What is a Blog, Blogger and ProBlogger?

by Calvin on March 21, 2009

What is a Blog?
Blog is online diary written in the form of web pages; it may contain text, images, links, audio or videos etc. Blog can be written on any topic of personal interest or business interest. The articles on the blog can be posted by one or more authors.

What is a Blogger?
The author or writer of the Blog is called Blogger.

What is a ProBlogger?
The person who writes articles on his blog in a professional way, it may be his views or analysis about some topics is called professional Blogger. Many companies hire professional blogger to write daily articles on their Blog. Professional Blogger is called ProBlogger.

How to start a Blog?
You can start your Blog with any web hosting service provider. Blog can be hosted with WordPress or Typepad or any other Blog hosting software.

If you want to use FREE Blog hosting service then you can use Blogger, Live spaces or Wordpress.com etc.

How to host Blog with Office Live?

Office Live provides integration for spaces blog on pages. Here are steps to host blog with Office Live.

  • Create blog with Live spaces.
  • Open Office Live page on which you would like to host blog.
  • Select Blog module from menu and enter details of your blog.

Thats it!

also watch this video about blog.

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Microsoft launches IE8

by Calvin on March 20, 2009

Microsoft announced most awaited release of Internet Explorer 8. It is much faster and safe than previous versions of IE. Here are some key features:

  • Accelerators
  • InPrivate Browsing
  • Web Slices
  • Search suggestions
  • SmartScreen Filter

As of now I don’t see any issues for Office Live with IE8; still exploring other  features. Let me know if you face any issues for Office Live with IE8.

Here is screen shot of OfficeLivePages.com in IE8.

officelivepages_ie8

You can download IE8 from here.

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11 Steps to Create a Successful Web Site

by Calvin on March 19, 2009

“11 Steps to Create a Successful Web Site” written by the small-business experts at StartupNation.

ebook

This 64-page downloadable e-book includes powerful advice and how-to tips about planning your Web site, making key design decisions, and optimizing your site for search engines. I read this book recently, it is excellent! This book is good for those who want to make successful websites.
You can download this book from here, its Free!

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Microsoft is internally testing new search engine called Kumo. Last month there were rumors about kumo.com but now it is confirmed that Microsoft is planning to launch their new search engine.

Microsoft search executive Satya Nadella wrote in his mailWe are launching a new test program called kumo.com for employees to try and provide feedback. Kumo.com exists only inside the corporate network, and in order to get enough feedback we will be redirecting internal live.com traffic over to the test site in the coming days. Kumo is the codename we have chosen for the internal test.

kumo-screenshot

No need to say, Microsoft is working hard to beat Google and Yahoo in search.

I was analyzing traffic report of OfficeLivePages.com and found that there was some traffic from Kumo.com. Here is screen shot of report.

kumo_com

When I clicked on http://kumo.com/search, it shows blank page. Looks like this is the url Microsoft using for internal test.

Some screen shots of kumo.com are available here.

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Getting started with Office Live website

by Calvin on March 16, 2009

Getting started with Office Live site design is a very easy process. This video explains how to register domain, upload images, select font, add logo, select templates, add blog or maps and create professional pages with Office Live step by step.

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