the biggest players in the security software market. AVG currently holds corporate offices in Europe, the US and the UK.

Indi or Adda? Who is the largest?

Hi Friends,
As you all know IndiBlogger and Blogadda are the two giants in Indian blogging communities. Both of them claim to be the "largest community of Indian bloggers". But as an Indian blogger, I think we should decide which one is really largest and strongest. Let us go through different aspects and finalize who is larger!

1) Facebook Fan counts
As the most important factor now a days, let us start with Facebook Fan counts.

Facebook Fan Counts:
Blogadda: 2597*
Indiblogger: 4208* (2 times blogadda)
*At the time we checked it.

But the number alone does not make a victory. The Blogadda fan page is very active while Indi has left its page sleeping. Blogadda updates their fan page every now and then but Indiblogger updates it only when a special event comes up (usually).

Blogger strengthening its strategy!

What’s New With Blogger?
To start, they're kicking things off at SXSW by giving folks a sneak peek at their next-generation user interface. The new design is not only cleaner and more modern, but it also uses Google Web Toolkit, delivering the latest in web technology.

Current Post Editor

New post editor

Passionate Bloggers Club

Hi friends,
Blog4info is back again with a unique programme. Its nothing but a club for all the bloggers out there. We've named the club as "Passionate Bloggers". It is an online community or club being developed by Blog4info. It performs in Facebook groups.

The basic idea behind this venture is that you could meet your fellow bloggers, interact, share, help, care, review and grow. Its really fun interacting with the people in the blogosphere. You can clear your queries based on the blogging field. Share your experiences, let others learn from it. Share your thoughts, let others develop it. And thats what we intend. Any blogger with a live blog is free to join "Passionate Bloggers".

"Together we share
Together we care
Together we grow"
And that forms PASSIONATE BLOGGERS

To join click here

Blog4Info temporarily onto a pause!

Hi readers,
We are pausing our posting and services for a period of 1 month due to my board exams. We'll be back with better posts and contests soon.. Keep visiting...

Greetings,
Mohammed Ibrahim
CEO & Founder
The Blog4Info

Protect yourself online

Our cyber world is growing day by day. Our life is becoming easier and comfortable. But on the other side cyber crimes are increasing at very high rate which is really shocking. Thus let us stay safe from such attacks by taking some necessary and simple safety measures.

TYPES OF CYBER ATTACKS

• COMPROMISED ACCOUNTS – where an e-mail or online bank account has been taken over by hackers
• E-MAIL ABUSE – Sending spam (massive amounts of unsolicited e-mail), offensive or fake e-mail, and e-mails that propagate malicious (malware) codes
• COMPROMISED WEBSITE - Defacement or phishing

HOW TO AVOID E-CRIME

• Don’t scrimp on computer security. Use anti-virus software, keep it up to date and use spam filters
• Update security patches, operating system and web browser; Use a personal firewall
• Use a mix of letters and numbers for your password and change them often.
• Don’t use words from the dictionary
• Do not open or click on any unknown e-mail attachment; never click on hyperlinks within e-mails. Instead, copy and paste them into your browser
• Always look for “https://” and padlock on web sites that require personal information
• Keep your computer clean from spyware
• Educate yourself of fraudulent activity on the internet
• Check and monitor your credit/bank report
• Seek Advice - if you are unsure, talk to a computer security company like Symantec, Trend Micro, Sophos, Kaspersky, McAfee, etc.