Social World

Today I got the invitation for PeerPower.com, supposed to be LinkedIn or ITToolBox from India. If you are not aware of these websites, these are professional networking websites help you in building and managing your professional network. Let us see what will be the future of PeerPower.com. If you are interested in joining my network, my profile can be found at - http://www.peerpower.com/pub/punit

This is very common question and this chart will give you the answer - Google PageRank Formula The thing is that nobody actually knows how the PageRank is calculated (except Google of course) but webmasters have discovered over the time the possible algorhitm that seems to fit into equations: PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn)) Variable Explanation t1 - tn: pages linking to A C: the number of outbound links that a page has d: damping factor - usually set to 0.85 More simple way of thinking about it: a page’s PageRank = 0.15 + 0.85 * (a “share” of the PageRank of every page that links to it) “Share” is the linking pages’ PageRank divided by the number of outbound links. (Source: netcovered.com)

In India, there are blogger and blog communities by language. For example, you can find Hindi Bloggers community and Marathi bloggers community. But there is no single place where you can find a place where all Indian bloggers can come together and exchange ideas. Not having such a community seems pretty strange to me. After seeing this void, I have created a platform for Indian bloggers where they can share views, exchange ideas and discuss issues. If you are a blogger from India, you are welcome to join this community. You can join the community by filling your email address below - Subscribe to indiblogs You can also visit the home page of the Indian blogger community here .

Recently Google announced the public availability of Knol , after a test run of around 7-8 months. Most of the people see it as Wikipedia killer. Though there are similarity between Knol and Wikipedia, there are noticeable difference as follows - The first difference is that Knol is all about articles and not creating encyclopedia. Wikipedia is more subject/topic centered whereas Knol is more article/ author centered. Author can still own the copyright of the article and decide whether s/he wants contribution from others or not. He has also few license options available to choose from. Option for selecting license is not possible with Wikipedia. One major difference that I see it the option for monetization. I had written one post previously that Twitter and FriendFeed should allow monetization, so why not Wikipedia? Google approach definitely encourages sharing and collaboration by adding monetization aspect to the contribution. All articles in Knol is having nofollow attribute, so t...

Yahoo recently announced Yahoo! Groups Power User Program. According to Yahoo - "This program rewards the owners and moderators of some of our top Groups. You have dedicated a lot of time to making your group great, and now we want to give you something in return. As a first benefit, you now have free access to 24-hour online customer care chat support. To access this service, visit our Contact Us page and look for the Chat with us live now link. " I think it is an important and very useful step for promoting Yahoo Groups. I maintain quite a few popular yahoogroups and sometimes lack of direct support becomes a little irritating. I appreciate Yahoo for this initiative. More details on the Yahoo Groups Power User Program can be found at - http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/groupspoweruser/index.html . In case you want to know whether you are power user or not, check this out - "You’ll get an email welcoming you to the program! If you didn’t get this email and you’d like...

Yesterday I noticed that Google External Keyword Suggestion Tool has started showing the actual search number in present month as well as the average that Google has with it. I wonder is there any reason for me to use free keyword suggestion tool by Wordtracker now? The quality of data with Google is certainly better and more up to the date than WordTracker. Because Google is the most used search engine, it's data make more sense to me than WordTracker or Overture.Here is the screenshots that made me happy and I hope it will make you happy too - Check out Google External Keyword Suggestion Tool . I hope new features will not disappear like some of the stats features from Google Trends disappeared.

FriendFeed.com is soon becoming my central content publishing / sharing platform. People can know what blog posts I have made, what I am doing and my GTalk status message on my FriendFeed . FriendFeed is even have commenting option so my reader can share their thoughts as well. But there is a problem that there is no monetization option in FriendFeed. With my blog, I make good amount of money and that is the reason I promote my blog everywhere rather than my FriendFeed . I wish soon FriendFeed will also allow us to add Google AdSense code so that we can utilize and promote it more agressively. If there is a AdSense for Feed, AdSense for Mobile, so there got to be a AdSense for FriendFeed. Don't you think FriendFeed is nice but it will be even better with AdSense ;-) ?