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Note: This post will be updated continually, as more methods are discovered and older methods may become useless.

There are millions of websites online. There are over 1 billion net users, that is almost a sixth of the world’s total population. With such huge number of sites come huge abuse of the freedom offered by sites. Abusive sites may include a wide variety of content, which enrages various sections of the society/government/authorities.

Google is known to be very aggressively cracking down on link selling. Link sellers (bloggers/webmasters) are affected, but nobody looks at the other half. Link brokers like Text Link Ads, TNX and Text Link Brokers are losing out. As more advertisers know about the PR nightmare, they tend to draw away from these link brokers and either close out direct deals which are inconspicous, or use CPC/CPA ads.

RSS feed is the hottest trend in web 2.0. They are essentially an easy, effortless way for all of us without the time or energy to visit all of our favourite sites regularly.

Have you ever wished to add emoticons to GMail? If so, here is a Greasemonkey script to add smilies/emoticons.

GMail, to me, is still the best webmail. It has loads of features, a minimalist look, and most of all, is owned by Google. GMail pioneered the AJAXed interface for webmail. Yahoo and Microsoft followed.

Orkut, a popular social networking site owned by Google, had launched a blog on June 25. The first post was made (obviously) by its founder, Orkut Buyukkokten, its founder. The blog introduces itself as Orkut: News and Notes; Your Official Guide to staying beautiful on Orkut.

The blog has become very popular, attaining close to 4000 RSS subscribers (as of today). However,there is no good inside information or posts to merit such a huge number. Must be the novelty of subscribing to the “Official Blog” For those of you sick of it, I recommend InsideOrkut, a blog by an avid Orkut user.