TechRaga

The most popular blogging software and open source CMS, WordPress, is going to celebrate its seventh birthday on 27 May, 2010.

Now, self hosted WordPress blogs can use wp.me URL shortening service. This feature was available only to WordPress.com users in past.

Linc Pen have lauched their Facebook application: MyDiary, which provides a virtual dairy to Facebook users.

RCB is looking for three bloggers to update and promote its official blog during upcoming Airtel Champions League Twenty 20.

Blogger.com (BlogSpot) has added a new feature, which allows users to show only snippet of posts on homepage of blogs using the “Insert jump break” button.

Penzu is a free web based private journal and diary.

You can have private journals (blogs) with most of the blogging tools like Blogger and WordPress. But, for having a PRIVATE Journal Penzu is better than them as it is easy to use and has a very simple interface.
Using Penzu you can compose entries for private use. You can share them with friends as well (by sending them e-mails).
The service is in beta, and hence we can expect more from penzu!
Try Penzu.

The site : Youngest Blogger lists Top Youngest Bloggers of the world.
Thanks to @tejaaa for sharing this site, which is listing top young bloggers. It was very pleasant experience to see many Indian Kids there, specially my favorite Shankar and Rockstar Sid.
The ranking is based on Age, Google PR, Alexa and Technorati Authorities. These factors contributes to the ranking of the young bloggers as : Age: 20% Google PR: 25% Technorati: 30% Alexa: 25%.
This list is not completed and all bloggers, who are not allowed to see adult movies in India (i.e., …

Amit Agrawal is just like GOD for Indian Bloggers and no doubt he is also the most watched ( and read)  blogger in India. The best side of his personality is his helping nature and he is always ready to answer (even the silliest) questions through his forum. I have got a golden oppurtunity to meet him at a barcamp, where he answered my questions with great interest. And, now the man is coming with the most helpful tool for bloggers – a blogging school!

In his post – “How Twitter …

Mr. Lal Krishna Advani, the leader of the largest political party : BJP and candidate of Prime Minister, is going the Obama way. He owns a live and updated website : LKAdvani.in and now BJP is going to launch Advani TV via IPTV.

According to a report published in Hindustan Times, now the BJP has made arrangements to live telecast all functions to be attended by Advanijee through the official site of him. Hence, netizens will be able to watch every event.
IPTV as a technology is new in India, but …

I was just reading the latest post on Amitabh Bachchan’s blog and got surprised! What, BigB uses Google Alerts to monitor his web presence!

In his recent post Amitabh wrote about an article on him, which he tracked via Google Alerts. He wrote : “Below now is an article that came to me on my Google Alert. On sensibility. It talks of a recitation of mine on the subject, which I have failed to recollect. It interested me not so much for the reference it had, but the general drift …

Photography provides great creative satisfaction to many of us, and sharing your captured photos and other favorite images with the world is the coolest idea!
Many of us love Flickr and it is the default image sharing tool for the most of us. But, if you are willing to try something new as photo-blogging tool, Google’s Picasa Web Album is the best.

Here are cool features of Picasa Web Album :

Integrated with your Google Account. Don’t need to remember an extra pair of username and password.
If you have a blogger.com blog, an …

SMS blogging is the hottest trend in the cyberworld. People are enjoying posting and reading SMS Blogs. SMS Blogs are actually mass-forwarding of SMSs to subscribers!
Though, I am interested in SMS Blogging right now, but here are some links for SMS-Bitten people!

SMS GupShup : This is a new start-up which offers FREE Group SMSs. You can create your Own group and can start posting .You can also subscribe to other groups in the same manner, you subscribe to normal weblogs. …

Most of us use desktop blogging clients , like : Window LiveWriter . But do you know that Blogger.com has its own desktop blogging client ?

The Product Desktop Blogger is a desktop client frontend to the Blogger.com blogging environment, written in Java. This product has been developed by Google Code community !
It handles content creation and editing, and has support for multiple blogs per user. Using the Google Data client library, it will be able to communicate fluidly with the Blogger.com servers.
It is still in developing phase , so …

One of the Best Film Directors of Bollywood : Karan Johar has started Blogging .

After BigB and Amir Khan , Karan has also joined the blogosphere . His Blog “MyNameIsKaran” was launched just on 19th June .
Karan has directed 3 Movies and has produced many . His first movie “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” is the biggest hit after the “Sholey” . “Kabhi Alvida Naa Kahna” & “Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam” are the other two movies directed by him .

The Movies of Karan always have a NRI focus . This is …

As, the world was celebrating RSS day on the 1st may (I knew it quite later) the Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan announced to start a blog. You can check it here .
I saw an interview of Big B on TV , in which he was claiming that blogs have become a need for him , as he can connects to his fans directly now and clarify the rumours about “him” ( I think he mean Ash ) .

The domain name of blog also says something which forced me to write …