Social Medias in the internet have become a good way of marketing your product and services and you can target huge traffic received by some of those kinds of social websites. It is a big innovation in the world of web technology that helps people to share content, knowledge, opinions, thoughts and experiences, medias (images, audio, video) among themselves. Now if I ask you to define “Social Media”, it will be a tougher job for you to define it in a comprehensive way. Here the question comes
“What is social media?”
Let me give you the working definition. Social Media can be best understood as a group of new kind of online media which share all or most of the following characteristics:
- Community Participation – People from different castes and religions with a common objective and interest form community and participate in various related discussion.
- Open platform – Anyone can access content and use it without any barrier.
- Conversational – People have conversation on various topics and put their individual thought.
- Communication and connectivity – Most medias are well connected through links and combine themselves with different kinds of medias in one place.
Different kinds of Social Media available in the web
The most popular kinds of social media available in the web are content communities, blogs, social networks, forums, wikis, podcasts etc.
Content Communities organize and share particular kinds of content For example, flicker shares photos, del.icio.us shares bookmark links, youtube shares videos.
Blogs are online journals where you can share your views and thoughts. It has become the most popular social media now a days. Your most recent entries come at the top of your blog.
Social Networks allow people to build personal web pages and then connect with friends to share contents and also communicate with them. Myspace is the best example of a big social network.
Forums are the place of online discussion on certain topics or interest. For example, Ubuntu Forums is a help and support forums for ubuntu linux.
Wikis websites allow people to add or edit content or information where contents or information act as a communal document. Online encyclopaedia is the best example of wiki based website.
Podcasts websites make audio and video files available by subscription through services like Apple iTunes.
Hope the above information will give you brief idea on the concept of social media. I will try to document the websites category wise in my next posts. If we can create a network of 8-10 people who will be solely working in those websites, we will be able to redirect lots of visitors to our websites.
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Mod_Rewrite is a rewrite engine or web server software of Apache HTTP server and is used for rewriting web page url at the server level giving the final output to the user. This rewrite engine is mainly used for making the web page url more user and search engine friendly.
If you provide users with meaningful urls that really describes the content of that page, then it will be easier for them to keep in mind. Moreover search engines also find it easy to index pages whose urls have been rewritten using mod-rewrite.
To run the mod-rewrite, you should have the mod_rewrite module installed on your Apache server. To check whether you have mod_rewrite installed, you need to create a file named phpinfo.php, write and save it on your server. Then search for “mod_rewrite” and you will find it in the “Apache loaded section”. If you miss that, you can ask for it to your hosting company.
The Mod_rewrite rule is written in .htaccess file. The .htaccess (hypertext access) file is a text file which contains Apache directives. Any directives that you use will be applicable to the directory where .htaccess files resides and all the sub-directory under it.
The structure of rewrite rule
RewriteRule Pattern Substitution [OptionalFlags]
Where,
RewriteRule is just the name of the command. Pattern is a regular expression, which will be applied to the current url. Any back references or server variable names can be used in substitution. OptionalFlags are the only mandatory part in the RewriteRule. The flags should be written within square brackets and separated by comma. You can find full list of flags in the Apache mod_rewrite manual.
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Yesterday morning while checking my website mails, I didn’t found any new mails. Later I discovered mails have stop coming to our mail server. I checked thoroughly by sending mails from office mail account and found no new mails. Then I found out that the MX record of our domain has changed.
What is MX record?
It is the ‘mail exchange’ record abbreviated as ‘MX record’. It is basically an entry in the DNS (domain name system) record which is responsible for handling emails for a domain name. It specifies how mails should be routed with their priority. For details, you can go through this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record .
How I checked the MX record?
I went to http://www.dnsstuff.com/ and checked the DNS record for our website and found the wrong one. We have set up google apps account for our website. Google has the documentation for changing the MX record here https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/yourdomainname/SetupMXInstructions
(you need to be logged in with google apps admin account for your domain).
This was the MX entry that I required to change
ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1
ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
How to change the MX record?
Contact your hosting company (you can open a support ticket) support
members asking them to change the MX record as shown above. They will
do it for you. Soon I found that mails are working fine for our website. 
I learnt the procedure and just wanted to share with you.
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Videos are great resource for marketing your products online. Upload your videos to the below listed video sharing websites and promote your products and services.
Advantage
- Get lots of free traffics from these high traffic websites.
- Get few backlinks to your websites from the member pages which will diversify your incoming links.
- Get comments or feedbacks from viewers which will help you to assess viewer experiences and behaviour.
Here is the ready resource for starting your online promotional campaign:
(1) archive.org
(2) atomfilms.com
(3) blip.tv
(4) bolt.com
(5) clipshack.com
(6) dailymotion.com
(7) eyespot.com
(8) flukiest.com
(9) godtube.com
(10) grouper.com
(11) guba.com
(12) ifilm.com
(13) jumpcut.com
(14) kewego.com
(15) livevideo.com
(16) metacafe.com
(17) oneworld.net
(18) photobucket.com
(19) putfile.com
(20) revver.com
(21) sharkle.com
(22) twango.com
(23) veoh.com
(24) video.aol.com
(25) video.google.com
(26) video.search.yahoo.com
(27) videojug.com
(28) vidilife.com
(29) vimeo.com
(30) vmix.com
(31) vsocial.com
(32) youare.tv
(33) youtube.com
(34) zippyvideos.com
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Let’s celebrate our 60th year of independence.
Also check how India celebrated her first independence day in the year 1947. Crowds along the Red Fort where Nehru addressed independent India for the first time and hoisted the national flag
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