We Support Free and Open Internet

Internet has spread across the globe. More than 2 billion people from different geographical areas get connected through internet via emails, social sites etc. Without internet technological advancement won't be possible. These days web is the main source to acquire knowledge. With the help of search engines we get almost everything from web. Free and open world depends on free and open  web.  This December governments & ITU meet to discuss the future of internet 

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What is ITU?

ITU(International Telecommunication Union) is the United Nations specialized agency which administers information and communication technologies. Developing the technical standards, allocating global radio spectrum and satellite orbits are the main functions of International Telecommunication Union. 

What's going to happen in WCIT meet?

This December World's governments meet to decide the future of the internet which is called WCIT(World Conference on International Telecommunications) and is Organized by ITU(International Telecommunication Union). Internet is an open network, neither controlled by a single organization nor an individual.  There are proposals to monitor and reduce the internet traffic for various reasons, increasing privacy on web, restricting open internet access, blocking some websites etc. If these proposals at WCIT are approved internet will become top-down regulated by ITU which will increase censorship and threaten innovation.  To stop this add your voice to support free and open internet. Google Take Action

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.com has New Competitors

If you ask anybody what is the most popular domain in web? Everyone will say it is .com. All these days we all mostly surfed .com websites. As technology keeps on changing web also evolving continuously. Now internet entered a new phase called Personalized Domains.


Instead of having .com you can have your own domain name like .google .youtube .IBM .apple .amazon etc.  The US-based ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) officially revealed 1930 requests for new web addresses.

Approximately 2 billion internet users are there and currently 22 top level domains are in use. With this huge expansion new era of online innovation begins. All the new domains will be live by the first quarter of 2013. Some of the new domains are .bank .baby .doctor .law .shop .pizza .app .sex etc.


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ip address is an unique identification number assigned to each and every device that is connected to internet.  There are basically two versions of ip addresses available IPv4 and IPv6.  Internet was designed in 1973 and launched in 1983 from then we are using IPv4 which is a 32-bit ip address. IPv4 can address upto 4.3 Billion devices.

These days TV, Mobiles, PCs, Notebooks, Watches, Cars, Fridges and so on are connected to Internet. That's why we are running out of ip addresses if this happens new devices cannot connect to Internet. To avoid this situation in 1996 IPv6 was designed which is a 128-bit ip address. IPv6 can address upto 340 trillion trillion trillion devices. IPv6 is officially launched today i.e. June 6th 2012. Slowly internet is going to roll out IPv6.  This the beginning of the new, larger version of the Internet.

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Secure Your Web Browsing with Hotspot Shield

When you are surfing web someone may track your ip address when you are shopping online or doing transactions. Surfing https is secure  than http sites. With hotspot shield you can secure your web session, online shopping with https encryption. You can hide your identity by hiding your ip address (indirectly you will get a dynamic ip). Hotspot PC softwares and mobile apps are available on the web.

To download PC hotspot shield click here

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Share Your Files or Folders Online with Dropbox

Dropbox is a cloud drive (Online Storage Service) where users can save their files or folders online and can access from anywhere through internet. You can share your files or folders online with friends. 

Steps to share your files or folders online

1. Install Dropbox desktop Application 
2. Open dropbox icon and right click on file or folder which you want to share and click on get link.
3. You can also get link by signing into your dropbox account.
4. Select file or folder and click on get link
5. You can mail/share this link online.
6. Users with the link can view or download the file or folder.

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How to be Safe Online?

Sometimes you receive a call or mail from a marketing guy or a company. Have you ever wondered how come they know your number, mail id and name?

Suppose you want to know an address then you will call to any customer service providers like just dial.  Then they save your number with your name in their database. In this manner they will maintain callers database and they sell this database to marketing companies. 


Sometimes you fill forms in online for enquiry or for some other purpose there you enter your mail id. Companies sell this mail ids database to other companies. Thus you receive promotional emails from unknown mail ids.


How to be safe online?

1. Create unique and robust passwords for your online accounts. Your password should be a combination of alphabets, numerics and special characters.


2. Do not use same password for all your online accounts. Use different passwords for different online accounts.


3. Try to change the passwords at least once in a month


4. Make use of open-id when creating user accounts for different sites.


5. If you are using gmail get an additional layer of security by using two step verification.


6. Connect your mobile no to your social accounts like facebook. You will get an instant message when your account is accessed by an unknown person.It will be helpful to reset the password when you forgot the password.


7. Keep your browser updated. your browser update comes with bug fixes and some new enhancements. Which makes you even secure in online.


8. Clear your browser cache and cookies once in every week.


9. Use an updated anti virus & anti spam softwares.


10. While providing your personal details ensure that the receiver is exactly whom you intended to send.


11. Do not respond to spam mails saying you have won a prize money asking your personal details for claiming the prize.


12. If your kid is using web make use of site fishing software like k9 web protection tools.


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What is instagram?

Recently facebook has announced it will be acquiring instagram  for 1 billion dollars. It's just a mobile app, what made instagram a billion dollars worth app?

What is instagram and how does it works?
instagram is a free photo sharing app that let's users take pics from mobile phones, apply an optional digital filter and share it with their friends via facebook or twitter or instagram's own social network.

Highlights
1. instagram launched as an iphone app on oct 6 2010.
2. Reached a million registered users by december 2010.
3. instagram users had shared 100 million photographs by july 2011.
4. Crossed 10 million users by september 2011.
5. Apple's App of the year 2011.
6. Android version of instagram released on 3rd April 2012.
7. A million android version app downloads in just 12 hours.
8. instagram's registered users hit 30 millions by April 2012.
9. facebook's valuation made a 2 year old company more valuable than 161-year-old The Newyork Times Company.


To download instagram Android App click here
To download from itunes click here


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How Search Works?

Search engines made access of web very easy. You don't need to remember url of every site. Just type the query in search box, in less than a second search engines provides you relevant results. Daily search engines answer billions of queries from users across the globe.


Google, yahoo, Bing provides organic search results. An organic search or search is typically a combination of search results and ads relevant to the user query.

How does search or organic search works?
Search engines use a software called spider/bot which crawls into webpages. When you are searching you aren't actually searching the web, you are searching the website index that search engine has. When user enters a query in search box spider enters the search engine index and crawls into webpages which have matching keywords in the user query. May be thousands of websites have the matching keywords, next search engines see following criteria:


how many times does a particular page has matching keywords?
whether keywords are in the title of the page or in the content of the page?
is this page from quality website?
does this page has any spam?


In less than half a second you'll get the search results. Search results are may be a combination of search results and ads or just search results. search engine companies have their own ranking algorithms. To get priority in search results one must implement search engine optimization.

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What is an Affiliate Program?

These days creating your own website is pretty easy. Even though you don't have any web designing or html skills you can easily create a website. Go to google sites or AOL or Geo sites select any one of  built in templates and create your own website. These sites also provide some storage and domain url within 1 or 2 hours your site is online.

What next if you own a website?
If you own a content rich website you can make money from your traffic. There are many ways to make money from your website like adsense or affiliation program/affiliate marketing etc.  

What is an affiliate program or affiliate marketing?
An affiliation program or affiliate marketing is a performance based program which rewards an affiliate (website owner) for each customer brought through it's effort. It helps website owner make money online.

How will affiliate get paid?
The merchant (retailer or brand) places an ad on affiliate's website. When user clicks on that ad and buys any product from the merchant's website  then affiliates get paid. There are different ways of earning through affiliation program or affiliate marketing. Some of them are -
Revenue Sharing
PPS (Pay Per Sale)
CPA (Cost Per Action)
CPC (Cost Per Click)
CPM (Cost Per Mile)
CPI (Cost Per Impression)

Few sites which provides affiliation programs
Amazon Associates
Godaddy Affiliate Program 
Google Affiliate Network

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