You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like get alert notifications, save bookmarks to delicious, manage web calendars, set reminders, write blogs, and so much more.

Such features can be easily integrated into Google Talk through ‘bots’ which, in simple English, are like virtual friends who are online 24×7 and will always respond with a smile to your questions or requests.

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WhoIsHostingThis, a free service that helps you determine the web host of any website, has published a list of web hosting providers that are popular among the top 100 blogs according to Technorati.

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Here’s a collection of most useful blog add-ons or extras that can be easily integrated with any website and will help in enhancing your visitors’ experience.

All these 15 add-ons are free and you don’t have to be a geek to use them on your site.

1. Google Talk Badge - This badge will enable site visitors to get in touch with you quickly. They won’t need a Google account and the badge is enabled only when you are online. Alternative is meebo me.

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People who are not web designers can compress CSS files in three easy ways:

(a) Strip whitespaces like spaces, tabs, etc.
(b) Remove all unused CSS classes & IDs
(c) Use shorthand mode (use #CCC instead of #CCCCCC, replace 1.0em with 1em, etc)

Now all these are very minor changes but quickly add up and may make your CSS file lighter by a few kilobytes. This translates to faster web pages as smaller files take relatively less time to download.

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Last week, I acquired an existing web domain digitalinspiration.com from a domain reseller since the URL matches just perfectly with my blog title - Digital Inspiration.

The web domain broker company initially quoted $1,600 for this domain but after some quick negotiations, we closed the deal at around $1,100.

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TIME Magazine today released a list of top 25 blogs which they say are the best blogs in the world for 2008 - good read and worth saving to your del.icio.us bookmarks.

Though the TIME’s list includes most usual suspects like TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Post Secret, Engadget, etc, you may disover other awesome blogs that are still not in your reading list like Web 2.Oh or this dull blog.

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Most high traffic websites in India are related to Bollywood, adult videos, Banking, SMS and mobile phone companies, travel booking, online file sharing, MP3 Songs and Pirated Software.