Here’s the Part 2 of ‘What all happens on internet every 60 seconds’ . Check it out and just like everyone else across the globe, stay amazed.

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• Subscribe to feeds through email or RSS Feed Readers like Google Reader, FeedDemon, NetVibes, etc.
• Statistics about feed subscribers which helps in analyzing the the readership through feeds.
• Browser Friendly – Presents the feeds in a neat format across all the web browsers as compared to WordPress Feeds.
• Monetize the feeds by putting Google Adsense ads.

How to re-direct WordPress feeds to Feedburner through .htaccess file?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-] )?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/techlisherblog [R=302,NC,L]
</IfModule>

What makes Steve Jobs very special in Jason McCabe Calacanis’ words:

1. Unrelenting attention to detail.
2. Impeccable taste.
3. Indefatigable passion.
4. Absolute conviction.
5. Unwavering vision.
6. Boundless curiosity.
7. Mercurial motivator.

One or two of these will help you make a living.

Three or four of these will make you successful.

Four of five of these will make you a legend.

Five or six of these will make you iconic for all time.

All seven will make you Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs is undoubtedly the inspiration to all of us. Here are the 25 best quotes from Steve Jobs that shall continue to inspire us. Tweet them, mention them in your Facebook updates, stick them to your the walls of your study room or office boards.

What’s your favorite Steve Jobs quote? Do share in the comments below.

Steve Jobs on Entrepreneurship

• “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”
•  “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
• “A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”
•  “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
• “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
• “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
• “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
• “The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.”

Steve Jobs on Design

• “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
• “In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
• “To design something really well you have to get it.  You have to really grok what it’s all about.  It takes a passionate commitment to thoroughly understand something – chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.  Most people don’t take the time to do that… The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better designs we will have.”
• “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
• “You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

Steve Jobs on Execution

• “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
• “I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.”
• “I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
• “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”

Steve Jobs on building successful organisations

• “The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”
• “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
• “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”

Steve Jobs on Death

• “…death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
• “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life”
• “… almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

Nearly 80% of the business organisations have their presence on one or more social networks. So, there’re a plenty of opportunities out there for those who aspire to take social media as a career. Undoubtedly, social media is seen to be the next big thing on the internet. Voltier Creative, an online content marketing company has come up with this informative and extensive infographic to guide those who want to get into the social media space. It covers several aspects of the social media space – job responsibilities, profile of working social strategists, traits which define the success in this space, etc. If you’re in anyway interested in the social media space, go on and read this infographic for further info:

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My conversation with this friend of mine made me realize that it’s not only him, there might be many other people out there who shall be thinking on the same lines– use a web hosting space to store and backup personal data. And with the help of FTP (File Transfer Protocol), it would be quite easy too to manage the stored data.

However, hold on if you too are planning to do the same. Storing your personal data on to a web hosting space  runs you into a huge risk of losing it! The terms and conditions of all the web hosts prohibit the use of hosting space as data storage and backup drive. Even if a user does so, the web host reserves the right to delete all the user’s personal data and/or terminate your account without any prior intimation.

This is what the Terms and Conditions of two of the major web hosting companies clearly specify:

Bluehost :

Backup Storage. Bluehost.com offers its Services to host web sites, not to store data. Using an account as an online storage space for archiving electronic files is prohibited and will result in termination of hosting services without prior notice.

Dreamhost :

Personal Backups. With the exception of DreamHost Dedicated Server products, the customer agrees to make use of DreamHost Web Hosting servers primarily for the purpose of hosting a website, and associated email functions. Data uploaded must be primarily for this purpose. DreamHost Web Hosting servers are not intended as a data backup or archiving service.

So, I suggest you to never to store your personal data on to your web hosting space. You can try any of the following amazing data backup services to store your personal/hard drive data:

• Mozy
• Carbonite
• Amazon S3

Too many social networks

With the gradual rise of Google+, we now have have one more social network to have a presence on. And that is when we face this inevitable dilemma – on which network should one focus more. Shall it be Facebook or Twitter or the expanding Google+ platform. Moreover, if it’s a business entity, there’s one more aspect to think about. Which platform shall help an organisation best leverage its social media efforts  - reach-out to fans and engage them with the brand.

Guy Kawasaki, a high-profile entrepreneur, marketing guru and author has come out with an informative infographic to help one choose the best social network platform - among Facebook, Twitter and Google+ .

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So, if you are looking for ideas to venture out on your own , here’s a list of potential ideas for entrepreneurs.

Gift Rocket (a Y Combinator-backed start up)  has come with this wonderful and informative infographic that maps the 30 business ideas that Paul Graham wrote about and the start ups built around them – Y Combinator-backed and others.

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I created my first Google Adsense monetized website in the year 2005 and till this date, I firmly believe that if you want to start a blog or a knowledge portal, always make a balanced choice - (a) choose the topic that  interests you the most and you have a certain level of expertise in it (b) check out the ‘revenue-generation’ potential of that topic. Money will gradually follow then!

Wordstream has come up with this cool inforgraphic to show top 20 Google Adwords keywords in terms of bid prices. For the benefit of newbies, let me mention this – Google Adwords is the other end of Google Adsense ad network. Advertisers buy ad spaces under Google Adwords program and websites (typically, known as publishers)  show these ads and earn money.

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If you’re a newbie blogger, following are the 5 simple tips that shall help you sail through the initial phase of blogging:

1. Read a lot – They rightly say that “Man should always wear on a learning cap“. You might be an expert of the topic you have started to blog about but there is always more to learn from others. So, read a lot on the topic you are blogging about. If yours is a tech blog, read a lot of tech articles and stories. If it’s a blog on travelling, read a lot of blogs which talk of travelling tips, destinations, etc. And not only that. Read books and interact with people related to your topic of blogging. Reading a lot never lets you stay short of ideas. Based on your reading, you shall be able  to connect to new ideas and blog about them, stay updated on your blog topic and interact with different people.
2. Keep things simple – No matter how vast your vocabulary is, no matter how many jargons you know, no matter how much expertise you have in your area of blogging, it all drills down to one thing – are you able to simplify things? No one likes to read an article stuffed with vocabulary or an article written in a way as if it’s a doctorate thesis – it does no good except making it difficult for your readers to understand what you have written. You’re not an expert of a topic if you just know all aspects of it; you’re an expert if you are able to make your readers understand what you know and let your writing make a place in their minds. And for that, you need to simplify your blog content.
3. It’s always Content+Quality – Yeah, I know this might make things look a bit different for you. In all these years that have passed by, you have always been told that what matters is quality and not quantity. I would say that no longer this is completely true! In a highly competitive blogging space, there are millions of other blogs out there similar to yours. And if you don’t publish content, someone else might and you might loose your readership. Super-successful blogs like gigaom.com, techcrunch.com, mashable.com publish more than 5 articles a day. The point to be noted over here is not that you’ve to post atleast 5 articles a day but that people love to read loads of good content. If not at your blog, then on others. So, strive to strike a balance between quality and quantity.
4. Build a community around your blog – Don’t just keep publishing posts. Engage your blog visitors. This can be done by replying to comments of your readers, actively interacting with your fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter respectively, crediting commentators in your blog posts, inviting feedback and suggestions, writing posts in first person (using “I” instead of ‘we’), etc.
5. Patience and Perseverance – This one of the most important tips I have to share. Blogging is undoubtedly a space where you can carve out a name for yourself and make a living. But remember, that won’t happen in a fortnight or in 2-3 months. I have seen many bloggers who start out blogging with amazing enthusiasm but then slowly that enthusiasm and zeal dries down when they see that not enough visitors are coming to their blog. The frequency of publishing content daily shifts to weekly,  then monthly and finally the blog dies down. This typically happens because newbie bloggers don’t set their expectations right – they assume that right from day 1 or week 1, their blogs will be experience enormous traffic and they will be succesful. When you’re a beginner in the blogging space, remember to see the distant picture – keep publishing the content without worrying about the traffic and money over a period of 6-12 months. Patience and Perseverance are sure shot keys to  success in blogging.

WordPress

One of the best features of WordPress is availability of plugins. Plugins are a nice way to extend the functionality of a WordPress powered blog/website. But those are available in thousands! At the time of writing this article, WordPress had 15,844 plugins in its repository. And that’s where the problem starts. To know which plugin is the best in each of the categories (social, SEO, backup, comments, etc.), we have to Google reviews. But no more you will have to do it! WP Jedi has come up with this cool and informative infographic on the most essential plugins for your blog/website.

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