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	<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 02:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Microsoft Live - Powered with Discounts !!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 20:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reboot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s struggle to spearhead into search engine market has taken a new dimension. Microsoft announced today that they will be offering discounts to their consumers who perform internet shopping via Microsoft&#8217;s search engine. Using Live search, consumers will get a refund from the participating merchants when they order an item. The merchant&#8217;s discounts may vary [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Microsoft&#8217;s struggle to spearhead into search engine market has taken a new dimension. Microsoft announced today that they will be offering discounts to their consumers who perform internet shopping via Microsoft&#8217;s search engine. Using Live search, consumers will get a refund from the participating merchants when they order an item. The merchant&#8217;s discounts may vary between 2 to 20 percent. Undoubtedly, Google is the dominant leader in search engine market. However, Microsoft&#8217;s attempt will certainly bring new air into this field.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://www.live.com">http://www.live.com</a> See the cashback logo on right side of the search bar.</p>
<p><img class="alignright" style="float: right;" src="http://www.touchmyblog.com/wp-content/themes/freedom-blog/images/cashback.jpg" alt="Microsoft cashback" width="415" height="163" /></p>
<p><img class="alignleft" style="float: left;" src="http://www.touchmyblog.com/wp-content/themes/freedom-blog/images/featured merchants.jpg" alt="Featured Merchants" width="377" height="220" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">You need to create an account for visiting the merchant&#8217;s site. I could find almost all major line of merchants like Circuit city, homedepot, Sears, newegg, barnes &amp; nobles, ebags and many more.<br />
I didn&#8217;t tried purchasing anything from here yet to recommend to use this or not. But if you are buying from these sites directly, it is better to take the advantage of this discounts.</p>
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		<title>Why Not Bet on Yourself ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 14:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reboot</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below is an &#8220;as is&#8221; extract from the book Psycho Cybernetics by Maltz Maxwell written in 1960. I thought to rewrite below para for this blog purpose, but I have decided to publish as is to retain its original flavor. Read it carefully and see how each word has deep meaning that reflects in each of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Below is an &#8220;as is&#8221; extract from the book Psycho Cybernetics by Maltz Maxwell written in 1960. I thought to rewrite below para for this blog purpose, but I have decided to publish as is to retain its original flavor. Read it carefully and see how each word has deep meaning that reflects in each of us.<br />
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Nothing in this world is ever absolutely certain or guaranteed. Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one&#8217;s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.</p>
<p>We often think of courage in terms of heroic deeds on the battlefield, in a shipwreck, or similar crisis. But everyday living requires courage, too, if it is to be effective.</p>
<p>Standing still, failure to act, causes people who are faced with a problem to become nervous, feel &#8220;stymied&#8221; &#8220;trapped,&#8221; and can bring on a host of physical symptoms.</p>
<p>I tell such people: &#8220;Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise - and go ahead. If we wait until we are absolutely certain and sure before we act we will never do anything. Any time you act you can be wrong. Any decision you make can turn out to be the wrong one. But we must not let this deter us from going after the goal we want. You must daily have the courage to risk making mistakes, risk failure, risk being humiliated. A step in the wrong direction is better than staying &#8220;on the spot&#8221; all your life. Once you&#8217;re moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you&#8217;re stalled, &#8220;standing still.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Fun time !!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 23:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reboot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to explain anything on this.. just watch it !!

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t want to explain anything on this.. just watch it !!</p>
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		<title>Social Tools - The Big talk !!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reboot</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;Social&#8221; has never been so popular on internet after series of social websites came into existance. Social websites got into quick success one after another and few dominated demographically like Myspace, Facebook more popular in US, UK. Google&#8217;s Orkut more into Indian subcontinent. Whatever is the service, the bottomline is same.. more social [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The word &#8220;Social&#8221; has never been so popular on internet after series of social websites came into existance. Social websites got into quick success one after another and few dominated demographically like Myspace, Facebook more popular in US, UK. Google&#8217;s Orkut more into Indian subcontinent. Whatever is the service, the bottomline is same.. more social tools for users to interact with their friends and family. And there came social bookmarking to share urls with others. An intelligent guy posted nice video on social bookmarking, it worth watching-</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="355" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x66lV7GOcNU&amp;hl=en" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="355" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x66lV7GOcNU&amp;hl=en" wmode="transparent"></embed></object></p>
<p>Just lately Google announced its upcoming product Friend connect that helps users to view friends from all other social websites. Not just Google, myspace and facebook announced last week about profile sharing accross other sites. The service providers are getting into more &#8220;social&#8221; with each other and thats really a good thing for users.</p>
<p>With more social sites getting popular around, sites offering SEO services scope has expanded alot. This gives more opporutnity for website owners to promote their site using various tools. I have seen myself the amount of traffic flowing from social sites is pretty good.</p>
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		<title>Powerset - Powered by Wikipedia !!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 02:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reboot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you Wikipedia?? Everyone does.. don&#8217;t they?? Quench for knowledge is never ending.. hmm..
Now you can ask questions to Wikipedia&#8230; how??
Goto http://www.powerset.com
Just type in a question and hit enter&#8230;  see the results for yourself. Powerset is entirely different search process and the results are quite close to the questions asked. Try it!!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you Wikipedia?? Everyone does.. don&#8217;t they?? Quench for knowledge is never ending.. hmm..</p>
<p>Now you can ask questions to Wikipedia&#8230; how??</p>
<p>Goto <a href="http://www.powerset.com">http://www.powerset.com</a></p>
<p>Just type in a question and hit enter&#8230;  see the results for yourself. Powerset is entirely different search process and the results are quite close to the questions asked. Try it!!</p>
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		<title>Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool Alternatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 21:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reboot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Has Overture tool vanished ? people who are depended on Overture went haywire and still hoping it will come back soon. Recently I read on internet that the tool is still active but due to heavy traffic users are experiencing timeouts. No doubt that this tool has provided an invaluable service till now and Overture is not the only [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has Overture tool vanished ? people who are depended on Overture went haywire and still hoping it will come back soon. Recently I read on internet that the tool is still active but due to heavy traffic users are experiencing timeouts. No doubt that this tool has provided an invaluable service till now and Overture is not the only tool does this. There are few other tools too, I have listed few alternatives who are looking as an alternatives for Overture.</p>
<p>1. This is a product of Trellian, the makers of Submit Wolf software. This works pretty similar to overture, looks very reliable and professional. Give it a try !!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html">http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html</a></p>
<p>2. Google&#8217;s adwords tool is exceptional. Play around with this to see the magic it does. The only thing I didnt found useful is it doesn&#8217;t give search volume in numbers.</p>
<p><a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal">https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal</a></p>
<p>3. Again Google is back with its another product Google Trends, this tool will give you demographic stats aswell. But again, no search count stats.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/trends">http://www.google.com/trends</a></p>
<p>Thats all pretty much from me today <img src='http://www.touchmyblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> ..</p>
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		<title>Google Sky Alter-Ego !!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reboot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Star gazing has never been so easy with internet. Google expanded horizons beyond earth by adding a sky tool to Google Earth and enabled everyone to explore stars for free. Its almost after an year Google released web version for internet users (www.google.com/sky).
With no suprises Microsoft announced recently about their new product Worldwide Telescope. Users will be able [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Star gazing has never been so easy with internet. Google expanded horizons beyond earth by adding a sky tool to Google Earth and enabled everyone to explore stars for free. Its almost after an year Google released web version for internet users (<a href="http://www.google.com/sky">www.google.com/sky</a>).</p>
<p>With no suprises Microsoft announced recently about their new product Worldwide Telescope. Users will be able to zoom in much deeper into outer space images. The data is collected from different telescopes including Hubble telescope and uses Microsoft&#8217;s Visual Experience Engine to . The initial release would be in 2nd quarter of 2008. Something that always keeps me wondering about Microsoft, they copy lot of ideas from others.. !! They never have ideas of their own. Atleast lets see if this new product is better than Google sky.</p>
<p>Now the fun part. What if you can&#8217;t go to Moon. You can send your name to Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. see the below link.. The deadline is June 27, 08.  You will get a participation certificate as well, kids will love this !!</p>
<p><a href="http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.php">http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.php</a></p>
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		<title>Best place to buy domain names</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 14:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reboot</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Domains]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[domain names]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was back in 2001 when buying domain names were completly an alien subject for me. My friend advised me about goddady.com, he is a big fan of godaddy and can&#8217;t stop praising how cheap they sell. As a matter of fact, their prices are always cheap, easy to transfer, easy to manage domains and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was back in 2001 when buying domain names were completly an alien subject for me. My friend advised me about goddady.com, he is a big fan of godaddy and can&#8217;t stop praising how cheap they sell. As a matter of fact, their prices are always cheap, easy to transfer, easy to manage domains and the list goes on. You can save atleast $1 - $2 with discount coupon codes for godaddy on internet very easily (this is the best part). <br />
<img src="http://www.touchmyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/godaddy.gif" alt="Godaddy" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> Another one I got to mention is namecheap.com I started into namecheap when I bought a domain and wanted to save transfer fee. As I started using namecheap I loved it morethan godaddy. Its domain management is easy even for first timers. It has earned good fan base because of its simplicity. With each domain purchase/transfer you get one year free Whois guard subscription and after $2.88/yr (compared to $6.99 with godaddy) </p>
<p>As I started using more of these two services. I didn&#8217;t like the series of steps to checkout in godaddy&#8230; the list of all products pages, offers and what not.. huh !! The private registration that I got for free when I bought bunch of domains are sticked to my domains and godaddy pushed me to renew it aswell without giving me an option to renew just my domain names. I hated at this point how my little savings made earlier on domain names with coupon codes were gone in wind with extra premium.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.touchmyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/namecheap.gif" alt="Namecheap logo" /></p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t cared if namecheap has coupon codes or not. I tried on internet to look for some but never able to find one.  Something to ponder about !! Looks like they dont need to boost sales as they might have enough sales.</p>
<p>Godaddy is still ok as long as I&#8217;m watchful what it is doing to me. So, friends Go Name cheap !!!!</p>
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