Web In Depth

The first step in the process of getting into facebook is to go to www.facebook.com

Next click on the sigh up button and you will be taken to a standard form to fill.The cool thing about this is they ask for minimal information at the sign up and allows us to add whatever we need later. This was a real relief for me because I am concerned of my privacy and fed up with certain sites that ask lot of info such as telephone number.

After filling up and entering the tiresome but necessary capture you can instantly enter into your […] Continue Reading…

The first time I learned about Facebook is from my friends. (Not really I have heard about it before, during a CNN news broadcast which described this college-based application that was going global. but I only recognized that fact after my second introduction to it) But I never paid any attention then, as I haven’t really heard about social media back then. This is not surprising, as I am in Sri Lanka, and we are just now getting good affordable broadband connections that are a necessity, for a good web 2.0 experience. The earlier dial-up had two […] Continue Reading…

I have realized that the focus of this blog is pretty wide, but it does help me to understand everything I need to know. In keeping with the in depth part of the blogs title I think the best approach will be to delve deep into one topic for few days with a complete series of post and then turn my attention to another.This not only helps my learning process it also simplifies the amount of things I need to keep track each day. Also this approach will benefit the readers as they can learn some part of the […] Continue Reading…

Well the stats are out on the major search engines, as the year comes to an end. Danny at SearchEngineLand has compared data from 4 major companies; Nielsen, ComScore, Hitwise and Compete.
 
Nielsen came up with folllowing figures, based on percentage of all US serchers.

Google: 57.7%
Yahoo: 17.9%
Microsoft: 12.0%
AOL: 4.5%
Ask: 2.7%

Comscore gave percentage of all searches handled by the search engines.

Google: 58.6%
Yahoo: 22.4%
Microsoft: 9.8%
Ask: 4.6%
AOL: 4.5%

Hitwise gave percentage of all searches handled by the search engines in November

Google: 65.1%
Yahoo: 21.2%
Microsoft: 7.1%
Ask: 4.6%

Compete gave percentage of all searches handled by the search engines in November

Google: 68.9%
Yahoo: 17.4%
Microsoft: 9.2%
Ask: 3.9%

What does this tell […] Continue Reading…

Hey, Folks let me introduce myself first as the heading demands. I am a final year collage student in Sri Lanka. For those who don’t know my beautiful country check it out in Google earth just below India. I have been drawn to blogging and making money online after I saw a news story(I’ll tell all about it in a latter post promise!). I struggle for some time on topics to blog, because I was balancing earning potential;my knowledge on subject with passion. In the end I decided that the best way to get into the bandwagon of blogging […] Continue Reading…

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