2007 saw huge boom in internet marketing with social networks getting record breaking traffic.

Tamar Weinberg at techipedia has published an article which lists about 250+ best internet marketing posts of 2007 nicely laid out in different categories:

• Social Media Sites: General
• Facebook
• Digg
• Reddit
• StumbleUpon
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Mixx
• del.icio.us
• Sphinn
• Social Media and Social Media Marketing
• General Internet Marketing
• Viral Strategies
• Link Resources
• Blogging: General
• Blogging: Inspiration
• Blogging: Promotion
• Content Generation
• Reputation Management
• Video Articles
• Business
• Search Engine Optimization
• Search Engine Stuff
• Web Development
• Search Marketing Tools
• Paid Search
• Recommended Books
• Affiliate Sites
• Domaining
• Techipedia’s Best Posts for 2007

Goodluck reading all those articles.

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JavaScript/Ajax libraries and RIA applications are springing up everywhere. I love to go through the demo pages of these applications and libraries. Here is a collection of demos from some of the best Ajax/JavaScript/DHTML library sites:

mootools

A compact, modular, object-oriented JavaScript Framework.

Some demos from their suite of demos:

• Accordion
• Ajax
• Ajax.Advanced
• Ajax.Form
• Asset.css
• Asset.images
• Chain
• Chain.Periodical
• DomReadyVS.Load
• Drag.Absolutely
• Drag.Cart
• DragDrop
• Element.Event
• Fx.Elements
• Fx.Morph
• Fx.Scroll
• Fx.Slide
• Fx.Styles
• Fx.Transitions
• Group
• Hash.Cookie
• Json.Remote
• Mousewheel
• MousewheelCustom
• Periodical
• Resizable
• Scroller
• Slider
• Sortables
• Tips

script.aculo.us

It is one of most popular and best JavaScript library present out there. It is an add-on to the Prototype framework.

Here is a list of demos from their site:

Live demos

• Drag and Drop AJAX Shopping Cart
• Autocompleting AJAX text fields
• Autocompleting text fields – customized
• Sortable elements w/AJAX callback
• Combination Effects Demo

Sortables

• GhostlySortableDemo
• SortableFloatsDemo
• SortableListsDemo

Controls

• Slider Demo

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Antivirus is a must for any system these days but do not come cheap. So what do you do when you do not have the luxury to spend money on yearly subscription for the likes of Norton Antivirus, McAfee, CA Antivirus etc?

The answer is, you have several options:

1. Go and download Google Pack from Google which gives you free subscription to Norton Virus scan 
2. Get free AVG Antivirus from Grisoft. The free version is only available for private, non-commercial use. This is supported on  Windows Vista and Linux.
3. Get free avast! 4 home edition Antivirus. This is also available for free for home users and non-commercial use. This is supported on Windows Vista as well. avast have their Antivirus version available for Linux also.
4. ClamWin Antivirus for Windows (not available for Vista). This is an open source project. It does not however include a real time scanner and you will have to manually scan files.
5. Comcast customers get McAfee Internet Security suite free with their Comcast account. They can download it from here. You will need to register with Comcast first.
6. Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic is available for free and can be downloaded from here. It supports all windows versions (including vista), Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
7. If you feel your computer has been compromised, you can try McAfee free scan available at http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp. This web based tool will help you detect viruses but unfortunately won’t clean them.

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I have been experimenting with Google Maps for a recent project and needed a tool to get latitude and longitude for any location. Here are two tools written to get the same:

1. Get Latitude and Longitude for any address you enter
2. Get Latitude and Longitude for any place you click on the map

These should be fun to play with and one can use those geocodes (latitude and longitude) in various applications.

Google now has support for calculating geocodes for any location (earlier people had to use Yahoo to get the geocodes)

Some other fun Google Map apps to try out:

1. America’s top 25 meanest drivers cities
2. A set of interactive Google Maps on different categories on the topic of the 7 Wonders of the World
3. Ever wondered which map technology is better, Google maps, Live Maps or Yahoo Maps? Try this tool and see for yourself
4. Da Vinci Code Locations
5. Forbes Magazine list of the Drunkest Cities in America
6. Google Maps + Craigslist to create a visual housing search page via dynamic overlays of Craigslist home listings on Google Maps
7. Up-to-date gas price search with Google Maps station display
8. Track your packages with Google Maps and RSS feeds! Track UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL
9. Map a phone number area code to a location
10. Helps you determine if you are paying too much in rent. Enter an address, apartment size, and rent. It maps nearby units and shows a meter of your price versus min, max and average

I am developing a special section called “tools” on this site, where I will put utility and fun tools and apps.

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There has been a steady stream of sites coming up with online classes for the public which spread awareness around PC, technology, web, electronics etc.

The ones that I have come across and have found useful are:

• CNET: It provides online courses on topics related to technology and electronics. They have a team of SME (Subject Matter Experts) which answers questions in the online classrooms. The questions are more in the comments format with the comments available publicly to view. You need to create a free account with them to undertake the courses but the login helps you keep track of courses you enrolled in. Some of the categories in which they have courses are:
• At Work
• Digital Camera and Design
• Home Entertainment
• Mobile
• Home PC
• Software
• HP Online Learning Center: This learning center from HP provides free online courses in the following areas:
• Software and technology
• IT Professionals
• In-house marketing
• Business skills

With a free account you can keep track of your courses.

• Microsoft ELearning: 24/7 online courses are available and lot of them are absolutely free. This is obviously dedicated to Microsoft technologies but has some cutting edge stuff.

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A compilation of tools, sites and code snippets to create tag cloud:

• ZoomClouds: create a tag cloud using any RSS feed. Using a small snippet code embed the cloud on any web page (e.g. TechCrunch tag cloud). It has its API using which you can have better control over the cloud you create and also build powerful mashups.
• Tagline Generator: a simple PHP codebase that lets you generate chronological tag clouds from simple text data sources (e.g: US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud)
• TagCrowd: web-based tag cloud generator. Manually enter text or upload a text file to create a tag cloud.
• IBM Many Eyes: The Many Eyes tag cloud can show one of two kinds of data: free text, or a two-column table of tags and numbers.
• ToCloud: It has a page to cloud tool which takes a URL and creates a tag cloud from it. I tried one for technacular which can be found here.
• ZoomTags: you can put small (or large) tag clouds on your web page and earn revenue from your web site
• Cloud Control for ASP.NET

• Tag Cloud Builder: cut and paste the text to be clouded and create the cloud.
• Ultimate Tag Warrior 3: for Wordpress
• How To Make a Tag Cloud using CFML
• Tagcloud Font Distributor: assign font sizes to tags based on their counts (PHP based)
• How to Make a Tag Cloud for Movable Type Blogs

• Tagadelic: Tag cloud for Drupal
• CodeProfessor: Building A Tag Cloud in WordPress
• Creating a Tag Cloud in ASP.NET
• Designing With Code: How to Create a Tag Cloud
• Building a tag cloud in Java
• Tag Cloud with Database: PHP and MySQL
• A Tag cloud solution in Django
• HTML::TagCloud: Perl module to generate tag cloud

Other links related to tag clouds:

• Tag Clouds Gallery: Examples And Good Practices
• How to Style a Tag Cloud
• Styling a tag cloud
• Tag Cloud Font Distribution Algorithm
• Wordle: generates “word clouds” from text provided. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
• < href="http://www.kickdeveloper.com/resources/widgets-video-players/create-a-tag-cloud-widget">Create your own tag cloud widget: using RSS feed and php code you can create your own tag cloud widget.

Last updated: November 7th, 2007

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Firefox has been generating waves and has been getting lot of acceptance within the user community. I am a Firefox fan and decided to look for Firefox wallpapers for my desktop. I decided to share my collection of Firefox wallpapers from various sites out here. The images link to the wallpapers on the site or the post on the sites from which I took them.

Here is the list (click on images to go to the site):

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There are tons of software available for Windows out there but today I came across a site which lists the best free and open-source software for Windows, aptly named Open Source Windows. 

What I also liked was their six point advice on how to increase downloads of your software:

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