Post to Facebook and Twitter from Notification Center - iPhone

With ios6, we have got the facebook and twitter accounts in-built in the iphone rather than depending solely on the apps. Tweeting to twitter and Posting to Facebook can be done rapidly from the iPhone's Notification Center.

Make sure you have signed into facebook and twitter accounts through Settings. To do that, Go to Settings, scroll down to Twitter and Facebook widgets, provide your User Name and Password in the respective columns and sign in your accounts.

How to post easily to Twitter/Facebook?

• Scroll down the status bar at the top of the screen and the Notification Center will be shown with the two columns "Tap to Tweet and Tap to Post".

•  'Tap to Tweet' - Twitter

Note: You can tap the "Add Location" to add in your current location. 

• 'Tap to Post' - FB

Note: You can tap on "Friends" to confine the post to certain group of friends alone.

Online Content Syndication

Currently Web Content Syndication is one among the online content marketing strategies present in the web world.

What is Content Syndication?

In current web circumstances, any established expert level website with high traffic has been forced on a constructive basis to provide high quality (strong and healthy) contents to satisfy their end users. At the same time there are people who write really valuable content in their websites but end of the day not able to generate traffic to their websites as they failed to meet factors like marketing, SEO ranking, elevating exposure level , appropriate advertisement etc. To conclude well-built websites are in need of contents and content writers are in need of viewers. Here comes the Content Syndication method in which the content writer send the contents to other websites with the help of intermediary named Content Syndication networks/Providers/Partners who distribute the content to members (highly trafficked website creators, bloggers, microbloggers) of the network with fee charged for service. PR Newswire is one of the world's largest content syndication provider.

The Content Syndication is done easily with RSS technology. Initially the publisher should look for an appropriate syndication partner. Then the publisher should set up some form of Content Syndication agreement with the syndication partner. The agreement should have some form of compensation to the author either to give monetary compensation or include author's name/web address in the content going to be circulated. The Syndication agreement can be categorised in three types.

• Licensed -  The syndication Partner pay some fee to the original author for distributing the content to it's members and also retains a backlink to the original content's website. This is the safest method for the author. Exemplar for Licensed content syndicate - http://www.newstex.com/

• Ad-supported - The publishers get share in the advertising revenues generated from the content circulated to the end users.

• Free - No payment is involved and the publisher is satisfied just with exposure got from the distributed content.

Benefits to the author:

Publicity, Money, Traffic to your website.

Benefit to the second level publisher:

Flow of consistent content i.e no shortage of contents to the websites.

Note for content writers:

One common talk is that writers who go for syndication find their content all over the internet (duplicate sources) and lose their rights on the article. And if a higher level website publishes your content, there are chances they will become the topmost source of the content in the web search like Google/Yahoo which may affect your SEO ranking. Each writer has their own goals. Some writers simply want their articles to be read by billions of people and some other want compulsory compensation for the work done by them. Hence whether to syndicate or not is purely based on the individual's goals. Syndication may not be appropriate for every writer. But the writers should carefully choose the syndication partner and review the syndication agreement thoroughly before proceeding to syndicate.

To finish off, we can say that inspite of a few downbeats, this Online Content Syndication is beneficial for content creators, distributors and consumers in some way or the other.

The Chronicle of Blogging

It is certain that Blogging will have a significant place in history with impression as the foremost informational channel of the 21st century. The earliest evidence for the culture of blogging is the use of pamphlets (is nothing but unbound booklet with info) in the 17the century for the circulation of information in all areas.

Exemplar for Pamphlet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pamphlet_dutch_tulipomania_1637.jpg

In later period, as electronic media emerged, Radio and TV were considered the major informational system of that era. In the late 20th century, there was a change in mass media from unidirectional to participatory (where audience play active role rather than the publisher alone) which is a key factor in the concept of blogging (For instance readers can comment on the blog).

By the book, Blogging started in 1997. The word 'Blog' has been emerged from 'Weblog'. Weblog is nothing but a website that has entries in reverse chronological order i.e new post published over old post. Blogging became familiar in 2001 and the demand for blog websites increased. This resulted in the creation of a desirable number of blog hosting websites. The content writers need not compulsorily be a designer. There arose certain complications. A new technique called Content Management System (CMS) emerged which made easy for a layman in web technologies to add, edit and manage contents.

The entry of multimedia into blogging paved the way to booming market for blogs today. The mixture of different forms of content such as photos, audio, animation and video embedded into blog magnified the trend. With appropriate tools, they can even be downloaded to computers, media players etc.

Siri can countdown for you!

How to set timer with Siri?

Launch Siri and say "Set timer for 1 hour". The timer has been set for you now. Siri starts countdown and alerts you when the timer ends.

 You can also use the below commands at appropriate contexts.

• Show the timer

• Pause the timer

• Resume the timer

• Cancel the timer

  
Real time scenarios where Siri and Timer blend is of use:

• During Workouts

• Indoor games

• As a Kichen Timer

• Doing laundry

• Baking/Grilling

• Study/Break sessions etc. 

Tips while leafing through Safari

I am at the bottom of the webpage in Safari and I want to navigate to the top of the screen right now.....

• Tap somewhere on the Status bar at the top to navigate to the top of the screen.

Note:  This is also applicable in many other Applications like Messages, eMails, Facebook, Photos, DropBox etc.

Do I need to type .net/.edu/.org/.us while typing an address in the address bar?

• No, Hold on the .com key to see the .net/.edu/.org/.us keys from which you can select one.