Meebo - a multi web messenger

Previously, we have covered about e-mails and chatting. In this article, we will introduce to a website through which you can login into different services like Gmail, Yahoo mail. Till now all the email service providers allowed only one id to login and chat, if you want more than one account of same service to be available to chat, then you have to use two different browsers. This is a tedious process and also ineffective.


Meebo makes it possible to chat from multiple email accounts and from multiple service providers in a single window and concurrently. Similar to the Gtalk and Yahoo messenger, meebo also supports chat rooms. Recently meebo added voice chat and video chat. This is one of the successful web 2.0 applications in the present internet era. Many alternatives to this have come but no one could compete with the original one.

This site has become so popular because most of the network administrators and system administrators don’t unblock this. It also had more than 100 IPs, so if one IP is blocked, you can use other IP to open the website. Meebo is a website, if you want a desktop application similar to this then try pidgin.

Website link: http://www.meebo.com

Miniclips - play games for entertainment

Without any hesitation, Miniclips is the best source for free small games. If you are ever bored, just log into their site, there are tons of games and you can never get bored playing them. At first, one might think that such a site can only offer media core games, especially when compared with the top, 5-star games that are lately being released. Most of the games are for kids, so if you want to some hardcore games, this is not your site, there are several other sites like EA Sports for you. The good thing about them is they are small and easy to complete, so if you want to feel like an achiever, just go and grab a game and finish it off.

You can invite your friends to play the game against you or even send him a challenge to complete. There are various categories like adventure, poker, race and many more of all genres. All the games are made in flash, so you can save the games to your computer and play later. This is also advantageous to the webmasters and bloggers who want to allow their users to play games on their site by embedding these games in their site. The scores are recorded and hence there is always a challenge to beat the highs core whatever game you play.

Last.fm - an application to listen to your music online

How many times did you want to listen to music while you are doing work on your computer? Why people are crazy of ipods? The answer for them is the ability to mobilize your music with you and their ability to satisfy your needs at anytime and anyplace. Last.fm is a music related project which allows you to create your own online playlist of music. It is an excellent library of music. You can customize the radio to listen to your preferred radio channels and also to your own playlist created from their library.


You can add friends and listen to their radio stations. This is a UK based and another kind of social network. This is very good for people who are bored of listening to your traditional radio. It is fun for the people who want to find some new music and also hangout over the internet with the music. You have to install the software that plays the music. So at all the time you have to use this software to listen to the music, it would have been better if you could listen to the music directly by going to their webpage. You can search using the tags, artists, bands and various other options are also given. Give it a try if you are a music freak.

Website link: http://www.last.fm

Digg and its uses

The most famous social networking site in the entire internet is Digg. If you haven’t opened or seen Digg at any time, then you are definitely missing something in your life. Digg is the great hub for internet users. All the people around the world submit different news articles, videos and images. The fellow users can dig them or bury them. The more number of digs an article gets the topper it appears on the front page of Digg. Whenever an article from your blog/website gets dug for more than 10, there will be of at least 500 visitors to your blog/site on that day.


Digg has recently introduced “recommendations” in the upcoming basing on your activity. All the articles are categorized into sub-categories, so you can directly open your interested field and check out the latest articles in it. I personally use the “technology” field as it covers internet and electronics stuff. There is a great demand for the potential dig users in the internet. People sell their accounts in marketplaces like sitepoint and some other websites. The interface of digg is very smooth and easy to use. You can make friends and see what they are doing or digging around. Digg has become so popular that there were numerous social networking sites after the big success of Digg and there is clone open source software called pligg to make similar sites like digg.

Website link: http://www.digg.com

What and why Wikipedia?

The general definition of Wikipedia is “A web-based encyclopedia with content contributed by volunteers; most articles can be edited by anyone”. It’s so extensively used that when you type a single word in any search engine, the first result refers to Wikipedia page. The best way of using Wikipedia is using it as a quick reference. Since, it can be edited by any member of the user, wiki is not a completely free from errors and all the information cited in wiki is not cent percent true. If you want to know more about anything, rely on .edu sites for your education. One can never neglect wiki, as it comprises of all the information relevant to a topic with citation that has the original content.

If you want to create or edit a page, just register in Wikipedia site and give reference to the content that you write there. Recently, Wikipedia is facing with a lot of controversies and obligations from educational institutions primarily. The website’s reliability can be increased by monitoring the changes and also keeping reliable reviewers of the modified content. It has many sister sites like wikiversity (Free learning materials and activities), wikinews, wikibooks etc. Wiki is great repository of knowledge, just have glance over it when you are bored using internet, you will be knowing a lot of facts and I am sure you will be fascinated too.

Yahoo answers - find every solution here

Whenever you are in doubt of anything you ask your parents, friends or well wishers to discuss about the issue, to get their suggestions and advices. Most of the time you doubt your question thinking whether it is a question worth of thinking or am I asking a silly question. There are also question which you can’t ask directly to anyone as they are more personal or sensitive. There are also chances that you don’t have good friends or true friends who care more about your comfort. For all these, Yahoo answers arose as a solution. It is serving as a big Mother who takes all silly and small questions. It also solves the toughest questions that bother anyone.


It is very simple to join it, just go to their site and register with your yahoo mail account. In yahoo answers, you can ask any sort of question no matter how simple, personal it is as the other users can never know who you are in real world. There are questions where you can answer, and there are solutions which can answer your questions. All these are done by human beings, which mean the answers that you get from human emotional intelligent brains.

Website link: http://answers.yahoo.com

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All about Paypal

PayPal can be called as the most successful online bank. 70% of all the online transactions happen through the PayPal. It is very easy to create a PayPal account. If you have an email id, use it to register for PayPal. PayPal offers both the free and premium services. There is no need of a credit card for free account, but for a premium account a verified credit card is mandatory. Go http://www.PayPal.com and register. Your PayPal id is same as your email id, for example abc@gmail.com. PayPal can also be used to take donations from other users which is why most bloggers or webmasters keep in their site. There are advanced widgets like ChipIn to have a clear picture of donations.

Using the basic or free account, you can make online transactions but if you want to withdraw the cash to your real bank account, then a valid and verified credit card has to be supplied. It is important to create a PayPal account because without having a credit card, you can make online transactions in the internet and thus your card will be secure. You can upgrade your basic account to premium account at anytime. They don’t charge money when it is a free account, but when you use a premium account there is a small fees deducted by them.

Website link: http://www.Paypal.com

Introduction to ebay

Today, I will introduce you to one of the best websites where you can find the cheap deals. What is best in e-bay is, people use the articles for a day or a week and they dispose them at ebay pointing out at reasons which are not reasons in real terms. E-bay is a virtual market where there will be shops where people sell goods like automobiles, electronics and everything that is present in the real world. Everything is sold in auction system.


Auction system mean the owner of the product sets a price and keeps it for bidding for a certain period of time. The interested consumers have to bid higher amount and who ever bids the highest at the end of time span will have an opportunity to buy the product. Usually all the transactions of ebay take place in PayPal. Setting up a PayPal account is very simple and it just requires you to have an email account. More about PayPal will be discussed later. Some of the items are sold at a fixed price unlike auction system, so if the consumer wants it, he can buy.
Before you buy an item from anyone check the reputation and reliability of the seller. There are also chances of getting the items at cheaper rate than the one being sold at e-bay, so do background checks and then buy in e-bay.

Website link: http://www.ebay.com

Introduction to Google

Google is one of the best websites of internet which had changed the entire game strategy with its powerful search engine, adsenses, offline viewable Gmail, Google earth, etc. Larry Page and Srgey Brin are the creative heads of Google. If you want to divide the internet era, you can divide it as internet before Google and internet after Google. We will discuss about Google products in detail later, this post is just an introduction to Google and why it is so powerful.

Net users like Google because

The Google search engine algorithm is still indecipherable because it changes its algorithm for every fortnight. You can’t even know what Google is in fifteen days.

Most of its products are free like Gmail, android operating system for mobile users etc.

It had showed how to earn, thousands of dollars, money from a simple blog with no artistic knowledge or technical stuff.

Google Reader is making the users to read the entire web articles in a single place that can collaborate and share their views with others.

Everyone loves Google because it has complete resources for webmaster like analytics, adsenses and for net users with products search (in various forms like images, web, scholar, books etc)

The one downfall of the Google is it sometimes steals your privacy by logging your online actions and movements.