What is SOPA? Why Everyone hates it? 

SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act also known as H.R 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the US House of Representatives on 26^th October 2011 by Lamar Smith. This bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online piracy, content theft, and duplication of copyrighted intellectual property.

The bill was not very much welcomed around the world considering the after effect that it would have on the way Internet. Many major internet giants like Mozilla, Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn has opposed the SOPA rigidly.

To give a clearer picture of the issue, an organization backed by Mozilla, Creative Commons and Wikimedia has created this infographic below that shows the effect the bill could have on internet companies.

WordPress 3.3 Version update is Launched today

Today the WordPress team has launched its latest version update 3.3 and this time its really quite a visual update with several changes to the interface. There are several key changes like an improved dashboard with dynamic update messages, Flyout menu options, more filetypes and automatic file detection with drag and drop file uploads.

Below are the list of features added / improved in the latest version of WordPress framework:

HippieMonk.com  - A Dedicated Technology Blog

Announcing the launch of the latest feather added to the OrangeCopper Network! HippieMonk.com is a dedicated Technology Portal and Community bringing its readers with the latest Scoops from various flavors like Gadgets, Android, Apple, OS, Social media etc. If you are a tech enthusiast we are sure you will hear this name again!

WordAds, The Answer from WordPress to Google Adsense

Google Adsense is undoubtedly the best contextual Ad network in the world till date and there are millions of WordPress self hosted blogs running Google Adsense and earning a good income from the content on their blogs. On the flip side, for the Bloggers who have their blogs on WordPress.com did not have any good option to directly monetize the content on their WordPress blog and they should be happy with the launch of WordAds.

FaceBook Powered Search Engine Optimization for Google Search

As a webmaster, am sure you already know the conventional methods of SEO by link building and optimizing the content on a web page. Today I am excited to share another observation or rather a finding that could change your perspective on the modern day SEO.

Last week the internet was buzzing with the Thanksgiving sales and deals being searched by millions of people around the globe trying to secure a good deal. As this was a trending topic for the black friday day, I decided to spend some time to research on this to take home something useful as the data sample was huge! To my surprise, I found that when you do a simple search for the best Black friday deals for several products or product categories, the search result page (SERP) was dominated by Facebook pages and not really the web pages!

Lets do a real case study:

If you observe the below search string on Google search on the day of ThanksGiving Eve for a Canon 7D camera, I was surprised to see that the top three results generated are nothing but a Facebook Page and this page does not seem to have much activity but still it was successful to overthrow other “web pages” with the same content.

Google Offering Free Domain Registration and Web Hosting for India

There are millions of Business owners in India who havent yet considered an eCommerce option to take their offline business to the next level. Google has launched an exciting new Initiative to sponsor 500,000 websites / business in India to offer them free Domain registration and Web hosting for 1 year in association with web hosting Giant HostGator.

Google is investing in a 3 year program by paying for the .in domain registry and hosting for small business entities. As part of this initiative they have launched an India Get Your Business Online website where you can apply for your free domain and web hosting account. In addition to the website, Google is also giving away Adwords credits worth 2500 Indian Rupees to all the applicants selected.