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The Best and The Worst Things about Social Networks

Social networking , arguably, is the loudest thing we’ve seen in the twenty-first century till now. It originated just a few years ago and boomed to become the hottest online trend. Over the years, social networking has consistently established itself as the most common form of online interaction by people. There are so many social networking sites out there today, with their own set of specialties and user base. In this article, we aim to find the best and the worst things about social networks. The best things: 1. People can express themselves with ease. It’s very easy to express ourselves on social networks. We can tell others about what we watched, read or listened recently. We can share our opinions and insights on various topics. It’s much easier to share our ideas to a larger mass in such sites than in real world. We can, with great ease, express ourselves like we can never do in real life. 2. They are great ways to learn about how people feel. When you express your opinion on a...

Five Easy Ways you can Monetize your Blog

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, blog means “a web site on which someone writes about personal opinions, activities, and experiences”. The term blog was coined for the first time in the late 1990s. Although online journal keeping has traces as early as in the 80s, in the early days of internet, blogging became popular around the turn of the millennium. The name “blog” originates from its predecessor “weblog”. The term “weblog” was devised by Jorn Barger in 1997. It changed into the shorter form “blog” through Peter Merholz, who broke the word “weblog” down into the phrase “we blog” in his website Peterme.com in 1999. Since then, it has been generally known by the same name. Today, blogs have become one of the major components in the huge ocean internet. There are hundreds of millions of blogs in existence today. The most popular blogging platforms are tumblr.com, wordpress.com and blogger.com. Among these large number of blogs, pretty considerable ones are professional ones i....

10 Best Ways to Increase your Blog Traffic

Blogs have become major players in the web revolution of the twenty-first century. Internet and the world of web has brought significant changes in the way people think, learn, and share ideas today. Blogs, in particular have been crucial in providing this considerable boost to the power of web. Often easier to create and manage, blogs have become a great way to share ideas and opinions of people. When one’s ideas are to be shared or some point of view is to be brought upon the light of large mass, it is very important that the blog posts are viewed by large number of peoples. Besides, for monetization purpose too, the blog needs to reach larger mass. Higher the page views, the more rewarded is a blog, through advertisements and affiliate programs. And, the number of people visiting a blog is called its traffic. The first dream of almost every blogger is that his/her blog has a huge traffic. So, what are the best ways to increase the traffic to a blog? Here, we provide you with ins...

What it takes to be a Young Entrepreneur? [Video]

Passionate of entrepreneurship and technology, two Icelandic entrepreneurs traveled around the US and Europe to interview few successful young startup founders. With a funding raised from kickstarter, the entrepreneurs then turned the series of video into a documentary called “ The Startup Kids ”. Released around a year ago, the documentary is an inspiring series of startup stories of popular young entrepreneurs. So what does it really take to be a young entrepreneur? Watch the documentary video below from youtube and find out more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mponYv2GRVU Here’s the trailer if the above video doesn’t work for you. The original full documentary video can be purchased and downloaded from itunes here. Featured in the video are the founders of Vimeo, Soundcloud, Kiip, InDinero and Dropbox among others that talk about how they started their company and their life as an entrepreneur. You can also watch the insights behind the documentary video as presented by the two Ic...