The article mentioned above is a bit technical, let me explain the threat in simplest words and then I will show you how to remove it.

The privacy threat behind Google Buzz:

Consider the snapshot beow:

I you have enabled Google Buzz and when you will click on anyone of your contacts you will see this a screen like above, pretty innocent, hmmm, No!

If you click on the link on the “following” link, you will instantly get all my contacts!

Imagine all my contacts, family members, business contacts,friends and foes etc. Everything exposed! and the best part is that all of this has been done without any explicit statement from Google!

If you have any doubts check this out in your buzz Now!

How to Turn Off Google Buzz Effectively and Safely!

Before you turn of Google Buzz completely, first step is to unfollow everyone, do it mannually and now! This is how you will do it:

1. Click on the Buzz Icon
2. Click on your name

• Click on your Following Link and UnFollow everyone!

Turn Off Google Buzz Until Google Updates its policies:

Scroll Down to bottom of Gmail Window and Click Turn Off Buzz.

This is the worst ever mistake made by Google (made by Google in my Opinion). I will discuss in my future posts about the possible threats about such mistakes from Google or similar companies.

[Update: Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:49 PM] Google has updated there policy about Google Buzz as a response to complains, I am not sure about the consequences yet, check it:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/millions-of-buzz-users-and-improvements.html

• Since users will now be able to see suggestions/blogposts/tweets etc from our contacts, so this opens are whole new platform for Social Media Marketing i.e. if you have established yourself as a friendly guy in any popular social media platform like Facebook, and you are an open Networker i.e. who adds other people as friends without any previous acquittance, then you have a very huge opportunity that you can influence and market a huge number of audience in many diverse niches, all you need is quality content on various topics with a touch of SEO and Google will do the rest of work for you,
• The downside is that now we will see even more social media SPAM
• I am eager to know what will be your stance on this change in SERPs?

• Will you establish yourself as an open networker ?

• If Yes, what will the effects on your personal life? Will you manage multiple accounts? What will be the ethics in this case?

• If No, will you miss this opportunity? Will this refrain others from using social media for even more marketing purposes?

• What can be best practices,ethically, to use this opportunity to market products and services on social media, with special reference this recent update?

I will try to answer this in my coming posts, but I need your feedback too.

However,it should be noted that, it is among the best practices to create new test profiles when you are testing our filters or other advanced analytics setups. The reason is that it is not unusual that some of your experiments might turn out to be wrong or do not meet your specific requirements, if you have multiple profiles, then you can safely delete the newly created one without loss of critical data. You should have one untouched raw analytics profile, always.

Having said that, lets move towards our setup, I have already created a new profile for the same website and name it “Filtered Traffic”

As soon as you create the new profile, click the edit button and scroll down to see the “Add New Filter” option.

Kindly note that Google Analytics have 2 types of Filter Setups,i.e. Predefined and Custom, we will select the Custom Filter.

Now select the Visitor Country option to mention the excluded region.

Now in the “Filter Pattern” box, enter your desired value or values.e.g. Filter Pattern: brazil|Argentina

Note:The pipe symbol | allows for multiples within the same pattern. Thus, you can mention one or many countries in the same pattern.

Another way is to put country names you want to exclude separated with | sign, and enclose it with ( ) in Filter Pattern field. For example if you want to exclude traffic stats from China, Australia and India the  filter pattern will be(China|Australia|India) . And that’s all, now save this filter by clicking “Save Changes” button.

Kindly note that | and () are regular expressions, they have many uses, read about them at: Google’s Help Page

I am setting up analytics for my new projects and hence my future posts will around this topic. If you like to be informed about future posts, kindly subscribe to RSS of this blog. Also I have taken help and inspiration for this post from WasimAsif’s blog, thanks to him.

To create a compelling brand story, you need to move beyond a simple cataloging of your product and benefits and answer questions about your purpose, your identity and what exactly your position is in the marketplace.
This begins with a series of questions that you ask internally:

• Who are we?
• Why do we do what we do?
• What do we care about?
• What’s our purpose?
• Why do we matter to the people that we do business with?
• What would we want people to say about us when they are satisfied?
• What would we want people to say about us when they are dissatisfied?
• What will we absolutely not do?
• What are we most proud of?

The internal questions are followed by an examination of the external environment:

• Who are our competitors?
• How are we different?
• How are we the same?
• What is their story?
• What do people say about them when they are satisfied?
• What do people say about them when they are dissatisfied?
• What are the things that our competitors do to tell their story?

The process of answering these questions is very clarifying, albeit fraught with anxiety and uncertainty. The stressful emotions stem from identifying those attributes about your organization and your product that you may have focused on as key differentiators that are,in the stark light of a honest assessment, of minimal value to your customer and minimally different in the marketplace. As you work through the process, however, you see more clearly the power of your true points of difference, and as you develop the story about your brand, you end up in a place that is more powerful and extendable than where you began.

In Web 2.0 summit, Google’s Marissa Mayer,Vice President of Search Product and User Experience; announced a new Google product called “Social Search”. This product will be available soon in Google Labs. Some of the salient features of Google’s Social Search are as follows:

• allows you to see results for queries from people in your social network
• Makes use of your Google Profile
• If you allow it will scan other social networks too,you’re a member of.
• Obviously the activities on Twitter,Face book and other social networks will be more worthwhile. The Outcomes:

I think that services like this will bring a lot of innovation in search too, much similar to Google Wave as compared with Email.

The product reviews and user comments will bring a new challenge for companies.

What do you think about the changes it will bring? I know it is pretty much early to say anything, but lets put our judgment to a little test ! Share your thoughts in the comments below.

“An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of an enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. It is an ambitious leader who combines land, labor, and capital to often create and market new goods or services.”

So entrepreneurship is quite a “buzz word” nowadays; every now and then we hear success stories of young and ambitious businessmen who managed to attain success and recognition in their early phase of life, when their peers are working miserable jobs that they hate!

Without going into further details about “What is entrepreneurship?” and “What are the merits or demerits(if there are any) involved in this particular mindset?”, I will today summarize some of my readings about the “Entrepreneurs” who have revealed to the “rest of us” the actual mind set and methodology that enabled them to achieve exceptional success I do not know whether I am still in the age group that is qualified enough to be called “Entrepreneurs”, but I strongly believe that whatever age group you belong to, these steps and mind set tips, will surely lead to “The Destination of an Entrepreneur.”

Decide on what kind of work you’re interested in:

This is the most basic step and the most overlooked too, you ought to clarify your destination before you start a journey. Set Goal for yourself and you should have interest in it. Do not think of the money value for now, just follow your instincts; remember it’s your life and you have got one chance to live it, so live your life according to your taste, live it to maximum!

You should wake up excited for your work:

Passion and never ending quest for improving and success are the building blocks of a successful and leading personality. If you hate your work, you can never feel passionate about it and without this passion you can never excel!

You have to prove your worth, Stop acting like you’re entitled to a paycheck:

This is the basic psychological barrier between an Entrepreneur and all the fresh graduates or other qualified people; they think they deserve a higher salary. Now I do not want anyone to set himself at low standard, but try to think it the other way. Your expectations abstain you, from doing basic work by hand, and to polish your skills. Remember that without practical experience qualifications are of no value. You can give anyone a day long lecture on “How to Swim?” but if that person really needs to learn “Swimming” he has to jump into the water and make struggle and effort to keep his head high above the water. Without taking the practical step, none can learn swimming and similarly without practically indulging into work of your expertise; and without proving your worth with practical results you should not expect a Paycheck. When anyone acts like being “entitled to a paycheck” he is actually refraining himself from taking challenging and responsibilities, and without this you can only dream to be an entrepreneur. So start doing what you are passionate about and forget the paycheck for now and you will be better paid off later. Postpone getting paid now, for amazing opportunities later.

Get yourself some skills:

The older we get, the more responsibilities and financial obligations drop into our laps. Now is the time to begin creating the life you desire… before it’s too late.

If your skill set on your resume consists of "Proficient in Microsoft Office," then you have no marketable skills. Knowing how to create a document, format a PowerPoint, or organize a spreadsheet are not things you can brag about — those are things every employer expects, like knowing how to pronounce your own name, or remaining continent during office hours.

You need to have actual skills that are both in high demand (in your desired industry) and slightly difficult to learn. You’ll be extremely valuable if your skill is both rare and in high demand.

it’s a sad fact that few people have the drive to teach themselves the rudiments of their craft. And employers will respect those with the passion that do.

Build your online presence:

In this era of Information Technology, building an online presence is a crucial step, however this is a topic of more detailed article and I will explain it later on in another blog post. For now, I urge all my readers to think about all the above points and share your views with me.

I have been willing to write an article like that for a long time, but in the midst of my busy routine I lost the passion to write it. Today, I read the presentation by Charlie Hoehn and I was just stimulated to write this post. I have quoted deliberately from this presentation and I very thankful to Charlie Hoehn because he returned me my lost passion!

This posted is specially for my MIT class-fellows at Virtual University.

I have full time job as an Internet Marketing Manager in a reputed firm. Since internet is becoming a part of our everyday life I have thought to create a series of articles to increase your/my Internet IQ, this means “the awareness to use internet for create purpose”. Like many of you, I have been receiving many emails of “Get Rich Schemes” and “Earn money from home” etc. As every sensible person knows, there is no short cut to success, I have been in this field for almost 5 years and there is only one way to get success i.e. hard work and updated knowledge.
So to share my knowledge with you people I will post various informative articles on my blog and I will email you whenever I will post something new, this way our knowledge will grow. I will post informative and easy articles, if you have got any question or trouble understanding them, you can always ask me.
Also if any of you want to share his/her knowledge I will be delighted to know, but please friends only share knowledge and useful things, no get rich schemes etc.

So here is my first article:

What is RSS? How to use RSS Feed?

RSS stands for “Really simple syndication” and it is one of the most useful aspects of every good website and it helps us to save our time.

RSS is a summary of new and updated content of any website and if you like any website due to its useful knowledge, and this website also has RSS, then by using it’s RSS you will always know immediately whenever new information is posted and you do not need to remember the address of website or check it for new information. RSS automates this process.

Remember getting an RSS is always Free and easy.

Important Note:

The process of getting RSS is called “Subscribe to RSS”. This is the correct technical term and you should remember it “Subscribe to RSS”. From now on, I will use this term and this will mean “Get RSS”. Also RSS is sometimes called “RSS Feed”. So if you read this term anywhere do not get confused “RSS Feed = RSS”.

The standard icon for RSS is

whenever you see this icon anywhere on internet then this means that the page which you are seeing is available through RSS and if you like it, you can get it.

How to use RSS?

I have covered the basics of RSS, now we talk how to get RSS or Subscribe RSS. Remember, to subscribe RSS you will need a “Reader” , a special RSS Reader. Again RSS Reader is a common thing and it is free. The best RSS Reader is from Google, it is available with regular Gmail account and requires no special procedure. Google RSS Reader is called “Google Reader” and you can get it from this link “http://www.google.com/reader“. Kindly note this link for future reference.

Whenever you will try to get an RSS of any website, it will ask you about the RSS Reader of your choice, remember to choose Google for this purpose, it is best, easy and free. I explain the method of getting a RSS Feed below.

Below I will tell you as an example, How to Get RSS Feed for this blog, kindly do all the steps as I tell you and the process is simple for all other websites.

Example:
• Look for the “Subscribe RSS Button/Icon”. You can find link for this site’s RSS on the top-right side, when you find it, click it.  
• After you do this, you will get a screen, as shown below,When you get on this page, remember to click Google:
• After this step you will see two options,click “Google Reader”
• When you click it, you will be taken to your Google Account, type in your Gmail username and password, and you will see Google Reader, as below:
• Congratulation, you have learnt successfully “How to Subscribe to RSS Feed”

If you have any problems, feel free to email me and I will help you in every possible way,

There were two purposes of this article, first to tell you how to subscribe RSS Feed and second, to provide you an automatic alert when I will post new articles. Now, whenever I will post new article it will be seen in your “Google Reader”. So you do not have to come to this site again and again for new information.

I recommend you to view the video below, then I continue my post.

So this is Nick Vujicic, I had not heard him before, but a little search revealed much about him. Below is a short overview of his life without limits.!

The best thing I like about Nick Vujicic, is that he has grasped the True meaning of Belief in God, although he is a Christian (and I am not.) but the think I liked about him is that he has understood the most important things about God, fate and struggle in life that most people (no matter whichever religion they follow) fail to understand. In the following video Nick tells you How he managed to live happily? Do not look it as a Christian perspective only, view it as way to understand the concept God.

Nick Vujicic is now a motivational speaker. Check his videos on youtube.

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