Something new with the Google Doodle today. I noticed a new Doodle on the Google Homepage to honor Sir Isaac Newton. The logo has an animated falling Apple. Google usually decorates their logo with Doodle’s whenever they want to celebrate a special day, and today happens to be one of them. Isaac Newton was born on January 4…

Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential scientists in history. His 1687 publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (usually called the Principia) is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries..

This Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference for understanding Google’s building concepts and ideas… In simple its a Google Cheat sheet with all Google products and information.

Stay tuned for another update on this Google cheat sheet!! Thanks to Adelaider for the cheat sheet – unfortunately their website is not working anymore…

This post is a sequel of ’15 things you need to learn before kick starting your new blog’ if don’t want to miss the updates do subscribe to the blog.

Before you start reading, make sure you read our posts on Day1 and Day 2 on ‘15 things you need to learn before kick starting your new blog’. Here are 5 more things on day 3 and this is my final post on ’15 things you need to learn before kick starting your new blog’ !

11. Sidebars.

Be picky about your sidebar. Don’t fill it up willy-nilly with cutesy, flashy buttons. Your sidebar should benefit you directly, like getting visitors to dig more deeply into your content, making you money (through private ad sales or affiliate commissions) or encouraging people to subscribe to your RSS feed, newsletter, and social networking sites.

12. Keep It Brief.

Respect your reader’s time and try to say what you need to with fewer words.

13. Write Longer Posts

Write “epic” posts. If you have a lot to say about a topic you know a lot about, say everything. While this may seem to contradict the previous tip, it needn’t. Some of the most popular pages on my blogs are lengthy posts – 1,000 words plus. Search engines and visitors love it when you provide lots of great information!

14. Proofread.

Read your post through before publishing, and spell check. While perfect grammar isn’t required, do attempt to write in such a way as to make things easy to understand. Edit!

15. Format.

Internet surfers are scanners. Break up your paragraphs more, use bold and headline tags where appropriate, and insert visual elements like graphics and photos.

Well this post completes our 3 day tour on ’15 things you need to learn before kick starting your new blog’.

Do you have more tips? post your comments below.

Twitter is cool. I’ve not been a fan of twitter BUT then my friend asked me, why aren’t u on twitter? Although I had an account, I wasn’t really updating my ‘what are you doing?’ on twitter that much. Then I started sharing my blog posts on twitter which made it an instant superhero post :).

So, I’ve decided to use twitter more like a marketing tool for my blog posts. And to thank twitter for all the traffic its been giving me, I made a presentation about a simple guide to twitter, more like a twitter cheat sheet :D.

Here is the presentation :

If you like this presentation, do subscribe to the mYpassion RSS feed and follow me on @thesharath on twitter… Happy tweeting folks!!

I’m sure many of you folks are excited about the upcoming new version\design of the Orkut site? Then you’ll also be excited to know that orkut returning to orkut’s roots and granting access to it via invitations. Starting today, there are two ways to get invites:

1. Join Poppy and Shashi on the official community (www.orkut.co.in/neworkut) for insights into the new version of orkut and participate in one of the many activities that will be taking place there. Be sure to check back often as the owners will be regularly announcing new ways to get access.

2. Find a friend who’s already using the new version of orkut and ask for an invite. You can see who’s already gotten access via your activity stream or by this icon that will appear on your friends’ profile pages, next to their names.

More screenshots and info on the Orkut blog.

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After setup you can look at its revenue directly to Blogger.

Not very long ago Google added adsense monetize to the blogger dashboard with just a few clicks. And now from the middle of this week you can setup adsense for feeds from your blogger dashboard itself.

The facility is via Monetize –> AdSense for feeds. Here you can determine how much advertising in the feed will be displayed, to display images or / and text ads, and at what length the advertising.

After setup you can look at its revenue directly to Blogger.

I just completed my twitter presentation and thought about uploading it to slideshare.net and hit slideshare.net on the URL.. Whoa guess what? Slideshare is down for maintenance!

Common already, I want to upload my Twitter guide and get it running :)

Alright, I’m just back home from the indiblogger meet in Bangalore. And this is the first time I’m posting a blog post, about an event that I attended :), so it automatically makes this post special :). I had a fantabulous time at the indiblr meetup!!

If you guys are wondering what I’m referring to, what is indiblogger? then here is a quick recap. Indiblogger focuses on Indian bloggers and it’s a community for all the Indian bloggers.

The venue was Fortune Park JP Celestia near race course road, bangalore. It’s a huge place, all thanks to the Fortune guys for sponsoring the place. After parking my vehicle, I moved to the registration desk to find this super geeky registration desk. I thought that the registration would take a while but it hardly took less than 20 seconds.

They had 4 laptops at the desk and to register all I had to do was just punch in my Indi-registered email address and I’m registered for the event (no boring forms and it was a pretty nice plan to stay green & save paper) +1 for the registration desk i’d say . Not to forget the beautiful ladies at the registration desk :P.

Once the registration was done, I looked around and met some amazing bloggers and took a seat in the front part of the hall. The event roughly started around 2.15 with an awesome intro video of the indimumbai meet and then it was time for individual introduction. The best part about individual introduction was the prizes :) the person who gets the most applause wins a cool Printer from HP.

And the intro started; there were so many types of introductions. There was blog marketing:People giving their blog URL’s, “funny”: People said they wrote crappy stuff, “that’s about me”: I’m a blogger and that’s it and finally the “i’m not a blogger yet”: But i’d like to be one, type of introductions, truly it was an introduction that no one could forget. Some girls even tried to butter the indiblogger meet up organizer team as the most handsome people in the meet :) all for the awesome HP printers. I have to confess, if I were a girl, I would have done the same :D. These printers were not any ordinary printers; they were E-One HP Photosmart Wireless e-All-in-One Printer, pretty smart and can print from the cloud.

Next it was time for the event sponsor – HP to give us a presentation about their all new HP Wireless All-In-One Printer. It was a futuristic product from HP. During the presentation, the person from HP said we could just email whatever needs to be printed and it would automatically get printed (in a wireless way without connecting the printer 2 a laptop or any PC).

Then, we were all given Comment sheets & a sketch pen for getting comments on it. We hung the Comment sheets on our back then went roaming around – meeting new bloggers\social media folks and getting comments written on the cardboard sheets (the person who gets the most number of comments would win a gift hamper from HP). It was already time for light tea accompanied with some yummy sandwiches & samosas. We even wrote on the indiblogger organizers’ t-shirts since they weren’t carrying any comment sheet :). Here’s something we drew on anoop’s shirt.. lol

After we were all done with the tea & comments on our sheets, the people who had the most comments on the sheets got gifts from HP. I have to say it was raining HP printers at the indibloggerblr meet!

After all the HP printers\gift hampers were given away it was time for some serious talks about the Forum – do we of do we not need posts like see my blog or see this blog posts in the indiblogger forum. The forum discussion concluded with a “we will have our developer develop something” :) and I have no clue what they decided on. Then we got to listen to this amaizing person called Raghavendra Satish. This person is physically challenged and is blind. But you should all listen to him talking, you will never call him as a physically challenged person rather you would call him as a digital challenger. Raghava spoke about digital marketing, the things that he had to face as a challenged person. His words reached each and every person’s heart and raghava’s speech ended with a good quote – love what god has given you and praise.

And then there were people who spoke about Social causes\Civil defence.  Its more like a defensive strategy to protect ourselves… Simple things like “knowing your neighbour, how to save a person who’s having a heart attack. Read more on their own website http://dgcd.nic.in/training1.htm.

Finally it was already time for vote of thanks (yeah there was none) and more gifts. The criteria for the gifts were:

• A girl who’s wearing a pink dress
• Eldest blogger attending the meet – @62yrs
• Youngest blogger attending the meet – @14yrs

I have to say the criteria was a bit funny :D but I met a person age 14 who runs dumblittleblogger.com which is awesome!
It was already time to leave- while leaving we got our indiblogger T-shirts and people who wanted 2 stay for some drinks could stay and enjoy the after party (unlimited beer for 550rs :))!!!

Since the rain had stopped giving us a breaktime to travel back home, I decided on leaving from the indiblogger meet and reaching home without getting wet like a dog ;). I was expecting a celebrity guest to accompany us in the indiblogger meet, oh well – maybe next time :)

Here are some photos for your #indiMemoriesBlr album

Click on the picture for fullsized version

And here I am, composing this blog post for all the people who missed the indiblogger bangalore meet! Hope you’d attend it next time :)

p.s. If you think I’ve missed out on commenting about some of the beautiful ladies, its mostly because this is a techblog :D

Pic credits: Prasanna, Kaviraj & Twitpic

Cheers and have fun!! If you ♥ this post, pls do vote for me on Indivine :)