Google Plus: An In-Depth Review

Quick Overview of Google Plus

Google PlusGoogle+ is the latest addition to online social networking, combining Google’s +1 tagging with a photo application, contacts, a personal profile, and other features expected from a social networking site. Google Plus is currently invite-only, and each user has a limit of about 10 invites, similar to the launch of GMail. Google Plus is a potential major competitor to the currently most popular social network, Facebook, and therefore this article will compare the two as part of the exploration.

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Google+ Another Google Product Designed for Nerds

It’s not that Google doesn’t “get” the social web enough to make a large footprint on it, it’s just that they design their products for the kind of people who work there; and that’s a very small percentage of people. Google products are great because they have so many amazing features, the best design, pretty good security, functionality. That’s why we use Google Chrome, Gmail, and Adwords, and of course the search itself. But when it comes to socializing with our friends, functionality isn’t the most important thing.
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306 Awesome Domain Names that are Still Available

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Trying hard to find an available domain name that looks and sounds good? Don’t worry, we’ve all been there before with our new projects. We can get so excited about our website ideas and feel frustrated when we find out that “all of the good domains are already taken”. All of the possible 3 and 4-letter domains have already been purchased. Five-letter domains are running out, and fast. Many people find it almost impossible to settle on a creative name for their websites, especially when they need to take quick, decisive action on their ideas. They end up settling for something that was their 8 or 9th choice, and have to sit with that for years to come.

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Choosing a Domain Name that Works

Choosing a domain nameChoosing a domain name can be one of the most frustrating parts of starting a new website. I know from experience that you can sit literally for hours brainstorming idea after idea with very little progress. The worst part of it is that there seems to be so few names left that are any good anymore! The truth is that there are infinitely many great domains out there for your website idea. If you haven’t found a perfect one yet, don’t rush into buying one; keep trying and eventually you will find something suitable. Believe it or not, choosing a domain name that is marketable is a skill that improves the more you use it.
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America’s 5 Fastest Growing Internet Companies

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Where is all of the new money being made online today? In what areas are the real entrepreneurs coming out to play; who will the new internet moguls be? Are online shopping sites still making the huge gains that they once did when online shopping was first becoming popular? I was interested to find out which of the fastest growing companies in the U.S were doing their business…online.

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Interesting Questions that I Asked Myself Today

I read in a book today that I should write down 100 questions that I can think of, in order to bring up a sense of curiosity. Well, I got to about 20 questions, and I suddenly felt like I had “run out” of questions to ask myself. I suppose that the point of the exercise is to get past the questions on the surface, those 20 or so that are on the top of your head, and get down into the more unconscious questions that you have. This blog post is about the questions that came into my head when I decided to do this exercise.
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Quick Setup for Paypal With PHP, MySQLi and an HTML Form

This is a tutorial on how to set up Paypal payment processing on your website, using PHP, in a way that also allows you to take in other information form the user and save in it your databse.

This tutorial specifically uses the example of adding companies to a database, before charging them a view through Paypal.

First of all, create a file called “connection.php” that holds your database connection data, and add the following code:
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Getting to Grips with Google Charts : Line Chart Tutorial

Something that I’ve been exploring recently is the extraordinary Google Charts API. I have yet to see a very detailed, complete tutorial on how to use this API in a practical way, so I thought that I would be the first :) :)

This is how I’ve been using it: Retrieve data from a MYSQL database, use PHP to organize the data, and create a URL that I use to request a chart from Google Charts.
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How to Retrieve Data from Facebook Using PHP: Tutorial

It has been a while since I’ve done a very technical tutorial on PyThoughts, so I thought I’d write one today. It’s about getting data from Facebook, and the best ways to do that.

1.Using the Graph API

This is by far the easiest way to get data from Facebook, although it might not be a complete solution for you. The method is simple, and I do it like this:
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