Finally, Yahoo! GeoCities, a web hosting service founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 and later acquired by Yahoo! in 1999, will be closing down on Oct. 26. The 15-year-old service, which offers surfers a space to set up their own, personalized homepage, was once a very popular platform before the launch of Google’s Blogger and open source content management platform just like Wordpress is closing down silently.

If you look at the Yahoo help center and search for ‘Why is Geo cities is closing‘, this is what Yahoo has to say:

“We have enjoyed hosting web sites created by Yahoo! users all over the world, and we’re proud of the community you’ve built.

However, we have decided to focus on helping our customers explore and build relationships online in other ways. Beginning on October 26, 2009, you will no longer be able to use GeoCities to maintain a free presence online — but we’re excited about the other services we have designed to help you connect with friends and family and share your activities and interests. “

The recent traffic stats from compete.com show that the site has not been doing so well and has been dying all year long. Here is a traffic generation report according to compete.com:

There are lots of other Website creation and hosting services out there, including blog platforms such as Wordpress, Blogger, and Typepad, Blog.com as well as Website creation and hosting services such as Ning, Weebly, and many more. GeoCities never really kept up with the times, but always remained a decent pageview generator.
R.I.P GeoCities!

A few weeks ago, Google stared a project called “Data liberation“. The aim of this is to provide users the option to switch from Google to another provider or to Google account. In the same time, Google has announced an export feature for Google Docs and Sites. While currently the API is not available for Google sites but the function is available in Docs.

According to Inside facebook, farmville is the fastest growing application on facebook. Lot of people have been asking me how I reached level 30 so fast on farmville. Well, you guessed it right. I tried some of my own cheat codes to harvest, plow and seed faster.

Here are some of the hacks that I would like to share:

1. Speedup harvesting\plowing and seeding process.

I was quiet bored of playing the game because harvesting and planting takes a lot of my time. So I made an experiment on the farm. Then, I realized that when you trap your character it will speed up the process. The time taken when the character is walking from one field to the other is saved.

This really helped me a lot in taking care of my farm and saves a lot of my time. I hope this will also help my Farmville neighbors and everyone who is on the game.

2. Become a Master farmer fast .

Instead of buying animals and trees from the Market Place, you only need to add neighbors and these neighbors can send these items as gift to you for free. But you also need to return back the same by sending one also. And when your animals counter reaches 100% you can now collect eggs, milk, wool and other items which you can sell for coins. Harvest your trees to gain additional coins. When your trees counter also reaches 100% then you can also collect various types of fruits that can also be sell for coins. Make sure also to visit your neighbors regularly and assisting your neighbors will their daily chores will give you a valuable experience points and coins.

3. Increase your coins.

I’ve just found a bug on farmville that will give you an unlimited amount of experience points.. but i suggest you hurry as as soon as zynga realise they’ll fix it!.. just click on a friends icon and click ‘visit/help friends farm’ then when your friends farm has loaded it will ask you to click ‘accept’ to help.. DON’T press accept, instead click on the same friends icon AGAIN and click ‘visit/help friend farm’ AGAIN.. this will reload the same friends farm.. repeat this process.. what this does is not only reload the friends farm again, it will reload the ‘accept help’ box again creating a backlog!! when you’ve done this for maybe 20 times (you can do it as many times as you want!) there will be 20 ‘accept’ boxes waiting for you to press!! each giving you 5exp each time!! REMEMBER use this reloading process on 1 friends farm at a time.. and only press ‘accept’ when you have reloaded the desired number of times.. 20 for example.. pluss you get 20 coins EACH time!!

4. The Soyabean trick.

To start this FarmVille cheat that really works, plow your 10 plots and buy soybeans. It will cost 150 coins to plow and 150 coins to plant soybeans, but delete those plot using the shovel tool immediately after seeds have been planted.

You may think, why should you delete those plots in order to gain experience level points?Because, plowing and planting soybeans will gain you 30 points on those 10 plots. You can repeat this cheat process, each time it will cost 300 FarmVille coins in order plow and plant, then delete using the shovel. You will see your FarmVille experiences quickly rising and coming closer to the next level.

5.Use External application to help you farm.

Yep, there are some application that help you farm faster and automatically. The most common ones are Farm helper and RS clicker. Google them and download the one which shows on the top Google result. These tools can automatically harvest\plow\seed for you. All you have to do is open farmville and run the application.

Watch a Farmville cheat video perhaps?

UPDATE: Improved Farmville BOT is here; More farmville cheats

Do you know or use any other farmville hacks? share it by posting your comments below!