Over the past few weeks, we’ve introduced quite a few improvements to Windows Live. I thought it would be nice to list all those improvements in a single blog post for everyone to read.

New web activities: 20 new third-party feed partners were added to Windows Live including Facebook, Digg, and SmugMug. MySpace will also be added in the coming months, so that MySpace customers can share activities and updates from MySpace to people in their Windows Live network.

By adding new feed partners to Windows Live, it’s easier for you to connect your activities various blogging sites, social networks and photo sharing sites and share them with your friends in your Windows Live network. This update will make it easier for the 500 Million users who are active on Windows live today to connect their activities on these partner sites and share them with their friends on Windows Live.

For instance, when you add the Facebook web activity – any photo, video, note or status update you make on Facebook will now appear on Windows Live via your What’s New feed. When you add Digg, any article you “digg” or submit to Digg, will now appear on Windows Live via your What’s New feed. Since Windows Live is global, it’s interesting to note that fourteen of the 20 new feed partners are headquartered in countries outside of the United States. According to Comscore, Hyves is the top social network in the Netherlands, and Metroflog is a top social network in Argentina.

There are quite a few partner web activities you can add today! Check them out by going to your Windows Live Profile and choosing “Web activities” in the lower left-hand corner of your profile

Add new contacts to Windows Live: MySpace, hi5, and Tagged join Facebook and LinkedIn as contact partners on Windows Live. Now you can exchange contacts between Windows Live and these five social networks and vice versa.

Messenger has come to Hotmail: Now you can IM through the web via Windows Live Hotmail. You can sign-in to Windows Live Messenger directly from within Hotmail and exchange IMs with your Messenger contacts.

If you are ever on a PC that doesn’t have Windows Live Messenger installed, just go to your Hotmail inbox and sign in to Messenger there to chat with your contacts. Once you sign-in, you can browse your contacts via your People page. If you are signed in to Messenger while checking your Hotmail and a contact sends you an IM, a toast will pop up in the lower right-hand corner of the page just as it does on a PC. For more details on Web IM in Windows Live Hotmail – see this blog post from Antonia on the Windows Live Team Blog.

Arrange your Photos in Windows Live SkyDrive: I blogged about this last week. Windows Live SkyDrive now allows you to arrange your photos in any order you want (thanks to Silverlight).

In one of your Photos folders on SkyDrive just click “Sort” and choose “Arrange photos”.

Photos of you: A new entry point has been added to Windows Live Profile pages called “Photos of you”. Essentially, this new link will take you to a page of photos tagged with a specific person (or yourself). It’s a great way to see all the photos your friends appear in or photos you appear in.

SkyDrive takes your Favorites: All your Favorites from favorites.live.com are now automatically moved to SkyDrive where you can use Windows Live Toolbar to sync your Favorites with Internet Explorer on your PCs.

And the Windows Live Sync website has now been integrated with the new Windows Live UI we launched with this last fall.

The new Windows Live Sync website makes a huge difference in managing your personal and shared folders and managing the PCs you are syncing them with.

Enjoy the improvements to Windows Live!

Rob Dolin, Program Manager for Windows Live, just announced over on the Windows Live Team Blog new Web Activities such as Facebook, Digg, and SmugMug will be hitting Windows Live next week. He also announced that MySpace, Hi5, and Tagged will join Facebook and LinkedIn as contact partners. These contact partners allow you to invite your friends to Windows Live and vice versa. And in the next few months, MySpace customers will be able to share updates and activities from MySpace on Windows Live. For more information – read Rob’s blog post and take a look at the Q&A with Brian Hall, General Manager for the Windows Live Business Group, over on PressPass.

3 new Plug-ins for Windows Live Writer were recently release that I think bloggers who live and breath in Windows Live Writer (such as myself) will appreciate. These plug-ins were created by the awesome Windows Live Writer Team here at Microsoft.

DiggThis – Add a “DiggThis” badge to your blog posts so your readers can quickly “digg” your blog posts. The plug-in offers several different “styles” of badges to choose from, as well as alignment options for where its placed on your blog. Download the plug-in here.

Twitter Notify: This plug-in will automatically “tweet” the title and link to your blog to your Twitter account when you publish a blog post. Download the plug-in here.

Flickr Upload: When you insert an inline image in a blog post in Windows Live Writer it also uploads that image to Flickr you when publish your post. Download the plug-in here.

You can download the latest version of Windows Live Writer in the new Windows Live Essentials suite today at download.live.com. Some of the new features include:

• Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums
• Insert and publish video to YouTube
• Server-side tagging (support coming soon to WordPress.com and BlogEngine.NET)
• Improved blog account setup

And there is more! You can read about what’s new in the latest Windows Live Writer release via the Windows Live Writer Team Blog.

Windows Live Writer is a must-have tool for bloggers.

Before Submit Your URL :Add your URL to more search engines is easy and it give a high trafic to your site .”Do not submit more than one time to individual search engine .some search engines not take these type sites”.

Important Instructions:

1. Do not submit mirror sites. Mirror sites are sites that contain identical content, but have altogether different URLs.
2. Do not submit URLs that contain only the same or similar content as other sites you may have listed in the directory. Sites with overlapping and repetitive content are not helpful to users of the directory. Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites.
3. Do not disguise your submission and submit the same URL more than once.Example: http://www.dmoz.org and http://www.dmoz.org/index.html
4. Do not submit any site with an address that redirects to another address

Use Of Search Engines In All Over The World

• 80% of the users use Google as search engine
• 7.6% of the users use yahoo to search web
• 3.7% users prefer Msn and live
• 8% of users use baidu,a chinese search engine
• altavista netscape ask guruji and others compose the rest

Are you read the above sentences , I hope you understand that .First Submit To The Google , Yahoo , MSN . and then your choice …

1. Google
2. Yahoo!
3. MSN.COM
4. USFreeAds
5. SOOTLE.COM (new)
6. Big Clique
7. SubmitOne
8. OPN.COM
9. CLICKBANK
10. Scrub the web
11. Jayde
12. Altavista
13. Walhello.Com
14. Qango.Com
15. WhatUSeek.com
16. Azoos.com
17. LinksTraffic
18. AdvertiseReport.com
19. Tower Search
20. DinoSearch
21. HotLaunch
22. SearchRamp
23. Search Monster
24. InfoSCom pace
25. Searchit.com
26. Search The Web
27. Free Ad Center
28. ExactSeek NetSearch
29. Search King
30. Shoula.com
31. WebMarket
32. The-Search-Site
33. SearchWarp
34. Splat Search
35. MixCat.Com
36. WebSquash
37. BestYellow
38. EXCITE
39. Beamed.Com
40. Un?Asked
41. SightQuest
42. SearchAve.Com
43. Evisum.Com
44. SunStream.com
45. TYGO SEARCH
46. Try America
47. ADLANDPRO.com

Google

How many people do use google..? can you imagine,its more than 26 million a day.Google search engine came into use in the year1998.

The search engines that are used by search engine users overal.

1. google.com -39%
2. google.co.uk -3.9%
3. google.de -2.8%
4. google.com.br -3.1%
5. google.co.jp -2.7%
6. google.com.mx -1.27%
7. google.es -1.82%
8. google.pl -1.82%
9. google.fr -1.62%
10. google.com.tr -1.52%
11. google.ca - 1.55%
12. google.co.in -1.54%
13. google.com.sa -1.4%
14. google.cl -1.2%
15. google.cn -1.68%
16. google.com.ar -1.13%
17. google.it -.86%
18. google.co.il -.9%
19. google.com.au -.95%
20. google.com.eg -.86%
21. google.co.ve -.52%
22. google.nl -.53%
23. google.com.tw -.54%
24. google.com.vn -.54%
25. goole.com.co -.47%
26. google.co.th -.5%
27. google.ae -.367%
28. google.ro -.45%
29. google.pt -.43%
30. google.ru -.51%
31. google.se -.4%
32. google.sg -.5%
33. google.gr -.32%
34. google.com.my -.37%
35. google.lt -.3%
36. google.hu .26%
37. google.be .3%
38. google.co.ma -23%
39. google.com.hk -.34%
40. google.ch .26%
41. google.at .21%
42. google.sk .17%

These are using the results of Google

• Blogger . 6%
• myspace .1%
• Aol .24%

Yahoo…!

Yahoo is getting almost 30 million visitors daily and its performance is constant.You should keep in mind people’s mind is turning towards internet drastically but yahoo’s performance is constant with 30 million visitors daily.

• Search.yahoo.com- 6.47%
• search.yahoo.co.jp- 1.05%
• search.cn - .1%

Msn and live

Msn sister of microsoft is the search engine of microsoft and they are redirecting it to live,an another search engine with improvised features.

• search.msn.com - 1.18%
• search.live.com - 2%
• search.msn.cn - .01
• search.msn.cn - .26%
• search.msn.com.br - .39%

Baidu.com of china

Baidu is a search engine of china ,its the most used search engine in china.Its really amazing a search engine based in only one country is getting 4th highest trafic.Its the firest to provide features like wap and pda based mobile search.

• baidu.com- 6.91%

Ask ,Altavista, Netscape

• Ask - .62%
• altavista - .39%
• netscape - .3%

And there are many small search engines or those which are using the search results of gaints.

Meaning of Yahoo, Adidas, Good bye / types of mouse And History Of Mouse / types of USB Drives with figures with breaf note / types of Random Access Memory (RAM) / types of PLOTTERS explanation with figure / Magneto-Optical Disk internal stracture / About Microprocessor / How to add URL to search engines /Intresting blog America blog /About Laptops/Notebooks / Keyboard Shotcut keys /Google is give me the deleted blog /Google platform, peoples /Why computers not show correct date and time / SecurityToken Message / Windows Charecter Map /error message in status bar /Language converter, translator/Why we Upgrade our hardware for Windows Vista

Apparently web 2.0 has already hit and we are basking in its sunlight. Whilst this may be true, it feels more like a mild day and a few clouds have cleared. To be honest I think Web 2.0 received much more hype and attention than it ought to have. Don’t get me wrong, when I believe it has truly arrived I will be out on the deck chair basking in it I just don’t think we have quite gotten there yet. It’s hard to know whether some web adaptations have come about because of this web 2.0 or because of natural web evolution. After all, isn’t web 2.0 just that?

In terms of mainstream usage which affects practically everybody on the internet, I really don’t recall seeing that much come out of Web 2.0 other than RSS and different usages of tagging; seen in services like flickr, social bookmarking and media services like digg, del.icio.us etc. Then you have mybloglog, myspaces and other social network sites. These are all fantastic, I love and use all of these any many more. But, is that really it?

Tagging

Tagging has undoubtedly changed the way we view, navigate, consume and organise information over the internet from the original ‘hyperlinking concept’ Tim Berner’s Lee first delivered on.

“Hyperlinking was a concept published in July 1945, in an essay by Vannevar Bush called “As We May Think” The fact is Tim Berners-Lee was the first person too actually put the concept of hyperlinking to use. Tim Berners-Lee demonstrated the concept of hyperlinks in the very first web page.”

Traditionally you would find a site you like and bookmark the URL, allowing you to return to it at a later date. The more bookmarks you had, the harder became to find what you were looking for. One big hole here was obviously categorizing information to make it easier to find what you want. Folders just don’t cut it. Enter the present day, tagging is the new way of organising and categorising information. Just look at technorati, they currently index over 55 million blogs that are tagged, organised and categorised.

RSS Feeds

Really simple syndication feeds again changed the way users consumed information on the internet. Rather than having to go out and visit your favourite links to see if content had been updated, it was sent straight to you in your favourite RSS reader. This change is like getting the morning newspaper delivered to your door every morning. Only you get content you have subscribed to over the internet delivered to you whenever new content has been updated.

Gadgets

Gadgets seem to be all the hype now, Mac has had them for as long as I can remember, google sidebar has them, yahoo has them, Microsoft’s live service has them, Windows Vista has them. What’s the purpose of gadgets? To blur the line and distinction between the desktop and the internet. You might have an RSS gadget which allows you to get RSS feeds sent straight to your desktop. This brings the internet just that little bit closer to your desktop without having to open up a browser or RSS reader. Whilst not as popular, gadgets were around before the craziness of what everyone is coining web 2.0.

Greater connectivity and interfacing

Thanks to innovations like google and their google mail, calendar, notebook, reader, desktop and army of other google services we are starting to see much greater inter-connectivity between services. Use one account to connect to them all. Microsoft have finally gotten their act together in a similar fashion with their Live service. Though I believe google are playing more to their strengths and Microsoft simply see it as something they have to get into. I doubt Microsoft is going to be able to strong arm google in its current position though.

But where is the semantic web?

Around the time I first started hearing a lot about web 2.0 was when I was studying and working in the field of semantic web and ontology’s; writing intelligent agents that make use of semantic language and ontology’s to reason with each other and things in their domain. HTML is great for humans, it has been presenting information in a way that humans can make sense of it for years. But it means nothing to a computer. HTML does nothing to describe the type of data being presented. This was what XML was for. Plenty of white papers were written on the potential semantic markup could offer the internet and search engines but there hasn’t been much (to my knowledge) substance stem from it. Imagine how much more information would be available if the entire internet really was classified in taxonomies, nestled in ontology’s, relationships built through predicates, and searching capabilities extended to utilise this great power.

Web 2.0 has given us a new delivery system (RSS) and provided us with new ways to find and organise relevant information; through the use of tagging. Social media and bookmarking sites have mushroomed to create inter-connected communities and networks of people sharing knowledge and information. But where is my semantic web? Maybe semantic web was never going to be apart of the new generation of the internet; web 2.0.